Dr Allan Lilly (F.I. Soil Sci.)

Honorary Associate
Environmental and Biochemical Sciences
Allan Lilly is a soil scientist with particular interest in soil hydrology. He has a background in soil survey, biophysical resource analysis and land evaluation and have been responsible for systematic soil survey and data collection for input into the Scottish Soils Database.

Research

I am a former Group leader (Soil Science and Soil Mineralogy) and have over 44 years experience in soil hydrology, soil survey, soil classification and soil mapping, hydropedology and bio-physical resource analysis and have been responsible for systematic soil survey and data collection for input into the Scottish Soils Database. I have authored or contributed to over 150 technical reports, over 70 papers in peer reviewed science journals and co-authored a  book on UK soils.  A key aspect of my work was to make soils data more robust and readily accessible online. I have contributed to the development of European and Global soil science initiatives including the development of the HYPRES database and associated transfer functions  and the development of a hydrological classification for UK soils (HOST).  Previously, I was working to assess the impact of climate and land use change on soil, in particular, assessing the potential of Scottish soils to sequester carbon. More recently, I have been involved in delivering a NERC-funded project on characterising change in soils and waters in the riparian zone and in helping to develop a soil monitoring scheme for Scotland as well as developing and delivering soil courses for the British Society of Soil Science. I was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Soil Science (F.I.Soil Sci) in 2015.

Publications

The following Publications have not yet been migrated to the James Hutton Institute's Pure service and relate to the research outputs from the two legacy organisations: The Macaulay Land Use Research Institute and The Scottish Crop Research Institute.

Journals

Books / chapters

  • Smith, P.; Ashmore, M.; Black, H.I.J.; Burgess, P.; Evans, C.; Hails, R.; Potts, S.; Quine, T.; Thomson, A.; Biesmeijer, K.; Breeze, T.; Broadmeadow, M.; Ferrier, R.C.; Freer, J.; Hansom, J.; Haygarth, P.; Hesketh, H.; Hicks, K.; Johnson, A.; Kay, D.; Kunin, W.; Lilly, A.; May, L.; Memmott, J.; Orr, H.; Pickup, R.; Purse, B.; Squire, G. (2011) Regulating services., In: UK National Ecosystem Assessment. Understanding Nature’s Value to Society. Technical Report. Cambridge, UNEP-WCMC, Chapter 14, pp535-596.
  • Lilly, A.; Hudson, G.; Hough, R.L.; NSIS Resampling Team (2011) Scotland’s soil resource., In: Marrs, S.J., Foster, S., Hendrie, C., Mackey, E.C. & Thompson, D.B.A. (eds.). The Changing Nature of Scotland. TSO Scotland, Edinburgh, Chapter 4, 45-52.
  • Helliwell, R.C.; Lilly, A.; Bell, J. (2007) Soils of Lochnagar: their development, distribution, properties and influence on surface water chemistry., In: Lochnagar: The Natural History of a Mountain Lake Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research (DPER) (ed. Neil L. Rose). Volume 12, Springer, pp93-120.
  • Lilly, A.; Lin, H. (2004) Using soil morphological attributes and soil structure in pedotransfer functions., In: Development of Pedotransfer Functions in Soil Hydrology, (eds. Y. Pachepsky and W.J. Rawls). Developments in Soil Science 30, Elsevier. Chapter 7, pp115-141. ISBN: 978-0-444-51705-0
  • Nemes, A.; Wosten, J.H.M.; Lilly, A. and Oude Voshaar, J.H. (1999) Evaluation of different techniques for interpolation of the particle-size distribution., In: Characterization and Measurement of the Hydraulic Properties of Unsaturated Porous Media. Proceedings of International Workshop, Riverside, California, October 22-24, 1997. Eds. M.Th. Van Genuchten, F.J. Leij and L. Wu. pp1307-1316.
  • Lilly, A.; Wosten, J.H.M.; Nemes, A. and Le Bas, C. (1999) The development and use of the HYPRES database in Europe., In: Characterisation and Measurement of the Hydraulic Properties of Unsaturated Porous Media. Proceedings of International Workshop, Riverside, California, October 22-24, 1997. Eds. M.Th. Van Genuchten, F.J. Leij and L. Wu. pp1283-1294.
  • Lilly, A.; Bell, J.S. (1995) 1:625000 scale groundwater vulnerability map of Scotland., Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Aberdeen.
  • Langan, S.J.; Lilly, A.; Smith, B.F.L. (1995) The distribution and sensitivity of soils to acidification under heath and moorland vegetation in Scotland., In: Heaths and Moorlands: Cultural Landscapes (eds. D.B.A. Thompson, A.J. Hester and M.B. Usher). HMSO, Edinburgh.

Technical / contract reports

  • Baggaley, N.; Lilly, A. (2011) Peat and carbon contents in the common grazing land in Scotland., Gwyn Jones (European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism) as part of a Review of Common Grazing Land in Scotland.
  • Lilly, A.; Bell, J.S.; Hudson, G.J.; Nolan, A.J.; Towers, W. (2010) National Soil Inventory of Scotland 1[NSIS_1]: soil location, sampling and profile description protocols(1978-1988)., Technical Bulletin, The Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen,51pp.
  • Smith, J.U.; Fitton, N.; Smith, P.; Miller, D.G.; Buchan, K.; Coull, M.; Lilly, A.; Matthews, K.B.; Chapman, S.J.; Baggaley, N.; Milne, R.; Thomson, A.M. (2010) Pilot project to determine the suitability of integrated administration and control system (IACS) data to provide land use change data for annual greenhouse gases emission estimates., Final Report for Scottish Government (CR/2009/17), pp76.
  • Lilly, A.; Foster, C.; Auton, C.a.; Reeves, H.J.; Baggaley, N.J.; Haq, M.; Bowes, J.P. (2010) Soil erosion and landslides., State of Scotland’s Soils Report, Scottish Environmental Protection Agency/Natural Scotland.
  • Lilly, A.; Birnie, R.V.B; Futter, M.N.; Grieve, I.C.; Higgins, A.; Hough, R.L.; Jones, M.A.; Jordan, C.; Nolan, A.J.; Stutter, M.I.; Towers, W.; Baggaley, N.J. (2009) Climate change, land management and erosion in the organic and organo-mineral soils in Scotland and Northern Ireland., SNH Commissioned Report, No. 325 (ROAME No. F06AC104 – SNIFFER UKCC21).
  • Smith, J.U.; Chapman, S.J.; Bell, J.; Bellarby, J.; Gottschalk, P.; Hudson, G.; Lilly, A.; Smith, P.; Towers, W. (2009) Developing a methodology to improve soil C stock estimates for Scotland and use of initial results from a resampling of the National Soil Inventory of Scotland to improve the ecosse model., Report to Scottish Government on Project UAB-015-07, 112pp.
  • Lilly, A.; ENVASSO Poject Team (2008) Final Report of ENVASSO Project – ENVironmental ASsessment of Soil for mOnitoring., EC FP6, contract no. 022713: submitted to the European Commission Directorate-General Research, Technology and Development (DG-RTD).
  • Lilly, A.; Bell, J.S.; Donnelly, D.; Nolan, A.J. (2008) Derivation of spatial soils data and tabular soil profile datasets for Scotland, and GB-wide pedotransfer functions, to extend the SEISMIC spatial environmental information system to GB to support environmental risk assessment for pesticide use., DEFRA (MI sub-contracted to NSRI for input to GB-wide project).
  • Bell, J.S.; Lilly, A.; Donnelly, D. (2008) Provision of corrosivity and gas permeability soils data., Data Provision Contract submitted to NSRI for Calor Gas.
  • Dick, J.; Smith, P.; Smith, R.; Lilly, A.; Moxey, A.; Booth, J.; Campbell, C.D.; Coulter, D. (2008) Carbon – a GROWING issue., National Farmers Union of Scotland.
  • Dick, J.; Smith, P.; Smith, R.; Lilly, A.; Moxey, A.; Booth, J.; Campbell, C.D.; Coulter, D. (2008) Calculating farm scale greenhouse gas emissions., National Farmers Union of Scotland.
  • Lilly, A.; Ball, B.; Ballantine, D.; Bowes, J.; Donachy, J.; Grieve, I.; Gordon, J.; Hallett, P.D.; Johnston, M. (2008) Scottish soil strategy: soil erosion and compaction., Scottish Government, Soil Strategy Project Board.
  • Black, H.I.J.; Booth, P.; Bellamy, P.; Elston, D.A.; Frogbrook, Z.L.; Hudson, G.; Lark, M.; Potts, J.M.; Reynolds, B.; Lilly, A. (2008) Design and operation of a UK Soil Monitoring Network., Environment Agency, Science Report – 060072/SR.
  • Lilly, A.; Jones, M.; Hudson, G. (2007) ENVASSO final report WP 5: Pilot area report. Soil erosion risk threat., ENVASSO WP Final Report.
  • Lilly, A.; Baggaley, N.J.; Coull, M.C. (2007) Report on the permeability of 33 topsoils on the River Findhorn and Pilmuir flood alleviation scheme., British Geological Survey, Subcontract Report.
  • Emmett, B.; Black, H.I.J.; Bradley, R.I.; Elston, D.A.; Reynolds, B.; Creamer, R.; Frogbrook, Z.L.; Hudson, G.; Jordan, C.; Lilly, A.; Moffat, A.; Potts, J.; Vanguelova, E. (2007) National Soil Monitoring Network: Review and assessment study. Final report., SNIFFER, Project LQ09.
  • Evans, C.; Hall, J.; Rowe, E.; Helliwell, R.C.; Aherne, J.; Jenkins, A.; Hutchins, M.; Cosby, J.; Smart, S.; Howard, D.; Norris, D.; Coull, M.C.; Lilly, A.; Broughton, R.; O’Hanlon, S.; Heywood, E.; Ullyett, J. (2007) Critical loads and dynamic modelling., Final Report to the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs under Contract Number CPEA 19.
  • Booth, P.D.; Vinten, A.J.A.; Christian, C.; Haywood, E.; Avery, L.M.; Lilly, A. (2007) Ammonia in groundwater: Attenuation of sewage effluent discharge in the subsurface., SEERAD.
  • Ball, J.S.; Cummins, R.P.; McKeen, M.; Lilly, A. (2006) A borders wetland vision: development of a strategic planning tool for wetland biodiversity conservation., Report to the Scottish Borders Council.
  • Lilly, A. (contributor) (2006) Private water supplies., Technical Manual No. 467, Scottish Executive. IBSN 0-7559-5151-4
  • Mayr, T.; Black, H.I.J.; Towers, W.; Palmer, R.; Cooke, H.; Freeman, M.; Hornung, M.; Wood, C.; Wright, S.; Lilly, A.; DeGroote, J.; Jones, M. (2006) Novel methods for spatial prediction of soil functions within landscapes (SP0531)., Report to Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) Scottish Executive Environmental and Rural Affairs Department (SEERAD).
  • Towers, W.; Grieve, I.C.; Hudson, G.; Campbell, C.D.; Lilly, A.; Davidson, D.A.; Bacon, J.R.; Langan, S.J.; Hopkins, D.A. (2006) Scotland’s soil resource – current state and threats., Report to SEERAD.
  • Anthony, S.; Betson, M.; Lord, E.; Tagg, A.; Panzeri, M.; Abbott, C.; Struve, J.; Lilly, A.; Dunn, S.M.; DeGroote, J.l.; Towers, W.; Lewis, D. (2006) Provision of a screening tool to identify and characterise diffuse pollution pressures: Phase II. Final Report WFD19 (230/8050)., Final Report WFD19 (230/8050) to SNIFFER.
  • Towers, W.; Lilly, A. and Jones, M. (2005) Incorporation of soil biological attributes into the Scottish Soil Knowledge and Information Base (SSKIB)., Interim report prepared for SNH.
  • Anthony, S.; Betson, M.; Lord, E.; Tagg, A.; Panzeri, M.; Abbott, C.; Struve, J.; Lilly, A.; Dunn, S.M.; DeGroote, J.I.; Towers, W.; Lewis, D. (2005) Provision of a screening tool to identify and characterise diffuse pollution pressures: Phase II., Final Report WFD19 (230/8050). SNIFFER.
  • MacDonald, A.M.; Griffiths, K.J.; O’Dochartaigh, B.E.; Lilly, A.; Chilton, P.J. (2005) Scotland’s groundwater monitoring network: its effectiveness for monitoring nitrate. ENV/BGS/001/04., SEERAD Water Protection Unit.
  • Lilly, A.; Towers, W.; Malcolm, A. and Paterson, E. (2004) Report on a workshop on the development of a Scottish Soils Knowledge and Information Base (SSKIB)., Proceedings of a Workshop, Macaulay Institute, 22nd September 2004.
  • Anthony, S.; Betson, M.; Lord, E.; Tagg, A.; Panzeri, M.; Abbott, C.; Struve, J.; Lilly, A.; Dunn, S.M.; DeGroote, J.I.; Towers, W.; Lewis, D. (2004) Provision of a screening tool to identify and characterise diffuse pollution pressures: Phase II – Summary report., DEFRA.
  • Vinten, A.J.A.; Towers, W.; King, J.A.; McCracken, D.I.; Crawford, C.; Cole, L.J.; Duncan, A.; Sym, G.; Aitken, M.; Avdic, K.; Lilly, A.; Langan, S.J.; Jones, M. (2004) Appraisal of rural BMP’s for controlling diffuse pollution and enhancing biodiversity., Trees, 35, 307-317.
  • Lilly, A.; Kay, D. (2004) Analysis of risk protocol options for private water supplies., Contract Report to SEERAD, March 2004.

Conference papers

  • Lilly, A. (2010) A hydrological classification of UK soils based on soil morphological data., World Congress of Soil Science: Soil Solutions for a Changing World, 19th, Brisbane Australia, 1-6 August 2010.
  • Baggaley, N.J.; Lilly, A.; Walker, R.; Castellazzi, M. (2010) An assessment of the data resolution required to run the PESERA soil erosion model at a catchment scale in a high latitude agricultural catchment., World Congress of Soil Science: Soil Solutions for a Changing World, 19th, Brisbane Australia, 1-6 August 2010.
  • McKenzie, B.M.; Krol, M.; Binnie, K.; Bengough, A.G.; Hallett, P.D.; Valentine, T.A.; Lilly, A. (2008) Putting together measures of soil physical quality., Eurosoil 2008, Vienna, Austria, 25-29 August 2008.
  • Pachepsky, Y.; Gimenez, D.; Lilly, A.; Nemes, A. (2008) Soil structure and soil hydrologic functioning: a hydropedological framework., Water and Soil: Key to Sustaining the Earth’s Critical Zone. First International Hydropedology Conference, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, 28-31 July 2008.
  • Pachepsky, Y.A.; Lilly, A.; Gish, T.J. (2008) Structure and function in soil hydrology., European Geosciences Union, General Assembly 2008 Symposium: Soil Structure Forming Processes and Soil Functions, Vienna, Austria, 13-18 April 2008.
  • Reid, D.C.; Lilly, A.; Kay, D.; Drury, D.; O’Neill, D. (2004) Regulation of private water supplies (Small Community Supplies) in the UK., 11th Canadian National Conference and 2nd Policy Forum on Drinking Water: Promoting Public Health Through Safe Drinking Water, Canada, April 2004.
  • Fitzsimons, V.; Ball, D.F.; O’Dochartaigh, B.; MacDonald, A.M.; Del Rio Maria, M.; Auton, C. and Lilly, A. (2004) Mapping groundwater vulnerability in Scotland: a new approach for the Water Framework Directive., SAC/SEPA Biennial Conference on Agriculture and the Environment V: Water Framework Directive and Agriculture.
  • Betson, M.; Anthony, S.; Lord, E.; Dunn, S.M.; Lilly, A.; DeGroote, J.; Towers, W.; Struve, J.; Tagg, A.; Abbott, C.; Lewis, D.; MacDonald, J.; Badger, R.; Ferris, N.; Ward, B. (2004) A GIS decision support screening tool for diffuse pollution in Scotland and Northern Ireland., SAC/SEPA Biennial Conference on Agriculture and the Environment V: Water Framework Directive and Agriculture.
  • Dunn, S.M.; Lilly, A.; Vinten, A.J.A. and DeGroote, J. (2004) Nitrogen risk assessment model for Scotland: sensitivity analysis and implications for water quality prediction., Proceedings of SEPA / SAC Conference on Agriculture and the Environment, ( ed. D Lewis and L. Gairn), Edinburgh, 24-26 March 2004, pp94-100.
  • Lilly, A. (2004) Factors affecting the microbial quality of private water supplies in North-east Scotland., Environmental Health Scotland.
  • Dunn, S.M.; Vinten, A.J.A.; Lilly, A.; DeGroote, J. and McGechan, M. (2003) Modelling nitrate losses from agricultural activities on a national scale., In: Diffuse Pollution and Basin Management (Ed. M.Bruen). Proceedings of the 7th International Specialised IWA Conference, Dublin, Ireland. ISBN 1902277767. (See website http://www.ucd.ie/dipcon/proceedings.htm as at 04/10/2004)
  • Dunn, S.M.; Chalmers, N.; Stalham, M.; Lilly, A.; Crabtree, R.; Johnston, L. (2002) Modelling the influence of irrigation abstractions on Scotland’s water resources., Proceedings of the IWA International Conference on River Basin Management, 9th, Edinburgh, September 2002. On cd-rom.
  • Domburg, P.; Lilly, A.; Dunn, S.M.; Edwards, A.C. (2002) Selecting effective areas for development of buffer strips at farm and river basin scale., Agricultural Effects on Ground and Surface Waters: Research at the Edge of Science and Society. Proceedings of an International Symposium, Wageningen, Netherlands, October 2000. IAHS Press,Wallingford, pp151-156.
  • Lilly, A.; Birnie, R.V.B.; Hudson, G.; Horne, P.L.; Gordon, J.E.; Puri, G. (2001) Inherent geomorphological risk of soil erosion by overland flow in Scotland., Earth Science and the Natural Heritage, Scottish Natural Heritage Conference Proceedings.
  • Lilly, A. (1999) Global soil hydrological databases : an example from Europe., Abstract for Modelling root water uptake in climate and hydrological models workshop. Restricted circulation.
  • Lamb, A.J.; Gauld, J.H.; Reid, D.C.; Lilly, A.; McGaw, B.A. and Curnow, J. (1998) Microbiological risk assessment of private water supplies., Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland Magazine, 10, 21-26.
  • Lilly, A. (1998) The influence of soils and land use on groundwater quality., The Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland Magazine, 10(5), pp4-6.
  • Miller, D.R.; Morrice, J.G.; Ferrier, R.C.; Wright, G.G.; Lilly, A. (1995) The integration of environmental variables and models for water catchment management., Proceedings of JEC ’95, The Hague, 385-391.
  • Lilly, A. and Paterson, E. (1994) The availability and uses of soil physical data: a Scottish perspective., Conference on the Development of a European Soil Physics database, Wageningen, 1994.
  • Boorman, D.B.; Hollis, J.M. and Lilly, A. (1991) The production of the Hydrology of Soil Types (HOST) data set., In: Proceedings of the 3rd National Hydrology Symposium, University of Southampton. British Hydrological Society.
  • Wilson, M.J.; Cresser, M.S.; Lilly, A.; Nolan, A.J. (1989) Vulnerable soils and their distribution., Proceedings of a Symposium on Acidification in Scotland, 1988. Organised by SDD, pp. 60-70.

Conference posters / abstracts

  • Smith, J.; Gottschalk, P.; Bellarby, J.; Chapman, S.J.; Lilly, A.; Towers, W.; Bell, J.; Coleman, K.; Nayak, D.; Richards, M.; Hillier, J.; Flynn, H.; Wattenbach, M.; Aitkenhead, M.; Yeluripurti, J.; Farmer, J.; Milne, R.; Thomson, A.; Evans, C.; Whitmore, A.; Falloon, P.; Smith, P. (2010) Use of dynamic, process-based models of soil C and N turnover to explore tradeoffs between land use change for agricultural production and carbon sequestration., Abstract for Global Land Project Workshop – Representation of Ecosystem Services in the Modelling of Land Systems, Jurys Inn, Aberdeen, 19-20 March 2010.
  • Baggaley, N.J.; Lilly, A. (2010) Climate change influences on soil erosion – changes in rainfall intensity on the spatial distribution of landscape scale erosion risk assessments., SAC/SEPA Conference, Edinburgh, March 2010.
  • Lilly, A.; Hudson, G.; Hough, R.L.; NSIS Re-Sampling Programme Team (2010) Developing methods to detect change in the soil resource of a country with a Northern temperate boreal climate (Scotland)., World Congress of Soil Science: Soil Solutions for a Changing World, 19th, Brisbane Australia, 1-6 August 2010.
  • Baggaley, N.J.; Lilly, A.; Castellazzi, M.S.; Walker, R. (2009) Soil quality = Water quality soil erosion modelling at a catchment scale., BSSS/SSSI Conference, Wexford, 9-11 September 2009.
  • Mayr, T.; Black, H.I.J.; Towers, W.; Palmer, R.; Cooke, H.; Freeman, M.; Hornung, M.; Wood, C.; Wright, S.; Lilly, A.; DeGroote, J.; Jones, M. (2009) What would we like our soils to do and how do we decide?, ProGEO – WG3 Meeting 2009. Geoheritage, Geodiversity and Landscape Management, Drenthe, The Netherlands, 19-23 April 2009. Programme and Abstracts.
  • Gottschalk, P.; Smith, J.U.; Chapman, S.J.; Bell, J.S.; Bellarby, J.; Hudson, G.; Lilly, A.; Towers, W.; Booth, E.; Walker, R.; Nayak, D.; Richards, M.; Yleuripurti, J.; Flynn, H.C.; Hillier, J.; Wattenbach, M.; Hastings, A.; Smith, P. (2009) Simulation of the impacts of changes in land use and climate on soil C fluxes from organic and mineral soils at national scale (ECOSSE)., Predicting the Future for Highly Organic Soils, British Society of Soil Science, Spring Conference, Edinburgh Conference Centre, Heriot-Watt University, 5-7 May 2009. Book of Abstracts.
  • Lilly, A.; Bell, J.S.; Hudson, G.; Nolan, A.J.; Towers, W. (2009) Scotland’s soil resource: providing baseline data to predict the future., Predicting the Future for Highly Organic Soils, British Society of Soil Science, Spring Conference, Edinburgh Conference Centre, Heriot-Watt University, 5-7 May 2009. Book of Abstracts.
  • Lilly, A.; Bell, J.S.; Hudson, G.; Nolan, A.J.; Towers, W. (2009) Detecting changes in Scotlands soil resource., Knowledge Scotland KTE Event, SEPA, Stirling, 29 May 2009.
  • Bellarby, J.; Gottschalk, P.; Chapman, S.J.; Lilly, A.; Bell, J.S.; Towers, W.; Miller, D.; Hudson, G.; Smith, P.; Smith, J.U. (2008) Soil carbon stocks in Scotland: past changes and future conservation needs., IALE-D Global Change and Landscape Response – Die Ruckkopplungen von Landschaften auf den Globalen Wandel, Geographisches Institut, Bonn, 30 October – 2 November 2008.
  • Towers, W.; Mayr, T.; Black, H.I.J.; Palmer, R.; Cooke, H.; Freeman, M.; Hornung, M.; Wood, C.; Wright, S.; Lilly, A.; DeGroote, J.; Jones, M. (2008) What would we like our soils to do and how do we decide., Eurosoil 2008, Soil-Society-Environment. Session: Land Management. Conference Proceedings, Vienna, Austria, 25-29 August 2008.
  • Andrist-Rangel, Y.; Lilly, A.; Towers, W.; Edwards, A.C.; Oborn, I.; Hillier, S.; Paterson, E. (2008) Mineralogical speciation of soil potassium – a basis for sustainable management options for grassland soils, Eurosoil 2008, Soil-Society-Environment. Session: Potassium, Liming and Wastes. Conference Proceedings, Vienna, Austria, 25-29 August 2008.
  • Lilly, A.; Bell, J.S.; Hudson, G.; Nolan, A.J.; Towers, W. (2008) Detecting changes in Scotland’s soil resource., Eurosoil 2008, Soil-Society-Environment, Conference Proceedings, Vienna, Austria, 25-29 August 2008.
  • Helliwell, R.C.; Baggaley, N.J.; Lilly, A.; Coull, M.C.; Gibbs, S. (2008) Soil hydrological and hydrochemical responses in the allt a’ Mharcaidh catchment, Scotland., European Geosciences Union, General Assembly 2008 Symposium: Soil Structure Forming Processes and Soil Functions, Vienna, Austria, 13-18 April 2008.
  • Bellarby, J.; Gottschalk, P.; Chapman, S.J.; Lilly, A.; Bell, J.S.; Towers, W.; Miller, D.; Hudson, G.; Smith, P.; Smith, J.U. (2008) Soil carbon stocks in Scotland: past changes and future conservation needs., EGU General Assembly, Vienna, 13-18 April 2008. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Volume 10, EGU2008-A-04070.
  • Lilly, A.; Ball, B.C.; McTaggart, I.P.; DeGroote, J. (2007) National scale modelling of nitrous oxide emissions: the role of hydropedology and land use., Water and Soil: Key to Sustaining the Earth’s Critical Zone. First International Hydropedology Conference, Penn State University.
  • Mayr, T.; Black, H.I.J.; Towers, W.; Palmer, R.; Cooke, H.; Freeman, M.; Hornung, M.; Wood, C.; Wright, S.; Lilly, A.; DeGroote, J.; Jones, M. (2007) Development of a soil function evaluation framework., Proceedings of BSSS Conference Soils – Fit for Purpose? Aberystwyth September 2007
  • Lilly, A.; Bell, J.S.; Hudson, G.; Nolan, A.J.; Towers, W. (2007) Detecting changes in Scotland’s soils., Making Scotland’s Rural Environment More Sustainable, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 25 June 2007.
  • Lilly, A.; Ball, B.C.; McTaggart, I. P.; De Groote, J. (2007) Upscaling nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from land., Making Scotland’s Rural Environment More Sustainable, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 25 June 2007.
  • Shand, C.A.; Hudson, G.; Towers, W.; Lilly, A. (2007) Predicting the potential for P-loss using soil samples from the National Soil archive of Scotland., COST Action 856 869 Meeting, Miitigation Options for Nutrient Reduction in Surface Water and Groundwaters. WG 1. Localisation of Critical Source areas in Catchments. Hamar, Norway, 22-25 May 2007.
  • Towers, W.; Lilly, A.; deGroote, J.; Jones, M.; Betson, M.; Anthony, S.; Jordan, C. (2006) Assessment of heavy metal transport to water courses in Northern Ireland and Scotland., Proceedings of Annual BSSS Conference, Queens University, Belfast, 2005.

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