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Overview

Richard J. Payne was affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom. Their research was primarily situated within Environmental Science, with significant contributions also in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Specific subfields of study included Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics explored in their research comprised Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Fire effects on ecosystems, Climate change and permafrost, Protist diversity and phylogeny, and Geological formations and processes.

Frequent publication venues for Richard J. Payne included:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Nature Communications

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Payne were:

  • Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Environmental drivers of Sphagnum growth in peatlands across the Holarctic region, 2020, Journal of Ecology
  • Recent climate change has driven divergent hydrological shifts in high-latitude peatlands, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Developing a continental-scale testate amoeba hydrological transfer function for Asian peatlands, 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Key periods of peatland development and environmental changes in the middle taiga zone of Western Siberia during the Holocene, 2021, AMBIO

Richard J. Payne collaborated frequently with a number of researchers, including:

  • Yuri Mazei
  • Andrey N. Tsyganov
  • Mariusz Lamentowicz
  • Graeme T. Swindles
  • Kirill V. Babeshko

Best Publications

  • Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink

    J. Loisel;A. V. Gallego-Sala;Matthew J. Amesbury;Matthew J. Amesbury;G. Magnan

  • Looking forward through the past: Identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology

    Alistair W. R. Seddon;Alistair W. R. Seddon;Anson W. Mackay;Ambroise G. Baker;H. John B. Birks;H. John B. Birks;H. John B. Birks

  • Widespread drying of European peatlands in recent centuries

    Graeme T. Swindles;Graeme T. Swindles;Graeme T. Swindles;Paul J. Morris;Donal J. Mullan;Richard J. Payne

  • How many is enough? Determining optimal count totals for ecological and palaeoecological studies of testate amoebae

    Richard J. Payne;Edward A. D. Mitchell

  • Nitrogen deposition and plant biodiversity: past, present, and future

    Richard John Payne;Nancy B. Dise;Christopher D Field;Anthony Dore

  • Soil protistology rebooted: 30 fundamental questions to start with

    Stefan Geisen;Edward A. D. Mitchell;David M. Wilkinson;Sina Adl

  • Impact of nitrogen deposition at the species level

    Richard J. Payne;Nancy B. Dise;Carly J. Stevens;David J. Gowing

  • Development of a new pan-European testate amoeba transfer function for reconstructing peatland palaeohydrology

    Matthew J. Amesbury;Graeme T. Swindles;Anatoly Bobrov;Dan J. Charman

  • An unexpected role for mixotrophs in the response of peatland carbon cycling to climate warming

    Vincent E. J. Jassey;Vincent E. J. Jassey;Constant Signarbieux;Constant Signarbieux;Stephan Hättenschwiler;Luca Bragazza;Luca Bragazza

  • Potential implications of differential preservation of testate amoeba shells for paleoenvironmental reconstruction in peatlands

    Edward A. D. Mitchell;Richard J. Payne;Mariusz Lamentowicz

  • The Role of Nitrogen Deposition in Widespread Plant Community Change Across Semi-natural Habitats

    Chris D. Field;Nancy B. Dise;Richard J. Payne;Richard J. Payne;Andrea J. Britton

  • Widespread global peatland establishment and persistence over the last 130,000 y

    Claire C. Treat;Claire C. Treat;Thomas Kleinen;Nils Broothaerts;April S. Dalton

  • Ecology of testate amoebae (protista) in south-central Alaska peatlands: Building transfer-function models for palaeoenvironmental studies

    Richard Payne;Keiko Kishaba;Jeffrey J Blackford;Edward A D Mitchell

  • Taxonomic and functional turnover are decoupled in European peat bogs

    Bjorn J. M. Robroek;Bjorn J. M. Robroek;Vincent E. J. Jassey;Richard J. Payne;Richard J. Payne;Magalí Martí

  • Seven Reasons Why Protists Make Useful Bioindicators

    Richard J. Payne

  • Ecology of Testate Amoebae from Mires in the Central Rhodope Mountains, Greece and Development of a Transfer Function for Palaeohydrological Reconstruction

    Richard J. Payne;Edward A.D. Mitchell

  • The Holocene paleoenvironmental history of central European Russia reconstructed from pollen, plant macrofossil, and testate amoeba analyses of the Klukva peatland, Tula region

    Elena Yu. Novenko;Elena Yu. Novenko;Andrey N. Tsyganov;Elena M. Volkova;Kirill V. Babeshko

  • Can testate amoeba‐based palaeohydrology be extended to fens?

    Richard J. Payne

  • Environmental drivers of Sphagnum growth in peatlands across the Holarctic region

    Fia Bengtsson;Håkan Rydin;Jennifer L. Baltzer;Luca Bragazza;Luca Bragazza

  • Ecology of testate amoebae in peatlands of central China and development of a transfer function for paleohydrological reconstruction

    Yangmin Qin;Edward A. D. Mitchell;Mariusz Lamentowicz;Richard J. Payne

  • Testate amoebae in pollen slides

    Richard J. Payne;Richard J. Payne;Mariusz Lamentowicz;W.O. van der Knaap;Jacqueline F.N. van Leeuwen

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward A. D. Mitchell
Edward A. D. Mitchell University of Neuchâtel
Mariusz Lamentowicz
Mariusz Lamentowicz Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Carly J. Stevens
Carly J. Stevens Lancaster University
Nancy B. Dise
Nancy B. Dise Manchester Metropolitan University
Graeme T. Swindles
Graeme T. Swindles Queen's University Belfast
Vincent E. J. Jassey
Vincent E. J. Jassey Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Elena Novenko
Elena Novenko Lomonosov Moscow State University
Dan J. Charman
Dan J. Charman University of Exeter
Luca Bragazza
Luca Bragazza Agroscope
Dmitri Mauquoy
Dmitri Mauquoy University of Aberdeen

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