Microbial and mineral interactions decouple litter quality from soil organic matter formation

Elias, D. M. O., Mason, K. E., Goodall, T., Taylor, A., Zhao, P., Otero-Fariña, A., Chen, H., Peacock, C. L., Ostle, N. J., Griffiths, R., Chapman, P. J., Holden, J., Banwart, S., McNamara, N. P. & Whitaker, J., 20/11/2024, In: Nature Communications. 15, 1, 10063.

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Selective logging impacts on soil microbial communities and functioning in Bornean tropical forest

Robinson, S. J. B., Elias, D. M. O., Goodall, T., Nottingham, A. T., McNamara, N. P., Griffiths, R., Majalap, N. & Ostle, N. J., 26/09/2024, In: Frontiers in Microbiology. 15, 1447999.

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Interactive effects of climate warming and management on grassland soil respiration partitioning

Barneze, A. S., Whitaker, J., McNamara, N. P. & Ostle, N. J., 31/05/2024, In: European Journal of Soil Science. 75, 3, e13491.

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Vegetation type, not the legacy of warming, modifies the response of microbial functional genes and greenhouse gas fluxes to drought in oro-arctic and alpine regions

Fry, E. L., Ashworth, D., Allen, K. A. J., Chardon, N. I., Rixen, C., Björkman, M. P., Björk, R. G., Stålhandske, T., Molau, M., Locke-King, B., Cantillon, I., McDonald, C., Liu, H., De Vries, F. T., Ostle, N. J., Singh, B. K. & Bardgett, R. D., 31/12/2023, In: FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 99, 12, fiad145.

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The biogeography of Gabonese savannas: Evidence from termite community richness and composition

Evouna Ondo, F., Jeffery, K. J., Whytock, R., Abernethy, K., Couteron, P., Eggleton, P., Griffin, C., Ostle, N. J., Koumba Pambo, A., Ngomanda, A., Edzang Ndong, J. & Parr, C. L., 30/09/2023, In: Journal of Biogeography. 50, 9, p. 1505-1518 14 p.

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Drought effects on root and shoot traits and their decomposability

Reinelt, L., Whitaker, J., Kazakou, E., Bonnal, L., Bastianelli, D., Bullock, J. & Ostle, N. J., 30/04/2023, In: Functional Ecology. 37, 4, p. 1044-1054 11 p.

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Grassland degradation-induced declines in soil fungal complexity reduce fungal community stability and ecosystem multifunctionality

Luo, S., Png, G. K., Ostle, N. J., Zhou, H., Hou, X., Luo, C., Quinton, J. N., Schaffner, U., Sweeney, C., Wang, D., Wu, J., Wu, Y. & Bardgett, R. D., 31/01/2023, In: Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 176, 12 p., 108865.

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Revealing the transfer pathways of cyanobacterial-fixed N into the boreal forest through the feather-moss microbiome

Arróniz-Crespo, M., Bougoure, J., Murphy, D. V., Cutler, N. A., Souza-Egipsy, V., Chaput, D. L., Jones, D. L., Ostle, N., Wade, S. C., Clode, P. L. & DeLuca, T. H., 9/12/2022, In: Frontiers in Plant Science. 13, 12 p., 1036258.

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Predicted Soil Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Climate × Management Interactions in Temperate Grassland

Barneze, A. S., Abdalla, M., Whitaker, J., McNamara, N. P., Ostle, N. J. & Bellocchi, G. (Editor), 2/12/2022, In: Agronomy. 12, 12, 3055.

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Historical context modifies plant diversity–community productivity relationships in alpine grassland

Luo, S., Bardgett, R. D., Schmid, B., Johnson, D., Png, K., Schaffner, U., Zhou, H., Yao, B., Hou, X. & Ostle, N. J., 30/09/2022, In: Journal of Ecology. 110, 9, p. 2205-2218 14 p.

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Interactions between climate warming and land management regulate greenhouse gas fluxes in a temperate grassland ecosystem

Barneze, A. S., Whitaker, J., McNamara, N. P. & Ostle, N. J., 10/08/2022, In: Science of the Total Environment. 833, 11 p., 155212.

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Microbial necromass carbon and nitrogen persistence are decoupled in agricultural grassland soils

Buckeridge, K. M., Mason, K. E., Ostle, N., McNamara, N. P., Grant, H. K. & Whitaker, J., 13/05/2022, In: Communications Earth and Environment. 3, 1, 10 p., 114.

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Aridity influences root versus shoot contributions to steppe grassland soil carbon stock and its stability

Hu, Z., Song, X., Wang, M., Ma, J., Zhang, Y., Xu, H.-J., Zhu, X., Liu, H., Yu, Q., Ostle, N. J., Li, Y. & Yue, C., 1/05/2022, In: Geoderma. 413, 11 p., 115744.

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Microbial “hotspots” of organic matter decomposition in temperate peatlands are driven by local spatial heterogeneity in abiotic conditions and not by vegetation structure

Briones, M. J. I., Juan-Ovejero, R., McNamara, N. P. & Ostle, N. J., 28/02/2022, In: Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 165, 9 p., 108501.

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Bacterial and archaeal taxa are reliable indicators of soil restoration across distributed calcareous grasslands

Armbruster, M., Goodall, T., Hirsch, P., Ostle, N., Puissant, J., Fagan, K., Pywell, R. & Griffiths, R., 30/11/2021, In: European Journal of Soil Science. 72, 6, p. 2430-2444 15 p.

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Flexible soil microbial carbon metabolism across an Asian elevation gradient

Jiang, Y., Zhang, D., Ostle, N. J., Luo, C., Wang, Y., Ding, P., Cheng, Z., Shen, C. & Zhang, G., 31/10/2021, In: Radiocarbon. 63, 5, p. 1397-1413 17 p.

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Does agri-environmental management enhance biodiversity and multiple ecosystem services? A farm-scale experiment

Bullock, J. M., McCracken, M. E., Bowes, M. J., Chapman, R. E., Graves, A. R., Hinsley, S. A., Hutchins, M. G., Nowakowski, M., Nicholls, D. J. E., Oakley, S., Old, G. H., Ostle, N. J., Redhead, J. W., Woodcock, B. A., Bedwell, T., Mayes, S., Robinson, V. S. & Pywell, R. F., 15/10/2021, In: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. 320, 13 p., 107582.

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Do soil depth and plant community composition interact to modify the resistance and resilience of grassland ecosystem functioning to drought?

Fry, E. L., Wilkinson, A., Johnson, D., Pritchard, W. J., Ostle, N. J., Baggs, E. M. & Bardgett, R. D., 30/09/2021, In: Ecology and Evolution. 11, 17, p. 11960-11973 14 p.

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Plant functional type indirectly affects peatland carbon fluxes and their sensitivity to environmental change

Whitaker, J., Richardson, H. R., Ostle, N. J., Armstrong, A. & Waldron, S., 20/03/2021, In: European Journal of Soil Science. 72, 2, p. 1042-1053 12 p.

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Nitrogen and phosphorus additions accelerate decomposition of slow carbon pool and lower total soil organic carbon pool in alpine meadows

Li, J. H., Cheng, B. H., Zhang, R., Li, W. J., Shi, X. M., Han, Y. W., Ye, L. F., Ostle, N. J. & Bardgett, R. D., 28/02/2021, In: Land Degradation and Development. 32, 4, p. 1761-1772 12 p.

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Peat Properties, Dominant Vegetation Type and Microbial Community Structure in a Tropical Peatland

Girkin, N. T., Lopes dos Santos, R. A., Vane, C. H., Ostle, N., Turner, B. L. & Sjögersten, S., 1/10/2020, In: Wetlands. 40, p. 1367–1377 11 p.

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Radiocarbon evidence of the impact of forest-to-plantation conversion on soil organic carbon dynamics on a tropical island

Jiang, Y., Luo, C., Zhang, D., Ostle, N. J., Cheng, Z., Ding, P., Shen, C. & Zhang, G., 1/10/2020, In: Geoderma. 375, 8 p., 114484.

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Sticky Dead Microbes: rapid abiotic retention of microbial necromass in soil

Buckeridge, K., La Rosa, A. F., Mason, K., Whitaker, J., McNamara, N., Grant, H. & Ostle, N., 1/10/2020, In: Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 149, 4 p., 107929.

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Decoupled Spatial Distribution of PAHs Degraders Determined by Taxonomic 16S rRNA and Degrading Genes Across Chinese Forest Soils

Jiang, L., Song, M., Luo, C., Zhang, D., Sun, Y., Li, J., Ostle, N. J. & Zhang, G., 30/09/2020, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 125, 9, 15 p., e2020JG005659.

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Soil Microbial Community and Litter Quality Controls on Decomposition Across a Tropical Forest Disturbance Gradient

Elias, D., Robinson, S., Both, S., Goodall, T., Lee, N. M., Ostle, N. & McNamara, N., 16/07/2020, In: Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 3, 15 p., 81.

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Dominant native and non-native graminoids differ in key leaf traits irrespective of nutrient availability

Broadbent, A. A. D., Firn, J., McGree, J. M., Borer, E. T., Buckley, Y. M., Harpole, W. S., Komatsu, K. J., MacDougall, A. S., Orwin, K. H., Ostle, N. J., Seabloom, E. W., Bakker, J. D., Biederman, L., Caldeira, M. C., Eisenhauer, N., Hagenah, N., Hautier, Y., Moore, J. L., Nogueira, C. & Peri, P. L. & 4 others, Risch, A. C., Roscher, C., Schütz, M. & Stevens, C. J., 1/07/2020, In: Global Ecology and Biogeography. 29, 7, p. 1126-1138 13 p.

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Soil fungal community characteristics and mycelial production across a disturbance gradient in lowland dipterocarp rainforest in Borneo

Robinson, S., Elias, D., Johnson, D., Both, S., Riutta, T., Goodall, T., Majalap, N., McNamara, N., Griffiths, R. & Ostle, N., 26/06/2020, In: Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 3, 19 p., 64.

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Root oxygen mitigates methane fluxes in tropical peatlands

Girkin, N. T., Vane, C. H., Turner, B. L., Ostle, N. J. & Sjögersten, S., 27/05/2020, In: Environmental Research Letters. 15, 6, 11 p., 064013.

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Land-use changes alter soil bacterial composition and diversity in tropical forest soil in China

Sun, Y., Luo, C., Jiang, L., Song, M., Zhang, D., Li, J., Li, Y., Ostle, N. J. & Zhang, G., 10/04/2020, In: Science of the Total Environment. 712, 10 p., 136526.

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Interactions between labile carbon, temperature and land use regulate carbon dioxide and methane production in tropical peat

Girkin, N. T., Dhandapani, S., Evers, S., Ostle, N., Turner, B. L. & Sjögersten, S., 31/01/2020, In: Biogeochemistry. 147, 1, p. 87-97 11 p.

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Imaging spectroscopy reveals the effects of topography and logging on the leaf chemistry of tropical forest canopy trees

Swinfield, T., Both, S., Riutta, T., Bongalov, B., Elias, D., Majalap-Lee, N., Ostle, N., Svátek, M., Kvasnica, J., Milodowski, D., Jucker, T., Ewers, R. M., Zhang, Y., Johnson, D., Teh, Y. A., Burslem, D. F. R. P., Malhi, Y. & Coomes, D., 17/12/2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Global Change Biology. 14 p.

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Legumes increase grassland productivity with no effect on nitrous oxide emissions

Barneze, A. S., Whitaker, J., McNamara, N. P. & Ostle, N. J., 16/11/2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Plant and Soil. 15 p.

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Microbial responses to warming enhance soil carbon loss following translocation across a tropical forest elevation gradient

Nottingham, A. T., Whitaker, J., Ostle, N. J., Bardgett, R. D., McNamara, N. P., Fierer, N., Salinas, N., Ccahuana, A. J. Q., Turner, B. L. & Meir, P., 1/11/2019, In: Ecology Letters. 22, 11, p. 1889-1899 11 p.

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Boreal Forest Floor Greenhouse Gas Emissions Across a Pleurozium schreberi-Dominated, Wildfire-Disturbed Chronosequence

Mason, K. E., Oakley, S., Street, L. E., Arróniz-Crespo, M., Jones, D. L., DeLuca, T. H. & Ostle, N. J., 1/09/2019, In: Ecosystems. 22, 6, p. 1381-1392 12 p.

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Drought soil legacy overrides maternal effects on plant growth

De Long, J. R., Semchenko, M., Pritchard, W. J., Cordero, I., Fry, E. L., Jackson, B. G., Kurnosova, K., Ostle, N. J., Johnson, D., Baggs, E. M. & Bardgett, R. D., 1/08/2019, In: Functional Ecology. 33, 8, p. 1400-1410 11 p.

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Soil biota, carbon cycling and crop plant biomass responses to biochar in a temperate mesocosm experiment

McCormack, S. A., Ostle, N., Bardgett, R. D., Hopkins, D. W., Pereira, M. G. & Vanbergen, A. J., 14/07/2019, In: Plant and Soil. 440, 1-2, p. 341-356 16 p.

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Grassland biodiversity restoration increases resistance of carbon fluxes to drought

Cole, A. J., Griffiths, R. I., Ward, S. E., Whitaker, J., Ostle, N. J. & Bardgett, R. D., 1/07/2019, In: Journal of Applied Ecology. 56, 7, p. 1806-1816 11 p.

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Relationships between plant traits, soil properties and carbon fluxes differ between monocultures and mixed communities in temperate grassland

De Long, J. R., Jackson, B. G., Wilkinson, A., Pritchard, W. J., Oakley, S., Mason, K. E., Stephan, J. G., Ostle, N. J., Johnson, D., Baggs, E. M. & Bardgett, R. D., 25/03/2019, In: Journal of Ecology. 107, 4, p. 1704-1719 16 p.

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Logging and soil nutrients independently explain plant trait expression in tropical forests

Both, S., Riutta, T., Paine, C. E. T., Elias, D. M. O., Cruz, R. S., Jain, A., Johnson, D., Kritzler, U. H., Kuntz, M., Majalap-Lee, N., Mielke, N., Montoya Pillco, M. X., Ostle, N. J., Arn Teh, Y., Malhi, Y. & Burslem, D. F. R. P., 1/03/2019, In: New Phytologist. 221, 4, p. 1853-1865 13 p.

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Spatial variability of organic matter properties determines methane fluxes in a tropical forested peatland

Girkin, N. T., Vane, C. H., Cooper, H. V., Moss-Hayes, V., Craigon, J., Turner, B. L., Ostle, N. & Sjögersten, S., 30/01/2019, In: Biogeochemistry. 142, 2, p. 231-245 15 p.

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Plastic and genetic responses of a common sedge to warming have contrasting effects on carbon cycle processes

Walker, T. W. N., Weckwerth, W., Bragazza, L., Fragner, L., Forde, B. G., Ostle, N. J., Signarbieux, C., Sun, X., Ward, S. E. & Bardgett, R. D., 01/2019, In: Ecology Letters. 22, 1, p. 159-169 11 p.

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Composition and concentration of root exudate analogues regulate greenhouse gas fluxes from tropical peat

Girkin, N. T., Turner, B. L., Ostle, N. & Sjögersten, S., 1/12/2018, In: Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 127, p. 280-285 6 p.

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Fungal diversity regulates plant-soil feedbacks in temperate grassland

Semchenko, M., Leff, J. W., Lozano, Y. M., Saar, S., Davison, J., Wilkinson, A., Jackson, B. G., Pritchard, W. J., De Long, J. R., Oakley, S., Mason, K. E., Ostle, N. J., Baggs, E. M., Johnson, D., Fierer, N. & Bardgett, R. D., 28/11/2018, In: Science Advances. 4, 11, 10 p., 4578.

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Direct isotopic evidence of biogenic methane production and efflux from beneath a temperate glacier

Burns, R. K., Wynn, P. M., Barker, P. A., McNamara, N., Oakley, S., Ostle, N. J., Stott, A., Tuffen, H., Zhou, Z., Tweed, F., Chesler, A. & Stuart, M., 20/11/2018, In: Scientific Reports. 8, 8 p., 17118.

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Microbes follow Humboldt: temperature drives plant and soil microbial diversity patterns from the Amazon to the Andes

Nottingham, A. T., Fierer, N., Turner, B. L., Whitaker, J., Ostle, N. J., McNamara, N. P., Bardgett, R. D., Leff, J. W., Salinas, N., Silman, M. R., Kruuk, L. E. B. & Meir, P., 1/11/2018, In: Ecology. 99, 11, p. 2455-2466 12 p.

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Isotopic evidence of biotrophy and unusual nitrogen nutrition in soil-dwelling Hygrophoraceae

Halbwachs, H., Easton, G. L., Bol, R., Hobbie, E. A., Garnett, M. H., Peršoh, D., Dixon, L., Ostle, N., Karasch, P. & Griffith, G. W., 1/10/2018, In: Environmental Microbiology. 20, 10, p. 3573-3588 16 p.

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Root-derived CO₂ flux from a tropical peatland

Girkin, N. T., Turner, B. L., Ostle, N. & Sjögersten, S., 10/2018, In: Wetlands Ecology and Management. 26, 5, p. 985-991 7 p.

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Land use driven change in soil pH affects microbial carbon cycling processes

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. & Griffiths, R. I., 4/09/2018, In: Nature Communications. 9, 1, 10 p., 3591.

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Soil multifunctionality and drought resistance are determined by plant structural traits in restoring grassland

Fry, E. L., Savage, J., Hall, A. L., Oakley, S., Pritchard, W. J., Ostle, N. J., Pywell, R. F., Bullock, J. M. & Bardgett, R. D., 20/08/2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Ecology.

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Soil bacterial networks are less stable under drought than fungal networks

de Vries, F. T., Griffiths, R. I., Bailey, M., Craig, H., Girlanda, M., Gweon, H. S., Hallin, S., Kaisermann, A., Keith, A. M., Kretzschmar, M., Lemanceau, P., Lumini, E., Mason, K. E., Oliver, A., Ostle, N., Prosser, J. I., Thion, C., Thomson, B. & Bardgett, R. D., 2/08/2018, In: Nature Communications. 9, 12 p., 3033.

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Ecosystem nitrogen retention is regulated by plant community trait interactions with nutrient status in an alpine meadow

Wang, F., Shi, G., Ostle, N., Yao, B., Ji, M., Wang, W., Ma, Z., Zhou, H. & Zhao, X., 1/07/2018, In: Journal of Ecology. 106, 4, p. 1570-1581 12 p.

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Predicting the structure of soil communities from plant community taxonomy, phylogeny, and traits

Leff, J. W., Bardgett, R. D., Wilkinson, A., Jackson, B. G., Pritchard, W. J., de Long, J. R., Oakley, S., Mason, K. E., Ostle, N. J., Johnson, D., Baggs, E. M. & Fierer, N., 1/07/2018, In: ISME Journal. 12 p.

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Biogeographic differences in soil biota promote invasive grass response to nutrient addition relative to co-occurring species despite lack of belowground enemy release

Broadbent, A. A. D., Stevens, C. J., Ostle, N. J. & Orwin, K. H., 03/2018, In: Oecologia. 186, 3, p. 611-620 10 p.

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Belowground competition drives invasive plant impact on native species regardless of nitrogen availability

Broadbent, A. A. D., Stevens, C. J., Peltzer, D. A., Ostle, N. J. & Orwin, K. H., 02/2018, In: Oecologia. 186, 2, p. 577-587 11 p.

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Root exudate analogues accelerate CO2 and CH4 production in tropical peat

Girkin, N. T., Turner, B. L., Ostle, N., Craigon, J. & Sjögersten, S., 02/2018, In: Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 117, p. 48-55 8 p.

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Land use not litter quality is a stronger driver of decomposition in hyperdiverse tropical forest

Both, S., Elias, D. M. O., Kritzler, U. H., Ostle, N. J. & Johnson, D., 1/11/2017, In: Ecology and Evolution. 7, 22, p. 9307-9318 12 p.

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Invasive N-fixer impacts on litter decomposition driven by changes to soil properties not litter quality

Broadbent, A. A. D., Orwin, K. H., Peltzer, D. A., Dickie, I., Mason, N. W. H., Ostle, N. J. & Stevens, C. J., 30/09/2017, In: Ecosystems. 20, 6, p. 1151-1163 13 p.

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Key impacts of climate engineering on biodiversity and ecosystems, with priorities for future research

McCormack, C. G. & Ostle, N. J., 1/10/2016, In: Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences. 13, 2-4, p. 103-128 26 p.

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Can digital image classification be used as a standardised method for surveying peatland vegetation cover?

Baxendale, C. L., Ostle, N. J., Wood, C. M., Oakley, S. & Ward, S. E., 09/2016, In: Ecological Indicators. 68, p. 150-156 7 p.

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Solar park microclimate and vegetation management effects on grassland carbon cycling

Armstrong, A. B., Ostle, N. J. & Whitaker, J., 13/07/2016, In: Environmental Research Letters. 11, 7, 11 p., 074016.

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Root herbivores drive changes to plant primary chemistry, but root loss is mitigated under elevated atmospheric CO2

McKenzie, S. W., Johnson, S. N., Jones, T. H., Ostle, N. J., Hails, R. S. & Vanbergen, A. J., 14/06/2016, In: Frontiers in Plant Science. 7, 10 p., 837.

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Temporal and spatial influences incur reconfiguration of Arctic heathland soil bacterial community structure

Hill, R., Saetnan, E. R., Scullion, J., Gwynn-Jones, D. & Ostle, N. J., 06/2016, In: Environmental Microbiology. 18, 6, p. 1942-1953 12 p.

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Vascular plants promote ancient peatland carbon loss with climate warming

Walker, T., Garnett, M. H., Ward, S. E., Oakley, S., Bardgett, R. & Ostle, N. J., 05/2016, In: Global Change Biology. 22, 5, p. 1880-1889 10 p.

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Ground-level climate at a peatland wind farm in Scotland is affected by wind turbine operation

Armstrong, A. B., Burton, R., Lee, S., Mobbs, S., Ostle, N. J., Smith, V., Waldron, S. & Whitaker, J., 22/04/2016, In: Environmental Research Letters. 11, 4, 8 p., 044024.

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Temperature sensitivity of soil enzymes along an elevation gradient in the Peruvian Andes

Nottingham, A., Turner, B. L., Whitaker, J., Ostle, N. J., Bardgett, R. D., McNamara, N. P., Salinas, N. & Meir, P., 02/2016, In: Biogeochemistry. 127, 2, p. 217-230 14 p.

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Biotic and abiotic factors interact to regulate Northern peatland carbon cycling

Armstrong, A., Waldron, S., Ostle, N. J., Richardson, H. & Whitaker, J., 12/2015, In: Ecosystems. 18, 8, p. 1395-1409 15 p.

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Soil microbial nutrient constraints along a tropical forest elevation gradient: a belowground test of a biogeochemical paradigm

Nottingham, A., Turner, B. L., Whitaker, J., Ostle, N. J., McNamara, N., Bardgett, R. D., Salinas, N. & Meir, P., 26/10/2015, In: Biogeosciences. 12, p. 6071-6083 13 p.

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Soil methane sink capacity response to a long-term wildfire chronosequence in northern Sweden

McNamara, N. P., Gregg, R., Oakley, S., Stott, A., Rahman, M. T., Murrell, J. C., Wardle, D., Bardgett, R. D. & Ostle, N. J., 15/09/2015, In: PLoS ONE. 10, 9, 12 p., e0129892.

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Factors influencing early secondary succession and ecosystem carbon stocks in Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Robinson, S., van den Berg, E., Meirelles, G. S. & Ostle, N. J., 09/2015, In: Biodiversity and Conservation. 24, 9, p. 2273-2291 19 p.

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Contrasting growth responses of dominant peatland plants to warming and vegetation composition

Walker, T., Ward, S., Ostle, N. & Bardgett, R., 05/2015, In: Oecologia. 178, 1, p. 141-151 11 p.

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Plant community composition and an insect outbreak influence phenol oxidase activity and soil-litter biochemistry in a sub-Arctic birch heath

Jones, A. G., Scullion, J., Ostle, N., Oakley, S., Di Dio, A. & Gwynn-Jones, D., 04/2015, In: Polar Biology. 38, 4, p. 505-516 12 p.

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Impact of plant species evenness, dominant species identity and spatial arrangement on the structure and functioning of soil microbial communities in a model grassland

Massaccesi, L., Bardgett, R. D., Agnelli, A., Ostle, N., Wilby, A. & Orwin, K. H., 03/2015, In: Oecologia. 177, 3, p. 747-759 13 p.

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Harmonising conflicts between science, regulation, perception and environmental impact: the case of soil conditioners from bioenergy

Riding, M. J., Herbert, B. M. J., Ricketts, L., Dodd, I., Ostle, N. & Semple, K. T., 02/2015, In: Environment International. 75, p. 52-67 16 p.

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Vegetation exerts a greater control on litter decomposition than climate warming in peatlands

Ward, S., Orwin, K., Ostle, N., Briones, M., Thomson, B., Griffiths, R., Oakley, S., Quirk, H. & Bardgett, R., 01/2015, In: Ecology. 96, 1, p. 113-123 11 p.

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Microbial carbon mineralization in tropical lowland and montane forest soils of Peru

Whitaker, J., Ostle, N., McNamara, N. P., Nottingham, A. T., Stott, A. W., Bardgett, R. D., Salinas, N., Ccahuana, A. J. Q. & Meir, P., 18/12/2014, In: Frontiers in Microbiology. 5, 13 p., 720.

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Completing the FACE of elevated CO2 research

Jones, A. G., Scullion, J., Ostle, N. J., Levy, P. E. & Gwynn-Jones, D., 12/2014, In: Environment International. 73, p. 252-258 7 p.

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Interactive biotic and abiotic regulators of soil carbon cycling: evidence from controlled climate experiments on peatland and boreal soils

Briones, M. J. I., McNamara, N. P., Poskitt, J., Crow, S. E. & Ostle, N. J., 09/2014, In: Global Change Biology. 20, 9, p. 2971-2982 12 p.

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Microbial community composition explains soil respiration responses to changing carbon inputs along an Andes-to-Amazon elevation gradient

Whitaker, J., Ostle, N., Nottingham, A., Ccahuana, A., Salinas, N., Bardgett, R., Meir, P. & McNamara, N., 07/2014, In: Journal of Ecology. 102, 4, p. 1058-1071 14 p.

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Wind farm and solar park effects on plant–soil carbon cycling: uncertain impacts of changes in ground-level microclimate

Armstrong, A., Waldron, S., Whitaker, J. & Ostle, N., 06/2014, In: Global Change Biology. 20, 6, p. 1699-1706 8 p.

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Effects of species evenness and dominant species identity on multiple ecosystem functions in model grassland communities

Orwin, K., Ostle, N., Wilby, A. & Bardgett, R., 03/2014, In: Oecologia. 174, 3, p. 979-992 14 p.

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Agricultural management affects the response of soil bacterial community structure and respiration to water-stress

Kaisermann, A., Roguet, A., Nunan, N., Maron, P. A., Ostle, N. & Lata, J. C., 1/11/2013, In: Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 66, p. 69-77 9 p.

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Warming effects on greenhouse gas fluxes in peatlands are modulated by vegetation composition

Ward, S., Ostle, N., Oakley, S., Quirk, H., Henrys, P. & Bardgett, R., 10/2013, In: Ecology Letters. 16, 10, p. 1285-1293 9 p.

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Plant soil interactions alter carbon cycling in an upland grassland soil

Thomson, B. C., Ostle, N. J., McNamara, N. P., Oakley, S., Whiteley, A. S., Bailey, M. J. & Griffiths, R. I., 10/09/2013, In: Frontiers in Microbiology. 4, 12 p., 253.

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N-driven changes in a plant community affect leaf-litter traits and may delay organic matter decomposition in a Mediterranean maquis

Dias, T., Oakley, S., Alarcón-Gutiérrez, E., Ziarelli, F., Trindade, H., Martins-Loução, M. A., Sheppard, L., Ostle, N. & Cruz, C., 1/03/2013, In: Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 58, p. 163-171 9 p.

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Biochar in bioenergy cropping systems: Impacts on soil faunal communities and linked ecosystem processes

Mccormack, S. A., Ostle, N., Bardgett, R. D., Hopkins, D. W. & Vanbergen, A. J., 03/2013, In: GCB Bioenergy. 5, 2, p. 81-95 15 p.

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Methane indicator values for peatlands: a comparison of species and functional groups

Gray, A., Levy, P. E., Cooper, M. D. A., Gaiawyn, J., Leeson, S. R., Ward, S., Dinsmore, K. J., Drewer, J., Sheppard, L. J., Ostle, N., Evans, C. D., Burden, A. & Zielinski, P., 2013, In: Global Change Biology. 19, 4, p. 1141–1150 10 p.

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Fire accelerates assimilation and transfer of photosynthetic carbon from plants to soil microbes in a northern peatland

Ward, S., Ostle, N., Oakley, S., Quirk, H., Stott, A., Henrys, P., Scott, W. A. & Bardgett, R., 12/2012, In: Ecosystems. 15, 8, p. 1245-1257 13 p.

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Acidity controls on dissolved organic carbon mobility in organic soils

Evans, C. D., Jones, T. G., Burden, A., Ostle, N., Zieliński, P., Cooper, M. D. A., Peacock, M., Clark, J. M., Oulehle, F., Cooper, D. & Freeman, C., 1/11/2012, In: Global Change Biology. 18, 11, p. 3317-3331 15 p.

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Moss species effects on peatland carbon cycling after fire

Orwin, K. H. & Ostle, N. J., 08/2012, In: Functional Ecology. 26, 4, p. 829-836 8 p.

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Methane emissions from soils: synthesis and analysis of a large UK data set

Levy, P. E., Burden, A., Cooper, M. D. A., Dinsmore, K. J., Drewer, J., Evans, C., Fowler, D., Gaiawyn, J., Gray, A., Jones, S. K., Jones, T., Mcnamara, N. P., Mills, R., Ostle, N., Sheppard, L. J., Skiba, U., Sowerby, A., Ward, S. E. & Zielinski, P., 05/2012, In: Global Change Biology. 18, 5, p. 1657-1669 13 p.

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Grazing increases the temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition in a temperate grassland

Paz-Ferreiro, J., Medina-Roldán, E., Ostle, N. J., McNamara, N. P. & Bardgett, R. D., 2/03/2012, In: Environmental Research Letters. 7, 1, 5 p., 014027.

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Increased plant carbon translocation linked to overyielding in grassland species mixtures

De Deyn, G., Quirk, H., Oakley, S., Ostle, N. & Bardgett, R., 2012, In: PLoS ONE. 7, 9, e45926.

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Abiotic drivers and their interactive effect on the flux and carbon isotope (¹⁴C and δ¹³C) composition of peat-respired CO₂

Hardie, S. M. L., Garnett, M. H., Fallick, A. E., Rowland, A. P., Ostle, N. J. & Flowers, T. H., 1/12/2011, In: Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 43, 12, p. 2432-2440 9 p.

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Carbon spenders or savers in a CO 2-rich world?

Gwynn-Jones, D., Scullion, J., Jones, A., Ostle, N. & Oakley, S., 1/12/2011, In: Planet Earth. WINTER, p. 24-25 2 p.

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Additional carbon sequestration benefits of grassland diversity restoration

De Deyn, G., Shiel, R. S., Ostle, N., McNamara, N., Oakley, S., Young, I., Freeman, C., Fenner, N., Quirk, H. & Bardgett, R., 06/2011, In: Journal of Applied Ecology. 48, 3, p. 600-608 9 p.

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Rapid transfer of photosynthetic carbon through the plant-soil system in differently managed species-rich grasslands

De Deyn, G., Quirk, H., Oakley, S., Ostle, N. & Bardgett, R., 2011, In: Biogeosciences. 8, 5, p. 1131-1139 9 p.

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Carbon balance of UK peatlands: Current state of knowledge and future research challenges

Billett, M. F., Charman, D. J., Clark, J. M., Evans, C. D., Evans, M. G., Ostle, N. J., Worrall, F., Burden, A., Dinsmore, K. J., Jones, T., McNamara, N. P., Parry, L., Rowson, J. G. & Rose, R., 1/12/2010, In: Climate Research. 45, 1, p. 13-29 17 p.

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