Erinne Stirling

Erinne Stirling

School of Biological Sciences

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.


Erinne is a CERC Postdoctoral Fellow at CSIRO Agriculture and Food working within the Valuing Sustainability Future Science Platform on molecular monitoring of soil health and carbon use efficiency.

  • Appointments

    Date Position Institution name
    2022 - ongoing CERC Postdoctoral Fellow Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    2019 - 2022 Postdoctoral Fellow Zhejiang University
  • Education

    Date Institution name Country Title
    2015 - 2019 The University of Adelaide Australia Doctor of Philosophy
    2013 - 2014 Flinders University Australia Master of Environmental Policy and Management
    2009 - 2012 The University of Adelaide Australia Bachelor of Science (Natural Resources)
    2009 - 2012 The University of Adelaide Australia Bachelor of Environmental Policy and Management
  • Research Interests

  • Journals

    Year Citation
    2024 Wang, B., Ma, B., Zhang, Y., Stirling, E., Yan, Q., He, Z., . . . Zhang, H. (2024). Global diversity, coexistence and consequences of resistome in inland waters. Water Research, 253, 11 pages.
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    2024 Xue, R., Stirling, E., Zhao, K., Wang, Y., Ye, S., Xu, J., & Ma, B. (2024). Putting cell size into perspective: Soil bacterial diversity and predictive function. Geoderma, 443, 8 pages.
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    2024 Ma, B., Wang, Y., Zhao, K., Stirling, E., Lv, X., Yu, Y., . . . Xu, J. (2024). Biogeographic patterns and drivers of soil viromes. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 8(4), 24 pages.
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    2023 Xue, R., Liu, S., Stirling, E., Wang, Y., Zhao, K., Matsumoto, H., . . . Ma, B. (2023). Core community drives phyllosphere bacterial diversity and function in multiple ecosystems.. The Science of the total environment, 896, 1-8.
    DOI Scopus3 Europe PMC2
    2023 Wang, B., Xu, J., Wang, Y., Stirling, E., Zhao, K., Lu, C., . . . Ma, B. (2023). Tackling Soil ARG-Carrying Pathogens with Global-Scale Metagenomics. Advanced Science, 10(26), e2301980.
    DOI Scopus3 Europe PMC1
    2023 Dai, H., Zhuang, Y., Stirling, E., Liu, N., & Ma, B. (2023). Microfluidic hotspots in bacteria research: A review of soil and related advances. Soil Ecology Letters, 5(1), 21-37.
    DOI Scopus2 WoS2
    2023 Xu, P., Stirling, E., Xie, H., Li, W., Lv, X., Matsumoto, H., . . . Xu, J. (2023). Continental scale deciphering of microbiome networks untangles the phyllosphere homeostasis in tea plant. Journal of Advanced Research, 44, 13-22.
    DOI Scopus15 Europe PMC4
    2023 Liu, Y., Chu, G., Stirling, E., Zhang, H., Chen, S., Xu, C., . . . Wang, D. (2023). Nitrogen fertilization modulates rice seed endophytic microbiomes and grain quality. Science of the Total Environment, 857(Pt 2), 11 pages.
    DOI Scopus10 WoS4 Europe PMC3
    2023 Wang, B., Ma, B., Stirling, E., He, Z., Zhang, H., & Yan, Q. (2023). Freshwater trophic status mediates microbial community assembly and interdomain network complexity. Environmental Pollution, 316(Pt 1), 9 pages.
    DOI Scopus8 WoS1
    2022 Song, X., Li, Y., Stirling, E., Zhao, K., Wang, B., Zhu, Y., . . . Ma, B. (2022). AsgeneDB: A curated orthology arsenic metabolism gene database and computational tool for metagenome annotation. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics, 4(4).
    DOI Scopus2
    2022 Zhao, K., Yu, H., Xue, R., Stirling, E., Wang, Y., Xu, J., & Ma, B. (2022). The only constant is change: Endogenous circadian rhythms of soil microbial activities. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 173, 8 pages.
    DOI Scopus4 WoS3
    2021 Liu, H., Xue, R., Wang, Y., Stirling, E., Ye, S., Xu, J., & Ma, B. (2021). FACS-iChip: a high-efficiency iChip system for microbial ‘dark matter’ mining. Marine Life Science and Technology, 3(2), 162-168.
    DOI Scopus13 WoS9 Europe PMC4
    2021 Ma, B., Stirling, E., Liu, Y., Zhao, K., Zhou, J., Singh, B. K., . . . Xu, J. (2021). Soil Biogeochemical Cycle Couplings Inferred from a Function-Taxon Network. Research (Washington), 2021, 10 pages.
    DOI Scopus39 WoS30 Europe PMC8
    2021 Zhao, K., Ma, B., Xu, Y., Stirling, E., & Xu, J. (2021). Light exposure mediates circadian rhythms of rhizosphere microbial communities. ISME Journal, 15(9), 2655-2664.
    DOI Scopus38 WoS30 Europe PMC14
    2021 Xue, R., Zhao, K., Yu, X., Stirling, E., Liu, S., Ye, S., . . . Xu, J. (2021). Deciphering sample size effect on microbial biogeographic patterns and community assembly processes at centimeter scale. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 156, 8 pages.
    DOI Scopus17 WoS14
    2021 Liu, H., Xue, R., Wang, Y., Stirling, E., Ye, S., Xu, J., & Ma, B. (2021). Correction to: FACS‑iChip: a high‑efficiency iChip system for microbial ‘dark matter’ mining (Marine Life Science & Technology, (2021), 3, 2, (162-168), 10.1007/s42995-020-00067-7). Marine Life Science and Technology, 3(2), 276-277.
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    2021 Wang, B., Stirling, E., He, Z., Ma, B., Zhang, H., Zheng, X., . . . Yan, Q. (2021). Pollution alters methanogenic and methanotrophic communities and increases dissolved methane in small ponds. Science of the Total Environment, 801, 10 pages.
    DOI Scopus9 WoS7 Europe PMC1
    2021 Liu, Y., Ma, B., Chen, W., Schlaeppi, K., Erb, M., Stirling, E., . . . Xu, J. (2021). Rhizobium Symbiotic Capacity Shapes Root-Associated Microbiomes in Soybean. Frontiers in Microbiology, 12, 17 pages.
    DOI Scopus13 WoS10 Europe PMC6
    2020 Xu, P., Stirling, E., Li, W., Lv, X., Chen, H., Xu, A., . . . Xu, J. (2020). Trade-off between stochastic and deterministic processes shifts from soil to leaf microbiome of tea plant.
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    2020 Ma, B., Wang, Y., Ye, S., Liu, S., Stirling, E., Gilbert, J. A., . . . Xu, J. (2020). Earth microbial co-occurrence network reveals interconnection pattern across microbiomes. Microbiome, 8(1), 12 pages.
    DOI Scopus223 WoS174 Europe PMC83
    2020 Stirling, E., Fitzpatrick, R. W., & Mosley, L. M. (2020). Drought effects on wet soils in inland wetlands and peatlands. Earth-Science Reviews, 210, 1-15.
    DOI Scopus36 WoS26
    2019 Stirling, E., Macdonald, L. M., Smernik, R. J., & Cavagnaro, T. R. (2019). Post fire litters are richer in water soluble carbon and lead to increased microbial activity. Applied Soil Ecology, 136, 101-105.
    DOI Scopus15 WoS12
    2019 Stirling, E., Smernik, R. J., Macdonald, L. M., & Cavagnaro, T. R. (2019). The effect of fire affected Pinus radiata litter and char addition on soil nitrogen cycling. Science of the Total Environment, 664, 276-282.
    DOI Scopus5 WoS5 Europe PMC1
    2019 Stirling, E., Smernik, R. J., Macdonald, L. M., & Cavagnaro, T. R. (2019). Fire influences needle decomposition: tipping point in Pinus radiata carbon chemistry and soil nitrogen transformations. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 135, 361-368.
    DOI Scopus4 WoS4
    2019 Stirling, E., Macdonald, L. M., Smernik, R. J., & Cavagnaro, T. R. (2019). Soil Microbial Community Responses After Amendment with Thermally Altered Pinus radiata Needles. Microbial Ecology, 79(2), 409-419.
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    2017 Barr, C., Tibby, J., Moss, P., Halverson, G., Marshall, J., McGregor, G., & Stirling, E. (2017). A 25,000-year record of environmental change from Welsby Lagoon, North Stradbroke Island, in the Australian subtropics. Quaternary International, 449, 106-118.
    DOI Scopus17 WoS16
  • Filesets

    Year Citation
    - Stirling, E. (n.d.). Laboratory analyses data set.
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    - Stirling, E. (n.d.). Post fire litters are richer in water soluble carbon and lead to increased microbial activity.
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    - Stirling, E. (n.d.). Fire influences needle decomposition: tipping point in Pinus radiata carbon chemistry and soil nitrogen transformations.
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    - Stirling, E. (n.d.). The effect of fire affected Pinus radiata litter and char addition on soil nitrogen cycling.
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    - Stirling, E., Cavagnaro, T., & Smernik, R. (n.d.). Soil microbial community responses after amendment with thermally altered Pinus radiata needles.
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  • Committee Memberships

    Date Role Committee Institution Country
    2015 - ongoing Member Soil Science Australia - South Australia Branch Australian Soil Science Society Inc. Australia

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