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Overview

Hugh A. L. Henry is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with an emphasis on subfields such as plant science, soil science, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, and global and planetary change.

Henry's work explores several main topics within these fields including soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, soil and water nutrient dynamics, peatlands and wetlands ecology, climate change and permafrost, as well as tree-ring climate responses.

The scientist has coauthored frequently with several collaborators, which include Elizabeth T. Borer, Wei Sun, Claudia Wagner-Riddle, James F. Cahill, and Lauchlan H. Fraser. These partnerships have resulted in multiple publications contributing to their field.

Their publication record features papers in various respected venues. The most frequent journals include Plant and Soil, Ecology, Oecologia, Functional Ecology, and Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. These venues have hosted a range of Henry's work across multiple studies.

Among notable recent papers, the following stand out:

  • Temperature and pH define the realised niche space of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, 2021, New Phytologist
  • Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally, 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nine Maxims for the Ecology of Cold-Climate Winters, 2021, BioScience
  • Winter belowground: Changing winters and the perennating organs of herbaceous plants, 2021, Functional Ecology
  • Towards a mechanistic understanding of soil nitrogen availability responses to summer vs. winter drought in a semiarid grassland, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • Cold truths: how winter drives responses of terrestrial organisms to climate change.

    Caroline M. Williams;Hugh A. L. Henry;Brent J. Sinclair

  • Soil freeze–thaw cycle experiments: Trends, methodological weaknesses and suggested improvements

    Hugh A.L. Henry

  • Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness

    Lauchlan H. Fraser;Jason Pither;Anke Jentsch;Marcelo Sternberg

  • Climate change and soil freezing dynamics: historical trends and projected changes

    Hugh A. L. Henry

  • Coordinated distributed experiments: An emerging tool for testing global hypotheses in ecology and environmental science

    Lauchlan H. Fraser;Hugh Al Henry;Cameron N. Carlyle;Cameron N. Carlyle;Shannon R. White

  • Reprint of “Soil extracellular enzyme dynamics in a changing climate” ☆

    Hugh A.L. Henry

  • Temperature and pH define the realised niche space of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

    John Davison;Mari Moora;Marina Semchenko;Marina Semchenko;Sakeenah Binte Adenan

  • Soil extracellular enzyme dynamics in a changing climate

    Hugh A.L. Henry

  • Seasonal Responses of Extracellular Enzyme Activity and Microbial Biomass to Warming and Nitrogen Addition

    Terrence H. Bell;John N. Klironomos;Hugh A. L. Henry

  • Interactive effects of elevated CO2, N deposition and climate change on extracellular enzyme activity and soil density fractionation in a California annual grassland

    Hugh A. L. Henry;John D. Juarez;Christopher B. Field;Christopher B. Field;Peter M. Vitousek

  • Litter Decomposition in a California Annual Grassland: Interactions Between Photodegradation and Litter Layer Thickness

    Hugh A. L. Henry;Kathleen Brizgys;Christopher B. Field

  • The interpretation of stem diameter–height allometry in trees: biomechanical constraints, neighbour effects, or biased regressions?

    H.A.L. Henry;L.W. Aarssen

  • On the relationship between shade tolerance and shade avoidance strategies in woodland plants

    Hugh A. L. Henry;Lonnie W. Aarssen

  • Soil nitrogen leaching losses in response to freeze–thaw cycles and pulsed warming in a temperate old field

    Germaine Joseph;Hugh A.L. Henry

  • Interactive effects of elevated CO2, N deposition and climate change on plant litter quality in a California annual grassland

    Hugh A. L. Henry;Elsa E. Cleland;Elsa E. Cleland;Christopher B. Field;Peter M. Vitousek

  • Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally

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  • Vanishing winters in Germany: soil frost dynamics and snow cover trends, and ecological implications

    Juergen Kreyling;Hugh A. L. Henry

  • Inter-annual variation in soil extra-cellular enzyme activity in response to simulated global change and fire disturbance.

    Jessica L.M. Gutknecht;Hugh A.L. Henry;Teri C. Balser

  • Plant amino acid uptake, soluble N turnover and microbial N capture in soils of a grazed Arctic salt marsh

    Hugh A. L. Henry;Robert L. Jefferies

  • Interactive Effects of Fire, Elevated Carbon Dioxide, Nitrogen Deposition, and precipitation on a California Annual Grassland

    Hugh A. L. Henry;Hugh A. L. Henry;Nona R. Chiariello;Peter M. Vitousek;Harold A. Mooney

  • Interactive effects of lateral shade and wind on stem allometry, biomass allocation, and mechanical stability in Abutilon theophrasti (Malvaceae).

    Hugh A. L. Henry;Sean C. Thomas

Frequent Co-Authors

Anke Jentsch
Anke Jentsch University of Bayreuth
Lauchlan H. Fraser
Lauchlan H. Fraser Thompson Rivers University
James F. Cahill
James F. Cahill University of Alberta
Martin Zobel
Martin Zobel University of Tartu
Carl Beierkuhnlein
Carl Beierkuhnlein University of Bayreuth
Juergen Kreyling
Juergen Kreyling University of Greifswald
Sandra Díaz
Sandra Díaz National University of Córdoba
Mari Moora
Mari Moora University of Tartu
Marcelo Cabido
Marcelo Cabido National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Marcelo Sternberg
Marcelo Sternberg Tel Aviv University

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