David Albert Wardle#
| Membership Number: | 5369 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.slu.se/en/ew-cv/david-wardle/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0476-7335 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2023 - present Professor of Ecology, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Sweden
- 2017 – 2023 Smithsonian Professor of Forest Ecology, Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- 2017 - present Guest Professor, Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
- 2001 - present Adjunct Professor, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- 2006 - present Research Associate, Landcare Research, New Zealand
- 2006 - 2016 Professor of Soil and Plant Ecology (Personal Chair, faculty professorship), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
- 2002 - 2006 Split 50:50 position between a Professorship in Ecology at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, at Umeå, Sweden, and as a Research Scientist at Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand
- 2001 - 2002 Professor of Soil and Plant Ecology (Personal Chair), University of Sheffield, UK
- 1997 - 2000 Research Scientist, Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand
- 1990 - 1997 Research Scientist, AgResearch, Hamilton, New Zealand
Fields of Scholarship
- Plant-soil interactions
- Vegetation science
- Community ecology
- Aboveground-belowground linkages
- Forest ecology
- Ecosystem ecology
- Biological invasions
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Recipient of the annual R. H. Whittaker ‘Distinguished Ecologist’ award from the Ecological Society of America, awarded to one ecologist each year.
- 2018 Selected by the Journal of Ecology as their Eminent Ecologist for 2018 (accompanied by a Special Virtual Issue of the journal consisting of several of David Wardle’s articles).
- 2018 Author of paper published in 1995 selected for Citation Classic commentary and author profile in the leading soil science journal Soil Biology and Biochemistry.
- 2016 Rosén´s Linneus Prize in Botany, awarded every three years to one plant scientist by the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund, Sweden.
- 2016 Recipient of a ‘Wallenberg Scholars’ continuation award; one of 3 researchers in Sweden across the sciences, humanities and medicine receiving the highest resourcing on the basis of being assessed as an ‘international leader’ in the field
- 2014 Distinguished Alumni Award, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- 2010 Recipient of a ‘Wallenberg Scholars’ award; one of 10 researchers in Sweden across the sciences, humanities and medicine.
- 2006 - present (all years inclusive). Identified by ISI as a ‘Highly Cited’ scientist in the field of Ecology/Environment (and listed in ISI’s ‘World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds’).
- 2006 Recipient of an inaugural Swedish Univ of Agric Sciences (SLU) ‘Excellence Award’, one of 3 allocated in SLU.
- 2003 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand (New Zealand’s primary academy of the sciences).
- 2001 New Zealand Ecological Society annual award (Te Tohu Taiao) for ecological research, awarded annually to a New Zealand scientist on the basis of research and application in ecology.
- 1999 Recipient of the New Zealand Association of Scientists Research Medal, awarded annually to one New Zealand scientist under the age of 40 on the basis of scientific merit.
