Ashwood, F., Vanguelova, E. I., Benham, S. and Butt, K. R. (In Press). Developing a systematic sampling method for earthworms in and around deadwood. Forest Ecosystems.

Ashwood, F., Watts, K., Park, K., Fuentes-Montemayor, E., Benham, S. and Vanguelova, E. I. (In Press). Woodland restoration on agricultural land: long-term impacts on soil quality. Restoration Ecology.

Mark R Bakker, Ivano Brunner, Francis Ashwood, Brynhildur Bjarnadottir, Tom Bolger, Isabella Børja, Monique Carnol, Pavel Cudlin, Lise Dalsgaard, Amandine Erktan, Douglas Godbold, Hojka Kraigher, Ina Christin Meier, Luis Merino-Martín, Jurga Motiejūnaitė, Tanja Mrak, Edda Sigurdis Oddsdottir, Ivika Ostonen, Taina Liisa Pennanen, Ülle Püttsepp, Laura M. Suz, Elena Iordanova Vanguelova, Lars Vesterdal and Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia (2019). Belowground biodiversity relates positively to ecosystem services of European forests. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 2, 6.

Brown, N., Vanguelova, E., Parnell, S., Broadmeadow, S. and Denman, S. (2018). Predisposition of forests to biotic disturbance: Predicting the distribution of Acute Oak Decline using environmental factors. Forest Ecology and Management, 407, 145-154.

Johnson, J, Pannatier, E, Carnicelli, S., Cecchini, G., Clarke, N., Cools, N., Hansen, K., Meesenburg, H., Nieminen, T., Pihl K., Gunilla, H., Vanguelova, E., Verstraeten, A., Vesterdal, L., Waldner, P., Jonard, M. (2018). The response of soil solution chemistry in European forests to decreasing acid deposition. Global Change Biology. 10.1111/gcb.14156.

Van der Linde, S., Suz, L.M., David, C., Orme, L., Cox, F., Andreae, H., Asi, E., Atkinson, B., Benham, B., Carroll, C., Cools, N., De Vos, B., Dietrich, H-P, Eichhorn, J., Gehrmann, J., Grebenc, T., Gweon, H.S., Hansen, K., Jacob, F., Kristöfel, F., Lech, P., Manninger, M., Martin, J., Meesenburg, H., Merilä, P., Nicolas, M., Pavlenda, P., Rautio, P., Schaub, S., Schröck, H-W., Seidling, W., Šrámek, V., Thimonier, Thomsen, I.M., Titeux, H., Vanguelova, E., Verstraeten, A., Vesterdal, L., Waldner, P., Wijk, S., Zhang, Y., Žlindra, D. & Bidartondo, M.I. (2018). Environment and host as large-scale controls of ectomycorrhizal fungi. Nature, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0189-9.

Vanguelova, E.I., Pitman, R. and Benham, S (2018). Responses of forest ecosystems in the United Kingdom to nitrogen deposition. Under review in Environmental Pollution.

Guerrieri, R., Vanguelova, E., Pitman, R., Benham, S., Perks, M., Morison, J., Mencuccini, M. (2018). Climate overrides atmospheric deposition in affecting spatial and temporal changes in forest water-use efficiency and nitrogen availability across Britain. Under review in Nature.

Vanguelova, E.I. and Pitman, R. (2018). Nitrogen impacts on biogeochemical cycling in both broadleaved and conifer forests. Manuscript submitted to Forest Ecology and Management.

Vanguelova, E.I., Pitman, R., Benham, S., Perks, M. and Morison, J.I. (2017). Impact of tree stump harvesting on soil carbon and nutrients and second rotation tree growth in mid Wales, UK. Open Journal of Forestry. 7, 58-78. http://file.scirp.org/pdf/OJF_2017012016120646.pdf

Vanguelova E.I., Crow, P., Benham, S., Pitman, R., Forster, J., Eaton, E.L., Morison, J.I.L. (2017) Impact of Sitka spruce afforestation on the carbon stocks of peaty gley soils – a chronosequence study in the north of England. Accepted in Forestry.

Ostonen I, Truu M, Helmisaari H-S, Lukac M, Borken W, Vanguelova E, Godbold DL, Lohmus K, Zang U, Tedersoo L, Preem J-K, Rosenvald K, Aosaar J, Armolaitis K, Frey J, Kabral N, Kukumagi M, Leppalammi-Kujansuu J, Lindroos A-J, Merila P, Napa U, Nojd P, Parts K, Uri V, Varik M & Truu J. (2017). Adaptive root foraging strategies along a boreal-temperate 1 forest gradient. New Phytologist, 215 (3), 977-991.

Ashwood, F., Butt, K.R., Doick, K., and Vanguelova, E.I. (2017). Interactive effects of composted green waste and earthworm activity on tree growth and reclaimed soil quality: A mesocosm experiment. Applied Soil Ecology, 119, 226-233.

Vanguelova, E.I., Piece, S. and Morison, J. (2017). Afforestation helps soil carbon sequestration?. Forestry and Timber News, April, 2017.

Sawicka, K., Rowe, E. C., Evans, C. D., Monteith, D. T., Vanguelova, E. I., Wade, A. J. and Clark, J. M. (2017). Modelling impacts of atmospheric deposition and temperature on long term DOC trends. Science of the Total Environment. ISSN 0048-9697 doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.10.164

Vanguelova, E.I., Bonifacio, E., De Vos, B., Hoosbeek M. R., Berger T. W.,

Vesterdal L., Armolaitis, K., Celi, L., Dinca, L., Kjønaas, O.J., Pavlenda, P., Pumpanen, J., Püttsepp Ü., Reidy, B., Simončič, P., Tobin, B. and Zhiyanski, M. (2016). Sources of errors and uncertainties in the assessment of forest soil carbon stocks at different scales—review and recommendations. Environmental Monitoring and Assessments, 188: 630. DOI 10.1007/s10661-016-5608-5.

Camino-Serrano, M., Graf Pannatier, E., Vicca, S., Luyssaert, S., Jonard, M., Ciais, P., Guenet, B., Gielen, B., Peñuelas, J., Sardans, J., Waldner, P., Etzold, S., Cecchini, G., Clarke, N., Galić, Z., Gandois, L., Hansen, K., Johnson, J., Klinck, U., Lachmanová, Z., Lindroos, A.J., Meesenburg, H., Nieminen, T., Sanders, T.G.M., Sawicka, K., Seidling, W., Thimonier, A., Vanguelova, E.I., Verstraeten, A., Vesterdal, L. and Janssens, I.A. (2016). Trends in soil solution dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentrations across European forests. Biogeosciences, 13, 5567–5585, 2016, doi:10.5194/bg-13-5567-2016.

Sawicka, D.E., Monteith, D.T., Vanguelova, E.I., Wade, A.J. and Clark, J.M. (2016). Fine-scale temporal characterization of trends in soil water dissolved organic carbon and potential drivers. Ecological Indicators 68, 35-51. ISSN 1470-160X doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.12.028

Ashwood, F., Butt, K.R., Doick, K.J. and Vanguelova, E.I. (2016). Investigating tree foliar preference by the earthworms Aporrectodea longa and Allolobophora chlorotica in reclaimed and loam soil. Applied Soil Ecology, 110, 109-117.

Dimitrova, V., Lyubenovа, M., Zhiyanski, M. and Vanguelova, E. (2015). Roots biomass and carbon in representative Forest ecosystems in Bulgaria. Journal of Chemical, Biological and Physical Sciences, 5 (2), 2090-2108.

De Vos, B. Cools, N., Ilvesniemi, H., Vesterdal, L., Vanguelova, E. and Carnicelli, S. (2015). Benchmark values for forest soil carbon stocks in Europe: results from a large scale forest soil survey. Geoderma, 251-252, 33-46.

Waldner, P., Thimonier, A., Graf Pannatier, E., Etzold, S., Schmitt, M., Marchetto, A., Rautio, P., Derome, K., Nieminen, T., Nevalainen, S., Lindroos, A-J., Merilä, P., Kindermann, G., Neumann, M., Cools, N., De Vos, B., Roskams, P., Verstraeten, A., Hansen, K., Pihl-Karlsson, G., Dietrich, H-P., Raspe, S., Granke, O., Fischer, R., Iost, S., Lorenz, M., Sanders, T., Michel., A., Nagel, H-D., Scheuschner, T., Simončič, P., Von Wilpert, K., Meesenburg, H., Fleck, S., Ingerslev, M., Gundersen, P., Stupak, I., Vesterdal, L., Jonard, M., Clarke, N., Benham, S., Vanguelova, E., Potočič, N. and Minaya, M. (2015). Exceedance of critical loads and of critical limits impacts tree nutrition across Europe. Annals of Forest Science, DOI 10.1007/s1359-015-0489-2.

Guerrieri, R., Vanguelova, E.I., Michalski, G., Heaton, T.H.E. and Mencuccini, M. (2015). Isotopic evidence for the occurrence of biological nitrification and nitrogen deposition processing in forest canopies. Global Change Biology, 21, 4613-4626. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13018

Vanguelova, E.I., Morison, J., Nisbet, T. and Martin., S. (2015). Taking Stock of Forest Soil Carbon. Forestry and Timber News, August, 2015, 26-27.

Villada, A. Vanguelova, E.I., Verhoef, A. and Shaw, L.S. (2015). Effect of air-drying pre-treatment on the characterization of forest soil carbon pools. Geoderma 265. pp. 53-61. ISSN 0016-7061 doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2015.11.003

Cools, N., Vesterdal, L., De Vos, B., Vanguelova, E.I., and Hansen, K. (2014) Tree species is the major factor explaining C:N ratios in European forest soils. Forest Ecology and Management, 311, 3-16.

Rajapaksha, N.S.S., Butt, K.R., Vanguelova, E. I. and Moffat, A. J. (2014) Short rotation forestry – Earthworm interactions: A field based mesocosm experiment. Applied Soil Ecology, 76, 52-59.

Dimitrova. V., Lyubenovа, M. and Vanguelova, E. (2014) Biomass and carbon accumulation in the herb layer of representative forest ecosystems in Bulgaria. Journal of Balkan Ecology, 17 (1), 55-71.

Peter Waldner; Aldo Marchetto; Anne Thimonier; Maria Schmitt; Michela Rogora; Oliver Granke; Volker Mues; Karin Hansen; Gunilla Pihl Karlsson; Daniel Žlindra; Nicholas Clarke; Arne Verstraeten; Andis Lazdins; Claus Schimmming; Carmen Iacoban; Antti-Jussi Lindroos; Elena Vanguelova; Sue Benham; Henning Meesenburg; Manuel Nicolas; Anna Kowalska; Vladislav Apuhtin; Ulle Nappa; Zora Lachmanová; Ferdinand Kristoefel; Albert Bleeker; Morten Ingerslev; Lars Vesterdal; Juan Molina; Uwe Fischer; Walter Seidling; Mathieu Jonard; Philip O’Dea; James Johnson; Richard Fischer; Martin Lorenz (2014). Temporal trends in atmospheric deposition of inorganic nitrogen and sulphate to forests in Europe. Atmospheric Environment, 95, 363-374.

Vanguelova, E.I., Nisbet, T.R., Moffat, A.J., Broadmeadow, S., Sanders, T.G.M. and Morison, J.I.L. (2013). A new evaluation of carbon stocks in British forest soils. Soil Use and Management, 29, 2, 169-181.

Rajapaksha, N.S.S., Butt, K.R., Vanguelova, E. and Moffat, A.J. (2013). Earthworm selection of Short Rotation Forestry leaf litter assessed through preference testing and direct observation.  Soil Biology and Biochemistry 67, 12-19.

Rajapaksha, N.S.S., Butt, K.R., Vanguelova, E. and Moffat, A.J. (2013). Effects of Short Rotation Forestry on earthworm community development in the UK. Forest Ecology and Management, 309, 96-104.

Benham, S., Vanguelova, E. and Pitman, R. (2012). Short and long term changes in carbon, nitrogen and acidity in the mineral forest soils under oak at the Alice Holt Environmental Change Network site. Science of the Total Environment 421-422, 82-93.

Vanguelova, E., Moffat, A., Morison, J. and Martin, S. (2011). Can we manage the impacts of changing climate on our forest soils? Forestry & Timber News, June, p. 11-12.

Swain, E. Y., Perks, P. P., Vanguelova, E. I. and Abbott, G. D. (2010). Carbon stocks and phenolic distributions in peaty gley soils afforested with Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis). Organic Geochemistry 41, 1022-1025.

Clark, J.M., Billett, M.F., Coyle, M, Croft, S., Daniels, S., Evans, C.D., Evans, M., Freeman, C., Gallego-Sala, A.V., Heinemeyer, A., House, J.I., Monteith, D., Nayak, D., Orr, H.G., Prentice, I.C., Rose, R., Rowson, J.,  Smith, J., Smith, Jo, Tun, Y.M., Vanguelova, E.I., Wetterhall, F. and Worrall, F. (2010). Model inter-comparison between statistical and dynamic model assessments of the long-term stability of GB blanket peat (1940-2099). Climate Research, 45, 227-248.

Pitman, R., Vanguelova, E.I. and Benham, S. (2010). Effects of phytophagous insects on the nutrient concentrations and fluxes through forest stands in the UK Level II network. Science of the Total Environment 409 (1), 169-181.

Vanguelova, E. and Nisbet, T. (2010). Save the soil. Chartered Forester, Autumn, 2010, pages 22-23.

Vanguelova, E., Pitman, R., Luiro J. and Helmisaari H-S. (2010). Long term impacts of whole tree harvesting on soil carbon and nutrient sustainability in the UK. Biogeochemistry 101, 43-59.

Vanguelova, E.I., Benham, S., Pitman, R., Moffat, A. Broadmeadow, M., Nisbet, T., Durrant, D., Barsoum, N.,Wilkinson, M., Bochereau, F., Broadmeadow, S., Hutchings, T., Crow, P., Durrant-Huston, T., Taylor, P. (2010). Chemical fluxes in time through forest ecosystems in the UK – soil response to pollution recovery. Environmental Pollution 158 (5): 1857-1869.

Langan, S., Fransson, L. and Vanguelova, E. (2009). Dynamic modelling of UK forest soils to changes in acid deposition using the SAFE model. Science of the Total Environment 407, 5605-5619.

Vanguelova E.I., Nortcliff S., Moffat, A.J. and Kennedy, F. (2007). Short-term effects of manipulated increase in acid deposition on soil, soil solution chemistry and fine roots of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) stand on a podzol. Plant and Soil 294, 41-54.

Vanguelova, E.I., Hirano, Y., Eldhuset, T.D., Sas-Paszt, L., Bakker, M., Püttsepp, Ü., Brunner, I., Lõhmus, K. and Godbold, D. (2007). Tree fine root Ca/Al molar ratio – indicator of Al and acidity stress. Plant Biosystems 141 (3): 460-480

Finér, L., Helmisaari, H. –S, K. Lõhmus; Majdi, H., Brunner, I., Børja, I., Eldhuset T., Godbold D., Grebenc T., Konôpka, B., Kraigher H., Möttönen, M.-R., Ohashi, M., Oleksyn, J., Ostonen, I., Uri, V., Vanguelova, E. (2007). Variation in fine root biomass of three European tree species: Beech (Fagus sylvatica L.), Norway spruce (Picea abies L. Karst.), and Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.). Plant Biosystems 141 (3): 394-405.

Ostonen, I., Püttsepp, Ü., Biel, C., Alberton, O., Bakker, M. R., Lõhmus, K., Majdi, H., Metcalfe, D., Olsthoorn, A. F. M., Pronk, A., Vanguelova, E., Weih, M. and Brunner, I. (2007). Specific root length as an indicator of environmental change. Plant Biosystems 141 (3): 426–442.

Vanguelova E.I., Nortcliff S., Moffat, A.J. and Kennedy, F. (2005). Morphology, biomass and nutrient status of fine roots of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) as influenced by seasonal fluctuations in soil moisture and soil solution chemistry. Plant and Soil 270, 233-247.

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