Publications

You can check out my Google Scholar profile, my ResearchGate profile, my ORCiD profile and my WoS ResearcherID profile.

If you cannot access any of the papers below, feel free to email me at scott.davidson@plymouth.ac.uk and I shall send you the PDF

2023

Wilkinson, S.L., Andersen, R., Morris, P., Davidson, S.J., Granath, G. and Waddington, J.M. (2023) Wildfire and degradation accelerate northern peatland carbon release. Nature Climate Change, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01657-w

Prystupa, E., Davidson, S.J., Price, J. and Strack, M. (2023) Response of Dissolved Organic Carbon Dynamics to Salinity in a Constructed Fen Peatland in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region. Hydrological Processes, https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14852

2022

UNEP (including Davidson, S.J. as a contributing author) (2022). Global Peatlands Assessment – The State of the World’s Peatlands: Evidence for action toward the conservation, restoration, and sustainable management of peatlands. Main Report. Global Peatlands Initiative. United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, https://www.unep.org/resources/global-peatlands-assessment-2022

Foster, A.C., Wang, J.A., Frost, G.V., Davidson, S.J. et al. (2022) Disturbances in North American boreal forest and Arctic tundra: impacts, interactions, and responses, Environmental Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac98d7

Strack, M., Davidson, S.J., Hirano, T. and Dunn, C. (2022) The potential of peatlands as nature-based climate solutions, Current Climate Change Reports, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40641-022-00183-9

Kleinke, K., Davidson, S.J., Schmidt, M., Xu, B. and Strack, M. (2022) How mounds are made matters: Seismic line restoration techniques affect peat physical and chemical properties throughout the peat profile, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2022-0015

Davidson, S.J., Dazé, E., Byun, E., Hiler, D., Kangur, M., Talbot, J., Finkelstein, S.A. and Strack, M. (2022) The unrecognized importance of carbon stocks and fluxes from swamps in Canada and the USA, Environmental Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac63d5

Nelson, P.R., Maguire, A.J., Pierrat, Z., Orcutt, E.L., Yang, D., Serbin, S.P., Frost, G.V., Macander, M.J., Magney, T.S., Thompson, D.R., Wang, J., Oberbauer, S.F., Zestai, S.A.V., Davidson, S.J., Epstein, H., Unger, S., Campbell, P.K.E., Carmon, N., Velez-Reyes, M. and Huemmrich, K.F. (2022) Remote Sensing of Tundra Ecosystems using High Spectral Resolution Reflectance: Opportunities and Challenges, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JG006697

Schmidt, M., Davidson, S.J. and Strack, M. (2022) CO2 uptake decreased and CH4 emissions increased in first two years of peatland seismic line restoration, Wetlands Ecology and Management http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11273-022-09858-4

2021

Harris, L.J., Richardson, K., Bona, K.A., Davidson, S.J., Finkelstein, S.A., Garneau, M., McLaughlin, J., Nwaishi, F., Olefeldt D., Packalen, M., Roulet, N.T., Southee, F.M., Strack, M., Webster, K.L., Wilkinson, S.L. and Ray, J. (2021) The essential carbon service provided by northern peatlands, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2437

Elmes, M., Davidson, S.J., Price, J.S. (2021) Ecohydrological interactions in a boreal fen-swamp complex, Alberta, Canada, Ecohydrology https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2335

Engering, A, Davidson, S.J., Xu, B., Bird, M., Rochefort, L. and Strack, M. (2021) Restoration of a Boreal Peatland Impacted by an In-Situ Oil Sands Well-Pad 2. Greenhouse gas exchange dynamics, Restoration Ecology https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.13508 –> The companion paper (Xu et al. 2021 Restoration Ecology) looking at the vegetation response to well pad restoration can be found here https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.13514

Davidson, S.J., Goud, E.M., Malhotra, A., Estey, C.O., Korsah, P. and Strack, M. (2021) Linear disturbances shift boreal peatland plant communities toward earlier peak greenness, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JG006403

Drever, C.R. et al. (inc. Davidson, S.J.) (2021) Natural Climate Solutions for Canada. Science Advances, Vol. 7, no. 23, eabd6034 doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abd6034

Irvine, S., Davidson, S.J., Price, J.S., and Strack, M. (2021) Dissolved organic carbon production and transport within a constructed fen watershed in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta, Canada, Journal of Hydrology, 126493 doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126493 

Davidson, S.J., Smith, M., Prystupa, E., Murray, K., Nwaishi, F., Petrone, R. and Strack, M. (2021) High sulfate concentrations maintain low methane emissions at a constructed fen over the first seven years of ecosystem development, Science of The Total Environment. 148014 doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148014

2020

Davidson, S.J., Goud, E.M., Franklin, C., Nielsen, S. and Strack, M. (2020) Seismic line disturbance alters soil physical and chemical properties across boreal forest and peat soils, Front. Earth. Sci. 8:281 doi: 10.3389/feart.2020.00281

2019

Arndt, K.A., Santos, M.J., Ustin, S., Davidson, S.J., Stow, D., Oechel, W.C., Tran, T.T.P., Graybill, B. and Zona, D. (2019) Arctic Greening Associated with Lengthening Growing Season in Northern Alaska, Environmental Research Letters doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab5e26

Davidson, S.J., Strack, M., Bourbonniere, R.A. and Waddington, J.M. (2019) Controls on soil carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) fluxes from a peat swamp vary by hydrogeomorphic setting, Ecohydrology doi.org/10.1002/eco.2162

Davidson, S.J., Elmes, M.C., Rogers, H., van Beest, C., Petrone, R., Price, J.S. and Strack M. (2019) Hydrogeologic setting overrides any influence of wildfire on pore water dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentration and quality at a Boreal Fen, Ecohydrology, doi.org/10.1002/eco.2141

Davidson, S.J., van Beest, C., Petrone, R. and Strack, M. (2019) Wildfire overrides hydrological controls on boreal peatland methane emissions, Biogeosciences, 16, 2651-2660, doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-2651-2019

2017

Davidson, S.J., Santos, M.J., Sloan, V.L., Reuss-Schmidt, K., Phoenix, G.K., Oechel, W.C. and Zona, D., (2017) Upscaling CH4 Fluxes Using High-Resolution Imagery in Arctic Tundra Ecosystems, Remote Sensing, 9(12), 1227; doi.org/10.3390/rs9121227

2016

Davidson, S.J., Santos, M.J., Sloan, V.L., Watts, J.D., Phoenix, G.K., Oechel, W.C. and Zona, D. (2016) Mapping Arctic Tundra Vegetation Communities Using Field Spectroscopy and Multispectral Satellite Data in North Alaska, U.S.A., Remote Sensing, 8(12), 978; doi.org/10.3390/rs8120978

Davidson, S.J., Sloan, V.L., Phoenix, G.K., Wagner, R., Fisher, J.P., Oechel, W.C. and Zona, D. (2016) Vegetation Type Dominates the Spatial Variability in CH4 Emissions Across Multiple Arctic Tundra Landscapes, Ecosystems, 19: 1116. doi.org/10.1007/s10021-016-9991-0

Walker, D.A., Breen, A.L., Druckenmiller, L.A., Wirth, L.W., Fisher, W., Raynolds, M.K., Šibík, J., Walker, M.D., Hennekens, S., Boggs, K., Boucher, T., Buchhorn, M., Bütmann, H., Cooper, D.J., Daniëls, F.J.A., Davidson, S.J. et al. (2016) The Alaska Arctic Vegetation Archive (AVA-AK), Phytocoenologia, 46(2), 221-229, doi.org/10.1127/phyto/2016/0128