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Overview

David W. Hopkins is affiliated with Scotland's Rural College in the United Kingdom. Their research spans across Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a particular focus on several interconnected disciplines and topics.

The main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these fields, subfields of study are:

  • Ecology
  • Soil Science
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Environmental Chemistry

Key research topics covered by their work are:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Polar Research and Ecology
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions

Recent publications illustrate this range of research interests and include:

  • Biogeographic survey of soil bacterial communities across Antarctica, 2024, Microbiome
  • Biogeographical survey of soil microbiomes across sub-Saharan Africa: structure, drivers, and predicted climate-driven changes, 2022, Microbiome
  • Microbial anhydrobiosis, 2021, Environmental Microbiology
  • Regional Diversity of Maritime Antarctic Soil Fungi and Predicted Responses of Guilds and Growth Forms to Climate Change, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Inhibitory effects of climate change on the growth and extracellular enzyme activities of a widespread Antarctic soil fungus, 2020, Global Change Biology

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with David W. Hopkins include:

  • Thulani P. Makhalanyane
  • Don A. Cowan
  • Kevin K. Newsham
  • Ian D. Hogg
  • Weidong Kong

Publication venues where their work is commonly featured are:

  • Microbiome
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Environmental Microbiology
  • Global Change Biology
  • Soil Use and Management

Best Publications

  • Soil organic matter turnover is governed by accessibility not recalcitrance

    Jennifer A. J. Dungait;David W. Hopkins;David W. Hopkins;Andrew S. Gregory;Andrew P. Whitmore

  • International Handbook of Educational Change

    Andy Hargreaves;Ann Lieberman;Michael Fullan;David Hopkins

  • Temperature sensitivity of soil respiration rates enhanced by microbial community response

    Kristiina Karhu;Marc D. Auffret;Jennifer A. J. Dungait;David W. Hopkins

  • Soil management in relation to sustainable agriculture and ecosystem services

    D S Powlson;P J Gregory;W R Whalley;J N Quinton

  • Risk stratification in uncomplicated type 2 diabetes: prospective evaluation of the combined use of coronary artery calcium imaging and selective myocardial perfusion scintigraphy.

    Dhakshinamurthy Vijay Anand;Eric Lim;David Hopkins;Roger Corder

  • Field and pulping performances of transgenic trees with altered lignification

    Gilles Pilate;Emma Guiney;Karen Holt;Michel Petit-Conil

  • Ecosystem feedbacks and cascade processes: understanding their role in the responses of Arctic and alpine ecosystems to environmental change

    Philip A. Wookey;Rien Aerts;Richard D. Bardgett;Florence Baptist

  • The Past, Present and Future of School Improvement: Towards the Third Age

    David Hopkins;David Reynolds

  • School and system improvement: a narrative state-of-the-art review

    David Hopkins;Sam Stringfield;Alma Harris;Louise Stoll

  • Clinical efficacy of intravitreal aflibercept versus panretinal photocoagulation for best corrected visual acuity in patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy at 52 weeks (CLARITY): a multicentre, single-blinded, randomised, controlled, phase 2b, non-inferiority trial

    Sobha Sivaprasad;A Toby Prevost;Joana C Vasconcelos;Amy Riddell

  • Beyond the Biomass.

    D. W. Hopkins;K. Ritz;J. Dighton;K. E. Giller

  • The role of insulin in human brain glucose metabolism: an 18fluoro-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography study.

    Emma M. Bingham;David Hopkins;Diarmuid Smith;Andrew Pernet

  • What is the so-called optimum pH for denitrification in soil?

    Miloslav Šimek;Miloslav Šimek;Linda Jı́šová;David W Hopkins

  • β-Glucosidase activity in pasture soils

    Benjamin L. Turner;David W. Hopkins;Philip M. Haygarth;Nick Ostle

  • Second International Handbook of Educational Change

    Andy Hargreaves;Ann Lieberman;Michael Fullan;David Hopkins

  • A potential loss of carbon associated with greater plant growth in the European Arctic

    Iain P Hartley;Iain P Hartley;Mark H Garnett;Martin Sommerkorn;David William Hopkins;David William Hopkins

  • Microbiological methods for assessing soil quality

    Jaap Bloem;David W. Hopkins;Anna Benedetti

  • Attenuation of insulin-evoked responses in brain networks controlling appetite and reward in insulin resistance: the cerebral basis for impaired control of food intake in metabolic syndrome?

    Karen Anthony;Laurence J. Reed;Joel T. Dunn;Emma Bingham

  • Observed soil temperature trends associated with climate change in Canada

    Budong Qian;Edward G. Gregorich;Sam Gameda;David W. Hopkins;David W. Hopkins

  • Biological Diversity and Function in Soils

    Richard D. Bardgett;Michael B. Usher;David W. Hopkins

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward G. Gregorich
Edward G. Gregorich Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Anthony G. O'Donnell
Anthony G. O'Donnell University of Western Australia
Kevin K. Newsham
Kevin K. Newsham British Antarctic Survey
Ashley D. Sparrow
Ashley D. Sparrow Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research
Bo Elberling
Bo Elberling University of Copenhagen
Jaap Bloem
Jaap Bloem Wageningen University & Research
Philip A. Wookey
Philip A. Wookey University of Stirling
Iain P. Hartley
Iain P. Hartley University of Exeter
Jennifer A.J. Dungait
Jennifer A.J. Dungait University of Exeter
Claire Halpin
Claire Halpin University of Dundee

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