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Roland Bol is affiliated with Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany and specializes in research spanning environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work focuses extensively on soil science and related ecological and chemical processes, with significant contributions to studies on soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics.

The scientist has published 229 works in environmental science and 193 in agricultural and biological sciences. Their research particularly emphasizes several subfields of study: soil science, ecology, environmental chemistry, plant science, and water science and technology. This multidisciplinary approach informs their exploration of soil and water nutrient dynamics, peatlands and wetlands ecology, microbial community ecology and physiology, plant nutrient uptake and metabolism, soil erosion and sediment transport, as well as geology and paleoclimatology research.

Roland Bol has authored numerous papers, including notable recent publications such as:

  • Towards a global-scale soil climate mitigation strategy (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Climate change: Strategies for mitigation and adaptation (2023, The Innovation Geoscience)
  • Light-expanded clay aggregate (LECA) as a substrate in constructed wetlands - A review (2020, Ecological Engineering)
  • The importance of ammonia volatilization in estimating the efficacy of nitrification inhibitors to reduce N2O emissions: A global meta-analysis (2020, Environmental Pollution)
  • Differential long-term fertilization alters residue-derived labile organic carbon fractions and microbial community during straw residue decomposition (2021, Soil and Tillage Research)

The scientist frequently publishes in several venues, including:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Geoderma
  • European Journal of Soil Science

Collaboration is a notable component of their work, with recurrent co-authors being Erwin Klumpp, Wulf Amelung, Albert Tietema, Rawan Mlih, and Jingkuan Wang. These partnerships span various aspects of soil and environmental sciences, contributing to the breadth and depth of the research output.

Best Publications

  • δ13C values of soil organic carbon and their use in documenting vegetation change in a subtropical savanna ecosystem

    Thomas W Boutton;Steven R Archer;Andrew J Midwood;Stephen F Zitzer

  • Combining biomarker with stable isotope analyses for assessing the transformation and turnover of soil organic matter

    W. Amelung;S. Brodowski;A. Sandhage-Hofmann;R. Bol

  • Molecular dynamics of organic matter in a cultivated soil.

    Gerd Gleixner;Natacha Poirier;Roland Bol;Jérôme Balesdent

  • Innovative methods in soil phosphorus research: A review

    Jens Kruse;Jens Kruse;Marion Abraham;Wulf Amelung;Wulf Amelung;Christel Baum

  • Sources and mechanisms of priming effect induced in two grassland soils amended with slurry and sugar

    Yakov Kuzyakov;Roland Bol

  • Climatic influences on the leaching of dissolved organic matter from upland UK moorland soils, investigated by a field manipulation experiment

    E. Tipping;C. Woof;E. Rigg;A.F. Harrison

  • Heterotrophic microbial communities use ancient carbon following glacial retreat

    Richard D Bardgett;Andreas Richter;Roland Bol;Mark H Garnett

  • Land use and soil factors affecting accumulation of phosphorus species in temperate soils

    Marc Stutter;Charles Shand;Timothy S. George;Martin S. A. Blackwell

  • Do plant species with different growth strategies vary in their ability to compete with soil microbes for chemical forms of nitrogen

    Kathryn A. Harrison;Roland Bol;Richard D. Bardgett

  • Carbon isotopic composition of branched tetraether membrane lipids in soils suggest a rapid turnover and a heterotrophic life style of their source organism(s)

    J. W. H. Weijers;J. W. H. Weijers;Guido L. B. Wiesenberg;Roland Bol;E. Hopmans

  • Molecular turnover time of soil organic matter in particle-size fractions of an arable soil.

    Roland Bol;Natacha Poirier;Jérôme Balesdent;Gerd Gleixner

  • Phosphorus Solubilization and Potential Transfer to Surface Waters from the Soil Microbial Biomass Following Drying–Rewetting and Freezing–Thawing

    M.S.A. Blackwell;P.C. Brookes;N. de la Fuente-Martinez;H. Gordon

  • Molecular insight into soil carbon turnover

    Gerd Gleixner;Roland Bol;Jérôme Balesdent

  • Post-glacial variations in distributions, 13C and 14C contents of aliphatic hydrocarbons and bulk organic matter in three types of British acid upland soils

    Yongsong Huang;Roland Bol;Douglas D. Harkness;Philip Ineson

  • The natural abundance of 13C, 15N, 34S and 14C in archived (1923-2000) plant and soil samples from the Askov long-term experiments on animal manure and mineral fertilizer.

    Roland Bol;Jorgen Eriksen;Pete Smith;Mark H. Garnett

  • Dissolved organic matter and its parent organic matter in grass upland soil horizons studied by analytical pyrolysis techniques

    Y. Huang;G. Eglinton;E. R. E. Van Der Hage;J. J. Boon

  • Stable isotope (13C, 15N and 34S) analysis of the hair of modern humans and their domestic animals.

    Roland Bol;Christian Pflieger

  • Soil organic matter priming and carbon balance after straw addition is regulated by long-term fertilization

    Lei Wu;Lei Wu;Wenju Zhang;Wenjuan Wei;Zhilong He

  • Rapid intrinsic rates of amino acid biodegradation in soils are unaffected by agricultural management strategy

    David Jones;S.J. Kemmitt;D. Wright;S.P. Cuttle

  • Effect of biochar origin and soil pH on greenhouse gas emissions from sandy and clay soils

    Di Wu;Mehmet Senbayram;Huadong Zang;Ferhat Ugurlar

  • Quantification of soil carbon inputs under elevated CO2: C3 plants in a C4 soil

    Phil Ineson;Maria F. Cotrufo;Roland Bol;Douglas D. Harkness

  • Amino acids as a nitrogen source in temperate upland grasslands: the use of dual labelled (13C, 15N) glycine to test for direct uptake by dominant grasses.

    Tania C. Streeter;Roland Bol;Richard D. Bardgett

Frequent Co-Authors

Wulf Amelung
Wulf Amelung University of Bonn
Jennifer A.J. Dungait
Jennifer A.J. Dungait University of Exeter
Laura M. Cardenas
Laura M. Cardenas Rothamsted Research
David R. Chadwick
David R. Chadwick Bangor University
Richard E. Brazier
Richard E. Brazier University of Exeter
Philip M. Haygarth
Philip M. Haygarth Lancaster University
Richard P. Evershed
Richard P. Evershed University of Bristol
Nick Ostle
Nick Ostle Lancaster University
Reinhard Well
Reinhard Well University of Göttingen
Klaus Dittert
Klaus Dittert University of Göttingen

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