Elisabeth B. Ward
  • About me
  • Research
    • ​Forest management and soil dynamics
    • ​Plant-fungal associations in forests
    • Understory plant invasions
    • Urban forestry and restoration ecology
  • Publications
  • Gallery
  • About me
  • Research
    • ​Forest management and soil dynamics
    • ​Plant-fungal associations in forests
    • Understory plant invasions
    • Urban forestry and restoration ecology
  • Publications
  • Gallery

Publications (peer-reviewed)

*Denotes equal authorship contributions; Undergraduate mentees are underlined.  

2022
Ward EB
, MC Duguid, SE Kuebbing, JL Lendemer, and MA Bradford. 2022. The functional role of ericoid mycorrhizal plants and fungi on carbon and nitrogen dynamics in forests. New Phytologist.
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Invited Tansley Review

2021
Ward EB, MC Duguid, SE Kuebbing, JL Lendemer, RJ Warren II, and MA Bradford. 2021. Ericoid mycorrhizal shrubs alter the relationship between tree mycorrhizal dominance and soil carbon and nitrogen. Journal of Ecology 109: 3524-3540. 
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Shortlisted for the 2021 Harper Prize, the annual award for the best paper by an early career researcher in Journal of Ecology

Ward EB*, DA Doroski*, AJ Felson, RA Hallet, EE Oldfield, SE Kuebbing, and MA Bradford. 2021. Positive long‐term impacts of restoration on soils in an experimental urban forest. Ecological Applications 31: e02336.  
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Carpenter R, EB Ward, J Wikle, MC Duguid, MA  Bradford, and MS Ashton. 2021. Soil nutrient recovery after shelterwood timber harvesting in a temperate oak hardwood forest: Insights using a twenty-five-year chronosequence. Forest Ecology and Management.  
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​Bradford MA, SA Wood, ET Addicott, EP Fenichel, N Fields, J González-Rivero, FV Jevon, DS Maynard, EE Oldfield, A Polussa, EB Ward and WR Wieder. 2021. Quantifying microbial control of soil organic matter dynamics at macrosystem scales. Biogeochemistry 156: 19-40. 
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2020
​Ward EB
, CC Pregitzer, SE Kuebbing, and MA Bradford. 2020. Invasive lianas are drivers of and passengers to altered soil nutrient availability in urban forests. Biological Invasions 22:935-955.
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Science communication, interviews, and popular articles

Q&A Interview for The Overstory, The Forest School newsletter, Yale School of the Environment, 2022

Article for the Journal of Ecology blog, 2022

Article for The Overstory, The Forest School newsletter, Yale School of the Environment, 2021

Radio Interview on Garlic Mustard with Herbs in Action Radio, The Saturday Lights Brigade, 2020

Video Interview with Botany in Action on display at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Garden, Pittsburgh, PA, 2019

Radio Interview on Wood Sorrel with Herbs in Action Radio, The Saturday Lights Brigade, 2019

Article for Paprika!, The Yale School of Architecture newsletter, 2016
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