Imperial College London
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Dr Martin K Head, FHEA

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Centre for Environmental Policy

Senior Teaching Fellow
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 9317m.head Website

 
 
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Location

 

206Weeks BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Donovan:2011:2011/957181,
author = {Donovan, SM and Skartsila, AM and Head, MK and Voulvoulis, N},
doi = {2011/957181},
journal = {Applied and Environmental Soil Science},
pages = {1--10},
title = {An Initial Investigation into the Use of a Flux Chamber Technique to Measure Soil-Atmosphere Gas Exchanges from Application of Biosolids to UK Soils},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/957181},
volume = {2011},
year = {2011}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - <jats:p>While a significant amount of work has been conducted to assess the concentration of pollutants in soils and waterways near land that has been amended with biosolids, a relatively small body of research investigating emissions to atmosphere is available in the literature. Some studies have indicated that while the CO<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>emissions from soils decrease with fertiliser application, the CH<jats:sub>4</jats:sub>and N<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>O emissions might be increased, offsetting the benefit. The objective of the research presented in this paper was to address this gap, by the use of a flux chamber technique to measure soil-atmosphere gas exchanges from the application of biosolids to land. This was done by applying three different types of biosolids to soils and measuring gases at the soil-atmosphere interface. The measurements were taken on areas with three different types of vegetation. The gases were collected using a flux chamber technique and analysed by gas chromatography. The results presented here are preliminary findings of an ongoing experiment. Insignificant variation appeared to occur between different areas of vegetation; however, small variations in gas concentrations were observed indicating a need for continued monitoring of soil-atmosphere gas exchanges to determine the long-term impacts on the atmosphere and the environment.</jats:p>
AU  - Donovan,SM
AU  - Skartsila,AM
AU  - Head,MK
AU  - Voulvoulis,N
DO  - 2011/957181
EP  - 10
PY  - 2011///
SN  - 1687-7667
SP  - 1
TI  - An Initial Investigation into the Use of a Flux Chamber Technique to Measure Soil-Atmosphere Gas Exchanges from Application of Biosolids to UK Soils
T2  - Applied and Environmental Soil Science
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/957181
VL  - 2011
ER  -
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