A5017421796- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Soil Management and Crop Yield
- Polar Research and Ecology
- Soil Mechanics and Vehicle Dynamics
- Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology
- Climate change and permafrost
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods
- Soybean genetics and cultivation
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Nematode management and characterization studies
- Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
- Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Proteins in Food Systems
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Botanical Research and Applications
- Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
- Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology
- Seed Germination and Physiology
- Plant responses to elevated CO2
- Irrigation Practices and Water Management
- Light effects on plants
- Geophysical Methods and Applications
- Sugarcane Cultivation and Processing
Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
2020-2022
University of Nottingham
2016-2020
Aberystwyth University
2012-2018
Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences
2015-2018
Loughborough University
2016-2017
Cryoconite holes are known as foci of microbial diversity and activity on polar glacier surfaces, but virtually unexplored habitats in alpine regions. In addition, whether cryoconite community structure reflects ecosystem functionality is poorly understood. Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism Fourier transform infrared metabolite fingerprinting from glaciers Austria, Greenland Svalbard demonstrated bacterial communities closely correlated with cognate fingerprints. The...
Microbial colonization of glacial ice surfaces incurs feedbacks which affect the melting rate surface. Ecosystems formed as microbe-mineral aggregates termed cryoconite locally reduce surface albedo and represent foci biodiversity biogeochemical cycling. Consequently, greater understanding ecological processes in formation functional ecosystems upon glacier is sought. Here, we present first bacterial biogeography an cap, evaluating respective roles dispersal, environmental biotic filtration...
Seed-soil contact is important to ensure successful germination, however, there a paucity of reported studies that have quantified the microstructure at and around this critical interface, mainly due opacity soil.Here we describe novel methodology non-destructively calculate seed-soil area using X-ray Computed Tomography. Under controlled conditions, observed was strongly influenced by size type seed, with ca. 15% for naked sugar beet seeds compared 32% pelleted coated seeds. Similar results...
Abstract Geophysical surveys are now commonly used in agriculture for mapping applications. High‐throughput collection of geophysical properties such as electrical conductivity (inverse resistivity) can be a proxy soil interest (e.g., moisture, texture, salinity). Most applications only rely on single survey at given time. However, time‐lapse have greater capabilities to characterize the dynamics system, which is focus this work. Assessing impact agricultural practices through growth season...
Soil compaction (SC) is a major threat for agriculture in Europe that affects many ecosystem functions, such as water and air circulation soils, root growth, crop production. Our objective was to present the results from five short-term (<5 years) case studies located along north–south east–west gradients conducted within SoilCare project using soil-improving cropping systems (SICSs) mitigating topsoil subsoil SC. Two study sites (SSs) focused on natural (˃25 cm) subsoiling tillage...
Abstract. Inversion tillage is a commonly applied soil cultivation practice in Europe, which often has been blamed for deteriorating topsoil stability and organic carbon (OC) content. In this study, the potential to reverse these negative effects by alternative agricultural management practices are evaluated seven long-term experiments (running from 8 54 years moment of sampling) five European countries (Belgium, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy UK). Topsoil samples (0–15 cm) were collected...
We investigated re-establishment of fungal communities on eight former colliery sites in South Wales following revegetation 22–27 y earlier. Regraded bare coal-spoil was seeded to sheep-grazed grasslands, with saplings planted into for woodlands. Metabarcoding (28S rRNA, D1 region) soil populations showed that woodland and grassland habitats were clearly divergent but edaphic variables only weakly affected community structure. Root-associated basidiomycetes dominated all habitats,...
UV-B radiation and elevated CO₂ may impact rhizosphere processes through altered below-ground plant resource allocation root exudation, changes that have implications for nutrient acquisition. As nutrients limit growth in many habitats, their supply dictate response under CO₂. This study investigated exposure effects, including interactions, on growth, tissue chemistry rooting responses relating to P The sub-arctic grass Calamagrostis purpurea was subjected (0 or 3.04 kJ m⁻² day⁻¹) (ambient...
Soil compaction can occur due to trafficking by heavy equipment and be exacerbated unfavourable conditions such as wet weather. Compaction restrict crop growth increase waterlogging, which the production of greenhouse gas nitrous oxide. Cultivation used alleviate compaction, but this have negative impacts on earthworm abundance carbon dioxide. In study, a field was purposefully compacted using trafficking, then in replicated plot experiment, ploughing, low disturbance subsoiling application...
Abstract. Inversion tillage is a commonly applied soil cultivation practice in Europe, which though has been blamed for deteriorating topsoil stability and organic carbon (OC) content. In this study, the potential to reverse these negative effects by alternative agricultural management practices are evaluated five long-term experiments (running from 8 54 years moment of sampling) Europe. Topsoil samples (0–15 cm) were collected analysed evaluate conservation (reduced no-tillage) or increased...