Bruce C. Ball

Overview

Best Publications

• No-till in northern, western and south-western Europe: A review of problems and opportunities for crop production and the environment

  Brennan Soane;Bruce C. Ball;Johan Arvidsson;Gottlieb Basch

  985
  Citations

• Field N2O, CO2 and CH4 fluxes in relation to tillage, compaction and soil quality in Scotland

  Bruce C Ball;Albert Scott;John P Parker

  731
  Citations

• Oxidation of atmospheric methane in Northern European soils, comparison with other ecosystems, and uncertainties in the global terrestrial sink

  K. A. Smith;K. E. Dobbie;B. C. Ball;L. R. Bakken

  566
  Citations

• Is conservation tillage suitable for organic farming? A review

  J. Peigné;B. C. Ball;J. Roger-Estrade;C. David

  558
  Citations

• Effects of climate and management intensity on nitrous oxide emissions in grassland systems across Europe

  C.R. Flechard;P. Ambus;U. Skiba;R.M. Rees

  389
  Citations

• The role of crop rotations in determining soil structure and crop growth conditions

  B. C. Ball;I. Bingham;R. M. Rees;C. A. Watson

  333
  Citations

• Sustainable Management of Soil Organic Matter

  R. M. Rees;B. C. Ball;C. D. Campbell;C. A. Watson

  314
  Citations

• Soil structure and greenhouse gas emissions: a synthesis of 20 years of experimentation

  B. C. Ball

  308
  Citations

• Gas diffusion, fluid flow and derived pore continuity indices in relation to vehicle traffic and tillage

  B. C. Ball;M. F. O'sullivan;R. Hunter

  279
  Citations

• Assessing the productivity function of soils. A review

  Lothar Mueller;Uwe Schindler;Wilfried Mirschel;T. Graham Shepherd

  266
  Citations

• Improvements in the visual evaluation of soil structure

  R. M. L. Guimarães;B. C. Ball;C. A. Tormena

  261
  Citations

• Greenhouse gas emissions from a managed grassland

  S.K. Jones;R.M. Rees;U.M. Skiba;B.C. Ball

  223
  Citations

• Influence of organic and mineral N fertiliser on N2O fluxes from a temperate grassland

  S.K. Jones;R.M. Rees;U.M. Skiba;B.C. Ball

  216
  Citations

• Developing greenhouse gas marginal abatement cost curves for agricultural emissions from crops and soils in the UK

  Michael MacLeod;Dominic Moran;Vera Eory;R.M. Rees

  198
  Citations

• The effect of soil texture and soil drainage on emissions of nitric oxide and nitrous oxide

  Skiba U;Ball Bc

  183
  Citations

• Dynamics of upward and downward N2O and CO2 fluxes in ploughed or no-tilled soils in relation to water-filled pore space, compaction and crop presence

  B.C. Ball;I. Crichton;G.W. Horgan

  170
  Citations

• The influence of gas transport and porosity on methane oxidation in soils

  B. C. Ball;K. E. Dobbie;J. P. Parker;K. A. Smith

  170
  Citations

• Nitrous oxide emissions from European agriculture - an analysis of variability and drivers of emissions from field experiments

  R. M. Rees;J. Augustin;G. Alberti;B. C. Ball

  158
  Citations

• Evaluation of soil structure in the framework of an overall soil quality rating

  Lothar Mueller;Graham Shepherd;Uwe Schindler;Bruce C. Ball

  157
  Citations

• MODELLING OF SOIL PORES AS TUBES USING GAS PERMEABILITIES, GAS DIFFUSIVITIES AND WATER RELEASE

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  150
  Citations

• N2O, NO, and NH3 emissions from soil after the application of organic fertilizers, urea and water

  Hiroko Akiyama;Iain P. McTaggart;Iain P. McTaggart;Bruce C. Ball;Albert Scott

  147
  Citations

• Visual assessment of soil structure: Evaluation of methodologies on sites in Canada, China and Germany Part I: Comparing visual methods and linking them with soil physical data and grain yield of cereals

  Lothar Mueller;Bev D. Kay;Chunsheng Hu;Yong Li

  143
  Citations

• Soil teeming with life: new frontiers for soil science.

  J. M. Tiedje;J. C. Cho;A. Murray;D. Treves

  135
  Citations

• Soil compactibility in relation to physical and organic properties at 156 sites in UK

  B.C Ball;D.J Campbell;E.A Hunter

  131
  Citations

• Carbon sequestration in a temperate grassland; management and climatic controls

  S. K. Jones;R. M. Rees;D. Kosmas;B. C. Ball

  127
  Citations

• Integrating soil quality changes to arable agricultural systems following organic matter addition, or adoption of a ley-arable rotation

  B.S. Griffiths;B.C. Ball;T.J. Daniell;P.D. Hallett

  124
  Citations