Affiliations: AgResearch

 

Email: Jiafa.Luo@agresearch.co.nz

 

Website of your own organisation: http://www.agresearch.co.nz/

 

Honours, awards, and memberships:

2015, Winner, Gallagher Agricultural Science Award, the Kudos, Hamilton Science Awards Trust

2015, Consultation expert, Meeting organized by FAO on sustainable grassland and pasture management, Lanzhou University, China. (fully paid invitation)

2015, Invited speaker, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology and Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Agricultural nutrient management and practices to reduce nutrient losses, Hebei Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Liaoning Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China. (fully paid invitation)

2014, Invited by the New Zealand - China Centre of Dairy Excellence to give a keynote speech on dairy farm effluent and nutrient management in a dairy industry conference (fully paid invitation)

International journal editorships: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment; Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis; The Open Agriculture Journal

Member of the New Zealand Society of Soil Science

 

Research interests

 

Nitrogen cycling in farming systems; Sustainable dairy farm systems; Anima effluent and manure treatment technologies; Soil science, Nitrous oxide emissions and mitigation

 

 

List of your recent publications:

Hoogendoorn CJ, Luo J, Lloyd-West CM, Devantier BP, Lindsey SB, Sun, S, Pacheco D, Li Y, Theobald PW, Judge A (2016) Nitrous oxide emission factors for urine from sheep and cattle fed forage rape (Brassica napus L.) or perennial ryegrass/white clover pasture (Lolium perenne L./Trifolium repens) Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 227:11-23.

Luo J, Ledgard SF, Wise B, Welten B, Lindsey S, Judge A, Sprosen M 2016. Effect of dicyandiamide (DCD) on nitrous oxide emissions from cow urine deposited on a pasture soil, as influenced by DCD application method and rate. Animal Production Science 56: 350-354.

Li J, Luo J, Shi Y, Li Y, Ma Y, Ledgard SF, Wang L, Houlbrooke D, B L, Lindsey S 2016. Dung and farm dairy effluent affect urine patch nitrous oxide emissions from a pasture. Animal Production Science 56: 337-342.

van der Weerden TJ , Luo J, Di HJ, Podolyan A, Phillips RL, Saggar S, de Klein CAM, Cox N, Ettema P, Rys G 2016. Nitrous oxide emissions from urea fertiliser and effluent with and without inhibitors applied to pasture. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 219: 58–70.

van der Weerden TJ , Cox N, Luo J, Di HJ, Podolyan A, Phillips RL, Saggar S, de Klein CAM, Ettema P, Rys G 2016. Refining the New Zealand nitrous oxide emission factor for urea fertiliser and farm dairy effluent. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 222: 133–137.

Luo J, Ledgard SF, Wise B, Welten B, Lindsey S, Judge A, Sprosen M 2015. Effect of dicyandiamide (DCD) delivery method, application rate and season on pasture urine patch nitrous oxide emissions. Biology and Fertility of Soils 51: 453-464.

Luo J, Sun XZ, Pacheco D, Ledgard SF, Lindsey SB, Hoogendoorn CJ, Wise B, Watkins NL 2015. Nitrous oxide emission factors for urine and dung from sheep fed either fresh forage rape (Brassica napus L.) or fresh perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.). Animal - An International Journal of Animal Bioscience 9: 534-543.

Li J, Luo J, Shi Y, Lindsey S, Houlbrooke D, Ledgard S 2015. Nitrous oxide emissions from dairy farm effluent applied to a New Zealand pasture soil. Soil Use and Management 31: 279-289.

De Klein C, Luo J, Woodward B, Styles T, Wise B, Lindsey S Cox N 2014. The effect of nitrogen concentration in synthetic cattle urine on nitrous oxide emissions. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 188: 85-92.

Ledgard SF, Luo J, Sprosen MS, Wyatt J, Balvert S, Lindsey S 2014. Effects of the nitrification inhibitor dicyandiamide (DCD) on pasture production, nitrous oxide emissions and nitrate leaching in Waikato, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research 57: 294-315.

van der Weerden TJ, Luo J, Dexter M 2014. Addition of straw or sawdust to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from slurry produced by housed cattle: a field incubation study. Journal of Environmental Quality 43:1345–1355.

De Klein C, Luo J, Woodward B, Styles T, Wise B, Lindsey S Cox N 2014. The effect of nitrogen concentration in synthetic cattle urine on nitrous oxide emissions. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 188: 85-92.

Li J, Shi Y, Luo J, Zaman M, Houlbrooke D, Ding W, Ledgard S, Ghani A 2014. Use of nitrogen process inhibitors for reducing gaseous nitrogen losses from land-applied farm effluents. Biology and Fertility of Soils 50: 133-145.

Luo J, Hoogendoorn C, van der Weerden T, Saggar S, de Klein C, Giltrap D, Rollo M, Rys G 2013. Nitrous oxide emissions from grazed hill land. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 181: 58-68.

Luo J, Ledgard SF, Lindsey SB 2013. Nitrous oxide and greenhouse gas emissions from a grazed pasture as affected by use of a nitrification inhibitor and a restricted grazing regime. Science of the Total Environment 465: 107-114.