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CURRICULUM VITAE – 2 MARCH 2017
1. Current Positions
From 2017: Smithsonian Professor in Forest Ecology, Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore
From 2017: Adjunct Professor, Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish
University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden.
From 2006: Research Associate, Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand
From 2001: Adjunct Professor, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, New
Zealand
2. Tertiary Education
1982-1985 (degree conferred in 1986): B.Sc. (First Class Honours) in Botany, University of
Canterbury, NZ
1986-1989 (degree conferred in 1990): Ph.D. in Soil Ecology, University of Calgary, Canada
Scholarships and Awards:
1984: Senior Scholarship
1984: Percival Memorial Prize in Botany
1986: NZ University Grants Committee postgraduate scholarship (declined)
1986: Commonwealth Scholarship (Canada), used from 1986 to 1989
3. Previous employment history
1990–1997: Research Scientist, AgResearch, Hamilton, New Zealand
1997–2000: Research Scientist, Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand
2001–2002: Professor of Soil and Plant Ecology (Personal Chair), University of Sheffield, UK.
2002-2006: Split 50:50 position between a Professorship in Ecology at the Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences, at Umeå, Sweden, and as a Research Scientist at Landcare Research,
Lincoln, New Zealand.
2006-2016: Professor of Soil and Plant Ecology (Personal Chair, faculty professorship), Swedish
University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden.
2017-present: Smithsonian Professor in Forest Ecology, Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore
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4. Awards and recognition
1999 Recipient of the New Zealand Association of Scientists Research Medal, awarded annually to
one New Zealand scientist under the age of 40 on the basis of scientific merit.
2001 New Zealand Ecological Society annual award (Te Tohu Taiao) for ecological research,
awarded annually to a New Zealand scientist on the basis of research and application in ecology.
2003 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand (New Zealand’s primary academy of the
sciences).
2006. Identified by ISI as a ‘Highly Cited’ scientist in the field of Ecology/Environment (top 0.5% of
ecologists worldwide), based on citation counts over the past 20 years
2006. Recipient of an inaugural Swedish Univ of Agric Sciences (SLU) ‘Excellence Award’
(accompanied by 10M SEK funding over 5 years), one of 3 allocated in SLU.
2007-present. Recognized by Essential Science Indicators as one of the 20 most cited ecologists
worldwide; currently 11th.
2010. Recipient of a ‘Wallenberg Scholars’ award (accompanied by 15M SEK funding over 5 years);
one of 10 researchers in Sweden across the sciences, humanities and medicine.
2014, 2015, 2016. Identified by ISI as a ‘Highly Cited’ scientist in the field of Ecology/Environment
(and listed in ISI’s ‘World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds’) based on numbers of highly cited
publications over the previous ten years.
2014. Distinguished Alumni Award, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, New
Zealand
2016. Recipient of a ‘Wallenberg Scholars’ continuation award (accompanied by 20M SEK funding
over 5 years); one of 3 researchers in Sweden across the sciences, humanities and medicine
allocated this resourcing on the basis of being assessed as an ‘international leader’ in the field
(funding turned down due to accepting a new position).
2016. Rosén´s Linneus Prize in Botany (accompanied by 425K SEK), awarded every three years by
the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund, Sweden.
5. Editorial, reviewing and evaluation work
Editorial work:
Member, Board of Reviewing Editors, Science (1 of 4 terrestrial ecologists worldwide; involves
screening ca. 200 manuscript submissions per year) (2009-2016).
Associate Editor, Journal of Ecology (2013-present)
Chief Editor, Book series ‘Biodiversity, Communities and Ecosystems’, Springer (2013-present)
Member of Board of Editors, Ecology and Ecological Monographs (2005-2013)
Receiving Editor, Ecology Letters (2001-2006)
Editorial Board, Ideas in Ecology and Evolution (2008-present)
International Advisory Panel, BioMedNet (2003-2005)
Subject Editor, Soil Biology and Biochemistry (1997-2002)
Editorial Board, Biology and Fertility of Soils (1999-2002)
Editorial Board, Pedobiologia (1999-2014)
Editorial Board, New Zealand Journal of Ecology (1997-present) and Chief Editor (1998-2003).
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Asked to review around 250 manuscripts a year and typically agree to review around 20-25 of
these. Regular reviewer for several journals including: Nature, Science, PNAS, Ecology Letters,
Trends in Ecology and Evolution, etc.
Used as a reviewer for funding proposals from New Zealand, Australia, Canada, UK, USA,
Sweden, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Israel and South Africa. Also member of the Life
Sciences evaluation panel of the New Zealand Marsden Fund (New Zealand’s primary funding
agency for fundamental research) in 1998 (also asked to serve in 1996, 1999 and 2011 but declined
due to overseas absences).
Selection Panel, Kempe Award for Distinguished Ecologists. 2009-2012.
Fellowship Selection Panel (Ecology and Environment), Royal Society of New Zealand (NZ’s
academy of the sciences), 2014-2018.
Judging Panel member for Science magazine’s ‘Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists’,
2015 (winning essays submitted in this contest published in the December 4 2015 issue of Science).
Jury Member (selection panel) for the Ecology Institute (ECI) Terrestrial Ecology Prize, 2017.
External examiner or evaluator (‘opponent’) of 14 PhD theses in New Zealand, Australia, Finland,
The Netherlands and the UK.
Used for writing of around 35 evaluation letters for researchers seeking tenure and promotion to
Associate and Full Professor in various universities, primarily in the United States (e.g., Stanford,
Yale, University of Colorado, UC Santa Barbara, Columbia) but also in New Zealand and western
Europe.
6. Publication information
Author or coauthor of two authored books (published in the Princeton University Press
‘Monographs of Population Biology’ in 2002 and the Oxford University Press ‘Series in Ecology
and Evolution’ in 2010). Also an author of >290 publications in scientific journals including 23 in
Science and Nature (most as peer reviewed research papers or review papers; over half as first or
last author).
Author of several papers profiled in commentaries in Science (‘Perspectives’ (x 4), ‘News Focus’
and ‘Editors Choice’ sections), Nature (‘News and Views’ section), and various media (e.g., New
Scientist, Washington Post, New York Times). Also lead author of two papers featured as cover
stories in Science in 2004.
Citation data Total citations (as of January 18 2017):
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Google Scholar: 43080, with 5474 citations in 2015; 78 publications cited >100 times and 32 cited
>300 times; Hirsch ‘h’ index = 87
Web of Science: 29381, with 3517 citations in 2015; 66 publications cited >100 times and 18 cited
>300 times; Hirsch ‘h’ index = 76.
Designated by ISI as a Highly Cited scientist (in both the ‘old’ 2002 and ‘new’ 2014, 2015 and
2016 lists), by Essential Science Indicators as one of the 20 most cited ecologists worldwide
since 2007 (11th as of May 2016) and the most cited in the Nordic countries, and by LabTimes
in both their 2010 and 2015 analyses as amongst the most cited plant and animal ecologists
working in Europe (and the most cited in the Nordic countries in 2015).
7. Research funding
1990-2000. Core research funding provided through government research institutes (AgResearch
and Landcare Research), via the New Zealand Foundation of Research, Science and
Technology (note: New Zealand did not have an investigator-driven grant scheme until the
Marsden Fund started supporting projects from 1996).
1996-1999: Can biodiversity influence ecosystem stability? New Zealand Marsden Fund (Wardle
and Barker). $NZ 79,000/yr.
1997-2000. Effects of selective foliar herbivory on soil biota in NZ and Swedish forests;
characterising the nature of linkages between above-ground and below-ground food-webs.
New Zealand Marsden Fund (Wardle, Barker and Yeates). $NZ 113,000/yr.
1999-2002: Islands in treetops: utilising island geography theory and epiphytes to unravel the
relationship between biodiversity, food web structure and ecosystem properties (Wardle,
Yeates, Barker, Bellingham and Greenfield). New Zealand Marsden Fund. NZ$ 130,000/yr
2000-2003: Biodiversity Linkages across Trophic Levels (Wardle (PI), Yeates, Barker). New
Zealand Marsden Fund. NZ$150,000/yr
2000-2003: Effects of ectomycorrhizal diversity on plant growth and nutrient uptake (Nilsson and
Wardle). Swedish Council for Forestry and Agricultural Research. SEK 314,000/yr
2000-2003: Fire in boreal forests: the charcoal effect on plant growth. (Zackrisson and Wardle).
Swedish Council for Forestry and Agricultural Research. SEK 541,000/yr.
2001-2004: Island area and biodiversity effects in ecosystems. (Zackrisson and Wardle). Swedish
Natural Science Research Council. SEK 250,000/yr.
2002-2005. Relationships between substrate heterogeneity, plant diversity and soil microbial
communities (Nilsson and Wardle). Swedish Research Council (FORMAS). SEK 616,000/yr.
2003-2006. Impact of alien organisms on ecosystem functioning: a test using island ecosystems
(Wardle (PI), Bellingham, Yeates, Mulder and Williamson). New Zealand Marsden Fund.
NZ$ 220,000/yr.
2004-2007. Stochiometric control of ecosystem decline as tested using an island area gradient
(Wardle PI) and Nilsson). Swedish Research Council (FORMAS). SEK 675 000/yr.
2004-2007. Effects of seabirds on island ecosystems: reversal of keystone effects by an alien
predator (Mulder and Wardle). U.S. National Science Foundation. US$ 179,000/yr.
2004-2007. The influence of island area, plant community structure and biodiversity on
colonisation by new species (Wardle). Swedish Research Council (VR). SEK 1,070,000/yr.
2005-2017. Ecosystem resilience (outcome-based investment project funded for 12 years) (Allen,
Wardle, Ruscoe, McGlone and Wiser). NZ Foundation of Research, Science and Technology.
NZ$ 2 500 000/yr.
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2006-2011. Funding from ‘Excellensbidrag’ (Swedish Univ of Agric Sciences Excellence Award).
SEK 2,000,000/yr.
2007-2010. Drivers of temporal and spatial variability in real ecosystems: a test using an island area
gradient (Wardle (PI) and Nilsson). Swedish Research Council (VR). SEK 790,000/yr.
2007-2010. Why is biological N fixation elevated in late successional boreal forests? (Nilsson and
Wardle). Swedish Research Council (FORMAS). SEK 850,000/yr.
2007-2011. Nitrogen and phosphorus limitation of plant communities across elevational transects in
subarctic tundra. (Wardle (PI), Giesler and Graae). Umeå Centre for Environmental Research
(CMF). SEK 435,000/yr.
2008-2012. Role of biodiversity of nitrogen fixing cyanobacteria in feather mosses on nitrogen
input to boreal forest ecosystems (Nilsson, Wardle and Rasmussen). Stifelsen Oscar och
Lamms Minne. SEK 450,000,yr.
2009-2012. Niche Partitioning and Feedbacks in a Boreal Shrub Community (Gundale, Wardle and
Nilsson). Swedish Research Council (FORMAS). SEK 943,000/yr.
2009-2013. Facilitating bicultural restoration of coastal forests using seabirds as ecosystem
engineers (Lyver, Bellingham, Wardle, Moller, Towns, St. John, Jones, Macleod). NZ
Foundation of Research, Science and Technology. NZ$ 580,000/yr.
2010-2013. The ecological significance of within-species leaf trait variability: a test using an island
area gradient (Wardle (PI), Nilsson and Gundale) Swedish Research Council (VR). SEK
730,000/yr.
2010-2013. The influence of wildfire-derived charcoal on ecosystem carbon storage and fluxes
(Wardle (PI), Nilsson and Gundale). Swedish Research Council (FORMAS). SEK
1,277,00/yr.
2011-2016. Wallenberg Scholars Award, for project ‘BITE’ (Biotic Interactions as drivers in
Terrestrial Ecosystems). SEK 3,000,000/yr.
2011-2014. Moss traits predicting climate-warming induced forest expansion across tundra habitats
(Dorrepaal, Wardle and Nilsson). Umeå Centre for Environmental Research (CMF) SEK
435,000/yr.
2011-2014. Biotic resistance - influence of species richness, saturation, and resistant species
(Englund, Yu and Wardle). Umeå Centre for Environmental Research (CMF) SEK
435,000/yr.
2013-2015. The role of plant-soil feedback in biodiversity maintenance along fertility gradients:
from patterns to mechanisms. (Laliberte, Teste, Wardle, Kardol and Turner). Australian
Research Council. Aust$ 130,000/yr.
2014-2015. National monitoring for assessing and valuating ecosystem services in Fennoscandian
alpine and boreal landscapes. (G. Mikusiński, J. Svensson, S. Adler, M. Blicharska M.
Hedblom, H. Hedenås, L. Holmgren, C. Sandström, P. Sandström, D. Wardle) Swedish
Environmental Protection Agency. SEK 2,150,000/yr.
2014-2017. FFII: Forecasting future invasions and their impacts (Wardle (PI), Courchamp, Vidal
and Jeschke). BiodivERsA pan-European project. Euro 370,000/yr.
2014-2017. Effects of global change drivers on food web interactions and nitrogen cycling in the
bryosphere (Kardol, Gundale, Nilsson and Wardle). Swedish Research Council (FORMAS)
SEK 1,145,000/yr.
2014-2018. How are plant species and functional group effects on ecosystem properties mediated
by environmental context? (Wardle (PI), Nilsson, Kardol, Gundale and Lindahl). Swedish
Research Council (VR). SEK 800,000/yr.
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2015-2018. Resilience of above- and belowground biota and ecosystem processes to fire
disturbance (Nilsson, Wardle, Gundale, Clemmensen, Lindahl and Bengtsson). Swedish
Research Council (FORMAS) SEK 1,200,000/yr.
2016-2019. Linking plant functional traits and plant-soil feedbacks to global environmental change
(Kardol, Wardle, Gundale and Lindahl). Swedish Research Council (VR). SEK 750,000/yr.
2016-2020. Functional traits across primary producer groups and their effects on tundra ecosystem
processes (Asplund, Wardle, Birkemoe, Klanderud, Bokhorst, Lang). Norwegian Research
Council. 1,719,000 Norwgian Kronor/yr.
2016-2020. Infrastructure grant for SLU Stable Isotope Laboratory (Boily, Laudon, Näsholm,
Nilsson and Wardle). SLU Infrastructure Award. SEK 1,340,000/yr.
2017-2021. Extension of Wallenberg Scholars Award, for project ‘Response of aboveground-
belowground linkages to environmental context in a changing global environment’. SEK
4,000,000/yr (turned down due to accepting another position).
2017-2021. Integrated research and tools for wilding conifer management and ecosystem
restoration (Peltzer, Richardson, Mason, Hulme, Dickie, Brown, Wardle, Watt, Bellingham,
Rolando, Finnegan and Paynter). MBIE, $NZ 2,800,000/yr.
2017-2020. Predicting European forest soil biodiversity and its functioning under climate change
(Hättenschwiler, Roy, Vranken, Wardle, Buscot, Verheyen, Scherer-Lorenzen) Biodiversa
(ERA-NET). 930,000 Euro/yr
2017-2020. Understanding decomposition processes in Chilean forest ecosystems: the role of
abiotic factors, leaf and litter trait variability, and microbial communities (Gaxiola, Armesto,
and Wardle (International Collaborator)). FONDECYT-CONICYT. 85000 Euro/year.
2017-2021. Start-up grant from Nanyang Technological University. $XXXXXXX/year.
Membership of externally funded international networks:
2005-2010. ARC-NZ Network for Vegetation Function (foundation member). Funded by Australian
Research Council and others. Member of working groups within network on ‘Meta-Analysis
and Approaches to Litter Decomposability’, ‘Decomposition and Litter Mixing Experiments’,
‘Linking Decomposability of Leaves and Stems to their Traits’ and co-leader of the working
group ‘Understanding Ecosystem Retrogression’.
2006-2010. SEAPRE (SEAbirds and introduced PREdators) (foundation member). Funded by US
National Science Foundation.
2010-2015. Nordic Network on ‘Biodiversity and Climate Change’ (foundation member). Funded
by NordForsk (Nordic funding Agency) ‘Top Level Research Initiative’ on climate change
research.
2011-2015. Foundation member of STERN, aimed at building research linkages between Chile and
New Zealand. Funded by CONICYT, Chile.
2012-present: Foundation member of PROBE (Paleo Reconstructions of Biogeochemical
Environments) and NOVUS, funded by the US National Science Foundation.
2016-present: IUFRO (International Union of Forestry Organizations) ‘task force’ member for the
task-force group ‘Biological Invasions’.
2016-2018. Working group on ‘A global soil biodiversity database and its application to data
synthesis and theory development (sWORM)’, funded through sDiv (German Synthesis
Centre of Biodiversity Sciences).
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8. Research supervision
Over 20 years experience in mentoring PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. The majority of
these have been very productive and have authored papers in leading journals while under my
supervision, including in Nature, Science, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Ecology Letters,
Ecology, Journal of Ecology, Oikos, Ecography, Functional Ecology, etc. Several of these have
successfully obtained academic positions in a range of locations worldwide, including Stanford
University, University of Helsinki, University of Lancaster, Okinawa University, Umeå University,
Landcare Research, USGS, CNRS, etc. Several are also very actively publishing in leading journals
in their own right at their respective institutions (four have each published papers in Science or
Nature over 2014-2015), and several serve (or have served) on Editorial Boards of major journals
including Ecology Letters; Journal of Applied Ecology; Ecosystems; Annual Reviews of Ecology,
Evolution and Systematics; Oikos; Plant Ecology; Plant and Soil; Soil Biology and Biochemistry;
PLoS ONE; NZJ Ecology.
Current postdocs:
# Anne Kempel. Project: Plant-herbivore interactions along a strong environmental gradient’.
Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (commenced April 2016).
# Carol Frost. Project: Community and ecosystem impacts of invasive ants in forested ecosystems
in New Caledonia. Funded through a pan-European BiodivErsA project (commenced 2015).
Current PhD students
# Signe Lett. Project: Moss traits predicting climate-warming induced forest expansion across
tundra habitats. Funded through CMF (advisors: E. Dorrepaal, M.-C. Nilsson and D. Wardle)
(expected completion 2017)
# Clydecia Spitzer. Project: Linking plant functional traits and plant-soil feedbacks to global
environmental change. Funded through the Swedish Research Council (advisors: P. Kardol, D.
Wardle, M. Gundale, M. Sundqvist).
Previous PhD students and postdocs include:
# Fabienne Charpentier [post-doc with D. Wardle at AgResearch Hamilton 1995-1996 (funded
through NZ Marsden Fund)]
# Juha Mikola [post-doc with D. Wardle at Landcare Research Lincoln 1998-1999 (funded through
NZ Marsden Fund), currently a Researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland]
# Lena Jonsson [post-doc with D. Wardle and M.-C Nilsson at Swedish Univ of Agric Sciences
1998-1999 (funded through SJFR)]
# Wendy Williamson [postdoc with D. Wardle at Landcare Research Lincoln 1999-2002 (funded
through AGMARDT), currently a Research Scientist at Environmental Research, Christchurch,
New Zealand]
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# Duane Peltzer [postdoc with D. Wardle at Landcare Research Lincoln 2000-2001 (funded
through the Canadian funding agency NSERC), currently a senior staff scientist at Landcare
Research, Lincoln, New Zealand].
# Kate Orwin [Ph.D. student with D. Wardle at Landcare Research and Laurie Greenfield,
University of Canterbury, 2000-2004 (funded through NZ Marsden Fund), currently a Staff
Scientist at Landcare Research, Lincoln, NZ].
# Helena Dehlin [PhD student with M.-C. Nilsson and D. Wardle at Swedish Univ of Agric
Sciences, 2002-2006 (funded through FORMAS), currently employed by forest company
Sveaskog as an environmental advisor]
# Tadashi Fukami [post-doc with D. Wardle and P. Bellingham at Landcare Research, Lincoln.
2003-2005 (funded through N.Z. Marsden Fund), currently an Associate Professor at Stanford
University]
# Katja Ilminaren [Ph.D. student with J. Mikola (University of Jyväskyla, Finland) and D. Wardle,
2000-2006]
# Fiona Dearden PhD student with D. Wardle (Sheffield University, UK) 2002-2007 (funded
through NERC, UK), currently a Researcher at Exeter University
# Hiroko Kurokawa [post-doc with D. Wardle and D. Peltzer at Landcare Research, New Zealand
2005-2007 (funded through the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science), currently an
Assistant Professor at Tokuhu University, Japan]
# Camilla Esberg [Ph.D. student with R. Giesler and B. Graae (Umeå University) and D. Wardle,
2006-2010, currently a project leader in the Swedish mining company LKAB’s environmental
group]
# Fujio Hyodo [post-doc with D. Wardle at the Swedish Univ of Agric Sciences, 2007-2009
(funded through the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science), currently an Associate
Professor at Okayama University, Japan]
# Micael Jonsson [post-doc with D. Wardle at the Swedish Univ of Agric Sciences, 2006-2009
(funded through FORMAS), currently a Researcher at Umeå University, Sweden]
# Zhanfeng Liu [post-doc with D. Wardle at the Swedish Univ of Agric Sciences, 2010-2011
(funded through the Chinese Academy of Sciences), currently an Associate Professor at the South
China Botanical Garden, Guangzhou, China].
# Paul Kardol [post-doc with D. Wardle at the Swedish Univ of Agric Sciences, 2009-2011 (funded
through SLU Excellence grant), currently an Associate Professor at the Swedish Univ of Agric
Sciences, Sweden].
# Sheel Bansal [post-doc with M.-C. Nilsson and D. Wardle, 2009-2011, currently a Staff Scientist
at the US Geological Survey (USGS)].
# Maja Sundqvist [Ph.D. student with D. Wardle, R. Giesler and B. Graae, 2007-2011 (funded
through CMF); postdoctoral researcher with D. Wardle, 2011-2014 (funded through Wallenberg
Scholars award), currently an Assistant Professor at Umeå University].
# Benjamin Jackson [Ph.D. student with D. Wardle, M. C. Nilsson and D. Peltzer, 2007-2012
(funded from Excellensbidrag), currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of
Aberdeen, UK]
# Andrea Vincent [post-doc with D. Wardle at the Swedish Univ of Agric Sciences, 2012-2013
(funded through a Wallenberg Scholars award), currently an Associate Professor at the University
of Costa Rica].
# Ann Tomlinson [PhD student with J. Beggs (Univ of Auckland, NZ) P. Johnson (Landcare
Research, NZ) and D. Wardle, defended 2013].
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# Johan Asplund [post-doc with D. Wardle at the Swedish Univ of Agric Sciences, 2011-2013
(funded through the Swedish Research Council), currently a Researcher at the Norwegian
University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway].
# Stef Bokhorst [post-doc with D. Wardle at the Swedish Univ of Agric Sciences, 2011-2013
(funded through a Wallenberg Scholars award), currently a postdoc at the Free University of
Amsterdam, The Netherlands].
# Gregoire Freschet [post-doc with D. Wardle at the Swedish Univ of Agric Sciences, 2011-2013
(funded through SLU), currently an Assistant Professor at CNRS, Montpellier, France].
# Guillaume Bay [PhD student at the Swedish Univ of Agricultural Sciences with M.-C. Nilsson, D.
Wardle and U. Rasmussen, 2008-2013 (Funded through the Oscar and Lili Lamm foundation),
currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Iowa, Ames, Iowa].
# Mel Durrett. [Ph.D. student with C. Mulder (University of Alaska at Fairbanks) and D. Wardle,
defended 2014, currently an Assistant Professor at Rhoades College, Memphis, Tennessee].
# Ciska Veen. postdoc with D. Wardle at the Swedish Univ of Agricultural Sciences, 2011-2014
(funded through the Dutch Research Council Rubicon programme), currently a Researcher at the
Netherlands Institute of Ecology].
# Nathalie Pluchon. [Ph.D. student with D. Wardle, M.-C. Nilsson, P. Kardol and M. Gundale,
2010-2015 (funded through the Swedish Research Council FORMAS)].
# Jordan Mayor. [post-doc with D. Wardle at the Swedish Univ of Agric Sciences, 2013-2015
(funded through a Wallenberg Scholars award), currently a lecturer at Humboldt University,
California].
# Bright Kumordzi. [Ph.D. student with D. Wardle, M.-C. Nilsson and M. Gundale, 2010-2015
(funded through the Swedish Research Council VR), currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at Laval
University, Québec]
# Xavier Cavard [postdoc with D. Wardle at the Swedish Univ of Agric Sciences, 2014-2015
(funded through a Wallenberg Scholars award), currently a Researcher at the University of
Québec at Abitibi-Témiscamingue].
# Babs Stuiver [PhD student with M.-C. Nilsson, M. Gundale and D. Wardle, 2010-2015 (funded
through the Swedish Research Council FORMAS), currently an ecological specialist at the forest
company Sveskog in Växjö].
# Jon de Long [Ph.D. student with D. Wardle, M-C. Nilsson, P. Kardol, E. Dorrepaal and R.
Giesler, 2012-2016 (funded through a Wallenberg Scholars award), currently a postdoctoral
researcher at the University of Manchester].
# Anna Henriksson [PhD student with G. Englund, J. Yu and D. Wardle, 2011-2015 (funded
through CMF)].
# Nicolas Fanin [post-doc with D. Wardle at the Swedish Univ of Agric Sciences, 2015-2016
(funded through the Swedish Research Council), currently an Assistant Professor at INRA,
Bordeaux, France].
9. Invited conferences, workshops and seminars
(Note: junior-authored and non-invited presentations not listed)
# Invited seminar at the Department of Ecology, Massey University, NZ, 4 November 1992.
# Invited seminar, Institute of Soil Biology, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic, 18 May 1993
(host: H. Santruckova).
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# Invited Seminar, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, May 24 1993 (host: E. Bååth).
# Invited Seminar, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, May 26 1993 (host: M.
Clarholm).
# Invited seminars, Department of Forest Vegetation Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural
Sciences, Umeå, June 8-9 1993 (Hosts: Anders Nordgren; Olle Zackrisson).
# Co-organizer (with Dr. Bruce Campbell), Research Workshop on Subtropical Grass Invasion of
North Island Dairy Pastures. Ruakura Agricultural Research Centre, Hamilton, October 7-8 1993.
# Invited keynote speaker at the 3rd Brazilian Society of Microbiology Conference, Londrina
Brazil, June 6-10 1994 (Talk title: Links between the microbial biomass, and climatic and biotic
factors’.
# Invited Presenter, Workshop on Methods for Measuring Soil Microbial Biomass, EMBRAPA,
Londrina, Brazil, June 13-15 1994.
# Invited keynote presentation at the conference ‘Driven by Nature: Plant Litter Quality and
Decomposition’, Wye College, University of London, 17-20 September 2005 (Talk title: Linkages
between soil biota, plant litter quality and decomposition).
# Invited seminar at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, September 4 1996.
# Invited keynote presentation at the SCOPE conference ‘The Functional Role of Soil Biota under
Global Change: An Ecosystem-Level Perspective’, Paris, October 21-25 1996. Talk title: ‘Trophic
relationships in the soil microfood-web: predicting the responses to a changing global environment’.
# Invited speaker at the New Zealand Ecological Society ‘Biodiversity Now’ Conference.
Wellington, June 27 to July 3 1997. Talk title: Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in natural
ecosystems.
# Invited seminar, Department of Botany, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, November 5
1997. Host: L. Greenfield.
# Invited participant, OECD MegaScience forum, Stockholm, Sweden, March 2-6 1998.
# Invited seminar at the Swedish Univ of Agric Sciences, Umeå, Sweden, April 23 1998 (host: R.
Geisler).
# Invited speaker at the VII International Congress of Ecology (INTECOL), Florence Italy, 20-25 July
1998. (Talk title: Do above-ground processes and interactions drive soil food webs?).
# Invited participant at SCOPE workshop on linkages between aboveground and belowground
biodiversity, Wageningen, The Netherlands, October 11-16 1998.
# Invited speaker at ‘Keynote Symposium’ on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning, XVIII
International Botanical Congress, St Louis, Missouri, USA, August 2-6 1999 (talk title: Plant
species effects in ecosystems: the role of biotic interactions and feedbacks).
# Invited visitor (visitors programme) at the NERC Centre for Population Biology at Silwood Park,
Imperial College, at the invitation of Sir John Lawton, August 29 – September 18 1999 (includes
invited seminar on September 8 1999).
# Invited seminar, CAB, Silwood Park, UK, September 14 1999 (host: V. K. Brown).
# Invited seminar, Landcare Research, Auckland, NZ, July 15 1999 (host: J. Young).
# Invited visitor and plenary speaker at open workshop on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning,
University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, March 9-13 1999.
# Invited speaker at the New Zealand Botany at the End of the Millenium Conference (honouring the
80th birthday of Eric Godley), Lincoln University, NZ, June 17-18 1999 (talk title: Plant species
effects in ecosystems: the role of biotic interactions and feedbacks).
# Invited speaker at the Conservation for the Millenium workshop at French Pass, Nelson, NZ,
February 23-27 2000.
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# Invited speaker at the LTER All Scientists Meeting - workshop on Removal Experiments,
Snowbird, Utah, USA, August 4-5 2000 (Talk title: Removal experiments and aboveground-
belowground links in ecosystems).
# Invited seminar, Department of Plant and Microbial Sciences, University of Canterbury,
Christchurch, NZ, September 27 2000 (host: L. Greenfield).
# Invited seminar, Institute of Ecosystem Studies, New York, November 28 2000 (host: C.
Canham).
# Plenary keynote speaker, workshop on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning – Synthesis and
Perspectives, Ecole Normale Superieure, November 6-10 2000 (Talk title: Plant traits and
aboveground-belowground feedbacks as drivers of ecosystem functioning).
# Invited speaker at the ‘International Conference of Ecology of Insular Biotas’, Wellington, New
Zealand, February 12-17 2001 (Talk title: Islands as model ecosystems for understanding how
species influence ecosystem properties).
# Invited seminar, CSIRO/University of Queensland, Brisbane, 24 April 2001 (host: C. Thompson).
# Invited speaker at the ESF Sponsored Workshop on Manipulating Insect Herbivory, Jena, Germany,
23-26 September 2001(Talk title: Herbivory and the functioning of the decomposer subsystem).
# Invited seminar, Department of Biology, University of York, UK, October 18 2001 (hosts: P.
Mayhill and A. H. Fitter).
# Invited speaker at ‘Multitrophic Interactions in a Changing Global Environment’ workshop in
Texel, The Netherlands, April 3-6 2002 (Talk title: aboveground-belowground feedbacks as an
indicator of global change).
# Invited seminar, University of Münster, Germany, June 18 2002 (Host: N. Anthes).
# Invited seminar, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, July 26 2002 (Host: S. Christensen).
# Plenary keynote speaker at the 2002 EURECOL symposium, Lund, Sweden, July 28 – August 1
2002 (Talk title: plant biodiversity and ecosystem function).
# Invited seminar, University of Stirling, Scotland, October 7 2002.
# Invited seminar, CEH Banchory, Scotland, October 11 2002 (host: R. Van de Wal).
# Invited participant at the SCOPE workshop “Integrating Concepts of Biodiversity of Soils and
Sediments”, Estes Park, Colorado, USA, October 19-23 2002.
# Plenary keynote speaker at the joint Australian and New Zealand Ecological Societies conference,
Cairns, Australia, December 2-6 2002 (Talk title: biodiversity and ecosystems: grasslands, islands
and deer).
# Invited speaker at the British Ecological Society Symposium on Soil Biodiversity, Lancaster,
U.K., March 25-27 2003 (Talk title: plant community composition and diversity: consequences
for the decomposer subsystem).
# Invited seminar at the NERC Centre of Population Biology, Imperial College at Silwood Park,
U.K., April 1 2003.
# Plenary keynote speaker at the Soil Ecology Society (USA) biennial conference at Palm Springs,
California, USA, May 11-14 2003 (Talk title: belowground impacts of foliar herbivory and
introduced browsing mammals in New Zealand rainforest).
# Plenary keynote speaker at the biennial conference of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria
and Switzerland, Halle/Saale, Germany, 8-12 September 2003 (Talk title: Linkages between the
aboveground and belowground subsystems: evidence from deer, islands and chronosequences).
# Invited seminar, University of Auckland, November 18 2003 (host: P. Rainey).
# Invited participant and speaker at the NSF-sponsored workshop ‘Soil Biodiversity and Ecosystem
Functioning in Antarctica’, Savannah, Georgia, U.S.A., scheduled for September 16-18 2004
(cancelled due to Hurricane Ivan).
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# Invited seminar at Lund University, May 12 2005 (hosts: H. Wallander and E. Bååth).
# Invited seminar at Stockholm University, May 12-13 2005 (hosts: H. Quested and O. Ericsson).
# Invited participant at DIVERSITAS-sponsored workshop on biodiversity and carbon storage,
Danum, Borneo, September 7-10 2005.
# Presentation of the 6th Annual Milan Straskraba Memorial lecture, University of South Bohemia,
Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic, October 4 2005 (Talk title: Linkages between the
aboveground and belowground subsystems: evidence from deer, islands and chronosequences.)
# Invited speaker at the workshop ‘Strategic Approaches to the Conservation of New Zealand’s
Natural Heritage’, French Pass, Nelson, NZ, 23-24 February 2006 (Talk title: Research to
generate process-based conservation assessment).
# Invited keynote speaker, Symposium on Long Term Studies in Ecology (celebrating the 150 year
anniversary of the Park Grass experiments at Rothamsted), Rothamsted, UK, 22-24 May 2006.
(Talk title: Aboveground-belowground feedbacks in time and space: evidence from deer, islands
and chronosequences).
# Invited speaker at the workshop ‘Old Growth Forests: Function and Value of a Vanishing
Ecosystem’ (honouring the 65th birthday of Ernst-Detlef Schulze), Jena, Germany, September 12-
13 2006 (Talk title: Aboveground-belowground feedbacks in old-growth forests that lack major
disturbances for centuries, millennia and beyond).
# Invited seminar at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, September 19 2006 (host: M. Bahn).
# Invited participant, Workshops on ‘Meta-Analysis and Approaches to Litter Decomposability’
and ‘Decomposition and Litter Mixing Experiments’, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia,
November 2006.
# Co-organizer (with Duane Peltzer), international workshop on ‘Understanding Ecosystem
Retrogression’ as an activity within the Australian-New Zealand Vegetation Network. Lincoln,
New Zealand, 29-31 January 2007.
# Invited seminar at the Department of Biology, University of Tennessee, April 20 2007 (host: N.
Sanders).
# Invited presentation at the Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia (Invited Speaker of the
Year, selected by Graduate Students at the Institute). April 24 2007. (talk title: Aboveground-
belowground feedbacks in time and space: evidence from deer, islands and chronosequences)
# Invited seminar at the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Nevada, 27 April 2007
(host: L. Walker).
# Invited participant at international workshop on: ‘Linking above- and belowground species and
processes, empiricists and modelers’. Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands, 9-12 July 2007.
# Invited keynote speaker at the Eurodiversity Conference at Marne-la-Vallée, France, 3-5 October
2007 (talk title: Aboveground and belowground drivers of ecosystem functioning: evidence from
invaders, islands and chronosequences).
# Invited seminar at the Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,
Uppsala, 16 October 2007 (host: J. Bengtsson).
# Invited speaker at international workshop on ‘Trophic Cascades’ at the White Oak Plantation,
Florida, 7-10 February 2008 (talk title: Predator-Induced Trophic Cascades, Aboveground -
Belowground Linkages, and Ecosystem Functioning).
# Invited seminar at the Lancaster Environment Centre, University of Lancaster, September 26
2008 (host: R. Bardgett)
# Invited seminar at the Department of Trophic Interactions, Institute of Terrestrial Ecology,
Henteren, The Netherlands, February 9 2009 (host: Wim Van der Putten).
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# Invited seminar within the ‘Nature of Life’ seminar series, Free University, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, February 10 2009 (hosts: Hans Cornelissen and Matty Berg).
# Invited seminar, Department of Botany, Stockholm University, 4 March 2009 (host: Peter
Hambäck)
# Invited participant, SEAPRE-III workshop (seabirds and island ecosystems, supported by the US
National Science Foundation), Orcas Island, Washington State, April 10-13 2009.
# Invited seminar, Dept of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, 20 May 2009
(Host: Göran Englund).
# Invited participant and keynote speaker, Workshop on Ecological Interactions Between Plant and
Soil, Beijing, China (27-29 October 2009). (talk titles: ‘Long term drivers of aboveground-
belowground linkages’ and ‘Plant traits, biotic interactions and aboveground-belowground
feedbacks’).
# Invited seminar at the South China Botanical Garden, Guangzhou, China, 2 November 2009
(host: Shenglei Fu).
# Invited seminar at the Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of
Aberdeen, UK; 1 December 2009 (host: David Johnson).
# Invited seminar at the Department of Botany, University of Cambridge, UK, 3 December 2009
(host: David Coomes).
# Invited participant and speaker, International workshop on ‘Linking Decomposability of Leaves
and Stems to their Traits: a Global Analysis of Woody Species. Akaroa, New Zealand, February
1-5 2010.
# Invited seminar at the Dept of Plant and Microbial Sciences, University of Canterbury,
Christchurch, New Zealand, February 11 2010 (host: Jason Tylianakis).
# Invited speaker, Symposium on Belowground Ecology, Yokohama University, Japan, 13 March
2010. Talk title: ‘Plant traits, biotic interactions and aboveground-belowground feedbacks’.
# Invited keynote speaker, Japanese Ecological Society Annual Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, March 15-
18 2010. Talk title: ‘Long term drivers of aboveground-belowground linkages’.
# Invited participant and speaker, Nordic Network workshop on ‘Climate and Biodiversity’,
Roskilde, Denmark, September 27-29 2010. Talk title: ‘Biotic Interactions and Global Change’.
# Keynote speaker and participant at the PhD student conference ‘Next Generation Insights into
Geosciences and Ecology’, Tartu, Estonia, June 12-13 2011. Talk title: ‘'Long term drivers of
aboveground-belowground linkages: evidence from islands, chronosequences and invaders'.
# Invited keynote speaker at the ‘Nordic Soil Zoology Symposium workshop on Belowground
Effects of Fire in Boreal Forests’, Lammi, Finland, August 27-29 2011. Talk title: ‘Aboveground
and belowground consequences of fire history: insights from island ecosystems in a long term
natural experiment’.
# Invited speaker at the ‘BES Centennial Symposium, Celebrating 100 Years of the Journal of
Ecology’, September 11-13 2011. Talk title: ‘Linking vegetation change, carbon sequestration and
biodiversity: insights from island ecosystems in a long term natural experiment’.
# Invited seminar at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, The Netherlands, October 5
2011 (host: Wim Van der Putten).
# Invited speaker at the STERN workshop promoting linkages between New Zealand and Chilean
researchers, Cenda Darwin Biological Station, Chiloe I, Chile, December 5-8 2011. Talk title:
‘Long-term Drivers of aboveground-Belowground Linkages’.
# Invited participant and speaker at the workshop ‘Biological invasions: Are they harmful, useful or
futile?’ Montpellier, France, January 11-13 2012. Talk title : ‘Invasive organisms and
aboveground-belowground linkages’.
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# Invited participant and speaker at the workshop ‘Plant species coexistence in young vs. ancient
soils: same old story?’, Perth, Australia, February 20-24 2012. Talk title: ‘Linkages between
vegetation change, biodiversity and C dynamics during retrogression’.
# Invited keynote speaker at the SLU Ecology Department research workshop, Uppsala, Sweden,
March 29-30 2012. Talk title: Linkages between vegetation change, consumers and C dynamics
during retrogression: insights from island ecosystems’.
# Invited participant, NSF funded workshop - PROBE (Paleo Reconstructions of Biogeochemical
Environments), Manhattan, Kansas, April 19-21 2012.
# Invited participant, British Ecological Society workshop ‘100 Questions in Pure Ecology’,
London, UK, April 24-25 2012.
# Invited speaker and participant at the workshop ‘Biochar – the soil is the limit’, Wageningen, The
Netherlands, May 24-25 2012. Talk title: ‘Biochar and carbon dynamics - insights from the boreal
forest’.
# Invited keynote speaker (opening presentation) at the mini-symposium ‘Crossing Ecosystem
Boundaries’, University of British Colombia, Vancouver, Canada, September 17, 2012. Talk title:
‘Aboveground-belowground interactions: traits, feedback and biotic interchange’.
# Invited seminar at the Biodiversity Center, University of British Colombia, Canada, September 19
2012 (Host: Greg Crutsinger).
# Invited seminar at the Centre d'Étude de la Forêt, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada,
September 24 2012 (host: Dan Kneeshaw).
# Invited opening/keynote speaker at the NERN (Current Themes in Ecology) symposium ‘Soil,
Biodiversity and Life’ at Wageningen, The Netherlands, November 20 2012. Talk title: ‘Soils,
plants and biodiversity: a belowground view of species changes and ecosystem processes’.
# Invited ‘Bambi’ seminar at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Barro Colorado Island,
Panama, March 25 2013 (host: Ben Turner).
# Invited seminar at the Abisko field station, Abisko, Sweden, June 27 2013 (host: Ellen
Dorrepaal).
# Invited Seminar at the Bioprotection Centre, Lincoln, New Zealand, February 19 2014 (host:
Maud Bernard Vaudier).
# Invited seminar at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, New Zealand,
February 20 2014 (host: Jason Tylianakis).
# Invited participant and speaker at the workshop ‘Biotic Interactions: Underlying mechanisms,
ecological functions and ecosystem services’ at the Universidad Internacional de Andalucia,
Baeza, Spain, September 22-24 2014. Talk title: ‘Linking vegetation change, consumers and
carbon dynamics: insights from island ecosystems’.
# Invited seminar at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Noumea, New Caledonia,
October 3 2014 (host: Herve Jourdan).
# Invited seminar at the Centre of Macroecology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, October 31
2014 (hosts: Aimee Classen and Nate Sanders).
# Invited keynote speaker at the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative international conference in
Dijon, France, December 2-5 2014. Talk title: ‘Aboveground-belowground responses to global
change drivers: tales of islands, fires and invades’.
# Invited keynote speaker at the ‘Swedish Infrastructure for Ecosystem Science’ workshop,
Stockholm, December 12 2014. Talk title: ‘Sites, infrastructures and functional biodiversity’.
# Invited keynote speaker (opening presentation) at the Oikos annual ecological conference, Umeå,
Sweden, February 4-6 2015. Talk title: ‘Aboveground‐belowground linkages in the boreal forest:
islands, biodiversity and carbon storage’.
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# Invited seminar at iDiv (German Centre for Biodiversity), Leipzig, Germany, June 4 2015 (host:
Nico Eisenhauer).
# Invited seminar at Monash University, October 8 2015 (host: Steven Chown).
# Invited seminars at the Asian School for the Environment, Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore, October 12 and 13 2015.
# Invited speaker at the workshop ‘Nutrient Cycling in the Arctic: Integrating Plant-Microbe-
Herbivore Interactions’, Umeå, Sweden, 16-17 March 2016. Talk title: ‘Aboveground and
belowground responses to subarctic elevational gradients’.
# Invited participant in the working group ‘Health and the Environment: A Unifying Framework
from Individual Stress to Ecosystem Functioning’ at the Israel Institute of Advanced Studies,
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, May 31 to June 10 2016.
# Invited speaker at the IUFRO Workshop on Biological Invasions in Forests, Shepherdstown, West
Virginia, July 18-21 2016. Talk title: Impacts of invasive biota in forests in an aboveground-
belowground context’.
# Invited participant, Horizon Scanning Workshop on the Future of Invasion Biology, University of
Cambridge, September 28-29 2016.
# Invited ‘Tulip Prestige’ visitor and seminar speaker, Toulouse University, Toulouse, November
16-17 2016 (host: Julien Cote).
# Invited participant and speaker at the conference ‘Fifteen Years of the Jena Experiment: the Past,
the Present and the Future’. Jena, Germany, February 7-10 2017. Talk title: ‘Aboveground-
belowground linkages in boreal forest: islands, biodiversity and ecosystem processes’.
# Invited participant and speaker at the Nature conference ‘Environmental Microbial Biofilms and
Human Microbiomes: Drivers of Future Sustainability’. Singapore, February 12-15 2017. Talk
title: ‘The role of microbiota in driving aboveground-belowground linkages’.
10. Full publication list
(a) Authored books
(2) Bardgett, R. D. and Wardle, D. A. (2010) Aboveground-Belowground Linkages: Biotic
Interactions, Ecosystem Processes and Global Change. Oxford University Press (Series in
Ecology and Evolution), Oxford, U.K. 302pp. (NB: Both authors contributed equally).
(1) Wardle, D. A. (2002) Communities and Ecosystems: Linking the Aboveground and Belowground
Components. Princeton University Press (Monographs in Population Biology series), Princeton,
U.S.A. 392pp.
(b) Publications in scientific journals
(295) Mayor, J. R., Sanders, N. J., Classen, A. T., Bardgett, R. D., Clément, J. J., Fajardo, A.,
Lavorel, S., Sundqvist, M. K., Bahn, M., Chisholm, C., Cieraad, E., Gedalof, Z., Grigulis, K.,
Kudo, G., Oberski, D. and Wardle, D. A. (2017) Elevation alters ecosystem properties across
temperate treelines globally. Nature 542: 91-97.
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(294) Teste, F. P., Kardol, P., Turner, B. L., Wardle, D. A., Zemunik, G., Renton, M. and Laliberté,
E. (2017) Plant-soil biota feedback and the maintenance of diversity in Mediterranean-climate
shrublands. Science 355: 173-176. [article profiled in the following Science ‘Perspectives’ paper: Van der Putten, W. H. (2017)
Belowground drivers of plant diversity. Science 355: 134-135; highlighted in F1000 Prime (293) Wardle, D. A. and Peltzer, D. (2017) Impacts of invasive biota in forest ecosystems in an
aboveground-belowground context. Biological Invasions (in press).
(292) Giesler R., Clemmensen K. E., Wardle D. A., Klaminder J. and Bindler R. (2017) Boreal
forests sequester large amounts of mercury over millennial time scales in the absence of
wildfire. Environmental Science and Technology (in press).
(291) Wright, A. J., Wardle, D. A., Callaway, R. and Gaxiola, A. (2017) The overlooked role of
facilitation in biodiversity experiments. Trends in Ecology and Evolution (in press).
(290) Freschet, G. T., Valverde-Barrantes, O. J., Tucker, C. M., Craine, J. M., McCormack, M. L.,
Violle, C., Fort, F., Blackwood, C. B., Urban-Mead, K. R. U., Iversen, C. M., Bonis, A.,
Comas, L. H., Cornelissen, J. H. C., Dong, M., Guo, D., Hobbie, S. E., Holdaway, R. J.,
Kembel, S. W., Makita, N., Onipchenko, V. G., Picon-Cochard, C., Reich, P. B., De la Riva,
E. G., Smith, S. W., Soudzilovskaia, N. A., Tjoelker, M., Wardle, D. A. & Roumet, C. (2017)
Climate, soil and plant functional types as drivers of global fine-root trait variation. Journal
of Ecology (in press).
(289) Asplund, J and Wardle, D. A. (2017) How lichens impact on terrestrial community and
ecosystem properties. Biological Reviews (in press).
(288) Thoresen, J., Towns, D., Leuzinger, S., Durrett, M., Mulder, C. P. H. and Wardle, D. A.
(2017) Invasive rodents have multiple indirect effects on seabird island invertebrate food web
structure. Ecological Applications (in press).
(287) Bokhorst, S., Kardol, P., Bellingham, P. J., Kooyman, R. M., Richardson, S. J., Schmidt, S.
and Wardle, D. A. (2017) Responses of communities of soil organisms and plants to soil
aging at two contrasting long-term chronosequences. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 106: 69-
79.
(286) Lett, S., Nilsson, M.-C., Wardle, D. A. and Dorrepaal, E. (2017) Bryophyte traits explain
climate-warming effects on tree seedling establishment. Journal of Ecology (in press).
(285) Kardol, P., Spitzer, C., Gundale, M. J., Nilsson, M.-C. and Wardle, D. A. (2016) Trophic
cascades in the bryosphere: the impact of global change factors on top-down control of
cyanobacterial N2 fixation. Ecology Letters 19: 967-976. Cover article for August 2016 issue of Ecology Letters
(284) Stuiver, B, M., Wardle, D. A., Gundale, M. J. and Nilsson, M.-C. (2016) Seedling responses
to changes in canopy and soil properties during stand development following clear-cutting.
Forest Ecology and Management 378: 31-43.
(283) Bellingham, P. J., Kardol, P., Bonner, K. I., Buxton, P., Morse, C. and Wardle, D. A. (2016)
Browsing by an invasive herbivore promotes development of plant and soil communities
during primary succession. Journal of Ecology 105: 1505-1507.
(282) Kumordzi, B. B., Gundale, M. J., Nilsson, M.-C. and Wardle, D. A. (2016) Shifts in
aboveground biomass allocation patterns of dominant shrub species across a strong
environmental gradient. PLoS ONE 11: e0157136.
(281) Peltzer, D. and Wardle, D. A. (2016) Soil fertility effects on tree seedling performance are
light-dependent: Evidence from a long-term soil chronosequence. Oikos 125: 1121-1133.
(280) Gundale, M. J., Almeida, J. P., Wallander, H., Wardle, D. A., Kardol, P., Nilsson, M.-C.,
Fajardo, A., Pauchard, A., Peltzer, D. A., Ruotsalainen, S., Mason, B. and Rosenstock, N.
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(2016) Differences in endophyte communities of introduced trees depend on the phylogenetic
relatedness of the receiving forest. Journal of Ecology 104: 1219-1232. Cover article for September 2016 issue of the Journal of Ecology
(279) Warshan, D., Bay, G., Nahar, N., Wardle, D.A., Nilsson, M.-C. and Rasmussen, U. (2016)
Seasonal variation in nifH abundance and expression of cyanobacterial communities
associated with boreal feather mosses. The ISME Journal 10: 2198-2208.
(278) Gundale, M. J., Nilsson, M-C., Pluchon, N. and Wardle, D. A. (2016) The effect of biochar
management on soil and plant community properties in a boreal forest. Global Change
Biology – Bioenergy 4: 777-789.
(277) Wardle, D. A., Jonsson, M., Mayor, J. R. and Metcalfe, D. B. (2016) Aboveground and
belowground responses to long-term nutrient addition across a retrogressive chronosequence.
Journal of Ecology 104: 545-560.
(276) Peltzer, D., Kurokawa, H. and Wardle, D. A. (2016) Soil fertility and disturbance interact to
drive contrasting responses of co-occurring native and non-native species. Ecology 97: 515-
529.
(275) Jonsson, M., Snäll, T., Asplund, J., Clemmensen, K. E., Dahlberg, A., Kumordzi, B. B.,
Lindahl, B. D., Oksanen, J. and Wardle, D. A. (2016) Divergent responses of β-diversity
among organism groups to a strong environmental gradient. Ecosphere 7: e01535.
(274) De Long, J., Dorrepaal, E., Kardol, P., Nilsson, M.-C., Teuber, L. and Wardle, D. A. (2016)
Contrasting responses of soil microbial and nematode communities to warming and plant
functional group removal across a post-fire boreal forest successional gradient. Ecosystems
19: 339-355.
(273) Wardle, D. A. (2016) Do experiments exploring plant diversity – ecosystem functioning
relationships inform how biodiversity loss impacts natural ecosystems? Journal of Vegetation
Science 27: 646-653.
(272) Henriksson, A., Wardle, D. A., Trygg, J., Diehl, S. and Englund, G. (2016) Strong invaders
are strong defenders – implications for the resistance of invaded communities. Ecology
Letters 19: 487-494.
(271) De Long, J. R., Dorrepaal, E., Kardol, P., Nilsson, M.-C., Teuber, L. M. and Wardle, D. A.
(2016) Understory plant functional groups and litter species identity are stronger drivers of
litter decomposition than warming along a boreal forest post-fire successional gradient. Soil
Biology and Biochemistry 98: 159-170.
(270) Henriksson, A., Yu, J., Wardle, D. A., Trygg, J. and Englund, G. (2016) Weighted species
richness outperforms species richness as predictor of biotic resistance. Ecology 97: 262-271.
(269) Orwin, K. H., Wardle, D. A., Towns, D. R., St. John, M. G., Bellingham, P. J., Jones, C.,
Fitzgerald, B. M., Parrish, R. G. and Lyver, P. O’B. (2016) Burrowing seabird effects on
invertebrate communities in soil and litter are dominated by ecosystem engineering rather
than nutrient addition. Oecologia 180: 217-230.
(268) Wardle, D. A. (2016) Why Altmetric scores should never be used to measure the merit of
scientific papers (or ‘how to tweet your way to honour and glory’). Ideas in Ecology and
Evolution 9: 1-3.
(267) Metcalfe, D. B., Crutsinger, G. M., Kumordzi, B. B. and Wardle, D. A. (2016) Nutrient fluxes
from insect herbivory increase during ecosystem retrogression in boreal forest. Ecology 97:
124-132.
(266) Pluchon, N., Vincent, A. G., Gundale, M. J., Nilsson, M.-C., Kardol, P. and Wardle, D. A.
(2016) The impact of charcoal and soil mixtures on decomposition and soil microbial
communities in boreal forest. Applied Soil Ecology 99: 40-50.
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(265) De Long, J., Sundqvist, M., Gundale, M. J., Giesler, R. and Wardle, D. A. (2016) Effects of
elevation and nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization on plant defense compounds in subarctic
tundra heath vegetation. Functional Ecology 30: 314-325.
(264) Siefert, A., Violle, C., Chalmandrier, L., Albert, C. H., Taudiere, A.., Fajardo, A., Aarssen, L.
W.., Baraloto, C., Carlucci, M. B., Cianciaruso, M. V., Dantas, V. de L., de Bello, F., Duarte,
L. D. S., Fonseca, C. R., Freschet, G. T., Gaucherand, D., Gross, N., Hikosaka, K., Jackson,
B., Jung, V., Kamiyama, C., Katabuchi, M., Kembel, S. W., Kichenin, E., Kraft, N. J. B.,
Lagerström, A., Bagousse-Pinguet, Y. L., Li, Y., Mason, N., Messier, J., Nakashizuka, T.,
Overton, J. Mc.C., Peltzer, D., Perez-Ramos, I. M., Pillar, V. D., Prentice, H. C., Richardson,
S., Sasaki, T., Schamp, B. S., Schob, C., Shipley, B., Sundqvist, M., Sykes, M. T.,
Vandewalle, M. and Wardle, D. A. (2015) A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of
intraspecific trait variation in plant communities. Ecology Letters 18: 1406-1419. Recognized by Essential Science Indicators as a ‘hot’ paper (top 0.1% in citations)
(263) Pluchon, N., Casetou, S. C., Kardol, P., Gundale, M. J., Nilsson, M.-C. and Wardle, D. A.
(2015) Influence of species identity and charring conditions on fire-derived charcoal traits.
Canadian Journal of Forest Research 45: 1669-1675.
(262) Kumordzi, B. B., de Bello, F., Freschet, G. T., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Lepš, J. and Wardle,
D. A (2015) Linkage of plant trait space to successional age and species richness in boreal
forest understory vegetation. Journal of Ecology 103: 1610-1620.
(261) McNamara, N. P., Gregg, R., Oakley, S., Stott, A., Rahman, M. T., Murrell, J. C., Wardle, D.
A., Bardgett, R. D. and Ostle, N. J. (2015) Wildfire threat to the natural methane sink
capacity of boreal forest soils. PLoS ONE 10: e0129892.
(260) Bokhorst, S., Asplund, J., Kardol, P. and Wardle, D. A. (2015) Lichen physiological traits and
growth forms affect communities of associated invertebrates. Ecology 96: 2394-2407.
(259) Asplund, J., Bokhorst, S., Kardol, P. and Wardle, D. A. (2015) Removal of secondary
compounds increases invertebrate abundance in lichens. Fungal Ecology 18: 18-25.
(258) Henriksson, A., Yu, J., Wardle, D. A. and Englund, G. (2015) Biotic resistance in freshwater
fish communities: species richness, saturation or species identity? Oikos 124: 1058-1064.
(257) Stuiver, B. M., Gundale, M. J., Wardle, D. A. and Nilsson, M.-C. (2015) Nitrogen fixation
rates associated with the feather mosses Pleurozium schreberi and Hylocomium splendens
during forest stand development following clear-cutting. Forest Ecology and Management
347: 130-139.
(256) Wardle, D. A., Bellingham, P. J., Kardol, P., Giesler, R. and Tanner, E. V. J. (2015).
Coordination of aboveground and belowground responses to local-scale soil fertility
differences between two contrasting Jamaican rainforest types. Oikos 124: 285-297.
(255) Clemmensen. K. E., Finlay, R. D., Dahlberg, A., Stenlid, J., Wardle, D. A. and Lindahl, B. D.
(2015) Carbon sequestration is related to mycorrhizal fungal community shifts during long
term succession in boreal forests. New Phytologist 205: 1525-1536. Profiled in the accompanying commentary: Fernandez, C. W. and Kennedy, P. G. (2015) Moving beyond
the black box: fungal traits, community structure and carbon sequestration in forests. New Phytologist
205: 1378-1380; Recognized by Essential Science Indicators as a ‘highly cited’ paper (top 1% in
citations) (254) Asplund, J. and Wardle, D. A. (2015) Changes in functional traits of the terricolous lichen
Peltigera aphthosa across a retrogressive boreal forest chronosequence. The Lichenologist
47: 187-195.
(253) Mulder, C. P. H., Wardle, D. A., Durrett, M. S. and Bellingham, P. J. (2015) Leaf damage by
herbivores and pathogens on New Zealand islands that differ in seabird densities. New
Zealand Journal of Ecology 39: 221-230.
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(252) Veen, G. F., Sundqvist, M. and Wardle, D. A. (2015) Environmental factors and traits that
drive plant litter decomposition do not determine home-field advantage effects. Functional
Ecology 29: 981-991.
(251) De Long, J. R., Kardol, P., Sundqvist, M. K., Veen, G. F. and Wardle, D. A. (2015) Plant
growth response to direct and indirect temperature effects varies by vegetation type and
elevation in a subarctic tundra. Oikos 124: 772-783.
(250) Jonsson, M., Kardol, P., Gundale, M. J., Bansal, S., Nilsson, M.-C., Metcalfe, D. and Wardle,
D. A. (2015) Direct and indirect drivers of moss community structure, function and
associated microfauna across a successional gradient. Ecosystems 18: 154-169. Cover article for January 2015 issue of Ecosystems
(249) Freschet, G., Kichenin, E. and Wardle, D. A. (2015) Explaining within-community variation
in plant biomass allocation: a balance between organ biomass and morphology above versus
belowground? Journal of Vegetation Science 26: 431-440.
(248) Jeffery, S., Bezemer, T., Cornelissen, G., Kuyper, T., Lehmann, J., Mommer, L., Sohi, S., van
de Voorde, T., Wardle, D. A. and van Groenigen, J. W. (2015) The way forward in biochar
research: targeting trade-offs between the potential wins. Global Change Biology –
Bioenergy 7: 1-13. Recognized by Essential Science Indicators as a ‘hot’ paper (top 0.1% in citations)
(247) Veen, G. F., Freschet, G., Ordonez, A. and Wardle, D. A. (2015) Litter quality and
environmental controls of home-field advantage effects on litter decomposition. Oikos 124:
187-195.
(246) Laughlin, D.C., Joshi, C., Richardson, S.J., Peltzer, D. A., Mason, N.W.H. and Wardle, D.A.
(2015) Quantifying multimodal trait distributions improves trait-based predictions of species
abundances and functional diversity. Journal of Vegetation Science 26: 46-57.
(245) Kumordzi, B.B, Wardle, D.A. and Freschet, G.T. (2015) Plant assemblages do not respond
homogenously to local variation in environmental conditions: functional responses differ
with species identity and abundance. Journal of Vegetation Science 26: 32-45.
(244) Walker, L.R. and Wardle, D.A. (2014) Plant succession as an integrator of contrasting
ecological time scales. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 29: 504-510.
(243) Wardle, D. A. and Lindahl, B. (2014) Disentangling global soil fungal diversity. Science 346:
1052-1053.
(242) Sundqvist, M.K., Wardle, D.A., Vincent, A. and Giesler, R. (2014) Contrasting nitrogen and
phosphorus dynamics across an elevational gradient for subarctic tundra heath and meadow
vegetation. Plant and Soil 383: 387-399.
(241) Kardol, P., Dickie, I. A., St. John, M. G., Husheer, S. W., Bonner, K. I., Bellingham, P. J. and
Wardle, D. A. (2014) Soil-mediated effects of invasive ungulates on native tree seedlings.
Journal of Ecology 102: 622-631.
(240) Stuiver, B. M., Wardle, D. A., Gundale, M. J. and Nilsson, M.-C. (2014) The impact of moss
species and biomass on growth of Pinus sylvestris tree seedlings at different precipitation
frequencies. Forests 5: 1931-1951.
(239) Asplund, J. and Wardle, D. A. (2014) Within-species variability is the main driver of
community-level responses of traits of epiphytes across a long term chronosequence.
Functional Ecology 28: 1513-1522.
(238) Kardol, P., De Long, J. and Wardle, D. A. (2014) Local plant adaptation across a subarctic
elevational gradient. Royal Society Open Science 1: 140141. Cover article for November 2014 issue of Royal Society Open Science
(237) Wardle, D. A. and Jonsson, M. (2014) Long term resilience of above- and below-ground
ecosystem components among contrasting ecosystems. Ecology 95: 1836-1849.
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(236) Kumordzi, B. B., Nilsson, M.-C., Gundale, M. J. and Wardle, D. A. (2014) Changes in local-
scale intraspecific trait variability of dominant species across contrasting island ecosystems.
Ecosphere 5: Article 26.
(235) Durrett, M. S., Wardle, D. A., Mulder, C. P. H. and Barry, R. P. (2014) Seabirds as agents of
spatial heterogeneity on New Zealand’s offshore islands. Plant and Soil 383: 139-151.
(234) Sundqvist, M. K., Liu, Z., Giesler, R. and Wardle, D. A. (2014) Plant and microbial responses
to nitrogen and phosphorus addition across an elevational gradient in subarctic tundra.
Ecology 95: 1819-1835.
(233) Bokhorst, S., Wardle, D. A., Nilsson, M.-C. and Gundale, M. J. (2014) Impact of understory
mosses and dwarf shrubs on soil micro-arthropods in a boreal forest chronosequence. Plant and
Soil 379: 121-133.
(232) Asplund, J., Sandling, A., Kardol, P. and Wardle, D. A. (2014) The influence of tree-scale
and ecosystem-scale factors on epiphytic lichen communities across a long-term
retrogressive chronosequence. Journal of Vegetation Science 25: 1100-1111.
(231) Freschet, G. T., Östlund, L., Kichenin, E. and Wardle, D. A. (2014) Aboveground and
belowground legacies of native Sami land-use on boreal forest in northern Sweden 100
years after abandonment. Ecology 95: 963-977.
(230) Wardle, D. A. (2014). Conservation – listen to more voices. Nature 516: 37.
(229) Bansal, S., Jochum, T., Wardle, D. A. and Nilsson, M.-C. (2014) The interactive effects of
surface-burn severity and canopy cover on conifer and broadleaf tree seedling
ecophysiology. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 44: 1032-1041.
(228) Meisner, A., Hol, W. H. G., de Boer, W., Krumins, J. A., Wardle, D. A. and van der Putten,
W. H. (2014) Plant-soil feedbacks of exotic plant species across life forms: a meta-analysis.
Biological Invasions 16: 2551-2561.
(227) Vincent, A. G., Sundqvist, M.K., Wardle, D. A. and Giesler, R. (2014) Bioavailable soil
phosphorus decreases with increasing elevation in a subarctic tundra landscape. PLoS ONE
9: e92942. (226) Gundale, M.J., Kardol, P., Nilsson, M.-C., Nilsson, U., Lucas, R. W. and Wardle, D.A.
(2014) Interactions with soil biota shift from negative to positive when a tree species is
moved outside its native range. New Phytologist 202: 417-421. published as a ‘Rapid Report’ and profiled in the accompanying commentary: Van der Putten, W. H.
(2014) Introduced tree species released from negative soil biota. New Phytologist 202: 341-343;
Recognized by Essential Science Indicators as a ‘highly cited’ paper (top 1% in citations)
(225) McLauchlan, K , Higuera, P. E., Gavin, D. G., Perakis, S. S., Mack, M. C., Alexander, H.,
Battles, J., Biondi, F., Buma, B., Colombaroli, D., Enders, S., Engstrom, D. R., Hu, F. S.,
Marlon, R. R., Marshall, J., McGlone, M., Morris, J. J., Nave, L. E., Shuman, B. N.,
Smithwick, E., Urrego, D. H., Wardle, D. A., Williams, C. J. and Williams, J. J. (2014)
Reconstructing disturbances and their biogeochemical consequences over multiple
timescales. BioScience 64: 105-116.
(224) Wardle, D. A. (2014) The journal impact factor contest leads to erosion of quality of peer
review. Ideas in Ecology and Evolution 7: 84-85.
(223) Pluchon, N., Gundale, M. J., Nilsson, M.-C., Kardol, P. and Wardle, D. A. (2014) Stimulation
of boreal tree seedling growth by wood-derived charcoal: effects of charcoal properties,
seedling species and soil fertility. Functional Ecology 26: 766-775.
(222) Bokhorst, S. and Wardle, D. A. (2014) Snow fungi as a food source for micro-arthropods.
European Journal of Soil Biology 60: 77-80.
(221) Pietsch, K. A., Ogle, K., Cornelissen, J. H. C., Cornwell, W. K., Bönisch, G., Craine, J. M.,
Jackson, B. G., Kattge, J., Peltzer, D. A., Penuelas, J., Reich, P. B., Wardle, D. A., Weedon,
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J. T., Wright, I. J., Zanne, A. E. and Wirth, C. (2014) Global relationship of wood and leaf
litter decomposability: the role of functional traits. Global Ecology and Biogeography 23:
1046-1057.
(220) Jackson, B. G., Peltzer, D. A. and Wardle, D. A. (2013) The within-species leaf economic
spectrum does not predict leaf litter decomposability at either the within-species or whole
community levels. Journal of Ecology 101: 1409-1419.
(219) 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.
(218) 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.
(217) Wardle, D. A. (2013) Drivers of decoupling in drylands. Nature 502: 628-629.
(216) Clemmensen, K. E., Bahr, A., Ovaskainen, O., Dahlberg, A., Ekblad, A., Wallander, H.,
Stenlid, J., Finlay, R. D., Wardle, D. A. and Lindahl, B. D. (2013) Roots and associated
fungi drive long-term carbon sequestration in boreal forest. Science 339: 1615-1618.
Article profiled in the following Science ‘Perspectives’ paper: Treseder, K. K. and S. R. Holden (2013)
Fungal carbon sequestration. Science 339: 1528-1529, and in the Nature News item ‘Fungi and roots store a
surprisingly large share of the world's carbon’ by S. Perkins; ‘Must Read’ recommendation from F1000;
Recognized by Essential Science Indicators as a ‘hot’ paper (top 0.1% in citations)
(215) 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 200: 54-60. published as a ‘Rapid Report’ and profiled in the accompanying commentary: Sprent, J. I. and Meeks, J.
R. (2013) Cyanobacterial nitrogen fixation in feather mosses: moss as boss? New Phytologist 200: 5-6.
(214) Asplund, J., Bokhorst, S. B. and Wardle, D. A. (2013) Secondary compounds can reduce the
soil micro-arthropod effect on litter decomposition. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 66: 10-
16.
(213) 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 44: 261-280.
(212) 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.
(211) Kichenin E., Wardle D.A., Peltzer D.A., Morse C.W., Freschet G.T. (2013) Contrasting
effects of plant inter- and intraspecific variation on community-level trait measures along an
environmental gradient. Functional Ecology 27: 1254-1261.
(210) 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 122: 1131-1142. Selected as ‘Editor’s Choice item for Volume 122 Issue 8
(209) 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 172: 667-677.
(208) 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 101: 943-952. Recognized by Essential Science Indicators as a ‘highly cited’ paper (top 1% in citations)
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(207) 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.
(206) 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.
(205) 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. Recognized by Essential Science Indicators as a ‘hot’ paper (top 0.1% in citations)
(204) 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.
(203) 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. Recognized by Essential Science Indicators as a ‘highly cited’ paper (top 1% in citations)
(202) 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.
(201) 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.
(200) 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. Recommended by F1000; Recognized by Essential Science Indicators as a ‘highly cited’ paper (top 1% in
citations) (199) 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.
(198) 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 37: 162-171.
(197) 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. Recognized by Essential Science Indicators as a ‘highly cited’ paper (top 1% in citations)
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(196) 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: 119-214.
(195) 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. ’Outstanding’ rating from F1000
(194) 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 article for June 2012 issue of Ecology
(193) 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.
(192) 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.
(191) 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. Profiled on the Journal of Ecology ‘Blog’, March 2012
(190) 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. Recognized by Essential Science Indicators as a ‘highly cited’ paper (top 1% in citations)
(189) 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.
(188) Gundale, M. J., Wardle, D. A. and Nilsson, M.-C. (2012) The effect of altered macroclimate
on N-fixation by boreal feather mosses. Biology Letters 8: 805-808.
(187) 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.
(186) 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. ’Must Read’ rating by F1000
(185) 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. ’Must Read’ rating by F1000
(184) 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.
(183) 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.
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(182) 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.
(181) 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. Recognized by Essential Science Indicators as a ‘highly cited’ paper (top 1% in citations)
(180) Wardle, D. A., Bardgett, R. D., Callaway, R. M. and Van der Putten, W. H. (2011) Ecosystem
rates of transformation matter (response). Science 333: 937.
(179) 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.
(178) 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. ’Outstanding’ rating from F1000; recognized by Essential Science Indicators as a ‘hot’ paper (top 0.1%
in citations) (177) Metcalfe, D.B., Fisher, R. A. and Wardle, D. A. (2011) Plant communities as drivers of soil
respiration: pathways, mechanisms, and significance for global change. Biogeosciences 8:
2047-2061.
(176) Sundqvist, M K., Giesler, R. and Wardle, D. A. (2011) Within- and across-species responses
of plant traits and litter decomposition to elevation across contrasting vegetation types in
subarctic tundra. PLoS ONE 6: e27056.
(175) Sundqvist, M. K., Giesler, R., Graae, B. J., Wallander, H., Fogelberg E. and Wardle, D. A.
(2011) Interactive effects of vegetation type and elevation on aboveground and belowground
properties in a subarctic tundra. Oikos 120: 128-142.
(174) Simberloff, D., Alexander, J., Allendorf, F., Aronson, J., Antunes, P. M., Bacher, S.,
Bardgett, R., Bertolino, S., Bishop, M., Blackburn, T. M., Blakeslee, A., Blumenthal, D.,
Bortolus, A., Buckley, R., Buckley, Y., Byers, J., Callaway, R. M., Campbell, F., Campbell,
K., Campbell, M., Carlton, J. T., Cassey, P., Catford, J., Celesti-Grapow, L., Chapman, J.,
Clark, P., Clewell, A., Clode, J. C., Chang, A., Chytry, M., Clout, M., Cohen, A., Cowan, P.,
Cowie, R. H., Crall, A. W., Crooks, J., Deveney, M., Dixon, K., Dobbs, F. C., Duffy, D. C.,
Duncan, R., Ehrlich, P. R., Eldredge, L., Evenhuis, N., Fausch, K. D., Feldhaar, H., Firn, J.,
Fowler, A., Galil, B., Garcia-Berthou, E., Geller, J., Genovesi, P., Gerber, E., Gherardi, F.,
Gollasch, S., Gordon, D., Graham, J., Gribben, P., Griffen, B., Grosholz, E. D.. Hewitt, C.,
Hierro, J. L., Hulme, P., Hutchings, P., Jarosik, V., Johnson, C., Johnson, L., Johnston, E.
L., Jones, C. G., Keller, R., King, C. M., Knols, B. G. J., Kollmann, J., Kompas, T.,
Kotanen, P. M., Kowarik, I., Kuhn, I., Kumschick, S., Leung, B., Liebhold, A., MacIsaac,
H., Mack, R., McCullough, D. G., McDonald, R., Merritt, D. M., Meyerson, L., Minchin,
D., Mooney, H. A., Morisette, J. T., Moyle, P., Heinz, M. S., Murray, B. R., Nehring, S.,
Nelson, W., Nentwig, W., Novak, S. J., Occhipinti, A., Ojaveer, H., Osborne, B., Ostfeld, R.
S., Parker, J., Pederson, J., Pergl, J., Phillips, M. L., Pysek, P., Rejmanek, M., Ricciardi, A.,
Ricotta, C., Richardson, D., Rilov, G., Ritchie, E., Robertson, P. A., Roman, J., Ruiz, G.,
Schaefer, H., Schaffelke, B., Schierenbeck, K. A.., Schmitz, D. C., Schwindt, E., Seeb, J.,
Smith, L. D., Smith, G. F., Stohlgren, T., Strayer, D. L., Strong, D., Sutherland, W. J.,
Therriault, T., Thuiller, W., Torchin, M., van der Putten, W., Vila, M., Von Holle, B.,
Wallentinus, I., Wardle, D. A., Williamson, M., Wilson, J., Winter, M., Wolfe, L. M.,
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Wright, J., Wonham, M. and Zabin, C. (2011). Non-natives – 141 scientists object. Nature
475: 36.
(173) Jonsson, M., Englund, G. and Wardle, D. A. (2011) Direct and indirect effects of area, energy
and habitat heterogeneity, on breeding bird communities. Journal of Biogeography 38:
1186-1196.
(172) Ininbergs, K., Bay, G., Rasmussen, U., Wardle, D. A. and Nilsson, M.-C. (2011) Composition
and diversity of nifH genes of nitrogen fixing cyanobacteria associated with boreal forest
feather mosses. New Phytologist 192: 507-517.
(171) Jackson, B. G., Martin, P., Nilsson, M.-C. and Wardle, D. A. (2011) Response of feather
moss-associated nitrogen fixation and litter decomposition to variations in simulated rainfall
intensity and frequency. Oikos 120: 170-180.
(170) Gundale, M. J., Fajardo, A., Lucas, R. W., Nilsson, M.-C. and Wardle, D. A. (2011) Resource
heterogeneity does not explain the productivity-diversity relationship across a boreal island
fertility gradient. Ecography 34: 887-896.
(169) Lagerström, A., Bellingham, P. J., Bonner, K. I. and Wardle, D. A. (2011) The effect of
simulated herbivory on growth and nutrient status of focal and neighbouring early
successional woody plant species. Oikos 120: 1380-1392.
(168) Kardol, P. and Wardle, D. A. (2010) How understanding aboveground-belowground linkages
can assist restoration ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 25: 670-679.
(167) 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. Recognized by Essential Science Indicators as a ‘highly cited’ paper (top 1% in citations)
(166) 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. ’Must Read’ rating from F1000
(165) Gundale, M. J., Wardle, D. A. and Nilsson, M.-C. (2010) Vascular plant removal effects on
biological N-fixation vary across a boreal forest island gradient. Ecology 91: 1704-1714.
(164) Jonsson, M. and Wardle, D. A. (2010) Structural equation modelling reveals plant-community
drivers of carbon storage in boreal forest ecosystems. Biology Letters 6: 116-119.
(163) Wardle, D. A., Karl, B. J., Beggs, J. R., Yeates, G. W., Williamson, W. M. and Bonner, K. I.
(2010) Determining the impact of scale insect honeydew, and invasive wasps and rodents,
on the decomposer subsystem in a New Zealand beech forest. Biological Invasions 12:
2619-2638.
(162) Gundale, M. G., Sverker, J., Albrectsen, B. R., Nilsson, M.-C. and Wardle, D. A. (2010)
Variation in protein complexation capacity among and within six plant species across a
boreal forest chronosequence. Plant Ecology 211: 253-266.
(161) Peltzer, D. A., Allen, R. B., Lovett, G. M., Whitehead, D. and Wardle, D. A. (2010) Effects of
biological invasions on forest carbon sequestration. Global Change Biology 16: 732-746.
(160) Parfitt, R. L., Yeates, G. W., Ross, D. J., Schon, N. L., Mackay, A. D. and Wardle, D. A.
(2010) Effect of fertilizers, herbicide and grazing management of pastures on plant and soil
communities. Applied Soil Ecology 45: 175-186.
(159) Kurokawa, H., Peltzer, D. A. Wardle, D. A. (2010) Plant traits, leaf palatability and litter
decomposability for coexisting woody species differing in invasion status and nitrogen
fixation ability. Functional Ecology 24: 513-523.
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(158) Wardle, D. A. and Jonsson, M. (2010). Biodiversity effects in real ecosystems: a response to
Duffy. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 8: 10-11.
(157) De Bello, F., Lavorel, S., Díaz, S., Harrington, R., Cornelissen, J. H. C., Bardgett, R. D.,
Berg, M. P., Cipriotti, P., Feld, C. K., Hering, D., da Silva, P. M., Potts, S. G., Sandin, L.,
Sousa, J. P., Storkey, J., Wardle, D. A. and Harrison, P. A. (2010) Towards an assessment
of multiple ecosystem processes and services via functional traits. Biodiversity and
Conservation 19: 2873-2893. Recognized by Essential Science Indicators as a ‘highly cited’ paper (top 1% in citations)
(156) 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.
(155) Bellingham, P. J., Towns, D. R., Cameron, E. K., Davis, J., Wardle, D. A., Wilmshurst, J. and
Mulder, C. P. H. (2010) New Zealand island restoration: seabirds, predators, and the
importance of history. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 34: 115-136.
(154) Díaz, S., Hector, A. and Wardle, D. A. (2009) Biodiversity in forest carbon sequestration
initiatives: not just a side benefit. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 1: 55-60.
(153) 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.
(152) Lagerström, A., Esberg, C., Wardle, D. A. and Giesler, R. (2009). Soil phosphorus and
microbial response to a long-term wildfire chronosequence in northern Sweden.
Biogeochemistry 95: 199-213.
(151) Jonsson, M., Yeates, G. W. and Wardle, D. A. (2009) Patterns of invertebrate density and
taxonomic richness across gradients of area, isolation, and vegetation diversity in a lake-
island system. Ecography 32: 963-972.
(150) Van der Putten, W. H., Bardgett, R. D., De Ruiter, P. C., Hol, W. H. G., Meyer, G. M.,
Bezemer, T. M., Bradford, M. A., Christensen, S., Eppinga, M. B., Fukami, T., Hemerik, L.,
Molofsky, J., Schädler, M., Scherber, C., Strauss, S. Y., Vos, M. and Wardle, D. A. (2009)
Empirical and theoretical challenges in aboveground-belowground ecology. Oecologia 161:
1-14. Recognized by Essential Science Indicators as a ‘highly cited’ paper (top 1% in citations)
(149) Hyodo, F. and Wardle, D. A. (2009). Effect of ecosystem retrogression on stable nitrogen and
carbon isotopes of plants, soils and consumer organisms in boreal forest islands. Rapid
Communications in Mass Spectrometry 23: 1892-1898.
(148) Wardle, D. A., Bardgett, R. D., Walker, L. R., Bonner, K. I. (2009) Among- and within-
species variation in plant litter decomposition in contrasting long term chronosequences.
Functional Ecology 23: 442-453.
(147) Jonsson, M. and Wardle, D. A. (2009) The influence of freshwater-lake subsidies on
invertebrates occupying terrestrial vegetation. Acta Oecologica 35: 698-704.
(146) Towns, D.R., Wardle, D.A., Mulder, C.P.H., Yeates, G.W., Fitzgerald, B.M., Parrish, G.R.,
Bellingham, P.J. and Bonner, K.I. (2009) Predation of seabirds by invasive rats: multiple
indirect consequences for invertebrate communities. Oikos 118: 420-430.
(145) 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. ’Must Read’ recommendation by F1000
(144) Mulder, C. P. H., Grant-Hoffman, M. N., Towns, D. R., Bellingham, P. J., Wardle, D. A.,
Durrett, M. S., Fukami, T. and Bonner, K. I. (2009) Direct and indirect effects of rats: will
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their eradication restore ecosystem functioning of New Zealand seabird islands? Biological
Invasions 11: 1671-1688.
(143) 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. Paper selected as Science Watch’s ecological paper in January 2010 based on citation ratings; Second
most cited publication in Ecology Letters in past 7 years (142) Wardle, D. A., Nilsson, M.-C. and Zackrisson, O. (2008) Fire-derived charcoal causes loss of
forest humus. Science 320: 629. Profiled in the commentary in Nature News ‘Charcoal’s green image blackened’ by R. Courtland;
Recognized by Essential Science Indicators as a ‘highly cited’ paper (top 1% in citations)
(141) Wardle, D. A., Nilsson, M.-C. and Zackrisson, O. (2008) Response to comment on ‘Fire-
derived charcoal causes loss of forest humus’. Science 321: 1295a.
(140) Wardle, D. A., Lagerström, A. and Nilsson, M-C. (2008) Context dependent effects of plant
species and functional group loss on vegetation invasibility across an island area gradient.
Journal of Ecology 96: 1174-1186.
(139) Jonsson, M. and Wardle, D. A. (2008) Context dependency of litter-mixing effects on
decomposition and nutrient release across a long-term chronosequence. Oikos 117: 1674-
1682.
(138) Crutsinger, G., Sanders, N. J., Albrectsen, B., Abreu, I. and Wardle, D. A. (2008). Ecosystem
retrogression leads to increased insect abundance and herbivory
across an island chronosequence. Functional Ecology 22: 816-823.
(137) Wardle, D. A., Wiser, S. K., Allen, R. B., Doherty, J. E., Bonner, K. I. and Williamson, W.
M. (2008). Aboveground and belowground effects of single tree removals after forty years
in a New Zealand temperate rainforest. Ecology 89: 1232-1245.
(136) Dehlin, H., Peltzer, D. A., Allison, V. J., Yeates, G. W., Nilsson, M.-C. and Wardle, D. A.
(2008). Tree seedling performance and belowground properties in stands of invasive and
native tree species. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 32: 67-79.
(135) Nilsson, M.-C., Wardle, D. A. and De Luca, T. H. (2008). Belowground and aboveground
consequences of interactions between live plant species mixtures and dead organic substrate
mixtures. Oikos 117: 439-449.
(134) Wardle, D. A., Bardgett, R. D., Walker, L. R., Peltzer, D. A. and Lagerström, A. (2008). The
response of plant diversity to ecosystem retrogression: evidence from contrasting long-term
chronosequences. Oikos 117: 93-103.
(133) Dearden, F. M. and Wardle, D. A. (2008). The potential for forest canopy litterfall
interception by a dense fern understorey, and the consequences for litter decomposition.
Oikos 117: 83-92.
(132) Doblas-Miranda, E., Wardle, D. A., Peltzer, D. A. and Yeates, G. W. (2008). Changes in the
community structure and diversity of soil invertebrates across the Franz Josef Glacier
chronosequence. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 40: 1069-1081.
(131) Cornwell, W. K., Cornelissen, J. H. C., Amatangelo, K., Dorrepaal, E., Eviner, V. T., Godoy,
O., Hobbie, S. E., Hoorens, B., Kurokawa, H., Perez Harguindeguy, N., Quested, H.
M., Santiago, L. S., Wardle, D. A., Wright, I. J., Aerts, R., Allison, S., van Bodegom,
P., Brovkin, V., Chatain, A., Callaghan, T., Díaz, S., Garnier, E., Gurvich, D. E., Kazakou,
E., Klein, J. A., Read, J., Reich, P. B., Soudzilovskaia, N. A., Vaieretti, M.V. and Westoby,
M. (2008) Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates
within biomes worldwide. Ecology Letters 11: 1065-1071. Recognized by Essential Science Indicators as a ‘highly cited’ paper (top 1% in citations)
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(130) 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.
(129) 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.
(128) Williamson, W. M. and Wardle, D. A. (2007) The soil microbial community response when
plants are subjected to water stress and defoliation disturbance. Applied Soil Ecology 37:
139-149.
(127) Van der Putten, W. H., Klironomos, J. N. and Wardle, D. A. (2007). Microbial ecology of
biological invasions. The ISME Journal 1: 28-37.
(126) Orwin, K. H., Wardle, D. A. and Greenfield, L. G. (2006) Ecological consequences of carbon
substrate identity and diversity. Ecology 87: 580-593.
(125) Dearden, F. M., Dehlin, H., Wardle, D. A. and Nilsson, M.-C. (2006) Changes in the ratio of
twig to foliage in litterfall and consequences for decomposition across a long-term fire-
induced chronosequence. Oikos 115: 453-462.
(124) 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. ’Outstanding’ rating from F1000
(123) Wardle, D. A. (2006) The influence of biotic interactions on soil biodiversity. Ecology Letters
9: 870-886.
(122) Dehlin, H., Nilsson, M.-C. and Wardle, D. A. (2006) Aboveground and belowground
responses to quality and heterogeneity of organic inputs to the boreal forest. Oecologia 150:
108-118.
(121) Niklaus, P. A., Wardle, D. A. and Tate, K. R. (2006) Effects of plant species diversity and
composition on nutrient cycling and the trace gas balance of soils. Plant and Soil 282: 83-
98.
(120) Wardle, D. A., Yeates, G. W., Barker, G. M. and Bonner, K. I. (2006) The influence of plant
litter diversity on decomposer abundance and diversity. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 38:
1052-1062.
(119) Orwin, K. H., Wardle, D. A. and Greenfield, L. G. (2006) Context-dependent changes in the
resistance and resilience of soil microbes to an experimental disturbance for three primary
successions. Oikos 112: 196-208.
(118) Wardle, D. A. and Zackrisson, O. (2005) Effects of species and functional group loss on
island ecosystem properties. Nature 435: 806-810.
(117) Fukami, T. and Wardle, D. A. (2005) Long term ecological dynamics: reciprocal insights
from natural and anthropogenic gradients. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London,
Series B – Biological Sciences 272: 2105-2115.
(116) 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.
(115) Coomes, D. A., Allen, R. B., Bently, W. A., Burrows, L. E., Canham, C. D., Fagan, L.,
Forsyth, D. M., Gaxiola-Alcantar, A., Parfitt, R. L., Ruscoe, W. A., Wardle, D. A., Wilson,
D. J. and Wright, E. F. (2005). The hare, the tortoise, and the crocodile: the ecology of
angiosperm dominance, conifer persistence and fern filtering. Journal of Ecology 93: 918-
935.
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(114) Wardle, D. A., Williamson, W. M., Yeates, G. W. and Bonner, K. I. (2005) Trickle-down
effects of aboveground trophic cascades on the soil food web. Oikos 111: 348-358.
(113) Wardle, D. A., Walker, L. R. and Bardgett, R. D. (2005). Response to comment on
‘Ecosystem properties and forest decline in contrasting long-term chronosequences’. Science
308: 633a.
(112) Beggs, J. R., Karl, B. J., Wardle, D. A. and Bonner, K. I. (2005) Soluble carbon production
by honeydew scale insects in a New Zealand beech forest. New Zealand Journal of Ecology
29: 105-115.
(111) Orwin, K. H. and Wardle, D. A. (2005) Plant species composition affects the resistance and
resilience of the soil microflora to a drying disturbance. Plant and Soil 278: 205-211.
(110) Hooper, D. U., Chapin, F. S. III, Ewel, J. J., Hector, A., Inchausti, P., Lavorel, S., Lawton, J.
H., Lodge, D., Loreau, M., Naeem, S., Schmid, B., Setälä, H., Symstad, A. J., Vandermeer,
J. and Wardle, D. A. (2005) Effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning: a consensus
of current knowledge and needs for future research. Ecological Monographs 75: 3-35. ’Must Read’ rating from F1000; second most cited ecological publication globally in preceding two years
(109) Williamson, W. M., Wardle, D. A. and Yeates, G. W. (2005) Changes in soil microbial and
nematode communities during ecosystem retrogression across a long term chronosequence.
Soil Biology and Biochemistry 37: 1289-1301.
(108) 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. [Article selected for inclusion in ‘Science Express’ (published online on 18 June 2004), featured as the
cover story for the 23 July 2004 print issue of Science, and profiled in the following ‘Perspectives’ item:
Birks, H. J. B. and Birks, H. H. 2004. The rise and fall of forests. Science 305: 484-485] (107) 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. [Article featured as the cover story for the 11 June 2004 print issue of Science]
(106) Wardle, D. A. and Bardgett, R. D. (2004) Human-induced changes in densities of large
herbivorous mammals: consequences for the decomposer subsystem. Frontiers in Ecology
and the Environment 2: 145-153.
(105) Wardle, D. A., Yeates, G. W., Williamson, W. M., Bonner, K. I., and Barker, G. M. (2004)
Linking aboveground and belowground communities: the indirect influence of aphid species
identity and diversity on a three trophic level soil food web. Oikos 107: 283-294.
(104) Orwin, K. H. and Wardle, D. A. (2004). A new index for quantifying the resistance and
resilience of soil biota to exogenous disturbance. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 36: 1907-
1912.
(103) Dehlin, H., Nilsson, M.-C., Wardle, D. A. and Shevtsova, A. (2004) Effects of shading and
humus fertility on growth, competition and ectomycorrhizal colonisation of boreal forest
tree seedlings. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 34: 2573-2586.
(102) Schröter, D., Brussaard, L., De Deyn, G., Poveda, K., Brown, V. K., Berg, M. P., Wardle, D.
A., Moore, J. C. and Wall, D. H. (2004) Trophic interactions in a changing world: modelling
aboveground interactions. Basic and Applied Ecology 5: 515-528.
(101) Dungan, R. J., Beggs, J. R., and Wardle, D. A. (2004) A simple gravimetric technique for
estimating honeydew or nectar production. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 28: 83-288.
(100) Hörnberg, G., Wallin, J.-E., Påsse, T., Wardle, D. A. and Zackrisson, O. (2004) Holocene
non-uniform land uplift and its influence on fire history and ecosystem development on two
islands in boreal Sweden. Journal of Vegetation Science 15: 171-180.
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(99) 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.
(98) 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.
(97) Wardle, D. A., Yeates, G. W., Williamson, W. and Bonner, K. I. (2003) The response of a three
trophic level soil food web to the identity and diversity of plant species and functional groups.
Oikos 102: 45-56.
(96) Díaz, S., Chapin, F. S. III, Symstad, A., Wardle, D. A. and Huennecke, L. (2003) Functional
diversity revealed through removal experiments. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18: 140-146.
(95) Wardle, D. A., Nilsson, M.-C., Zackrisson, O., and Gallet, C. (2003) Determinants of litter mixing
effects in a Swedish boreal forest. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 35: 827-835.
(94) Wardle, D. A. and Peltzer, D. A. (2003) Interspecific interactions and biomass allocation among
grassland plant species. Oikos 100: 497-506.
(93) Wardle, D. A. and Grime, J. P. (2003) Biodiversity and stability of grassland ecosystem
functioning. Oikos 100: 623-634.
(92) Bardgett, R. D. and Wardle, D. A. (2003) Herbivore mediated linkages between aboveground and
belowground communities. Ecology 84: 2258-2268.
(91) Wardle, D. A., Bonner, K. I., and Barker, G. M. (2002) Linkages between plant litter
decomposition, litter quality, and vegetation responses to herbivores. Functional Ecology 16:
585-595.
(90) Wardle, D. A. (2002) Islands as model systems for understanding how species affect ecosystem
properties. Journal of Biogeography 29: 583-592.
(89) Ettema, C., and Wardle, D. A. (2002) Spatial soil ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17:
177-183.
(88) Nilsson, M.-C., Wardle, D. A., Zackrisson, O., and Jäderlund, A. (2002) Effects of alleviation of
ecological stresses on an alpine tundra community over an eight year period. Oikos 97: 3-17.
(87) 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. [Profiled in the Science “Editor’s Choice” item: Sugden, A. (2001) Unpredictable invasions. Science 294:
2433]
(86) Loreau, M., Naeem, S., Inchausti, P., Bengtsson, J., Grime, J. P., Hector, A., Hooper, D. U.,
Huston, M. A., Raffaelli, D., Schmid, B., Tilman, D., and Wardle, D. A. (2001) Biodiversity
and ecosystem functioning: current knowledge and future challenges. Science 294: 804-808. Second most cited ecological publication globally in preceding two years
(85) Wardle, D. A. (2001) Experimental demonstration that plant diversity reduces invasibility:
evidence of a biological mechanism or a consequence of sampling effect? Oikos 95: 161-170.
(84) Fukami, T., Naeem, S., and Wardle, D. A. (2001) On similarity among local communities in
biodiversity experiments. Oikos 95: 340-349.
(83) Wardle, D. A. (2001) No observational evidence for diversity enhancing productivity in
Mediterranean shrublands. Oecologia 129: 620-621.
(82) Bellingham, P. J., Walker, L. R., and Wardle, D. A. (2001) Differential facilitation by a nitrogen
fixing shrub during primary succession influences relative performance of canopy tree species.
Journal of Ecology 89: 861-875.
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(81) Mikola, J., Yeates, G. W., Barker, G. M., Wardle, D. A., and Bonner, K. I. (2001) Effects of
defoliation intensity on soil food web properties in an experimental grassland community.
Oikos 92: 333-343.
(80) Wardle, D. A., Yeates, G. W., Bonner, K. I., Nicholson, K. S., and Watson, R. N. (2001) Impacts
of ground vegetation management strategies in a kiwifruit orchard on the composition and
functioning of the soil biota. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 33: 893-905.
(79) Jonsson, L. M., Nilsson, M.-C., Wardle, D. A., and Zackrisson, O. (2001) Context dependent
effects of ectomycorrhizal species richness on tree seedling productivity. Oikos 93: 353-364.
(78) Mikola, J., Yeates, G. W., Wardle, D. A., Barker, G. M., and Bonner, K. I. (2001) Responses of
soil food web structure to defoliation of different plant species combinations in an experimental
grassland community. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 33: 205-214.
(77) Ghani, A., and Wardle, D. A. (2001) Fate of 14C from glucose and the herbicide metsulfuron-
methyl in a plant-soil microcosm system. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 33: 777-785.
(76) Wardle, D. A., Bonner, K. I. and Barker, G. M. (2000) Stability of ecosystem properties in
response to above-ground functional group richness and composition. Oikos 89: 11-23.
(75) Huston, M. A., Aarssen, L. W., Austin, M. P., Cade, B. S., Fridley, J. D., Garnier, E., Grime, J. P.,
Hodgson, J., Lauenroth, W. K., Thompson, K., Vandermeer, J., and Wardle, D. A. (2000) No
consistent effect of plant diversity on productivity. Science 289: 1255a.
(74) Wardle, D. A., Huston, M. A., Grime, J. P., Berendse, F., Garnier, E., Lauenroth, W. K., Setälä,
H. and Wilson, S. D. (2000) Biodiversity and ecosystem function: an issue in ecology. Bulletin
of the Ecological Society of America 81: 235-239. [Profiled in the Science “News Focus” article: Kaiser, J. (2000) Rift over biodiversity divides ecologists.
Science 289: 1282-1283] (73) Stark, S., Wardle, D. A., Ohtonen, R., Helle, T. and Yeates, G. W. (2000) The effect of reindeer
grazing on decomposition, mineralisation and soil biota in a dry oligotrophic Scots pine forest.
Oikos 90: 301-310.
(72) Mikola, J., Barker, G. M. and Wardle, D. A. (2000) Linking above-ground and below-ground
effects in autotrophic microcosms: effects of shading and defoliation on plant and soil
properties. Oikos 89: 577-587.
(71) Wolters, V., Silver, W. L., Bignell, D. E., Coleman, D. C., Lavelle, P., van der Putten, W., de
Ruiter, P., Rusek, J., Wall, D., Wardle, D. A., Brussaard, L., Dangerfield, J. M., Brown, V. K.,
Giller, K. E., Hooper, D. U., Sala, O., Tiedje, J. and van Veen, J. A. (2000) Effects of global
changes on above- and belowground biodiversity in terrestrial ecosystems: implications for
ecosystem functioning. BioScience 50: 1089-1098.
(70) Hooper, D. U., Bignell, D, E., Brown, V. K., Brussaard, L., Dangerfield, J. M., Wall, D. H.,
Wardle, D. A., Coleman, D. C., Giller, K. E., Lavelle, P., van der Putten, W. H., de Ruiter,
P. C., Rusek, J., Silver, W., Tiedje, J. M. and Wolters, V. (2000) Interactions between
aboveground and belowground biodiversity in terrestrial ecosystems: patterns, mechanisms
and feedbacks. BioScience 50: 1049-1061.
(69) 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.
(68) Wardle, D. A. (1999) Biodiversity, ecosystems and interactions that transcend the interface.
Trends in Ecology and Evolution 14: 125-127.
(67) Wardle, D. A. (1999) Is “sampling effect” a problem for experiments investigating biodiversity –
ecosystem function relationships? Oikos 87: 403-407.
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(66) Carter, M. R., Gregorich, E. G., Angers, D. A., Beare, M. H., Sparling, G. P., Wardle, D. A. and
Voroney, R. P. (1999) Interpretation of soil microbial biomass measurements for soil quality
assessment in humid temperate regions. Canadian Journal of Soil Science 79: 507-520.
(65) Wardle, D. A. (1999) How soil food webs make plants grow. Trends in Ecology and Evolution
14: 418-420.
(64) Zackrisson, O., Nilsson, M.-C., Jäderlund, A. and Wardle, D. A. (1999) Nutritional effects of seed
fall during mast years in boreal forest. Oikos 84: 17-26. [Profiled in the 12 December 1998 issue of New Scientist]
(63) Wardle, D. A., Nicholson, K. S., Bonner, K. I and Yeates, G. W. (1999) Impacts of agricultural
intensification on soil-associated arthropod population dynamics, community structure,
diversity and temporal variability over a seven year period. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 31:
1691-1706.
(62) Wardle, D. A., Yeates, G. W., Nicholson, K. S., Bonner, K. I. and Watson, R. N. (1999) The
response of soil microbial biomass dynamics, activity and plant litter decomposition to
agricultural intensification over a seven year period. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 31: 1707-
1720.
(61)Yeates, G. W., Wardle, D. A. and Watson, R. N. (1999) Responses of nematode populations,
community structure, diversity and temporal variability to agricultural intensification over a
seven year period. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 31: 1721-1733.
(60) Nilsson, M.-C., Wardle, D. A. and Dahlberg, A. (1999) Effects of plant litter species composition
and diversity on the Boreal forest plant-soil system. Oikos 86: 16-26.
(59) Wardle, D. A. (1998) A more reliable design for biodiversity study? Nature 394: 30.
(58) Bardgett, R. D., Wardle, D. A. and Yeates, G. W. (1998) Linking above-ground and below-
ground interactions: how plant responses to foliar herbivory influence soil organisms. Soil
Biology and Biochemistry 30: 1867-1878.
(57) Wardle, D. A., Nilsson, M.-C., Gallet, C. and Zackrisson, O. (1998). An ecosystem level
perspective of allelopathy. Biological Reviews (Cambridge) 73: 305-319. [Featured on the cover of the August 1998 issue of Biological Reviews]
(56) Bonner, K. I., Rahman, A., James, T. K., Nicholson, K. S. and Wardle, D. A. (1998) Relative
intra-species competitive ability of nodding thistle biotypes with varying resistance to the
herbicide 2,4-D. New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research 41: 291-297.
(55) Wardle. D. A., Barker, G. M., Bonner, K. I. and Nicholson, K. S. (1998) Can comparative
approaches based on plant ecophysiological traits predict the nature of biotic interactions and
individual plant species effects in ecosystems? Journal of Ecology 86: 405-420.
(54) Wardle, D. A., Verhoef, H. A. and Clarholm, M. (1998) Trophic relationships in the soil
microfood-web: predicting the responses to a changing global environment. Global Change
Biology 4: 713-728.
(53) Wardle, D. A. (1998) Controls of temporal variability of the soil microbial biomass: a global-scale
synthesis. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 30: 1627-1637.
(52) Wardle, D. A., Zackrisson, O. and Nilsson, M.-C. (1998) The charcoal effect in boreal forests:
mechanisms and ecological consequences. Oecologia 115: 419-426.
(51) Norberg, G., Jäderlund, A., Zackrisson, O., Nordfjell, T., Wardle, D. A., Nilsson, M.-C. and
Dolling, A. (1997) Vegetation control by steam treatment in boreal forests: a comparison with
burning and soil scarification. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 27: 2026-2033.
(50) Wardle, D. A. and Barker, G. M. (1997) Competition and herbivory in establishing grassland
communities: implications for plant biomass, species diversity and soil microbial activity.
Oikos 80: 470-480.
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(49) Wardle, D. A., Zackrisson, O., Hörnberg, G. and Gallet, C. (1997) Biodiversity and ecosystem
properties. Science 278: 1867-1869.
(48) Wardle, D. A., Zackrisson, O., Hörnberg, G. and Gallet, C. (1997) Influence of island area on
ecosystem properties. Science 277: 1296-1299. [Profiled in the Science ‘Perspectives’ item: Grime, J. P. (1997) Biodiversity and ecosystem function: the
debate deepens. Science 277: 1260-1261]
(47) Wardle, D. A., Bonner, K. I. and Nicholson, K. S. (1997) Biodiversity and plant litter:
experimental evidence which does not support the view that enhanced species richness
improves ecosystem function. Oikos 79: 247-258.
(46) Wardle, D. A. and Nilsson, M.-C. (1997) Microbe-plant competition, allelopathy and arctic plants.
Oecologia 109: 291-293.
(45) Wardle, D.A. and Nicholson, K.S. (1996) Synergistic effects of grassland plant species on the soil
microbial biomass and activity: implications for ecosystem-level effects of enriched plant
diversity. Functional Ecology 10: 410-416.
(44) Wardle, D. A. and Giller, K. E. (1996). The quest for a contemporary ecological dimension to soil
biology. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 28: 1549-1554.
(43) Zackrisson, O., Nilsson, M.-C and Wardle, D.A. (1996) Key ecological function of charcoal from
wildfire in the boreal forest. Oikos 77: 10-19. Profiled in the Nature “News and Views” item: Moore, P. D. (1996) Fire damage soils our forests. Nature
384: 312-313].
(42) Wardle, D.A., Nicholson, K.S. and Rahman, A. (1996) The use of a comparative approach to
identify the allelopathic potential and the relationship between allelopathy bioassays and
“competition” experiments, for ten grassland plant species. Journal of Chemical Ecology 22:
933-948.
(41) Ghani, A., Wardle, D.A., Rahman, A. and Lauren, D.L. (1996) Interactions between 14C-labelled
atrazine and soil microbial biomass in relation to herbicide decomposition. Biology and
Fertility of Soils 21: 17-22.
(40) Yeates, G.W. and Wardle, D.A. (1996) Nematodes as predators and prey: relationships to
iological control and soil processes. Pedobiologia 40: 43-50.
(39) Wardle, D.A. (1995) Impact of disturbance on detritus food-webs in agro-ecosystems of
contrasting tillage and weed management practices. Advances in Ecological Research 26: 105-
185.
(38) Wardle, D.A., Yeates, G.W., Watson, R.N. and Nicholson, K.S. (1995) Development of the
decomposer food-web, trophic relationships and ecosystem properties during a three-year
primary succession of sawdust. Oikos 73: 155-166.
(37) Wardle, D.A., Yeates, G.W., Watson, R.N. and Nicholson, K.S. (1995) The detritus food-web and
diversity of soil fauna as indicators of disturbance regimes in agro-ecosystems. Plant and Soil
170: 35-43.
(36) Wardle, D.A., Nicholson, K.S., Ahmed, M. and Rahman, A. (1995) Influence of pasture forage
species on seedling emergence, and growth and development of Carduus nutans L. Journal of
Applied Ecology 32: 225-233.
(35) Wardle, D.A. and Ghani, A. (1995) Why is the strength of relationships between pairs of methods
for estimating soil microbial often so variable? Soil Biology and Biochemistry 27: 821-828.
(34) Wardle, D.A. and Ghani, A. (1995) A critique of the microbial metabolic quotient (qCO2) as a
bioindicator of disturbance and ecosystem development. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 27:
1601-1610.
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(33) Wardle, D.A., Nicholson, K.S. and Rahman, A. (1995) Ecological effects of the invasive weed
species Senecio jacobaea L. (ragwort) in a New Zealand pasture. Agriculture, Ecosystems and
Environment 56: 19-28.
(32) Wardle, D.A. (1994) Statistical analyses of soil quality. Science 264: 281-282.
(31) Wardle, D.A., Nicholson, K.S., Ahmed, M. and Rahman, A. (1994) Interference effects of the
invasive plant Carduus nutans L. against the nitrogen fixation ability of Trifolium repens L.
Plant and Soil 163: 287-297.
(30) Ahmed, M. and Wardle, D.A. (1994) Allelopathic potential of vegetative and flowering Senecio
jacobaea plants against associated pasture species. Plant and Soil 164: 61-68.
(29) Wardle, D.A., Nicholson, K.S. and Rahman, A. (1994) The influence of herbicide applications on
the decomposition, and the microbial biomass and activity of pasture shoot and root litter. New
Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research 37: 29-39.
(28) Wardle, D.A. (1993) Changes in the microbial biomass and metabolic quotient during leaf litter
succession in some New Zealand forest and scrubland ecosystems. Functional Ecology 7: 346-
355.
(27) Wardle, D.A. and Yeates, G.W. (1993) The dual importance of competition and predation as
regulatory forces in terrestrial ecosystems: evidence from decomposer food-webs. Oecologia
93: 303-306.
(26) Wardle, D.A., Parkinson, D. and Waller, J.E. (1993) Interspecific competitive interactions
between pairs of fungal species in natural substrates. Oecologia 94: 165-172.
(25) Wardle, D.A., Nicholson, K.S. and Rahman, A. (1993) Influence of plant age on the allelopathic
potential of nodding thistle (Carduus nutans L.) against pasture grasses and legumes. Weed
Research 33: 69-78.
(24) Wardle, D.A., Nicholson, K.S. and Yeates, G.W. (1993) Effect of weed management strategies on
some soil-associated arthropods in maize and asparagus cropping systems. Pedobiologia 37:
257-269.
(23) Wardle, D.A., Yeates, G.W., Watson, R.S. and Nicholson, K.S. (1993) Response of soil microbial
biomass and plant litter decomposition to weed management strategies in maize and asparagus
cropping systems. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 25: 857-868.
(22) Yeates, G.W., Wardle, D.A. and Watson, R.N. (1993) Relationships between nematodes, soil
microbial biomass and weed management strategies in maize and asparagus cropping systems.
Soil Biology and Biochemistry 25: 869-876.
(21) Wardle, D.A. (1992) A comparative assessment of factors which influence microbial biomass
carbon and nitrogen levels in soils. Biological Reviews (Cambridge) 67: 321-358.
(20) Wardle, D.A., Nicholson, K.S. and Rahman, A. (1992) Influence of pasture grass and legume
swards on seedling emergence and growth of Carduus nutans L. and Cirsium vulgare L. Weed
Research 32: 119-128.
(19) Wardle, D.A., Nicholson, K.S. and Ahmed, M. (1992) Comparison of osmotic and allelopathic
effects of grass leaf extracts on grass seed germination and radicle elongation. Plant and Soil
140: 315-319.
(18) Panetta, F.D. and Wardle D.A. (1992) Gap size and regeneration in a New Zealand dairy pasture.
Australian Journal of Ecology 17: 169-175.
(17) Wardle, D.A. and Parkinson, D. (1992) Influence of the herbicides 2,4-D and glyphosate on the
soil microbial biomass and activity: a field experiment. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 24: 185-
186.
(16) Wardle, D.A. and Parkinson, D. (1992) The influence of the herbicide glyphosate on interspecific
interactions between four fungal species. Mycological Research 96: 180-186.
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(15) Wardle, D.A. (1991) Free lunch? Nature 352: 482.
(14) Wardle, D.A. and Parkinson, D. (1991) A statistical evaluation of equations for predicting total
microbial biomass carbon using physiological and biochemical methods. Agriculture,
Ecosystems and Environment 34:75-86).
(13) Wardle, D.A. and Parkinson, D. (1991) Analysis of co-occurrence in a fungal community.
Mycological Research 95: 504-507.
(12) Wardle, D.A. and Parkinson, D. (1991) Relative importance of the effects of 2,4-D, glyphosate
and environmental variables on the soil microbial biomass. Plant and Soil 134: 209-219.
(11) Wardle, D.A. and Greenfield L.G. (1991) Mineral nitrogen release from plant root nodules. Soil
Biology and Biochemistry 23: 827-832.
(10) Wardle, D.A., Ahmed, M. and Nicholson, K.S. (1991) Allelopathic influence of nodding thistle
(Carduus nutans L.) seeds on germination and radicle growth of pasture plants. New Zealand
Journal of Agricultural Research 34: 185-191.
(9) Wardle, D.A. and Parkinson, D. (1990) Effects of three herbicides on soil microbial biomass and
activity. Plant and Soil 122: 21-28.
(8) Wardle, D.A. and Parkinson, D. (1990) Influence of the herbicide glyphosate on soil microbial
community structure. Plant and Soil 122: 29-37.
(7) Wardle, D. A. and Parkinson, D. (1990) Determination of bacterial and fungal fumigation kc factors
across a soil moisture gradient. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 22: 811-816.
(6) Wardle, D.A. and Parkinson, D. (1990) Comparison of physiological techniques for estimating the
response of the soil microbial biomass to soil moisture. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 22:
817-823.
(5) Wardle, D.A. and Parkinson, D. (1990) Response of the soil microbial biomass to glucose, and
selective inhibitors, across a soil moisture gradient. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 22: 825-834.
(4) Wardle, D.A. and Parkinson, D. (1990) Interactions between microclimatic variables and the soil
microbial biomass. Biology and Fertility of Soils 9: 273-280.
(3) Wardle, D.A. and Rahman, A. (1987) Influence of capitulum maturity on achene germination of
Senecio jacobaea and Carduus nutans. New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research 30:
117-120.
(2) Wardle, D.A. (1987) The ecology of ragwort (Senecio jacobaea L.) - a review. New Zealand
Journal of Ecology 10: 67-76.
(1) Wardle, D.A. (1987) Allelopathy in the New Zealand grassland/pasture ecosystem. New Zealand
Journal of Experimental Agriculture 15: 243-255.
(c) Book chapters
(18) Mulder, C. P. H., Jones, H., Kameda, K., Palmborg, C., Schmidt, S., Ellis, J. C., Orrock, J. L.,
Wait, D. A., Wardle, D. A., Yang, L., Young, H., Croll, D. and Vidal, E. (2011) Impacts of
seabirds on plant and soil properties. In: Seabird Islands: Ecology, Invasion, and
Restoration (Ed by C. P. H. Mulder, W. B. Anderson, D. R. Towns and P. J. Bellingham),
pp. 135-176. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
(17) Wardle, D. A. (2011) Belowground phenomena. In: Encyclopedia of Invasive Introduced
Species (Ed. by D. Simberloff and M. Rejmánek), pp. 54-58. University of California Press,
Berkeley, USA.
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(16) Wardle, D. A. (2010) Trophic cascades, aboveground - belowground linkages, and ecosystem
functioning. In: Trophic Cascades - Predators, Prey and the Changing Dynamics of Nature
(Ed. by J. Terborgh and J. Estes), pp. 203-217. Island Press, Washington D. C., USA.
(15) Wardle, D. A. (2009) Aboveground and belowground consequences of long-term forest
retrogression in the timeframe of millenia and beyond. In: Old Growth Forests: Function,
Fate and Value (Ed. by C. Wirth, G. Gleixner and M. Heimann), pp. 193-209. Ecological
Studies 207. Springer, Heidelberg.
(14) Díaz, S., Wardle, D. A. and Hector, A. (2009) Incorporating biodiversity in climate change
mitigation initiatives. In: Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Human Wellbeing (Ed.
by S. Naeem, D. E. Bunker, A. Hector, M. Loreau and C. Perrings), pp. 149-166. Oxford
University Press, Oxford.
(13) Wardle, D. A. and Peltzer, D. A. (2007) Aboveground-belowground linkages, ecosystem
development and ecosystem restoration. In: Linking Restoration and Ecological Succession
(Ed. by L. Walker, J. Walker and R. Hobbs), pp. 45-68. Springer, Heidelberg.
(12) Wardle, D. A. (2006) Hidden effects: the belowground consequences of introduced browsing
mammals in New Zealand forests. In: Biological Invasions in New Zealand (Ed. by R. B.
Allen and W. G. Lee), pp. 307-322. Ecological Studies 186. Springer, Heidelberg.
(11) Beggs, J. and Wardle, D. A. (2006) Competition for honeydew among exotic and indigenous
species. In: Biological Invasions in New Zealand (Ed. by R. B. Allen and W. G. Lee), pp.
281-294. Ecological Studies 186. Springer, Heidelberg.
(10) Wardle, D. A. (2005) How plant communities influence decomposer communities. In: Soil
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (Ed. by R. D. Bardgett, D. W. Hopkins and M. B.
Usher), pp. 119-138. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
(9) Wardle, D. A., Brown, V. K., Behan-Pelletier, V., St. John, M., Wojtowicz, T., Bardgett, R. D.,
Brown, G. G., Ineson, P., Lavelle, P., Van der Putten, W. H., Anderson, J. M., Brussaard, L.,
Hunt, H. W., Paul, E. A. and Wall, D. H. (2004) Vulnerability to global change of
ecosystem goods and services driven by soil biota. In: Sustaining Biodiversity and
Ecosystem Services in Soils and Sediments (Ed. by D. H. Wall), pp. 101-135. Island Press,
Washington, D. C.
(8) Van der Putten, W. H., Anderson J. M., Bardgett R. D., Behan-Pelletier V., Bignell D., Brown
G. G., Brown V. K., Brussaard L., Hunt H. W., Ineson P., Jones T. H., Lavelle P., Paul E.
A., St. John M., Wardle D. A., Wojtowicz T. and Wall, D. H. (2004) Ecosystem processes in
natural and managed terrestrial soils and the role of soil organisms in the sustainable
delivery of ecosystem goods and services. In: Sustaining Biodiversity and Ecosystem
Services in Soils and Sediments (Ed. by D. H. Wall), pp. 15-43. Island Press, Washington,
D. C.
(7) Ineson P., Levin, L. A., Kneib, R., Hall, R. O., Weslawski, J. M., Bardgett, R. D., Wardle, D.
A., Wall, D. H. and Van der Putten, W H. (2004) Terrestrial soils and freshwater and marine
sediments: cascading effects of deforestation on ecosystem services across spatially
separated habitats. In: Sustaining Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Soils and
Sediments (Ed. by D. H. Wall), pp. 225-248. Island Press, Washington, D. C.
(6) Wardle, D. A. and Bardgett, R. D. (2004) Indirect effects of invertebrate herbivory on the
decomposer subsystem. In: Insects and Ecosystem Functioning (Ed. by W. Weisser and E.
Siemann), pp. 53-69. Ecological Studies 173. Springer, Heidelberg.
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(5) Williamson, W., and Wardle, D. A. (2003) Relevance of interactions amongst soil microorganisms
to soil biological fertility. In: Soil Biological Fertility (Ed. by L. Abbott and D. Murphy), pp.
187-202. Kluwer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
(4) Wardle, D. A., and van der Putten, W. (2002) Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and
aboveground-belowground linkages. In: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (Ed. by M.
Loreau, S. Naeem and P. Inchausti), pp. 155-168. Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K.
(3) Raffaelli, D., van der Heijden, M., van der Putten, W., Kennedy, T., Koricheva, J., Lacroix, G.,
Mikola, J., Persson, L., Petchey, O., and Wardle, D. A. (2002) Multi-trophic dynamics and
ecosystem functioning. In: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (Ed. by M. Loreau, S.
Naeem and P. Inchausti), pp. 147-154. Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K.
(2) Wardle, D. A., Giller, K. E. and Barker, G. M. (1999) The regulation and functional significance of
soil biodiversity in agro-ecosystems. In: Agrobiodiversity: Characterisation, Utilisation and
Management (Ed. by D. Wood and J. M. Lenne), pp. 87-121. CAB International, Wallingford,
UK.
(1) Wardle, D.A., and Lavelle, P. (1997) Linkages between soil biota, plant litter quality and
decomposition. In: Driven by Nature - Plant Litter Quality and Decomposition (Ed. by K.E.
Giller and G. Cadisch). CAB International, Wallingford, pp. 107-124.
(d) Other publications (e.g. book reviews, conference proceedings, popular)
(48) Wardle, D. A. (2017) Elephants trump fire in the Kruger. Journal of Ecology Editor’s Choice,
Vol. 105, issue 1. https://jecologyblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/17/editors-choice-1046/
(47) De Long, J., Dorrepaal, E., Kardol, P., Nilsson, M.-C., Teuber, M. and Wardle, D. A. (2016)
Boreal forests in a warmer world. Forest Facts 2016, No. 3. 4pp.
(46) De Long, J., Dorrepaal, E., Kardol, P., Nilsson, M.-C., Teuber, M. and Wardle, D. A. (2016)
Boreala skogar i en varmare värld’. Fakta Skog 2016, No. 3.
(45) Sundqvist, M., Giesler, R. G. and Wardle, D. A. (2013) Höjdgradienter hjälper oss at första den
globala uppvärmningens påverkan i Arktis. Fakta Skog 11, 4pp.
(44) Wardle, D. A. (2010) Subindividual trait variation matters (book review). BioScience 60: 764-
765.
(43) Wardle, D. A., Wiser, S. K., Allen, R. B. and Doherty, J. (2007). Ecological impact of single
tree removal in native forest. Indigena (November 2007), pp. 7-8.
(42) Wardle, D. A. and Bellingham, P. J. (2007) Life in the treetops. Indigena (May 2007): p.3.
(41) Wardle, D. A. (2005). Response to Don Smith (Manager of NZ Marsden Fund): is the Marsden
Fund working in the interests of New Zealand ecology? New Zealand Ecological Society
Newsletter 115: 2.
(40) Wardle, D. A. (2005). Is the Marsden Fund working in the interests of New Zealand ecology?
New Zealand Ecological Society Newsletter 113: 4-5.
(39) Hooper, D. U., Chapin, F. S. III, Ewel, J. J., Hector, A., Inchausti, P., Lauenroth, W. K.,
Lavorel, S., Lodge, D. M., Loreau, M., Naeem, S., Schmid, B., Setälä, H., Symstad, A. J.,
Vandermeer, J. and Wardle, D. A. (2005). Effects of biodiversity on ecosystem processes:
implications for ecosystem management. Ecological Society of America Position Paper,
Approved by the ESA Governing Board October 2005.
(http://www.esa.org/pao/esaPositions/Statements/effectsBiodiversity.php).
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(38) Wardle, D. A. (2005) What goes on in the underground (book review). Trends in Ecology and
Evolution 20: 303-304.
(37) Wardle, D. A. (2004) Hawaii as a model system (book review). New Zealand Journal of Ecology
28: 307.
(36) Wardle, D. A. (2004) Islands and drivers of ecosystem functioning. Te Taiao 3: 6-7.
(35) Dias, B. Díaz, S., McGlone, M., Hector A., Wardle D. A., Ruark, G., Gitay,
H., Toivonen, H., Thompson, I., Mulongoy, K. J., Straka, P. & Burianek, V.
(2003). Biodiversity: linkages to climate change. Pp. 24-37 in: Watson, R. and
Berghal, O. (Eds.) Interlinkages Between Biological Diversity and Climate Change
and Advice on the Integration of Biodiversity Considerations into the
Implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
and its Kyoto Protocol. Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal, Canada.
(34) Wardle, D. A. (2002) Ecology by numbers (book review). Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17:
533-534.
(33) Wardle, D. A. (2001) The benefits of being stressed. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16: 604.
(32) Wardle, D. A. (2001) The future of the New Zealand Journal of Ecology – an alternative
perspective. New Zealand Ecological Society Newsletter 98: 7-9.
(31) Wardle, D. A. (2001). The “how to” book of ecosystem study (book review). Trends in Ecology
and Evolution 16: 265.
(30) Wardle, D. A. (2000) Editorial. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 24: 1.
(29) Wardle, D. A., Barker, G. M., Yeates, G. W. and Bonner, K. I. (2000) Of deer and detritivores.
New Zealand Science Monthly (March 2000): pp. 9-10.
(28) Ghani, A., Sarathchandra, S. U., Perrott, K. W., Singleton, P., Wardle, D. A., Dexter, M. and
Ledgard, S. L. (1999). Are soil microbial and biochemical indicators sensitive to pastoral
soil management? In: Best Soil Management Practices for Production (Ed. By L. D. Currie,
M. J. Hedley, D. J. Horne and P. Lognathan), pp. 105-115. Fertilizer and Lime Research
Center, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
(27) Wardle, D. A. (1999) Ecosystem health: science and policy (book review). New Zealand Journal
of Ecology 23: 293-294.
(26) James, T. K., Rahman, A., Wardle, D. A. and Bonner, K. I. (1998) Survival of nodding thistle
(Carduus nutans) seed buried at different depths in four soils. Proceedings of the 51st New
Zealand Plant Protection Society: 33-37.
(25) Wardle, D. A. (1998) Rebuilding lost ecosystems (book review). New Zealand Journal of
Ecology 22: 107-108.
(24) Ghani, A., Sarathchandra, U., Perrott, K. W., Wardle, D. A., Singleton, P. and Dexter, M. (1996)
Biological and biochemical quality of pasture soils: spatial and temporal variability.
Proceedings of the New Zealand Grasslands Association 58: 211-218.
(23) Sanders, P., Wardle, D. A. and Rahman, A. (1996) Persistence of bromacil in soils with different
management histories. Proceedings of the 49th New Zealand Plant Protection Conference:
207-211.
(22) Campbell, B.D., Wardle, D.A., Woods, P.W., Field, T.R.O., Williamson, D.Y. and Barker, G.M.
(1996) The ecology of subtropical grasses in temperate pastures: an overview. Proceedings of
the New Zealand Grassland Association 57: 189-197.
(21) Wardle, D.A. (1995) Ecology of the underground (book review). New Zealand Journal of
Ecology 19. 229-230.
(20) Wardle, D. A. (1995) Journal citation impact factors and parochial citation practices. Bulletin of
the Ecological Society of America 76, 102-104.
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(19) Wardle, D.A. (1994) Metodologia para a quantificão da biomassa microbiana do solo. In: Manual
de Mètodos Empregados em Estudos de Microbiologia Agricola (Ed. by M. Hungria and R.S.
Araujo). EMBRAPA-SPI / FAO, Brasilia. pp. 419-436.
(18) Wardle, D.A. and Hungria, M. (1994) A biomassa microbiana do solo e sua importância nos
ecossistemas terrestres. In: Microganismos de Importância Agricola (Ed. by R.S. Araujo and
M. Hungria). EMBRAPA-SPI / FAO, Brasilia, pp. 195-216.
(17) Wardle, D.A. (1994) Links between the microbial biomass, and climatic and biotic factors
(keynote presentation). III Sympósio Brasiliero Sobre Microbiologica do Solo (Resumos), pp.
52-56.
(16) Wardle, D.A., Barker, G.M., Nicholson, K.S. and Addison, P.A. (1994) Cyclic oscillations
between a summer annual (C-4) and a winter-annual weed grass in Waikato dairy pastures.
Proceedings of the 47th New Zealand Plant Protection Conference.: 34-37.
(15) Nicholson, K.S. and Wardle, D.A. (1994) Decomposition of weed tissues in a pasture and a maize
crop situation: implications for nutrient cycling. Proceedings of the 47th New Zealand Plant
Protection Conference.: 29-33,
(14) Campbell, B.D. and Wardle, D.A. (1994) Report on 1993 Research Workshop on Subtropical
Grass Invasion of North Island Dairy Pastures. Ruakura Agricultural Research Centre,
Hamilton.
(13) Wardle, D.A., Nicholson, K.S. and Rahman, A. (1993) Aspects of interactions between nodding
thistle (Carduus nutans L.) and pasture grasses and legumes. Proceedings of the XVII
International Grasslands Congress: 355-356.
(12) Rahman, A., Nicholson, K.S. and Wardle, D.A. (1993) Effects of herbicides and fertilisers on
ragwort (Senecio jacobaea L.) in hill country pasture. Proceedings of the XVII International
Grasslands Congress: 356-358.
(11) Wardle, D.A., Yeates, G.W., Watson, R.N., Nicholson, K.S. and Ahmed, M. (1993) The below-
ground food-web as an indicator of disturbances resulting from weed management strategies in
two contrasting agro-ecosystems. Proceedings of the 46th New Zealand Plant Protection
Conference: 338-343.
(10) Ahmed, M. and Wardle, D.A. (1993) Interference of rosette ragwort with forage plant emergence,
mortality and growth. Proceedings of the 46th New Zealand Plant Protection Conference: 295-
296.
(9) Wardle, D.A. and Rahman, A. (1992) Side effects of herbicides on the soil microbial biomass.
Proceedings of the First International Weed Control Congress. Volume 2: 561-564.
(8) Wardle, D.A., Nicholson, K.S. and Ahmed, M. (1992) Influence of nodding thistle (Carduus
nutans L.) on white clover (Trifolium repens L.) nodulation and nitrogen fixation. Australian
Weeds Research Newsletter 41: 20-21.
(7) Wardle, D.A., Nicholson, K.S. and Ahmed, M. (1991) Residual allelopathic effects of pasture
grasses and legumes on nodding thistle seedling emergence and growth. Proceedings of the
44th New Zealand Weed and Pest Control Conference: 284-287.
(6) Ahmed, M. and Wardle, D.A. (1991) Influence of temperature on emergence and seedling growth
of nodding thistle, summer grass and spiny emex. Proceedings of the 44th New Zealand Weed
and Pest Control Conference: 288-291.
(5) Wardle, D.A., Nicholson, K.S. and Ahmed, M. (1991) Allelopathic influence of pasture grasses and
legumes against nodding thistle. Australian Weeds Research Newsletter 40: 40-42.
(4) Wardle, D.A., Yeates, G.W., Watson, R., Rahman, A. and Nicholson, K.S. (1991) Influence of
weed management strategies on soil organisms. Australian Weeds Research Newsletter 40: 43-
45.
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(3) Wardle, D.A. and Rahman, A. (1990) Effects of climate change on pasture weeds in New Zealand.
In: The Impact of Climate Change on Pests, Diseases, Weeds and Beneficial Organisms,
Report for the NZ Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (R. A. Prestidge and R. P. Pottinger
eds) pp. 101-105. Ruakura Agricultural Centre, Hamilton, NZ.
(2) Rahman, A. and Wardle, D.A. (1990) Effects of climate change on cropping weeds in New
Zealand. In: The Impact of Climate Change on Pests, Diseases, Weeds and Beneficial
Organisms, Report for the NZ Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (R. A. Prestidge and R. P.
Pottinger eds) pp. 107-112. Ruakura Agricultural Centre, Hamilton, NZ.
(1) Nicholson, K.S., Rahman, A. and Wardle, D.A. (1990) Interactions between establishing nodding
thistle and pasture seedlings. Proceedings of the 43rd New Zealand Weed and Pest Conference:
225-228.