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| Richard D BardgettSummaryAffiliation: Lancaster University Country: UK Publications
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Preferences for different nitrogen forms by coexisting plant species and soil microbesKathryn A Harrison
Institute of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Soil and Ecosystem Ecology Laboratory, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK
Ecology 88:989-99. 2007..Our data suggest that coexisting plants can outcompete microbes for a variety of N forms, but that such plant species show similar preferences for inorganic over organic N...
Litter evenness influences short-term peatland decomposition processesSusan E Ward
Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
Oecologia 164:511-20. 2010..Our findings highlight the importance of changes in the evenness of plant community composition for short-term decomposition processes in UK peatlands...- Microbial contributions to climate change through carbon cycle feedbacksRichard D Bardgett
Soil and Ecosystem Ecology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
ISME J 2:805-14. 2008..In particular, we highlight the need for a multifactor experimental approach to understand how soil microbes and their activities respond to climate change and consequences for carbon cycle feedbacks... - Parasitic plants indirectly regulate below-ground properties in grassland ecosystemsRichard D Bardgett
Institute of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Soil and Ecosystem Ecology Laboratory, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK
Nature 439:969-72. 2006..Our study provides evidence that parasitic plants act as a major driver of both above-ground and below-ground properties of grassland ecosystems... - Abiotic drivers and plant traits explain landscape-scale patterns in soil microbial communitiesFranciska T de Vries
Soil and Ecosystem Ecology Laboratory, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
Ecol Lett 15:1230-9. 2012.... 
Plant species richness, identity and productivity differentially influence key groups of microbes in grassland soils of contrasting fertilityGerlinde B De Deyn
Soil and Ecosystem Ecology Laboratory, Lancaster Environment Centre, University of Lancaster, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK
Biol Lett 7:75-8. 2011..This suggests that AMF abundance in soil is more sensitive to changes in plant species diversity per se and plant species composition than are abundances of saprophytic microbes...- Heterotrophic microbial communities use ancient carbon following glacial retreatRichard D Bardgett
Institute of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK
Biol Lett 3:487-90. 2007..Our findings suggest the existence of an initial stage of heterotrophic microbial community development that precedes autotrophic community assembly and is sustained, in part, by ancient carbon... - Plant functional traits and soil carbon sequestration in contrasting biomesGerlinde B De Deyn
Institute of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Soil and Ecosystem Ecology, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK
Ecol Lett 11:516-31. 2008..We propose that a trait-based approach will help to develop strategies to preserve and promote carbon sequestration... - Grazing-induced effects on soil properties modify plant competitive interactions in semi-natural mountain grasslandsEduardo Medina-Roldán
Soil and Ecosystem Ecology Laboratory, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, UK
Oecologia 170:159-69. 2012..Finally, we discuss the relevance of our findings for plant community dynamics in grazed, semi-natural grasslands... - Extensive management promotes plant and microbial nitrogen retention in temperate grasslandFranciska T de Vries
Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
PLoS ONE 7:e51201. 2012..Moreover, they support the notion that microbial communities might be the key to improved N retention through tightening linkages between plants and microbes and reducing N availability... - Increased plant carbon translocation linked to overyielding in grassland species mixturesGerlinde B De Deyn
Soil and Ecosystem Ecology Laboratory, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
PLoS ONE 7:e45926. 2012..These results demonstrate a mechanistic coupling between changes in intraspecific plant carbon physiology and increased community level productivity in grassland systems... - Direct uptake of soil nitrogen by mossesEdward Ayres
Lancaster University, Soil and Ecosystem Ecology Laboratory, Institute of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK
Biol Lett 2:286-8. 2006..Finally, soil N uptake may place some moss species at greater risk from N pollution than previously appreciated... - Rising atmospheric CO2 reduces sequestration of root-derived soil carbonJames Heath
Department of Biological Sciences, Institute of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, UK
Science 309:1711-3. 2005.... - The impact of synthetic pyrethroid and organophosphate sheep dip formulations on microbial activity in soilTatiana K Boucard
Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
Environ Pollut 153:207-14. 2008..01% SP- or OP-amended soils. This study suggests that the growth, activity, physiological status and/or structure of soil microbial community may be affected by sheep dips... - Inter-specific competition, but not different soil microbial communities, affects N chemical forms uptake by competing graminoids of upland grasslandsEduardo Medina-Roldán
Soil and Ecosystem Ecology Laboratory, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
PLoS ONE 7:e51193. 2012..Our results also suggest that coexistence of these species in mountain grasslands is likely based on non-equilibrium mechanisms such as disturbance and/or soil heterogeneity... - Large old trees influence patterns of delta13C and delta15N in forestsPascale Weber
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Zuercherstrasse 111, CH 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom 22:1627-30. 2008..Our results indicate that large old trees control below-ground conditions in their immediate surroundings, and that stable isotopes might act as markers for the spatial and temporal extent of these below-ground effects... - The unseen majority: soil microbes as drivers of plant diversity and productivity in terrestrial ecosystemsMarcel G A van der Heijden
Department of Animal Ecology, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Institute of Ecological Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ecol Lett 11:296-310. 2008..Overall, this review shows that soil microbes must be considered as important drivers of plant diversity and productivity in terrestrial ecosystems... - Decoupling the direct and indirect effects of nitrogen deposition on ecosystem functionPete Manning
Natural Environment Research Council Centre for Population Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7PY, UK
Ecol Lett 9:1015-24. 2006..These findings suggest that direct effects of N deposition on ecosystem function could be relatively strong in comparison with the indirect effects of plant community change... - Soil invertebrates disrupt carbon flow through fungal networksDavid Johnson
School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UU, UK
Science 309:1047. 2005..Our findings emphasize the importance of multitrophic interactions in regulating respiration of recent plant photosynthate from soil... - Preferential uptake of soil nitrogen forms by grassland plant speciesAlexandra Weigelt
Chair of Biogeography, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
Oecologia 142:627-35. 2005..Our findings indicate that species-specific differences in direct uptake of different N forms combined with total N acquisition could explain changes in competitive dominance of grass species in grasslands of differing fertility... - Ecosystem properties and forest decline in contrasting long-term chronosequencesDavid A Wardle
Department of Forest Vegetation Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE901 83 Umeå, Sweden
Science 305:509-13. 2004.... - Ecological linkages between aboveground and belowground biotaDavid A Wardle
Landcare Research, Post Office Box 69, Lincoln, New Zealand
Science 304:1629-33. 2004.... - Exploitation of immunofluorescence for the quantification and characterization of small numbers of Pasteuria endosporesSofia R Costa
Nematode Interactions Unit, Rhizosphere Biology Programme, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, UK
FEMS Microbiol Ecol 58:593-600. 2006..Based on visual assessment of endospore fluorescence, a quantitative method was developed to characterize endospore populations, which were shown to vary according to their host...