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Jennifer A.J. Dungait

Jennifer A.J. Dungait

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
45
Citations
8848
World Ranking
2805
National Ranking
218

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
45
Citations
8962
World Ranking
6336
National Ranking
491

Overview

Jennifer A.J. Dungait is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a significant number of publications in these fields.

Their work spans various subfields of study, including:

  • Soil Science
  • Ecology
  • Plant Science
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Oceanography

Main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology

Jennifer A.J. Dungait has contributed to several recent papers, notable for their publication venues and citation counts. These include:

  • Microbial necromass in cropland soils: A global meta-analysis of management effects (2023), published in Global Change Biology
  • Microbially mediated mechanisms underlie soil carbon accrual by conservation agriculture under decade-long warming (2024), published in Nature Communications
  • Microbial metabolic response to winter warming stabilizes soil carbon (2021), published in Global Change Biology
  • Maize root exudate composition alters rhizosphere bacterial community to control hotspots of hydrolase activity in response to nitrogen supply (2022), published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Identifying the main drivers of change of phytoplankton community structure and gross primary productivity in a river-lake system (2020), published in Journal of Hydrology

Their frequent co-authors are:

  • Jing Tian
  • Timothy A. Quine
  • Fusuo Zhang
  • Yakov Kuzyakov
  • Junjie Jia

Jennifer A.J. Dungait's publications are often featured in key academic venues, such as:

  • Nature Communications
  • European Journal of Soil Science
  • Global Change Biology
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Journal of Hydrology

Best Publications

  • Soil organic matter turnover is governed by accessibility not recalcitrance

    Jennifer A. J. Dungait;David W. Hopkins;David W. Hopkins;Andrew S. Gregory;Andrew P. Whitmore

  • Temperature sensitivity of soil respiration rates enhanced by microbial community response

    Kristiina Karhu;Marc D. Auffret;Jennifer A. J. Dungait;David W. Hopkins

  • Agriculture: Steps to sustainable livestock

    Mark C. Eisler;Michael R. F. Lee;Michael R. F. Lee;John F. Tarlton;Graeme B. Martin

  • Forest contraction in north equatorial Southeast Asia during the Last Glacial Period

    Christopher M. Wurster;Michael I. Bird;Ian D. Bull;Frances Creed

  • Quantifying carbon for agricultural soil management: from the current status toward a global soil information system

    K. Paustian;S. Collier;J. Baldock;R. Burgess

  • Long‐term nitrogen addition modifies microbial composition and functions for slow carbon cycling and increased sequestration in tropical forest soil

    Jing Tian;Jing Tian;Jennifer A. J. Dungait;Xiankai Lu;Yunfeng Yang

  • Microbial necromass in cropland soils: A global meta‐analysis of management effects

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  • Carbon input belowground is the major C flux contributing to leaf litter mass loss: evidences from a 13C labelled-leaf litter experiment.

    M. Rubino;J.A.J. Dungait;R.P. Evershed;T. Bertolini

  • Variable responses of the soil microbial biomass to trace concentrations of 13C-labelled glucose, using 13C-PLFA analysis

    J. A. J. Dungait;S. J. Kemmitt;L. Michallon;S. Guo

  • Soil organic carbon dynamics 75 years after land-use change in perennial grassland and annual wheat agricultural systems

    Joshua W. Beniston;Joshua W. Beniston;S. Tianna DuPont;Jerry D. Glover;Rattan Lal

  • Straw incorporation increases crop yield and soil organic carbon sequestration but varies under different natural conditions and farming practices in China: a system analysis

    Xiao Han;Cong Xu;Jennifer A. J. Dungait;Roland Bol

  • 13C-Labelling of lipids to investigate microbial communities in the environment

    Richard P Evershed;Zoe M. Crossman;Ian D. Bull;Hazel Mottram

  • Microbially mediated mechanisms underlie soil carbon accrual by conservation agriculture under decade-long warming

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  • Advances in the understanding of nutrient dynamics and management in UK agriculture.

    Jennifer A.J. Dungait;Laura M. Cardenas;Martin S.A. Blackwell;Lianhai Wu

  • Soil functions and ecosystem services research in the Chinese karst Critical Zone

    Sophie M. Green;Jennifer A.J. Dungait;Jennifer A.J. Dungait;Chenglong Tu;Heather Buss

  • Absence of seasonal patterns in MBT-CBT indices in mid-latitude soils

    Johan W.H. Weijers;Beth Bernhardt;Francien Peterse;Josef P. Werne;Josef P. Werne

  • Not poles apart: Antarctic soil fungal communities show similarities to those of the distant Arctic

    Filipa Cox;Filipa Cox;Kevin K. Newsham;Kevin K. Newsham;Roland Bol;Jennifer A. J. Dungait

  • Maize root exudate composition alters rhizosphere bacteria to control hotspots of hydrolase activity in response to nitrogen supply

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  • The North Wyke Farm Platform : effect of temperate grassland farming systems on soil moisture contents, runoff and associated water quality dynamics

    Robert Orr;Philip Murray;C J Eyles;Martin Blackwell

  • Interactions among agricultural production and other ecosystem services delivered from European temperate grassland systems

    Emma S. Pilgrim;Christopher J.A. Macleod;Martin S.A. Blackwell;Roland Bol

  • Coupled incorporation of maize (Zea mays L.) straw with nitrogen fertilizer increased soil organic carbon in Fluvic Cambisol.

    Fanqiao Meng;Jennifer A.J. Dungait;Xingliang Xu;Roland Bol

  • Long-term management changes topsoil and subsoil organic carbon and nitrogen dynamics in a temperate agricultural system.

    A. S. Gregory;J. A. J. Dungait;C. W. Watts;R. Bol

  • Warming reduces the cover and diversity of biocrust-forming mosses and lichens, and increases the physiological stress of soil microbial communities in a semi-arid Pinus halepensis plantation

    Fernando T. Maestre;Cristina Escolar;Richard D. Bardgett;Jennifer A. J. Dungait

  • Microbial metabolic response to winter warming stabilizes soil carbon

    Jing Tian;Jing Tian;Ning Zong;Iain P Hartley;Nianpeng He

  • Neutral monosaccharides as biomarker proxies for bog-forming plants for application to palaeovegetation reconstruction in ombrotrophic peat deposits

    Guodong Jia;Guodong Jia;Jennifer A.J. Dungait;Elizabeth M. Bingham;Minna Valiranta

  • Carbon and macronutrient losses during accelerated erosion under different tillage and residue management

    J. W. Beniston;M. J. Shipitalo;R. Lal;E. A. Dayton

Frequent Co-Authors

Roland Bol
Roland Bol Forschungszentrum Jülich
Richard P. Evershed
Richard P. Evershed University of Bristol
Timothy A. Quine
Timothy A. Quine University of Exeter
Laura M. Cardenas
Laura M. Cardenas Rothamsted Research
David W. Hopkins
David W. Hopkins Scotland's Rural College
Iain P. Hartley
Iain P. Hartley University of Exeter
Xuefa Wen
Xuefa Wen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Adrian L. Collins
Adrian L. Collins Rothamsted Research
Yakov Kuzyakov
Yakov Kuzyakov University of Göttingen
Michael R. F. Lee
Michael R. F. Lee Harper Adams University

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