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Niall P. McNamara is affiliated with the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology in the United Kingdom. Their research spans broad areas within environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. The main fields of study focus on environmental science with 55 publications and agricultural and biological sciences with 46 publications. Their subfields include ecology, soil science, global and planetary change, environmental chemistry, and agronomy and crop science.

The scientist's research addresses core topics such as soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, peatlands and wetlands ecology, bioenergy crop production and management, soil and water nutrient dynamics, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and conservation, biodiversity, and resource management.

Frequent co-authors in McNamara's work include Dafydd Elias, Nick Ostle, Jeanette Whitaker, Tim Goodall, and Rebecca Rowe, highlighting active collaboration within their research community.

Their publications have appeared predominantly in several scientific journals and venues. The most common publication venues include:

  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Change Biology
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Nature

Recent papers by Niall P. McNamara cover a range of subjects relating to soil ecology, greenhouse gas emissions, microbial processes, and atmospheric gas dynamics. Selected recent publications include:

  • "Global atmospheric methane uptake by upland tree woody surfaces," 2024, Nature
  • "Overriding water table control on managed peatland greenhouse gas emissions," 2021, Nature
  • "Changes in soil organic carbon under perennial crops," 2020, Global Change Biology
  • "Environmental and microbial controls on microbial necromass recycling, an important precursor for soil carbon stabilization," 2020, Communications Earth & Environment
  • "Sticky dead microbes: Rapid abiotic retention of microbial necromass in soil," 2020, Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Best Publications

  • The effect of biochar addition on N2O and CO2 emissions from a sandy loam soil – The role of soil aeration

    Sean D.C. Case;Niall P. McNamara;David S. Reay;Jeanette Whitaker

  • Effects of acute gamma irradiation on chemical, physical and biological properties of soils

    N.P. McNamara;H.I.J. Black;N.A. Beresford;N.R. Parekh

  • Overriding water table control on managed peatland greenhouse gas emissions.

    C. D. Evans;M. Peacock;A. J. Baird;R. R. E. Artz

  • Integrating plant-soil interactions into global carbon cycle models

    Nicholas J. Ostle;Pete Smith;Rosie A Fisher;F Ian Woodward

  • Microbes Follow Humboldt: Temperature Drives Plant and Soil Microbial Diversity Patterns from the Amazon to the Andes

    Andrew T. Nottingham;Andrew T. Nottingham;Noah Fierer;Benjamin L. Turner;Jeanette Whitaker

  • Long-Term Consequences of Grazing and Burning on Northern Peatland Carbon Dynamics

    Susan E. Ward;Richard D. Bardgett;Niall P. McNamara;John K. Adamson

  • Additional carbon sequestration benefits of grassland diversity restoration

    Gerlinde B. De Deyn;Robert S. Shiel;Nick J. Ostle;Niall P. McNamara

  • Environmental and microbial controls on microbial necromass recycling, an important precursor for soil carbon stabilization

    Kate M. Buckeridge;Kate M. Buckeridge;Kelly E. Mason;Niall P. McNamara;Nick Ostle

  • Environmental costs and benefits of growing Miscanthus for bioenergy in the UK

    Jon P. McCalmont;Astley Hastings;Niall P. McNamara;Goetz M. Richter

  • Biochar suppresses N2O emissions while maintaining N availability in a sandy loam soil

    Sean D.C. Case;Sean D.C. Case;Niall P. McNamara;David S. Reay;Andy W. Stott

  • Changes in soil organic carbon under perennial crops.

    Alicia Ledo;Peter Smith;Ayalsew Zerihun;Jeanette Whitaker

  • Carbon balance of UK peatlands: current state of knowledge and future research challenges

    M. F. Billett;D. J. Charman;J. M. Clark;C. D. Evans

  • Microbial community composition explains soil respiration responses to changing carbon inputs along an Andes‐to‐Amazon elevation gradient

    Jeanette Whitaker;Nicholas J. Ostle;Andrew T. Nottingham;Adan Ccahuana

  • Towards an integrated global framework to assess the impacts of land use and management change on soil carbon: current capability and future vision.

    Pete Smith;Christian A. Davies;Stephen Ogle;Giuliana Zanchi

  • Diversity of the active methanotrophic community in acidic peatlands as assessed by mRNA and SIP‐PLFA analyses

    Yin Chen;Marc G. Dumont;Niall P. McNamara;Paul M. Chamberlain

  • Plant functional group identity influences short-term peatland ecosystem carbon flux: evidence from a plant removal experiment

    Susan E. Ward;Richard D. Bardgett;Niall P. McNamara;Nick J. Ostle

  • Can biochar reduce soil greenhouse gas emissions from a Miscanthus bioenergy crop

    Sean D. C. Case;Niall P. McNamara;David S. Reay;Jeanette Whitaker

  • C mineralization and microbial activity in four biochar field experiments several years after incorporation

    Nele Ameloot;Steven Sleutel;Sean D.C. Case;Giorgio Alberti

  • The role of Eriophorum vaginatum in CH4 flux from an ombrotrophic peatland

    A. L. Greenup;M. A. Bradford;N. P. McNamara;P. Ineson

  • Increases in soil organic carbon sequestration can reduce the global warming potential of long-term liming to permanent grassland

    Dario Fornara;Dario Fornara;Sibylle Steinbeiss;Niall McNamara;Gerd Gleixner

  • Revealing the uncultivated majority: combining DNA stable‐isotope probing, multiple displacement amplification and metagenomic analyses of uncultivated Methylocystis in acidic peatlands

    Yin Chen;Mark G. Dumont;Josh D. Neufeld;Levente Bodrossy

  • Functional shifts of grassland soil communities in response to soil warming

    María Jesús Iglesias Briones;Nicholas J. Ostle;Niall P. McNamara;Jan Poskitt

  • Vegetation affects the relative abundances of dominant soil bacterial taxa and soil respiration rates in an upland grassland soil

    Bruce C. Thomson;Nicholas Ostle;Niall P. McNamara;Mark J. Bailey

Frequent Co-Authors

Nick Ostle
Nick Ostle Lancaster University
Peter Smith
Peter Smith University of Aberdeen
Richard D. Bardgett
Richard D. Bardgett Lancaster University
Patrick Meir
Patrick Meir University of Edinburgh
Iain S. Donnison
Iain S. Donnison Aberystwyth University
Norma Salinas
Norma Salinas Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
David S. Reay
David S. Reay University of Edinburgh
Robert I. Griffiths
Robert I. Griffiths University of Oxford
Gail Taylor
Gail Taylor University College London
Saran Sohi
Saran Sohi University of Edinburgh

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