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Position at Coweeta LTER: Principal 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

Appointments:
Assistant Professor, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, 2005-present
Postdoctoral, NERC Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College (UK), 1999-2002
Postdoctoral, Duke University (USA), 2002-2004

Publications (Five as examples of research foci):

Ball, B.A., Hunter, M.D., Kominoski, J.S., Swan, M.S., Bradford, M.A. (2008) Consequences of non-random species loss for decomposition dynamics: Experimental evidence for additive and non-additive effects. Journal of Ecology, in press.

Bradford, M.A., Fierer, N., Jackson, R.B., Maddox, T.R., Reynolds, J.F. (2008) Nonlinear root-derived carbon sequestration across a gradient of nitrogen and phosphorous deposition in experimental mesocosms. Global Change Biology, in press.

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., Reynolds, J.F. (2006) Scaling terrestrial biogeochemical processes: contrasting intact and model experimental systems. In: Scaling and uncertainty analysis in ecology: methods and applications (eds. Wu, J., Jones, K.B., Li, H., Loucks, O.L.), pp. 109-130. Springer, Netherlands.

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 298: 615-618.