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Publications: PROF Lisa Belyea

Belyea L, Laing CG, Allton K ( 2025 ) . Ryggmossen_ST5_Monitoring .
Robinson CH, Ritson JP, Alderson DM, Malik AA, Griffiths RI, Heinemeyer A, Gallego-Sala AV, Quillet A et al. ( 2023 ) . Aspects of microbial communities in peatland carbon cycling under changing climate and land use pressures . MIRES AND PEAT vol. 29 , Article ARTN 02 ,
Ritson JP, Alderson DM, Robinson CH, Burkitt AE, Heinemeyer A, Stimson AG, Gallego-Sala A, Harris A et al. ( 2021 ) . Towards a microbial process-based understanding of the resilience of peatland ecosystem service provisioning – A research agenda . Science of The Total Environment vol. 759 , Article 143467 , 143467 - 143467 .
Stanley KM, Heppell CM, Belyea LR, Baird AJ, Field RH ( 2019 ) . The Importance of CH<sub>4</sub> Ebullition in Floodplain Fens . Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences vol. 124 , ( 7 ) 1750 - 1763 .
Weston DJ, Turetsky MR, Johnson MG, Granath G, Lindo Z, Belyea LR, Rice SK, Hanson DT et al. ( 2017 ) . The Sphagnome Project: enabling ecological and evolutionary insights through a genus‐level sequencing project . New Phytologist vol. 217 , ( 1 ) 16 - 25 .
Aravena R, Warner BG, Charman DJ, Belyea LR, Mathur SP, Dinel H ( 2016 ) . Carbon Isotopic Composition of Deep Carbon Gases in an Ombrogenous Peatland, Northwestern Ontario, Canada . Radiocarbon vol. 35 , ( 2 ) 271 - 276 .
Morris PJ, Baird AJ, Belyea LR ( 2015 ) . Bridging the gap between models and measurements of peat hydraulic conductivity . Water Resources Research vol. 51 , ( 7 ) 5353 - 5364 .
Morris MA, Spencer KL, Belyea LR, Branfireun BA ( 2014 ) . Temporal and spatial distributions of sediment mercury in restored coastal saltmarshes . Marine Chemistry vol. 167 , 150 - 159 .
Loisel J, Yu Z, Beilman DW, Camill P, Alm J, Amesbury MJ, Anderson D, Andersson S et al. ( 2014 ) . A database and synthesis of northern peatland soil properties and Holocene carbon and nitrogen accumulation . The Holocene vol. 24 , ( 9 ) 1028 - 1042 .
Laing CG, Granath G, Belyea LR, Allton KE, Rydin H ( 2014 ) . Tradeoffs and scaling of functional traits in <i>Sphagnum</i> as drivers of carbon cycling in peatlands . Oikos vol. 123 , ( 7 ) 817 - 828 .
Morris PJ, Baird AJ, Belyea LR ( 2013 ) . The role of hydrological transience in peatland pattern formation . Earth Surface Dynamics vol. 1 , ( 1 ) 29 - 43 .
Morris PJ, Baird AJ, Belyea LR ( 2013 ) . The role of hydrological transience in peatland pattern formation .
Abbott GD, Swain EY, Muhammad AB, Allton K, Belyea LR, Laing CG, Cowie GL ( 2013 ) . Effect of water-table fluctuations on the degradation of Sphagnum phenols in surficial peats . Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta vol. 106 , 177 - 191 .
( 2013 ) . Carbon Cycling in Northern Peatlands . American Geophysical Union
Belyea LR ( 2013 ) . Nonlinear Dynamics of Peatlands and Potential Feedbacks on the Climate System . Geophysical Monograph Series , American Geophysical Union
Baird AJ, Comas X, Slater LD, Belyea LR, Reeve AS ( 2013 ) . Understanding Carbon Cycling in Northern Peatlands: Recent Developments and Future Prospects . Geophysical Monograph Series , American Geophysical Union
Baird AJ, Belyea LR, Morris PJ ( 2013 ) . Upscaling of Peatland-Atmosphere Fluxes of Methane: Small-Scale Heterogeneity in Process Rates and the Pitfalls of “Bucket-and-Slab” Models . Geophysical Monograph Series , American Geophysical Union
Baird AJ, Morris PJ, Belyea LR ( 2011 ) . The DigiBog peatland development model 1: rationale, conceptual model, and hydrological basis . Ecohydrology vol. 5 , ( 3 ) 242 - 255 .
Morris PJ, Baird AJ, Belyea LR ( 2011 ) . The DigiBog peatland development model 2: ecohydrological simulations in 2D . Ecohydrology vol. 5 , ( 3 ) 256 - 268 .
Morris PJ, Belyea LR, Baird AJ ( 2011 ) . Ecohydrological feedbacks in peatland development: a theoretical modelling study . Journal of Ecology vol. 99 , ( 5 ) 1190 - 1201 .
Eppinga MB, Rietkerk M, Belyea LR, Nilsson MB, Ruiter PCD, Wassen MJ ( 2010 ) . Resource contrast in patterned peatlands increases along a climatic gradient . Ecology vol. 91 , ( 8 ) 2344 - 2355 .
Swain E, Muhammad A, Belyea L, Laing C, Cowie G, Filley T, Abbott G ( 2010 ) . A molecular biogeochemical study of a northern peatland ecosystem: the effects of substrate source on phenolic composition . GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA . vol. 74 , A1012 - A1012 .
Slater LD, Baird AJ, Belyea LR, Comas X, Reeve AS ( 2009 ) . Preface . vii - vii .
Belyea LR, Malmer N ( 2008 ) . Carbon sequestration in peatland: patterns and mechanisms of response to climate change . Global Change Biology vol. 10 , ( 7 ) 1043 - 1052 .
Belyea LR, Lancaster J ( 2008 ) . Inferring landscape dynamics of bog pools from scaling relationships and spatial patterns . Journal of Ecology vol. 90 , ( 2 ) 223 - 234 .
Cutler NA, Belyea LR, Dugmore AJ ( 2008 ) . The spatiotemporal dynamics of a primary succession . Journal of Ecology vol. 96 , ( 2 ) 231 - 246 .
Cutler NA, Belyea LR, Dugmore AJ ( 2008 ) . Spatial patterns of microsite colonisation on two young lava flows on Mount Hekla, Iceland . Journal of Vegetation Science vol. 19 , ( 2 ) 277 - 286 .
BELYEA LR, WARNER BG ( 2008 ) . Dating of the near‐surface layer of a peatland in northwestern Ontario, Canada . Boreas vol. 23 , ( 3 ) 259 - 269 .
Belyea LR ( 2007 ) . Revealing the Emperor's new clothes: niche-based palaeoenvironmental reconstruction in the light of recent ecological theory . The Holocene vol. 17 , ( 5 ) 683 - 688 .
Belyea LR ( 2006 ) . Climatic and topographic limits to the abundance of bog pools . Hydrological Processes vol. 21 , ( 5 ) 675 - 687 .
Belyea LR, Baird AJ ( 2006 ) . BEYOND “THE LIMITS TO PEAT BOG GROWTH”: CROSS-SCALE FEEDBACK IN PEATLAND DEVELOPMENT . Ecological Monographs vol. 76 , ( 3 ) 299 - 322 .
LANCASTER J, BELYEA LR ( 2006 ) . Defining the limits to local density: alternative views of abundance–environment relationships . Freshwater Biology vol. 51 , ( 4 ) 783 - 796 .
BELYEA L ( 2004 ) . Beyond ecological filters: feedback networks in the assembly and restoration of community structure . Assembly Rules and Restoration Ecology. Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice , Island Press
Venugopal V ( 2004 ) . Preface . vol. 78 ,
Belyea LR ( 2002 ) . A novel indicator of reducing conditions and water‐table depth in mires . Functional Ecology vol. 13 , ( 3 ) 431 - 434 .
Belyea LR, Clymo RS ( 2001 ) . Feedback control of the rate of peat formation . Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences vol. 268 , ( 1473 ) 1315 - 1321 .
Belyea LR, Lancaster J ( 1999 ) . Assembly Rules within a Contingent Ecology . Oikos vol. 86 , ( 3 ) 402 - 402 .
BELYEA LR, Clymo RS ( 1999 ) . Do hollows control the rate of peat bog growth? . Patterned Mires and Mire Pools: Origin and Development, Flora and Fauna , British Ecological Society ( London ),
Robertson AL, Lancaster J, Belyea LR, Hildrew AG ( 1997 ) . Hydraulic Habitat and the Assemblage Structure of Stream Benthic Microcrustacea . Journal of the North American Benthological Society vol. 16 , ( 3 ) 562 - 575 .
Lancaster J, Belyea LR ( 1997 ) . Nested Hierarchies and Scale-Dependence of Mechanisms of Flow Refugium Use . Journal of the North American Benthological Society vol. 16 , ( 1 ) 221 - 238 .
Robertson AL, Lancaster J, Belyea LR, Hildrew AG ( 1997 ) . Hydraulic habitat and the assemblage structure of stream benthic microcrustacea . Journal of the North American Benthological Society vol. 16 , 562 - 575 .
Belyea LR ( 1996 ) . Separating the Effects of Litter Quality and Microenvironment on Decomposition Rates in a Patterned Peatland . Oikos vol. 77 , ( 3 ) 529 - 529 .
Belyea LR, Warner BG ( 1996 ) . Temporal scale and the accumulation of peat in a <i>Sphagnum</i> bog . Canadian Journal of Botany vol. 74 , ( 3 ) 366 - 377 .
Laing CG, Granath G, BELYEA LR, Allton KE, Rydin H . Data for 'Trade-offs and scaling of functional traits in Sphagnum as drivers of carbon cycling in peatlands' .