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Overview

Budong Qian is affiliated with Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada in Canada. Their research focuses on agricultural and biological sciences, particularly in areas related to environmental science.

Their work spans several subfields of study, including:

  • Plant Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecology
  • Soil Science

Key topics covered in their research include:

  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Climate variability and models
  • Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture

Budong Qian has published in a variety of journals, with frequent publications in these venues:

  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Canadian Journal of Plant Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Journal of Agronomy
  • Agronomy Journal

Recent research papers by Budong Qian include:

  • Estimating crop biomass using leaf area index derived from Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 data, 2020, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • The chaos in calibrating crop models: Lessons learned from a multi-model calibration exercise, 2021, Environmental Modelling & Software
  • Are soybean models ready for climate change food impact assessments?, 2022, European Journal of Agronomy
  • Detection of Crop Seeding and Harvest through Analysis of Time-Series Sentinel-1 Interferometric SAR Data, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Modelling adaptation strategies to reduce adverse impacts of climate change on maize cropping system in Northeast China, 2021, Scientific Reports

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Budong Qian include:

  • Qi Jing
  • Ward Smith
  • Brian Grant
  • Gerrit Hoogenboom
  • Daniel Wallach

Best Publications

  • Impacts of land use/land cover change on climate and future research priorities

    Rezaul Mahmood;Roger A. Pielke;Kenneth G. Hubbard;Dev Niyogi

  • Assessment of red-edge vegetation indices for crop leaf area index estimation.

    Taifeng Dong;Jiangui Liu;Jiali Shang;Budong Qian

  • Regional climate change in Portugal: precipitation variability associated with large‐scale atmospheric circulation

    João Corte-Real;Budong Qian;Hong Xu

  • Observed soil temperature trends associated with climate change in Canada

    Budong Qian;Edward G. Gregorich;Sam Gameda;David W. Hopkins;David W. Hopkins

  • Assessing the effects of climate change on crop production and GHG emissions in Canada

    W.N. Smith;B.B. Grant;R.L. Desjardins;R. Kroebel

  • Estimating winter wheat biomass by assimilating leaf area index derived from fusion of Landsat-8 and MODIS data

    Taifeng Dong;Jiangui Liu;Budong Qian;Ting Zhao

  • Evaluation of the integrated Canadian crop yield forecaster (ICCYF) model for in-season prediction of crop yield across the Canadian agricultural landscape

    Aston Chipanshi;Yinsuo Zhang;Louis Kouadio;Nathaniel Newlands

  • Is the North Atlantic Oscillation the most important atmospheric pattern for precipitation in Europe

    Budong Qian;João Corte-Real;Hong Xu

  • Litter decay controlled by temperature, not soil properties, affecting future soil carbon.

    Edward G. Gregorich;Henry Janzen;Benjamin H. Ellert;Bobbi L. Helgason

  • Estimating crop biomass using leaf area index derived from Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 data

    Taifeng Dong;Jiangui Liu;Budong Qian;Liming He

  • Long-term Trends in Corn Yields and Soil Carbon under Diversified Crop Rotations.

    Marek Jarecki;Brian Grant;Ward Smith;Bill Deen

  • Comparison of LARS-WG and AAFC-WG stochastic weather generators for diverse Canadian climates

    B. Qian;S. Gameda;H. Hayhoe;R. De Jong

  • Statistical spring wheat yield forecasting for the Canadian prairie provinces.

    Budong Qian;Reinder De Jong;Richard Warren;Aston Chipanshi

  • Observed Long-Term Trends for Agroclimatic Conditions in Canada

    Budong Qian;Xuebin Zhang;Kai Chen;Yang Feng

  • The chaos in calibrating crop models: Lessons learned from a multi-model calibration exercise

    Daniel Wallach;Taru Palosuo;Peter Thorburn;Zvi Hochman

  • Summer snow extent heralding of the winter North Atlantic Oscillation

    Mark A. Saunders;Budong Qian;Benjamin Lloyd-Hughes

  • Estimating the impacts of climate change on crop yields and N2O emissions for conventional and no-tillage in Southwestern Ontario, Canada

    Wentian He;Wentian He;J.Y. Yang;C.F. Drury;W.N. Smith

  • Multisite stochastic weather models for impact studies

    Budong Qian;Budong Qian;João Corte‐Real;João Corte‐Real;Hong Xu;Hong Xu

  • Assessment of Portable Chlorophyll Meters for Measuring Crop Leaf Chlorophyll Concentration

    Taifeng Dong;Jiali Shang;Jing M. Chen;Jiangui Liu

  • Are soybean models ready for climate change food impact assessments?

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  • Evaluation of the stochastic weather generators LARS-WG and AAFC-WG for climate change impact studies

    Budong Qian;Henry Hayhoe;Sam Gameda

  • Seasonal predictability of the winter NAO from north Atlantic sea surface temperatures

    Mark A. Saunders;Budong Qian

Frequent Co-Authors

Qi Jing
Qi Jing Environment and Climate Change Canada
Jiali Shang
Jiali Shang Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Gerrit Hoogenboom
Gerrit Hoogenboom University of Florida
Ward Smith
Ward Smith Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Brian McConkey
Brian McConkey Viresco Solutions Inc.
Gilles Bélanger
Gilles Bélanger Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Craig F. Drury
Craig F. Drury Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Kurt Christian Kersebaum
Kurt Christian Kersebaum Czech Academy of Sciences
Senthold Asseng
Senthold Asseng Technical University of Munich
Sebastian Gayler
Sebastian Gayler University of Hohenheim

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