BUCKERIDGE Kathleen

About

Dr Kate Buckeridge is a Lead Researcher at LIST. Before joining LIST in 2021, she obtained a PhD in ecosystem ecology from Queen’s University, Canada, where she researched how increased snow depth alters Arctic tundra nitrogen cycling. She worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the US and UK, investigating the impact of Arctic permafrost thaw on soil microorganisms, climate warming on Boreal nitrogen and carbon cycling, and agricultural grassland land-use intensity on microbial physiology. She uses stables isotopes as tracers of plant litter and microbial necromass, combined with microbial genomics, to explore the relationship between microbial community structure and ecosystem function. Her current research investigates how climate and land management, in several ecosystems, interact to influence soil microbial physiology, and how this influences soil necromass, soil carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions.

Mission

Project management, soil and biogeochemical analysis, soil microbiome, terrestrial ecology

Skills and expertise

  • Soil microbial ecology
  • Terrestrial biogeochemistry (carbon and nutrient cycling)
  • Stable isotope ecology
  • Soil carbon sequestration

Latest Publications

Soil stoichiometric C/N and nitrogen availability jointly shape fungal and bacterial necromass carbon accumulation across ecosystems

Wang B., Ao D., Liang C., Buckeridge K., Liu C., Yang Y., Li Y., Li H., Wen Z., An S.

Soil and Tillage Research, vol. 258, art. no. 107042, 2026

Open letter: A global call to strengthen national soil biodiversity action through coordination and harmonization

Marín C., Barreto C., Singh B.K., de Ruiter P.C., Brown G.G., Battigelli J., Bagnara G.L., González R., Guerra C., Sun X., Dirilgen T., Ulzen J., Malorgio G., Montanarella L., Coleine C., Vilonen L., Parnell J.J., Edwards J., Alfares H., Kafle G., Gadallah N.A.H., Karuri H., Roy A., Yeboah E., Bhadury P., Kothamasi D., Agarwala N., Debnath S., Surasinghe T., Ashwood F., Kumar T., Kumar P., Siddiqui S., Gicheha J., Heděnec P., Sabbahi R., Wubs J., Ge Z., Zaitsev A., Galli L., Mundra S., Ramalingam P.V., Buckeridge K., Chakravorty P.P., Juan-Ovejero R., Pfingstl T., Eziuzor S., Elliott D., Lai D.Y.F., Thiele-Bruhn S., Peguero G., Bhattacharyya N., Bonnett S., Osemwegie I., Kutuzović D.H., Ikoyi I., Abdelrahman H., La Terza A., Bendada M., Gongalsky K., Moreno M.L., Blackburn D., Oliveira Filho L.C.I., Taiti S., Hernandez M.F.C., de Souza L.F., Klarenberg I., Novo M., Chauvat M., Ribeiro-Barros A., Dunfield K.E., Flores G.S.L., Rai S., Shanmugam S.G., Hale B., Kamalam D.G., Wall L., Briones M.J.I., He J.Z., Kumar R., Ghaderi R., Sharma R., Gómez-Brandón M., Rashid M.I., Pappas M., Egerton-Warburton L., Szlavecz K., Borruso L., Bongiorno G., Birnbaum C., Mang'oka S., Khan R., Alisi C., Mumladze L., Burton V., Naikoo N.B., Dumont M., Oktaba L., Schmidt O., Mayad E.H.

Plants People Planet, vol. 8, n° 1, pp. 8-13, 2026

Grazing exclusion enhanced the capability of soil microorganisms to access photosynthetic carbon in Loess Plateau grassland

Li Y., Buckeridge K., Wang B., Huang Q., Liu C., Chen Y., Rocha A.V.S., An S.

Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol. 203, art. no. 109743, 2025

Glucoproteins in particulate and mineral-associated organic matter pools during grassland restoration

Li Y., Buckeridge K., Wang B., Li H., Yao H., Yang E., An S., Filimonenko E., Kuzyakov Y.

Catena, vol. 247, art. no. 108480, 2024

Biogeochemical evidence raises questions on the longevity of warming-induced growth enhancements in wet boreal forests

Ziegler S.E., Billings S.A., Podrebarac F.A., Edwards K.A., Skinner A., Buckeridge K.M., VandenBoer T.C.

Ecosphere, vol. 15, n° 12, art. no. e70109, 2024

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