2020 
  • Malik, A.A., Martiny, J.B.H., Brodie, E.L., Martiny, A.C., Treseder, K.K. and Allison, S.D. (2019) Defining trait-based microbial strategies with consequences for soil carbon cycling under climate change. The ISME Journal 14, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-019-0510-0
2019
  • Malik, A.A., Swenson, T., Weihe, C., Morrison, E., Martiny, J.B.H., Brodie, E.L., Northen, T. and Allison, S.D. (2019) Physiological adaptations of leaf litter microbial communities to long-term drought. BioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05980-1
  • Puissant, J., Jones, B., Goodall, T., Mang, D., Blaud, A., Gweon, H. S., Malik, A. A., et al. (2019). The pH optimum of soil exoenzymes adapt to long term changes in soil pH. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 138, 107601. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2019.107601.
  • Malik, A.A., Puissant, J., Goodall, T., Allison, S.D. and Griffiths, R.I. (2019) Soil microbial communities with greater investment in resource acquisition have lower growth yield. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 132, 36-39. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05980-1
2018​
  • Malik, A. A., Puissant, J., Buckeridge, K. M., Goodall, T., Jehmlich, N., Chowdhury, S., Gweon, H. S., Peyton, J. M., Mason, K. E., van Agtmaal, M., Blaud, A., Clark, I. M., Whitaker, J., Pywell, R. F., Ostle, N., Gleixner, G. and Griffiths, R. I. (2018). Land use driven change in soil pH affects microbial carbon cycling processes. Nature Communications 9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05980-1
2017
  • Malik, A. A., Thomson, B. C., Whiteley, A., Bailey, M. and Griffiths, R. I. (2017). Bacterial physiological adaptations to contrasting edaphic conditions identified using landscape scale metagenomics. mBio 8, e00799-17. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00799-17
2016
  • Malik, A. A., Chowdhury, S., Schlager, V., Oliver A, Puissant J., Mellado Vázquez P.G., Jehmlich N., von Bergen M., Griffiths R. I. and Gleixner G. (2016). Soil fungal:bacterial ratios are linked to altered carbon cycling. Front. Microbiol. 7, 1247. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01247.
  • Malik, A. A., Roth, V.-N., Hebert, M., Tremblay, L., Dittmar, T. and Gleixner, G. (2016). Linking molecular size, composition and carbon turnover of extractable soil microbial compounds. Soil Biol. Biochem. 100, 66-73. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2016.05.019. 
2015
  • Malik, A. A., Dannert, H., Griffiths, R. I., Thomson, B. C., and Gleixner, G. (2015). Rhizosphere bacterial carbon turnover is higher in nucleic acids than membrane lipids: implications for understanding soil carbon cycling. Front. Microbiol. 6, 268. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2015.00268.
  • Lange, M., Eisenhauer, N., Sierra, C., Bessler, H., Engels, C., Griffiths, R. I., Mellado-Vázquez, P. G., Malik, A. A. et al. (2015). Plant diversity increases soil microbial activity and soil carbon storage. Nat. Commun. 6, 6707. doi:10.1038/ncomms7707.
  • Malik, A. A., Fernandes, C. E. G., Gonsalves, M.-J. B. D., Subina, N. S., Mamatha, S. S., Krishna, K., et al. (2015). Interactions between trophic levels in upwelling and non-upwelling regions during summer monsoon. J. Sea Res. 95, 56–69. doi:10.1016/j.seares.2014.10.012.​
  • Ray, R., Rixen, T., Baum, A., Malik, A. A., Gleixner, G., and Jana, T. K. (2015). Distribution, sources and biogeochemistry of organic matter in a mangrove dominated estuarine system (Indian Sundarbans) during the pre-monsoon. Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci., 1–10. doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2015.10.017.
2014
  • Fernandes, S. O., Halarnekar, R., Malik, A. A., Vijayan, V., Varik, S., Kumari, R., et al. (2014). Nitrate reducing activity pervades surface waters during upwelling. J. Mar. Syst. 137, 35–46. doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2014.04.011.
2013
  • Malik, A. A., and Gleixner, G. (2013). Importance of microbial soil organic matter processing in dissolved organic carbon production. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 86, 139–148. doi:10.1111/1574-6941.12182.
  • Malik, A. A., Blagodatskaya, E., and Gleixner, G. (2013). Soil microbial carbon turnover decreases with increasing molecular size. Soil Biol. Biochem. 62, 115–118. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.02.022.
2012
  • Malik, A. A., Scheibe, A., LokaBharathi, P. A, and Gleixner, G. (2012). Online stable isotope analysis of dissolved organic carbon size classes using size exclusion chromatography coupled to an isotope ratio mass spectrometer. Environ. Sci. Technol. 46, 10123–9. doi:10.1021/es302467y.