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David Burton
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Research
Latest papers
Disentangling the effects of dung pat shape and mass on greenhouse gas emissions in the presence of dung beetles.
The Science of the total environment · 2026
A comparison of Tier 1, 2, and 3 methods for quantifying nitrous oxide emissions from soils amended with biosolids.
The Science of the total environment · 2024
Effect of nutrient management planning on crop yield, nitrate leaching and sediment loading in Thomas Brook watershed.
Environmental management · 2013
Latest funding
- $1,999,933
CANN2ONET-A Canadian Nitrous Oxide Collaboration Network to Meet Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Targets
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $2,000,000
The Canadian Soil Data Portal - Transforming Canada's Soil Data Infrastructure to Facilitate GHG Reductions and Climate Change Mitigation
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $1,627,526
Sustainable Agriculture and Water Use for Prince Edward Island
NSERC · 2021 · Co-investigator
3 publications.
Disentangling the effects of dung pat shape and mass on greenhouse gas emissions in the presence of dung beetles.
Bennett S, Burton D, Lumactud R, Manafiazar G, Manning P
A comparison of Tier 1, 2, and 3 methods for quantifying nitrous oxide emissions from soils amended with biosolids.
Obi-Njoku O, Boh MY, Smith W, Grant B, Flemming C, Price GW, Hernandez-Ramirez G, Burton D, Whalen JK, Clark OG
Effect of nutrient management planning on crop yield, nitrate leaching and sediment loading in Thomas Brook watershed.
Amon-Armah F, Yiridoe EK, Ahmad NH, Hebb D, Jamieson R, Burton D, Madani A
CANN2ONET-A Canadian Nitrous Oxide Collaboration Network to Meet Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Targets
Principal investigators: Wagner-Riddle, Claudia C
Keywords: agri-environmental policy; agri-environmental sustainability; behavioural economics; biogeochemical models; cost of management practices; grain and oilseed production; greenhouse gas mitigation practices; nitrogen fertilizer management; soil biogeochemistry; soil nitrous oxide emissions
The Canadian Soil Data Portal - Transforming Canada's Soil Data Infrastructure to Facilitate GHG Reductions and Climate Change Mitigation
Principal investigators: Heung, Brandon BL
Keywords: applied behaviour analysis; chemometrics; cost-benefit analysis; data mining; data sharing & privacy; digital soil data management; machine learning; pedometrics; predictive digital soil mapping; soil spectroscopy
Sustainable Agriculture and Water Use for Prince Edward Island
Principal investigators: van den Heuvel, Michael MR
Keywords: Agronomy; Environmental Flows; Environmental Management; Fishes; Hydrogeology; Hydrology; Irrigation; Limnology; Nutrients; Soil Science
The integration of site-specific measures of soil N status and climate in improving nitrogen fertilizer use efficiency in cool humid climates
Principal investigators: Burton, David
Keywords: nitrogen mineralization; nitrogen use efficiency; greenhouse gas mitigation; prevention of nitrate leaching; soil fertility; climatic regulation
NSERC CREATE for Climate-Smart Soils (CREATE-CSS)
Principal investigators: Wagner-Riddle, Claudia C
Keywords: agroecosystem sustainability metrics; carbon credit; cropping systems; emission reduction targets; life-cycle assessment; soil biogeochemistry; soil carbon sequestration; soil greenhouse gas emissions; soil microbial ecology
The influence of trigger events on bursts of soil microbial metabolism and N2O production and consumption
Principal investigators: Burton, David
Evaluating the spatial variation in soil nitrogen supply of potato fields in Prince Edward Island
Principal investigators: Burton, David
Assessing and modeling the impacts of treated municipal biosolid amendments on spruce plantation nutrition and growth in Nova Scotia, Canada
Principal investigators: Burton, David
Forest Plantation Soil Assessment for Nutrient Budget Model Parameterization
Principal investigators: Burton, David
Influence of the distribution of soil carbon, nutrients and water on nitrous oxide production and consumption in soil profiles
Principal investigators: Burton, David
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Rob Jamieson and David Burton: 1 shared paper
- Guillermo Hernandez Ramirez and David Burton: 1 shared paper
- David Burton and Paul Manning: 1 shared paper
- Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Agriculture)
- Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences - Department of Renewable Resources
- Agriculture
- Civil and Resource Engineering
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