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Johnstown - Bryan Griffiths

Bryan Griffiths

Title                              SFI Stokes Professor in Soil Science

Job Remit                   Soil Biology

Office Address           Johnstown Castle

Phone                          +353 (0)53 9171283

Email                           bryan.griffiths@teagasc.ie

 

Research Programme

 

The area of research I am focused on is to look at the biological processes occurring in the soil that impact on the quality of the agricultural environment. Thus, a better understanding of the micro-organisms involved in denitrification will be relevant to gaseous emissions and nutrient leaching; effects of soil microbiology on above-ground processes will assist in the development of on-farm biodiversity, understanding the effects of land management on soil micro-organisms will be required in the draft EU soils framework directive.

 

Current Projects

 

  • Integrating fundamental aspects of soil biological processes into environmental research. RMIS No.5882
  • EcoFINDERS - Ecological Function and Biodiversity Indicators in European Soils. EU FP7 project 264465
  • END-O-SLUDG - Marketable sludge derivatives from sustainable processing of wastewater in a highly integrated treatment plant. EU FP7 project 265269

     

Select Publications

 

DENG, H., ZHANG, B., YIN, R., WANG, H-I., MITCHELL, S.M., GRIFFITHS, B.S. and DANIELL, T.J. (2010) Long-term effect of re- vegetation on the microbial community of a severely eroded soil in sub-tropical China. Plant and Soil 328: 447-458.

HINOJOSA, M.B., CARREIRA, J.A., GARCÍA-RUÍZ, R., RODRÍGUEZ-MAROTO, J.M., DANIELL, T.J. and GRIFFITHS, B.S. (2010). Plant treatment, pollutant load, and soil type effects in rhizosphere ecology of trace element polluted soils. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 73: 970-981.

XIAO, H., GRIFFITHS, B., CHEN, X., LIU, M., JIAO, J., HU, F. and LI, N. (2010). Influence of bacterial-feeding nematodes on nitrification and the ammonia-oxidising bacteria (AOB) community composition. Applied Soil Ecology 45: 131-137.

GRIFFITHS, B.S., BALL, B.C., DANIELL, T.J., NEILSON, R., WHEATLEY, R.E.., OSLER, G. and BOHANEC, M. (2010). Integrating soil quality changes to arable agricultural systems following organic matter addition, or adoption of a ley-arable rotation. Applied Soil Ecology 46: 43–53.

CREAMER, R.E., BRENNAN, F., FENTON, O., HEALY, M. G., LALOR, S. T. J., LANIGAN, G. J., REGAN, J. T. and GRIFFITHS B. S. (2010). Implications of the proposed Soil Framework Directive on agricultural systems in Atlantic Europe – a review. Soil Use and Management, 26: 198–211.

CHEN, X.Y., DANIELL, T.J., NEILSON, R., O’FLAHERTY, V. and GRIFFITHS B.S. (2010) A comparison of molecular methods for monitoring soil nematodes and their use as biological indicators. European Journal of Soil Biology 46: 319-324.