Paul Kardol (postdoc 2009-2011)

Zhanfeng Liu (postdoc 2010-2011)

Sheel Bansal (postdoc 2009-2011; advisors M.-C. Nilsson and D. Wardle)

Maja Sundqvist (PhD student 2007-2011; advisors D. Wardle, R. Giesler and B. Graae).

Micael Jonsson  (postdoc 2006-2009)

Fujio Hyodo (postdoc 2007-2009)

Camilla Esberg (PhD student 2006-2010; advisors R. Giesler, B. Graae and D. Wardle)

Hiroko Kurokawa (postdoc 2005-2007; advisors: D. Wardle and D. Peltzer)

Fiona Dearden (PhD student 2003-2007)

Helena Dehlin (PhD student 2002-2006; advisors: M-C Nilsson and D. Wardle)

Katja Ilmarinen (PhD student 2002-2006; advisors: J. Mikola and D. Wardle)

Tadashi Fukami (postdoc 2003-2005; advisors: D. Wardle and P. Bellingham)

Kate Orwin (PhD student 2000-2004; advisors: D. Wardle and L. Greenfield)

Wendy Williamson (postdoc 1999-2002)

Duane Peltzer (postdoc 2000-2001)

Lena Jonsson (postdoc 1998-1999; advisors: M.-C. Nilsson and D. Wardle)

Juha Mikola (postdoc 1998-1999)

Fabienne Charpentier (postdoc 1995-1996)



Lab rotation (visiting and collaborating) Postdocs and Ph.D students

Gregory Crutsinger (Ph.D. student, University of Tennessee, USA) (2007)

Ruth Gregg (Ph.D student, University of Lancaster, UK) (2006, 2007)

Enrique Doblas-Miranda (Ph. D. student, University of Granada, Spain) (2005, 2007)

Christien Ettema (Postdoc, Wageningen University, Netherlands) (2002)

 Publications:

BOOKS: 

(1) Bardgett, R. D. and Wardle, D. A. 2010. "Aboveground-Belowground Linkages: Biotic Interactions, Ecosystem Processes and Global Change". Oxford University Press (Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution).

(2) Wardle, D. A. 2002. "Communities and Ecosystems: Linking the Aboveground and Belowground Components" Princeton University Press (Monographs in Population Biology series).


ALL JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (WoS) - click here 
(NB: a few missing due to WoS database errors)

ALL PUBLICATIONS (Google) - click here


PUBLICATIONS 2012-2013:

Wardle, D. A., Gundale, M. J., Jäderlund, A. and Nilsson, M.-C. (2013) Decoupled long term effects of nutrient enrichment on aboveground and belowground properties in subalpine tundra. Ecology 94: 904-919.

Jackson, B. G., Peltzer, D. A. and Wardle, D. A. (2013) Are functional traits and litter decomposability coordinated across leaves, twigs, and wood? A test using temperate rainforest tree species. Oikos (in press).

Clemmensen, K. E., Bahr, A., Ovaskainen, O., Dahlberg, A., Ekblad, A., Wallander, H., Stenlid, J., Finlay, R. D., Wardle, D. A. and Lindahl, B. (2013) Roots and associated fungi drive long term carbon sequestration in boreal forest. Science 339: 1615-1618.
(commentaries here and here)

Sundqvist, M. K., Sanders, N. J. and Wardle, D. A. (2013) Community and ecosystem responses to elevational gradients: processes, mechanisms and insights for global change. Annual Reviews of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics (in press).

Laliberté, E., Grace, J. B., Huston, M. A., Lambers, H., Teste, F. P., Turner, B. L. and Wardle, D. A. (2013) How does pedogenesis drive plant diversity? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 28: 331-340.

Asplund, J. and Wardle, D. A. (2013) The impact of secondary compounds and functional characteristics on lichen palatability and decomposition. Journal of Ecology 101: 689-700.

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).

Bokhorst, S., Metcalfe, D. B and Wardle, D. A. (2013) Reduction in snow depth negatively affects decomposers but impact on decomposition rates is substrate dependent. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 62: 157-164.

Kichenin E., Wardle D.A., Peltzer D.A., Morse C.W., Freschet G.T. Contrasting effects of plant inter- and intraspecific variation on community-level trait measures along an environmental gradient. Functional Ecology (in press).

Simberloff, D., Martin, J.-L., Genovesi, P., Maris, V., Wardle, D. A., Aronson, J.,  Courchamp, F., Galil, B., García-Berthou, E., Pascal, M., Pyšek, P., Sousa, R., Tabacchi, E., and Vilà, M. (2013) Impacts of biological invasions - what’s what and the way forward. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 28: 58-66.

Dias, A. T. C., Krab, E. J., Mariën, J., Zimmer, M., Cornelissen, J. H. C., Ellers, J., Wardle, D. A. and Berg, M. P. (2013) Traits underpinning desiccation resistance explain distribution patterns of terrestrial isopods. Oecologia (in press).

Lagerström, A., Nilsson., M.-C. & Wardle, D. A. (2013) Decoupled responses of tree and shrub leaf and litter trait values to ecosystem retrogression across an island area gradient. Plant and Soil 367: 183-197.

Hyodo, F., Kusaka, S., Wardle, D. A. and Nilsson, M.-C. (2013) Changes in stable nitrogen and carbon isotope ratios of plants and soil across a boreal forest fire chronosequence. Plant and Soil 367: 111-119.

Jackson, B. G., Nilsson, M.-C. and Wardle, D. A. (2013) The effects of the moss layer on the decomposition of intercepted vascular plant litter across a post-fire boreal forest chronosequence. Plant and Soil 367: 199-214.

Van der Putten, W. H., Bardgett, R. D., Bever, J. D., Bezemer, T. M., Casper, B. B., Fukami, T., Kardol, P., Klironomos, J. N., Kulmatiski, A., Schweitzer, J. A., Suding, K. N., Van de Voorde, T. and Wardle, D. A. (2013) Plant-soil feedback: the past, the present and future challenges. Journal of Ecology 101: 265-276.

Wisz, M., Pottier, J., Kissling, W., Pellissier, L., Lenoir, J., Damgaard, C., Dormann, C., Forchhammer, M., Grytnes, J.-A., Guisan, A., Heikkinen, R., Høye, T., Kühn, I., Luoto, M., Maiorano, L., Nilsson, M-C., Normand, S., Öckinger, E., Schmidt, N., Termansen, M., Timmermann, A., Wardle, D. A., Aastrup, P. and Svenning, J.-C. (2013) The role of biotic interactions in shaping spatial distributions and realised assemblages of species: implications for species distribution modeling. Biological Reviews 88: 15-30.

Bay, G., Nahar, N., Oubre, M., Whitehouse, M., Wardle, D. A., Zackrisson, O., Nilsson, M.-C. and Rasmussen, U. (2013) Boreal feather mosses secrete chemical signals to gain nitrogen. New Phytologist (in press). 

Freschet G. T., Bellingham P. J., Lyver P. O’B., Bonner K. . and Wardle D.A. (2013) Plasticity in above- and belowground resource acquisition traits in response to single and multiple environmental factors in three tree species. Ecology and Evolution 4: 1065-1078.

Peay, K., Dickie, I. A., Wardle, D. A.,Bellingham, P. and Fukami. T. (2013) Rat invasion of islands alters fungal community structure, but not wood decomposition rates. Oikos 122: 258-264.

Bokhorst, S. and Wardle, D. A. (2013) Microclimate within litter bags of different mesh size: implications for the ‘arthropod effect’ on litter decomposition. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 58: 147-152.

Bellingham, P. J., Morse, C. W., Buxton, R. P., Bonner, K. I., Mason, N. H. W. and Wardle, D. A. (2013). Litter fall and litter nutrient concentrations in a New Zealand temperate montane rain forest, and relationships with altitude, forest succession, and soil nutrients. New Zealand Journal of Ecology (in press).

Sutherland, W. J., Freckleton, R. P., Godfray, H. C. J., Beissinger, S. R., Benton, T.,  Cameron, D. C., Carmel, Y., Coomes, D. A., Coulson, T., Emmerson, M. C., Hails, R.,  Hays, G. C., Hodgson, D. J., Hutchings, M. J., Johnson, D., Jones, J. P., G., Keeling, M. J., Kokko, H., Kunin, W. E., Lambin, X.., Lewis, O. T., Malhi, Y., Mieszkowska, N.,  Milner-Gulland, E. J., Norris, K., Phillimore, A. B., Purves, D. W., Reid, J. M., Reuman, D. C., Thompson, K., Travis, J. M. J., Turnbull, L. A., Wardle, D. A., and Wiegand. T. (2013) Identification of 100 fundamental ecological questions. Journal of Ecology 101: 58-67.

Wardle, D. A., Jonsson, M., Bansal, S., Bardgett, R. D., Gundale, M. J. and Metcalfe, D. B. (2012) Linking vegetation change, carbon sequestration and biodiversity: insights from island ecosystems in a long term natural experiment. Journal of Ecology 100: 16-30.
(commentary here)

Gundale, M. J., Hyodo, M., Nilsson, M.-C. & Wardle, D. A. (2012) Nitrogen niches revealed through species and functional group removal in a boreal shrub community. Ecology 93: 1695-1704.
(cover picture here)

Cardinale, B. J., Duffy, J. E., Gonzalez, A., Hooper, D. U., Perrings, C., Venail, P., Narwani, A., Mace, G. M., Tilman, D., Wardle, D. A., Kinzig, A. P., Daily, G. C.,  Loreau, M., Grace, J. B., Larigauderie, A., Srivastava, D. and Naeem, S. (2012) Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity. Nature 486: 59-67.

Sundqvist, M. K., Wardle, D. A., Olofsson, E., Giesler, R. and Gundale, M. J. (2012)  Chemical properties of plant litter in response to elevation: subarctic vegetation challenges phenolic allocation theories. Functional Ecology 26: 1090-1099.

Wardle, D. A., Jonsson, M., Kalela-Brundin, M., Lagerström, A., Bardgett, R. D., Yeates, G. W. and Nilsson, M.-C. (2012) Drivers of inter-year variability of plant production and decomposers across contrasting island ecosystems. Ecology 93: 521-531.

Mason, N., Richardson, S., Peltzer, D., de Bello, F., Wardle, D. A. & Allen, R.  (2012) Changes in co-existence mechanisms along a long-term soil chronosequence revealed by functional trait diversity. Journal of Ecology 100: 678-689.
(commentary here)

Wardle, D. A., Bellingham, P. J., Fukami, T. and Bonner, K. I. (2012) Soil-mediated indirect impacts of an invasive predator on plant growth. Biology Letters 8: 574-577.

Gundale, M.J., Wardle, D.A. and Nilsson, M-C.  (2012) The effect of altered macro-climate on N-fixation by boreal feather mosses.  Biology Letters 8: 805-808.

Asplund, J., Sandling, A. and Wardle, D. A. (2012) Lichen specific thallus mass and secondary compounds change across a retrogressive fire-driven chronosequence. PLoS ONE 7: e49081.

Wardle, D. A. (2012) On plummeting acceptance rates by the main ecological journals and the progress of ecology. Ideas in Ecology and Evolution 5: 13-15.
(commentary here; corresponding article by L. Aarssen here)

Asplund, J. and Wardle, D. A. (2012) 'Contrasting changes in palatability following senescence of the lichenized fungi Lobaria pulmonaria and L. scrobiculata. Fungal Ecology 5: 710-713.

Bansal, S., Nilsson, M.-C. and Wardle, D. A. (2012) Response of photosynthetic carbon gain to ecosystem retrogression of vascular plants and mosses in the boreal forest. Oecologia 169: 661-672.

St. John, M. G., Bellingham, P. J., Walker, L. R., Orwin, K. H., Bonner, K. I., Dickie, I. A., Morse, C. W., Yeates, G. W., and Wardle, D. A. (2012) Loss of a dominant nitrogen-fixing shrub in primary succession: consequences for plant and belowground communities. Journal of Ecology 100: 1074-1084.
(commentary here)


SELECTED EARLIER PUBLICATIONS

Inderjit; Wardle, D. A.; Karban, R. and Callaway, R. M. (2011) The ecosystem and evolutionary contexts of allelopathy. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 26: 655-662.

Wardle, D. A., Bardgett, R. D., Callaway, R. M. and Van der Putten, W. H. (2011) Terrestrial ecosystem responses to species gains and losses. Science 332: 1273-1277.

Estes, J. A., Terborgh, J., Brashares, J. S., Power, M. E., Berger, J., Bond, W. J., Carpenter, S. R., Essington, T., Holt, R. D., Jackson, J. B. C., Marquis, R. J., Oksanen, L., Oksanen, T., Paine, R. T., Pikitch, E. K., Ripple, W. J., Sandin, S., Scheffer, M., Schoener, T. W., Shurin, J. B., Sinclair, A. R. E., Soulé, M. E., Virtanen, R. and Wardle, D. A. (2011). Trophic downgrading of planet Earth. Science 333: 301-306.
(commentaries here)

Wardle, D. A., Hyodo, F., Bardgett, R. D., Yeates, G. W. and Nilsson, M.-C. (2011) Long-term aboveground and belowground consequences of red wood ant exclusion in boreal forest. Ecology 92: 645-656.

Kardol, P. and Wardle, D. A. (2010) How understanding aboveground-belowground linkages can assist restoration ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 25: 670-679.

Wardle, D. A. (2010) Do ‘Faculty of 1000’ (F1000) ratings of ecological publications serve as reasonable predictors of their future impact? Ideas in Ecology and Evolution 3: 11-15.
(commentary here)

Walker, L. R. Wardle, D. A., Bardgett, R. D. and Clarkson, B. D. (2010) The use of chronosequences in studies of ecological succession and soil development. Journal of Ecology 98: 725-736.

Peltzer, D.A., Wardle, D.A., Allison, V.J., Baisden, W.T., Bardgett, R.D., Chadwick, O.A., Condron, L.M., Parfitt, R.L., Porder, S., Richardson, S.J., Turner, B.L., Vitousek, P.M., Walker, J., and Walker, L.R. (2010) Understanding ecosystem retrogression. Ecological Monographs 80: 509-529.
(commentary here)

Wardle, D. A., Bellingham, P. J., Bonner, K. I. and Mulder, C. P. H. (2009) Indirect effects of invasive predators on plant litter quality, decomposition and nutrient resorption on seabird-dominated islands. Ecology 90: 452-464.

Peltzer, D. A., Bellingham, P. J., Kurokawa, H., Walker, L. R., Wardle, D. A. and Yeates, G. W. (2009) Punching above their weight:  low-biomass non-native plant species alter soil ecosystem properties during primary succession. Oikos 118: 1001-1014.
(commentary here)

Tylianakis, J. M., Didham, R. K., Bascompte, J. and Wardle, D. A. (2008). Global change and species interactions in terrestrial ecosystems. Ecology Letters 11: 1351-1363
(commentary here).

Wardle, D. A., Nilsson, M.-C. and Zackrisson, O. (2008) Fire-derived charcoal causes loss of forest humus. Science 320: 629-629.
(commentary here)

Lagerström, A., Nilsson, M.-C., Zackrisson, O. and Wardle, D. A. (2007). Ecosystem input of nitrogen through biological fixation in feather mosses during ecosystem retrogression. Functional Ecology 21: 1027-1033.

Wardle, D. A., Bellingham, P. J., Mulder, C. P. H. and Fukami, T. (2007) Promotion of ecosystem carbon sequestration by invasive predators. Biology Letters 3: 479-482.

Wardle, D. A. (2006) The influence of biotic interactions on soil biodiversity. Ecology Letters 9: 870-886.

Fukami, T., Wardle, D. A., Bellingham, P. J., Mulder, C. P. H., Towns, D. R., Yeates, G. W., Bonner, K. I., Durrett, M. S., Grant-Hoffman, M. N and Williamson, W. M. (2006). Above- and below-ground impacts of introduced predators in seabird-dominated island ecosystems. Ecology Letters 9: 1299-1307.
(commentary here)

Wardle, D. A. and Zackrisson, O. (2005) Effects of species and functional group loss on island ecosystem properties. Nature 435: 806-810.

Nilsson, M. C. and Wardle, D. A. (2005) Understory vegetation as a forest ecosystem driver: evidence from the northern Swedish boreal forest. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3: 421-428.

Wardle, D. A., Bardgett, R. D., Klironomos, J. N., Setälä, H., Van der Putten, W. H. and Wall, D. H. (2004) Ecological linkages between aboveground and belowground biota. Science 304: 1629-1633.
(cover picture here)

Wardle, D. A., Walker, L. R. and Bardgett, R. D. (2004) Ecosystem properties and forest decline in contrasting long-term chronosequences. Science 305: 509-513.
(commentary here; cover picture here)

Wardle, D. A., Yeates, G. W., Barker, G. M., Bellingham, P. J., Bonner, K. I. and Williamson, W. (2003) Island biology and ecosystem functioning in epiphytic soil communities. Science 301: 1717-1720.

Wardle, D. A., Hörnberg, G., Zackrisson, O., Kalela-Brundin, M., and Coomes, D. A., (2003) Long term effects of wildfire on ecosystem properties across an island area gradient. Science 300: 972-975.

Ettema, C., and Wardle, D. A. (2002) Spatial soil ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17: 177-183.

Wardle, D. A., Barker, G. M., Yeates, G. W., Bonner, K. I., and Ghani, A. (2001) Introduced browsing mammals in natural New Zealand forests: aboveground and belowground consequences. Ecological Monographs 71: 587-614.

Wardle, D. A., Bonner, K. I., Barker, G. M., Yeates, G. W., Nicholson, K. S., Bardgett, R. D., Watson, R. N. and Ghani, A. (1999) Plant removals in perennial grassland: vegetation dynamics, decomposers, soil biodiversity and ecosystem properties. Ecological Monographs 69: 535-568.

Wardle, D. A., Zackrisson, O., Hörnberg, G. and Gallet, C. (1997) Influence of island area on ecosystem properties. Science 277: 1296-1299.
(commentary here)


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