W.K. Kellogg Biological Station KBS Long-Term Agroecosystem Research

Publications associated with and/or acknowledging the KBS LTAR. Updated September 2024. 

2024

Mosier, S., Kelly, L., Ozlu, E., & Robertson, G. P. (2024). Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) cultivars have similar impacts on soil carbon and nitrogen stocks and microbial function. GCB Bioenergy, 16(3), e13125. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.13125

Schreiner-McGraw, A. P., Baker, J. M., Wood, J. D., Abraha, M., Chen, J., Griffis, T. J., & Robertson, G. P. (2024). Surface resistance controls differences in evapotranspiration between croplands and prairies in U.S. Corn Belt sites. Water Resources Research, 60(4), e2023WR035819. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR035819

Kahmark, K., Jones, M., Bohm, S., Baker, N., & Robertson, G. P. (2024). Rainfall manipulation shelters for agricultural research. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10607631

Bybee-Finley, K. A., Muller, K., White, K. E., Cavigelli, M. A., Han, E., Schomberg, H. H., Snapp, S., Viens, F., Correndo, A. A., Deiss, L., Fonteyne, S., Garcia y Garcia, A., Gaudin, A. C. M., Hooker, D. C., Janovicek, K., Jin, V., Johnson, G., Karsten, H., Liebman, M., McDaniel, M. D., Sanford, G., Schmer, M. R., Strock, J., Sykes, V. R., Verhulst, N., Wilke, B., & Bowles, T. M. (2024). Rotational complexity increases cropping system output under poorer growing conditions. One Earth. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.07.008

Wilke, B. J., & Chilvers, M. I. (2024). USDA LTAR Common Experiment measurement: Cereal crop mycotoxin concentration. Protocols.io. dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.j8nlk8b6xl5r/v1

Cassida, K. A., & Collins, H. (2024). USDA LTAR Common Experiment measurement: Obtaining quality metrics in forage aboveground biomass. Protocols.io. dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.n2bvjn6wpgk5/v1

Cordova S. C., C. Dell, M. Liebig, M. A. Cavigelli, D. R. Huggins, and G. P. Robertson. 2024. USDA LTAR Common Experiment measurement: Soil organic carbon stocks and change.protocols.io,https://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.q26g7yo1kgwz/v1.

Haddad, N. M., & Smith, J. D. (2024). USDA LTAR Common Experiment measurement: Butterfly diversity and abundance. Protocols.io. dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.14egn6bnpl5d/v1

2023

Guo, T., S. T. Marquart-Pyatt, and G. P. Robertson. (2023). Using three consecutive years of farmer survey data to identify prevailing conservation practices in four midwestern US states. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems 38:E44. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742170523000364

Hussain, M. Z., S. K. Hamilton, and G. P. Robertson. (2023). Soil phosphorus drawdown by perennial bioenergy cropping systems in the Midwestern US. GCB Bioenergy 15:254-263. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.13020

Beethem, K., S. T. Marquart-Pyatt, J. Lai, and T. Guo. (2023). Navigating the information landscape: public and private information source access by midwest farmers. Agriculture and Human Values 40:1117-1135. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-022-10411-5

Liang, K., X. Zhang, X. Liang, V. L. Jin, G. Birru, M. R. Schmer, G. P. Robertson, G. W. McCarty, and G. E. Moglen. (2023). Simulating agroecosystem soil inorganic nitrogen dynamics under long-term management with an improved SWAT-C model. Science of the Total Environment 879:162906. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162906

Guo, T., S. T. Marquart-Pyatt, K. Beethem, R. Denny, and J. Lai. (2023). Scaling up agricultural conservation: Predictors of cover crop use across time and space in the US upper Midwest. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 78: 00084. https://doi.org/10.2489/jswc.2023.00084

Welikhe, P., Williams, M.R., King, K., Bos, J., Akland, M., Baffaut, C., Beck, E.G., Bierer, A., Bosch, D.D., Brooks, E.S., Buda, A.R., Cavigelli, M., Faulkner, J., Feyereisen, G.W., Fortuna, A.-M., Gamble, Joshua., Hanrahan, B.R., Hussain, M.Z., Kovar, J.L., Lee, B., Leytem, A.B., Liebig, M.A., Line, D., Macrae, M.L., Moorman, T.B., Moriasi, D., Mumbi, R., Nelson, N., Ortega-Pieck, A., Osmond, D., Penn, C., Pisani, O., Reba, M.L., Smith, D.R., Unrine, J., Webb, P., White, K.E., Wilson, H., Witthaus, L.M., (2023). Uncertainty in phosphorus fluxes and budgets across the US long-term agroecosystem research network. Journal of Environmental Quality 52, 873–885. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeq2.20485

Perry, S., G. Falvo, S. Mosier, and G. P. Robertson. (2023). Long-term changes in soil carbon and nitrogen fractions in switchgrass, native grasses, and no-till corn bioenergy production systems. Soil Science Society of America Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/saj2.20575

Robertson, G. P. (2023). Denitrification and the challenge of scaling microsite knowledge to the globe. mLife, 2(3), 229-238. https://doi.org/10.1002/mlf2.12080

Guo, T., Marquart-Pyatt, S. T., & Robertson, G. P. (2023). Using three consecutive years of farmer survey data to identify prevailing conservation practices in four Midwestern US states. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 38, e44. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742170523000364

Perry, S., G. Falvo, S. Mosier, and G. P. Robertson. (2023). Data from: Long-term changes in soil carbon and nitrogen fractions in switchgrass, native grasses, and no-till corn bioenergy production systems. Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.547d7wmf3.

Menefee, D., T. O. Lee, K. C. Flynn, J. Chen, M. Abraha, J. Baker, and A. Suyker. (2023). Machine learning algorithms improve MODIS GPP estimates in United States croplands. Frontiers in Remote Sensing 4:1240895. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2023.1240895

Liptzin, D., E. L. Rieke, S. B. Cappellazzi, G. M. Bean, M. Cope, K. L. Greub, C. E. Norris, P. W. Tracy, E. Aberle, A. Ashworth, O. B. Tavarez, A. I. Bary, R. L. Baumhardt, A. B. Gracia, D. C. Brainard, J. R. Brennan, D. B. Reyes, D. Bruhjell, C. N. Carlyle, J. J. Crawford, C. F. Creech, S. W. Culman, B. Deen, C. J. Dell, J. D. Derner, T. F. Ducey, S. W. Duiker, R. S. Dungan, M. F. Dyck, B. H. Ellert, M. H. Entz, A. E. Solorio, S. J. Fonte, S. Fonteyne, A. Fortuna, J. L. Foster, L. M. Fultz, A. V. Gamble, C. M. Geddes, D. Griffin-LaHue, J. H. Grove, S. K. Hamilton, X. Hao, Z. D. Hayden, N. Honsdorf, J. A. Howe, J. A. Ippolito, G. A. Johnson, M. A. Kautz, N. R. Kitchen, S. Kumar, K. S. Kurtz, F. J. Larney, K. L. Lewis, M. Liebman, A. L. Ramirez, S. Machado, B. Maharjan, M. A. Gamiño, W. E. May, M. P. McClaran, M. D. McDaniel, N. Millar, J. P. Mitchell, A. D. Moore, P. A. Moore Jr, M. M. Gutiérrez, K. A. Nelson, E. C. Omondi, S. L. Osborne, L. O. Alcalá, P. Owens, E. M. Pena-Yewtukhiw, H. J. Poffenbarger, B. P. Lira, J. R. Reeve, T. M. Reinbott, M. S. Reiter, E. L. Ritchey, K. L. Roozeboom, Y. Rui, A. Sadeghpour, U. M. Sainju, G. R. Sanford, W. F. Schillinger, R. R. Schindelbeck, M. E. Schipanski, A. J. Schlegel, K. M. Scow, L. A. Sherrod, A. L. Shober, S. S. Sidhu, E. S. Moya, M. S. Luce, J. S. Strock, A. E. Suyker, V. R. Sykes, H. Tao, A. T. Campos, L. L. Van Eerd, H. M. van Es, N. Verhulst, T. J. Vyn, Y. Wang, D. B. Watts, D. L. Wright, T. Zhang, C. L. Morgan, and C. W. Honeycutt. (2023). An evaluation of nitrogen indicators for soil health in long-term agricultural experiments. Soil Science Society of America Journal 87:868-884. https://doi.org/10.1002/saj2.20558

2022

Dangal, S. R. S., Schwalm, C., Cavigelli, M. A., Gollany, H. T., Jin, V. L., & Sanderman, J. (2022). Improving Soil Carbon Estimates by Linking Conceptual Pools Against Measurable Carbon Fractions in the DAYCENT Model Version 4.5. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 14(5), e2021MS002622. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021MS002622

Robertson, G. P., Hamilton, S. K., Paustian, K., & Smith, P. (2022). Land-based climate solutions for the United States. Global Change Biology, 28:4912-4919. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16267

Robertson, G. P., Hamilton, S. K., Paustian, K., & Smith, P. (2022). Data from: Land-based climate solutions for the United States. Dryad, Dataset. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ghx3ffbr1.

Rieke, E. L., ….. Hamilton, S. K., …. et al. (2022). Evaluation of aggregate stability methods for soil health. Geoderma, 428, 116156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2022.116156

Menefee, D., Scott, R. L., Abraha, M., Alfieri, J. G., Baker, J., Browning, D. M., Chen, J., Gonet, J., Johnson, J. M. F., Miller, G. R., Nifong, R., Robertson, P., Russell, E. S., Saliendra, N., Schreiner-Mcgraw, A. P., Suyker, A., Wagle, P., Wente, C., White, P. M., & Smith, D. (2022). Unraveling the effects of management and climate on carbon fluxes of U.S. croplands using the USDA Long-Term Agroecosystem (LTAR) network. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 326, 109154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2022.109154 

2021

Abraha, M., Chen, J., Hamilton, S.K., Sciusco, P., Lei, C., Shirkey, G., Yuan, J., Robertson, G.P., (2021). Albedo-induced global warming impact of Conservation Reserve Program grasslands converted to annual and perennial bioenergy crops. Environ. Res. Lett. 16, 084059. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac1815

Browning, D.M., Russell, E.S., Ponce-Campos, G.E., Kaplan, N., Richardson, A.D., Seyednasrollah, B., Spiegal, S., Saliendra, N., Alfieri, J.G., Baker, J., Bernacchi, C., Bestelmeyer, B.T., Bosch, D., Boughton, E.H., Boughton, R.K., Clark, P., Flerchinger, G., Gomez-Casanovas, N., Goslee, S., Haddad, N.M., Hoover, D., Jaradat, A., Mauritz, M., McCarty, G.W., Miller, G.R., Sadler, J., Saha, A., Scott, R.L., Suyker, A., Tweedie, C., Wood, J.D., Zhang, X., Taylor, S.D., (2021). Monitoring agroecosystem productivity and phenology at a national scale: A metric assessment framework. Ecological Indicators 131, 108147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.108147

Liang, D., Robertson, G.P. (2021). Nitrification is a minor source of nitrous oxide (N2O) in an agricultural landscape and declines with increasing management intensity. Global Change Biology 27:5599-5613. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15833

Mosier, S., Córdova, S.C., Robertson, G.P. (2021). Restoring soil fertility on degraded lands to meet food, fuel, and climate security needs via perennialization. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 5:706142. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2021.706142

Saha, D., Basso, B., Robertson, G.P., (2021). Machine learning improves predictions of agricultural nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from intensively managed cropping systems. Environmental Research Letters 16, 024004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abd2f3

Williams, M., Welikhe, P., Bos, J., King, K., Akland, M., Augustine, D., Baffaut, C., Beck, E.G., Bierer, A., Bosch, D., Boughton, E., Brandani, C., Brooks, E., Buda, A., Cavigelli, M., Faulkner, J., Feyereisen, G., Fortuna, A., Gamble, J., Hanrahan, B., Hussain, M.Z., Kohmann, M., Kovar, J., Lee, B., Leytem, A., Liebig, M., Line, D., Macrae, M., Moorman, T., Moriasi, D., Nelson, N., Ortega-Pieck, A., Osmond, D., Pisani, O., Ragosta, J., Reba, M., Saha, A., Sanchez, J., Silveira, M.. Smith, D., Spiegal, S., Swain, H., Unrine, J., Webb, P., White, K., Wilson, H., Yasarer, L. (2021). LTAR Phosphorus Budget Summary. Ag Data Commons. https://doi.org/10.15482/USDA.ADC/1523365.

2020

Brooker, A.P., Renner, K.A., Basso, B., (2020). Interseeding cover crops in corn: Establishment, biomass, and competitiveness in on-farm trials. Agronomy Journal 112, 3733–3743. https://doi.org/10.1002/agj2.20355

Baffaut, C., Baker, J.M., Biederman, J.A., Bosch, D.D., Brooks, E.S., Buda, A.R., Demaria, E.M., Elias, E.H., Flerchinger, G.N., Goodrich, D.C., Hamilton, S.K., Hardegree, S.P., Harmel, R.D., Hoover, D.L., King, K.W., Kleinman, P.J., Liebig, M.A., McCarty, G.W., Moglen, G.E., Moorman, T.B., Moriasi, D.N., Okalebo, J., Pierson, F.B., Russell, E.S., Saliendra, N.Z., Saha, A.K., Smith, D.R., Yasarer, L.M.W., (2020). Comparative analysis of water budgets across the U.S. long-term agroecosystem research network. Journal of Hydrology 588, 125021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125021