Publications

1. Girkin, N.T. & Davidson, S.J. 2024. Protect peatlands to achieve climate goals. Science,383 (6682), 490.

2. Pawlett, M., Girkin, N.T., et al. 2024. The contribution of natural burials to soil ecosystem services: Review and emergent research questions. Applied Soil Ecology, 194, 105200. 

3. Loisel, J., Tegetmeyer, C., Girkin, N. T. et al. 2024. Observations from an expedition to Costa Rican peatlands. The Society of Wetland Scientists Bulletin. 42, 145 - 149.

4. Girkin, N.T. et al.  2023. The three-peat challenge: business as usual, responsible agriculture, and conservation and restoration as management trajectories in global peatlands. Carbon management, 14(1), 2275578.

5. Young, D. M… Girkin, N.T., et al. 2023. Simulating carbon accumulation and loss in the central Congo peatlands. Global Change Biology.

6. Bracken, P., Burgess, P. J., & Girkin, N.T. 2023. Opportunities for enhancing the climate resilience of coffee production through improved crop, soil and water management. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 1-33.

7. Georgiou, S., Girkin, N.T. et al. 2023. Mapping Water Levels across a Region of the Cuvette Centrale Peatland Complex. Remote Sensing, 15(12), 3099.

8. Sakrabani, R… Girkin, N.T. et al. 2023. Towards net zero in agriculture: Future challenges and opportunities for arable, livestock and protected cropping systems in the UK. Outlook on Agriculture, 00307270231178889.

9. Garcin, Y…. Girkin, N.T. et al. 2022. Hydroclimatic vulnerability of peat carbon in the central Congo Basin, Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05389-3

10. Creeze, B… Girkin, N.T. et al. 2022. Mapping peat thickness and carbon stocks of the central Congo Basin using field data. Nature Geoscience, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-00966-7

11. Girkin, N.T. et al. 2022. Tropical peatlands in the Anthropocene: The Present and the Future. Anthropocene, 100354 [Invited review]

12. Dhandapani, S., Girkin, N.T., Evers, S., Ritz, K., & Sjögersten, S. (2022). Immediate environmental impacts of transformation of an oil palm intercropping to a monocropping system in a tropical peatland. Mires & Peat, 28, 7. https://doi.org/10.19189/MaP.2021.GDC.StA.2290

13. O‘Neill, R., Duff, A., Brennan, F., Gebremichael, A., Girkin, N.T., Lanigan, G., Krol, D.J., Wall, D., Renou-Wilson, F., Muller, C., Richards, K., Deveautour, C. Linking long-term soil phosphorus management to microbial communities involved in nitrogen reactions. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 1-14.

14. Cole, L.S., Girkin, N.T. et al., 2022. Tropical peatlands in the Anthropocene: Lessons from the past. Anthropocene, 37, 100324. [Invited review]

15. Biddulph. G…. Girkin. N.T. et al. 2021. Current knowledge on the Cuvette Centrale peatland complex and future research directions. Bois et Fores Tropique, 350, 3-14.

16. Loisel, J… Girkin, N.T. et al. 2021. Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink. Nature Climate Change https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-00944-0

17. Cooper, H.V., Sjögersten, S., Lark, R., Girkin, N.T., Vane, C.H., Calonego, J., Rosolem, C., Mooney, S. 2021. Long-term zero-tillage enhances the protection of soil carbon in tropical agriculture. European Journal of Soil Science, https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.13111

18. Dhandapani, S., Girkin, N.T., Evers, S. 2021. Spatial variability of surface peat properties and carbon emissions in a tropical peatland oil palm monoculture during a dry season. Soil Use and Management, https://doi.org/10.1111/sum.12741

19. Girkin, N.T., Vane, C. H., Ostle, N., Sjögersten, S. 2020. Roots oxygen mitigates methane fluxes in tropical peatlands. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab8495

20. O’Neill, R., Girkin, N.T., Krol, D., Richards, K., Lanigan, G., Renou-Wilson, F., Muller, C. 2020. Carbon limitation regulates N2O emissions in a long-term phosphorus trial. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 142, 107726.

21. Dhandapani, S., Girkin, N.T., Sjögersten, S., Ritz, K., Evers, S. 2020. Is intercropping an environmentally wise alternative to oil palm monoculture in tropical peatlands? Forests and Global Change. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2020.00070

22. Girkin, N.T., et al. 2020. Biogeochemical properties and microbial community structure in a Neotropical peatland. Wetlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-020-01287-4

23. Girkin, N.T., Dhandapani, S., Evers, S., Ostle, N., Sjögersten, S.  2020. Labile carbon and the regulation of carbon dioxide and methane emissions under changing temperature in tropical peat. Biogeochemistry, 147, 87-97.

24. Somers, C., Girkin, N.T., Rippey, B., Lanigan, G. Richards, K. G., 2019. Nitrification inhibition by high nitrogen concentrations in two grassland soils. Journal of Agri. Sciences, 157, 515-522.

25. Girkin, N.T., et al.  2019. Spatial variability of organic matter properties determines methane fluxes in a tropical forested peatland. Biogeochemistry.,142, 231-245

26. Cooper, H., Vane, C., Evers, S., Aplin, P., Girkin, N.T., Sjögersten, S., 2019. From peat swamp forest to oil palm plantations: the stability of tropical peatland carbon. Geoderma, 342, 109-117.

27. Upton, A., Vane, C. H., Girkin, N.T., Sjögersten, S. 2018. Does litter input determine carbon storage and peat organic chemistry in tropical peatlands? Geoderma, 326, p76-87.

28. Girkin, N.T., Ostle, N., Sjögersten, S. 2018. Root-derived CO2 in a Neotropical peatland. Wetlands Ecology & Management, 26, 985-991.

29. Girkin, N.T., Ostle, N., Sjögersten, S.  2018. Composition and concentration of root exudate analogues and the regulation of greenhouse gas fluxes from tropical peat. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 127, 280-285.

30. Girkin, N.T., Craigon, J., Ostle, N., Sjögersten, S. 2018. Root exudate analogues accelerate CO2 and CH4 production in tropical peat. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 117, 48-55.

Girkin, N.T., Cooper, H.V. 2021. Nitrogen and ammonia in The Encyclopaedia of Soils in the Environment, 2nd Edition. Elsevier.

1.     Burgess. P.J., Staley, J., Hurley, P.D., Rose, D.C., Redhead, J., McCracken, M.E., Girkin, N., Deeks, L., Harris, J.A. (2023) Evaluating the Productivity, Environmental Sustainability and Wider Impacts of Agroecological compared to Conventional Farming Systems. Evidence Project Final Report of Project SCF00321 for DEFRA. https://randd.defra.gov.uk/ProjectDetails?ProjectId=20584  

2.     Burgess. P.J., Redhead, J., Girkin, N., Deeks, L., Harris, J.A., Staley, J. (2023) Evaluating Agroecological Farming Practices. Report from the “Evaluating the productivity, environmental sustainability and wider impacts of agroecological compared to conventional farming systems” project for DEFRA. Cranfield University and UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. https://randd.defra.gov.uk/ProjectDetails?ProjectId=20584

3.     UNEP (2022). Global Peatlands Assessment – The State of the World’s Peatlands: Evidence for action toward the conservation, restoration, and sustainable management of peatlands. Main Report. Global Peatlands Initiative. United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi. https://www.unep.org/resources/global-peatlands-assessment-2022