David A. Wardle
David A. Wardle FRSNZ (born 1963) is a Swedish-New Zealand ecologist. He is currently working as the Smithsonian Professor of Forest Ecology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. After obtaining a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Canterbury he completed a Doctor of Philosophy degree under Dennis Parkinson at the University of Calgary in 1989, and then worked in New Zealand at Landcare Research before moving to the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Umeå. Wardle is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.[1]
David A. Wardle | |
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| Born | 1963 (age 59–60) |
| Alma mater | University of Calgary |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | The Influence of Environmental Variables and Herbicide Application on the Soil Microbial Biomass (1989) |
| Doctoral advisor | Dennis Parkinson |
In 1999 he was awarded the New Zealand Association of Scientists Research Medal for his ecological work on the associations between above-ground and below-ground communities.[2] He was the recipient of the Te Tohu Taiao – Award for Ecological Excellence from New Zealand Ecological Society in 2001, awarded annually to a New Zealand scientist on the basis of research and application in ecology.[3] In 2010 he became a Wallenberg Scholar.[4]
Selected works
- Communities and Ecosystems: Linking the Aboveground and Belowground Components David A. Wardle, Princeton University Press, 2002. ISBN 0691074860
- Aboveground–Belowground Linkages: Biotic Interactions, Ecosystem Processes, and Global Change David A. Wardle and Richard D. Bardgett, Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN 9780191591358
References
- "Royal Society Te Apārangi – View our Fellows". Royalsociety.org.nz. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
- "New Zealand Association of Scientists - Awards".
- "Te Tohu Taiao – Award for Ecological Excellence | NZES". Newzealandecology.org. 30 June 2017. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
- "Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse" (in Swedish). Wallenberg.com. 17 June 2010. Retrieved 25 January 2018.