Scientific publications and presentations
Scientific Publications
Cashman, O., Casey, I., Humphreys, J., 2024.
The economic performance of grassland-based milk production using best practices to lower greenhouse gas and ammonia emissions
Agrucultural Systems, Volume 221.
Cashman, O., Casey, I., Sorley, M., Forrestal, P., Styles, D., Wall D., Burchill W., Humphreys, J., 2025.
Lowering the greenhouse gas and ammonia emissions from grassland-based dairy production
Agricultural Systems, Volume 222.
Caulfield, M., Graham, M., Gibbons, J,. McNicol, L,. Williams, P,. Chadwick D,. Gakige, J., Wilkes, A., Kimoro, B,. Arndt, C., 2025.
Marginal abatement cost curves of climate-smart agricultural practices to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from smallholder dairy farms in Kenya
Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 501, 2025, 145281.
del Prado, A., Vibart, R. E., Bilotto, F. M., Faverin, C., Garcia, F., Henrique, F. L., Figueiredo Granja Dorilêo Leite, F., Mazzetto, A. M., Ridoutt, B. G., Yáñez-Ruiz, D. R., Bannink, A., 2025.
Feed additives for methane mitigation: assessment of feed additives as a strategy to mitigate enteric methane from ruminants—accounting; how to quantify the mitigating potential of using antimethanogenic feed additives
Journal of Dairy Science, 108(1), 411–429.
del Prado, A., Pauné, F., Serrano-Zulueta, R., Baez, J. C., Batalla, I., de Tomassi, C., Fries, R., Guzmán, J., Manzano, P., Márquez, C., Martínez-Cano, V., Pardo, G., Yamat, L., (2025)
An in-depth approach on ecological and social processes improve quantifying the climatic impact of food production
PLOS Clim 4(6): e0000655.
Diaz de Otálora, X. D., del Prado, A. Dragoni, F., Balaine, L., Pardo, G., Winiwarter, W., Sandrucci, A., Ragaglini, G., Kabelitz, T., Kieronczyk, M., Jørgensen, G., Estellés, F., Amon, B., 2024.
Modelling the effect of context-specific greenhouse gas and nitrogen emission mitigation options in key European dairy farming systems
Agronomy for Sustainable Development, Volume 44.
Evans, F., Gibbons, J., Chadwick D., Gittins, H., Williams, P., Wynne-Jones, S., 2025.
“It’s ‘common-sense’ farming”: Exploring farmers’ decision-making and behaviours towards adopting circular agricultural practices
Journal of Rural Studies, Volume 120, 2025, 103844.
Manzano, P., del Prado, A., & Pardo, G., 2023.
Comparable GHG emissions from animals in wildlife and livestock-dominated savannas
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 6, Article number: 27.
Manzano, P., Pardo, G., Itani, M. A., del Prado, A. 2023.
Underrated past herbivore densities could lead to misoriented sustainability policies
npj Biodiversity, 2, Article number: 2.
McCarthy, T., Wall D.P., Forrestal P.J. , Casey J, I.A., Humphreys, J., 2024.
Circularity of potassium in a grassland-based dairy farm on a clay loam soil
European Journal of Agronomy, Volume 160.
Müller, AL., Kiese, R. & Scheer C., 2025.
Carbon footprints of European dairy darming: the role of drained peatlands in GHG assessments
npj Sustain. Agric. 3, 44.
Pardo, G., Casas, R., del Prado, A., Manzano, P. 2023
Carbon footprint of transhumant sheep farms: accounting for natural baseline emissions in Mediterranean systems
International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, Volume 29.
Serrano-Zulueta, R., Pardo, G. Pauné, F., del Prado A, Manzano, P., 2023.
Herbivory baseline estimates in Spanish protected areas, and environmental implications
Landscape Ecology, Volume 38.
Sorley, M., Casey I., Styles D., Merino P., Trindade H., Mulholland M., Cesar Resch Zafra C. R., Keatinge R., Le Gall A., O’Brien D., Humphreys J., 2024.
Factors influencing the carbon footprint of milk production on dairy farms with different feeding strategies in western Europe
Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 435.
van Hove, A., Aalstad, K., Pirk, N. 2023.
Using reinforcement learning to improve drone-based inference of greenhouse gas fluxes
Nordic Machine Intelligence, 3, 1-6.
van Hove, A., Aalstad, K., Pirk, N. 2024.
Guiding drones by information gain
Proceedings of the 5th Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference,
Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 233:89-96
van Hove, A., Aalstad, K., Lind, V., Arndt, C., Odongo, V., Ceriani, R., Fava, F., Hulth, J., and Pirk, N.2024.
Inferring methane emissions from African livestock by fusing drone, tower, and satellite data
Biogeosciences, 22, 4163–4186.
Waarum, IK., van Hove, A., Krogstad, T.R. et al. 2025
Mixtures of Gaussian processes for robotic environmental monitoring of emission sources.
Environ Monit Assess 197, 626.
Scientific presentations
Evans, F., Williams, P., Gibbons, J., Chadwick, D., Wynne-Jones, S. 2023.
Exploring farmers’ decision-making and behaviours towards adopting circularity in agriculture.
International Agri-Food and Climate Circle conference, Copenhagen (Denmark). Poster and 2-min pitch.
Manzano, P., Batalla, I., Pardo, G., del Prado A. (eds.). (2023).
“Mirando a las raíces: Carbon farming”, Bilbao, 11-12 de mayo de 2023 Libro de resúmenes del X Remedia Workshop. Leioa: Basque Centre for Climate Change – BC3.
Müller Anna-Lena, Guillermo Pardo, Sebastian Friedrich, Ralf Kiese, Clemens Scheer (2025)
Carbon footprints of dairy farming in the pre-alpine region of Southern Germany – The climate impact of drained peatlands in milk production.
International Grassland Conference, from July 15 to 17, 2025, at the IMK-IFU/KIT in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Pardo G., Casas R., del Pardo, A., Manzano, P.,
Huella climática en sistemas ganaderos trashumantes: alta eficiencia con bajos insumos externos.
Proceedings of the X Remedia Workshop Córdoba 22-21 april. Producción ecológica, sostenibilidad y economía
circular frente al cambio climático. Córdoba 21-22 de abril de 2022, page 81.
Pardo, G., Sorley, M., Styles, D., Prado, A. 2024.
Methodological framework to evaluate circularity in livestock systems.
14th edition of the LCA Food International Conference (Spain). Poster.
Pavesi M., Sari S., Pirondini M., Gislon G., Bava L., Colombini S. 2023.
Circularity practices and environmental sustainability: The use of bakery by products in feed ratio of dairy cows in a challenging year.
“Aissa under 40” (Italy). Poster.
Prado A., Manzano p., Pardo G.
When the baseline meets the present: reactive N emissions in wildlifevs. livestock-dominated African landscapes,
Proceedings of the XXI International Nitrogen Workshop. Halving nitrogen waste by 2030 24th – 28th October 2022, page 171.
Sitienei, D.K., Gurmu, E.B., Wilkes, A., Poole, J., Marquardt, S., Ndung’u, P., Onyango, A.A., Merbold, L., del Prado, A., Pardo, G., Wisser, D., Lanzoni, L., Scholtz, M., Katongole, C., Lind, V., Assouma, M.H., Dossa, L.H., du Toit, L., Rosenstock, T., Steward, P., Kagai, J., Tadese, M., Gibbons, J., Odubote, I.K., Bateki, C.A., Kimoro, B., Bronsvoort, B.M.C. and Arndt, C. 2024.
Protocol for a Tier 2 approach to generate context-specific enteric methane emission factors (EF) for small ruminants’ production systems based on IPCC method
ILRI Manual 76. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI.
Gurmu, E.B., Wilkes, A., Poole, J., Marquardt, S., Ndun’gu, P., Onyango, A.A., Merbold, L., Kori, D., del Prado, A., Pardo, G., Wisser, D., Lanzoni, L., Scholtz, M., Katongole, C., Lind, V., Assouma, M.H., Dossa, L.H., du Toit, L., Rosenstock, T., Steward, P., Kagai, J., Tadese, M., Gibbons, J., Odubote, I.K., Bateki, C.A., Kimoro, B., Bronsvoort, B.M.C. and Arndt, C. 2024.
Protocol for a Tier 2 approach to generate context-specific enteric methane emission factors (EF) for cattle production systems using IPCC method
ILRI Manual 77. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI.
