Animal and Plant Sciences

Professor F Ian Woodward

Tel: +44 (0)114 222 4647
Fax: +44 (0)114 222 0002

email : f.i.woodward@sheffield.ac.uk

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Career

BA (1970) University of Oxford; PhD (1973) University of Lancaster

NERC Research Fellow, University of Lancaster (1973-1975)

Higher Scientific Officer, Grassland Research Institute (1975-1976)

Lecturer, Department of Plant Science, University College Cardiff, University of Wales (1976-1979)

Lecturer, Department of Botany, University of Cambridge (1979-1991)

Fellow, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge (1981-1991)

Professor of Plant Ecology, Department of Animal & Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, (1991-present).

Key Research Interests

Research is concentrated into two main areas:

• modelling the impacts of environmental changes on vegetation at the global scale
  
• investigating the mechanisms controlling stomatal development, with particular emphasis on identifying the network of environmental responses
  

Professional Activities

Journal editor-in-chief: New Phytologist

Editorial or advisory board: Climatic Change, Global Change Biology, Journal of Biogeography, Tree Physiology.

Current Post-Doctoral Research Assistants

Mark Lomas
NERC Centre of Excellence in Terrestrial Carbon Dynamics (modelling vegetation responses to climatic change).

Matt Davey
NERC. Determinance of range margins in plants:a functional genomic approach

Current Research Students

Jennifer Seaman
Genetic and environmental bases for growth variation in ash (jointly supervised with W.P. Quick and CASE partner Professor S. Evans, Forest Research).

View Jennifer's webpage

Bithiah Heung
Developing a global model of fire in
vegetation (jointly supervised with P. Blackwell)

View Bithiah's webpage

Tim Hill
Relating modelled atmosphere-vegetation
feedbacks to CO2, moisture and trace gas flux measurements (jointly
supervised with M. Williams, University of Edinburgh).

Recent Publications (2001 to date)

Bond, W.J., Woodward, F.I. & Midgley, G.F. (2005). The global distribution of ecosystems in a World without fire. New Phytologist,165, 525-538.

Spehn, E.M., Hector, A., Joshi, J., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Schmid, B., Bazeley-White, E., Beierkuhnlein, C., Caldeira, M.C., Diemer, M., Dimitrakopoulos, P.G., Finn, J.A., Freitas, H., Giller, P.S., Good, J., Harris, R., Högberg, P., Huss-Danell, K., Jumpponen, A., Koricheva, J., Leadley, P.W., Loreau, M., Minns, A., Mulder, C.P.H., O'Donovan, G., Otway, S.J., Palmborg, C., Pereira, J.S., Pfisterer, A.B., Prinz, A., Read, D.J., Schulze, E.D., Siamantziouras, A-S.D., Terry, A.C., Troumbis, A.Y., Woodward, F.I., Yachi, S., Lawton, J.H. (2005). Ecosystem effects of biodiversity manipulations in European grasslands. Ecological Monographs, 75, 37-63.

Kittel, T.G.F., et al. (2004). The VEMAP Phase 2 bioclimate database. I: Gridded historical (20^th century) climate for modelling ecosystem dynamics across the conterminous USA. Climate Research, 27, 151-170.

Woodward, F.I., Lomas, M.R. & Kelly, C.K. (2004). Global climate and the distribution of plant biomes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Ser B., 359, 1465-1476.

Woodward, F.I. & Lomas, M.R. (2004). Simulating vegetation processes along the Kalahari transect. Global Change Biology, 10, 383-392.

Thomas, P.W., Woodward, F.I. & Quick, W.P. (2004). Systemic signalling in tobacco. New Phytologist, 161, 193-198.

Woodward, F.I. & Lomas, M.R. (2004). Vegetation dynamics - simulating responses to climatic change. Biological Reviews, 79, 643-670.

Woodward, F.I. (2004). Tall storeys. Nature, 428, 807-808.

Woodward, F.I. & Ingram, J. (2004). New Phytologist - serving the plant science community. New Phytologist, 161, 1-2.

Jump, A.S., Woodward, F.I. & Burke, T. (2003). Cirsium species show disparity in patterns of genetic variation at their range-edge, despite similar patterns of reproduction and isolation. New Phytologist, 160, 359-370.

Jump, A.S. & Woodward, F.I. (2003). Seed production and population density decline approaching the range-edge of Cirsium species. New Phytologist, 160, 349-358.

Hetherington, A.M. & Woodward, F.I. (2003). The role of stomata in sensing and driving environmental change. Nature, 424, 901-908.

Kelly, C.K., Chase, M.W., de Bruijn, A. Fay, M.F. & Woodward, F.I. (2003). Temperature-based population segregation in birch. Ecology Letters, 6, 87-89.

Bond, W.J., Midgley, G.F. & Woodward, F.I. (2003) What controls South African vegetation - climate or fire? South African Journal of Botany, 69, 1-13.

Woodward, F.I. (2002). Potential impacts of global elevated CO2 concentrations on plants. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 5, 207-211.

Lake, J.A., Woodward, F.I. & Quick, W.P. (2002). Long distance CO2 signalling in plants. Journal of Experimental Botany, 53, 183-193.

Sitch, S., Smith, B., White, A. & Young-Molling, C. (2001). Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO2 and climate change: results from six dynamic global vegetation models. Global Change Biology,7, 357-373.

Cramer, W., Bondeau, A., Woodward, F.I., Prentice, I.C., Betts, R.A., Brovkin, V., Cox, P.M., Fisher, V., Foley, J.A., Friend, A.D., Kucharik, C., Lomas, M.R., Ramankutty, N.,Lake, J.A., Quick, W.P., Beerling, D.J. & Woodward, F.I. (2001). Signals from mature to new leaves. Nature, 411, 154.

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