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D-Index
106
Citations
41690
World Ranking
207
National Ranking
25

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

David J. Beerling is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant body of work spanning global and planetary change, environmental engineering, atmospheric science, geophysics, and environmental chemistry.

The scientist's key topics of study include CO2 sequestration and geologic interactions, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, geology and paleoclimatology research, methane hydrates and related phenomena, along with geological and geochemical analysis, geological and geophysical studies worldwide, and clay minerals and soil interactions.

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by David J. Beerling include:

  • Potential for large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands, 2020, Nature
  • Increased yield and CO2 sequestration potential with the C4 cereal Sorghum bicolor cultivated in basaltic rock dust-amended agricultural soil, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO2, 2023, Science
  • Substantial carbon drawdown potential from enhanced rock weathering in the United Kingdom, 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • Effects of mineralogy, chemistry and physical properties of basalts on carbon capture potential and plant-nutrient element release via enhanced weathering, 2021, Applied Geochemistry

David J. Beerling collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Dimitar Z. Epihov, Steven A. Banwart, Maria Val Martin, Rachael H. James, and Lyla L. Taylor. These coauthors have contributed alongside Beerling to various publications, reflecting a collaborative approach to their research topics.

Their publications are often featured in journals such as Biology Letters, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Global Change Biology, Biogeosciences, and Frontiers in Climate.

In recognition of their scientific contributions, David J. Beerling was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Target atmospheric CO2: Where should humanity aim?

    James Hansen;Makiko Sato;Pushker Kharecha;David Beerling

  • The global methane budget 2000–2012

    Marielle Saunois;Philippe Bousquet;Ben Poulter;Anna Peregon

  • The interdependence of mechanisms underlying climate-driven vegetation mortality

    Nate G. McDowell;David J. Beerling;David D. Breshears;Rosie A. Fisher

  • A multi-species synthesis of physiological mechanisms in drought-induced tree mortality

    Henry D. Adams;Melanie J.B. Zeppel;Melanie J.B. Zeppel;William R.L. Anderegg;Henrik Hartmann

  • Maximum leaf conductance driven by CO2 effects on stomatal size and density over geologic time

    Peter J. Franks;David J. Beerling

  • Assessing "dangerous climate change": required reduction of carbon emissions to protect young people, future generations and nature.

    James E. Hansen;Pushker A. Kharecha;Pushker A. Kharecha;Makiko H. Sato;Valerie Masson-Delmotte

  • CO 2 as a primary driver of Phanerozoic climate

    Dana L. Royer;Robert A. Berner;Isabel P. Montañez;Neil J. Tabor

  • Fossil Plants and Global Warming at the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary

    J. C. McElwain;D. J. Beerling;F. I. Woodward

  • Present state of global wetland extent and wetland methane modelling: conclusions from a model inter-comparison project (WETCHIMP)

    J. R. Melton;J. R. Melton;R. Wania;E. L. Hodson;B. Poulter

  • Potential for large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands

    David J. Beerling;Euripides P. Kantzas;Mark R. Lomas;Peter Wade

  • The origin of the savanna biome

    David J. Beerling;Colin P. Osborne

  • Farming with crops and rocks to address global climate, food and soil security.

    David J. Beerling;Jonathan R. Leake;Stephen P. Long;Stephen P. Long;Julie D. Scholes

  • Plasticity in maximum stomatal conductance constrained by negative correlation between stomatal size and density: an analysis using Eucalyptus globulus.

    Peter J. Franks;Peter J. Franks;Paul L. Drake;David J. Beerling

  • Stomata: key players in the earth system, past and present

    Joseph A Berry;David J Beerling;Peter J Franks;Peter J Franks

  • Past extreme warming events linked to massive carbon release from thawing permafrost

    Robert M. DeConto;Simone Galeotti;Mark Pagani;David Tracy

  • Genetic manipulation of stomatal density influences stomatal size, plant growth and tolerance to restricted water supply across a growth carbon dioxide gradient

    Timothy Doheny-Adams;Lee Hunt;Peter J. Franks;Peter J. Franks;David J. Beerling

  • Plant development. Signals from mature to new leaves.

    J. A. Lake;W. P. Quick;David Beerling;F. I. Woodward

  • A humid climate state during the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum

    Gabriel J. Bowen;Gabriel J. Bowen;David J. Beerling;Paul L. Koch;James C. Zachos

  • Phanerozoic atmospheric CO2 change: evaluating geochemical and paleobiological approaches

    Dana L. Royer;Robert A. Berner;David J. Beerling

  • Making sense of palaeoclimate sensitivity

    E.J. Rohling;A. Sluijs;H.A. Dijkstra;P. Köhler

Frequent Co-Authors

Dana L. Royer
Dana L. Royer Wesleyan University
Jonathan R. Leake
Jonathan R. Leake University of Sheffield
Colin P. Osborne
Colin P. Osborne University of Sheffield
Peter J. Franks
Peter J. Franks University of Sydney
Robert A. Berner
Robert A. Berner Yale University
Paul J. Valdes
Paul J. Valdes University of Bristol
F. I. Woodward
F. I. Woodward University of Sheffield
James Hansen
James Hansen Columbia University
Mark R. Lomas
Mark R. Lomas University of Sheffield
John A. Pyle
John A. Pyle University of Cambridge

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