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73
Citations
21071
World Ranking
1184
National Ranking
157

Overview

Carly J. Stevens is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily advances the understanding of environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a particular focus on nature and landscape conservation, ecology, soil science, plant science, and global and planetary change.

Their work covers several key topics, including:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Plant and Animal Studies
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

Stevens has contributed to numerous papers published primarily in leading scientific journals. Some recent publications include:

  • "The ecosystem services of urban soils: A review" (2021, Geoderma)
  • "General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time" (2020, Ecology)
  • "The positive effect of plant diversity on soil carbon depends on climate" (2023, Nature Communications)
  • "Clarifying the effect of biodiversity on productivity in natural ecosystems with longitudinal data and methods for causal inference" (2023, Nature Communications)

Their frequent co-authors reflect a collaborative research approach, including:

  • Elizabeth T. Borer
  • Eric W. Seabloom
  • Andrew S. MacDougall
  • Anita C. Risch
  • Yann Hautier

Stevens publishes regularly in key scientific venues, with the following journals among their most common outlets:

  • Nature Communications
  • Global Change Biology
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Journal of Ecology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Impact of nitrogen deposition on the species richness of grasslands

    Carly J. Stevens;Nancy B. Dise;Nancy B. Dise;J. Owen Mountford;David J. Gowing

  • Consistent responses of soil microbial communities to elevated nutrient inputs in grasslands across the globe

    Jonathan W. Leff;Stuart E. Jones;Suzanne M. Prober;Albert Barberán

  • Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

    Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom;Daniel S. Gruner;W. Stanley Harpole

  • Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide

    Suzanne M. Prober;Jonathan W. Leff;Scott T. Bates;Elizabeth T. Borer

  • Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness

    Peter B. Adler;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Helmut Hillebrand

  • Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients

    Philip A. Fay;Suzanne M. Prober;W. Stanley Harpole;Johannes M. H. Knops

  • Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands

    Yann Hautier;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Peter B. Adler

  • Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity

    W. Stanley Harpole;W. Stanley Harpole;Lauren L. Sullivan;Eric M. Lind;Jennifer Firn

  • Changes in species richness and composition in European acidic grasslands over the past 70 years: the contribution of cumulative atmospheric nitrogen deposition

    Cecilia Duprè;Carly J. Stevens;Carly J. Stevens;Traute Ranke;Albert Bleeker

  • Nitrogen deposition threatens species richness of grasslands across Europe

    Carly J. Stevens;Cecilia Duprè;Edu Dorland;Cassandre Gaudnik

  • Nitrogen in the environment.

    Carly J. Stevens

  • Nitrogen deposition causes widespread loss of species richness in British habitats

    Lindsay C. Maskell;Simon M. Smart;James M. Bullock;Ken Thompson

  • Conditional vulnerability of plant diversity to atmospheric nitrogen deposition across the United States

    Samuel M. Simkin;Edith B. Allen;William D. Bowman;Christopher M. Clark

  • Loss of forb diversity in relation to nitrogen deposition in the UK: regional trends and potential controls

    Carly J. Stevens;Nancy B. Dise;Nancy B. Dise;David J. G. Gowing;J. Owen Mountford

  • African Wild Ungulates Compete with or Facilitate Cattle Depending on Season

    Wilfred O. Odadi;Moses K. Karachi;Shaukat A. Abdulrazak;Truman P. Young

  • Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality

    Yann Hautier;Forest Isbell;Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom

  • Impacts of nitrogen and phosphorus: from genomes to natural ecosystems and agriculture

    Maïté S. Guignard;Andrew R. Leitch;Claudia Acquisti;Christophe Eizaguirre

  • Contribution of acidification and eutrophication to declines in species richness of calcifuge grasslands along a gradient of atmospheric nitrogen deposition

    Carly J. Stevens;Carly J. Stevens;Ken Thompson;J. Philip Grime;Christopher J. Long

  • Stocks and flows of natural and human-derived capital in ecosystem services

    L Jones;L Norton;Z Austin;Z Austin;A L Browne;A L Browne

  • Life-history constraints in grassland plant species : a growth-defence trade-off is the norm

    Eric M. Lind;Elizabeth Borer;Eric Seabloom;Peter Adler

  • Life‐history constraints in grassland plant species: a growth‐defence trade‐off is the norm

    Eric M. Lind;Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom;Peter B. Adler

  • Nitrogen as a threat to European terrestrial biodiversity

    Nancy B. Dise;Mike Ashmore;Salim Belyazid;Albert Bleeker

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric W. Seabloom
Eric W. Seabloom University of Minnesota
Elizabeth T. Borer
Elizabeth T. Borer University of Minnesota
Jennifer Firn
Jennifer Firn Queensland University of Technology
Anita C. Risch
Anita C. Risch Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Yann Hautier
Yann Hautier Utrecht University
W. Stanley Harpole
W. Stanley Harpole Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Nancy B. Dise
Nancy B. Dise Manchester Metropolitan University
Andrew S. MacDougall
Andrew S. MacDougall University of Guelph
Peter B. Adler
Peter B. Adler Utah State University
Jonathan D. Bakker
Jonathan D. Bakker University of Washington

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