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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