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Pete Falloon

Pete Falloon

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
57
Citations
17058
World Ranking
2653
National Ranking
308

Overview

Pete Falloon is affiliated with the Met Office in the United Kingdom and specializes in research within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their scholarly work focuses on understanding climate change impacts on agriculture, climate variability and models, and agricultural risk and resilience, among other related topics.

They have contributed extensively to research on plant responses to elevated CO2 and vegetation-water-carbon dynamics, as well as the sustainability and environmental impact of agricultural systems. Their main research topics also include plant pathogens and resistance mechanisms.

Pete Falloon's frequent co-authors include Karina Williams, Andrew J. Challinor, Edward Pope, Christoph Müller, and James Franke. These collaborations have often appeared in several scientific journals, indicating an active engagement with researchers working on global crop modeling and environmental impacts.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • Substantial Differences in Crop Yield Sensitivities Between Models Call for Functionality-Based Model Evaluation, 2024, Earth's Future
  • Exploring uncertainties in global crop yield projections in a large ensemble of crop models and CMIP5 and CMIP6 climate scenarios, 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • Enhanced Leaf Cooling Is a Pathway to Heat Tolerance in Common Bean, 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • The GGCMI Phase 2 experiment: global gridded crop model simulations under uniform changes in CO2, temperature, water, and nitrogen levels (protocol version 1.0), 2020, Geoscientific Model Development
  • The GGCMI Phase 2 emulators: global gridded crop model responses to changes in CO2, temperature, water, and nitrogen (version 1.0), 2020, Geoscientific Model Development

Their work is frequently published in journals such as Geoscientific Model Development, Environmental Research Letters, Sustainability, Frontiers in Environmental Science, and Frontiers in Plant Science.

Pete Falloon has also contributed to the scientific literature through book publications. One notable book is "Climate Science, Solutions and Services for Net Zero, Climate-Resilient Food Systems," published in 2024 by Frontiers Media.

Within their fields of study, Pete Falloon's research covers subfields such as:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Plant Science
  • Soil Science
  • Ecology

The breadth of their work evidences a comprehensive approach to agricultural and environmental sciences, combining empirical crop modeling with broader planetary and ecological considerations.

Best Publications

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • The HadGEM2 family of Met Office Unified Model climate configurations

    N. Bellouin;W. J. Collins;I. D. Culverwell

  • Projected increase in continental runoff due to plant responses to increasing carbon dioxide

    Richard A. Betts;Olivier Boucher;Matthew Collins;Peter M. Cox;Peter M. Cox

  • Carbon residence time dominates uncertainty in terrestrial vegetation responses to future climate and atmospheric CO2

    Andrew D. Friend;Wolfgang Lucht;Wolfgang Lucht;Tim T. Rademacher;Rozenn Keribin

  • Climate impacts on European agriculture and water management in the context of adaptation and mitigation—The importance of an integrated approach

    Pete Falloon;Richard Betts

  • Meeting Europe's climate change commitments: quantitative estimates of the potential for carbon mitigation by agriculture

    Pete Smith;David S. Powlson;Jo U. Smith;Pete Falloon

  • Australian climate–carbon cycle feedback reduced by soil black carbon

    Johannes Lehmann;Jan Skjemstad;Saran Sohi;John Carter

  • Biogeophysical effects of land use on climate : Model simulations of radiative forcing and large-scale temperature change

    Richard A. Betts;Peter D. Falloon;Kees Klein Goldewijk;Navin Ramankutty

  • Global climate change and soil carbon stocks; predictions from two contrasting models for the turnover of organic carbon in soil

    Chris Jones;Claire McConnell;Kevin Coleman;Peter Cox

  • Climate change impacts on global agriculture

    Alvaro Calzadilla;Katrin Rehdanz;Katrin Rehdanz;Richard Betts;Pete Falloon

  • Estimating the size of the inert organic matter pool from total soil organic carbon content for use in the Rothamsted Carbon Model

    Pete Falloon;Pete Smith;Kevin Coleman;Stewart Marshall

  • Impacts of climate change on indirect human exposure to pathogens and chemicals from agriculture

    Alistair B A Boxall;Alistair B A Boxall;Anthony Hardy;Sabine Beulke;Tatiana Boucard

  • First look at changes in flood hazard in the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project ensemble

    Rutger Dankers;Nigel W. Arnell;Douglas B. Clark;Pete D. Falloon

  • Enhancing the carbon sink in European agricultural soils: including trace gas fluxes in estimates of carbon mitigation potential

    Pete Smith;Keith W. Goulding;Keith A. Smith;David S. Powlson

  • Direct soil moisture controls of future global soil carbon changes: An important source of uncertainty

    Pete Falloon;Chris D. Jones;Melanie Ades;Melanie Ades;Keryn Paul

  • Geoscientific Model Development The Met Office Unified Model Global Atmosphere 3 . 0 / 3 . 1 and JULES Global Land 3 . 0 / 3 . 1 configurations

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  • Simulating SOC changes in long-term experiments with RothC and CENTURY: model evaluation for a regional scale application

    P. D. Falloon;Peter Smith

  • Modelling refractory soil organic matter

    P D Falloon;Pete Smith

  • Predicted soil organic carbon stocks and changes in the Brazilian Amazon between 2000 and 2030

    C.E.P. Cerri;M. Easter;K. Paustian;K. Killian

  • Major agricultural changes required to mitigate phosphorus losses under climate change

    M. C. Ockenden;M. J. Hollaway;K. J. Beven;A. L. Collins

  • Regional estimates of carbon sequestration potential : linking the Rothamsted Carbon Model to GIS databases

    P Falloon;Pete Smith;Joanne Ursula Smith;J Szabo

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Smith
Peter Smith University of Aberdeen
Kevin Coleman
Kevin Coleman Rothamsted Research
David S. Powlson
David S. Powlson Rothamsted Research
Jo Smith
Jo Smith University of Aberdeen
Keith Paustian
Keith Paustian Colorado State University
Richard Betts
Richard Betts University of Exeter
Philip M. Haygarth
Philip M. Haygarth Lancaster University
Douglas B. Clark
Douglas B. Clark UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Paul J. A. Withers
Paul J. A. Withers Lancaster University
Niels H. Batjes
Niels H. Batjes International Soil Reference and Information Centre

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