Research interests

Soil hydrology and solute transport in the unsaturated zone, especially the impacts of preferential flow and transport processes. Pesticide fate and behaviour in soils. Development and application of numerical models and risk assessment tools for pesticide leaching.

Selected publications (2007-2009)

Jarvis, N., Larsbo, M., Roulier, S., Lindahl, A. & Persson, L. 2007. The role of soil properties in regulating non-equilibrium macropore flow and solute transport in agricultural topsoils. European Journal of Soil Science, 58, 282-292.

Scorza Júnior, R.P., Jarvis, N.J., Boesten, J.J.T.I., van der Zee, S.E.A.T.M and Roulier, S. 2007. Testing MACRO (version 5.1) for pesticide leaching in a Dutch clay soil. Pest Management Science, 63, 1011-1025.

Jarvis, N.J. 2007. Review of non-equilibrium water flow and solute transport in soil macropores: principles, controlling factors and consequences for water quality. European Journal of Soil Science, 58, 523-546.

Stenemo, F., Lindahl, A., Gärdenäs, A. & Jarvis, N.J. 2007. Meta-modelling of the pesticide fate model MACRO for groundwater exposure assessments using artificial neural networks. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 93, 270-283.

Stenemo, F. & Jarvis, N.J. 2007. Accounting for uncertainty in pedotransfer functions in vulnerability assessments of pesticide leaching to groundwater. Pest Management Science, 63, 867-875.

Skaggs, T.H., Jarvis, N.J., Pontedeiro, E.M., van Genuchten, M. Th. & Cotta, R.M. 2007. Analytical advection-dispersion model for transport and plant uptake of contaminants in the root zone. Vadose Zone Journal, 6, 890-898.

Larsson, M., Persson, K., Ulén, B., Lindsjö, A. & Jarvis, N. 2007. A dual-porosity model to quantify phosphorous losses from macroporous soils. Ecological Modelling, 205, 123-134.

Jarvis, N.J., Etana, A. & Stagnitti, F. 2008. Water repellency, near-saturated infiltration and preferential solute transport in a macroporous clay soil. Geoderma, 143, 223-230.

Nolan, B.T., Dubus, I.G., Surdyk, N., Fowler, H.J., Burton, A., Hollis, J.M., Reichenberger, S. & Jarvis, N.J. 2008. Identification of key climatic factors regulating the transport of pesticides in leaching and to tile drains. Pest Management Science, 64, 933-944.

Lindahl, A.M.L., Söderström, M. & Jarvis, N.J. 2008. Influence of input uncertainty on prediction of within-field pesticide leaching risks. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 98, 106-114.

Lennartz, B., Jarvis, N.J. & Stagnitti, F. 2008. Effects of heterogeneous flow on discharge generation and solute transport. Soil Science, 173, 306-320.

Larsbo, M., Aamlid, T., Persson, L. & Jarvis, N.J. 2008. Fungicide leaching from golf greens: effects of root zone composition and surfactant use. Journal of Environmental Quality, 37, 1527-1535.

Jarvis, N.J. 2008. Near-saturated hydraulic properties of macroporous soils. Vadose Zone Journal, 7, 1302-1310.

Aamlid, T., Larsbo, M. Jarvis, N. 2009. Effects of surfactant use and peat amendment on leaching of fungicides and nitrate from golf greens. Biologia, 64, 419-423.

Larsbo, M., Stenström, J., Etana, A., Börjesson, E., Jarvis, N.J. 2009. Herbicide sorption, degradation, and leaching in three Swedish soils under long-term conventional and reduced tillage. Soil and Tillage Research, 105, 200-208.

Jarvis, N.J., Moeys, J., Hollis, J.M., Reichenberger, S., Lindahl, A.M.L. & Dubus, I.G. 2009. A conceptual model of soil susceptibility to macropore flow. Vadose Zone Journal, 8, 902-910.

Lindahl, A.M.L., Dubus, I.G. & Jarvis, N.J. 2009. A site classification scheme to predict the abundance of the deep-burrowing earthworm Lumbricus terrestris L. Vadose Zone Journal, 8, 911-915.

Lewan, E., Kreuger, J. & Jarvis, N.J. 2009. Implications of precipitation patterns and antecedent soil water content for leaching of pesticides from arable land. Agricultural Water Management, 96, 1633-1640.

Jarvis, N.J., Taylor, A., Larsbo, M., Etana, A. & Rosén, K. 2010. Modelling the effects of bioturbation on the re-distribution of 137Cs in an undisturbed grassland soil. European Journal of Soil Science, in press.

Jarvis, N.J. 2010. Comment on “Macroscopic root water uptake distribution using a matric flux potential approach”. Vadose Zone J., in press.