A5090798242- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Study of Mite Species
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Nematode management and characterization studies
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Marine and environmental studies
- Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Plant and animal studies
- Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
- Forest Management and Policy
- Collembola Taxonomy and Ecology Studies
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Soil and Unsaturated Flow
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
2015-2024
University College Dublin
2009-2022
Natural Environment Research Council
2018
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
2009-2011
University of Aberdeen
1894-2009
Abstract Soil microbial communities play a crucial role in ecosystem functioning, but it is unknown how co-occurrence networks within these respond to disturbances such as climate extremes. This represents an important knowledge gap because changes could have implications for their functioning and vulnerability future disturbances. Here, we show grassland mesocosms that drought promotes destabilising properties soil bacterial, not fungal, networks, bacterial link more strongly during...
Soil organisms, including earthworms, are a key component of terrestrial ecosystems. However, little is known about their diversity, distribution, and the threats affecting them. We compiled global dataset sampled earthworm communities from 6928 sites in 57 countries as basis for predicting patterns abundance, biomass. found that local species richness abundance typically peaked at higher latitudes, displaying opposite to those observed aboveground organisms. high dissimilarity across...
Soil is part of the Earth's life support system, but how should we convey value this and soil as a resource? Consideration ecosystem services natural capital soils offers framework going beyond performance indicators health quality, recognizes broad that contributes to human wellbeing. This approach provides links synergies between science other disciplines such ecology, hydrology, economics, recognizing importance alongside resources in sustaining functioning Earth system. We articulate why...
Summary Understanding and quantifying constraints to multiple ecosystem service delivery biodiversity is vital for developing management strategies current future human well‐being. A particular challenge reconcile demand increased food production with provision of other services biodiversity. Using a spatially extensive data base (covering Great Britain) co‐located biophysical measurements (collected in the Countryside Survey), we explore relationships between indicators across temperate...
Abstract As the most abundant animals on earth, nematodes are a dominant component of soil community. They play critical roles in regulating biogeochemical cycles and vegetation dynamics within across landscapes an indicator biological activity. Here, we present comprehensive global dataset nematode abundance functional group composition. This includes 6,825 georeferenced samples from all continents biomes. For geospatial mapping purposes these aggregated into 1,933 unique 1-km pixels, each...
Understanding “soil change” at the national scale, in addition to soil status, is a key challenge for scale monitoring programs and essential if more sustainable use of this finite resource be achieved. We present results from first survey change reported three times within Europe perhaps globally, covering 30‐yr time span. Countryside Survey an integrated program that makes measurements vegetation; topsoil physical, chemical, biological characteristics (0–15 cm); water quality; land across...
Abstract A major challenge in soil science is to monitor and understand the state change of soils at a national scale inform decision making policy. To address this, there need identify key parameters for health function determine how they relate other parameters, including traditional surveys. Here we present national‐scale dataset topsoil sampled as part wider agri‐environment monitoring scheme Wales, UK. Over 1,350 topsoils (0–15 cm) were across very wide range habitats physical, chemical...
Abstract Earthworms are an important soil taxon as ecosystem engineers, providing a variety of crucial functions and services. Little is known about their diversity distribution at large spatial scales, despite the availability considerable amounts local-scale data. Earthworm data, obtained from primary literature or provided directly by authors, were collated with information on site locations, including coordinates, habitat cover, properties. Datasets required, minimum, to include...
Abstract In the UK and other temperate regions, short rotation coppice ( SRC ) Miscanthus x giganteus are two of leading ‘second‐generation’ bioenergy crops. Grown specifically as a low‐carbon (C) fossil fuel replacement, calculations climate mitigation provided by these crops rely on accurate data. There concerns that uncertainty about impacts soil C stocks transitions from current agricultural land use to could lead either an under‐ or overestimate their potential. Here, for locations...
Efforts to improve soil health require that target values of key properties are established. No agreed targets exist but providing population data as benchmarks is a useful step standardise comparison between landscapes. We exploited nationally representative topsoil (0-15 cm) measurements derive for managed and semi-natural environments across Great Britain. In total, 4587 organic matter (SOM), 3860 pH, 2908 bulk density (BD), 465 earthworm abundance (EA) datapoints were used. As sensitive...
Abstract Many national and regional databases of soil properties associated estimates carbon stock consider organic, but not inorganic (IC). Any future change in resulting from the formation pedogenic carbonates will be difficult to set context because historical measurements or IC concentration may available. In their article describing a database for United Kingdom published this journal, Bradley et al. [ Soil Use Management (2005) vol. 21, 363–369] only data organic (OC), despite...