How UK soils are changing and the implications for ecosystem services

Wednesday 29 February 2012, 1.15PM

Speaker: Professor Bridget Emmett, Environment Centre Wales

York Biology Lectures

Professor Emmett works on Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Function at Centre for Ecology & Hydrology at the Environment Centre Wales. Originally a botanist, her experience includes plant-soil interactions, biogeochemistry and ecosystem experimentation.

Her current projects include the impacts of nitrogen deposition and grazing pressure on upland acid grassland and their interactions, impacts of climate change in heathlands, soil nitrogen transformations in semi-natural soils, carbon and nitrogen sequestration in forest systems (EU CNTER project), the GANE roof project (impacts of reductions of N and S deposition in acid grassland and the interaction with climate change), impact of land management on soils and hydrology (Pontbren study), and modelling the effects of nitrogen and acidity on plant species cover.

Other lectures in this series:

• The roles of immunity in influenza virus evolution
• New insights into prehistoric human diet and agriculture through ancient biomolecules and stable isotopes

Location: Room P/X001, Physics

Admission: Admmission free and open to all

Telephone: 01904 324466