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2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
103
Citations
52062
World Ranking
306
National Ranking
21

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2010 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Mark A. Sutton is affiliated with the Natural Environment Research Council in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a focus on subfields such as atmospheric science, plant science, global and planetary change, soil science, and health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

Their main research topics include atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, rice cultivation and yield improvement, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, air quality and health impacts, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, phosphorus and nutrient management, and soil and water nutrient dynamics.

Frequent coauthors associated with Mark A. Sutton are:

  • Julia Drewer
  • Arti Bhatia
  • Massimo Vieno
  • Eiko Nemitz
  • Himanshu Pathak

Common venues for publication include:

  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • Science
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Nature Food
  • Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems

Selected recent papers demonstrate the scope and relevance of their work, including:

  • Abating ammonia is more cost-effective than nitrogen oxides for mitigating PM 2.5 air pollution, published in 2021 in Science
  • Cost-effective mitigation of nitrogen pollution from global croplands, published in 2023 in Nature
  • A chronology of global air quality, published in 2020 in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • Global, regional and national trends of atmospheric ammonia derived from a decadal (2008-2018) satellite record, published in 2020 in Environmental Research Letters
  • Global actions for a sustainable phosphorus future, published in 2021 in Nature Food

Mark A. Sutton was awarded the status of Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2010, recognized by the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • Transformation of the Nitrogen Cycle: Recent Trends, Questions, and Potential Solutions

    James N. Galloway;Alan R. Townsend;Jan Willem Erisman;Mateete Bekunda

  • How a century of ammonia synthesis changed the world

    Jan Willem Erisman;Mark A. Sutton;James Galloway;Zbigniew Klimont

  • The global nitrogen cycle in the twenty-first century

    David Fowler;Mhairi Coyle;Ute Skiba;Mark A. Sutton

  • The European Nitrogen Assessment. Sources, Effects and Policy Perspectives

    Mark A. Sutton;Clare M. Howard;Jan Willem Erisman;Gilles Billen

  • Too much of a good thing

    Mark A. Sutton;Oene Oenema;Jan Willem Erisman;Adrian Leip

  • Food choices, health and environment: Effects of cutting Europe's meat and dairy intake

    Henk Westhoek;Jan Peter Lesschen;Trudy Rood;Susanne Wagner;Susanne Wagner

  • Atmospheric composition change: Ecosystems–Atmosphere interactions

    D. Fowler;Kim Pilegaard;M.A. Sutton;Per Ambus

  • Ammonia: emission, atmospheric transport and deposition

    Willem A. H. Asman;Mark A. Sutton;Jan K. Schjørring

  • Full accounting of the greenhouse gas (CO2, N2O, CH4) budget of nine European grassland sites

    J.F. Soussana;V. Allard;K. Pilegaard;P. Ambus

  • Our Nutrient World: the challenge to produce more food and energy with less pollution.

    M.A. Sutton;A. Bleeker;C.M. Howard;J.W. Erisman

  • Impacts of European livestock production: nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus and greenhouse gas emissions, land-use, water eutrophication and biodiversity

    Adrian Leip;Gilles Billen;Josette Garnier;Bruna Grizzetti

  • Dissolved carbon leaching from soil is a crucial component of the net ecosystem carbon balance

    Reimo Kindler;Reimo Kindler;Jan Siemens;Jan Siemens;Klaus Kaiser;David Christopher Walmsley

  • Chemistry and the Linkages between Air Quality and Climate Change.

    Erika von Schneidemesser;Paul S. Monks;James D. Allan;Lori Bruhwiler

  • Greenhouse gas emissions from European soils under different land use: effects of soil moisture and temperature

    G. Schaufler;B. Kitzler;A. Schindlbacher;U. Skiba

  • Abating ammonia is more cost-effective than nitrogen oxides for mitigating PM 2.5 air pollution

    Baojing Gu;Lin Zhang;Rita Van Dingenen;Massimo Vieno

  • Towards a climate-dependent paradigm of ammonia emission and deposition

    Mark A. Sutton;Stefan Reis;Stuart N. Riddick;Ulrike Dragosits

  • Ammonia emissions from non-agricultural sources in the UK

    Mark Sutton;Ulrike Dragosits;Yuk Tang;David Fowler

  • The impact of nitrogen deposition on carbon sequestration by European forests and heathlands

    W. de Vries;S. Solberg;M. Dobbertin;H. Sterba

  • Ammonia in the environment: From ancient times to the present

    Mark A. Sutton;Jan Willem Erisman;Frank Dentener;Detlev Möller

  • Partitioning European grassland net ecosystem CO2 exchange into gross primary productivity and ecosystem respiration using light response function analysis

    T. G. Gilmanov;J. F. Soussana;L. Aires;V. Allard

  • The European Nitrogen Assessment

    Adrian Leip;Beat Achermann;Gilles Billen;Albert Bleeker

Frequent Co-Authors

Eiko Nemitz
Eiko Nemitz UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
David Fowler
David Fowler University of Saskatchewan
Ulrike Dragosits
Ulrike Dragosits UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Mark R. Theobald
Mark R. Theobald Technical University of Madrid
Ute Skiba
Ute Skiba Natural Environment Research Council
Pierre Cellier
Pierre Cellier University of Paris-Saclay
Stefan Reis
Stefan Reis University of Exeter
Benjamin Loubet
Benjamin Loubet University of Paris-Saclay
Jan Willem Erisman
Jan Willem Erisman Leiden University
Anthony J. Dore
Anthony J. Dore University of Manchester

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