
FRS, FRSE, FNA, FEurASc, FRSB, F I Soil Sci.
Chair in Plant & Soil Science
- About
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- Email Address
- pete.smith@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272702
- Office Address
Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
University of Aberdeen
23 St Machar Drive (Room G45)
Aberdeen, AB24 3UU
Scotland, UK- School/Department
- School of Biological Sciences
Biography
After obtaining a PhD in 1991, Pete Smith worked as a Higher- then Senior-Scientific Officer at the MAFF Central Science Laboratory until 1994. He then worked as a Band 6 and Band 5 Senior Research Scientist at Rothamsted Research before joining the University of Aberdeen as a Senior Lecturer in 2001.
He became a Reader in 2003, and Professor of Soils & Global Change in 2005. His main areas of expertise are in modelling greenhouse gas / carbon mitigation, bioenergy, biological carbon sequestration, global food systems modelling and greenhouse gas removal technologies.
He is co-leader with Prof Jo Smith of the Environmental Modelling Group (2 Academic staff, 2 Senior Research Fellows, 15 Post-docs, 12 PhDs). He is also Science Director of Scotland's Climate Change Centre of Expertise (www.climatexchange.org.uk), and was Director of Food Systems of the Scottish Food Security Alliance-Crops (www.sfsa-crops.org), and Theme Leader of the University-wide theme, Environment and Food Security (www.abdn.ac.uk/environment-food-security/), until 2015. He is editor for Global Change Biology and Global Change Biology Bioenergy.
He was a Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award holder (2008-2013), Royal Society Research Fellow (2008-2013), and is a Fellow of the Society of Biology (FSB; elected 2008), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE; elected 2009), a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Acedemy (FNA; elected 2017); a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc; elected 2018) and a Fellow of the Royal Society (London; elected 2017).
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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- Science Director of Scotland’s Climate Change Centre of Expertise (2011-present)
- External Memberships
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- Science Director of Scotland’s Climate Change Centre of Expertise (2011-present)
- Director-Food Systems of the Scottish Food Security Alliance – Crops (2013-2016)
- Theme Leader of cross-University theme on Environment & Food Security (2012-2015)
- Member of Science and Technical Committee for the International 4per1000 initiative (2016-2018)
- Member of Science Advisory Board to UK Global Food Security programme (2016-present)
- Convening Lead Author of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Claimet Change and Land (2016-2019)
- Convening Lead Author for Agriculture and Forestry Chapter of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report, Mitigation volume (2010-2014)
- Convening Lead Author of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, Mitigation volume, Chapter 8 Agriculture (2004-2007)
- Lead Author for Cross Sectoral Perspectives Chapter of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report, Mitigation volume (2018-present)
- Lead Author of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Good Practice Guidelines 2006 (2004-2006)
- Convening Lead Author of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Good Practice Guidelines for Greenhouse Gas Inventories for Land-Use, Land-Use Change & Forestry (2002-2004).
- Convening Lead Author for UN-FAO Status of World Soil Resources Report (2014-2015)
- Scientific Steering Group member of International Soil Carbon Network (2013-present)
- Member of DfID’s Research Advisory Group (2017-present)
- Member of Defra’s Science Advisory Council (2011-2013)
- Science Leader (and management committee member) for the UK community land surface model of the UK global climate model: JULES (soil C & N component) (2007-2014).
- Expert Advisor on bioenergy issues to UK Committee on Climate Change (2011)
- UK National Ecosystem Assessment Expert Group Member (2009-2011)
- Coordinating Lead Author for UK National Ecosystem Assessment Chapter on Regulating Services (2009-2011).
- UK Foresight Project on Global Food and Farming Futures, Expert Review Leader on Competition for Land (2009-2010).
- Member of Programme Development Group for the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2008-2013).
- New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre’s International Science Advisory Group (ISAG) (2010-present).
- Royal Society of Edinburgh Convener for the Organismal and Environmental Biology sectional committee (A3) (2011-2013)
- Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellowship Committee Member (2009-2013)
- Royal Society of Edinburgh BP Fellowship Committee Member (2010-present)
- Steering Committee Member of European Union – Framework V/VI CarboEurope Consortium (2002-2003)
- Lead Author for the IPCC Special Report on Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (published in 2000)
- Member of IPCC/OECD Working Group on the IPCC Revised Guidelines for national greenhouse gas inventories (1996)
- Chair of Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems (GCTE)’s Global Soil Organic Matter Network (SOMNET) (1996-2002)
- Co-leader of GCTE's research focus on Soil Organic Matter (1996-2000)
- Professorial selection committee for Danish Institute of Ag. Sciences (2002-2003)
- NERC/BBSRC Soil Science Advisory Committee member (2003-2008)
- Member of the International Geosphere Biosphere Program (IGBP) Global Carbon Cycle Project (1998-present).
- Chair and Convenor of EU-Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Initiative (TERI) Workgroup 8 on Policy Conflicts in Terrestrial Ecosystems Research (1999)
- Management Committee of EU-COST Action 627 “Carbon Storage in Grasslands” (2000-2006)
- Workgroup 3 (modelling) Chair of EU-COST Action 627 “Carbon Storage in Grasslands” (2000-2006)
- European Climate Change Programme Working Group Agriculture (WG7) member (2001)
- European Climate Change Programme Working Group “Soil Carbon Sinks” (WG7a) member (2002)
- European Climate Change Programme Working Group Research (WG6) member (2001)
- Member of Scientific Organising Committee of European Society of Agronomy (ESA) annual modelling symposia 1999 and 2001
- International Review Panel member of Australian Greenhouse Office National Carbon Accounting System (1999-2001)
- International Scientific Steering Committee member of the Federal US-funded multi-institutional project on carbon sequestration in US agriculture, CASMGS (2001-2005).
- Steering Committee of International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development-International Policy Council Platform on Climate Change, Agriculture and Trade (2009-2010)
- UK Co Chair of Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Working Group of UK-China Sustainable Agriculture Innovation Network (2009-2013).
- Associate Editor for the Journal of Environmental Quality (1997-2003)
- Editorial Board Member of Acta Agronomica Hungarica (1998-present)
- Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability (2006–present)
- Editorial Board Member of Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2006-2015).
- Editorial Board Member of Greenhouse Gas Management & Measurement (2010-present).
- Editorial Board Member of Journal of Subtropical Resources and Environment (2006-present)
- Editorial Board Member of Pedosphere (2014-present)
- Editorial Board of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability (2015-present)
- Editorial Board of Land Degradation and Development (2016-2017)
- Editorial Board of Current Research in Environmental Sustainability (2019-present)
- Editor of Global Change Biology (2007-present)
- Editor of Global Change Biology Bioenergy (2009-present)
- Subject Editor (Ecology, Conservation and Global Change Biology) of Royal Society Open Science (2019-present).
- Research
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Research Overview
Global change impacts on ecosystems, soils, agricultural and land based options to mitigate climate change, greenhouse gas emissions, environmental and agricultural sustainability, global carbon cycle, ecosystem modelling, food security, ecosystem services, bioenergy (including BECCS)
Current Research
Numerous projects on the above areas funded mainly by the research councils and the EU
Collaborations
Numerous - all over the world
Funding and Grants
Funding during last 10 years
Title Funding body Dates Partner share (£) Are tropical uplands regional hotspots for methane and nitrous oxide? NERC 01/03/10-28/02/13 358,391 Estimates of future agricultural greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation in China Defra/DfID 01/11/09-30/10/12 425,569 GHG Europe EU 01/01/10-30/09/13 324,687 Provide a Quantitative Estimate of and Review the Contribution of Priority Habitats to Mitigation of Climate Change Defra 01/01/10-30/03/11 42,140 Spatial mapping and evaluation of energy crop distribution in GB to 2050 NERC/UKERC 01/04/10-30/10/11 110,179 GACA Unilever 01/04/10-30/04/11 21,104 CARBONES EU 01/05/10-30/04/13 87,273 Review of GHG emissions from agriculture Unilever 01/05/10-31/05/10 3,783 Policy options for LULUCF in Europe EU 10/11/09-09/11/10 8,244 GHG emissions from agriculture Princeton / HP Foundation 01/05/10-30/08/10 6,667 Accounting for the GHG impacts of LULUC due to biobased ingredients Unilever 22/08/10-31/03/11 47,336 Interaction between C, N and water in UK soils (Homan Wong's PhD) NERC 01/04/10-30/09/13 75,000 UK NEA Coordinating Lead Author fund UNEP 01/07/10-31/03/10 10,000 Scoping study SP1105-populating the land use cmponent of the LULUCF GHG Inventory Defra/NERC 01/07/10-02/03/10 32,653 India Partnering award BBSRC 01/05/10-30/04/14 24,476 GHG mitigation from Chinese agriculture NERC 01/07/10-31/11/10 6,352 Development of an assessment on GHG emissions from the agricultural sector FAO 24/08/10-23/11/10 7,700 Jenny Farmer PhD project CLSM/Macaulay 01/09/09-30/08/12 3,000 Cool livestock farming in Europe Greenpeace International 01/11/10-30/04/11 4,315 Jon Hillier KET Award University of Aberdeen 12/12/10-30/07/10 12,175 InveN2Ory Defra 01/12/10-31/03/15 694,858 Data management and modelling for the agricultural GHG inventory Defra 01/12/10-31/03/15 60,000 Andy Robertson PhD Shell/CEH 01/02/11-31/01/14 48,000 Centre of Expertise on Climate Change - Mitigation Scottish Government 01/04/11-31/03/14 522,270 Committee on Climate Change - Bioenergy Expert CCC 01/04/11-31/12/11 6,674 ELUM ETI 01/06/11-31/04/14 599,800 Centre of Expertise on Climate Change - Directorate Scottish Government 01/04/11-31/03/16 210,000 RSE International Exchange Programme India Royal Society of Edinburgh 19/09/11-16/10/11 2,100 SmartSoil EU 01/11/11-30/07/15 299,540 Iniobong Essiet PhD College funding CLSM 01/10/11-30/09/14 9,000 IPCC CLA Support DECC 01/04/11-31/03/14 30,000 Impact on global ecosystem services of UK energy supply UKERC 01/01/12-31/03/14 300,000 SEER ESRC 01/03/12-31/12/12 43,619 RSE International Exchange Programme (Rafaele Casa) Royal Society of Edinburgh 02/06/12-23/06/12 1,813 Saana Tykka's PhD fund James Hutton Institute 01/10/12-31/03/16 42,000 Permafrost catchments in transition: hydrological controls on carbon cycling and greenhouse gas budgets NERC 01/10/12-31/09/16 273,875 FACCE-JPI MACSUR Cropland Hub BBSRC 01/08/12-31/07/15 64,734 EFS Theme Budget University of Aberdeen 01/09/12-31/08/13 30,000 Saana Tykka - 51232501 -RTSG PhD funding University of Aberdeen 01/09/12-31/03/16 3,000 Joseph Oyesiku-Blakemore - 51233548-RTSG PhD funding University of Aberdeen 01/09/12-31/03/16 3,000 GREENHOUSE NERC 01/04/13-31/03/17 211,388 Pete Smith secondment to the JHI (10%) James Hutton Institute 01/08/12-31/03/16 61,070 The Counterfactual land uses to bioenergy crops (Phase I and II) DECC 01/12/12-31/01/14 170,000 Capture crop and grassland management impact in UK soil carbon LULUCF Inventory Defra 22/10/12-28/02/14 98,094 Wales Glastir Axis II Project Welsh Government 01/05/13-31/08/14 51,823 Khadiza Begum PhD fund CLSM 01/08/13-30/07/16 3,000 Henri de Ruiter's PhD fund EFS Theme 01/10/13-31/03/17 17,500 Impacts of sugar cane production in Brazil BBSRC 31/07/14-30/07/18 48,980 India diet health and environmental impacts Wellcome Trust 01/11/14-31/10/16 25,146 Scaling soil process modelling to national Irish EPA 01/01/13-31/12/14 9,633 Dagmar Henner PhD RTSG (CLSM 50%) Shell/CLSM 01/10/14-31/03/18 1,500 Dagmar Henner PhD RTSG (Shell 50%) Shell/CLSM 01/10/14-31/03/18 31,759 Renaud Heckle PhD - £1k per year CLSM 01/10/14-31/03/18 3,000 Laura Philips PhD - £1k per year CLSM 01/10/14-31/03/18 3,000 MAGLUE EPSRC 01/01/15-31/12/17 169,299 U-Grass NERC 01/07/15-30/06/18 259,798 DEVIL Belmont Forum (via NERC) 01/02/15-31/01/20 399,997 Global N and India Mitigation Strategies Analysis CIMMYT 01/02/15-31/07/16 193,972 Science based emissions targets for agriculture and forestry commodities KR Foundation 01/05/2015-31/05/16 216,168 MACSUR2 BBSRC 01/06/15-31/05/17 52,782 ADVENT NERC 01/07/15-30/06/18 181,712 Amy Molotoks EastBio PhD fund EastBio 01/10/15-30/04/19 17,500 N-Circle BBSRC/Newton Fund 01/01/16-31/12/19 2,403,479 CXC-2 Scottish Government 01/04/16-31/02/21 131,968 Including perennial crops in the Cool Farm Tool NERC 01/04/16-28/02/17 96,532 Developing a Modelling Tool to Assist with Prioritising Investments in Natural Capital Defra (via University of Exeter) 01/01/17-30/06/17 6,000 Assess-BECCS UKERC 01/03/17-28/02/19 400,000 Juan Pablo Inamagua RTSG Uni. Aberdeen 01/08/17-30/07/18 3,000 Soils-R-GRREAT NERC and others 20/06/17-31/05/21 420,898 SHEFS Welcome Trust 359,072 BALI project NERC 01/04/14-31/03/18 209,366 Ziyin (Sally) Shang PhD - £1k per year SBS/CSC 01/10/17-30/09/21 3,000 Yang Guo PhD - £1k per year SBS/CSC 01/10/17-30/09/21 3,000 VERIFY EU 01/02/18-31/01/22 234,614 CIRCASA EU 01/04/18-31/03/22 123,768 AFRICAP NERC 01/10/17-31/12/21 383,410 SUPERG EU 01/06/18-31/05/23 419,702 UNISECO EU 01/05/18-30/04/21 264,846 BEIS contribution to Pete Smith CLA role BEIS 01/06/17-30/07/19 20,000 Juan Pablo Inamagua IRSAE travel grant IRSAE 20/03/18-19/03/19 739 Land Use Modelling Review - Valuing Nature Network NERC 01/12/18-31/05/19 57,000 Total 12622841 - Publications
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Building soil to reduce climate change impacts on global crop yield
Science of the Total EnvironmentContributions to Journals: ArticlesCover crops do not increase soil organic carbon stocks as much as has been claimed: what is the way forward?
Global Change BiologyContributions to Journals: ArticlesEnvironmental, social and economic perceptions of local food production: a case study of Aberdeenshire farmers’ markets
Scottish Geographical Journal, pp. 1-15Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTrade-offs in carbon-degrading enzyme activities limit long-term soil carbon sequestration with biochar addition
Biological Reviews, vol. 98, no. 4, pp. 1184-1199Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMethane emissions from rice paddies globally: A quantitative statistical review of controlling variables and modelling of emission factors
Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 409, 137245Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEco-physiology and environmental impacts of newly developed rice genotypes for improved yield and nitrogen use efficiency coordinately
Science of the Total Environment, vol. 896, 165294Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165294
Soil organic carbon stocks potentially at risk of decline with organic farming expansion
Nature Climate Change, vol. 13, pp. 719-725Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEvaluation of the ECOSSE Model for Estimating Soil Respiration from Eight European Permanent Grassland Sites
Agronomy, vol. 13, no. 7, 1734Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSimulating soil salinity dynamics, cotton yield and evapotranspiration under drip irrigation by ensemble machine learning
Frontiers in plant science, vol. 14, 1143462Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe role of grassland for erosion and flood mitigation in Europe: A meta-analysis
Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, vol. 348, 108443Contributions to Journals: Review articlesA Horizon Scan to support Chemical Pollution related policymaking for sustainable and climate resilient economies
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, vol. 42, no. 6, pp. 1212-1228Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAgroecology as a transformative approach to tackle climatic, food, and ecosystemic crises
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, vol. 62, 101275Contributions to Journals: Review articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101275
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Planting trees in livestock landscapes to protect soil and water also delivers carbon sequestration
Agroforestry Systems, vol. 97, pp. 1199-1214Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAn Overview of Permanent Grassland Grazing Management Practices and the Impacts on Principal Soil Quality Indicators
Agronomy, vol. 13, no. 5, 1366Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDevelopment of DNDC-BC model to estimate greenhouse gas emissions from rice paddy fields under combination of biochar and controlled irrigation management.
Geoderma, vol. 433, 116450Contributions to Journals: ArticlesFacing climate change and improving emergency responses in Southern America by analysing urban cyclonic wind events
Urban Climate, vol. 49, 101489Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe role of rice cultivation in changes in atmospheric methane concentration and the Global Methane Pledge
Global Change Biology, vol. 29, no. 10, pp. 2776-2789Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16631
Avoiding emissions versus creating sinks-Effectiveness and attractiveness to climate finance
Global Change Biology, vol. 29, no. 8, pp. 2046-2049Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe contribution of environmental science to mental health research: A scoping review
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 20, no. 7, 5278Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe consolidated European synthesis of CH4 and N2O emissions for the European Union and United Kingdom: 1990-2019
Earth System Science Data, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 1197-1268Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPriorities for mitigating greenhouse gas and ammonia emissions to meet UK policy targets
Frontiers of Agricultural Science & EngineeringContributions to Journals: ArticlesEnsemble machine learning for modeling greenhouse gas emissions at different time scales from irrigated paddy fields
Field Crops Research, vol. 292, 108821Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2023.108821
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Residual correlation and ensemble modelling to improve crop and grassland models
Environmental Modelling and Software, vol. 161, 105625Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2023.105625
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Trade-off in key carbon-degrading enzyme activities limits long-term soil carbon sequestration with biochar addition
Biological ReviewsContributions to Journals: ArticlesModelling methane emissions and grain yields for a double-rice system in Southern China with DAYCENT and DNDC models
Geoderma, vol. 431, 116364Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Triple Challenge: synergies, trade-offs and integrated responses for climate, biodiversity, and human wellbeing goals
Climate policyContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2023.2175637
A sustainable waste-to-protein system to maximise waste resource utilisation for developing food- and feed-grade protein solutions.
Green Chemistry, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 808-832Contributions to Journals: ArticlesReply to Simpson et al.: Short-term no tillage reduces soil carbon stocks but longer duration can alleviate the initial decline
Geoderma, vol. 430, 116308Contributions to Journals: LettersCropping leads to the loss of soil organic matter: how can we prevent it?
Pedosphere, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 8-10Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEffects of carbonate minerals and exogenous acids on carbon flux from the chemical weathering of granite and basalt
Global and Planetary Change, vol. 221, 104053Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104053
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Modelling CH4 emission from rice ecosystem: A comparison between existing empirical models
Frontiers in Agronomy, vol. 4, 1058649Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHow can we possibly resolve the planet’s nitrogen dilemma?
Microbial Biotechnology, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 15-27Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.14159
Die Auswirkungen einer großflächigen Verbreitung von agrarökologischen Maßnahmen auf die Nachhaltigkeit der europäischen Landwirtschaft im Jahr 2050
EuroChoices, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 27-36Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1746-692X.12373
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Schaffung von Bedingungen für die Nutzung des agrarökologischen Potenzials in Europa und Anforderungen an die Politik
EuroChoices, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 72-79Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEstablishing a climate target within the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
PLOS Climate, vol. 1, no. 12, e0000106Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA method to identify barriers to and enablers of implementing climate change mitigation options
One Earth, vol. 5, no. 11, pp. 1216-1227Contributions to Journals: Review articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2022.10.007
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Agroecological practices in combination with healthy diets can help meet EU food system policy targets
Science of the Total Environment, vol. 847, 157612Contributions to Journals: ArticlesManagement-induced changes in soil organic carbon on global croplands
Biogeosciences, vol. 19, no. 21, pp. 5125-5149Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMeasuring and monitoring soil carbon sequestration
Understanding and fostering soil carbon sequestration. Rumpel, C. (ed.). Burleigh Dodds Science PublishingChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersDeclines in soil carbon storage under no tillage can be alleviated in the long run
Geoderma, vol. 425, 116028Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2022.116028
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A New Convergent Science Framework for Food System Sustainability in an Uncertain Climate
Food and Energy Security, vol. 11, no. 4, e423Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGrowing health: global linkages between patterns of food supply, sustainability, and vulnerability to climate change
The Lancet Planetary Health, vol. 6, no. 11, pp. e901-e908Contributions to Journals: Review articlesCurrent NPP cannot predict future soil organic carbon sequestration potential. Comment on “Photosynthetic limits on carbon sequestration in croplands”
Geoderma, vol. 424, 115975Contributions to Journals: Editorials- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2022.115975
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Direct N2O emissions from global tea plantations and mitigation potential by climate-smart practices
Resources, Conservation and Recycling, vol. 185, 106501Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2022.106501
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How modelers model: the overlooked social and human dimensions in model intercomparison studies
Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 56, no. 18, pp. 13485–13498Contributions to Journals: ArticlesProgress on improving agricultural nitrogen use efficiency: UK-China virtual joint centers on nitrogen agronomy
Frontiers of Agricultural Science & Engineering, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 475-489Contributions to Journals: ArticlesNegative erosion and negative emissions: Combining multiple land-based carbon dioxide removal techniques to rebuild fertile topsoils and enhance food production
Frontiers in Climate, vol. 4, 928403Contributions to Journals: ArticlesObservation-based global soil heterotrophic respiration indicates underestimated turnover and sequestration of soil carbon by terrestrial ecosystem models
Global Change Biology, vol. 28, no. 18, pp. 5547-5559Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTemperate Regenerative Agriculture practices increase soil carbon but not crop yield—a meta-analysis
Environmental Research Letters, vol. 17, no. 9, 093001Contributions to Journals: Review articlesBiophysical and Economic Constraints on China’s Natural Climate Solutions
Nature Climate Change, vol. 12, no. 9, pp. 847-853Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEvaluating indices of soil organic carbon stability.: A case study for forest restoration projects near Beijing, China
Ecological Indicators, vol. 142, 109222Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPlanetary Boundaries and the Doughnut frameworks: A review of their local operability
Anthropocene, vol. 39, 100347Contributions to Journals: ArticlesWhat can the Glasgow Declaration on Forests bring to global emission reduction?
The Innovation, vol. 3, no. 6, 100307Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xinn.2022.100307
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Divergent changes in particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon upon permafrost thaw
Nature Communications, vol. 13, 5073Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGlobal systematic review with meta-analysis reveals yield advantage of legume-based rotations and its drivers
Nature Communications, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 4926Contributions to Journals: Review articlesSoil Carbon Sequestration and Biochar
Greenhouse Gas Removal Technologies. Bui, M., Mac Dowell, N. (eds.). Royal Society of Chemistry, pp. 194 - 243Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] Link to publication
Modelling soil carbon stocks following reduced tillage intensity: a framework to estimate decomposition rate constant modifiers for RothC-26.3, demonstrated in north west Europe
Soil & Tillage Research, vol. 222, 105428Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLand-based climate solutions for the United States
Global Change Biology, vol. 28, no. 16, pp. 4912-4919Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA new integrated assessment framework for climate-smart nutrition security in sub-Saharan Africa: the integrated Future Estimator for Emissions and Diets (iFEED)
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, vol. 6, 868189Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSoil carbon sequestration potential in global croplands
PeerJ, vol. 10, e13740Contributions to Journals: ArticlesUse of Unoccupied Aerial Systems to Characterize Woody Vegetation across Silvopastoral Systems in Ecuador.
Remote Sensing, vol. 14, 3386Contributions to Journals: ArticlesImpacts of crop type, management and soil quality indicators on background nitrous oxide emissions (BNE) from Chinese croplands: a quantitative review and analysis
Environmental Science: Atmospheres, vol. 2022, no. 2, pp. 563-573Contributions to Journals: ArticlesExploring the environmental impact of crop production in China using a comprehensive footprint approach
Science of the Total Environment, vol. 824, 153898Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153898
Soil quality both increases crop production and improves resilience to climate change
Nature Climate Change, vol. 12, pp. 574-580Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPermanent grasslands in Europe: Land use change and intensification decrease their multifunctionality
Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, vol. 330, 107891Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCan Regenerative Agriculture increase national soil carbon stocks?: Simulated country scale adoption of reduced tillage, cover cropping, and ley-arable integration using RothC
Science of the Total Environment, vol. 825, 153955Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDoes liming grasslands increase biomass productivity without causing detrimental impacts on net greenhouse gas emissions?
Environmental Pollution, vol. 300, 118999Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Potential Co-benefits and Trade-offs Between Improved Soil Management, Climate Change Mitigation and Agri-food Productivity
Food and Energy Security, vol. 11, no. 2, e352Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAn Integrated Framework to Assess Greenwashing
Sustainability, vol. 14, no. 8, 4431Contributions to Journals: ArticlesActions to halt biodiversity loss generally benefit the climate
Global Change Biology, pp. 2846-2874Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHow do we best synergise climate mitigation actions to co-benefit biodiversity?
Global Change Biology, vol. 28, no. 8, pp. 2555-2577Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16056
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/19818/1/Smith_etal_GCB_How_Do_We_AAM.pdf
China's low-emission pathways toward climate-neutral livestock production for animal-derived foods
The Innovation, vol. 3, no. 2, 100220Contributions to Journals: Review articlesDeceleration of Cropland-N2O Emissions in China and Future Mitigation Potentials
Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 56, no. 7, pp. 4665-4675Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c07276
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