Dr John Scullion
PhD
Reader
Contact Details
- Email: jos@aber.ac.uk
- ORCID: 0000-0002-5225-8615
- Office: S28, Cledwyn Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 622304
- Research Portal Profile
Teaching
Tutor
- BR21120 - Climate Change: Plants, Animals and Ecosystems
- BR35620 - Environmental Regulation and Consultancy
- BRM4820 - Field and Laboratory Techniques
- BRM6420 - Research Methods in the Biosciences
- BG26020 - Monitro a Microbioleg Amgylcheddol
- BG21420 - Arolygu Ecolegol
- BRM6520 - Introduction to Environmental Law and Environmental Impact Assessment
- BRM0840 - Environmental Management in Practice
- BRM0800 - Environmental Management in Practice
- BRM7220 - Environmental Auditing and Management skills
- BR14910 - Soils and their Management
- BR21420 - Ecological Surveying
- BR26020 - Environmental Microbiology and Monitoring
- BRM4800 - Field and Laboratory Techniques
- BRM6400 - Research Methods in the Biosciences
Lecturer
- BR14910 - Soils and their Management
- BR34520 - Wildlife Conservation
- BRM4800 - Field and Laboratory Techniques
- BR26020 - Environmental Microbiology and Monitoring
- BRM4820 - Field and Laboratory Techniques
- BRM7220 - Environmental Auditing and Management skills
- BRM0800 - Environmental Management in Practice
- BG26020 - Monitro a Microbioleg Amgylcheddol
- BRM6520 - Introduction to Environmental Law and Environmental Impact Assessment
- BRM0840 - Environmental Management in Practice
- BR13210 - The Biosphere
- BR20320 - Agronomy and Crop Improvement
Grader
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Research
- Disturbed/contaminated soils.
- Carbon-nitrogen cycling and long-term effects of earthworm activity in former mine soils.
- Impact of metals on microbial processes. Potential of phytoremediation for reducing soil metal and hydrocarbon concentrations.
- Organic/ecological farming systems and soil processes.
- Infectivity and efficiency of VA mycorrhizal fungi.
- Earthworm-VA mycorrhizal fungi interactions. Earthworm population dynamics in conventional and organic arable rotations.
- Soil ecology relationships to soil function. Impacts of climate change on soil ecology.
- Chemometric and metabolomic approaches to the assessment of soil quality.
- Biological treatment of wastewaters.
Research Groups
- Sustainable Grassland Systems and Agri-Food
- Understanding and restoring ecosystems and their services
Publications
Clasen, LA, Detheridge, AP, Scullion, J & Griffith, GW 2020, 'Soil stabilisation for DNA metabarcoding of plants and fungi. Implications for sampling at remote locations or via third-parties', Metabarcoding and Metagenomics, vol. 4, pp. 135-147. https://doi.org/10.3897/MBMG.4.58365
Detheridge, A, Hosking, LJ, Thomas, HR, Sarhosis, V, Gwynn-Jones, D & Scullion, J 2019, 'Deep seam and minesoil carbon sequestration potential of the South Wales Coalfield, UK', Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 248, 109325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109325
Loka, D, Harper, J, Humphreys, M, Gasior, D, Wootton-Beard, P, Gwynn-Jones, D, Scullion, J, Doonan, J, Kingston-Smith, A, Dodd, R, Wang, J, Chadwick, DR, Hill, P, Jones, DL, Mills, G, Hayes, F & Robinson, D 2019, 'Impacts of abiotic stresses on the physiology and metabolism of cool-season grasses: A review', Food and Energy Security, vol. 8, no. 1, e00152. https://doi.org/10.1002/fes3.152
Jones, GL, Scullion, J, Worgan, H & Gwynn-Jones, D 2019, 'Litter of the invasive shrub Rhododendron ponticum (Ericaceae) modifies the decomposition rate of native UK woodland litter', Ecological Indicators, vol. 107, 105597. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.105597
Jones, GL, Scullion, J, Allison, G, Stott, H, Johnson, D, Owen, R, Williams, G & Gwynn-Jones, D 2019, 'Reduced soil respiration beneath invasive Rhododendron ponticum persists after cutting and is related to substrate quality rather than microbial community', Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol. 138, 107577. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2019.107577
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