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Iain P. Hartley is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their research primarily focuses on understanding soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, peatlands and wetlands ecology, and plant water relations and carbon dynamics. They have also investigated coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, climate change impacts on permafrost, geology and paleoclimatology, and plant responses to elevated CO₂ levels.

The scientist's frequent publication venues reflect their interdisciplinary approach, with numerous articles appearing in:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Plant and Soil
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • New Phytologist
  • Nature Communications

Among their frequent co-authors are Zhaoliang Song, Hailong Wang, Shaopan Xia, Laodong Guo, and Yidong Wang, each involved in multiple collaborations with Hartley.

Their recent notable papers include:

  • "Evidence for large microbial-mediated losses of soil carbon under anthropogenic warming" (2021), published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Direct evidence for phosphorus limitation on Amazon forest productivity" (2022), published in Nature
  • "Temperature effects on carbon storage are controlled by soil stabilisation capacities" (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • "Microbially mediated mechanisms underlie soil carbon accrual by conservation agriculture under decade-long warming" (2024), published in Nature Communications
  • "Storage, patterns and influencing factors for soil organic carbon in coastal wetlands of China" (2022), published in Global Change Biology

Hartley's work spans several subfields including ecology, soil science, atmospheric science, plant science, and global and planetary change. Their research addresses critical environmental processes at various scales, particularly focusing on soil and ecosystem responses to climate drivers and anthropogenic influences.

Best Publications

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

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

  • 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

  • Potential carbon emissions dominated by carbon dioxide from thawed permafrost soils

    Christina Schädel;Martin K.-F. Bader;Edward A.G. Schuur;Christina Biasi

  • Substrate quality and the temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition

    Iain P. Hartley;Phil Ineson

  • Forest soil CO2flux: uncovering the contribution and environmental responses of ectomycorrhizas

    Andreas Heinemeyer;Iain P. Hartley;Sam P. Evans;José A. Carreira De La Fuente

  • 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

  • Soil microbial respiration in arctic soil does not acclimate to temperature.

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

  • Direct evidence for phosphorus limitation on Amazon forest productivity

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  • Effects of three years of soil warming and shading on the rate of soil respiration: substrate availability and not thermal acclimation mediates observed response

    Iain P. Hartley;Andreas Heinemeyer;Phil Ineson

  • Soil temperature affects carbon allocation within arbuscular mycorrhizal networks and carbon transport from plant to fungus

    Christine V. Hawkes;Iain P. Hartley;Phil Ineson;Alastair H. Fitter

  • Evidence for large microbial-mediated losses of soil carbon under anthropogenic warming

    Pablo García-Palacios;Thomas W. Crowther;Marina Dacal;Marina Dacal;Iain P. Hartley

  • Long‐term nitrogen addition modifies microbial composition and functions for slow carbon cycling and increased sequestration in tropical forest soil

    Jing Tian;Jing Tian;Jennifer A. J. Dungait;Xiankai Lu;Yunfeng Yang

  • The influence of vegetation and soil characteristics on active‐layer thickness of permafrost soils in boreal forest

    James P. Fisher;Cristian Estop‐Aragonés;Aaron Thierry;Dan J. Charman

  • Temperature effects on carbon storage are controlled by soil stabilisation capacities.

    Iain P. Hartley;Tim C. Hill;Sarah E. Chadburn;Gustaf Hugelius

  • The response of organic matter mineralisation to nutrient and substrate additions in sub-arctic soils

    Iain P. Hartley;David W. Hopkins;David W. Hopkins;Martin Sommerkorn;Philip A. Wookey

  • Storage, patterns and influencing factors for soil organic carbon in coastal wetlands of China

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  • Microbially mediated mechanisms underlie soil carbon accrual by conservation agriculture under decade-long warming

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  • Soil functions and ecosystem services research in the Chinese karst Critical Zone

    Sophie M. Green;Jennifer A.J. Dungait;Jennifer A.J. Dungait;Chenglong Tu;Heather Buss

  • Uncertainties in the global temperature change caused by carbon release from permafrost thawing

    E. J. Burke;I. P. Hartley;C. D. Jones

  • Spartina alterniflora invasion controls organic carbon stocks in coastal marsh and mangrove soils across tropics and subtropics.

    Shaopan Xia;Weiqi Wang;Zhaoliang Song;Yakov Kuzyakov

  • The dependence of respiration on photosynthetic substrate supply and temperature: integrating leaf, soil and ecosystem measurements

    Iain P. Hartley;Anna F. Armstrong;Ramesh Murthy;Greg Barron-Gafford

  • Limited contribution of permafrost carbon to methane release from thawing peatlands

    Mark D.A. Cooper;Cristian Estop-Aragonés;Cristian Estop-Aragonés;James P. Fisher;Aaron Thierry

  • The effect of soil warming on bulk soil vs. rhizosphere respiration

    Iain P. Hartley;Andreas Heinemeyer;Sam P. Evans;Phil Ineson

  • High-altitude adaptation in humans: from genomics to integrative physiology

    Priti Azad;Tsering Stobdan;Dan Zhou;Iain Hartley

Frequent Co-Authors

Gareth K. Phoenix
Gareth K. Phoenix University of Sheffield
Philip A. Wookey
Philip A. Wookey University of Stirling
David W. Hopkins
David W. Hopkins Scotland's Rural College
Jennifer A.J. Dungait
Jennifer A.J. Dungait University of Exeter
Julian B. Murton
Julian B. Murton University of Sussex
Timothy A. Quine
Timothy A. Quine University of Exeter
Dan J. Charman
Dan J. Charman University of Exeter
Gabriel G. Haddad
Gabriel G. Haddad University of California, San Diego
Mathew Williams
Mathew Williams University of Edinburgh
Mark H. Garnett
Mark H. Garnett University of Glasgow

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