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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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Preliminary estimates of the potential for carbon mitigation in European soils through no-till farming
Global Change Biology, vol. 4, no. 6, pp. 679-685Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2486.1998.00185.x
Regional estimates of carbon sequestration potential: linking the Rothamsted carbon model to GIS databases
Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsSoil organic matter and global environmental change: the contribution of GCTE-SOMNET to recent research
Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsEnvironmental risk assessment for the interaction between agricultural land and surface waters
Environmental Toxicology: Current Developments. Rose, J. (ed.). CRC Press, pp. 377-394Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersA European network of long-term sites for studies on soil organic matter
Soil & Tillage Research, vol. 47, no. 3-4, pp. 263-274Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-1987(98)00115-9
Consequences of increased CO2 on N dynamics in agroecosystems.
Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsNitrogen modelling and decision support systems for nitrogen fertilizer recommendation
Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsComparing conventional and analytical versions of the Rothamsted Carbon Turnover Model
Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsLinking the Rothamsted Carbon turnover model to GIS databases: Regional estimates of carbon sequestration potential
Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsScaling from plot to continental scale in soil organic matter research
Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsClimate Change and global Harvest: A book review
Journal of Environmental Quality, vol. 27, pp. 1552Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesLand use and land use change: data needs for assessing soil carbon stocks and change at the regional level
LUCC Data Gathering and Compilation Workshop, pp. 16Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsPossibilities and data requirements for site-to-country scale dynamic SOM modelling in the ORMITROS programme
Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsRegional estimates of carbon sequestration potential: linking the Rothamsted Carbon Turnover model to GIS databases
Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsRegional estimates of carbon sequestration potential: linking the Rothamsted carbon model to GIS databases
Biology and Fertility of Soils, vol. 27, pp. 236-241Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSoil biota and global change at the ecosystem level: describing soil biota in mathematical models
Global Change Biology, vol. 4, no. 7, pp. 773-784Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2486.1998.00193.x
Soil organic matter and global environmental change: the contribution of GCTE-SMONET to recent research
Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsSoil organic matter model comparison
GCTE Update, vol. 13, pp. 4-5Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe role of refractory soil organic matter in soil organic matter models
Mitteilungen der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft, vol. 87, pp. 253-264Contributions to Journals: ArticlesUsing long-term experiments to estimate the potential for carbon sequestation at the regional level
Agrokémia és Talajtan, vol. 46, pp. 25-38Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA comparison of the performance of nine soil organic matter models using datasets from seven long-term experiments
Geoderma, vol. 81, no. 1-2, pp. 153-225Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0016-7061(97)00087-6
Agricultural soils as a sink to mitigate CO2 emissions
Soil Use & Management, vol. 13, no. S4, pp. 229-244Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-2743.1997.tb00594.x
Constructing a nitrogen fertilizer recommendation system using a dynamic model: what do farmers want?
Soil Use & Management, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 225-228Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-2743.1997.tb00592.x
Evaluation and comparison of soil organic matter models using datasets from seven long-term experiments
Geoderma, vol. 81, no. Special issueContributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesEvaluation and comparison os oil organic matter models using datasets from seven long-term experiments
Vol. 81, Geoderma. 226 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksOpportunities and limitations for C sequestration in European agricultural soils through changes in management
Management of carbon sequestration in soil. Lal, R., Kimble, J. M., Follett, R. F., Stewart, B. A. (eds.). CRC Press, pp. 143-152Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersModelling Changes in the Organic Carbon Content of Japanese Soils using the Rothamsted Carbon Model
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsPotential for carbon sequestration in European soils: Preliminary estimates for five scenarios using results from long-term experiments
Global Change Biology, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 67-79Contributions to Journals: Articles5.6 Emissions and uptake of CO2 by soil from land use change and management: Chapter 5. Land use change and forestry
Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse gas inventories: Volume 2: Workbook. WMO, pp. 23-38Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersApplication to SUNDIAL to simulate nitrogen turnover in crop rotations
Quantitative Approaches in Systems Analysis, vol. 10, pp. 87-92Contributions to Journals: ArticlesConstructing a nitrogen fertilizer recommendation system around the dynamic nitrogen turnover model, SUNDIAL
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsLand Use Change and Forestry: Emissions and Uptake of CO2 from Soils
Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse gas inventories. WMO, pp. 23-38, 16 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersModeling carbon and nitrogen processes in soil
Advances in Agronomy, vol. 62, pp. 253-298Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0065-2113(08)60570-2
SOMNET. A global network and database of soil organic matter models and long-term experimental datasets
The Globe, vol. 38, pp. 4-5Contributions to Journals: ArticlesScience and Judgement in Risk Assessment. A book review.
Journal of Environmental Quality, vol. 26, pp. 320Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesThe use of computer simulation models to optimise the use of nitrogen in whole farm systems
Aspects of Applied Biology, vol. 50, pp. 147-154Contributions to Journals: ArticlesUsing Models in risk assessment of pollutant losses from agricultural land and water
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsSimulating soil nitrogen dynamics using the Sundial model
Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsA system for improved fertilizer recommendations for arable and horticultural crops
Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsOpportunities and limitations for C sequestration in European agricultural soils through changes in management
Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsMoving the British cattle herd
Nature, vol. 381, no. 6577, pp. 15Contributions to Journals: Letters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/381015a0
The GCTE SOMNET: A global network and database of soil organic matter models and long-term datasets
Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsDeveloping an N balance model for improving N advice
London, United Kingdom: MAFF. 56 pagesBooks and Reports: Other ReportsEstablishing a European soil organic matter network (SOMNET)
Evaluation of Soil Organic Matter models using Existing, Long-Term Datasets: NATO Advanced Research Workshop : Papers. Powlson, D. S., Smith, P., Smith, J. (eds.). NATO ASI Series 1 edition. Springer Verlag, pp. 81-98Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersEvaluation of Soil Organic Matter Models using Existing, Long-Term Datasets
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsQuantitative methods to evaluate and cpompare soil organice matter (SOM) models
Evaluation of Soil Organic Matter Models Using Existing Long-Term Datasets: NATO Advanced Research Workshop : Papers. Powlson, D. S., Smith, P., Smith, J. U. (eds.). NATO ASI Series 1 edition. Springer Verlag, pp. 181-200Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersSoil Organic Matter Network (SOMNET): 1996 Model and Experimental Metadata
Wallingford, United Kingdom: GCTE Report 7. 259 pagesBooks and Reports: Commissioned ReportsSoil organic matter: Something old, something new
Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsThe GCTE Soil Organic Matter Network (SOMNET) Metadata Database.
Non-textual Forms: Web Publications and WebsitesTracking carbon in the soil
Enterprise (Europa Scientific)Contributions to Journals: Articles