Net Zero and Resilient Farming

TitleNet Zero and Resilient Farming
TypeScience Department
InstituteRothamsted Research
HeadAdrian Collins
Executive AssistantKirsty Tooke

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The Minkowski approach for choosing the distance metric in geographically weighted regression

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals
Lu, B., Charlton, M., Brunsdon, C. and Harris, P. 2016. The Minkowski approach for choosing the distance metric in geographically weighted regression. International Journal Of Geographical Information Science. 30 (2), pp. 351-368. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2015.1087001

Using hysteresis analysis of high-resolution water quality monitoring data, including uncertainty, to infer controls on nutrient and sediment transfer in catchments

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals
Lloyd, C. E. M., Freer, J. E., Johnes, P. J. and Collins, A. L. 2016. Using hysteresis analysis of high-resolution water quality monitoring data, including uncertainty, to infer controls on nutrient and sediment transfer in catchments. Science of the Total Environment. 543, pp. 388-404. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.11.028

Data mining the North Wyke Farm Platform data sets

C2 - Non-edited contributions to conferences
Harris, P., Griffith, B. A., Sint, H. M., Cardenas, L. M., Dungait, J. A. J., Orr, R. J. and Lee, M. R. F. 2016. Data mining the North Wyke Farm Platform data sets. Abstracts International Conference on Steps to Sustainable Livestock, Bristol, 12-15 January 2016 .

Contextualized geographically weighted principal components analysis for investigating baseline soils data on the North Wyke Farm Platform

C1 - Edited contributions to conferences/learned societies
Harris, P., Howden, N. J. K., Peukert, S., Noacco, V., Ramezani, K., Tuominen, E., Eludoyin, B., Brazier, R., Shepherd, A., Griffith, B. A., Orr, R. J. and Murray, P. J. 2016. Contextualized geographically weighted principal components analysis for investigating baseline soils data on the North Wyke Farm Platform. Raju, N. J. (ed.) Geostatistical and Geospatial Approaches for the Characterization of Natural Resources in the Environment: Proceedings 16th Annual Conference of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences, New Delhi, 17-20 October 2014 . Springer, Cham. pp. 651-655 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18663-4_99

Grazing behaviour, urine composition and soil properties are key drivers of nitrous oxide emissions from livestock urine in the uplands (Uplands - N2O)

C2 - Non-edited contributions to conferences
Cardenas, L. M., Perotto-Baldivieso, H., Whellan, M., Wilson, R. and Chadwick, D. R. 2016. Grazing behaviour, urine composition and soil properties are key drivers of nitrous oxide emissions from livestock urine in the uplands (Uplands - N2O). Abstracts International Conference on Steps to Sustainable Livestock, Bristol, 12-15 January 2016 .

Dry matter losses and greenhouse gas emissions from outside storage of short rotation coppice willow chip

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals
Whittaker, C., Yates, N. E., Powers, S. J., Misselbrook, T. H. and Shield, I. F. 2016. Dry matter losses and greenhouse gas emissions from outside storage of short rotation coppice willow chip. BioEnergy Research. 9, pp. 288-302. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12155-015-9686-y

Technical note: testing an improved index for analysing storm discharge-nutrient hysteresis

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals
Lloyd, C. E. M., Freer, J. E., Johnes, P. J. and Collins, A. L. 2016. Technical note: testing an improved index for analysing storm discharge-nutrient hysteresis. Hydrology And Earth System Sciences. 20 (2), pp. 625-632. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-625-2016

Extent, frequency and rate of water erosion of arable land in Britain - benefits and challenges for modelling

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals
Evans, R., Collins, A. L., Foster, I. D. L., Rickson, R. J., Anthony, S. G., Brewer, T., Deeks, L., Newell-Price, J. P., Truckell, I. G. and Zhang, Y. 2016. Extent, frequency and rate of water erosion of arable land in Britain - benefits and challenges for modelling. Soil Use and Management. 32 (S1), pp. 149-161. https://doi.org/10.1111/sum.12210

Nitrous oxide emissions from UK arable agriculture are less than previously thought

C2 - Non-edited contributions to conferences
Sylvester-Bradley, R., Thorman, R. E., Kindred, D. R., Wynn, S. C., Smith, K. E., Rees, R. M., Topp, C. F. E., Pappa, V. A., Mortimer, N. D., Misselbrook, T. H., Gilhespy, S. L., Cardenas, L. M., Kingston, H., Bennett, S., Malkin, S. and Munro, D. G. 2015. Nitrous oxide emissions from UK arable agriculture are less than previously thought. International Fertiliser Society's annual agronomic conferernce, Cambridge, 2015.

Country case studies

B - Book chapters etc edited externally
Abalos, D., Bracher, A., Bryukhanov, A., Condor-Golec, R. D., Kozlova, N., Lalor, S. T. J., Menzi, H., Maximov, D., Misselbrook, T. H., Raaflaub, M., Sanz-Cobena, A., Von Atzigen-Sollberger, E., Spring, P., Vallejo, A. and Wade, B. 2015. Country case studies. in: Sutton, M. A., Reis, S. and Howard, C. (ed.) Costs of ammonia abatement and the climate co-benefits Springer, Dordrecht. pp. 169-231

Fertilization and catch crop strategies for improving tomato production in North China

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals
Yuan, H-M., Blackwell, M. S. A., Rahn, C. and Chen, Q. 2015. Fertilization and catch crop strategies for improving tomato production in North China. Pedosphere. 25, pp. 364-371. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1002-0160(15)30004-7

Land use and soil factors affecting accumulation of phosphorus species in temperate soils

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals
Stutter, M. I., Shand, C. A., George, T. S., Blackwell, M. S. A., Dixon, E. R., Bol, R., Mackay, R. L., Richardson, A. E., Condron, L. M. and Haygarth, P. M. 2015. Land use and soil factors affecting accumulation of phosphorus species in temperate soils. Geoderma. 257-258, pp. 29-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2015.03.020

Potential use of rare earth oxides as tracers of organic matter in grassland

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals
Senbayram, M., Bol, R., Dixon, E. R., Fisher, A., Stevens, C., Quinton, J. and Fangueiro, D. 2015. Potential use of rare earth oxides as tracers of organic matter in grassland. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science. 178 (2), pp. 288-296. https://doi.org/10.1002/jpln.201400465

Larger phylogenetic distances in litter mixtures: lower microbial biomass and higher C/N ratios but equal mass loss

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals
Pan, X., Berg, M. P., Butenschoen, O., Murray, P. J., Bartish, I. V., Cornelissen, J. H. C., Dong, M. and Prinzing, A. 2015. Larger phylogenetic distances in litter mixtures: lower microbial biomass and higher C/N ratios but equal mass loss. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences. 282, p. 20150103. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0103

Management opportunities to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from Chinese agriculture

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals
Nayak, D., Saetnan, E., Cheng, K., Wang, W., Koslowski, F., Cheng, Y-F., Zhu, W. Y., Wang, J-K., Liu, J-X., Moran, D., Yan, X., Cardenas, L. M., Newbold, J., Pan, G., Lu, Y. and Smith, P. 2015. Management opportunities to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from Chinese agriculture. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. 209 (1 November), pp. 108-124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2015.04.035

The effect of farmers' decisions on pest control with Bt crops: a billion dollar game of strategy

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals
Milne, A. E., Bell, J. R., Hutchison, W. D., Van Den Bosch, F., Mitchell, P. D., Crowder, D., Parnell, S. and Whitmore, A. P. 2015. The effect of farmers' decisions on pest control with Bt crops: a billion dollar game of strategy. PLOS Computational Biology. 11, p. e1004483. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004483

Nitrous oxide emissions from forage maize production on a Humic Cambisol fertilized with mineral fertilizer or slurries in Galicia, Spain

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals
Louro, A., Baez, D., Garcia, M. I. and Cardenas, L. M. 2015. Nitrous oxide emissions from forage maize production on a Humic Cambisol fertilized with mineral fertilizer or slurries in Galicia, Spain. Geoderma Regional. 5, pp. 54-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geodrs.2015.03.004

Anaerobic digestates lower N2O emissions compared to cattle slurry by affecting rate and product stoichiometry of denitrification - an N2O isotopomer case study

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals
Koster, J. R., Cardenas, L. M., Bol, R., Lewicka-Szczebak, D., Senbayram, M., Well, R., Giesemann, A. and Dittert, K. 2015. Anaerobic digestates lower N2O emissions compared to cattle slurry by affecting rate and product stoichiometry of denitrification - an N2O isotopomer case study. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 84, pp. 65-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2015.01.021

The importance of soil drying and re-wetting in crop phytohormonal and nutritional responses to deficit irrigation

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals
Dodd, I. C., Puertolas, J., Huber, K., Perez-Perez, J. G., Wright, H. R. and Blackwell, M. S. A. 2015. The importance of soil drying and re-wetting in crop phytohormonal and nutritional responses to deficit irrigation. Journal of Experimental Botany. 66, pp. 2239-2252. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eru532

Using 31P-NMR to investigate dynamics of soil phosphorus compounds in the Rothamsted Long Term Experiments

C2 - Non-edited contributions to conferences
Blackwell, M. S. A., Turner, B., Granger, S. J., Hooper, A. M., Darch, T., Hawkins, J. M. B., Yuan, H. and McGrath, S. P. 2015. Using 31P-NMR to investigate dynamics of soil phosphorus compounds in the Rothamsted Long Term Experiments. EGU.

Disaggregated N2O emission factors in China based on cropping parameters create a robust approach to the IPCC Tier 2 methodology

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals
Shepherd, A., Yan, X., Nayak, D., Newbold, J., Moran, D., Dhanoa, M. S., Goulding, K. W. T., Smith, P. and Cardenas, L. M. 2015. Disaggregated N2O emission factors in China based on cropping parameters create a robust approach to the IPCC Tier 2 methodology. Atmospheric Environment. 122, pp. 272-281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.09.054

Spatial prediction of coastal bathymetry based on multispectral satellite imagery and multibeam data

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals
Monteys, X., Harris, P., Caloca, S. and Cahalane, C. 2015. Spatial prediction of coastal bathymetry based on multispectral satellite imagery and multibeam data. Remote Sensing. 7 (10), pp. 13782-13806. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs71013782

Calibrating a geographically weighted regression model with parameter-specific distance metrics

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals
Lu, B., Harris, P., Charlton, M. and Brunsdon, C. 2015. Calibrating a geographically weighted regression model with parameter-specific distance metrics. Procedia Environmental Sciences. 26, pp. 109-114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proenv.2015.05.011

Growing innovations for the bioeconomy

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals
Karp, A., Beale, M. H., Beaudoin, F., Eastmond, P. J., Neal, A. L., Shield, I. F., Townsend, B. J. and Dobermann, A. 2015. Growing innovations for the bioeconomy. Nature Plants. 1, p. 15193. https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2015.193

Using bootstrap methods to investigate coefficient non-stationarity in regression models: an empirical case study

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals
Harris, P., Brunsdon, C., Gollini, I., Nakaya, T. and Charlton, M. 2015. Using bootstrap methods to investigate coefficient non-stationarity in regression models: an empirical case study. Procedia Environmental Sciences. 27, pp. 112-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proenv.2015.07.106

The use of geographically weighted PCA to classify land cover from multispectral image data

C2 - Non-edited contributions to conferences
Harris, P., Tsutsumida, N. and Comber, A. J. 2015. The use of geographically weighted PCA to classify land cover from multispectral image data. Abstracts 36th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment ISRSE36, Berlin, 11-15 May 2015 .

The North Wyke Farm Platform, a UK national capability for research into sustainability of temperate agricultural grassland management: progress and developments

C2 - Non-edited contributions to conferences
Harris, P., Dungait, J. A. J., Griffith, B. A., Shepherd, A., Sint, H. M., Blackwell, M. S. A., Cardenas, L. M., Collins, A. L., Goulding, K. W. T., Lee, M. R. F. and Orr, R. J. 2015. The North Wyke Farm Platform, a UK national capability for research into sustainability of temperate agricultural grassland management: progress and developments. EGU.

Capturing the spatial variability of N2O emissions on grazed grasslands

C2 - Non-edited contributions to conferences
Cardenas, L. M., Dunn, R. M., Shepherd, A., Misselbrook, T. H., Orr, R. J., Griffith, B. A., Velazquez, A., Burak, E., Chen, K., Harris, P., Repullo, M. and Collins, A. L. 2015. Capturing the spatial variability of N2O emissions on grazed grasslands. Abstracts ASA/CSSA/SSSA International Annual Meeting Synergy in Science: Partnering for Solutions, Minneapolis, 15-18 November 2015 .

Nitrous oxide emissions from fertilised UK arable soils: fluxes, emission factors and mitigation

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals
Bell, M. J., Hinton, N., Cloy, J. M., Topp, C. F. E., Rees, R. M., Cardenas, L. M., Scott, T., Webster, C. P., Ashton, R. W., Whitmore, A. P., Williams, J. R., Balshaw, H., Paine, F., Goulding, K. W. T. and Chadwick, D. R. 2015. Nitrous oxide emissions from fertilised UK arable soils: fluxes, emission factors and mitigation. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. 212, pp. 134-147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2015.07.003

Designing strategies for epidemic control in a tree nursery: the case of ash dieback in the UK

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals
Alonso Chavez, V., Parnell, S. and Van Den Bosch, F. 2015. Designing strategies for epidemic control in a tree nursery: the case of ash dieback in the UK. Forests. 6 (11), pp. 4135-4145. https://doi.org/10.3390/f6114135

Global Research Alliance Modelling Platform (GRAMP): an open web platform for modelling greenhouse gas emissions from agro-ecosystems

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals
Yeluripati, J. B., Del Prado, A., Sanz-Cobena, A., Rees, R. M., Li, C., Chadwick, D., Tilston, E., Topp, C. F. E., Cardenas, L. M., Ingraham, P., Gilhespy, S. L., Anthony, S., Vetter, S. H., Misselbrook, T. H., Salas, W. and Smith, P. 2015. Global Research Alliance Modelling Platform (GRAMP): an open web platform for modelling greenhouse gas emissions from agro-ecosystems. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 111 (February), pp. 112-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2014.11.016

Modelling the impact of environmental changes on grassland systems with SPACSYS

C1 - Edited contributions to conferences/learned societies
Wu, L., Whitmore, A. P. and Bellocchi, G. 2015. Modelling the impact of environmental changes on grassland systems with SPACSYS. Proceedings of the MACSUR International Livestock Modelling and Research Colloquium . Cambridge University Press (CUP) Cambridge. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2040470014000508

Technologies for increasing carbon storage in soil to mitigate climate change

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals
Whitmore, A. P., Kirk, G. J. D. and Rawlins, B. G. 2015. Technologies for increasing carbon storage in soil to mitigate climate change. Soil Use and Management. 31 (Suppl. 1), pp. 62-71. https://doi.org/10.1111/sum.12115

Source identification of fine-grained suspended sediment in the Kharaa River basin, northern Mongolia

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals
Theuring, P., Collins, A. L. and Rode, M. 2015. Source identification of fine-grained suspended sediment in the Kharaa River basin, northern Mongolia. Science of the Total Environment. 526, pp. 77-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.03.134

Development of a biotic index using stream macroinvertebrates to assess stress from deposited fine sediment

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals
Murphy, J. F., Jones, J. I., Pretty, J. L., Duerdoth, C. P., Hawczak, A., Arnold, A., Blackburn, J. H., Naden, P. S., Old, G., Sear, D. A., Hornby, D., Clarke, R. T. and Collins, A. L. 2015. Development of a biotic index using stream macroinvertebrates to assess stress from deposited fine sediment. Freshwater Biology. 60 (10), pp. 2019-2036. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.12627

Assessment of a rapid method for quantitative reach-scale estimates of deposited fine sediment in rivers

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals
Duerdoth, C. P., Arnold, A., Murphy, J. F., Naden, P. S., Scarlett, P., Collins, A. L., Sear, D. A. and Jones, J. I. 2015. Assessment of a rapid method for quantitative reach-scale estimates of deposited fine sediment in rivers. Geomorphology. 230, pp. 37-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.11.003

Probing the basis of soil resilience

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals
Corstanje, R., Deeks, L. R., Whitmore, A. P., Gregory, A. S. and Ritz, K. 2015. Probing the basis of soil resilience. Soil Use and Management. 31 (Suppl. 1), pp. 72-81. https://doi.org/10.1111/sum.12107

Early detection surveillance for an emerging plant pathogen: a rule of thumb to predict prevalence at first discovery

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals
Parnell, S., Gottwald, T. R., Cunniffe, N. J., Alonso Chavez, V. and Van Den Bosch, F. 2015. Early detection surveillance for an emerging plant pathogen: a rule of thumb to predict prevalence at first discovery. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences. 282, p. 20151478. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.1478

A review of the impacts of degradation threats on soil properties in the UK

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals
Gregory, A. S., Ritz, K., McGrath, S. P., Quinton, J. N., Goulding, K. W. T., Jones, R. J. A., Harris, J. A., Bol, R., Wallace, P., Pilgrim, E. S. and Whitmore, A. P. 2015. A review of the impacts of degradation threats on soil properties in the UK. Soil Use and Management. 31 (S1), pp. 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1111/sum.12212

Dissolved phosphorus retention in buffer strips: influence of slope and soil type

A - Papers appearing in refereed journals
Darch, T., Carswell, A. M., Blackwell, M. S. A., Hawkins, J. M. B., Haygarth, P. M. and Chadwick, D. 2015. Dissolved phosphorus retention in buffer strips: influence of slope and soil type. Journal of Environmental Quality. 44, pp. 1216-1224. https://doi.org/10.2134/jeq2014.10.0440

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