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Environmental Sciences
Australia
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
72
Citations
24681
World Ranking
1473
National Ranking
67

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Annette Cowie is affiliated with the University of New England in Australia. Their research focuses on agricultural and environmental sciences, with extensive work in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science.

Their main areas of study include Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change, Agronomy and Crop Science, Environmental Engineering, and Ecology. Core topics addressed by their research cover Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Bioenergy Crop Production and Management, Environmental Impact and Sustainability, Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Climate Change Policy and Economics.

Annette Cowie has published frequently in several journals and venues. The most common publication venues are GCB Bioenergy, SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Environmental Management, Sustainable Production and Consumption, and Nature Food.

Frequent co-authors in their work include Cathy Waters, De Li Liu, Aaron Simmons, Bin Wang, and Miguel Brandão.

Examples of recent publications include:

  • How biochar works, and when it doesn't: A review of mechanisms controlling soil and plant responses to biochar (2021, GCB Bioenergy)
  • Biochar in climate change mitigation (2021, Nature Geoscience)
  • Net-zero emissions targets are vague: three ways to fix (2021, Nature)
  • Carbon myopia: The urgent need for integrated social, economic and environmental action in the livestock sector (2021, Global Change Biology)
  • How necessary and feasible are reductions of methane emissions from livestock to support stringent temperature goals? (2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences)

Best Publications

  • Effects of biochar from slow pyrolysis of papermill waste on agronomic performance and soil fertility

    L. Van Zwieten;S. Kimber;S. Morris;K. Y. Chan

  • Biophysical and economic limits to negative CO2 emissions

    Pete Smith;Steven J. Davis;Felix Creutzig;Sabine Fuss

  • An investigation into the reactions of biochar in soil

    S. D. Joseph;M. Camps-Arbestain;Y. Lin;P. Munroe

  • Characterisation and evaluation of biochars for their application as a soil amendment

    Balwant Singh;Bhupinder Pal Singh;Annette L. Cowie

  • Energy- and greenhouse gas-based LCA of biofuel and bioenergy systems: Key issues, ranges and recommendations

    Francesco Cherubini;Neil David Bird;Annette Cowie;Gerfried Jungmeier

  • Influence of biochars on nitrous oxide emission and nitrogen leaching from two contrasting soils.

    Bhupinder Pal Singh;Blake J. Hatton;Balwant Singh;Annette L. Cowie

  • How biochar works, and when it doesn't: A review of mechanisms controlling soil and plant responses to biochar

    Stephen Joseph;Annette L. Cowie;Annette L. Cowie;Lukas Van Zwieten;Lukas Van Zwieten;Nanthi Bolan;Nanthi Bolan

  • Biochar carbon stability in a clayey soil as a function of feedstock and pyrolysis temperature.

    Bhupinder Pal Singh;Annette L. Cowie;Ronald J. Smernik

  • Mixed-species plantations of Eucalyptus with nitrogen-fixing trees: A review

    David I. Forrester;David I. Forrester;Jürgen Bauhus;Jürgen Bauhus;Annette L. Cowie;Jerome K. Vanclay

  • Land in balance: The scientific conceptual framework for Land Degradation Neutrality

    Annette L. Cowie;Barron J. Orr;Barron J. Orr;Barron J. Orr;Victor M. Castillo Sanchez;Victor M. Castillo Sanchez;Pamela Chasek

  • Net-zero emissions targets are vague: three ways to fix.

    Joeri Rogelj;Oliver Geden;Annette Cowie;Andy Reisinger

  • A Review of Greenhouse Gas Emission Factors for Fertiliser Production.

    Sam Wood;Annette Cowie

  • Key issues and options in accounting for carbon sequestration and temporary storage in life cycle assessment and carbon footprinting

    Miguel Brandao;Annie Levasseur;Miko U. F. Kirschbaum;Bo P. Weidema

  • Long-term influence of biochar on native organic carbon mineralisation in a low-carbon clayey soil

    Bhupinder Pal Singh;Annette L. Cowie

  • Biochar and Emissions of Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases from Soil

    Lukas Van Zwieten;Bhupinderpal Singh;Stephen Joseph;Stephen Kimber

  • Biochar built soil carbon over a decade by stabilizing rhizodeposits

    Zhe Han Weng;Lukas Van Zwieten;Lukas Van Zwieten;Bhupinder Pal Singh;Ehsan Tavakkoli

  • Which practices co‐deliver food security, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and combat land degradation and desertification?

    Pete Smith;Katherine Calvin;Johnson Nkem;Donovan Campbell

  • Carbon allocation in a mixed-species plantation of 'Eucalyptus globulus' and 'Acacia mearnsii'

    David I. Forrester;David I. Forrester;Jürgen Bauhus;Jürgen Bauhus;Annette L. Cowie

  • High resolution mapping of soil organic carbon stocks using remote sensing variables in the semi-arid rangelands of eastern Australia

    Bin Wang;Cathy Waters;Susan Orgill;Jonathan Gray

  • Developing general allometric relationships for regional estimates of carbon sequestration - an example using 'Eucalyptus pilularis' from seven contrasting sites

    KD Montagu;K Duttmer;Cvm Barton;Annette Cowie

  • Biochar for Climate Change Mitigation : Navigating from Science to Evidence-Based Policy

    Dominic Woolf;Johannes Lehmann;Annette Cowie;Maria Luz Cayuela

Frequent Co-Authors

Bhupinder Pal Singh
Bhupinder Pal Singh University of New England
Stephen Joseph
Stephen Joseph University of Nottingham
Göran Berndes
Göran Berndes Chalmers University of Technology
Lukas Van Zwieten
Lukas Van Zwieten New South Wales Department of Primary Industries
Miguel Brandão
Miguel Brandão Royal Institute of Technology
De Li Liu
De Li Liu University of New South Wales
Martin Junginger
Martin Junginger Utrecht University
Brian Wilson
Brian Wilson University of New England
David I. Forrester
David I. Forrester Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
S. T. Morris
S. T. Morris Massey University

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