dr.ir. GJ (Gert Jan) Reinds

After finishing my MSc degree in soil science at Wageningen University, I started working at Alterra, first as a researcher in land evaluation, later as a researcher in the field of modelling the effects of sulphur and nitrogen deposition on forest soils in Europe. I obtained my PhD on the latter research in 2009. In addition to work on the development and application of models, I was also responsible for the Pan European database of the Forest Intensive Monitoring (ICP Level II) program. I have been head of the team Sustainable Soil Management within Wageningen Environmental Research for quite some time now. In addition, I am currently coordinating the nitrogen research within WENR that is being carried out for the evaluation of emission reduction measures within the Nitrogen Reduction and Nature Improvement Act.

Selected Publications:

McDonnell, T. C., Clark, C. M., Reinds, G. J., Sullivan, T. J., & Knees, B. (2022). Modeled vegetation community trajectories: Effects from climate change, atmospheric nitrogen deposition, and soil acidification recovery. Environmental Advances, 9, Article 100271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envadv.2022.100271

Etzold, S., Ferretti, M., Reinds, G. J., Solberg, S., Gessler, A., Waldner, P., Schaub, M., Simpson, D., Benham, S., Hansen, K., Ingerslev, M., Jonard, M., Karlsson, P. E., Lindroos, A. J., Marchetto, A., Manninger, M., Meesenburg, H., Merilä, P., Nöjd, P., ... de Vries, W. (2020). Nitrogen deposition is the most important environmental driver of growth of pure, even-aged and managed European forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 458, Article 117762. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117762

Bonten, L. T. C., Reinds, G. J., & Posch, M. (2016). A model to calculate effects of atmospheric deposition on soil acidification, eutrophication and carbon sequestration. Environmental Modelling & Software, 79, 75-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2016.01.009

Reinds, G. J., Posch, M., Aherne, J., & Forsius, M. (2015). Assessment of critical loads of sulphur and nitrogen and their exceedances for terrestrial ecosystems in the northern hemisphere. In W. de Vries, J. P. Hettelingh, & M. Posch (Eds.), Critical Loads and Dynamic Risk Assessments: Nitrogen, Acidity and Metals in Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems (pp. 403-417). (Environmental Pollution). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9508-1_15