Research articles & reports

Mason, E., Gascuel‐Odoux, C., Aldrian, U., Sun, H., Miloczki, J., Götzinger, S., Burton, V.J., Rienks, F., Di Lonardo, S., Sandén, T., 2024. Participatory soil citizen science: An unexploited resource for European soil research. European J Soil Science 75, e13470. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.13470

European Commission. Joint Research Centre., European Environment Agency., 2024. The state of soils in Europe: fully evidenced, spatially organised assessment of the pressures driving soil degradation.

Burton, V.J., Gunnell, J.L., Naylor, R., Soul, L.C., Robinson, L.D., Tweddle, J.C., 2024. Boosting biodiversity in school grounds: a theory of change. ARPHA Proceedings 6, 111–115. https://doi.org/10.3897/ap.e125953

Phillips, H.R.P., Cameron, E.K., Eisenhauer, N., Burton, V.J., Ferlian, O., Jin, Y., Kanabar, S., Malladi, S., Murphy, R.E., Peter, A., Petrocelli, I., Ristok, C., Tyndall, K., Putten, W. van der, Beaumelle, L., 2024. Global changes and their environmental stressors have a significant impact on soil biodiversity—A meta-analysis. iScience 27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.110540

Burton, V.J., Jones, A.G., Robinson, L.D., Eggleton, P., Purvis, A., 2024. Earthworm Watch: Insights into urban earthworm communities in the UK using citizen science. European Journal of Soil Biology 121, 103622. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2024.103622

Burton, V.J., Baselga, A., De Palma, A., Phillips, H.R.P., Mulder, C., Eggleton, P., Purvis, A., 2023. Effects of land use and soil properties on taxon richness and abundance of soil assemblages. European Journal of Soil Science 74, e13430. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.13430

Velden, N. van der, Burton, V.J., Caon, L., Ambler, A., Hager, G., Reiter, S., Neilson, R., Verrall, S., 2019. Report on science experiments and protocols and the collective creation of knowledge in GROW missions 1–68.

Burton, V.J., Contu, S., Palma, A.D., Hill, S.L.L., Albrecht, H., Bone, J.S., Carpenter, D., Corstanje, R., Smedt, P.D., Farrell, M., Ford, H.V., Hudson, L.N., Inward, K., Jones, D.T., Kosewska, A., Lo, N.F., Hung, M., 2022. Land use and soil characteristics affect soil organisms differently from above ‑ ground assemblages. BMC Ecology and Evolution 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-022-02089-4

Eisenhauer, N., Bender, S.F., Calderón‐Sanou, I., de Vries, F.T., Lembrechts, J.J., Thuiller, W., Wall, D.H., Zeiss, R., Bahram, M., Beugnon, R., Burton, V.J., Crowther, T.W., Delgado‐Baquerizo, M., Geisen, S., Kardol, P., Krashevska, V., Martínez‐Muñoz, C.A., Patoine, G., Seeber, J., Soudzilovskaia, N.A., Steinwandter, M., Sünnemann, M., Sun, X., van der Heijden, M.G.A., Guerra, C.A., Potapov, A., 2022. Frontiers in soil ecology—Insights from the World Biodiversity Forum 2022. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment. https://doi.org/10.1002/sae2.12031

Ollerton, J., Trunschke, J., Havens, K., Landaverde-González, P., Keller, A., Gilpin, A., Rodrigo Rech, A., Baronio, G.J., Phillips, B.J., Mackin, C., Stanley, D.A., Treanore, E., Baker, E., Rotheray, E.L., Erickson, E., Fornoff, F., Brearley, F.Q., Ballantyne, G., Iossa, G., Stone, G.N., Bartomeus, I., Stockan, J.A., Leguizamón, J., Prendergast, K., Rowley, L., Giovanetti, M., De Oliveira Bueno, R., Wesselingh, R.A., Mallinger, R., Edmondson, S., Howard, S.R., Leonhardt, S.D., Rojas-Nossa, S.V., Brett, M., Joaqui, T., Antoniazzi, R., Burton, V.J., Feng, H.-H., Tian, Z.-X., Xu, Q., Zhang, C., Shi, C.-L., Huang, S.-Q., Cole, L.J., Bendifallah, L., Ellis, E.E., Hegland, S.J., Straffon Díaz, S., Lander, T.A., Mayr, A.V., Dawson, R., Eeraerts, M., Armbruster, W.S., Walton, B., Adjlane, N., Falk, S., Mata, L., Goncalves Geiger, A., Carvell, C., Wallace, C., Ratto, F., Barberis, M., Kahane, F., Connop, S., Stip, A., Sigrist, M.R., Vereecken, N.J., Klein, A.-M., Baldock, K., Arnold, S.E.J., 2022. Pollinator-flower interactions in gardens during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown of 2020. Journal of Pollination Ecology 31, 87–96. https://doi.org/10.26786/1920-7603(2022)695

Hodson, M. E., Corstanje, R., Jones, D. T., Witton, J., Burton, V. J., Sloan, T., & Eggleton, P. (2021). Earthworm distributions are not driven by measurable soil properties. Do they really indicate soil quality? PLOS ONE, 16(8), e0241945. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241945

Robinson, L. D., Miller, A. E., Burton, V. J., Herodotou, C., Higgins, L., Miller, G. R. M., … Pratt-Taweh, R. D. (2021). Enhancing youth learning through Community and Citizen Science: a guide for practitioners. London: Natural History Museum. Retrieved from https://www.nhm.ac.uk/content/dam/nhmwww/our-science/our-work/science-society-skills/amc21001-learn-citi-sci-guide-web.pdf

Burton, V. J., & Cameron, E. K. (2021). LEARNING MORE ABOUT EARTHWORMS WITH CITIZEN SCIENCE. Frontiers for Young Minds. https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2020.548525

Kovács, K.Z., Hemment, D., Woods, M., van der Velden, N.K., Xaver, A., Giesen, R.H., Burton, V.J., Garrett, N.L., Zappa, L., Long, D., Dobos, E. and Skalsky, R., 2019. Citizen observatory based soil moisture monitoring – the GROW example, Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, 68(2): 119–139. https://doi.org/10.15201/hungeobull.68.2.2

Hudson, L. N., Newbold, T., Contu, S., Hill, S. L. L. L., Lysenko, I., De Palma, A., … Purvis, A. (2016). The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project. Ecology and Evolution, 7(1), 145–188. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2579

Newbold, T., Hudson, L. N., Arnell, A. P., Contu, S., De Palma, A., Ferrier, S., … Purvis, A. (2016). Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment. Science, 353(6296), 288–291. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf2201

Burton, V. J., & Eggleton, P. (2016). Microhabitat heterogeneity enhances soil macrofauna and plant species diversity in an Ash – Field Maple woodland. European Journal of Soil Biology, 75, 97–106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2016.04.012