Dumbrell, Alex - University of Essex - School of Biological Sciences

个人简介

2016 - - Senior Lecturer (University of Essex) 2010 - 2016 - Lecturer (University of Essex) 2009 - 2010 - Visiting Research Fellow (Radboud University Nijmegen) 2007 - 2009 - Postdoctoral Research Fellow (University of York) 2002 - 2006 - Ph.D. (University of York) 2001 - 2002 - M.Sc. (University of Wales, Bangor) 1998 - 2001 - B.Sc. hons (University of Wales, Bangor)

研究领域

Community ecology (focus on microbial systems) Theoretical ecology (focus on models of biodiversity) Molecular ecology (focus on next generation sequencing) Macroecology (focus on examining patterns of biodiversity in microbial systems) Spatial and temporal patterns of biodiversity Biodiversity-Ecosystem service/function relationships Species abundance distributions and species area relationships Biodiversity models (i.e. niche and neutral theories) Next generation sequencing technology and bioinformatics in ecological research Metagenetics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics Ecoinformatics Soil biodiversity and function Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and other symbiotic systems

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38) Garcia-Alcega, S., Nasir, Z.A., Ferguson, R., Withby, C., Dumbrell, A.J., Colbeck, I., Gomes, D., Tyrrel, S., Coulon, F. (2016). Fingerprinting outdoor air environments using microbial volatile organic compounds (MVOCs). Trends in Analytical Chemistry, in press. 37) Dumbrell, A.J., Kordas, R.L., Woodward, G. (2016). Large-Scale Ecology: Model Systems to Global Perspectives - Preface. Advances in Ecological Research, 55, xix-xxiv. 36) Nedwell, D.B., Underwood, G.J.C., McGenity, T.J., Whitby, C., Dumbrell, A.J. (2016). The Colne Estuary: A Long-Term Microbial Ecology Observatory. Advances in Ecological Research, 55, 227-281. 35) Maček, I., Vodnik, D., Pfanz, H., Low-Décarie, E., Dumbrell, A.J. (2016). Locally Extreme Environments as Natural Long-Term Experiments in Ecology. Advances in Ecological Research, 55, 283-323. 34) Jackson, M.C., Weyl, O.L.F., Altermatt, F., Durance, I., Friberg, N., Dumbrell, A.J., Piggott, J.J., Tiegs, S.D., Tockner, K., Krug, C.B., Leadley, P.W., Woodward, G. (2016). Recommendations for the Next Generation of Global Freshwater Biological Monitoring Tools. Advances in Ecological Research, 55, 615-636. 33) Low-Décarie, E., Fussmann, G.F., Dumbrell, A.J., Bell, G. (2016). Communities that thrive in extreme conditions captured from a freshwater lake. Biology Letters, 12, 20160562. 32) Aslam, S.N., Dumbrell, A.J., Sabir, J.S., Mutwakil, M.H.Z., Baeshen, M.M.N., Abo-Aba, S.E.M., Clark, D.R., Yates, S.A., Baeshen, N.A., Underwood, G.J.C., McGenity, T.J. (2016). Soil compartment is a major determinant of the impact of simulated rainfall on desert microbiota. Environmental Microbiology, DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13474. 31) Dumbrell, A.J., Ferguson, R.M.W., Clark, D.R. (2016). Microbial Community Analysis by Single-Amplicon High-Throughput Next Generation Sequencing: Data Analysis - From Raw Output to Ecology. In: McGenity TJ, Timmis KN, Nogales B (eds) Hydrocarbon and lipid microbiology protocols. Springer protocols handbooks. Springer, Heidelberg – in press. 30) Camp, E., Hobbs, J.P.A., De Brauwer, M., Dumbrell, A.J., Smith D.J. (2016). Cohabitation promotes high diversity of clownfishes in the Coral Triangle. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283, 20160277 29) Lansdown, K., McKew, B.A., Whitby, C., Heppell C.M., Dumbrell A.J., Binley, A., Olde, L., Trimmer, M. (2016). Importance and controls of anaerobic ammonium oxidation influenced by riverbed geology. Nature Geoscience 9, 357-360. 28) The QUINTESSENCE Consortium. (2016). Networking Our Way to Better Ecosystem Service Provision. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 31, 105-115. 27) Low-Décarie, E. Kolber, M., Homme, P., Lofano, A., Dumbrell, A., Gonzalez, A., Bell, G. (2015). Community rescue in experimental metacommunities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112, 14307-14312. 26) Thompson, M.S.A., Bankier, C., Bell, T., Dumbrell, A.J., Gray, C., Ledger, M.E., Lehmann, K., McKew, B.A., Sayer, C.D., Shelley, F., Trimmer, M., Warren, S.L., Woodward, G. (2015). Gene-to-ecosystem impacts of a catastrophic pesticide spill: testing a multilevel bioassessment approach in a river ecosystem. Freshwater Biology, doi:10.1111/fwb.12676. 25) Fayle, T.M., Scholtz, O., Dumbrell, A.J., Russell, S., Segar, S.T., Eggleton, P. (2015). Detection of mitochondrial COII DNA sequences in ant guts as a method for assessing termite predation by ants. PLoS One, 10, e0122533. 24) Cotton, T.E.A., Fitter, A.H., Miller, R.M., Dumbrell, A.J., Helgason, T. (2015). Fungi in the future: inter-annual variation and effects of atmospheric change on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities. New Phytologist, 205, 1598-1607. 23) Li, J., Nedwell, D.B., Beddow, J., Dumbrell, A.J., McKew, B.A., Thorpe, E.L., Whitby, C (2015). amoA gene abundances and nitrification potential rates suggest that benthic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) not archaea (AOA) dominate N cycling in the Colne estuary, UK. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 81, 159-165. 22) Woodward, G., Dumbrell, A.J., Baird, D.J. Hajibabaei, M. (2014). Big Data in Ecology - Preface. Advances in Ecological Research, 51, ix-xiii. 21) Cotton, T.E.A., Dumbrell, A.J., Helgason, T. (2014). What Goes in Must Come Out: Testing for Biases in Molecular Analysis of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Communities. PLoS One, 9, e109234. 20) Papaspyrou, S., Smith, C.J., Dong, L.F., Whitby, C., Dumbrell, A.J., Nedwell, D.B. (2014). Nitrate reduction functional genes and nitrate reduction potentials persist in deeper estuarine sediments. Why? PLoS One, 9, e94111. 19) Šibanc, N., Dumbrell, A.J., Mandić-Mulec, I., Maček, I. (2014). Impacts of naturally elevated soil CO2 concentrations on communities of soil archaea and bacteria. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 68, 348-356.