Specialized Publications:

Bates, S.T., Bungartz, F., Luecking, R., Herrera-Campos, M.A., and Zambrano, A. (eds). 2011. Biomonitoring, Ecology,and Systematics of Lichens: Recognizing the Lichenological Legacy of Thomas H. Nash III on his 65th Birthday. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 106: 1-422 (including 16 full colour plates).

Publications (peer-reviewed):

Barberan, A., S.T. Bates, E.O. Casamayor, and N. Fierer. 2012. Using network analysis to explore co-occurrence patterns in soil microbial communities. The ISME Journal 6: 343-351.

Bates, S.T., F. Garcia-Pichel, and T.H. Nash III. 2011. Patterns of diversity for fungal assemblages of biological soil crusts from the southwestern United States. Mycologia 104: 353-361.

Bates, S.T., D. Berg-Lyons, C.L. Lauber, W.A. Walters, R. Knight, and N. Fierer. 2012. A preliminary survey of lichen associated eukaryotes using pyrosequencing. The Lichenologist 44: 137-146.

Flores, G.E., S.T. Bates, D. Knights, C.L. Lauber, J. Stombaugh, R. Knight, and N. Fierer. 2011. Microbial biogeography of public restroom surfaces. PlosOne 6: e28132.

Bergmann, G.T., Bates, S.T., K.G. Eilers, C.L. Lauber, J.G. Caporaso, W.A. Walters, R. Knight, and N. Fierer. 2011. The under-recognized dominance of Verrucomicrobia in soil bacterial communities. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 43: 1450-1455.

Bates, S.T., G.W.G. Cropsey, J.G. Caporaso, R. Knight, and N. Fierer. 2011. Bacterial communities associated with the lichen symbiosis. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 77: 1309-1314.

Bates, S.T., D. Berg-Lyons, J.G. Caporaso, W.A. Walters, R. Knight, and N. Fierer. 2011. Examining the global distribution of dominant archaeal populations in soil. The ISME Journal 5: 908-917.

Bates, S.T., A. Barber, E. Gilbert, R.T. Schroeder, and T.H. Nash III. 2010. A Revised catalog of Arizona lichens. Canotia 6: 26-43.

Bates, S.T., T.H. Nash III, K.G. Sweat, and F. Garcia-Pichel. 2010. Fungal communities of lichen-dominated biological soil crusts: diversity, relative microbial biomass, and their relationship to disturbance and crust cover. Journal of Arid Environments 74: 1192-1199.

Bates, S.T., F. Garcia-Pichel, and T.H. Nash III. 2010. Fungal components of biological soil crusts: insights from culture-dependent and culture-independent studies. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 105: 197-210.

Bates, S.T., F. Farruggia, E. Gilbert, R. Gutierrez, D. Jenke, E. Makings, E. Manton, D. Newton, and L.R. Landrum. 2009. Vascular Plants of Arizona: Solanaceae. Part II: Key to the genera and Solanum L. Canotia 5: 1-16.

Soule, T., I.J. Anderson, S.L. Johnson, S.T. Bates, and F. Garcia-Pichel. 2009. Archaeal populations in biological soil crusts from arid lands in North America. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 41: 2069-2074.

Bates, S.T., R.W. Roberson and D.E. Desjardin. 2009. Arizona gasteroid fungi I: Lycoperdaceae (Agaricales, Basidiomycota). Fungal Diversity 37: 153-207.

Bates, S.T. and F. Garcia-Pichel. 2009. A culture-independent study of free-living fungi in biological soil crusts of the Colorado Plateau: their diversity and relative contribution to microbial biomass. Evironmental Microbiology 11: 56-67.

Bates, S.T. and A. Barber. 2008. A preliminary checklist of Arizona slime molds. Canotia 4: 8-19.

Hosaka, K., S.T. Bates, R.E. Beever, M.A. Castellano, W. Colgan, III, L.S. Dominguez, E.R. Nouhra, J. Geml, A.J. Giachini, S.R. Kenney, N.B. Simpson, J.W. Spatafora, and J.M. Trappe. 2006. Molecular phylogenetics of the gomphoid-phalloid fungi with the establishment of the new subclass Phallomycetidae and two new orders. Mycologia 98: 949-959.

Bates, S.T., G.S.N. Reddy, and F. Garcia-Pichel. 2006. Exophiala crusticola anam. nov. (affinity Herpotrichiellaceae), a novel black yeast from biological soil crusts in the western United States. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 56: 2697-2702.

Bates, S.T. 2006. A preliminary checklist of Arizona macrofungi. Canotia 2: 47-78.

Sweat, K.G., W.A. Iselin, S.T. Bates, and T.H. Nash III. 2004. The lichens of Parashant National Monument, Arizona: A preliminary study. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 37: 85-90.

Publications (non-peer-reviewed):

Henson, A., C. Lea, and S.T. Bates. 2012. Lichens of Granitic Rocks in Rocky Mountain National Park, Larimer County, Colorado, U.S.A. Evansia - in press.

Bungartz, F. and S.T. Bates. 2011. Introduction: Tom H. Nash III at 65 years: A lichenological legacy. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 106: v-xvi.

Bungartz, F., F.I. Nugra-Salazar, X. Arturo-Lopez, F. Ziemmeck, and S.T. Bates. 2008. Plantas no vasculares en Galapagos (liquenes, briofitos y hongos): Nuevos registros, amenazas y potencial como bioindicadores una primera evaluacion. Pp. 147-152. In: Informe Galapagos 2007-2008. Puerto Ayora, Galapagos, Ecuador.

Bates, S.T. 2006. The ABLS lichen exchange: history and procedure. Evansia 23: 43-44.