Field & lab work pictures

Glasshouse experiment conducted at the Glasshouse Horticulture facility at Wageningen University & Research investigating the efficacy of different biological agents and biostimulants in preventing root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne spp.) damage in chrysanthemums. January 2020.

Glasshouse experiment conducted at the NIOO to explore how above- and belowground insect herbivores change litter quality, thereby altering the plant-litter feedback pathway. May 2018.

In the field at de Mossel, near Ede, the Netherlands conducting field work to investigate how application of jasmonic and salicylic acid affects above- and belowground interactions in June 2018.

In the field near Selside, England taking gas flux measurements to investigate how green house gas emissions are controlled by plant functional traits in April 2016.

Placing litter bags in the field (left) and measuring vegetation community composition (centre) in a grassland in Umeå, Sweden (right) as part of a European latitudinal gradient decomposition experiment in 2015.

Work done during my PhD along an elevational gradient on Mount Suorooaivi, Sweden. Fertilising plots at the 1000 m sites with Maja Sundqvist and David Wardle (left); peak growing season meadow vegetation at the 700 m sites (centre); collecting senesced leaves with my faithful field assistants (right).

During my Master's (2008) I worked on investigating how fungal endophytes associated with a native Australian orchid promote invasiveness. Collecting samples at Kings Park Botanic Garden, Perth, Western Australia (left); Microtis media, a native Australian orchid that has become invasive in recent years (centre); Microtis media seedlings germinated with the fungal endophyte Sebacina vermifera isolated from plants growing in a horticultural bed (right).