All Outputs (14)

Simultaneous reduction of odorous and greenhouse gases emissions by thermophilic microbial agents during chicken manure composting (2025)
Journal Article
Wang, J., Zhu, N., Zhang, J., Shen, W., West, H., Cao, Y., Zhu, Y., & Jin, H. (2025). Simultaneous reduction of odorous and greenhouse gases emissions by thermophilic microbial agents during chicken manure composting. Journal of Environmental Management, 381, Article 125240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.125240

Odorous and greenhouse gases emissions from animal manure composting cause air pollution and nutrient loss. This research examined the effects of thermophilic fungal agent (F) and bacterial agent (B) on the emissions of odorous and greenhouse gases d... Read More about Simultaneous reduction of odorous and greenhouse gases emissions by thermophilic microbial agents during chicken manure composting.

Biowaste to biochar: a techno-economic and life cycle assessment of biochar production from food-waste digestate and its agricultural field application (2025)
Journal Article
Gamaralalage, D., Rodgers, S., Gill, A., Meredith, W., Bott, T., West, H., Alce, J., Snape, C., & McKechnie, J. (2025). Biowaste to biochar: a techno-economic and life cycle assessment of biochar production from food-waste digestate and its agricultural field application. Biochar, 7(1), Article 50. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42773-025-00456-0

Biochar has high potential for long-term atmospheric carbon storage in terrestrial environments, contributing to meeting the UK and global greenhouse gas emission reduction targets. This study investigates the greenhouse gas emissions and techno-econ... Read More about Biowaste to biochar: a techno-economic and life cycle assessment of biochar production from food-waste digestate and its agricultural field application.

A one health roadmap towards understanding and mitigating emerging Fungal Antimicrobial Resistance: fAMR (2024)
Journal Article
Fisher, M. C., Burnett, F., Chandler, C., Gow, N. A. R., Gurr, S., Hart, A., Holmes, A., May, R. C., Quinn, J., Soliman, T., Talbot, N. J., West, H. M., West, J. S., White, P. L., Bromley, M., & Armstrong-James, D. (2024). A one health roadmap towards understanding and mitigating emerging Fungal Antimicrobial Resistance: fAMR. npj Antimicrobials and Resistance, 2, Article 36. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44259-024-00055-2

The emergence of fungal antimicrobial resistance—fAMR—is having a growing impact on human and animal health, and food security. This roadmap charts inter-related actions that will enhance our ability to mitigate the risk of fAMR. As humanity’s relian... Read More about A one health roadmap towards understanding and mitigating emerging Fungal Antimicrobial Resistance: fAMR.

National action plans on antimicrobial resistance in Latin America: an analysis via a governance framework (2024)
Journal Article
Avello, P., Collins, L. M., Gómez, S. A., Luna, F., Fernández Miyakawa, M. E., West, H. M., & Iossa, G. (2024). National action plans on antimicrobial resistance in Latin America: an analysis via a governance framework. Health Policy and Planning, 39(2), 188–197. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czad118

In 2015, the World Health Assembly adopted a global action plan (GAP) on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Member states were encouraged to develop their own national action plans (NAPs) in alignment with the GAP. To-date, in systematic assessments of... Read More about National action plans on antimicrobial resistance in Latin America: an analysis via a governance framework.

Biochar application to temperate grasslands: challenges and opportunities for delivering multiple ecosystem services (2023)
Journal Article
Brown, R. W., Chadwick, D. R., Bott, T., West, H. M., Wilson, P., Hodgins, G. R., Snape, C. E., & Jones, D. L. (2023). Biochar application to temperate grasslands: challenges and opportunities for delivering multiple ecosystem services. Biochar, 5(1), Article 33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42773-023-00232-y

Grasslands (natural, semi-natural and improved) occupy approximately one-third of the terrestrial biosphere and are key for global ecosystem service provision, storing up to 30% of soil organic carbon (SOC). To date, most research on soil carbon (C)... Read More about Biochar application to temperate grasslands: challenges and opportunities for delivering multiple ecosystem services.

Antimicrobial resistance in dairy slurry tanks: a critical point for measurement and control (2022)
Journal Article
Baker, M., Williams, A. D., Hooton, S. P., Helliwell, R., King, E., Dodsworth, T., María Baena-Nogueras, R., Warry, A., Ortori, C. A., Todman, H., Gray-Hammerton, C. J., C. W. Pritchard, A., Iles, E., Cook, R., Emes, R. D., Jones, M. A., Kypraios, T., West, H., Barrett, D. A., Ramsden, S. J., …Stekel, D. J. (2022). Antimicrobial resistance in dairy slurry tanks: a critical point for measurement and control. Environment International, 169, Article 107516. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2022.107516

Waste from dairy production is one of the largest sources of contamination from antimicrobial resistant bacteria (ARB) and genes (ARGs) in many parts of the world. However, studies to date do not provide necessary evidence to inform antimicrobial res... Read More about Antimicrobial resistance in dairy slurry tanks: a critical point for measurement and control.

Sorption, separation and recycling of ammonium in agricultural soils: A viable application for magnetic biochar? (2021)
Journal Article
Gillingham, M., Gomes, R., Ferrari, R., & West, H. (2022). Sorption, separation and recycling of ammonium in agricultural soils: A viable application for magnetic biochar?. Science of the Total Environment, 812, Article 151440. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151440

Recent research on the magnetisation of biochar, a carbon-based material that can be used as a sorbent, has opened novel opportunities in the field of environmental remediation, as incorporating magnetic particles into biochar can simplify subsequent... Read More about Sorption, separation and recycling of ammonium in agricultural soils: A viable application for magnetic biochar?.

Endophytic Bacillus spp. from medicinal plants inhibit mycelial growth of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and promote plant growth (2018)
Journal Article
Ansary, M. W. R., Prince, M. F. R. K., Haque, E., Sultana, F., West, H. M., Rahman, M. M., Mondol, M., Akanda, A. M., Rahman, M., Clarke, M. L., & Islam, M. T. (2018). Endophytic Bacillus spp. from medicinal plants inhibit mycelial growth of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and promote plant growth. Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung C, 73(5-6), https://doi.org/10.1515/znc-2018-0002

Plant growth promoting bacteria that are also capable of suppressing plant pathogenic fungi play an important role in sustainable agriculture. There is a critical need of conducting research to discover, characterize and evaluate efficacy of new stra... Read More about Endophytic Bacillus spp. from medicinal plants inhibit mycelial growth of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and promote plant growth.

Effects of cover crops on phosphatase activity in a clay arable soil in the UK (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Reynolds, S., Ritz, K., Crotty, F., Stoate, C., West, H., & Neal, A. L. (2017, November). Effects of cover crops on phosphatase activity in a clay arable soil in the UK. Presented at Sustainable Intensification, Harpenden, UK

The effect of five cover crop species (radish, buckwheat, vetch, phacelia and oat) alongside an un-cropped control, on the activity and persistence of soil acid and alkaline phosphatase activity was investigated. There was no effect on alkaline phosp... Read More about Effects of cover crops on phosphatase activity in a clay arable soil in the UK.

The response of soil microbial diversity and abundance to long-term application of biosolids (2017)
Journal Article
Mossa, A.-W., Dickinson, M. J., West, H. M., Young, S. D., & Crout, N. M. (2017). The response of soil microbial diversity and abundance to long-term application of biosolids. Environmental Pollution, 224, 16-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2017.02.056

The disposal of biosolids poses a major environmental and economic problem. Agricultural use is generally regarded as the best means of disposal. However, its impact on soil ecosystems remains uncertain. Biosolids can improve soil properties by suppl... Read More about The response of soil microbial diversity and abundance to long-term application of biosolids.

Phosphorus recovery as struvite from farm, municipal and industrial waste: feedstock suitability, methods and pre-treatments (2016)
Journal Article
Kataki, S., West, H. M., Clarke, M. L., & Baruah, D. C. (2016). Phosphorus recovery as struvite from farm, municipal and industrial waste: feedstock suitability, methods and pre-treatments. Waste Management, 49, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2016.01.003

Global population growth requires intensification of agriculture, for which a sustainable supply of phosphorus (P) is essential. Since natural P reserves are diminishing, recovering P from wastes and residues is an increasingly attractive prospect, p... Read More about Phosphorus recovery as struvite from farm, municipal and industrial waste: feedstock suitability, methods and pre-treatments.

Phosphorus recovery as struvite: recent concerns for use of seed, alternative Mg source, nitrogen conservation and fertilizer potential (2016)
Journal Article
Kataki, S., West, H. M., Clarke, M. L., & Baruah, D. C. (2016). Phosphorus recovery as struvite: recent concerns for use of seed, alternative Mg source, nitrogen conservation and fertilizer potential. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 107, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2015.12.009

Finite availability of phosphorus (P) resources makes recovery of this non-substitutable plant nutrient from alternative waste sources an increasingly attractive option of renewed interest. In this context, feasibility of struvite (MgNH4PO4·6H2O) rec... Read More about Phosphorus recovery as struvite: recent concerns for use of seed, alternative Mg source, nitrogen conservation and fertilizer potential.

Biochar-mediated reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from soil amended with anaerobic digestates (2015)
Journal Article
Martin, S. L., Clarke, M. L., Othman, M., Ramsden, S. J., & West, H. M. (2015). Biochar-mediated reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from soil amended with anaerobic digestates. Biomass and Bioenergy, 79, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2015.04.030

This investigation examines nitrous oxide (N2O) fluxes from soil with simultaneous amendments of anaerobic digestates and biochar. The main source of anthropogenic emissions of N2O is agriculture and in particular, manure and slurry application to fi... Read More about Biochar-mediated reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from soil amended with anaerobic digestates.

Calcium leaching from waste steelmaking slag: Significance of leachate chemistry and effects on slag grain mineralogy (2014)
Journal Article
HALL, C., LARGE, D., ADDERLEY, B., & WEST, H. (2014). Calcium leaching from waste steelmaking slag: Significance of leachate chemistry and effects on slag grain mineralogy. Minerals Engineering, 65, 156-162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mineng.2014.06.002

Accelerated carbonation of alkaline wastes such as steelmaking slag offers the potential to combine waste valorisation with climate change mitigation by utilising carbon dioxide (CO2). One method of achieving this is through an indirect carbonation p... Read More about Calcium leaching from waste steelmaking slag: Significance of leachate chemistry and effects on slag grain mineralogy.