Pfister, C.A., Stanfield, E., Bogan, M., Weigel, B., Volbrecht, S, & Scorza, K. (2025). Foundational kelp species reveal links between host traits, the environment and the associated microbial community. Royal Society Open Science 12: 250637. doi: 10.1098/rsos.250637
Weigel, B., Castillo, G., Pata, H., Young. J., Kodner, R. (2025). Elevated light and CO2 levels increase photosynthetic rates of diverse snow algal communities from the North Cascades. New Phytologist. doi: 10.1111/nph.70332
Molnar, N., Weigel, B., Fales, R., & Pfister, C. (2025). Warming seawater temperature and nutrient depletion alters microbial community composition on a foundational canopy kelp species. Environmental Microbiology, 27(3). doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.70077
Bemmels, J., Starko, S., Weigel, B., Hirabayashi, K., Pinch, A., Elphinstone, C., Dethier, M., Rieseberg, L., Page, J., Neufeld, C., & Owens, G. (2025). Population genomics reveals strong impacts of genetic drift without purging and guides conservation of bull and giant kelp. Current Biology, 35, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.12.025
Turner, T., Rouse, G., Weigel, B., Janusson, C., Lemay, M., & Thacker, R. (2024). Taxonomy and phylogeny of the family Suberitidae (Porifera: Demospongiae) in California. Zootaxa. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5447.1.1
Weigel, B., Small, S., Berry, H., & Dethier, M. (2023). Effects of temperature and nutrients on microscopic stages of the bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana, Phaeophyceae). Journal of Phycology, 59(5), 893-907. doi: 10.1111/jpy.13366
Fales*, R., Weigel*, B., Carrington, E., Berry, H., & Dethier, M. (2023). Interactive effects of temperature and nitrogen on the physiology of kelps (Nereocystis luetkeana and Saccharina latissima). Frontiers in Marine Science, 10. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1281104 * Equal contributions (co-first author).
Weigel, B., Miranda, K., Fogarty, E., Watson, A., & Pfister, C. (2022). Functional insights into the kelp microbiome from metagenome assembled genomes. mSystems 7(3). doi: 10.1128/msystems.01422-21
Ramírez-Puebla, S., Weigel, B., Jack, L., Schlundt, C., Pfister, C., & Mark Welch, J. (2022). Spatial organization of the kelp microbiome at micron scales. Microbiome, 10, 52. doi: 10.1186/s40168-022-01235-w
Miranda, K., Weigel, B., Fogarty, E., Veseli, I., Giblin, A., Eren, A., & Pfister, C. (2022). The diversity and functional capacity of microbes associated with coastal macrophytes. mSystems 7(5). doi: 10.1128/msystems.00592-22
Miranda, K., Weigel, B., McCoy, S., & Pfister, C. (2021). Differential impacts of alternate primary producers on carbon cycling. Ecology, 102(9), e03455. doi:10.1002/ecy.3455
Weigel, B., & Pfister, C. (2021). Oxygen metabolism shapes microbial settlement on photosynthetic kelp blades compared to artificial kelp substrates. Environmental Microbiology Reports, 13(2), 176-184. doi: 10.1111/1758-2229.12923
Davies, S., Putnam, H., Ainsworth, T., Baum, J., Bove, C., Crosby, S., Côté, I., Duplouy, A., Rulweiler, R., Griffin, A., Hanley, T., Hill, T., Humanes, A., Mangubhai, S., Metaxas, A., Parker, L., Rivera, H., Silbiger, N., Smith, N., Spalding, A., Traylor-Knowles, N., Weigel, B., Wright, R., & Bates, A. (2021). Promoting inclusive metrics of success and impact to dismantle a discriminatory reward system in science. PLoS Biology, 19(6), e3001282. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3001282
Weigel, B., & Pfister, C. (2021). The dynamics and stoichiometry of dissolved organic carbon release by kelp.. Ecology, 102(2). doi:10.1002/ecy.3221
Weigel, B., Welter, J., & Furey, P. (2020). Invertebrate grazing and epilithon assemblages control benthic nitrogen fixation in an N-limited river network. Freshwater Science, 39(3). doi: 10.1086/710023
Weigel, B. (2020). Sea cucumber intestinal regeneration reveals deterministic assembly of the gut microbiome. Environmental Microbiology, 86(14), e00489-20. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00489-20
Pfister, C., Altabet, M., & Weigel, B. (2019). Kelp beds and their local effects on seawater chemistry, productivity, and microbial communities. . Ecology, 100(10). doi: 10.1002/ecy.2798
Weigel, B. & Pfister, C. (2019). Successional dynamics and seascape-level patterns of microbial communities on the canopy-forming kelps Nereocystis luetkeana and Macrocystis pyrifera. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10, 346. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2019.00346
Weigel, B., & Erwin, P. (2017). Effects of reciprocal transplantation on the microbiome and putative nitrogen cycling functions of the intertidal sponge, Hymeniacidon heliophila. Scientific Reports, 7, 43247. doi: 10.1038/srep43247
Weigel, B., & Erwin, P. (2016). Intraspecific variation in microbial symbiont communities of the sun sponge, Hymeniacidon heliophila, from intertidal and subtidal habitats. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82, 650-658. doi: 10.1128/AEM.02980-15
