Dr Jan Dick

Landscape Physiologist

I have a BA in Biology/Ecology from the Open University and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. I joined CEH (then the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology) in 1977 and since 1988 have been a member of the Biosystem Management Group.

My expertise spans a wide range of disciplines in tree physiology, functional ecology and land management. My research is aimed at promoting sustainable use of plants in diverse and valued landscapes, for timber production, minor forest products, agroforestry, habitat regeneration or species conservation. Sustainable use includes the the full range of ecosystem services associated with plants in the landscape.

Selected publications

See also the NERC Open Research Archive.

Sanchez-Martin, Laura, Vallejo, Antion, Dick, Jan, Skiba, Ute M. (2008) The influence of soluble carbon and fertilizer nitrogen on nitric oxide and nitrous oxide emissions from two contrasting agricultural soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 40 (1). 142-151. 10.1016/j.soilbio.2007.07.016

Pendry, Colin A., Dick, Jan, Pullman, Martin R., Knees, Sabina G., Miller, Anthony G., Neale, Sophie, Watson, Mark F. (2007) In search of a functional flora - towards a greater integration of ecology and taxonomy. Plant Ecology, 192 (2). 161-167. 10.1007/s11258-007-9304-y

Selected publications (cont'd.)

Dick, J.McP, Leakey, R.R.B. (2006) Differentiation of the dynamic variables affecting rooting ability in juvenile and mature cuttings of cherry (Prunus avium). Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology, 81. 296-302.

Hall, Nicola M., Kaya, Bocary, Dick, Janet, Skiba, Ute, Niang, Amadou, Tabo, Ramadjita. (2006) Effect of improved fallow on crop productivity, soil fertility and climate-forcing gas emissions in semi-arid conditions. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 42 (3). 224-230. 10.1007/s00374-005-0019-8

Dick, Jan, Skiba, Ute, Munro, Robert, Deans, Douglas. (2006) Effect of N-fixing and non N-fixing trees and crops on NO and N2O emissions from Senegalese soils. Journal of Biogeography, 33 (3). 416-423. 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01421.x

Pilegaard, K., Skiba, U., Ambus, P., Beier, C., Bruggemann, N., Butterbach-Bahl, K., Dick, J., Dorsey, J., Duyzer, J., Gallagher, M., Gasche, R., Horvath, L., Kitzler, B., Leip, A., Pihlatie, M. K., Rosenkranz, P., Seufert, G., Vesala, T., Westrate, H., Zechmeister-Boltenstern, S. (2006) Factors controlling regional differences in forest soil emission of nitrogen oxides (NO and N2O). Biogeosciences, 3. 651-661.

Skiba, U., Dick, J., Storeton-West, R., Lopez-Fernandez, S., Woods, C., Tang, S., van Dijk, N. (2006) The relationship between NH3 emissions from a poultry farm and soil NO and N2O fluxes from a downwind forest. Biogeosciences, 3. 375-382.

Dick, J., Skiba, U., Wilson, J. (2001) The effect of rainfall on NO and N2O emissions from Ugandan agroforest soils. Phyton (Austria), 41 Special Issue: "Nitrogen emissions" (1). 73-80.