Dr. Jeanette Whitaker

Contact details

Job Title: Plant-Soil Ecologist

Location: Lancaster

Email: jhart@ceh.ac.uk

Phone: +44 (0)1524 595888

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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8824-471X

Biography

Research Interests:

My research focuses on the impacts of climate change and land-use change on terrestrial biogeochemical cycles and soil carbon storage, including use of ¹³C and ¹⁵N stable isotopes in studies of sooil carbon dynamics. I also conduct applied research and knowledge exchange activities focused on the environmental costs and benefits of sustainable biomass for energy.

Current projects:

DIVINE: Diurrnal variation in soil nitrous oxide emissions: drivers and mechanisms, NERC Discovery Science grant, 2021-2024.

Locked Up: The role of biotic and abiotic interactions in the stabilisation and persistence of soil organic carbon. Principal Investigator.
NERC Highlight Topic grant, £1.9M; 2019-2023

Recently completed projects:

NERC Knowledge Exchange Fellowship. KE4BE: Engaging the bioenergy sector to address soil sustainability challenges of bioenergy and land-use change (2014-2017)

U-GRASS: Understanding and enhancing soil ecosystem services and resilience in UK grass and croplands (collaborators including Imperial College, Rothamsted Research and Aberdeen University). NERC Soil Security Programme (2015-2018)

MAGLUE: Measurement and Analysis of bioenergy greenhouse gases: Integrating GHGs into LCAs and the UK Bioenergy Value Chain Modelling Environment. Collaborating with Southampton, Imperial College, IBERS-Aberystwyth, Aberdeen and Forest Research. EPSRC Supergen Bioenergy Challenge II. http://www.maglue.ac.uk/

Microclimates: Impacts of spatio-climatic variability on environment-hosted land-based renewables. NERC Land based renewables programme (2010-2014)

Recent publications

For complete list of publications click here: Researchgate

Links to selected publications are included below

Blogs

Dr Jeanette Whitakers Blog

Can we increase sustainable bioenergy in the UK?

Sustainable Bioenergy: Managing and understanding the environmental risks and benefits
Stakeholder workshop on Bioenergy and Land-use change
Website of the Ecosystem Land-use Modelling and Soil carbon flux trial (ELUM)

Brief CV:

2019-present: Ecologist (Band 4), UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster
2013-present: Ecologist (Band 5), Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Lancaster.
2001-2013: Ecologist (Band 6), Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster.
1998-2001: NERC Postdoctoral Fellowship: "Biochemical biomarkers of heavy metal stress in plants"

Qualifications:

PhD in Ecology, University of Leeds and Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, 1997
"Effects of heavy metal pollution on Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and its ectomycorrhizal symbionts".

BSc (Hons) Applied Biology, Liverpool John Moores University, 1994.

Professional Membership:

UKRI Energy Programme Science Advisory Committee (2018-present)
RCUK Bioenergy Strategic Coordination Group (2015-2019)
Member of British Ecological Society

Publications

Ledo Alicia; Hillier Jonathan; Smith Pete; Aguilera Eduardo; Blagodatskiy Sergey; Brearley Francis Q.; Datta Ashim; Diaz-Pines Eugenio; Don Axel; Dondini Marta; Dunn Jennifer; Feliciano Diana Marisa; Liebig Mark A.; Lang Rong; Llorente Mireia; Zinn Yuri Lopes; McNamara Niall; Ogle Stephen; Qin Zhangcai; Rovira Pere; Rowe Rebecca; Vicente-Vicente José Luis; Whitaker Jeanette; Yue Qian; Zerihun Ayalsew; , 2019, A global, empirical, harmonised dataset of soil organic carbon changes under perennial crops. Scientific Data, 6

Cole Andrew J.; Griffiths Robert I.; Ward Susan E.; Whitaker Jeanette; Ostle Nicholas J.; Bardgett Richard D.; , 2019, Grassland biodiversity restoration increases resistance of carbon fluxes to drought. Journal of Applied Ecology

Hicks Lettice C.; Meir Patrick; Nottingham Andrew T.; Reay Dave S.; Stott Andrew W.; Salinas Norma; Whitaker Jeanette; , 2018, Carbon and nitrogen inputs differentially affect priming of soil organic matter in tropical lowland and montane soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Malik Ashish A.; Puissant Jeremy; Buckeridge Kate M.; Goodall Tim; Jehmlich Nico; Chowdhury Somak; Gweon Hyun Soon; Peyton Jodey M.; Mason Kelly E.; van Agtmaal Maaike; Blaud Aimeric; Clark Ian M.; Whitaker Jeanette; Pywell Richard F.; Ostle Nick; Gleixner Gerd; Griffiths Robert I.; , 2018, Land use driven change in soil pH affects microbial carbon cycling processes. Nature Communications, 9

Nottingham Andrew T.; Fierer Noah; Turner Benjamin L.; Whitaker Jeanette; Ostle Nick J.; McNamara Niall P.; Bardgett Richard D.; Leff Jonathan W.; Salinas Norma; Silman Miles; Kruuk Loeske; Meir Patrick; , 2018, Microbes follow Humboldt: temperature drives plant and soil microbial diversity patterns from the Amazon to the Andes. Ecology

McCalmont Jon P; Rowe Rebecca; Elias Dafydd; Whitaker Jeanette; McNamara Niall P.; Donnison Iain S.; , 2018, Soil nitrous oxide flux following land-use reversion from Miscanthus and SRC willow to perennial ryegrass. Global Change Biology Bioenergy

Whitaker Jeanette; Field John L.; Bernacchi Carl J.; Cerri Carlos E.P.; Ceulemans Reinhart; Davies Christian A.; DeLucia Evan H.; Donnison Iain S.; McCalmont Jon P.; Paustian Keith; Rowe Rebecca L.; Smith Pete; Thornley Patricia; McNamara Niall P.; , 2017, Consensus, uncertainties and challenges for perennial bioenergy crops and land use. Global Change Biology Bioenergy

Robertson Andy D.; Whitaker Jeanette; Morrison Ross; Davies Christian A.; Smith Pete; McNamara Niall P.; , 2016, A Miscanthus plantation can be carbon neutral without increasing soil carbon stocks. Global Change Biology Bioenergy

Armstrong Alona; Burton Ralph R.; Lee Susan E.; Mobbs Stephen; Ostle Nicholas; Smith Victoria; Waldron Susan; Whitaker Jeanette; , 2016, Ground-level climate at a peatland wind farm in Scotland is affected by wind turbine operation. , 11

Nottingham Andrew T.; Turner Benjamin L.; Whitaker Jeanette; Ostle Nick; Bardgett Richard D.; McNamara Niall P.; Salinas Norma; Meir Patrick; , 2016, Temperature sensitivity of soil enzymes along an elevation gradient in the Peruvian Andes. , 127, 217-230

Nottingham A.T.; Turner B.L.; Whitaker J.; Ostle N.J.; McNamara N.P.; Bardgett R.D.; Salinas N.; Meir P.; , 2015, Soil microbial nutrient constraints along a tropical forest elevation gradient: a belowground test of a biogeochemical paradigm. , 12, 6071-6083

Armstrong Alona; Waldron Susan; Ostle Nicholas J.; Richardson Harriett; Whitaker Jeanette; , 2015, Biotic and abiotic factors interact to regulate northern peatland carbon cycling.

Nottingham Andrew T.; Whitaker Jeanette; Turner Benjamin L.; Salinas Norma; Zimmerman Michael; Malhi Yadvinder; Meir Patrick; , 2015, Climate warming and soil carbon in tropical forests: insights from an elevation gradient in the Peruvian Andes. , 65, 906-921

Case Sean D.C.; McNamara Niall P.; Reay David S.; Stott Andy W.; Grant Helen K.; Whitaker Jeanette; , 2015, Biochar suppresses N2O emissions while maintaining N availability in a sandy loam soil. , 81, 178-185

Whitaker Jeanette; Ostle Nicholas; McNamara Niall P.; Nottingham Andrew T.; Stott Andrew W.; Bardgett Richard D.; Salinas Norma; Ccahuana Adan J.Q.; Meir Patrick; , 2014, Microbial carbon mineralization in tropical lowland and montane forest soils of Peru.

Whitaker, Jeanette; Ostle, Nicholas; Nottingham, Andrew T.; Ccahuana, Adan; Salinas, Norma; Bardgett, Richard D.; Meir, Patrick; McNamara, Niall P., 2014, Microbial community composition explains soil respiration responses to changing carbon inputs along an Andes-to-Amazon elevatio. Journal of Ecology, 102, 1058-1071

Armstrong, Alona; Waldron, Susan; Whitaker, Jeanette; Ostle, Nicholas J., 2014, Wind farm and solar park effects on plant-soil carbon cycling: uncertain impacts of changes in ground-level microclimate. Global Change Biology, 20, 1699-1706

Whitaker Jeanette; , 2018, Steps to scaling up UK sustainable bioenergy supply.

Thomson Amanda; Misselbrook Tom; Moxley Janet; Buys Gwen; Evans Chris; Malcolm Heath; Whitaker Jeanette; McNamara Niall; Reinsch Sabine; , 2018, Quantifying the impact of future land use scenarios to 2050 and beyond. Final report.

Case, Sean; McNamara, Niall; Reay, D.S.; Chaplow, Jacky; Whitaker, Jeanette, Soil properties and soil greenhouse gas emissions in biochar-amended bioenergy soils undergoing long term field incubation..

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