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Publications: Prof Lisa Belyea

Robinson CH, Ritson JP, Alderson DM, Malik AA, Griffiths RI, Heinemeyer A, Gallego-Sala AV, Quillet A et al. ( 2023 ) . Aspects of microbial communities in peatland carbon cycling under changing climate and land use pressures . Mires and Peat vol. 29 , Article 2 ,
Ritson JP, Alderson DM, Robinson CH, Burkitt AE, Heinemeyer A, Stimson AG, Gallego-Sala A, Harris A et al. ( 2020 ) . Towards a microbial process-based understanding of the resilience of peatland ecosystem service provisioning – a research agenda . The Science of The Total Environment143467 - 143467 .
Stanley KM, Heppell CM, Belyea LR, Baird AJ, Field RH ( 2019 ) . The importance of CH 4 ebullition in floodplain fens . Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences Article 2018JG004902 ,
Weston DJ, Turetsky MR, Johnson MG, Granath G, Lindo Z, Belyea LR, Rice SK, Hanson DT et al. ( 2017 ) . The Sphagnome Project: enabling ecological and evolutionary insights through a genusā€level sequencing project . New Phytologist vol. 217 , ( 1 ) 16 - 25 .
Morris PJ, Baird AJ, Belyea LR ( 2015 ) . Bridging the gap between models and measurements of peat hydraulic conductivity . Water Resources Research vol. 51 , ( 7 ) 5353 - 5364 .
Morris MA, Spencer KL, Belyea LR, Branfireun BA ( 2014 ) . Temporal and spatial distributions of sediment mercury in restored coastal saltmarshes . Marine Chemistry vol. 167 , 150 - 159 .
Loisel J, Yu Z, Beilman DW, Camill P, Alm J, Amesbury MJ, Anderson D, Andersson S et al. ( 2014 ) . A database and synthesis of northern peatland soil properties and Holocene carbon and nitrogen accumulation . Holocene vol. 24 , ( 9 ) 1028 - 1042 .
Laing CG, Granath G, Belyea LR, Allton KE, Rydin H ( 2014 ) . Tradeoffs and scaling of functional traits in Sphagnum as drivers of carbon cycling in peatlands . Oikos vol. 123 , ( 7 ) 817 - 828 .
Morris PJ, Baird AJ, Belyea LR ( 2013 ) . The role of hydrological transience in peatland pattern formation . vol. 1 , ( 1 ) 31 - 66 .
Abbott GD, Swain EY, Muhammad AB, Allton K, Belyea LR, Laing CG, Cowie GL ( 2013 ) . Effect of water-table fluctuations on the degradation of Sphagnum phenols in surficial peats . GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA vol. 106 , 177 - 191 .
Baird AJ, Comas X, Slater LD, Belyea LR, Reeve AS ( 2013 ) . Understanding Carbon Cycling in Northern Peatlands: Recent Developments and Future Prospects . Carbon Cycling in Northern Peatlands , Wiley
Morris PJ, Baird AJ, Belyea LR ( 2013 ) . The role of hydrological transience in peatland pattern formation . Earth Surface Dynamics vol. 1 , 29 - 43 .
Baird AJ, Morris PJ, Belyea LR ( 2012 ) . The DigiBog peatland development model 1: rationale, conceptual model, and hydrological basis . ECOHYDROLOGY vol. 5 , ( 3 ) 242 - 255 .
Morris PJ, Baird AJ, Belyea LR ( 2012 ) . The DigiBog peatland development model 2: ecohydrological simulations in 2D . ECOHYDROLOGY vol. 5 , ( 3 ) 256 - 268 .
Morris PJ, Belyea LR, Baird AJ ( 2011 ) . Ecohydrological feedbacks in peatland development: a theoretical modelling study . J ECOL vol. 99 , ( 5 ) 1190 - 1201 .
Eppinga MB, Rietkerk M, Belyea LR, Nilsson MB, De Ruiter PC, Wassen MJ ( 2010 ) . Resource contrast in patterned peatlands increases along a climatic gradient . ECOLOGY vol. 91 , ( 8 ) 2344 - 2355 .
Swain E, Muhammad A, Belyea L, Laing C, Cowie G, Filley T, Abbott G ( 2010 ) . A molecular biogeochemical study of a northern peatland ecosystem: the effects of substrate source on phenolic composition . GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA . vol. 74 , A1012 - A1012 .
Baird AJ, Belyea LR, Comas X, Reeve AS, Slater LD ( 2009 ) . Carbon Cycling in Northern Peatlands . American Geophysical Union ( Washington, D.C. ),
BELYEA L ( 2009 ) . Nonlinear dynamics of peatlands and potential feedbacks on the climate system . Carbon Cycling in Northern Peatlands , Editors: Baird, AJ, Belyea, LR, Comas, X, Reeve, AS et al. , vol. Geophysical Monograp , American Geophysical Union ( Washington, D.C. ),
Slater LD, Baird AJ, Belyea LR, Comas X, Reeve AS ( 2009 ) . Preface . Carbon Cycling in Northern Peatlands , Editors: Baird, AJ, Belyea, LR, Comas, X, Reeve, AS et al. , vol. Geophysical Monograp , American Geophysical Union ( Washington, D.C. ),
Baird AJ, Belyea LR, Morris PJ ( 2009 ) . Upscaling of peatland-atmosphere fluxes of methane: small-scale heterogeneity in process rates and the pitfalls of "bucket-and-slab" models . Carbon Cycling in Northern Peatlands , Editors: Baird, AJ, Belyea, LR, Comas, X, Reeve, AS et al. , vol. Geophysical Monograp , American Geophysical Union ( Washington, D.C. ),
Cutler NA, Belyea LR, Dugmore AJ ( 2008 ) . Spatial patterns of microsite colonisation on two young lava flows on Mount Hekla, Iceland . J VEG SCI vol. 19 , ( 2 ) 277 - 286 .
Cutler NA, Belyea LR, Dugmore AJ ( 2008 ) . The spatiotemporal dynamics of a primary succession . J ECOL vol. 96 , ( 2 ) 231 - 246 .
Belyea LR ( 2007 ) . Revealing the Emperor's new clothes: niche-based palaeoenvironmental reconstruction in the light of recent ecological theory . HOLOCENE vol. 17 , ( 5 ) 683 - 688 .
Belyea LR ( 2007 ) . Climatic and topographic limits to the abundance of bog pools . HYDROL PROCESS vol. 21 , ( 5 ) 675 - 687 .
Belyea LR, Baird AJ ( 2006 ) . Beyond "The limits to peat bog growth'': Cross-scale feedback in peatland development . ECOL MONOGR vol. 76 , ( 3 ) 299 - 322 .
Lancaster J, Belyea LR ( 2006 ) . Defining the limits to local density: alternative views of abundance-environment relationships . FRESHWATER BIOL vol. 51 , ( 4 ) 783 - 796 .
Belyea LR, Malmer N ( 2004 ) . Carbon sequestration in peatland: patterns and mechanisms of response to climate change . GLOBAL CHANGE BIOL vol. 10 , ( 7 ) 1043 - 1052 .
BELYEA L ( 2004 ) . Beyond ecological filters: feedback networks in the assembly and restoration of community structure . Assembly Rules and Restoration Ecology. Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice , Editors: Temperton, VM, Hobbs, R, Nuttle, T, Halle, S et al. , Island Press
Belyea LR, Lancaster J ( 2002 ) . Inferring landscape dynamics of bog pools from scaling relationships and spatial patterns . J ECOL vol. 90 , ( 2 ) 223 - 234 .
Belyea LR, Clymo RS ( 2001 ) . Feedback control of the rate of peat formation . P ROY SOC LOND B BIO vol. 268 , ( 1473 ) 1315 - 1321 .
BELYEA LR ( 1999 ) . A novel indicator of reducing conditions and water-table depth in mires . Functional Ecology vol. 13 , 431 - 434 .
BELYEA LR, Lancaster J ( 1999 ) . Assembly rules within a contingent ecology . Oikos vol. 86 , 402 - 416 .
BELYEA LR, Clymo RS ( 1999 ) . Do hollows control the rate of peat bog growth? . Patterned Mires and Mire Pools: Origin and Development, Flora and Fauna , Editors: Standen, V, Tallis, J, Meade, R , British Ecological Society ( London ),
Robertson AL, Lancaster J, Belyea LR, Hildrew AG ( 1997 ) . Hydraulic Habitat and the Assemblage Structure of Stream Benthic Microcrustacea . Freshwater Science vol. 16 , ( 3 ) 562 - 575 .
Robertson AL, Lancaster J, Belyea LR, Hildrew AG ( 1997 ) . Hydraulic habitat and the assemblage structure of stream benthic microcrustacea . Journal of the North American Benthological Society vol. 16 , 562 - 575 .
Lancaster J, BELYEA LR ( 1997 ) . Nested hierarchies and scale-dependence of flow refugium use . Journal of the North American Benthological Society vol. 16 , 221 - 238 .
BELYEA LR ( 1996 ) . Separating the effects of litter quality and microenvironment on decomposition rates in a patterned peatland . OIKOS vol. 77 , 529 - 539 .
BELYEA LR, Warner BG ( 1996 ) . Temporal scale and the accumulation of peat in a Sphagnum bog . Canadian Journal of Botany vol. 74 , 366 - 377 .
BELYEA LR, Warner BG ( 1994 ) . Dating of the near-surface layer of a peatland in northwestern Ontario, Canada . Boreas vol. 23 , 259 - 269 .
Aravena R, Warner BG, Charman DJ, BELYEA LR, Mathur SP, Dinel H ( 1993 ) . Carbon isotopic composition of deep carbon gases in an ombrogenous peatland, northwestern Ontario, Canada . Radiocarbon: an international journal of cosmogenic isotope research vol. 35 , 271 - 276 .