By Dr Nathali Maria Machado de Lima

Journal articles

Tan KKY; Vázquez-Campos X; Price GAV; Williams KL; McWatters RS; Abdullah K; Machado de Lima N; Laird T; Ray AE; Vink JA; Tribbia DZ; Wilkins D; Spedding T; Ferrari BC, 2026, 'Persistent petroleum pollution shifts soil microbial responses in Bunger Hills, East Antarctica', Communications Earth and Environment, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43247-026-03299-0

Tribbia DZ; Lebre PH; Vázquez-Campos X; Ray AE; Laird T; Machado de Lima N; Maggs-Kölling G; Cowan DA; Ferrari BC, 2026, 'Trace gas oxidation supports sub-surface microbial communities across Namib Desert fog and aridity gradients', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 92, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/aem.00265-26

Liu J; Abdullah K; Crane S; Wilkins D; Hince G; Spedding T; de Lima NM; Ferrari B, 2026, 'Nutrient washing to amend nitrite accumulation during hydrocarbon remediation of Antarctic soil', Polar Biology, 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00300-026-03480-3

Stewart J; Machado de Lima N, 2026, 'Australian drylands as a case-study of the impacts of climate, groundcover, and vertebrate activity on soil biodiversity', Microbiology Australia, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ma26103

Benaud N; de Lima NM; Wong SY; Vázquez-Campos X; Majumdar PR; Wilkins D; Montgomery K; Wiechers M; Summerell BA; Ferrari BC, 2026, 'Integrating novel culturing and culture‐independent methods to unveil soil fungal dark matter, functional guilds and environmental drivers across Robinson Ridge, East Antarctica', Mycology, 17, pp. 635 - 658, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21501203.2025.2579297

Lopes IG; de Lima NM; Ribeiro T; Murta D; Yong JWH; Lalander C, 2025, 'Olive Pomace Inclusion Alters the Microbial Community of Black Soldier Fly Larvae Frass While Maintaining Fertilizer Quality', Microbiologyopen, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mbo3.70180

Stewart J; Francis RJ; Eldridge DJ; Kingsford RT; de Lima NM, 2025, 'Advancing remote sensing of biocrusts with drone imagery and machine learning', Geoderma, 458, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117315

Stewart J; de Lima NM; Eldridge DJ; West R; Kingsford RT, 2025, 'Restoring aboveground trophic diversity contributes to belowground microbial diversity in drylands', Biological Conservation, 305, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111056

Wong SY; Machado-de-Lima NM; Wilkins D; Zhang E; Ferrari BC, 2025, 'Fine-scale landscape heterogeneity drives microbial community structure at Robinson Ridge, East Antarctica', Science of the Total Environment, 958, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.177964

Alameda-Martín A; Chamizo S; Maggioli L; Roman R; Machado-de-Lima N; Muñoz-Rojas M; Cantón Y, 2024, 'Optimizing survival and growth of inoculated biocrust-forming cyanobacteria through native plant-based habitat amelioration', Journal of Environmental Management, 370, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.122960

Stewart J; de Lima NM; Kingsford R; Muñoz-Rojas M, 2024, 'Soil Bacterial Biodiversity in Drylands Is Dependent on Groundcover Under Increased Temperature', Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sae2.70027

Dadzie FA; Moles AT; Erickson TE; Machado de Lima N; Muñoz-Rojas M, 2024, 'Inoculating native microorganisms improved soil function and altered the microbial composition of a degraded soil', Restoration Ecology, 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rec.14025

Machado-de-Lima NM; Charlesworth J; Stewart J; Ooi MKJ; Muñoz-Rojas M, 2023, 'Seed biopriming at different concentrations to assess the effects of Cyanobacteria on germination and seedling performance of keystone arid species', Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment, 2, pp. 266 - 275, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sae2.12049

Schultz NL; Sluiter IRK; Allen GG; Machado-de-Lima NM; Muñoz-Rojas M, 2022, 'Biocrust Amendments to Topsoils Facilitate Biocrust Restoration in a Post-mining Arid Environment', Frontiers in Microbiology, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.882673

Jiménez-González MA; Machado de Lima N; Chilton AM; Almendros G; Muñoz-Rojas M, 2022, 'Biocrust cyanobacteria inoculants biomineralize gypsum and preserve indigenous bacterial communities in dryland topsoil', Geoderma, 406, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2021.115527

Muñoz-Rojas M; Machado de Lima NM; Chamizo S; Bowker MA, 2021, 'Restoring post-fire ecosystems with biocrusts: Living, photosynthetic soil surfaces', Current Opinion in Environmental Science and Health, 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.coesh.2021.100273

Machado de Lima NM; Muñoz-Rojas M; Vázquez-Campos X; Branco LHZ, 2021, 'Biocrust cyanobacterial composition, diversity, and environmental drivers in two contrasting climatic regions in Brazil', Geoderma, 386, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114914

Stewart J; Machado de Lima N; Kingsford R; Muñoz-Rojas M, 2021, 'Soil microbial responses to passive restoration strategies in drylands: a temporal comparison of soil biodiversity and ecosystem function', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-16398

Machado de Lima N; Thomsen A; Ooi M; Muñoz-Rojas M, 2021, 'Bushfire impacts on a threatened swamp ecosystem: responses of the soil microbial communities and restoration', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-3778

DE LIMA NMM; BRANCO LHZ, 2020, 'Machado de Lima, N.M. & Branco, L.H.Z. (2020) Biological soil crusts: new genera and species of Cyanobacteria from Brazilian semi-arid regions. Phytotaxa 470 (4): 263–281.', Phytotaxa, 472, pp. 299 - 300, http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.472.3.10

Lim NMMHD; Branco LHZ, 2020, 'Biological soil crusts: New genera and species of Cyanobacteria from Brazilian semi-Arid regions', Phytotaxa, 470, pp. 263 - 281, http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.470.4.1

Machado-de-Lima NM; Fernandes VMC; Roush D; Velasco Ayuso S; Rigonato J; Garcia-Pichel F; Branco LHZ, 2019, 'The Compositionally Distinct Cyanobacterial Biocrusts From Brazilian Savanna and Their Environmental Drivers of Community Diversity', Frontiers in Microbiology, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.02798

Martins MD; Machado-de-Lima NM; Branco LHZ, 2019, 'Polyphasic approach using multilocus analyses supports the establishment of the new aerophytic cyanobacterial genus Pycnacronema (Coleofasciculaceae, Oscillatoriales)', Journal of Phycology, 55, pp. 146 - 159, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpy.12805

Fernandes VMC; Machado de Lima NM; Roush D; Rudgers J; Collins SL; Garcia-Pichel F, 2018, 'Exposure to predicted precipitation patterns decreases population size and alters community structure of cyanobacteria in biological soil crusts from the Chihuahuan Desert', Environmental Microbiology, 20, pp. 259 - 269, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.13983

Machado-de-Lima NM; Martins MD; Branco LHZ, 2017, 'Description of a tropical new species of Wilmottia (Oscillatoriales, Cyanobacteria) and considerations about the monophyly of W. murrayi', Phytotaxa, 307, pp. 43 - 54, http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.307.1.4

Conforto EDC; Facincani A; Lima CS; Nanya LH; Tralli MP; Machado de Lima NM; Goulart Nishimura RY; Andreoli RP, 2014, 'Germination of the seeds and initial development of Erythrina mulungu (Mart. ex. Benth)', AGRARIAN, 7, pp. 197 - 204, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000219657500003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Preprints

Tan KKY; Vázquez-Campos X; Price GAV; Williams KL; McWatters RS; Abdullah K; de Lima NM; Laird T; Ray A; Vink JA; Tribbia DZ; Wilkins D; Spedding T; Ferrari BC, Persistent Petroleum Pollution: Microbial Responses in Bunger Hills, East Antarctica, http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-6608817/v1

Tribbia DZ; Lebre PH; Vázquez-Campos X; Ray AE; Laird T; de Lima NM; Maggs-Kölling G; Cowan DA; Ferrari BC, Trace gas oxidation supports sub-surface microbial communities across Namib Desert fog and aridity gradients, http://dx.doi.org/10.64898/2026.02.19.706496

Other

Muñoz-Rojas M; Dadzie F; Machado de Lima N, 2025,  Soil microbial based strategies and seed enhancement technologies reconnect plant-soil biodiversity and improve restoration outcomes , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-16797

Dadzie F; Machado N; Muñoz-Rojas M, 2025, Indigenous soil microbial inoculants promote restoration of arid plants in saline soils, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-12662

Muñoz-Rojas M; Dadzie F; Machado de Lima N, 2023, Emerging soil microbial-based strategies and seed enhancement technologies for restoring biodiverse degraded ecosystems, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-14965

Machado de Lima NM; Tangney R; Muñoz Rojas M; Ooi M, 2023, Seed microbial community characterisation and isolation from three species common to fire-prone Australia., http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-10170

Dadzie F; Machado de Lima N; Muñoz- Rojas M, 2022, Native soil bacteria and biocrust cyanobacteria inoculation improve seedling emergence of native plants on saline dryland soils , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-9005

Machado de Lima N; Munoz Rojas M, 2022, Teaching and enriching younger generations perception of soil ecosystems and dryland restoration through soil biocrusts, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-8943

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