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Sarah J. Woodin is affiliated with the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their research spans several key areas including ecology, soil science, global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, and forestry.

Their work covers major topics such as soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, fire effects on ecosystems, peatlands and wetlands ecology, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, rangeland and wildlife management, soil geostatistics and mapping, and soil and water nutrient dynamics.

Woodin's recent publications include:

  • Soil organic carbon and nitrogen pools are increased by mixed grass and legume cover crops in vineyard agroecosystems: Detecting short-term management effects using infrared spectroscopy (2020, Geoderma)
  • Legacy effects of nitrogen and phosphorus additions on vegetation and carbon stocks of upland heaths (2020, New Phytologist)
  • High-throughput, image-based phenotyping reveals nutrient-dependent growth facilitation in a grass-legume mixture (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • Resampling alpine herbarium records reveals changes in plant traits over space and time (2023, Journal of Ecology)
  • Factors affecting severity of wildfires in Scottish heathlands and blanket bogs (2024, The Science of The Total Environment)

Frequent collaborators include Noemi A. L. Naszarkowski, Louise C. Ross, Alison J. Hester, Robin J. Pakeman, and K.R. Ball.

Their research has appeared in journals such as Geoderma, New Phytologist, PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment, and Journal of Ecology.

Best Publications

  • Accelerated increase in plant species richness on mountain summits is linked to warming

    Manuel J. Steinbauer;Manuel J. Steinbauer;John-Arvid Grytnes;Gerald Jurasinski;Aino Kulonen

  • Climate change in the Arctic: using plant functional types in a meta‐analysis of field experiments

    C. F. Dormann;Sarah Jane Woodin

  • Arctic mosses govern below-ground environment and ecosystem processes

    J. L. Gornall;I. S. Jónsdóttir;S. J. Woodin;R. Van der Wal

  • Impacts of increased nitrogen supply on high Arctic heath: the importance of bryophytes and phosphorus availability.

    Carmen Gordon;J. Wynn;Sarah Jane Woodin

  • THE POTENTIAL IMPORTANCE OF AN INCREASED ATMOSPHERIC NITROGEN SUPPLY TO THE GROWTH OF OMBROTROPHIC SPHAGNUM SPECIES

    M. C. Press;S. J. Woodin;J. A. Lee

  • Physiological and growth responses of the montane bryophyte Racomitrium lanuginosum to atmospheric nitrogen deposition

    I. S. K. Pearce;Sarah Jane Woodin;R. van der Wal

  • Interplay between nitrogen deposition and grazing causes habitat degradation

    René Van Der Wal;Imogen Pearce;Rob Brooker;Dave Scott

  • Biotic homogenization of upland vegetation: patterns and drivers at multiple spatial scales over five decades

    Louise Claire Ross;Sarah Jane Woodin;Alison J Hester;Des B.A. Thompson

  • Root traits predict decomposition across a landscape‐scale grazing experiment

    Stuart W. Smith;Stuart W. Smith;Sarah J. Woodin;Robin J. Pakeman;David Johnson

  • Ecology of Arctic Environments.

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  • Effects of increased temperature, drought and nitrogen supply on two upland perennials of contrasting functional type: Calluna vulgaris and Pteridium aquilinum

    C. Gordon;S. J. Woodin;I. J. Alexander;C. E. Mullins

  • Spring feeding by pink-footed geese reduces carbon stocks and sink strength in tundra ecosystems

    Rene Van Der Wal;Sofie Sjogersten;Sarah Jane Woodin;Elisabeth J. Cooper

  • Balancing positive and negative plant interactions: how mosses structure vascular plant communities

    Jemma L. Gornall;Sarah J. Woodin;Ingibjorg S. Jónsdóttir;René van der Wal

  • Nitrate reductase activity in Sphagnum fuscum in relation to wet deposition of nitrate from the atmosphere

    S. Woodin;M. C. Press;J. A. Lee

  • Effects of increased nitrogen and phosphorus availability on the photosynthesis and nutrient relations of three arctic dwarf shrubs from Svalbard.

    J. A. Baddeley;S. J. Woodin;I. J. Alexander

  • Herbivore impacts to the moss layer determine tundra ecosystem response to grazing and warming

    Jemma L. Gornall;Sarah J. Woodin;Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir;Rene Van der Wal

  • Effects of carbon dioxide and nitrogen enrichment on a plant-insect interaction : the quality of Calluna vulgaris as a host for Operophtera brumata

    J. E. Kerslake;S. J. Woodin;S. E. Hartley

  • Small-scale hydrological variation determines landscape CO2 fluxes in the high Arctic

    Sofie Sjögersten;Sofie Sjögersten;René van der Wal;Sarah J. Woodin

  • Can the foliar nitrogen concentration of upland vegetation be used for predicting atmospheric nitrogen deposition? Evidence from field surveys.

    W.K. Hicks;I.D. Leith;S.J. Woodin;D. Fowler

  • Is there a cost of parasites to caribou

    J. Hughes;S. D. Albon;R. J. Irvine;S. Woodin

  • Habitat type determines herbivory controls over CO2 fluxes in a warmer Arctic.

    Sofie Sjögersten;René van der Wal;Sarah J. Woodin

Frequent Co-Authors

René van der Wal
René van der Wal Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Sofie Sjögersten
Sofie Sjögersten University of Nottingham
Robin J. Pakeman
Robin J. Pakeman James Hutton Institute
Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir
Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir University of Iceland
James D. M. Speed
James D. M. Speed Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Peter M. Hollingsworth
Peter M. Hollingsworth Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Dries P. J. Kuijper
Dries P. J. Kuijper Mammal Research Institute
John A. Lee
John A. Lee University of Sheffield
Elisabeth J. Cooper
Elisabeth J. Cooper University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Ian J. Alexander
Ian J. Alexander University of Aberdeen

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