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  1. Evaluation of soil structural quality using VIS–NIR spectra

    Article • Soil and Tillage Research, March 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  2. The relationship between soil microbial activity and microbial biomass, soil structure and grassland management

    Article • Soil and Tillage Research, March 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  3. Indices for quantitative evaluation of soil quality under grassland management

    Article • Geoderma, October 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  4. Visual Evaluation of Soil Structure Under Grassland management

    Article • Soil Use and Management, January 2014, Wiley

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  5. Rapid Evaluation of Soil Quality Based on Soil Carbon Reflectance

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  6. Relating Soil Carbon and Soil Structure to Land Use Management

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  7. Estimating Fine Resolution Carbon Concentration in an Intact Soil Profile by X-Ray Fluorescence Scanning

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  8. The Roles of Overgrazing, Climate Change and Policy As Drivers of Degradation of China's Grasslands

    Article • Nomadic Peoples, December 2013, White Horse Press

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  9. The visual evaluation of soil structure under arable management

    Article • Soil and Tillage Research, November 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  10. Sustainable Food Processing

    Article • October 2013, Wiley

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  11. Introduction

    Article • October 2013, Wiley

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  12. Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainable Food Processing

    Article • October 2013, Wiley

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  13. Comparison of pesticide leaching potential to groundwater under EU FOCUS and site specific conditions

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, October 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  14. The effects of enclosures and land-use contracts on rangeland degradation on the Qinghai–Tibetan plateau

    Article • Journal of Arid Environments, October 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  15. A review of nitrous oxide mitigation by farm nitrogen management in temperate grassland-based agriculture

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, October 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  16. Evaluation of process and input–output-based life-cycle assessment of Irish milk production

    Article • The Journal of Agricultural Science, May 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  17. Allocation of grass fields to Hybrid Soil Moisture Deficit model drainage classes using visual indicators

    Article • Soil and Tillage Research, March 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  18. Radiometric normalization for change detection in peatlands: a modified temporal invariant cluster approach

    Article • International Journal of Remote Sensing, January 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  19. Phenoxyalkanoic acid herbicide sorption and the effect of co-application in a Haplic Cambisol with contrasting management

    Article • Chemosphere, January 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  20. Potential Use of Willingness to Accept (WTA) to Compensate Herders in Maqu County, China, for Reduced Stocking

    Article • Rangeland Ecology & Management, September 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  21. Adsorption and Desorption Isotherms of the Nonpolar Fungicide Chlorothalonil in a Range of Temperate Maritime Agricultural Soils

    Article • Water Air & Soil Pollution, April 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  22. Development of an international 'Innovation and Entrepreneurship' course for Biosystems Engineering undergraduates

    Article • January 2012, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  23. Evaluating Transport Risk in Soil using Dye and Bromide Tracers

    Article • Soil Science Society of America Journal, January 2012, Soil Science Society of America

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  24. The "Threads" of Biosystems Engineering

    Article • January 2012, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  25. The Modification of Soil Moisture Deficit Calculation Using Topographic Wetness Index to Account For the Effect of Slope and Landscape Position

    Article • January 2012, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  26. The effect of soil moisture deficit on the susceptibility of soil to compaction as a result of vehicle traffic

    Article • January 2012, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)

    Professor Nicholas M Holden, Dr Diogenes L. Antille

  27. A multispectral multiplatform based change detection tool for vegetation disturbance on Irish peatlands

    Article • October 2011, SPIE

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  28. Estimating the carbon stock of a blanket peat region using a peat depth inference model

    Article • CATENA, August 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  29. Qualitative Risk Assessment of Surface Water Contamination withCryptosporidiumSp. Oocysts: A Case Study of Three Agricultural Catchments

    Article • Human and Ecological Risk Assessment An International Journal, July 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  30. Modelling Cryptosporidium oocysts transport in small ungauged agricultural catchments

    Article • Water Research, June 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  31. Detecting recent disturbance on Montane blanket bogs in the Wicklow Mountains, Ireland using the MODIS enhanced vegetation index

    Article • International Journal of Remote Sensing, April 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  32. An evaluation of life cycle assessment of European milk production

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, March 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  33. The effect of region of interest size on model calibration for soil organic carbon prediction from hyperspectral images of prepared soils

    Article • Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy, January 2011, IM Publications

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  34. Mapping peat soils in Ireland: updating the derived Irish peat map

    Article • Irish Geography, November 2009, Geographical Society of Ireland

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  35. Land Cover Change and Gully Development Between 1965 and 2000 in Umbulo Catchment, Ethiopia

    Article • Mountain Research and Development, August 2009, International Mountain Society (IMS) and United Nations University

    Professor Nicholas M Holden, Dr Awdenegest Moges

  36. Ranking of risk of injury from glass contaminants using Fourier shape measures of fragment outlines

    Article • Biosystems Engineering, March 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  37. Identification of high-injury-risk glass contaminants using simple shape measures of fragment outlines

    Article • Biosystems Engineering, October 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  38. Soil Fertility in Relation to Slope Position and Agricultural Land Use: A Case Study of Umbulo Catchment in Southern Ethiopia

    Article • Environmental Management, June 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Nicholas M Holden, Dr Awdenegest Moges

  39. Evaluation of the detection of glass contamination in horticultural peat and compost using microwave reflection by Monte Carlo simulation

    Article • Biosystems Engineering, January 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  40. Carbon sequestration and environmental effects of afforestation with Pinus radiata D. Don in the Western Cape, South Africa

    Article • Climatic Change, February 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  41. The Biosystems Engineering Design Challenge at University College Dublin

    Article • January 2007, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  42. Mapping Peatlands in Ireland using a Rule-Based Methodology and Digital Data

    Article • Soil Science Society of America Journal, January 2007, Soil Science Society of America

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  43. Adaptation of water and nitrogen management of spring barley and potato as a response to possible climate change in Ireland

    Article • Agricultural Water Management, April 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  44. Comparison of Simple Shape Measures and Fourier Descriptors as applied to the Identification of Highinjury-risk Glass Contaminants in Horticultural Peat

    Article • January 2006, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  45. Holistic analysis of GHG emissions from Irish livestock production systems

    Article • January 2005, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  46. Using a grazing simulation model to evaluate the balance of feed demand and intake for high yielding dairy cows in a rotational grazing dairy system

    Article • January 2004, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  47. Detection of glass contamination in horticultural peat with dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA)

    Article • Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, January 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  48. Preferential Flow Variability in a Well-Structured Soil

    Article • Soil Science Society of America Journal, January 2003, Soil Science Society of America

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  49. Preliminary Development of a Methodology to Relate Sprayer Control Time with Weed Distribution Patterns to Improve the Design of Patch Spraying Equipment

    Article • January 2003, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  50. Remotely sensed satellite imagery as an information source for industrial peatlands management

    Article • Resources Conservation and Recycling, January 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  51. Testing the performance of a one-dimensional solute transport model (LEACHC) using response surface methodology

    Article • Geoderma, February 1996, Elsevier

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  52. A field-based spectrophotometric flow-injection system for automatic determination of chloride in soil water

    Article • Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, July 1995, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  53. Temporal variation in ped shape in an old pasture soil

    Article • CATENA, February 1995, Elsevier

    Professor Nicholas M Holden

  54. A rapid method for the visualisation of soil macropores

    Article • Plant and Soil, October 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Nicholas M Holden