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Research project

Soil carbon and climate warming in tropical forests: using experimentation and elevation to reveal responses across space and time

  • Start date: 15 June 2021
  • End date: 15 June 2026
  • Funder: NERC
  • Value: £677,101
  • Primary investigator: Dr Andrew Nottingham

To investigate the effect of climate warming on soil carbon storage in tropical forest.

Publications and outputs

-    McFarlane KJ, Cusack DF, Dietterich LH, Hedgpeth AL, Finstad KM, Nottingham AT (2024).  Experimental warming and drying increase older carbon contributions to soil respiration in lowland tropical forests. Nature Communications 15, 7084. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51422-6  
-    Nottingham AT (2024) Tropical forest soils in a warmer world: consequences for climate and biodiversity. In The First 100 Years of Research on Barro Colorado Island: Plant and Ecosystem Science, ed. H. C. Muller-Landau and S. J. Wright: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, Washington, DC
-    Cusack DF, Reed S, Andersen KM, Cinoğlu D, Craig ME, Dietterich LH, Hogan JA, Holm JA, Nottingham AT, Ostertag R, Soper FM, Wood TE, Wong MY (2024). Tropical forests and global change: biogeochemical responses and opportunities for cross-site comparisons, New Phytologist 241(5):1922-1926
-    Duan P, Fu R, Nottingham AT, et al. (2023) Tree species diversity increases soil microbial carbon use efficiency in a subtropical forest. Global Change Biology, 29 (24), 7131-7144
-    Nottingham AT, Slot M, Velasquez E, et al. (2023) Seedling growth declines in warmed tropical forest soils. Biotropica, 55, 897-910
-    Nottingham AT, Scott J, Saltonstall K, et al. (2022) Microbial diversity decline and community adaptation in warmed tropical soils do not explain soil CO2 emission Nature Microbiology 7 (10), 1650-1660
-    Nottingham AT, Gloor E, Bååth E, Meir P (2022) Soil carbon and microbes in the warming tropics Functional Ecology 36, 1338–1354.
-    Bujan J, Nottingham AT, Velasquez E, et al. (2022) Tropical ant community responses to experimental soil warming. Biology Letters 18 (4), 20210518
-    Fanin N, Mooshammer M, Sauvadet M, Meng C, Alvarez G, Bernard L, Bertrand I, Blagodatskaya E, Bon L, Fontaine S, Niu S, Lashermes G, Maxwell TL, Weintraub MN, Wingate L, Moorhead D, Nottingham AT (2022) Soil enzymes in response to climate warming: Mechanisms and feedbacks. Functional Ecology 36, 1378-1395.