David A. Wardle (born 1963) is a Swedish-New Zealand ecologist. He is a professor of ecology at Umeå University in Sweden. After obtaining a Bachelor of Science degree at the

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he completed a Doctor of Philosophy degree under

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at the University of Calgary in 1989, and then worked in New Zealand at

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before moving to the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Umeå. Wardle is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. In 1999 he was awarded the New Zealand Association of Scientists Research Medal for his ecological work on the associations between above-ground and below-ground communities. He was the recipient of the Te Tohu Taiao – Award for Ecological Excellence from New Zealand Ecological Society in 2001, awarded annually to a New Zealand scientist on the basis of research and application in ecology. In 2010 he became a Wallenberg Scholar.

Selected works

* ''Communities and Ecosystems: Linking the Aboveground and Belowground Components'' David A. Wardle, Princeton University Press, 2002. * ''Aboveground–Belowground Linkages: Biotic Interactions, Ecosystem Processes, and Global Change'' David A. Wardle and

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, Oxford University Press, 2010.

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