Publications
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2023
L.A. Malard, B. Berck-Pinto, R. Layton, T.M. Vogel, C. Larose and D.A. Pearce (2023) Snow microorganisms colonise Arctic soils following snow melt. Microbial Ecology, 1-15.
B. Naz, L. Ziyang, L.A. Malard, M. Usman, K. Liu, L. An, S. Xiao and S. Chen (2023). Frontiers in Microbiology.
C. Seppey, E. Lara, O. Broennimann, A. Guisan, L.A. Malard, D. Singer, E. Yashiro and B. Fournier (2023). Landscape structure is a key driver of soil protist diversity in meadows in the Swiss Alps. Landscape Ecology.
2022
L.A. Malard, ML. Avila-Jimenez, J. Schmale, L. Cuthbertson, L. Cockerton and D.A. Pearce (2022) Aerobiology over the Southern Ocean–implications for bacterial colonization of Antarctica. Environment International, 169.
L.A. Malard and D.A. Pearce. (2022) Bacterial colonisation: from airborne dispersal to integration within the soil community. Frontiers in Microbiology, 1456.
L.A. Malard, H.K. Mod, N. Guex, O. Broennimann, E. Yashiro, E. Lara, E. Mitchell, H. Niculita-Hirzel and A. Guisan. (2022) Comparative analysis of diversity and environmental niches of soil bacterial, archaeal, fungal and protist communities reveal niche divergences along environmental gradients in the Alps. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 108674.
M. Ji, W. Kong, H. Jia, M. Delgado-Baquerizo, T. Zhou, X. Liu, B.C. Ferrari, L.A. Malard, C. Liang, K. Xue, T.P. Makhalanyane, Y.G. Zhu, Y. Wang, D.A. Pearce and D. Cowan. (2022) Polar soils exhibit distinct patterns in microbial diversity and dominant phylotypes. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 108550.
2021
F. Mazel, L.A. Malard, H. Niculita-Hirzel, E. Yashiro, H.K. Mod, E.A.D. Mitchell, D. Singer, A. Buri, E. Pinto-Figueroa, N. Guex, E. Lara and A. Guisan. (2021). Soil protist function varies with elevation in the Swiss Alps. Environmental Microbiology.
H.K. Mod, A. Buri, E. Yashiro, N. Guex, L.A. Malard, E. Pinto-Figueroa, M. Pagni, H. Niculita-Hirzel, J.R. Van Der Meer and A. Guisan. (2021). Predicting spatial patterns of soil bacteria under current and future environmental conditions. The ISME Journal, 1-14.
L.A. Malard, M.Z. Anwar, C.S. Jacobsen and D.A. Pearce (2021). Influence of spatial scale on structure of soil bacterial communities across an Arctic landscape. Applied and environmental microbiology, 87 (5).
L.A. Malard, C. Riginos and K. McGuigan (2021). Skeletal deformities and meristic trait variations are common in the intertidal fish Bathygobius cocosensis (Perciformes‐Gobiidae). Journal of fish diseases, 44 (6).
2019
L.A. Malard, M.Z. Anwar, C.S. Jacobsen and D.A. Pearce (2019). Biogeographical patterns in soil bacterial communities across the Arctic region. FEMS microbiology ecology, 95 (9).
L.A. Malard, M. Sabacka, I. Magiopoulos, M. Mowlem, A. Hodson, M. Tranter, M.J. Siegert and D.A. Pearce (2019). Spatial variability in Antarctic surface snow bacterial communities. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10, 461.
R. Wojcik*, J. Donhauser, S. Holm, L.A. Malard, A. Holland, B. Frey, D. Wagner, D.A. Pearce, A. Anesio, and L.G. Benning. (2019). Linkages between geochemistry and microbiology in a proglacial terrain in Svalbard. Annals of Glaciology, 59 (77).
L.A. Malard, M. Avila-Jimenez, P. Convey, C. Larose, A. Hodson, L. Ovreas, J. Schmale, M.Z. Anwar and D.A. Pearce. (2019). Microbial activity monitoring by the Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (MamSIOS). In Orr et al (eds), SESS report (pp. 48 – 81). Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System, Longyearbyen.
2018
L.A. Malard and D.A. Pearce. (2018). Microbial diversity and biogeography in Arctic soils. Environmental Microbiology Reports, 10 (6).
2017
L. Cuthberston, H. Amores-Arrocha, L.A. Malard, N. Els, B. Sattler, and D.A. Pearce. (2017). Characterisation of Arctic bacterial communities in the air above Svalbard. Biology, 6 (2).
2016
L.A. Malard, K. McGuigan and C. Riginos. (2016). Site fidelity, size and morphology may differ by tidal position for an intertidal fish, Bathygobius cocosensis (Perciformes-Gobiidae), in Eastern Australia. PeerJ 4:e2263.