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Bryan S. Griffiths is affiliated with Scotland's Rural College in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several interrelated fields with a focus on agricultural and biological sciences as well as environmental science. The broad spectrum of their work includes both fundamental and applied aspects of soil science, plant science, and ecology.

The scientist has contributed significantly to multiple subfields, including:

  • Plant Science
  • Soil Science
  • Ecology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Agronomy and Crop Science

Their research topics highlight specialized areas such as:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Nematode management and characterization studies
  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions

Bryan S. Griffiths has published in a range of scientific venues, frequently appearing in the following journals:

  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Microbiome
  • Biology and Fertility of Soils
  • Applied Soil Ecology
  • Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Some of their recent published papers include:

  • Microbial Community Resilience across Ecosystems and Multiple Disturbances, 2021, Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
  • Root ethylene mediates rhizosphere microbial community reconstruction when chemically detecting cyanide produced by neighbouring plants, 2020, Microbiome
  • A global database of soil nematode abundance and functional group composition, 2020, Scientific Data
  • Energy flux across multitrophic levels drives ecosystem multifunctionality: Evidence from nematode food webs, 2022, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Biochar exerts negative effects on soil fauna across multiple trophic levels in a cultivated acidic soil, 2020, Biology and Fertility of Soils

The scientist frequently collaborates with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Xiaoyun Chen
  • Manqiang Liu
  • Zhengkun Hu
  • Michael Bonkowski
  • Feng Hu

Best Publications

  • Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale

    Johan van den Hoogen;Stefan Geisen;Devin Routh;Howard Ferris

  • Insights into the resistance and resilience of the soil microbial community

    Bryan S. Griffiths;Laurent Philippot

  • Ecosystem response of pasture soil communities to fumigation-induced microbial diversity reductions: an examination of the biodiversity-ecosystem function relationship

    B. S. Griffiths;K. Ritz;Richard D. Bardgett;Roger Cook

  • Soil microbial community structure: Effects of substrate loading rates

    B.S Griffiths;K Ritz;N Ebblewhite;G Dobson

  • Recently identified microbial guild mediates soil N2O sink capacity

    Christopher M. Jones;Christopher M. Jones;Ayme Spor;Fiona P. Brennan;Fiona P. Brennan;Fiona P. Brennan;Marie-Christine Breuil

  • Assessing shifts in microbial community structure across a range of grasslands of differing management intensity using CLPP, PLFA and community DNA techniques

    S.J Grayston;C.D Campbell;R.D Bardgett;J.L Mawdsley

  • Microbial Community Resilience across Ecosystems and Multiple Disturbances

    Laurent Philippot;Bryan S. Griffiths;Silke Langenheder

  • Plant root proliferation in nitrogen–rich patches confers competitive advantage

    David Robinson;Angela Hodge;Bryan S. Griffiths;Alastair H. Fitter

  • Why plants bother: root proliferation results in increased nitrogen capture from an organic patch when two grasses compete

    A. Hodge;D. Robinson;B. S. Griffiths;A. H. Fitter

  • Impact of Protozoan Grazing on Bacterial Community Structure in Soil Microcosms

    Regin Rønn;Regin Rønn;Allison E. McCaig;Bryan S. Griffiths;James I. Prosser

  • Long-term phosphorus fertilisation increased the diversity of the total bacterial community and the phoD phosphorus mineraliser group in pasture soils

    Hao Tan;Matthieu Barret;Marlies J. Mooij;Olivia Rice

  • Rhizosphere fauna: the functional and structural diversity of intimate interactions of soil fauna with plant roots

    Michael Bonkowski;Cécile Villenave;Bryan Griffiths

  • An examination of the biodiversity-ecosystem function relationship in arable soil microbial communities

    B.S Griffiths;K Ritz;R Wheatley;H.L Kuan

  • Microbial-feeding nematodes and protozoa in soil: Their effectson microbial activity and nitrogen mineralization in decomposition hotspots and the rhizosphere

    B. S. Griffiths

  • Functional stability, substrate utilisation and biological indicators of soils following environmental impacts

    B.S Griffiths;M Bonkowski;J Roy;K Ritz

  • Microbial-faunal interactions in the rhizosphere and effects on plant growth

    Michael Bonkowski;Weixin Cheng;Bryan S Griffiths;Jörn Alphei

  • Food preferences of earthworms for soil fungi

    Michael Bonkowski;Bryan S. Griffiths;Karl Ritz

  • Ecological network analysis reveals the inter-connection between soil biodiversity and ecosystem function as affected by land use across Europe

    R.E. Creamer;S.E. Hannula;J.P.Van Leeuwen;D. Stone;D. Stone

  • Effect of elevated CO2 on rhizosphere carbon flow and soil microbial processes

    E. Paterson;J.M. Hall;E.A.S. Rattray;B.S. Griffiths

  • C:N:P stoichiometry and nutrient limitation of the soil microbial biomass in a grazed grassland site under experimental P limitation or excess

    Bryan S Griffiths;Annette Spilles;Annette Spilles;Michael Bonkowski

  • Spatial structure in soil chemical and microbiological properties in an upland grassland.

    K. Ritz;K. Ritz;J.W. McNicol;N. Nunan;S. Grayston

  • Nutrient inflow and root proliferation during the exploitation of a temporally and spatially discrete source of nitrogen in soil

    M. M. I. van Vuuren;D. Robinson;B. S. Griffiths

  • Competition between roots and soil micro‐organisms for nutrients from nitrogen‐rich patches of varying complexity

    A. Hodge;J. Stewart;D. Robinson;B. S. Griffiths

  • Substrate heterogeneity and microfauna in soil organic ‘hotspots’ as determinants of nitrogen capture and growth of ryegrass

    Michael Bonkowski;Bryan Griffiths;Charles Scrimgeour

  • The relationship between microbial community structure and functional stability, tested experimentally in an upland pasture soil.

    B. S. Griffiths;H. L. Kuan;K. Ritz;L. A. Glover

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl Ritz
Karl Ritz University of Nottingham
Manqiang Liu
Manqiang Liu Nanjing Agricultural University
Michael Bonkowski
Michael Bonkowski University of Cologne
Feng Hu
Feng Hu Nanjing Agricultural University
Tim J. Daniell
Tim J. Daniell University of Sheffield
Paul Henning Krogh
Paul Henning Krogh Aarhus University
Rachel Creamer
Rachel Creamer Wageningen University & Research
Huixin Li
Huixin Li Nanjing Agricultural University
David G. Robinson
David G. Robinson Heidelberg University
Paul D. Hallett
Paul D. Hallett University of Aberdeen

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