Don A Cowan

Don A Cowan

University of Pretoria

H-index: 77

Africa-South Africa

About Don A Cowan

Don A Cowan, With an exceptional h-index of 77 and a recent h-index of 50 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Pretoria, specializes in the field of Microbial ecology.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Biogeographical survey of soil microbial communities across Antarctica

Temporal dynamics of microbial transcription in wetted hyperarid desert soils

Biogeographic survey of soil bacterial communities across Antarctica

TerrANTALife 1.0 Biodiversity data checklist of known Antarctic terrestrial and freshwater life forms

Extremophiles in a changing world

Oxalate and oxalotrophy: an environmental perspective

Disentangling Shifts in the Soil Microbiome of Potatoes Infected with Rhizoctonia solani Anastomosis Group 3-PT in Search of Potential Biocontrol Agents

Documenting the diversity of the Namibian Ju|’hoansi intestinal microbiome

Don A Cowan Information

University

Position

Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics

Citations(all)

23515

Citations(since 2020)

10255

Cited By

16940

hIndex(all)

77

hIndex(since 2020)

50

i10Index(all)

325

i10Index(since 2020)

216

Email

University Profile Page

University of Pretoria

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Don A Cowan Skills & Research Interests

Microbial ecology

Top articles of Don A Cowan

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Biogeographical survey of soil microbial communities across Antarctica

Pedro H Lebre

Don Cowan

2024/2/26

Temporal dynamics of microbial transcription in wetted hyperarid desert soils

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Carlos León-Sobrino

Jean-Baptiste Ramond

Clément Coclet

Ritha-Meriam Kapitango

Gillian Maggs-Kölling

...

2024/1/31

Biogeographic survey of soil bacterial communities across Antarctica

Microbiome

Gilda Varliero

Pedro H Lebre

Byron Adams

Steven L Chown

Peter Convey

...

2024/12

TerrANTALife 1.0 Biodiversity data checklist of known Antarctic terrestrial and freshwater life forms

Biodiversity Data Journal

Luis R Pertierra

Gilda Varliero

Andrés Barbosa

Elisabeth M Biersma

Peter Convey

...

2024

Extremophiles in a changing world

DA Cowan

SV Albers

G Antranikian

H Atomi

B Averhoff

...

2024/8

Oxalate and oxalotrophy: an environmental perspective

Don A Cowan

Darya Babenko

Ryan Bird

Alf Botha

Daniel O Breecker

...

2024/1

Disentangling Shifts in the Soil Microbiome of Potatoes Infected with Rhizoctonia solani Anastomosis Group 3-PT in Search of Potential Biocontrol Agents

Phytobiomes Journal

Sasha-Lee Gush

Pedro Lebre

Teresa Ann Coutinho

Donald Arthur Cowan

Jacquie van der Waals

2023/12/1

Documenting the diversity of the Namibian Ju|’hoansi intestinal microbiome

Cell Reports

Mia Truter

Jessica E Koopman

Karen Jordaan

Leon Oma Tsamkxao

Don A Cowan

...

2024/2/27

Microdiverse bacterial clades prevail across Antarctic wetlands

Molecular ecology

María V Quiroga

James C Stegen

Gabriela Mataloni

Don Cowan

Pedro H Lebre

...

2024/1

Fungal Planet description sheets: 1550–1613

Persoonia-Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi

PW Crous

MM Costa

H Kandemir

M Vermaas

D Vu

...

2023/12/31

Topsoil microbiomes in sub-Saharan Africa: structure, drivers, and predicted climate-driven changes

DA Cowan

PH Lebre

CE Amon

RW Becker

HI Boga

...

2023/4/14

‘Follow the Water’: Microbial Water Acquisition in Desert Soils

Don A Cowan

S Craig Cary

Jocelyne DiRuggiero

Frank Eckardt

Belinda Ferrari

...

2023/6/27

Brucella pituitosa strain BU72, a new hydrocarbonoclastic bacterium through exopolysaccharide-based surfactants production

Mouna MAHJOUBI

Hanene CHERIF

Habibu ALIYU

Habib CHOUCHANE

Simone CAPPELLO

...

2023/9/8

With a pinch of salt: metagenomic insights into Namib Desert salt pan microbial mats and halites reveal functionally adapted and competitive communities

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Laura Martínez-Alvarez

Jean-Baptiste Ramond

Surendra Vikram

Carlos León-Sobrino

Gillian Maggs-Kölling

...

2023/12/21

Soil fungal diversity and assembly along a xeric stress gradient in the central Namib Desert

Fungal Biology

S Vikram

J-B Ramond

M Ortiz

G Maggs-Kölling

K Pelser

...

2023/4/1

The use of different 16S rRNA gene variable regions in biogeographical studies

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Gilda Varliero

Pedro H Lebre

Mark I Stevens

Paul Czechowski

Thulani Makhalanyane

...

2023/6

Expanding Antarctic biogeography: microbial ecology of Antarctic island soils

Ecography

Pedro H Lebre

Jason Bosch

Clément Coclet

Rebecca Hallas

Ian D Hogg

...

2023/9

Clearing the air: unraveling past and guiding future research in atmospheric chemosynthesis

Angelique E Ray

Dana Z Tribbia

Don A Cowan

Belinda C Ferrari

2023/12/20

The soil microbiomes of forest ecosystems in Kenya: their diversity and environmental drivers

Scientific Reports

Lorine Akinyi Onyango

Florence Atieno Ngonga

Edward Nderitu Karanja

Josiah Ochieng’ Kuja

Hamadi Iddi Boga

...

2023/5/2

Rickettsia felis DNA recovered from a child who lived in southern Africa 2000 years ago

Communications Biology

Riaan F Rifkin

Surendra Vikram

Jaime Alcorta

Jean-Baptiste Ramond

Don A Cowan

...

2023/3/3

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Co-Authors

H-index: 87
Antonio Ventosa

Antonio Ventosa

Universidad de Sevilla

H-index: 70
Stephen Craig Cary

Stephen Craig Cary

University of Waikato

H-index: 66
WD Grant

WD Grant

University of Leicester

H-index: 40
Ian Hogg

Ian Hogg

University of Waikato

H-index: 34
Bryan Trevor SEWELL

Bryan Trevor SEWELL

University of Cape Town

H-index: 31
Thulani P. Makhalanyane

Thulani P. Makhalanyane

University of Pretoria

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