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Research interests
A Professor in Agriculture and Climate Change, with research interests in carbon sequestration, agricultural greenhouse gas mitigation and adaptation. A soil and environmental scientist, with a long established history of research in nitrogen and carbon cycling and soil management in a range of crop and soil systems. A significant involvement in EU funded research programmes, and recently co-ordinated Legume-Futures an EU Framework project on the role of legumes in farming systems. A participant in the recent projects on Marginal Abatement Cost Curves, and in an EU project on climate change adaptation. Currently expanding research activities on greenhouse gas mitigation in China and South Asia.
Teaching
I contribute to Masters Courses in Environmental Protection and management, Soils and Sustainability and Food Security. I teach undergraduates students in soil science at the University of Edinburgh (Global Academy)
I co-supervise four PhD students, and undertake duties as an external examiner for PhD students, Masters and undergraduate programmes in the UK and internationally.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, University of Aberdeen
Award Date: 1 Jun 1985
Bachelor, University of Exeter
Award Date: 30 Jun 1981
Keywords
- S Agriculture (General)
- Soil science
- Greenhouse gas
- Nitrous oxide
- Carbon sequestration
- Climate change
- Nitrogen
- Soil
- Legume
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Projects
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South Asian Nitrogen Hub
Rees, B., Eory, V., Glenk, K. & Begho, T.
13/02/19 → 29/02/24
Project: Research
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Delivering the agricultural greenhouse gas and ammonia inventories and projections
Wall, E., Pritchard, T., Archibald, I. & Rees, B.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
4/09/17 → 31/08/22
Project: Research
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Soils research to deliver Greenhouse Gas Removals and Abatement Technologies (SOILS-R-GGREAT)
MacLeod, M., Rees, B., Eory, V., Sykes, A. & Moran, D.
NATURAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
20/06/17 → 19/06/21
Project: Research
Research Output
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A critical review of the impacts of cover crops on nitrogen leaching, net greenhouse gas balance and crop productivity
Abdalla, M., Hastings, A., Cheng, K., Yue, Q., Chadwick, D., Espenberg, M., Truu, J., Rees, RM. & Smith, P., Aug 2019, In: Global Change Biology. 25, 8, p. 2530-2543 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Open AccessFile27 Citations (Scopus)33 Downloads (Pure) -
Lysine supply is a critical factor in achieving sustainable global protein economy
Leinonen, I., Iannetta, PPM., Rees, RM., Russell, W., Watson, CA. & Barnes, AP., 24 Apr 2019, In: Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 3, 27.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Estimating the soil N2O emission intensity of croplands in northwest Europe
Myrgiotis, VM., Williams, M., Rees, RM. & Topp, CFE., 18 Apr 2019, In: Biogeosciences. 16, 8, p. 1641-1655 15 p., bg-2018-490.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Chinese cropping systems are a net source of greenhouse gases despite soil carbon sequestration
Gao, B., Huang, T., Ju, X., Gu, B., Huang, W., Xu, L., Rees, RM., Powlson, DS., Smith, P. & Cui, S., 17 Aug 2018, In: Global Change Biology. 24, 12, p. 5590 - 5606 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Reducing N2O emissions with enhanced efficiency nitrogen fertilizers (EENFs) in a high yielding spring maize system
Lyu, X., Wang, T., Song, X., Zhao, C., Rees, RM., Liu, Z., Xiaotang, J. & Siddique, K., 15 Mar 2021, In: Environmental Pollution. 273, 116422.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Datasets
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Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Inventory Research Platform - InveN2Ory. Defra project number AC0116
Topp, K. (Contributor) & Rees, B. (Contributor), Freshwater Biological Association, 5 Apr 2017
http://www.environmentdata.org/archive/ghgno:676
Dataset
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Carbon and nitrogen flux, meteorological, management and soil data from a grazed, cut and fertilised temperate grassland in south east Scotland
Jones, S. (Contributor), Helfter, C. (Creator), Anderson, M. (Creator), Coyle, M. (Creator), Campbell, C. (Contributor), Famulari, D. (Creator), Di Marco, C. (Creator), Van Dijk, N. (Creator), Tang, Y. S. (Creator), Topp, K. (Contributor), Kiese, R. (Creator), Kindler, R. (Creator), Siemens, J. (Creator), Schrumpf, M. (Creator), Kaiser, K. (Creator), Nemitz, E. (Creator), Levy, P. E. (Creator), Rees, B. (Contributor), Sutton, M. A. (Creator) & Skiba, U. M. (Creator), NERC Environmental Information Data Centre, 1 Jan 2017
DOI: 10.5285/7e6e6955-a9d7-4f8a-961e-3fa3d56d0ead, https://doi.org/10.5285%2F7e6e6955-a9d7-4f8a-961e-3fa3d56d0ead
Dataset
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River Tay, Scotland, water chemistry and greenhouse gas measurements 2009-2010
Pickard, A. E. (Creator), Skiba, U. M. (Creator), Carvalho, L. (Creator), Heal, K. V. (Creator), Rees, B. (Contributor) & Harley, J. F. (Creator), Unknown Publisher, 1 Jan 2019
DOI: 10.5285/a61da7da-b7ef-40b7-a324-c3711ef81207, https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/a61da7da-b7ef-40b7-a324-c3711ef81207
Dataset
Prizes
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Green Gown Award
Wall, Eileen (Recipient), Rees, Bob (Recipient) & Eory, Veronika (Recipient), 2010
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