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Name: Bradford, Mark
Telephone: 706.542.7829; Fax: 706.542.3344
Email: markb@uga.edu
Organization:
Institute of Ecology
University of Georgia
717A Biological Sciences Bldg.
Athens, Georgia 30602
Position at Coweeta LTER: Co-Investigator
Specialty: Global change
Habitat: Terrestrial ecosystems (forests and grasslands)
Organism: Soil organisms (predominantly detrital based food webs),
plants
Core Area(s): Biogeochemistry, global change, soil ecology,
ecosystem carbon dynamics, microbial adaptation
Education:
B.Sc., University of Exeter (UK), Biological Sciences, 1992-1995
Ph.D., Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (Merlewood, UK) & University of
Exeter (UK), 1995-1999
Postdoctoral, NERC Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College (UK),
1999-2002
Postdoctoral, Duke University (USA), 2002-2004
Appointments:
Assistant Professor, Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia,
2005-present
Publications (Five as examples of research foci):
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., Tshcerko, D., Lawton, J.H. (2002). Impacts of soil faunal
community composition on model grassland ecosystems. Science 298,
615-618.
Bradford, M.A., Wookey, P.A., Ineson, P., Lappin-Scott, H.M. (2001).
Controlling factors and effects of chronic nitrogen and sulphur
deposition on methane oxidation in a temperate forest soil. Soil Biology
& Biochemistry 33, 93-102.
Schumacher, H.B., Catovsky, S., Eggers, T., Newington, J.E., Tordoff, G.M,
Bradford, M.A. Impacts of invasive plant species on riparian plant
assemblages: interactions with elevated atmospheric CO2 and nitrogen
deposition. Submitted.
Synergistic Activities
Contributor to ‘The Royal Society Summer Exhibition’, a vehicle to
communicate science to the UK media, general public and schools;
Participant in multi-national, collaborative, experiments such as the
Ecotron Species Composition and Global Change Experiment and the Global
Litter Invertebrate Decomposition Experiment (GLIDE); Frequent reviewer
for ecology, global change and general science journals; Facilitated
participation (while at Imperial) of undergraduate placement-students in
professional meetings, publication of their results in international,
peer-reviewed journals, and placement of these students into Ph.D.
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