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Deborah A. Bossio is affiliated with The Nature Conservancy in the United States and focuses on research within environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work spans multiple interconnected subfields, emphasizing soil science, ecology, global and planetary change, environmental engineering, and agronomy and crop science.

The primary research areas covered include soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, agriculture sustainability and environmental impact, soil geostatistics and mapping, peatlands and wetlands ecology, bioenergy crop production and management, organic food and agriculture, and sustainable agricultural systems analysis.

The scientific contributions of Deborah A. Bossio include numerous publications across various high-impact venues. Frequent publication outlets are:

  • Global Food Security
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Nature Sustainability

Recent notable papers that feature Deborah A. Bossio's work or closely relate to their research interests include:

  • The concept and future prospects of soil health, 2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • The role of soil carbon in natural climate solutions, 2020, Nature Sustainability
  • Towards a global-scale soil climate mitigation strategy, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Dynamic Stability of Soil Carbon: Reassessing the "Permanence" of Soil Carbon Sequestration, 2020, Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • Machine learning in space and time for modelling soil organic carbon change, 2020, European Journal of Soil Science

Collaborative work features partnerships with several frequent coauthors, including:

  • Stephen A. Wood
  • Johannes Lehmann
  • Jonathan Sanderman
  • Budiman Minasny
  • Martin Jung

Best Publications

  • Impacts of Carbon and Flooding on Soil Microbial Communities: Phospholipid Fatty Acid Profiles and Substrate Utilization Patterns

    D.A. Bossio;K.M. Scow

  • The concept and future prospects of soil health.

    Johannes Lehmann;Deborah A. Bossio;Ingrid Kögel-Knabner;Matthias C. Rillig

  • Determinants of Soil Microbial Communities: Effects of Agricultural Management, Season, and Soil Type on Phospholipid Fatty Acid Profiles

    D.A. Bossio;K.M. Scow;N. Gunapala;K.J. Graham

  • Climate change mitigation: a spatial analysis of global land suitability for Clean Development Mechanism afforestation and reforestation

    Robert J. Zomer;Antonio Trabucco;Antonio Trabucco;Deborah A. Bossio;Louis V. Verchot

  • Smart investments in sustainable food production: revisiting mixed crop-livestock systems.

    M. Herrero;P. K. Thornton;A. M. Notenbaert;S. Wood

  • The role of soil carbon in natural climate solutions

    D. A. Bossio;S. C. Cook-Patton;P. W. Ellis;J. Fargione

  • Resource-Conserving Agriculture Increases Yields in Developing Countries

    J.N. Pretty;A.D. Noble;D. Bossio;J. Dixon

  • Towards a global-scale soil climate mitigation strategy.

    W Amelung;W Amelung;D Bossio;W de Vries;I Kögel-Knabner

  • Global Tree Cover and Biomass Carbon on Agricultural Land: The contribution of agroforestry to global and national carbon budgets

    Robert J. Zomer;Henry Neufeldt;Jianchu Xu;Antje Ahrends

  • Global Sequestration Potential of Increased Organic Carbon in Cropland Soils

    Robert J. Zomer;Deborah A. Bossio;Rolf Sommer;Louis V. Verchot

  • Impact of carbon and flooding on the metabolic diversity of microbial communities in soils.

    D A Bossio;K M Scow

  • Soil Microbial Community Response to Land Use Change in an Agricultural Landscape of Western Kenya

    D Bossio;Martina S Girvan;L Verchot;Juliet Bullimore

  • Climate change mitigation through afforestation/reforestation: A global analysis of hydrologic impacts with four case studies

    Antonio Trabucco;Antonio Trabucco;Robert J. Zomer;Deborah A. Bossio;Oliver van Straaten;Oliver van Straaten

  • Microbial community composition and substrate use in a highly weathered soil as affected by crop rotation and P fertilization

    E.K. Bunemann;Deborah A. Bossio;P.C. Smithson;Emmanuel Frossard

  • Trees and water: smallholder agroforestry on irrigated lands in Northern India

    Robert J. Zomer;Deborah A. Bossio;Antonio Trabucco;Li Yuanjie

  • Managing water by managing land: Addressing land degradation to improve water productivity and rural livelihoods

    Deborah Bossio;Kim Geheb;William Critchley

  • Alteration of soil microbial communities and water quality in restored wetlands

    Deborah A. Bossio;Jacob A. Fleck;Kate M. Scow;Roger Fujii

  • Dynamics and climate change mitigation potential of soil organic carbon sequestration.

    Rolf Sommer;Deborah A. Bossio

  • Dynamic Stability of Soil Carbon: Reassessing the “Permanence” of Soil Carbon Sequestration

    Katherine A. Dynarski;Deborah A. Bossio;Kate M. Scow

  • Methane pool and flux dynamics in a rice field following straw incorporation

    Deborah A Bossio;William R Horwath;Randall G Mutters;Chris van Kessel

  • Global Tree Cover and Biomass Carbon on Agricultural Land

    Robert J. Zomer;Henry Neufeldt;Jianchu Xu;Antje Ahrends

Frequent Co-Authors

Jules Pretty
Jules Pretty University of Essex
Johannes Lehmann
Johannes Lehmann Cornell University
Kate M. Scow
Kate M. Scow University of California, Davis
Stephen A. Wood
Stephen A. Wood Yale University
Jonathan Sanderman
Jonathan Sanderman Woods Hole Research Center
Louis V. Verchot
Louis V. Verchot Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical
David Molden
David Molden World Bank
Fergus L. Sinclair
Fergus L. Sinclair Bangor University
Mario Herrero
Mario Herrero Cornell University
Line Gordon
Line Gordon Stockholm Resilience Centre

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