Redefining marginal land for bioenergy crop production

M Khanna, L Chen, B Basso, X Cai, JL Field… - Gcb …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Marginal land has received wide attention for its potential to produce bioenergy feedstocks
while minimizing diversion of productive agricultural land from food crop production …

Coupling soil water processes and the nitrogen cycle across spatial scales: Potentials, bottlenecks and solutions

Q Zhu, MJ Castellano, G Yang - Earth-science reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Interactions among soil water processes and the nitrogen (N) cycle govern biological
productivity and environmental outcomes in the earth's critical zone. Soil water influences …

Machine learning improves predictions of agricultural nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from intensively managed cropping systems

D Saha, B Basso, GP Robertson - Environmental Research …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N 2 O) is accumulating in the atmosphere at
unprecedented rates largely due to agricultural intensification, and cultivated soils …

Soil nitrous oxide emission from agroforestry, rowcrop, grassland and forests in North America: a review

J Ansari, RP Udawatta, SH Anderson - Agroforestry Systems, 2023 - Springer
Although agricultural practices and landuse strategies are among the major sources of
nitrous oxide (N2O) emission into the atmosphere, managed agricultural soils can mitigate …

The response of maize, sorghum, and soybean yield to growing-phase climate revealed with machine learning

AL Hoffman, AR Kemanian… - Environmental Research …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Accurate representation of crop responses to climate is critically important to understand
impacts of climate change and variability in food systems. We use Random Forest (RF), a …

Organic fertility inputs synergistically increase denitrification‐derived nitrous oxide emissions in agroecosystems

D Saha, JP Kaye, A Bhowmik, MA Bruns… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Soil fertility in organic agriculture relies on microbial cycling of nutrient inputs from legume
cover crops and animal manure. However, large quantities of labile carbon (C) and nitrogen …

The effect of land-use change on soil CH4 and N2O fluxes: A global meta-analysis

MD McDaniel, D Saha, MG Dumont, M Hernández… - Ecosystems, 2019 - Springer
Land-use change is a prominent feature of the Anthropocene. Transitions between natural
and human-managed ecosystems affect biogeochemical cycles in many ways, but soil …

Nitrogen fertilizer consumption and nitrous oxide emissions associated with ethanol production–A national-scale comparison between Brazilian sugarcane and corn …

R Otto, R Ferraz-Almeida, GM Sanches… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Globally, Brazil and United States (US) have the large-scale programs of biofuels
production. Among other parameters, the feasibility and sustainability of petroleum-based …

Watershed reactive transport

L Li - Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A watershed (also drainage basin, river basin, or catchment) is defined as “… the area that
topographically appears to contribute all the water that passes through a specified cross …

An agent-based modeling tool supporting bioenergy and bio-product community communication regarding cellulosic bioeconomy development

P Yang, X Cai, X Hu, Q Zhao, Y Lee, M Khanna… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
The emergence of the cellulosic bioeconomy requires not only adequate technological,
economic, and policy advances, but also effective communication and coordination among …