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David A. Wardle

David A. Wardle

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Ecology and Evolution
Sweden
2026
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Ecology and Evolution
Singapore
2022

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
133
Citations
116660
World Ranking
59
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2020 - R. H. Whittaker Distinguished Ecologist Award, The Ecological Society of America
  • 2020 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2003 - Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Overview

David A. Wardle is affiliated with Umeå University in Sweden. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. The subfields within these main disciplines include Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their work covers a variety of topics related to ecology and environmental processes. These include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Fire effects on ecosystems, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Plant and animal studies, and Lichen and fungal ecology.

David A. Wardle has contributed to several recent papers published in prominent scientific journals. Notable publications include:

  • Ozone affects plant, insect, and soil microbial communities: A threat to terrestrial ecosystems and biodiversity (2020, Science Advances)
  • Rhizosphere control of soil nitrogen cycling: a key component of plant economic strategies (2020, New Phytologist)
  • Four priority areas to advance invasion science in the face of rapid environmental change (2020, Environmental Reviews)
  • Home-field advantage of litter decomposition: from the phyllosphere to the soil (2021, New Phytologist)
  • Towards a framework for understanding the context dependence of impacts of non-native tree species (2020, Functional Ecology)

Frequent co-authors of their work include:

  • Paul Kardol
  • Michael J. Gundale
  • Marie-Charlotte Nilsson
  • Kwek Yan Chong
  • Maja K. Sundqvist

The venues where David A. Wardle most often publishes are:

  • New Phytologist
  • Functional Ecology
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Oikos
  • Global Change Biology

Awards received by David A. Wardle include:

  • Member of Academia Europaea (2020)
  • R. H. Whittaker Distinguished Ecologist Award, The Ecological Society of America (2020)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand (2003)

Best Publications

  • EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: A CONSENSUS OF CURRENT KNOWLEDGE

    D. U. Hooper;F. S. Chapin;J. J. Ewel;A. Hector

  • Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

    Bradley J. Cardinale;J. Emmett Duffy;Andrew Gonzalez;David U. Hooper

  • Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges

    M. Loreau;S. Naeem;P. Inchausti;J. Bengtsson

  • Ecological linkages between aboveground and belowground biota.

    David A. Wardle;David A. Wardle;Richard D. Bardgett;John N. Klironomos;Heikki Setälä

  • Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

    James A. Estes;John Terborgh;Justin S. Brashares;Mary E. Power

  • Impacts of biological invasions: what's what and the way forward

    Daniel Simberloff;Jean Louis Martin;Piero Genovesi;Virginie Maris

  • Global change and species interactions in terrestrial ecosystems.

    Jason M. Tylianakis;Raphael K. Didham;Jordi Bascompte;David A. Wardle

  • Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

    William K. Cornwell;Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Kathryn Amatangelo;Ellen Dorrepaal

  • Communities and Ecosystems

    David A. Wardle

  • Communities and Ecosystems: Linking the Aboveground and Belowground Components

    David A. Wardle

  • The role of biotic interactions in shaping distributions and realised assemblages of species: implications for species distribution modelling

    Mary Susanne Wisz;Julien Pottier;W. Daniel Kissling;Loïc Pellissier

  • Plant–soil feedbacks: the past, the present and future challenges

    Wim H. van der Putten;Richard D. Bardgett;James D. Bever;T. Martijn Bezemer

  • Spatial soil ecology

    Christien H. Ettema;David A. Wardle

  • Roots and associated fungi drive long-term carbon sequestration in boreal forest.

    Karina Clemmensen;Adam Bahr;Otso Ovaskainen;Anders Dahlberg

  • A COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF FACTORS WHICH INFLUENCE MICROBIAL BIOMASS CARBON AND NITROGEN LEVELS IN SOIL

    D. A. Wardle

  • Herbivore-mediated linkages between aboveground and belowground communities

    Richard D. Bardgett;David A. Wardle;David A. Wardle

  • The use of chronosequences in studies of ecological succession and soil development

    Lawrence R. Walker;David A. Wardle;Richard D. Bardgett;Bruce D. Clarkson

  • Ecosystem Properties and Forest Decline in Contrasting Long-Term Chronosequences

    David A. Wardle;Lawrence R. Walker;Richard D. Bardgett

  • Towards an assessment of multiple ecosystem processes and services via functional traits

    Francesco de Bello;Sandra Lavorel;Sandra Myrna Diaz;Richard Harrington

  • Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale

    Johan van den Hoogen;Stefan Geisen;Devin Routh;Howard Ferris

  • Effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning: a consensus of current knowledge: Ecological Monog

    David Hooper;F. Stuart Chapin;John J. Ewel;Andy Hector

Frequent Co-Authors

Marie-Charlotte Nilsson
Marie-Charlotte Nilsson Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Paul Kardol
Paul Kardol Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Michael J. Gundale
Michael J. Gundale Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Richard D. Bardgett
Richard D. Bardgett Lancaster University
Gregor W. Yeates
Gregor W. Yeates Landcare Research
Karen I. Bonner
Karen I. Bonner Landcare Research
Duane A. Peltzer
Duane A. Peltzer Landcare Research
Peter J. Bellingham
Peter J. Bellingham Landcare Research
Wim H. van der Putten
Wim H. van der Putten Netherlands Institute of Ecology
Olle Zackrisson
Olle Zackrisson Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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