Abby Wallwork

Dr Abby Wallwork is a Senior Research Fellow at the Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University. Her research focuses on understanding soil carbon dynamics, tropical forest ecosystems, and plant-soil interactions. She completed her PhD at Lancaster University in 2021, investigating tree community changes and soil carbon during tropical forest regeneration. Her work spans topics like solar panel impacts on agricultural soils, nutrient cycling in tropical forests, and litter decomposition processes. She has published extensively in journals like Environmental Research Letters, Journal of Ecology, and Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. No scientific awards are explicitly noted in the provided texts. Dr. Wallwork collaborates with researchers globally, contributing to cross-continental studies on degraded ecosystems and tropical forest restoration. Her doctoral thesis and subsequent articles highlight her expertise in functional ecology and ecosystem dynamics.