Mark
A. Bradford
Assistant Professor
Odum School of Ecology
University of Georgia
517 Biological Sciences Bldg.
Athens, GA 30602-2602 (706) 542-7829
Fax: (706) 542-3344
e-mail: markb@uga.edu
Graduate Faculty
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Education
Ph.D. - Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (Merlewood, UK) and University of Exeter (UK)
Research Interests
Soil ecology
Biogeochemical processes
Global change
Research Projects
Soil carbon and microbial responses to elevated temperature; Relationship between soil community composition and carbon dynamics; Consequences of microbial adaptation to altered resource availability on ecosystem processes; Soil carbon responses to altered resource availability and/or invasive species; Functional implications of soil microbial biogeography
Selected Publications
Bradford, M.A., Schumacher, H.B., Catovsky, S., Eggers, T., Newington, J.E., Tordoff, G.M. (2007) Impacts of invasive plant species on riparian plant assemblages: interactions with elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide and nitrogen deposition. Oecologia 152 , 791-803.
Bradford, M.A., Tordoff, G.M., Black, H.I.J., Cook, R., Eggers, T., Hutcheson, K., Garnett, M.H. Grayston, S.J., Ineson, P., Newington, J.E., Ostle, N., Sleep, D., Stott, A., Jones, T.H. (2007) Carbon dynamics in a model grassland with functionally different soil communities. Functional Ecology, 21 , 690-697.
Fierer, N., Bradford, M.A., Jackson R.B. (2007) Toward an ecological classification of soil bacteria. Ecology 88, 1354-1364 (Special Feature Article - New Directions in Microbial Ecology).
Kominoski, J.S., Pringle, C.M., Ball, B.A., Bradford, M.A. , Coleman, D.C., Hall, D.B., Hunter, M.D. (2007) Non-additive effects of leaf litter species diversity on breakdown dynamics in a detrital-based stream. Ecology 88, 1167-1176.
Manning, P., Newington, J.E., Robson, H.R., Saunders, M., Eggers, T., Bradford, M.A., Bardgett, R.D., Bonkowski, M., Ellis, R.J., Gange, A.C., Grayston, S.J., Kandeler, E. Marhan, S., Reid, E., Tscherko , D., Godfray, H.C.J., Rees, M. (2006) Decoupling the direct and indirect effects of nitrogen deposition on ecosystem function. Ecology Letters 9, 1015-1024.
Maestre, F.T., Bradford, M.A., Reynolds J.F. (2005) Soil nutrient heterogeneity interacts with elevated CO 2 and nutrient availability to determine species and assemblage responses in a model grassland community. New Phytologist 168, 637-650.
Goddard M.R., Bradford, M.A. (2003) The adaptive response of a natural microbial population to carbon- and nitrogen-limitation. Ecology Letters 6, 594-598.
Smith, V.C., Bradford, M.A. (2003) Do non-additive effects on decomposition in litter-mix experiments result from differences in resource quality between litters? Oikos 102, 235-242.
Bradford, M.A., Jones, T.H., Bardgett, R.D., Black, H., Boag, B., Bonkowski, M., Cook, R., Eggers, T., Gange, A.C., Grayston, S.J., Kandeler, E., McCaig, A.E., Newington, J.E., Setälä, H., Staddon, P.L., Tordoff, G.M., Tscherko, D., Lawton, J.H. (2002) Impacts of soil faunal community composition on model grassland ecosystems. Science 2 98, 615-618.
Bradford, M.A., Tordoff, G.M., Eggers, T., Jones, T.H., Newington, J.E. (2002) Microbiota, fauna, and mesh size interactions in litter decomposition. Oikos 99, 317-323.
Last Updated: August 27, 2007
