Queen's University, Belfast
| Current Position | Lecturer |
| Previous Position | Post-doctoral Research Fellow (FU Berlin) |
| Telephone | +44 (0) 2890972271 |
| t.caruso@qub.ac.uk | |
| Departments | School of Biological Sciences |
| ECR | No |
| Quadrat Core Themes | Biodiversity, Earth Systems |
| Methods I Use | Bio / Geo / Chemical Analytical, Modelling |
Key Research Interests
- Processes structuring terrestrial biodiversity
- Aboveground-belowground linkages
- Soil animal ecology
- Soil community ecology (animal and microbes)
- Soil macroecology
Recent Key Papers
- Caruso T, Schaefer I., Monson F, Keith AM (2019). Oribatid mites show how climate and latitudinal gradients in organic matter can drive large-scale biodiversity patterns of soil communities. Journal of Biogeography (in press)
- Caruso T, De Vries FT, Bardgett RD, Lehmann J (2018). Soil organic carbon dynamics matching ecological equilibrium theory. Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4586
- Horn S, Hempel S, Verbruggen E, Rillig MC, Caruso T (2017). Linking the community structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plants: a story of interdependence? The ISME Journal 11(6): 1400-1411
Summary Title of Current Studentships
- Marco Ilardi (2015-2018) joint supervision with Jaime Dick (QUB) and Mark Emmerson (QUB). Aboveground drivers of soil animal communities. Funded by DEL (NI)
- Matthew Magilton (2015-2018) joint supervision with Mark Emmerson (QUB). Responses of soil animal trophic structure to nutrient management and drought. Funded by DEL (NI) as a QUB leveraged PhD fellowship to a NERC Soil Security grant
- David Flynn (2015-2018) joint supervision with Dario Fornara (AFBI). Effects of long term fertilization on relationships between plant roots, N, P, organic C, decomposition and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi. DAERA (NI)
