David Wardle, PhD
Professor)
Email: david.wardle@umu.se
Umeå University Webpage
Research Summary
My research explores the links between aboveground and belowground communities and how these in turn drive the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems, as well as how these linkages are impacted by global change factors. A large proportion of this research is field based and in natural ecosystems, and is mostly focused on forests and subarctic and subalpine tundra. Much of this work is done in ecosystems of northern Sweden, though with significant past and present work also in several other parts of the world, notably Southeast and East Asia, Oceania, the Americas, and elsewhere in Europe. Current projects focus on:
- The community and ecosystem effects of invasive and overabundant plants and animals.
- The ecological consequences of wildfire in forests.
- Ecosystem changes across natural gradients of elevation (and temperature), ecosystem development and degradation, and retrogression.
- The ecology, biodiversity, and ecosystem functioning of island ecosystems.
- Ecological consequences of biodiversity loss in real-world contexts.
David Wardle’s Publications
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