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Overview

Susan E. Hartley is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with 116 publications in this field. Within this domain, they have concentrated on subfields such as Plant Science, Geochemistry and Petrology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, and Environmental Engineering.

Their work covers a range of main topics including:

  • Silicon Effects in Agriculture
  • Aluminum toxicity and tolerance in plants and animals
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Plant and fungal interactions
  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions

Their recent papers include:

  • Increased yield and CO2 sequestration potential with the C4 cereal Sorghum bicolor cultivated in basaltic rock dust-amended agricultural soil, 2020, published in Global Change Biology
  • Is Silicon a Panacea for Alleviating Drought and Salt Stress in Crops?, 2020, published in Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Silicon deposition on guard cells increases stomatal sensitivity as mediated by K+ efflux and consequently reduces stomatal conductance, 2020, published in Physiologia Plantarum
  • Assessment of the growth in social groups for sustainable agriculture and land management, 2020, published in Global Sustainability
  • Enhanced weathering in the US Corn Belt delivers carbon removal with agronomic benefits, 2024, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Scott N. Johnson
  • Sarah J. Thorne
  • Ximena Cibils-Stewart
  • Casey R. Hall
  • Jamie M. Waterman

Hartley has contributed to multiple publication venues with high frequency, including:

  • Functional Ecology (10 publications)
  • Global Change Biology (3 publications)
  • Frontiers in Plant Science (3 publications)
  • Journal of Experimental Botany (3 publications)
  • New Phytologist (3 publications)

Best Publications

  • Global assessment of agricultural system redesign for sustainable intensification

    Jules Pretty;Tim G. Benton;Zareen Pervez. Bharucha;Lynn V. Dicks

  • Assessment of risk of insect-resistant transgenic crops to nontarget arthropods

    Jörg Romeis;Detlef Bartsch;Franz Bigler;Marco P Candolfi

  • A protein competition model of phenolic allocation

    Clive G Jones;Susan E Hartley

  • Impacts of plant symbiotic fungi on insect herbivores: mutualism in a multitrophic context.

    Sue E. Hartley;Alan C. Gange

  • Physical defences wear you down: progressive and irreversible impacts of silica on insect herbivores

    Fergus P. Massey;Sue E. Hartley

  • Silica in grasses as a defence against insect herbivores: contrasting effects on folivores and a phloem feeder.

    Fergus P. Massey;A. Roland Ennos;Sue E. Hartley

  • The chemical composition of plant galls : are levels of nutrients and secondary compounds controlled by the gall-former?

    Susan E Hartley

  • Impacts of Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide on Model Terrestrial Ecosystems

    T. H. Jones;L. J. Thompson;J. H. Lawton;T. M. Bezemer

  • Plant Chemistry and Herbivory, or Why the World is Green

    Susan E. Hartley;Clive G. Jones

  • Experimental demonstration of the antiherbivore effects of silica in grasses: impacts on foliage digestibility and vole growth rates

    Fergus P Massey;Sue E Hartley

  • Rapid and accurate analyses of silicon and phosphorus in plants using a portable X‐ray fluorescence spectrometer

    Stefan Reidinger;Michael H. Ramsey;Susan E. Hartley

  • Increased yield and CO2 sequestration potential with the C4 cereal Sorghum bicolor cultivated in basaltic rock dust-amended agricultural soil.

    Mike E. Kelland;Peter W. Wade;Amy L. Lewis;Lyla L. Taylor

  • Herbivore specific induction of silica-based plant defences

    Fergus P. Massey;A. Roland Ennos;Sue E. Hartley

  • A collaboratively-derived science-policy research agenda

    William J. Sutherland;Laura Bellingan;Jim R. Bellingham;Jason J. Blackstock;Jason J. Blackstock

  • Grasses and the resource availability hypothesis: the importance of silica‐based defences

    Fergus P. Massey;A. Roland Ennos;Sue E. Hartley

  • "Insectageddon": A call for more robust data and rigorous analyses.

    Chris D. Thomas;T. Hefin Jones;Sue E. Hartley

  • How do nutrients and warming impact on plant communities and their insect herbivores? A 9-year study from a sub-Arctic heath

    Sarah J. Richardson;Malcolm C. Press;Andrew N. Parsons;Andrew N. Parsons;Susan E. Hartley;Susan E. Hartley

  • THE PERILS OF HAVING TASTY NEIGHBORS: GRAZING IMPACTS OF LARGE HERBIVORES AT VEGETATION BOUNDARIES

    Stephen C. F. Palmer;Alison J. Hester;David A. Elston;Iain J. Gordon

  • Biosynthesis of plant phenolic compounds in elevated atmospheric CO2.

    Susan E. Hartley;Clive G. Jones;Gordon C. Couper;T. Hefin Jones

  • Aboveground-belowground herbivore interactions: a meta-analysis.

    Scott N. Johnson;Katherine E. Clark;Katherine E. Clark;Susan E. Hartley;T. Hefin Jones

  • Host-plant manipulation by gall-insects : a test of the nutrition hypothesis

    S. E. Hartley;J. H. Lawton

  • Biotic Interactions in the Tropics: Their Role in the Maintenance of Species Diversity

    David Francis Robert Philip Burslem;Michelle Amy Pinard;S. E. Hartley

  • The ecology of herbivore‐induced silicon defences in grasses

    Susan E. Hartley;Jane L. DeGabriel

  • Roots under attack: contrasting plant responses to below- and aboveground insect herbivory.

    Scott N. Johnson;Matthias Erb;Susan E. Hartley

  • Is Silicon a Panacea for Alleviating Drought and Salt Stress in Crops

    Sarah J Thorne;Susan E Hartley;Frans J M Maathuis

  • Simulated Herbivory: The Key to Disentangling Plant Defence Responses.

    Jamie M. Waterman;Christopher I. Cazzonelli;Susan E. Hartley;Scott N. Johnson

  • Differential selection of baculovirus genotypes mediated by different species of host food plant

    David J. Hodgson;Adam J. Vanbergen;Susan E. Hartley;Rosie S. Hails

  • Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Chemical Defence: Effects of Colonisation on Aboveground and Belowground Metabolomes.

    Elizabeth M Hill;Lynne A. Robinson;Ali Abdul-Sada;Adam J. Vanbergen

  • Elevated carbon dioxide and warming impact silicon and phenolic-based defences differently in native and exotic grasses.

    Scott N. Johnson;Susan E. Hartley

  • Silicon deposition on guard cells increases stomatal sensitivity as mediated by K+ efflux and consequently reduces stomatal conductance

    Rebecca K. Vandegeer;Chenchen Zhao;Ximena Cibils‐Stewart;Richard Wuhrer

  • Impacts of silica-based defences in grasses on the feeding preferences of sheep

    Fergus P. Massey;Kate Massey;A. Roland Ennos;Sue E. Hartley

  • Herbivory of tropical rain forest tree seedlings correlates with future mortality.

    Markus P. Eichhorn;Reuben Nilus;Stephen G. Compton;Sue E. Hartley

  • Evidence for Active Uptake and Deposition of Si-based Defenses in Tall Fescue.

    Emma McLarnon;Simon McQueen-Mason;Ingo Lenk;Susan E. Hartley

  • Delayed induced silica defences in grasses and their potential for destabilising herbivore population dynamics

    Jennifer J. H. Reynolds;Xavier Lambin;Fergus P. Massey;Fergus P. Massey;Stefan Reidinger;Stefan Reidinger

  • More than herbivory: Levels of silica-based defences in grasses vary with plant species, genotype and location

    Eeva M. Soininen;Kari Anne Bråthen;Juan German Herranz Jusdado;Stefan Reidinger

  • The role of food plant and pathogen-induced behaviour in the persistence of a nucleopolyhedrovirus

    Ben Raymond;Sue E. Hartley;Jenny S. Cory;Rosie S. Hails

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott N. Johnson
Scott N. Johnson Western Sydney University
Glenn R. Iason
Glenn R. Iason James Hutton Institute
T. Hefin Jones
T. Hefin Jones Cardiff University
Daniel Osorio
Daniel Osorio University of Sussex
Adam J. Vanbergen
Adam J. Vanbergen INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Jeff R. Powell
Jeff R. Powell Western Sydney University
Thomas W. Crowther
Thomas W. Crowther King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Allan D. Watt
Allan D. Watt Natural Environment Research Council
Malcolm C. Press
Malcolm C. Press Manchester Metropolitan University
Douglas L. Godbold
Douglas L. Godbold Mendel University Brno

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