Professor Vincent Gauci PhD

Geography and Environmental Sciences
Birmingham Professorial Fellow

Contact details

Email: v.gauci@bham.ac.uk
Twitter: @gaucigauci

Address: University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Professor Gauci investigates how the biosphere interacts with the atmosphere and he explores questions relating to how these interactions respond to various drivers of global change.

Qualifications

BSc (Hons); PhD

Research

Prof. Vincent Gauci is a Birmingham Professorial Fellow in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. He is interested in the biogeochemistry of carbon-dense terrestrial ecosystems such as forests, wetlands, peatlands, and forested wetlands and peatlands. In particular he is interested in how these ecosystems interact with the atmosphere through the exchange of greenhouse gases with a particular focus on trace greenhouse gases such as methane and N₂O. He is also interested in fluvial losses of carbon from these ecosystems and agroecosystems and, as with his interest in GHG exchange, a unifying theme is the response of these exchanges to various agents of global change including atmospheric CO₂ concentration change, pollutant exposure and deposition and land use change. He has managed projects across Central and South America, Southeast Asia as well as Europe.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Girkin, NT, Siegenthaler, A, Lopez, O, Stott, A, Ostle, N, Gauci, V & Sjögersten, S 2025, 'Plant root carbon inputs drive methane production in tropical peatlands', Scientific Reports, vol. 15, 3244. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-87467-w

Shen, L, Peng, S, Zhang, Z, Tong, C, Lin, J, Li, Y, Zhong, H, Ma, S, Zhuang, M & Gauci, V 2025, 'The large role of declining atmospheric sulfate deposition and rising CO₂ concentrations in stimulating future wetland CH₄ emissions', Science Advances, vol. 11, no. 6, eadn1056. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adn1056

Gauci, V 2025, 'Tree methane exchange in a changing world', Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, vol. 6, no. 7, pp. 471-483. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-025-00692-9

Cugler, G, Figueiredo, V, Gauci, V, Stauffer, T, Peixoto, RB, Rao Pangala, S & Enrich-Prast, A 2024, 'Analysis of CH₄ and N₂O Fluxes in the Dry Season: Influence of Soils and Vegetation Types in the Pantanal', Forests, vol. 15, no. 12, 2224. https://doi.org/10.3390/f15122224

Gauci, V, Pangala, SR, Shenkin, A, Barba, J, Bastviken, D, Figueiredo, V, Gomez, C, Enrich-Prast, A, Sayer, E, Stauffer, T, Welch, B, Elias, D, McNamara, N, Allen, M & Malhi, Y 2024, 'Global atmospheric methane uptake by upland tree woody surfaces', Nature, vol. 631, no. 8022, pp. 796-800. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07592-w

Peacock, M, Lawson, C, Gowing, D & Gauci, V 2024, 'Water table depth and plant species determine the direction and magnitude of methane fluxes in floodplain meadow soils', Ecology and Evolution, vol. 14, no. 3, e11147. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11147

Fraser-Mcdonald, A, Boardman, C, Gladding, T, Burnley, S & Gauci, V 2023, 'Nitrous oxide emissions from trees planted on a closed landfill site', AIMS Environmental Science, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 313-324. https://doi.org/10.3934/environsci.2023018

Fraser-McDonald, A, Boardman, C, Gladding, T, Burnley, S & Gauci, V 2022, 'Methane emissions from forested closed landfill sites: Variations between tree species and landfill management practices', Science of the Total Environment, vol. 838, 156019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156019

Fraser-McDonald, A, Boardman, C, Gladding, T, Burnley, S & Gauci, V 2022, 'Methane emissions from trees planted on a closed landfill site', Waste Management and Research, vol. 40, no. 11, pp. 1618-1628. https://doi.org/10.1177/0734242X221086955

Comment/debate

Gauci, V 2024, 'Forests and methane: looking beyond carbon for nature-based climate solutions', Environmental Research Letters, vol. 19, no. 8, 081005. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad5191

Amora-Nogueira, L, Sanders, CJ, Enrich-Prast, A, Sanders, LSM, Abuchacra, RC, Moreira-Turcq, PF, Cordeiro, RC, Gauci, V, Moreira, LS, Machado-Silva, F, Libonati, R, Fonseca, T, Francisco, CN & Marotta, H 2023, 'Author Correction: Tropical forests as drivers of lake carbon burial', Nature Communications, vol. 14, no. 1, 3282. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39006-2

Conference contribution

Dekker, ND, Pendall, E, Hamilton, L, Barba, J, Pihlblad, J, Mackenzie, R, Kourmouli, A, Yamulki, S, Gauci, V & Ullah, S 2023, Inter-annual variability in the response of soil respiration to elevated CO₂ concentrations in the atmosphere. in EGU General Assembly 2023., EGU23-11200, European Geosciences Union, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24/04/23. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-11200

Review article

Foyer, CH, Gardner, A, Hayward, SAL, Sanchez-Lucas, R, Luna, E, McDonald, JE, Rumeau, M, Hart, K, Norby, RJ, Mayoral, C, Gauci, V, Smith, A, Hartley, IP, Crowley, LM, Sadler, JP, Ullah, S & MacKenzie, AR 2025, 'Responses of an Old Deciduous Forest Ecosystem to Elevated CO₂', Global Change Biology, vol. 31, no. 7, e70355. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70355

Arnaud, M, Krause, S, Norby, RJ, Dang, TH, Acil, N, Kettridge, N, Gauci, V & Ullah, S 2023, 'Global mangrove root production, its controls and roles in the blue carbon budget of mangroves', Global Change Biology, vol. 29, no. 12, pp. 3256-3270. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16701

Bastviken, D, Treat, CC, Pangala, SR, Gauci, V, Enrich-Prast, A, Karlson, M, Gålfalk, M, Romano, MB & Sawakuchi, HO 2023, 'The importance of plants for methane emission at the ecosystem scale', Aquatic Botany, vol. 184, 103596. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquabot.2022.103596

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