Publications from 2010 to Present

 

2010-Present

Authors	Year	Title	Publication	PDF
Li, L., D. C. Nielsen, Q. Yu , L. Ma, and L. R. Ahuja	2010	Evaluating the crop water stress index and its correlation with latent heat and CO2 fluxes over winter wheat and maize in the North China Plain	Agricultural Water Management
Nielsen, D.C.and M.F. Vigil	2010	Precipitation storage efficiency during fallow in wheat-fallow systems	Agronomy Journal
Harrington, J.E., P.F. Byrne, F.B. Peairs, S.J. Nissen, P. Westra, P.C. Ellsworth, A Fournier, C.A. Mallory-Smith, R.S. Zemtra, W.B. Henry	2010	Perceived Consequences of Herbicide-tolerant and insect-resistant crops on integrated pest management strategies in the Western united States: Results of an online survey	AgBioForum
Mikha, M.M., P.W. Stahlman, J.G. Benjamin, M.F. Vigil, P.W. Geier, and D.J. Poss	2010	Remediation/restoration of degraded soil to improve productivity in the Central Great Plains region	Great Plains Soil Fertility Conference Proceedings
Vigil, M.F., D.J. Poss, and A.D. Halvorson	2010	Nitrogen rates for dryland triticale hay	Great Plains Soil Fertility Conference Proceedings
Unger, P.W., M.B. Kirkham, and D.C. Nielsen	2010	Water conservation for agriculture	Soil and water conservation advances in the United States
Benjamin, J.G., Halvorson, A.D., Nielsen, D.C., Mikha, M.M	2010	Crop management effects on crop residue production and changes in soil organic carbon in the central Great Plains	Agronomy Journal
Nielsen, D.C., Halvorson, A.D., Vigil, M.F	2010	Critical precipitation period for dryland maize production	Field Crops Research
Humberto Blanco-Canqui, L.R. Stone, A.J. Schlegel, J.G. Benjamin, M.F. Vigil, and P.W. Stahlman	2010	Continuous cropping systems reduce near-surface maximum compaction in no-till soils	Agronomy Journal
Johnson, J. M.F., S.K. Papiernik, M.M.Mikha, K.A. Spokas, M.D. Tomer, S.L. Weyers	2010	Soil processes and residue harvest management	Advances in Soil Science; Soil Quality and Biofuel Production Book Chapter
Benjamin, J.G., M.M. Mikha	2010	Predicting winter wheat yield loss from soil compaction in the Central Great Plains of the United States	Book Chapter: Land Degradation and Desertification: Assessment, Mitigation and Remediation
Saseendran, S.A., D.C. Nielsen, Liwang Ma, L.R Ahuja, M.F. Vigil	2010	Simulating alternative dryland rotational cropping systems in the Central Great plains with RZWQM2	Agronomy Journal
Calderón, F.J., J.B. Reeves III, M.F. Vigil	2010	Mid-infrared spectroscopic properties of humic acid and fulvic acid-soil mixtures	15th International Humic Substances Society Proceedings
Mikha, M.M., J.G. Benjamin, M.F. Vigil, D.C. Nielsen	2010	Cropping intensity impacts on soil aggregation and carbon sequestration in the Central Great Plains	Soil Science Society of American Journal
Saseendran, S.A., D.C. Nielsen, L. Ma, L.R. Ahuja.	2010	Adapting CROPGRO for simulating spring canola growth with both RZWQM2 and DSSAT40	Agronomy Journal
Nielsen, D.C., M.F. Vigil, and J.G. Benjamin. 2011	2011	Evaluating decision rules for dryland crop selection	Field Crops Research
Schneekloth, J.P., D.C. Nielsen	2011	Irrigation capacity impact on limited irrigation management and cropping systems	23rd Annual Central Plains Irrigation Conference Proceedings
Nielsen, D.C. ,F.J. Calderón	2011	Fallow effects on soil	Soil Management: building a stable base for agriculture
McMaster, G.S., D. Edmonds, W.W. Wilhelm, D.C. Nielsen, P. Prassad, and J Ascough	2011	Phenology MMS: a program to simutate crop phonological responses to water stress	Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
Calderón, F.J., J.B. Reeves III, H.P. Collins, E.A. Paul	2011	Chemical differences in soil organic matter fractions determined by diffuse-reflectance mid-infrared spectroscopy	Soil Science Society of America Journal
Sistani, K.R., M.M. Mikha, J.G. Warren, B. Gilfillen, V. Acosta-Martinez, T. Willian	2011	Nutrient source and tillage impat on corn grain yield and soil properties	Soil Science
Blanco-Canqui, H., M.M. Mikha, D.R. Presley, M.M. Claassen	2011	Addition of ócover crops enhances no-till potential for improving soil physical properties	Soil Science Society of America Journal
Nielsen, D.C.	2011	Forage soybean yield and quality response to water use	Field Crop Research
Calderón, F.J. M.F. Vigil, D.C. Nielsen, J.G. Benjamin, DJ. Poss	2012	Water use and yields of no-till managed dryland grasspea and yellow pea under different planting configurations	Field Crop Research
Davinic, M., L.M. Fultz, V. Acosta-Martinez, F.J. Calderón, S.B. Cox, S.E. Dowd, V.G. Allen, J.C. Zak, J. Moore-Kucera	2012	Pyrosequencing and mid-infrared spectroscopy reveal distinct aggregate stratification of soil bacterial communities and organic matter composition	Soil Biology & Biochemistry
Ko,J., L.R. Ahuja, S.A. Saseendran. T.R. Green, L. Ma, D.C. Nielsen, and C.L. Walthall	2012	Climate change impacts on dryland cropping systems in the Central Great Plains, USA	Climatic Change
Ma, L., T.J. Trout, L.R. Ahuja, W.C. Bausch, S.A. Saseendran, R.W. Malone, D.C. Nielsen	2012	Calibrating RZWQM2 model for maize responses to deficit irrigation	Agricultural Water Management
Acosta-Martinez, V., Mikha, M.M., Sistani, K.R., Stahlman, P.W., Benjamin, J.G., Vigil, M.F., Erickson, R	2012	Multi-location study of soil enzyme activities as affected by types and rates of manure application and tillage practices	Agriculture
Schneekloth, J.P., Nielsen, D.C., Schlegel, A	2012	Irrigation capacity impact on limited irrigation management and cropping systems	24th Annual Central Plains Irrigation Conference Proceedings
Mikha, M.M., Benjamin, J.G., Halvorson, A.D., Nielsen, D.C	2012	Comparison of methods to evaluate soil and crop management-induced soil carbon changes	2012 Great Plains Soil Fertility Conference Proceedings
Mikha, M.M., Schlegel, A.J	2012	Organic amendment and residue removal rates influence soil productivity	Kansas Fertilizer Research Report of Progress
Mikha, M.M., Stahlman, P.W., Benjamin, J.G., Geier, P.W.	2012	Management practices influence productivity of degraded or eroded soils	Kansas Fertilizer Research Report of Progress
Aguilar, J., Evans, R., Vigil, M.F., and Daughtry, C.S.T.	2012	Spectral estimates of crop residue cover and density for standing and flat wheat stubble	Agronomy Journal
Nielsen, D.C., Saseendran, S.A., Ma, L., Ahuja, L.R	2012	Simulating the production potential of dryland spring canola in the Central Great plains	Agronomy Journal
Collins, H.P., Mikha, M.M., Brown, T.T., Smith, J.L., Huggins, D., Sainju, U.M	2012	Agricultural Management and soil carbon dynamics: Western U.S. croplands	Elsevier Book Chapter in Managing Agricultural Greenhouse Gases
Calderón, F.J., Mikha, M.M., Vigil, M.F., Nielsen, D.C., Benjamin, J.G. and Reeves III, J.B	2012	Diffuse-reflectance mid-infrared spectral properties of soils under alternative crop rotations in a semi-arid climate	Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis
Nielsen, D.C., J.J. Miceli-Garcia, and D.J. Lyon	2012	Canopy cover and leaf area index relationships for wheat, triticale, and corn	Agronomy Journal
Calderón, F.J., D.J. Schultz, and E.A. Paul	2012	Carbon Allocation, below ground transfers and lipid turnover in a plant-microbial association	Soil Science Society of America Journal
Saseendran, S.A., D.C. Nielsen, L.R. Ahuja, My L., Lyon D.J	2012	Simulated yield and profitability of five potential crops for intensifying the dryland wheat-fallow production system	Agricultural Water Management
Rattan Lal, J.A. Delgado, J. Gulliford, D.C. Nielsen, C.W. Rice, R. S. Van Pelt	2012	Adapting agriculture to drought and extreme events	Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
Blanco-Canqui, Humberto, Benjamin, J.G	2012	Impacts of soil organic carbon on soil physical behavior	Advances in Agricultural Systems Modeling
Mikha, M.M., Vigil, M.F. Vigil, Benjamin. J.G	2013	Long-term tillage impacts on soil aggregation and carbon dynamics under wheat-fallow in the central Great Plains	Soil Science Society of America Journal
Hurisso, T.T., Davis, J.G., Brummer, J.E., Stromberger,M.E., Mikha, M.M., Haddix, M.L., Booher, M.R., Paul, E.A	2013	Rapid changes in microbial biomass and aggregate size distribution in response to changes in organic matter management in grass pasture	Geoderma
Qiang Yu, Longhui Lie, Qunying Luo, Derek Eamus, Shouhua XU, Chao Chen, Enli Wang, jiandong Liu, D.C. Nielsen	2013	Year patterns of climate impact on wheat yields	International Journal of Climatology
McMaster, G.S., Ascough II, J.C., Edmunds, D.A., Nielsen, D.C., Prasad, P.V.V	2013	Simulating crop phenological responses to water stress using the phenology MMS software program	American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers
Benjamin, J.G.	2013	Effects of soil attributes on root growth and distribution in some common crops: a synthesis of knowledge	Soil Science Society of America
Mikha, M.M., Benjamin, J.G., Halvorson, A.D., Nielsen, D.C.	2013	Soil carbon changes influenced by soil management and calculation method	Open Journal of Soil Sciences Vol. 3
Benjamin, J.G. Nielsen, D.C., Vigil, M.F., Mikha, M.M., Calderon, F.J.	2013	A comparison of two models to evaluate soil physical property effects on corn (Zea mays, L.) root growth	Agronomy Journal
Van Pelt, R. Scott, Baddock M.C., Zobeck, T.M., Schlegel, A.J., Vigil, M.F., Acosta-Martinez, V.	2013	Field wind tunnel testing of two silt loam soils on the North American Central Great Plains	Aeolian Research
Nielsen, D.C.	2013	Winter wheat yield response to available water	Making Better Decisions - J.J. Johnson (ed.)
Zhang, W., Z. Li, Y. Gong, Z. Lu, D.C. Nielsen	2013	Yield and water use of Siberian wild rye with ridge and furrow planting in northern China	Agronomy Journal
Vigil, M.F.	2013	Standing crop residues and wind erosion	Southeast Area Extension Farm and Ranch Newsletter
Kaufman, R.C., J.D. Wilson, S.R. Bean, D.R. Presley, H. Blanco-Canqui, and M.M. Mikha	2013	Effect of nitrogen fertilization and cover cropping systems on sorghum grain characteristics	Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
Mikha, M.M., J.G. Benjamin, P.W. Stahlman, P.W. Geier	2013	Remediation/restoration of degraded soil I: impact on soil chemical properties	Agronomy Journal
Mikha, M.M., P.W. Stahlamn, J.G. Benjamin, P.W. Geier	2013	Remediation/restoration of degraded soil II: impact on soil chemical properties	Agronomy Journal
Calderon, F.J., Contant, M.H.R., Magrini-Bair, K., Paul, E.	2013	Diffuse-reflectance fourier-transform mid-infrared spectroscopyas a method of characterizing changes in soil organic matter	Soil Biology & Biochemistry
Saseendran, S.A., L.R. Ahuja, L. Ma, D.C. Nielsen, T.J. Trout, A.A. Andeles, J.L. Chaves, and J. Ham	2014	Enhancing the water stress factors for simulation of corn (Zea mays L.) in RZWQM2	Agronomy Journal
Nielsen, D.C., D.J. Lyon, G.W. Hergert	2014	Cover crop water use and impacts on subsequent wheat yields in the Central Great Plains	Southeast Area Extension Farm and Ranch Newsletter
Nielsen, D.C. and M.F. Vigil	2014	Searching for synergism in dryland cropping systems in the central Great Plains	Field Crop Research
Benjamin, J.G., D.C. Nielsen, M.F. Vigil, M.M. Mikha, F.J. Calderon	2014	Water deficit stress effects on corn (Zea mays, L.) root: shoot ratio	Open Journal of Soil Science
Benjamin, J.G., D.L. Karlen	2014	LLWR techniques for quantifying potential soil compaction consequences of crop	BioEnergy Research
Allen, B.L., M.F. Vigil, J.D. Jabro	2014	Camelina growing degree hour and base temperature requirements	Agronomy Journal
Sauer, S.M., J.J. Johnson, G.S. Mcmaster, M.F. Vigil	2014	Agronomic factors affecting dryland grain sorghum maturity and production in Northeast Colorado	Agronomy Journal
Mikha, M.M., P.W. Stahlman, J.G. Benjamin, P.W. Geier	2014	Remediation/restoration of degraded soil in the Central Great Plains	Great Plains Soil Fertility Conference Proceedings
Scheekloth, J.P., D.C. Nielsen, and R.M. Aiken	2014	Impact of drought genetics on irrigated corn production	26th Annual Central Great Plains Irrigation Conference and Exposition Proceedings
Mikha, M.M.	2014	Manure usage for remediation of degraded farmland	Southeast Area Farm and Ranch Newsletter
Raczkowski, C., D. Kissel, M.F. Vigil, and M. Cabrera	2014	Fertilizer placement to maximize fertilizer N use by fescue	Journal of Plant Nutrition
Soong, J.L., Calderon, F., Betzen, J., Cotrufo, M.F.	2014	Qualification and FTIR characterization of dissolved organic carbon and total dissolved nitrogen leached from litter: a comparison of methods across litter types	Plant Soils
Parikh, S.J., Goyne, K.W., Margenot, A.J., Mukome, F.N.D., Calderon, F.J.	2014	Soil Chemical insights provided through vibrational spectroscopy	Advances in Agronomy, Volume 126
Bowles, T.M., Acosta-Martinez, V., Calderon, F., Jackson, L.E.	2014	Soil enzyme activities, microbial communities, and carbon and nitrogen availability in organic agroecosystems across an intensively-managed agricultural landscape	Soil Biology & Biochemistry
Fultz, L.M., Moore-Kucera, J., Calderon, F., Acosta-Martinez, V.	2014	Using fourier-transform mid-infrared spectroscopy to distinguish soil organic matter composition dynamics in aggregate fractions of two agroecosystems	Soil Biology & Biochemistry
Mikha, M.M., Benjamin, J.G., Stahlman, P.W., Geier, P.W.	2014	Remediation/Restoration of Degraded Soil: I. Impact on Soil chemical properties	Agronomy Journal
Mikha, M.M., Stahlman, P.W., Benjamin, J.G., Geier, P.W.	2014	Remediation/Restoration of Degraded Soil: II. Impact on Soil chemical properties	Agronomy Journal
Bell, C.W., Asao, S., Calderon, F.J., Wolk, B., Wallenstein, M.D.	2015	Plant nitrogen uptake drives rhizosphere bacterial community assembly during plant growth	Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Andrew, M., Calderon, F.J., Parikh, S., Jackson, L.E.	2015	Soil organic matter functional group composition in relation to organic C, N and P fractions in organically managed tomato fields characterized by mid-infrared spectroscopy	Soil Science Society of America Journal
Kelly, C.N., Calderon, F.C., Acosta-Martinez, V., Mikha, M.M., Benjamin, J., Rutherford, D.W., Rostad, C.E.	2015	Switchgrass biochar effects on soil microbial dynamics and wheat yield in two soils from different regions	Pedosphere - 90560
Nielsen, D.	2015	The water conundrum of planting cover crops in the great plains: when is an inch not an inch?	Crops and Soils
Nielsen, D.	2015	COVER CROP WATER USE	CSA News
Nielsen, D. C., Lyon, D.J., Hergert, G.W., Higgins, R.K., Holman, J.D.	2015	Cover crop biomass production and water use in the Central Great Plains	Agronomy Journal
Nielsen, D.C., D.J. Lyon, R.K. Higgins, G.W. Hergert, J.D. Holman, and M.F. Vigil.	2015	Cover crop effect on subsequent wheat yield in the central great plains	Agronomy Journal
Margenot, A.J., Calderon, F.J., Parikh, S.J.	2015	Limitations and potential of spectral subtractions in Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy of soil samples	Soil Science Society of America Journal
Benjamin, J.G., Nielsen, D.C., Vigil, M.F., Mikha, M.M., Calderon, F.	2015	Cumulative deficit irrigation effects on corn (Zea mays, L.) biomass and grain yield	Agricultural Water Management
Calderon, F.J., Benjamin, J., Vigil, M.F.	2015	A comparison of corn (Zea mays L.) residue and its biochar on soil C and plant growth	PLoS One
Soong, J.L., Parton, W.J., Calderon, F., Campbell, E.E., Cotrufo, M.F.	2015	A new conceptual model on the fate and controls of fresh and pyrolized plant litter decomposition	Biogeochemistry
Ernakovich, J.G., Wallenstein, M.D., Calderon, F.J.	2015	Chemical indicators of cryoturbation and microbial processing thorughout an Alaskan permafrost soil depth profile	Soil Chemistry
Mikha, M.M., Hergert, G.W., Benjamin, J.G., Jabro, J.D., Nielsen, R.A.	2015	Long-term manure impacts on soil aggregates and aggregate-associated carbon and nitrogen	Soil & Water Management & Conservation
Nielsen, D.C., D.J. Lyon, G.W. Hergert, R.K. Higgins, F.J. Calderon, and M.F. Vigil.	2015	Cover crop mixtures do not use water differently than single-species plantings	Agronomy Journal
Nielsen, D.C., Vigil, M.F., Lyon, D.J., Higgins, R.K., Herfert, G.W., Holman, J.D.	2016	Cover Crops can affect subsequent wheat yield in the Central Great Plains	Crops and Soils
Coy, André, D. Rankine, M. Taylor, D. Nielsen, and J. Cohen	2016	Increasing the accuracy and automation of fractional vegetation cover estimation from digital photographs	Remote Sensing
Vigil, M.F. and Poss, D.J.	2016	N Response of No-Till Dryland Winter Triticale Forage	Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis
Nielsen, D.C., M.F. Vigil, and N.C. Hansen	2016	Evaluating potential dryland cropping systems adapted to climate change in the central Great Plains	Agronomy Journal
Vigil, M.F., David Poss, Joe Benjamin, and Maysoon Mikha	2016	Manure remediates eroded hilltop soils	Progessive Farmer
Margenot, A.J., F.J. Calderon K. Magrini, R. Evans	2017	Application of DRIFTS, 13C NMR, and py-MBMS to Characterize the Effects of Soil Science Oxidation Assays on Soil Organic Matter Composition in a Mollic Xerofluvent	Application Spectrum
Matamala, R., Jastrow, J, Hofmann S, Mishra U., Nucgaeksib G., Calderon, F., Pink C.-L and Zhaosheng, F.	2017	Influence of site and soil properties on the DRIFT spectra of northern cold-region soils	Geoderma 305: 80-91
Li, C., Fultz, LM., Moore-Kucera J., Acosta-Martinez V., Horita, J., Strauss R., Zak J., Calderon, F., Weindorf, D.	2017	Soil carbon sequestration potential in semi-arid grasslands in the Conservation Reserve Program	Geoderma 297: 80-90
Calderon, F.J., S. Culman, J. Six, A.J. Franzluebbers, M. Schipanski, J.	2017	Quantification of Soil Permanganate Oxidizable C (POXC) using Infrared Spectroscopy	Soil Science
Haddix M., F.J. Calderon, K. Magrini-Bair, R.Conant, E.A. Paul. R.Evans, and S. Morris	2016	Quantitative Analytical Pyrolysis of Soil Organic Matter Using Molecular Bean Mass Spectroscopy of Whole Soils and Added Standards	Geoderma 283 (1) 88-100
Calderon F.J., Nielsen, D., Acosta Martinez, V., Vigil, M.F. and Lyon, D.	2016	Cover Crop and Irrigation Effects on Soil Matter Microbial Communities and Enzymes in Semiarid Agroecosystems of the Central Great Plains of North America	Pedosphere 26(2):192-205
McKee G.A., J. Soong, F.J. Calderon, T.Borch, M.F. Cotrufo	2016	An integrated spectroscopic and wet chemical approach to investigate grass litter decomposition chemistry	Biogeochemistry