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Philip C. Brookes

Philip C. Brookes

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Biology and Biochemistry
China
2023

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
114
Citations
82968
World Ranking
810
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in China Leader Award

Overview

Philip C. Brookes was affiliated with Zhejiang University in China and contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research primarily addressed soil processes and environmental contamination, producing a significant body of work on soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, microbial community ecology and physiology, and the impact of heavy metals on the environment.

Their main fields of study spanned:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these fields, they specialized in subfields such as:

  • Soil Science
  • Ecology
  • Pollution
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Molecular Biology

The core topics that their research focused on included:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Chromium effects and bioremediation
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal

Philip C. Brookes authored multiple research papers with notable publications spanning several years. Key recent papers include:

  • "Elevated temperature shifts soil N cycling from microbial immobilization to enhanced mineralization, nitrification and denitrification across global terrestrial ecosystems," 2020, Global Change Biology
  • "Performance and mechanisms for remediation of Cd(II) and As(III) co-contamination by magnetic biochar-microbe biochemical composite: Competition and synergy effects," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Metallic micronutrients are associated with the structure and function of the soil microbiome," 2023, Nature Communications
  • "Effects of magnetic biochar-microbe composite on Cd remediation and microbial responses in paddy soil," 2021, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • "Rhizosphere priming regulates soil organic carbon and nitrogen mineralization: The significance of abiotic mechanisms," 2020, Geoderma

The researcher frequently published in the following venues:

  • Biology and Fertility of Soils
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Geoderma
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Collaborations were a significant part of their work, with frequent coauthors being:

  • Jianming Xu (19 publications)
  • Xingmei Liu (6 publications)
  • Jiuwei Song (6 publications)
  • Qunli Shen (6 publications)
  • Paul Voroney (5 publications)

Best Publications

  • AN EXTRACTION METHOD FOR MEASURING SOIL MICROBIAL BIOMASS C

    E.D. Vance;P.C. Brookes;D.S. Jenkinson

  • Chloroform fumigation and the release of soil nitrogen: A rapid direct extraction method to measure microbial biomass nitrogen in soil

    P.C. Brookes;Andrea Landman;G. Pruden;D.S. Jenkinson

  • Soil bacterial and fungal communities across a pH gradient in an arable soil.

    Johannes Rousk;Erland Bååth;Philip C Brookes;Christian L Lauber

  • Measurement of soil microbial biomass C by fumigation-extraction—an automated procedure

    J. Wu;R.G. Joergensen;Birgit Pommerening;R. Chaussod

  • Measurement of microbial biomass phosphorus in soil

    P.C. Brookes;D.S. Powlson;D.S. Jenkinson

  • Contrasting Soil pH Effects on Fungal and Bacterial Growth Suggest Functional Redundancy in Carbon Mineralization

    Johannes Rousk;Philip C. Brookes;Erland Bååth

  • The knowns, known unknowns and unknowns of sequestration of soil organic carbon

    Uta Stockmann;Mark A. Adams;John W. Crawford;Damien J. Field

  • Measurement of soil microbial biomass provides an early indication of changes in total soil organic matter due to straw incorporation.

    D S Powlson;P C Brookes;Bent Tolstrup Christensen

  • Phosphorus Leaching from Soils Containing Different Phosphorus Concentrations in the Broadbalk Experiment

    G. Heckrath;P. C. Brookes;P. R. Poulton;K. W. T. Goulding

  • Geographic patterns of co-occurrence network topological features for soil microbiota at continental scale in eastern China.

    Bin Ma;Haizhen Wang;Melissa Dsouza;Jun Lou

  • The use of microbial parameters in monitoring soil pollution by heavy metals

    P. C. Brookes

  • Human health risk assessment of heavy metals in soil–vegetable system: A multi-medium analysis

    Xingmei Liu;Qiujin Song;Yu Tang;Wanlu Li

  • Measuring soil microbial biomass

    David S. Jenkinson;Philip C. Brookes;David S. Powlson

  • Microbial biomass measurements in forest soils: The use of the chloroform fumigation-incubation method in strongly acid soils

    E.D. Vance;P.C. Brookes;D.S. Jenkinson

  • Short term soil priming effects and the mineralisation of biochar following its incorporation to soils of different pH

    Y. Luo;Y. Luo;M. Durenkamp;M. De Nobili;Q. Lin

  • Phosphorus in the soil microbial biomass

    P.C. Brookes;D.S. Powlson;D.S. Jenkinson

  • Effect of metal toxicity on the size of the soil microbial biomass

    P. C. Brookes;S. P. McGRATH

  • NINHYDRIN-REACTIVE NITROGEN MEASUREMENTS OF MICROBIAL BIOMASS IN 0.5 M K2SO4 SOIL EXTRACTS

    R.G. Joergensen;P.C. Brookes

  • Relationships between soil pH and microbial properties in a UK arable soil

    J.C. Aciego Pietri;P.C. Brookes

  • Soil microbial biomass is triggered into activity by trace amounts of substrate

    M De Nobili;M Contin;C Mondini;P.C Brookes

Frequent Co-Authors

Jianming Xu
Jianming Xu Zhejiang University
D. S. Jenkinson
D. S. Jenkinson Rothamsted Research
Xingmei Liu
Xingmei Liu Zhejiang University
Yu Luo
Yu Luo Zhejiang University
David S. Powlson
David S. Powlson Rothamsted Research
Caixian Tang
Caixian Tang La Trobe University
Paul R. Poulton
Paul R. Poulton Rothamsted Research
Johannes Rousk
Johannes Rousk Lund University
Keith Goulding
Keith Goulding Rothamsted Research
Steve P. McGrath
Steve P. McGrath Rothamsted Research

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