Professional summary

Sabine is a soil ecologist with an interest in the links between soils, plants and the atmosphere under global change. She currently coordinates climate change research from the UKCEH's long-term Heathland Climate Change Infrastructure under the National Capability project NC-UK, which has been running since 1999. Her work revolves around the connections between climate change, ecosystem processes and soil.

Sabine is leading soils-related work as part of the EU soil horizon project AI4SoilHealth, bringing together UK, EU and global datasets featuring soil and ecosystem metrics to derive cost-effective and continental-scale soil health indicators. She is also involved in the Norwegian project CLIMASOIL investigating impacts of climate change on soil hydraulic properties and carbon storage.

Sabine has been leading projects for natural England on predictive soil mapping for England and structural remediation. She also has experience in coordinating complex and large-scale field surveys such as the national field survey as part of the Welsh Environmental and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme (ERAMMP).

Selected publications

Reinsch Sabine et al. , (2024), Temperate soils exposed to drought - key processes, impacts, indicators, and unknowns. Land, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land13111759

Reinsch Sabine et al. , (2024), Co-located ecological data for exploring top- and subsoil carbon dynamics across grassland-woodland contrasts. Scientific Data, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03333-w

Robinson D.A. et al. , (2022), Analytical modelling of soil porosity and bulk density across the soil organic matter and land-use continuum. Scientific Reports, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-11099-7

Kröel-Dulay György et al. , (2022), Field experiments underestimate aboveground biomass response to drought. Nature Ecology & Evolution, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01685-3

Seaton Fiona M. et al. , (2021), Long-term drought and warming alter soil bacterial and fungal communities in an upland heathland. Ecosystems, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-021-00715-8

García-Palacios Pablo et al. , (2021), Evidence for large microbial-mediated losses of soil carbon under anthropogenic warming. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43017-021-00178-4

Abbasi Akane O. et al. , (2020), Reviews and syntheses: Soil responses to manipulated precipitation changes – an assessment of meta-analyses. Biogeosciences, 17, 3859-3873, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-3859-2020

Reinsch Sabine et al. , (2017), Shrubland primary production and soil respiration diverge along European climate gradient. Scientific Reports, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep43952

Crowther T.W. et al. , (2016), Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming. Nature, 540, 104-108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature20150

Carey Joanna C. et al. , (2016), Temperature response of soil respiration largely unaltered with experimental warming. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1605365113