Nick Ostle

21.2k total citations · 7 hit papers
175 papers, 14.5k citations indexed

About

Nick Ostle is a scholar working on Ecology, Soil Science and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Nick Ostle has authored 175 papers receiving a total of 14.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 116 papers in Ecology, 86 papers in Soil Science and 45 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Nick Ostle's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (85 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (77 papers) and Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (32 papers). Nick Ostle is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (85 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (77 papers) and Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (32 papers). Nick Ostle collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Germany. Nick Ostle's co-authors include Chris Freeman, Richard D. Bardgett, Hojeong Kang, Niall P. McNamara, Jeanette Whitaker, P. Ineson, Robert I. Griffiths, Kelly E. Mason, Nathalie Fenner and Simon Oakley and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Nick Ostle

169 papers receiving 14.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Soil bacterial networks are less stable under drought than fungal networks

2018 1.4k citations Franciska T. de Vries, Robert I. Griffiths et al. Nature Communications profile →
An enzymic 'latch' on a global carbon store

2001 983 citations Nick Ostle et al. profile →
Microbial contributions to climate change through carbon cycle feedbacks

2008 813 citations Richard D. Bardgett, Nick Ostle et al. profile →
Land use driven change in soil pH affects microbial carbon cycling processes

2018 630 citations Ashish A. Malik, Jérémy Puissant et al. Nature Communications profile →
Export of dissolved organic carbon from peatlands under elevated carbon dioxide levels

2004 538 citations Nick Ostle et al. profile →
Predicting the structure of soil communities from plant community taxonomy, phylogeny, and traits

2018 235 citations Richard D. Bardgett, Kelly E. Mason et al. profile →
Microbes follow Humboldt: temperature drives plant and soil microbial diversity patterns from the Amazon to the Andes

2018 229 citations Jeanette Whitaker, Nick Ostle et al. profile →

Peers

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nick Ostle

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nick Ostle

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nick Ostle. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nick Ostle based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Nick Ostle. Nick Ostle is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Higher Plant Diversity Does Not Moderate the Influence of Changing Rainfall Regimes on Plant–Soil Feedback of a Semi‐Arid Grassland 2025 ·Global Change Biology ·Xiliang Li, G. Kenny Png, Zhen Zhang, (unknown), Yuanheng Li, Fang Li, Shan Luo, Nick Ostle, John Quinton, Urs Schaffner, Xiangyang Hou, David A. Wardle, Richard D. Bardgett	1
2	Interactive effects of climate warming and management on grassland soil respiration partitioning 2024 ·European Journal of Soil Science ·Arlete S. Barneze, Jeanette Whitaker, Niall P. McNamara, Nick Ostle	3
3	Microbial and mineral interactions decouple litter quality from soil organic matter formation 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Dafydd Elias, Kelly E. Mason, Tim Goodall, (unknown), (unknown), Alba Otero-Fariña, Hongmei Chen, Caroline L. Peacock, Nick Ostle, Robert I. Griffiths, Pippa J. Chapman, Joseph Holden, Steven A. Banwart, Niall P. McNamara, Jeanette Whitaker	22
4	Drought effects on root and shoot traits and their decomposability 2023 ·Functional Ecology ·(unknown), Jeanette Whitaker, Elena Kazakou, Laurent Bonnal, Denis Bastianelli, James M. Bullock, Nick Ostle	24
5	Vegetation type, not the legacy of warming, modifies the response of microbial functional genes and greenhouse gas fluxes to drought in Oro-Arctic and alpine regions 2023 ·FEMS Microbiology Ecology ·Ellen L. Fry, (unknown), (unknown), Nathalie Isabelle Chardon, Christian Rixen, Mats P. Björkman, Robert G. Björk, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Hongwei Liu, Franciska T. de Vries, Nick Ostle, Brajesh K. Singh, Richard D. Bardgett	4
6	Historical context modifies plant diversity–community productivity relationships in alpine grassland 2022 ·Journal of Ecology ·Shan Luo, Richard D. Bardgett, Bernhard Schmid, David Johnson, (unknown), Urs Schaffner, Huakun Zhou, Buqing Yao, Xiangyang Hou, Nick Ostle	5
7	Grassland degradation-induced declines in soil fungal complexity reduce fungal community stability and ecosystem multifunctionality 2022 ·Soil Biology and Biochemistry ·Shan Luo, G. Kenny Png, Nick Ostle, Huakun Zhou, Xiangyang Hou, Chunling Luo, John Quinton, Urs Schaffner, Christopher J. Sweeney, (unknown), Jihua Wu, Yuwei Wu, Richard D. Bardgett	98
8	Predicted Soil Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Climate × Management Interactions in Temperate Grassland 2022 ·Agronomy ·Arlete S. Barneze, Mohamed Abdalla, Jeanette Whitaker, Niall P. McNamara, Nick Ostle	9
9	Microbial necromass carbon and nitrogen persistence are decoupled in agricultural grassland soils 2022 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·Kate M. Buckeridge, Kelly E. Mason, Nick Ostle, Niall P. McNamara, Helen Grant, Jeanette Whitaker	36
10	FLEXIBLE SOIL MICROBIAL CARBON METABOLISM ACROSS AN ASIAN ELEVATION GRADIENT 2021 ·Radiocarbon ·(unknown), Dayi Zhang, Nick Ostle, Chunling Luo, Yan Wang, Ping Ding, Zhineng Cheng, Chengde Shen, Gan Zhang	2
11	Plant functional type indirectly affects peatland carbon fluxes and their sensitivity to environmental change 2020 ·European Journal of Soil Science ·Jeanette Whitaker, (unknown), Nick Ostle, Alona Armstrong, Susan Waldron	7
12	Environmental and microbial controls on microbial necromass recycling, an important precursor for soil carbon stabilization 2020 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·Kate M. Buckeridge, Kelly E. Mason, Niall P. McNamara, Nick Ostle, Jérémy Puissant, Tim Goodall, Robert I. Griffiths, Andrew W. Stott, Jeanette Whitaker	182
13	Grassland biodiversity restoration increases resistance of carbon fluxes to drought 2019 ·Journal of Applied Ecology ·Andrew J. Cole, Robert I. Griffiths, Susan E. Ward, Jeanette Whitaker, Nick Ostle, Richard D. Bardgett	29
14	Land use driven change in soil pH affects microbial carbon cycling processes breakdown → 2018 ·Nature Communications ·Ashish A. Malik, Jérémy Puissant, Kate M. Buckeridge, Tim Goodall, Nico Jehmlich, Somak Chowdhury, Hyun S. Gweon, Jodey Peyton, Kelly E. Mason, Maaike van Agtmaal, Aimeric Blaud, Ian M. Clark, Jeanette Whitaker, Richard F. Pywell, Nick Ostle, Gerd Gleixner, Robert I. Griffiths	630
15	Vegetation, soil property and climatic controls over pore water dissolved organic carbon concentrations in a blanket peatland hosting a wind farm 2013 ·EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·Alona Armstrong, Susan Waldron, Jeanette Whitaker, Nick Ostle	2
16	Peatland carbon cycling at a Scottish wind farm: the role of plant-soil interactions 2013 ·EGUGA ·(unknown), Jeanette Whitaker, Susan Waldron, Nick Ostle	1
17	Vegetation, soil property and climatic controls over greenhouse gas fluxes in a blanket peatland hosting a wind farm 2013 ·EGUGA ·Alona Armstrong, Susan Waldron, Nick Ostle, Jeanette Whitaker	1
18	The effect of wind turbine-induced microclimates and plant functional types on peatland greenhouse gas emissions and pore water dissolved organic carbon concentrations 2012 ·EGUGA ·(unknown), Susan Waldron, Nick Ostle, Jeanette Whitaker	1
19	Freshwater umbrella - the effects of nitrogen deposition on freshwaters in the UK 2011 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·R. G. Bromley, Annette Burden, (unknown), Chris Evans, Heidrun Feuchtmayr, Helen Grant, T.H.E. Heaton, Timothy G. J. Jones, James L. Kaiser, Stephen C. Maberly, Alina Marca, Nick Ostle, (unknown), (unknown), Simon Turner, (unknown), Piotr Zieliński	1
20	Active root-inhabiting microbes identified by rapid incorporation of plant-derived carbon into RNA 2007 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse, Stéphane Mahé, P. Ineson, (unknown), Nick Ostle, Jean‐Bernard Cliquet, André‐Jean Francez, Alastair Fitter, J. Peter W. Young	170

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