Professor Nick Ostle

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Professor of Plant-Soil Ecology

Lancaster University
Lancaster, United Kingdom





emial: [email protected]
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

BSc Biology - Manchester Polytechnic, UK. 1992
MSc Ecology - Distinction - University of Bangor, Wales, UK. 1994
Diplome d’Etude Approfondie - Biogeochemistry - Université de Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France. 1995
PhD - Short-term C and N dynamics in grassland - Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research, UK. 2000

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  1. Ward, S., Ostle, N., Oakley, S., Quirk, H., Henrys, P. & Bardgett, R (2013). Warming effects on greenhouse gas fluxes in peatlands are modulated by vegetation composition.  Ecology Letters. 16, 10, p. 1285-1293 9 p.
  2. Orwin, K., Ostle, N., Wilby, A. & Bardgett, R. (2013) Effects of species evenness and dominant species identity on multiple ecosystem functions in model grassland communities. Oecologia.
  3. Gray, A., Levy, P. E., Cooper, M. D. A., Gaiawyn, J., Leeson, S. R., Ward, S., Dinsmore, K. J., Drewer, J., Sheppard, L. J., Ostle, N., Evans, C. D., Burden, A. & Zielinski, P. (2013) Methane indicator values for peatlands: a comparison of species and functional groups. Global Change Biology. 19, 4, p. 1141–1150 10 p.
  4. Ostle, N. & Ward, S. (2012) Climate change and soil biotic carbon cycling. Soil Ecology and Ecosystem Services. Wall, D. H. (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 241-255 15 p.
  5. Ward, S., Ostle, N., Oakley, S., Quirk, H., Stott, A., Henrys, P., Scott, W. A. & Bardgett, R. 2012. Fire accelerates assimilation and transfer of photosynthetic carbon from plants to soil microbes in a northern peatland. Ecosystems.
  6. De Deyn, G., Quirk, H., Oakley, S., Ostle, N. & Bardgett, R. (2012) Increased plant carbon translocation linked to overyielding in grassland species mixtures. PLoS ONE. 7, 9, e45926
  7. Levy, P. M., Burden, A., Cooper, M. D. A., Dinsmore, K. J., Drewer, J., Evans, C., Fowler, D., Gaiawyn, J., Gray, A., Jones, S. K., Jones, T., McNamara, N. P., Mills, R., Ostle, N., Sheppard, L. J., Skiba, U., Sowerby, A., Ward, S. & Zielinski, P. (2012) Methane emissions from soils: synthesis and analysis of a large UK data set. Global Change Biology. 18, p. 1657 1669 p.
  8. De Deyn, G., Shiel, R. S., Ostle, N., McNamara, N., Oakley, S., Young, I., Freeman, C., Fenner, N., Quirk, H. & Bardgett, R. (2011) Additional carbon sequestration benefits of grassland diversity restoration. Journal of Applied Ecology. 48, 3, p. 600-608 9 p.
  9. De Deyn, G., Quirk, H., Oakley, S., Ostle, N. & Bardgett, R. (2011) Rapid transfer of photosynthetic carbon through the plant-soil system in differently managed species-rich grasslands. Biogeosciences. 8, 5, p. 1131-1139 9 p.
  10. Ostle NJ, Levy, P.E., Evans, C.D., Smith, P. (2009). UK land use and soil carbon sequestration. Land Use Policy 26; 274-283.
  11. Ostle NJ, Smith P, Fisher R, et aI. (2009) Integrating plant-soil interactions into global carbon cycle models. Journal of Ecology 97, 851-863.
  12. Hardie SML, Garnett MH, Fallick AE, Ostle NJ, Rowland AP (2009) Bomb-C-14 analysis of ecosystem respiration reveals that peatland vegetation facilitates release of old carbon. Geoderma 153, 393-401.
  13. De Deyn GB, Quirk H, Yi Z, Oakley S, Ostle NJ, Bardgett RD (2009) Vegetation composition promotes carbon and nitrogen storage in model grassland communities of contrasting soil fertility. Journal of Ecology 97, 864-875.
  14. Briones MJI, Ostle NJ, McNamara NR (2009) Functional shifts of grassland soil communities in response to soil warming. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 41, 315-322. Ward SE, Bardgett RD, McNamara NP, Ostle NJ (2009) Plant functional group identity influences short-term peatland ecosystem carbon flux: evidence from a plant removal experiment. Functional Ecology 23, 454-462.
  15. McNamara NP, Plant T, Oakley S, Ostle NJ (2008) Gully hotspot contribution to landscape methane and carbon dioxide fluxes in a northern peatland. Science of the Total Environment 404, 354-360.
  16. Bardgett RD, Freeman C, Ostle NJ (2008) Microbial contributions to climate change through carbon cycle feedbacks. ISME Journal 8, 805-814. Ostle N, Briones MJI, Ineson P, Cole L, Staddon P, and Sleep D (2007) Isotopic detection of recent photosynthate carbon flow into grassland rhizosphere fauna. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 39, 768- 777.
  17. Ostle N, Whiteley AS, Bailey MJ, Sleep D, Ineson P, Manefield (2003). Active microbial RNA turnover in a grassland soil estimated using a 13CO2 spike. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 35, 877-885.
  18. Ostle N, Ineson P, Benham D, Sleep D (2000) Carbon assimilation and turnover in grassland vegetation using an in situ 13CO2 pulse labelling system. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 14, 1345-1350.
  19. Treonis AM, Ostle NJ, Stott AW, Primrose R, Grayston SJ, Ineson P (2004) Identification of groups of metabolically-active rhizosphere microorganisms by stable isotope probing of PLFAs. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 36, 533-537.
  20.  Hardie, SML, Garnett MH, Fallick AE, Rowland AP, Ostle NJ. (2007) Spatial variability of bomb-14C in an upland peat bog. Radiocarbon 49, 1055-1063.
  21. Ward SE, Bardgett RD, McNamara NP, Adamson JK, Ostle NJ (2007) Long-term consequences of grazing and burning on northern peatland carbon dynamics. Ecosystems 10, 1069-1083.
  22. Vandenkoornhuyse P, Mahe S, Ineson P, Staddon P, Ostle N, Cliquet JB, Francez AJ, Fitter AH, Young JPW. (2007). Active root-inhabiting microbes identified by rapid incorporation of plant derived carbon into RNA. PNAS 104, 16970-16975.
  23. Fenner N, Ostle NJ, McNamara N, Sparks T, Harmens H, Reynolds B, Freeman C. (2007). Elevated CO2 effects on peatland plant community carbon dynamics and DOC production. Ecosystems 10, 635-647.
  24. Bradford MA, Tordoff GM, Black HIJ, Cook R, Eggers T, Garnett MH, Grayston SJ, Hutcheson KA, Ineson P, Newington JE, Ostle N, Sleep D, Stott A, Jones TH. (2007) Carbon dynamics in a model grassland with functionally different soil communities. Functional Ecology 21, 690-697.
  25. Briones MJI, Ostle NJ and Garnett MH (2007) Invertebrates increase the sensitivity of non-labile soil carbon to climate. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 39, 816-818. Leake JR, Ostle NJ, Rangel-Castro JI, Johnson D (2006) Carbon fluxes from plants through soil organisms determined by field (CO2)-C-13 pulse-labelling in an upland grassland. Applied Soil Ecology 33, 152-175.
  26. Heinemeyer A, Ineson P, Ostle N, Fitter AH (2006) Respiration of the external mycelium in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis shows strong dependence on recent photosynthates and acclimation to temperature. New Phytologist 171, 159-170.
  27. Grieve IC, Davidson DA, Ostle NJ, Bruneau PMC, Fallick AE (2006) Spatial heterogeneity in the relocation of added C-13 within the structure of an upland grassland soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 38, 229-234.
  28. Rangel-Castro JI, Prosser JI, Scrimgeour CM, Smith P, Ostle N, Ineson P, Meharg A, Killham K (2004) Carbon flow in an upland grassland: effect of liming on the flux of recently photosynthesized carbon to rhizosphere soil. Global Change Biology 10, 2100-2108.
  29. Briones MJI, Poskitt J, Ostle N (2004) Influence of warming and enchytraeid activities on soil CO2 and CH4 fluxes. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 36, 1851-1859. Freeman C, Fenner N, Ostle NJ, Kang H, Dowrick DJ, Reynolds B, Lock MA, Sleep D, Hughes S, Hudson J (2004) Export of dissolved organic carbon from peatlands under elevated carbon dioxide levels. Nature 430, 195-198.
  30. Griffiths RI, Manefield M, Ostle N, McNamara N, O'Donnell AG, Bailey MJ, Whiteley AS (2004) 13CO2 pulse labelling of plants in tandem with stable isotope probing: methodological considerations for examining microbial function in the rhizosphere. Journal Of Microbiological Methods 58, 119-129.
  31. Fenner N, Ostle N, Freeman C, Sleep D, Reynolds B (2004) Peatland carbon efflux partitioning reveals that Sphagnum photosynthate contributes to the DOC pool. Plant and Soil 259, 345- 354.
  32. Staddon PL, Ramsey CB, Ostle N, Ineson P, Fitter AH (2003) Rapid turnover of hyphae of mycorrhizal fungi determined by AMS microanalysis of 14C. Science 300, 1138-1140.
  33. Staddon PL, Ostle N, Dawson LA, Fitter AH (2003). The speed of soil carbon throughput in an upland grassland is increased by liming. Journal of Experimental Botany 54, 1461-1469.
  34.  Manefield M, Whiteley AS, Ostle N, et al. (2002). Technical considerations for RNA-based stable isotope probing: an approach to associating microbial diversity with microbial community function. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 16, 2179-2183.
  35. Freeman C, Ostle N, Kang H (2001) An enzymic 'latch' on a global carbon store - A shortage of oxygen locks up carbon in peatlands by restraining a single enzyme. Nature 409, 149-149.