I have recently completed my PhD working with David Wardle and Marie-Charlotte Nilsson in the Department of Forest Ecology and Management and in collaboration with Duane Peltzer in New Zealand.

My PhD thesis is titled: Regulation of litter decomposition and nutrient availability in Swedish and New Zealand forest ecosystems. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae Sueciae 2012:96

This research has involved conducting field and laboratory based investigations examining how plant species and plant functional traits influence the decomposition of plant litter. My work is divided between two study systems, the boreal forests in northern Sweden and the temperate rainforests on the west coast of New Zealand.

News Jan 2013 - Check out my Oikos Blog post about my recently published paper on wood decomposition.

Freschet G.T., Cornwell W.K., Wardle D.A., Elumeeva T.G., Liu W., Jackson B.G., Onipchenko V.G., Soudzilovskaia N.A., Tao J., Cornelissen J.H.C. (2013) Linking litter decomposition of above and belowground organs to plant-soil feedbacks worldwide. Journal of Ecology, in press.

Jackson, B.G., Nilsson, M.C., Wardle, D.A. The effects of the moss layer on the decomposition of intercepted vascular plant litter across a post-fire boreal forest chronosequence. Plant and Soil (In press doi:10.1007/s11104-012-1549-0)

Jackson, B.G., Peltzer, D.A., Wardle, D.A. Are functional traits and litter decomposability coordinated across leaf, twig and wood tissues? A test using temperate rainforest tree species. Oikos (In press doi:10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00056.x)

Jackson, B.G., Martin, P., Nilsson, M.C., Wardle, D.A. (2011) Response of feather moss associated N₂ fixation and litter decomposition to variations in simulated rainfall intensity and frequency. Oikos 120(4): 570-581.

Staudt, M., Jackson, B.G., Hanane, E., Buatois, B. Lacroze, J.P., Poessel, J.L., Sauge, M.H. (2010) Volatile organic compound emissions induced by the aphid Myzus persicae differ among resistant and susceptible peach cultivars and a wild relative.
 Tree Physiology 30(10): 1320-1334.

In preparation

Jackson, B.G., Peltzer, D.A., Wardle, D.A. Intraspecific variation in leaf functional traits and litter decomposition are unrealted in temperate rainforest tree species. 

Hättenschwiler, S., Jackson, B.G., Handa, I.T., David, J.-F. Macrofauna species from the same feeding group drive contrasting litter diversity effects in Mediterranean forests.

Pietsch, K.A., Ogle, K., Cornelissen, J.H.C., Cornwell, W.K., Jackson, B.G., Kattge, J., Peltzer, D.A., Wardle, D.A., Wright, I.J., Zanne, A.E., Weedon, J.T., Wirth, C. Functional trait spectra and phylogeny explain weak coupling of leaf and wood decomposability at a global level.