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Water Resource Monitoring (Research Page)
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Ecosystem services approaches for water management (Research Page)
Since the release of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, ecosystems have become widely recognised as natural capital assets supporting and supplying services which are highly valuable to humans. There is a growing appreciation ... Read more
Future scenarios for water resources (Research Page)
Scotland has water resources of generally high quality and with adequate volume to meet current demands. However, these resources are not uniformly distributed and there are significant pressures on both quantity and quality in ce ... Read more
Tightening nutrient cycles in the crop-soil-water ecosystem (Research Page)
Researchers at the James Hutton Institute are working on a number of ways to tighten nutrient cycles. This involves a combination of knowledge into how to reuse societies 'wastes' such as sewage effluent discharges as va ... Read more
Green Week 2012 Water (Research Page)
Green Week is the biggest annual conference on European environment policy. This year's theme is "Water" and the James Hutton Institute will be represented there for the very first time. We conduct a wide range of wa ... Read more
SSCR Annual Lecture (Event)
The 2012 Scottish Society for Crop Research Annual Lecture will be given by Mr Michael Hamell, Head of Unit, Agriculture, Forests and Soil, Environment Directorate-General, European Commission. His talk “Environmental chall ... Read more
Splicing shifts (News)
A new paper published recently in Plant Cell has demonstrated that alternative splicing is an important additional mechanism in the regulation of the circadian clock in Arabidopsis particularly in response to low temperatures. ... Read more
£1.25 million for cereals research (News)
The James Hutton Institute has been awarded £1.25 million for projects to help improve the quality and reliability of malting barley, increase knowledge of root development and identify disease resistance in barley. The awa ... Read more
Dr Jarle Inge Holten, Terrestrial Ecology Research, Norway (Event)
Dr Jarle Inge Holten, Terrestrial Ecology Research, Norway will give a seminar "Altitudinal distribution patterns of alpine plants in Norway" as part of the James Hutton Institute seminar series. Jarle will present a su ... Read more
Publications: MOORCO – Moorland colonisation (Research Page)
Mitchell, R.J., Hester, A.J., Campbell, C.D., Chapman, S.J., Cameron, C.M., Hewison, R.L. & Potts, J.M. (2012) Explaining the variation in the soil microbial community: do vegetation composition and soil chemistry explain ... Read more
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