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Emma J. Sayer is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on environmental and agricultural sciences, with extensive contributions to soil science, ecology, and global and planetary change. Their work encompasses a range of interconnected topics related to carbon and nutrient dynamics in ecosystems.

Among the main fields of study, Emma's work is concentrated in Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Subfields include Soil Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, and Plant Science. Their research topics prominently feature Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, and Forest ecology and management.

Emma J. Sayer has published multiple research papers spanning recent years, including the following notable examples:

  • The grassland carbon cycle: Mechanisms, responses to global changes, and potential contribution to carbon neutrality (2022) in Fundamental Research
  • Globally invariant metabolism but density-diversity mismatch in springtails (2023) in Nature Communications
  • Linking land-use and land-cover transitions to their ecological impact in the Amazon (2022) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Carbon allocation to root exudates is maintained in mature temperate tree species under drought (2022) in New Phytologist
  • Deepened winter snow cover enhances net ecosystem exchange and stabilizes plant community composition and productivity in a temperate grassland (2020) in Global Change Biology

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Faming Wang
  • Zuoqiang Yuan
  • Laëtitia Bréchet
  • Shan Xu
  • X. L. Lu

Emma J. Sayer's publications often appear in venues such as Functional Ecology, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), The Science of The Total Environment, Land Degradation and Development, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Among these, Functional Ecology represents a recurring platform for their work, with eight publications.

Best Publications

  • Using experimental manipulation to assess the roles of leaf litter in the functioning of forest ecosystems

    Emma J. Sayer

  • Potassium, phosphorus, or nitrogen limit root allocation, tree growth, or litter production in a lowland tropical forest

    S. Joseph Wright;Joseph B. Yavitt;Nina Wurzburger;Nina Wurzburger;Benjamin L. Turner

  • Soil carbon release enhanced by increased tropical forest litterfall

    Emma J. Sayer;Emma J. Sayer;Matthew S. Heard;Helen K. Grant;Toby R. Marthews

  • Variability of above-ground litter inputs alters soil physicochemical and biological processes: a meta-analysis of litterfall-manipulation experiments

    Shan Xu;Lingli Liu;E. J. Sayer

  • Increased Litterfall in Tropical Forests Boosts the Transfer of Soil CO2 to the Atmosphere

    Emma J. Sayer;Emma J. Sayer;Jennifer S. Powers;Edmund V. J. Tanner

  • Experimental investigation of the importance of litterfall in lowland semi-evergreen tropical forest nutrient cycling

    Emma J. Sayer;Emma J. Sayer;Edmund V. J. Tanner

  • Variable Responses of Lowland Tropical Forest Nutrient Status to Fertilization and Litter Manipulation

    Emma J. Sayer;Emma J. Sayer;S. Joseph Wright;Edmund V. J. Tanner;Joseph B. Yavitt

  • Increased litterfall changes fine root distribution in a moist tropical forest

    Emma J. Sayer;Edmund V. J. Tanner;A. Cheesman

  • Globally invariant metabolism but density-diversity mismatch in springtails

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  • Foliar phosphorus fractions reveal how tropical plants maintain photosynthetic rates despite low soil phosphorus availability

    Qifeng Mo;Qifeng Mo;Zhi'an Li;Emma Jane Sayer;Emma Jane Sayer;Hans Lambers

  • Links between soil microbial communities and plant traits in a species-rich grassland under long-term climate change

    Emma Jane Sayer;Emma Jane Sayer;Emma Jane Sayer;Anna E. Oliver;Jason D. Fridley;Andrew P. Askew

  • Litter manipulation and the soil arthropod community in a lowland tropical rainforest

    Oliver S. Ashford;William A. Foster;Benjamin L. Turner;Emma Sayer

  • Responses of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to long-term inorganic and organic nutrient addition in a lowland tropical forest

    Merlin Sheldrake;Merlin Sheldrake;Nicholas P Rosenstock;Scott Mangan;Scott Mangan;Daniel Revillini

  • Linking land-use and land-cover transitions to their ecological impact in the Amazon

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  • A new approach to trenching experiments for measuring root–rhizosphere respiration in a lowland tropical forest

    Emma J. Sayer;Emma J. Sayer;Edmund V. J. Tanner

  • Arthropod abundance and diversity in a lowland tropical forest floor in Panama: the role of habitat space vs. nutrient concentrations.

    Emma J. Sayer;Laura M. E. Sutcliffe;Rebecca I. C. Ross;Edmund V. J. Tanner

  • Leaf-cutting ants as ecosystem engineers: Topsoil and litter perturbations around Atta cephalotes nests reduce nutrient availability

    Sebastian T. Meyer;Meike Neubauer;Emma J. Sayer;Inara R. Leal

  • Effects of litter manipulation on early-stage decomposition and meso-arthropod abundance in a tropical moist forest

    Emma J. Sayer;Edmund V. J. Tanner;A. L. Lacey

  • Tree stem bases are sources of CH 4 and N 2 O in a tropical forest on upland soil during the dry to wet season transition

    Bertie Welch;Vincent Gauci;Emma Jane Sayer;Emma Jane Sayer

  • Nutrient limitation of woody debris decomposition in a tropical forest: contrasting effects of N and P addition

    Yao Chen;Emma J. Sayer;Zhian Li;Qifeng Mo

  • Deepened winter snow cover enhances net ecosystem exchange and stabilizes plant community composition and productivity in a temperate grassland.

    Ping Li;Emma J. Sayer;Zhou Jia;Weixing Liu

  • Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community composition is altered by long-term litter removal but not litter addition in a lowland tropical forest

    Merlin Sheldrake;Merlin Sheldrake;Nicholas P. Rosenstock;Daniel Revillini;Daniel Revillini;Pal Axel Olsson

Frequent Co-Authors

Edmund V. J. Tanner
Edmund V. J. Tanner University of Cambridge
Jos Barlow
Jos Barlow Lancaster University
Eleanor M. Slade
Eleanor M. Slade Nanyang Technological University
Julio Louzada
Julio Louzada Federal University of Lavras
Benjamin L. Turner
Benjamin L. Turner Gyeongsang National University
Zhian Li
Zhian Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Mark H. Garnett
Mark H. Garnett University of Glasgow
Lingli Liu
Lingli Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Michael W. I. Schmidt
Michael W. I. Schmidt University of Zurich
Kyle E. Harms
Kyle E. Harms Louisiana State University

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