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Nick Ostle is a researcher affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom, specializing in environmental science with extensive work in agricultural and biological sciences. Their research primarily explores ecology and soil science, with additional focus on global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, and plant science.

Their main research topics include soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, microbial community ecology and physiology, peatlands and wetlands ecology, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, as well as conservation, biodiversity, and resource management.

Nick Ostle has published multiple papers in several scientific journals. Recent publications include:

  • Combatting global grassland degradation (2021) in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Environmental and microbial controls on microbial necromass recycling, an important precursor for soil carbon stabilization (2020) in Communications Earth & Environment
  • Sticky dead microbes: Rapid abiotic retention of microbial necromass in soil (2020) in Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Grassland degradation-induced declines in soil fungal complexity reduce fungal community stability and ecosystem multifunctionality (2022) in Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Land-use changes alter soil bacterial composition and diversity in tropical forest soil in China (2020) in The Science of The Total Environment

Their research is frequently published in the following venues:

  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • European Journal of Soil Science
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change

Nick Ostle collaborates often with the following coauthors:

  • Niall P. McNamara
  • Tim Goodall
  • Jeanette Whitaker
  • Dafydd Elias
  • Richard D. Bardgett

Best Publications

  • Soil bacterial networks are less stable under drought than fungal networks.

    Franciska T. de Vries;Rob I. Griffiths;Mark Bailey;Hayley Craig

  • An enzymic 'latch' on a global carbon store.

    Chris Freeman;Nick Ostle;Hojeong Kang;Hojeong Kang

  • Microbial contributions to climate change through carbon cycle feedbacks.

    Richard D Bardgett;Chris Freeman;Nicholas J Ostle

  • Combatting global grassland degradation.

    Richard D. Bardgett;James M. Bullock;Sandra Lavorel;Peter Manning

  • Land use driven change in soil pH affects microbial carbon cycling processes

    Ashish A. Malik;Jeremy Puissant;Kate M. Buckeridge;Tim Goodall

  • A regulatory role for phenol oxidase during decomposition in peatlands

    C. Freeman;Nicholas Ostle;N. Fenner;H. Kang

  • Rapid turnover of hyphae of mycorrhizal fungi determined by AMS microanalysis of 14C.

    Philip L. Staddon;Philip L. Staddon;Christopher Bronk Ramsey;Christopher Bronk Ramsey;Nick Ostle;Nick Ostle;Philip Ineson;Philip Ineson

  • In situ13CO2 pulse-labelling of upland grassland demonstrates a rapid pathway of carbon flux from arbuscular mycorrhizal mycelia to the soil

    David Johnson;J. R. Leake;N. Ostle;P. Ineson

  • β-Glucosidase activity in pasture soils

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

  • UK land use and soil carbon sequestration.

    N.J. Ostle;P.E. Levy;C.D. Evans;P. Smith

  • Acidity controls on dissolved organic carbon mobility in organic soils

    Chris D. Evans;Tim G. Jones;Annette Burden;Nick Ostle

  • Predicting the structure of soil communities from plant community taxonomy, phylogeny, and traits

    Jonathan W Leff;Jonathan W Leff;Richard D Bardgett;Anna Wilkinson;Benjamin G Jackson

  • Integrating plant-soil interactions into global carbon cycle models

    Nicholas J. Ostle;Pete Smith;Rosie A Fisher;F Ian Woodward

  • Microbes Follow Humboldt: Temperature Drives Plant and Soil Microbial Diversity Patterns from the Amazon to the Andes

    Andrew T. Nottingham;Andrew T. Nottingham;Noah Fierer;Benjamin L. Turner;Jeanette Whitaker

  • Identification of groups of metabolically-active rhizosphere microorganisms by stable isotope probing of PLFAs

    Amy M. Treonis;Nick J. Ostle;Andrew W. Stott;Ruth Primrose

  • Active root-inhabiting microbes identified by rapid incorporation of plant-derived carbon into RNA

    Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse;Stéphane Mahé;Philip Ineson;Phil Staddon

  • Long-Term Consequences of Grazing and Burning on Northern Peatland Carbon Dynamics

    Susan E. Ward;Richard D. Bardgett;Niall P. McNamara;John K. Adamson

  • Additional carbon sequestration benefits of grassland diversity restoration

    Gerlinde B. De Deyn;Robert S. Shiel;Nick J. Ostle;Niall P. McNamara

  • Warming effects on greenhouse gas fluxes in peatlands are modulated by vegetation composition.

    Susan E. Ward;Nicholas J. Ostle;Simon Oakley;Helen Quirk

  • The use of fluorogenic substrates for measuring enzyme activity in peatlands

    C. Freeman;G. Liska;N. J. Ostle;S. E. Jones

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard D. Bardgett
Richard D. Bardgett Lancaster University
Niall P. McNamara
Niall P. McNamara UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Roland Bol
Roland Bol Forschungszentrum Jülich
Benjamin L. Turner
Benjamin L. Turner Gyeongsang National University
Patrick Meir
Patrick Meir University of Edinburgh
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman Bangor University
Robert I. Griffiths
Robert I. Griffiths University of Oxford
Susan Waldron
Susan Waldron University of Glasgow
Norma Salinas
Norma Salinas Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Philip Ineson
Philip Ineson University of York

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