Emma Sayer

Publications

• Foliar phosphorus fractions reveal how tropical plants maintain photosynthetic rates despite low soil phosphorus availability
• Deepened snow cover mitigates soil carbon loss from intensive land‐use in a semi‐arid temperate grassland
• Contributions and future priorities for soil science: Comparing perspectives from scientists and stakeholders
• Initial Soil Organic Matter Content Influences the Storage and Turnover of Litter, Root and Soil Carbon in Grasslands
• Differential responses of forest strata species richness to paleoclimate and forest structure
• On pedagogy of a Soil Science Centre for Doctoral Training
• Micronutrients in Food Production: What Can We Learn from Natural Ecosystems?
• Root exudation rate increases, and composition changes in a mature temperate forest under elevated carbon dioxide
• Methane source-sink behaviour in upland trees spanning a global climate gradient
• Distinct storage mechanisms of soil organic carbon in coniferous forest and evergreen broadleaf forest in tropical China
• Adaptation to chronic drought modifies soil microbial community responses to phytohormones
• Litter Traits of Native and Non-Native Tropical Trees Influence Soil Carbon Dynamics in Timber Plantations in Panama
• The grassland carbon cycle: Mechanisms, responses to global changes, and potential contribution to carbon neutrality
• Post-drought root exudation defines soil organic matter stability in a temperate mature forest
• Grazing intensity alters the plant diversity–ecosystem carbon storage relationship in rangelands across topographic and climatic gradients
• Spatial and temporal shifts in functional and taxonomic diversity of dung beetles in a human-modified tropical forest landscape
• Nutrient addition enhances carbon sequestration in soil but not plant biomass in a coastal shelter plantation in South China
• Linking land-use and land-cover transitions to their ecological impact in the Amazon
• Carbon allocation to root exudates in a mature mixed F. sylvatica – P. abies forest under drought and one year after drought release.
• Root soil Nitrogen acquisition by mature Oak trees exposed to elevated CO2: Nitrogen preference and uptake rate under a future climate
• Litter Inputs, but Not Litter Diversity, Maintain Soil Processes in Degraded Tropical Forests—A Cross-Continental Comparison
• Revisiting nutrient cycling by litterfall—Insights from 15 years of litter manipulation in old-growth lowland tropical forest
• Soil microbial biomass and community responses to experimental precipitation change: A meta-analysis
• Biodiversity in tropical plantations is influenced by surrounding native vegetation but not yield: A case study with dung beetles in Amazonia
• Drying and rewetting conditions differentially affect the mineralization of fresh plant litter and extant soil organic matter
• Spatial and temporal shifts in functional and taxonomic diversity of dung beetles in a human-modified tropical forest landscape
• Altered litter inputs modify carbon and nitrogen storage in soil organic matter in a lowland tropical forest
• Sustainable Management of Grassland Soils
• Carbon allocation to root exudates is maintained in mature temperate tree species under drought
• Experimental drought increased the forest’s belowground sink strength towards temporarily increased topsoil carbon stocks
• Soil stoichiometry mediates links between tree functional diversity and soil microbial diversity in a temperate forest
• Soil carbon storage is related to tree functional composition in naturally regenerating tropical forests
• Seasonal Influence of Biodiversity on Soil Respiration in a Temperate Forest
• Author Correction: Tropical forest soil carbon stocks do not increase despite 15 years of doubled litter inputs
• Delayed wet season increases soil net N mineralization in a seasonally tropical forest
• Enhanced abundance of generalist and litter saprotrophs explain increased tropical forest soil carbon with long‐term nitrogen deposition
• Tree stem bases are sources of CH4 and N2O in a tropical forest on upland soil during the dry to wet season transition
• Soils are a non-negligible source of NO in a UK suburban greenspace and SE Australian Eucalyptus forest
• Tropical forest soil carbon stocks do not increase despite 15 years of doubled litter inputs
• Responses of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to long-term inorganic and organic nutrient addition in a lowland tropical forest
• The anatomy of an excellent review paper
• The essentials of effective scientific writing – A revised alternative guide for authors
• Deepened winter snow cover enhances net ecosystem exchange and stabilizes plant community composition and productivity in a temperate grassland
• The diversity of decay
• Fine root exudation rate increases in drier soils, but tree level carbon exudation does not change under drought in mature Fagus sylvatica - Picea abies trees
• Aboveground litter inputs determine carbon storage across soil profiles
• Sustainable management of grassland soils
• High foliar K and P resorption efficiencies in old-growth tropical forests growing on nutrient-poor soils.
• Functional redundancy of Amazonian dung beetles confers community-level resistance to primary forest disturbance
• Long-term fertilization modifies the mineralization of soil organic matter in response to added substrate
• The Automated Root Exudate System (ARES): a method to apply solutes at regular intervals to soils in the field.
• The role of tree size in the leafing phenology of a seasonally dry tropical forest in Belize, Central America
• Effects of litter manipulation on early-stage decomposition and meso-arthropod abundance in a tropical moist forest
• Increased litterfall changes fine root distribution in a moist tropical forest
• Using experimental manipulation to assess the roles of leaf litter in the functioning of forest ecosystems
• Increased litterfall in tropical forests boosts the transfer of soil CO2 to the atmosphere
• Grassland management influences spatial patterns of soil microbial communities
• Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community composition is altered by long-term litter removal but not litter addition in a lowland tropical forest
• The Functional Ecology Short Guide to Scientific Writing
• Arthropod Abundance and Diversity in a Lowland Tropical Forest Floor in Panama: The Role of Habitat Space vs. Nutrient Concentrations
• A new approach to trenching experiments for measuring root-rhizosphere respiration in a lowland tropical forest
• Sex & Bugs & Rock 'n Roll: Getting creative about public engagement
• Nutrient limitation of woody debris decomposition in a tropical forest: contrasting effects of N and P addition
• Short- and long-term influence of litter quality and quantity on simulated heterotrophic soil respiration in a lowland tropical forest
• Soil carbon release enhanced by increased tropical forest litterfall
• Potassium, phosphorus, or nitrogen limit root allocation, tree growth, or litter production in a lowland tropical forest
• Litter manipulation and the soil arthropod community in a lowland tropical rainforest
• Experimental investigation of the importance of litterfall in lowland semi-evergreen tropical forest nutrient cycling
• Variable Responses of Lowland Tropical Forest Nutrient Status to Fertilization and Litter Manipulation
• Distinct responses of soil respiration to experimental litter manipulation in temperate woodland and tropical forest
• Tree functional diversity affects litter decomposition and arthropod community composition in a tropical forest
• Leaf-cutting ants as ecosystem engineers: topsoil and litter perturbations aroundAtta cephalotesnests reduce nutrient availability
• Links between soil microbial communities and plant traits in a species‐rich grassland under long‐term climate change
• Tropical forest restoration: Fast resilience of plant biomass contrasts with slow recovery of stable soil C stocks
• Decomposition of coarse woody debris in a long‐term litter manipulation experiment: A focus on nutrient availability
• Tree communities rapidly alter soil microbial resistance and resilience to drought
• Dung beetle community dynamics in undisturbed tropical forests
• The forest for the trees
• Variability of above-ground litter inputs alters soil physicochemical and biological processes
• The functional ecology short guide to scientific writing
• Demonstrating a significant advance to the field: An essential criterion for publication in Functional Ecology
• Tropical forest above‐ground productivity is maintained by nutrients cycled in litter