Pete Maxfield's Outputs (12)

Mapping scrub vegetation cover from photogrammetric point clouds: A useful tool in reserve management (2021)
Journal Article

Scrub vegetation is a valuable habitat and resource for wildlife, but if unmanaged can encroach and dominate adjacent habitats, reducing biodiversity value. A primary task in the management of terrestrial nature reserves in the UK is monitoring and c... Read More about Mapping scrub vegetation cover from photogrammetric point clouds: A useful tool in reserve management.

Physical conditions regulate the fungal to bacterial ratios of a tropical suspended soil (2017)
Journal Article

As a source of ‘suspended soils’, epiphytes contribute large amounts of organic matter to the canopy of tropical rain forests. Microbes associated with epiphytes are responsible for much of the nutrient cycling taking place in rain forest canopies. H... Read More about Physical conditions regulate the fungal to bacterial ratios of a tropical suspended soil.

The relative importance of invertebrate and microbial decomposition in a rainforest restoration project (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Society for Ecological Restoration Tropical rainforests are increasingly disturbed by human activities. While restoration projects often succeed in replacing tree cover, they rarely manage to restore soil function. Consequently, there is an ur... Read More about The relative importance of invertebrate and microbial decomposition in a rainforest restoration project.

How tropical epiphytes at the Eden Project contribute to rainforest canopy science (2017)
Journal Article

Understanding the ecological patterns and ecosystem processes of tropical rainforest canopies is becoming increasingly urgent in the face of widespread deforestation. However, accessing rainforest canopies is far from simple, and performing manipulat... Read More about How tropical epiphytes at the Eden Project contribute to rainforest canopy science.

Biogeochemistry in the scales (2017)
Book Chapter

Global environmental change is challenging our understanding of how communities as a whole interact with their physical environment. Ideally, we would model the impacts of global environmental change at a global level. However, in order to mathematic... Read More about Biogeochemistry in the scales.

Stable isotope switching (SIS): A new stable isotope probing (SIP) approach to determine carbon flow in the soil food web and dynamics in organic matter pools (2012)
Journal Article

RATIONALE Recent advances in stable isotope probing (SIP) have allowed direct linkage of microbial population structure and function. This paper details a new development of SIP, Stable Isotope Switching (SIS), which allows the simultaneous assessmen... Read More about Stable isotope switching (SIS): A new stable isotope probing (SIP) approach to determine carbon flow in the soil food web and dynamics in organic matter pools.

Impact of land management practices on high-affinity methanotrophic bacterial populations: Evidence from long-term sites at Rothamsted (2011)
Journal Article

The impacts of land-use change and long-term agricultural practices on the bacterial and methanotrophic biomass in the soils comprising the Classical Experiments at Rothamsted Research were investigated by using 13CH 4 phospholipid fatty acid stable... Read More about Impact of land management practices on high-affinity methanotrophic bacterial populations: Evidence from long-term sites at Rothamsted.

Phospholipid fatty acid stable isotope probing techniques in microbial ecology (2011)
Book Chapter

Substantial high-affinity methanotroph populations in Andisols effect high rates of atmospheric methane oxidation (2009)
Journal Article

Methanotrophic bacteria in soils derived from volcanic ash (Andisols) were characterized via time series 13C-phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) labelling. Three Andisols were incubated under 2 ppmv 13CH 4 for up to 18 weeks, thus enabling high-affinity m... Read More about Substantial high-affinity methanotroph populations in Andisols effect high rates of atmospheric methane oxidation.

Physical and biological controls on the in situ kinetic isotope effect associated with oxidation of atmospheric CH4 in mineral soils (2008)
Journal Article

The amounts and δ13C values of CH4 at subambient concentrations in soil gas were determined along depth profiles in a U.K. grassland (Bronydd Mawr) and woodland (Leigh Woods). The data were used to determine in situ kinetic isotope effects (KIEs) ass... Read More about Physical and biological controls on the in situ kinetic isotope effect associated with oxidation of atmospheric CH4 in mineral soils.

Acute impact of agriculture on high-affinity methanotrophic bacterial populations (2008)
Journal Article

Exposure of mineral soils to atmospherically relevant concentrations of 13CH4 (2 ppmv) followed by 13C-phospholipid fatty acid stable isotope probing allows assessment of the high-affinity methanotrophic bacterial sink in hitherto unattainable detail... Read More about Acute impact of agriculture on high-affinity methanotrophic bacterial populations.

The environmental and socio-economic impacts of changing agri-environment payments in Queens Sedgemoor, Somerset Levels
Report

The moor appears to be nitrate limited, but there is evidence that may suggest there is significant nitrate input in parts of the moor. It would be instructive to understand the flux of nitrates as water move through the ditch system in more detail.... Read More about The environmental and socio-economic impacts of changing agri-environment payments in Queens Sedgemoor, Somerset Levels.