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Environmental Sciences
New Zealand
2023

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Plant Science and Agronomy

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55
Citations
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1636
National Ranking
20

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
54
Citations
9767
World Ranking
4075
National Ranking
21

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in New Zealand Leader Award

Overview

Denis Curtin is affiliated with Plant & Food Research in New Zealand. Their research primarily focuses on soil science and environmental science, with an emphasis on the dynamics of soil carbon and nitrogen. Their published work spans topics such as soil and water nutrient dynamics, peatlands and wetlands ecology, soil and unsaturated flow, geology and paleoclimatology, agriculture, and soil geostatistics and mapping.

They have contributed significantly to the understanding of soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, with key papers including:

  • Predicting soil pH changes in response to application of urea and sheep urine, 2020, Journal of Environmental Quality

Other relevant papers connected to their field of study, authored by frequent collaborators, include:

  • Sequestration of soil carbon by burying it deeper within the profile: A theoretical exploration of three possible mechanisms, 2021, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Soil particle size range correction for improved calibration relationship between the laser-diffraction method and sieve-pipette method, 2020, Pedosphere
  • Full inversion tillage during pasture renewal to increase soil carbon storage: New Zealand as a case study, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Soil nitrification inhibition by urine of sheep consuming plantain (Plantago lanceolata), 2021, Biology and Fertility of Soils

Denis Curtin frequently collaborates with researchers such as Mike Beare, Weiwen Qiu, Michelle E. Peterson, M. J. Hedley, and Roberto Calvelo Pereira. These collaboration networks reinforce their interdisciplinary approach to soil and environmental research.

The main publication venues where they have disseminated their research include:

  • Soil Research
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Journal of Environmental Quality
  • Pedosphere
  • Global Change Biology

Their work spans various subfields of study such as soil science, environmental chemistry, ecology, plant science, and civil and structural engineering. This multidisciplinary engagement supports a broad understanding of agricultural and biological systems as well as environmental processes.

Denis Curtin's research contributes to a better understanding of how soil properties and management practices affect nutrient cycling and carbon storage, with implications for agriculture and environmental sustainability in New Zealand and beyond.

Best Publications

  • Soil acidification and liming interactions with nutrientand heavy metal transformationand bioavailability

    Nanthi S Bolan;Domy C Adriano;Denis Curtin

  • EFFECTS OF ACIDITY ON MINERALIZATION: pH- DEPENDENCE OF ORGANIC MATTER MINERALIZATION IN WEAKLY ACIDIC SOILS

    Denis Curtin;C.A. Campbell;Abdul Jalil

  • Efficiency of soil and fertilizer phosphorus use. Reconciling changing concepts of soil phosphorus behaviour with agronomic information

    J.K. Syers;A.E. Johnston;D. Curtin

  • Phosphorus: its efficient use in agriculture

    A. Edward Johnston;Paul R. Poulton;Paul E. Fixen;Denis Curtin

  • Long-term effects of tillage and crop rotations on soil organic C and total N in a clay soil in southwestern Saskatchewan

    C. A. Campbell;B. G. McConkey;R. P. Zentner;F. Selles

  • Tillage effects on carbon fluxes in continuous wheat and fallow-wheat rotations.

    D. Curtin;H. Wang;F. Selles;B. G. McConkey

  • Soil Acidification from Long-Term Use of Anhydrous Ammonia and Urea

    O. T. Bouman;D. Curtin;C. A. Campbell;V. O. Biederbeck

  • Stroke Subtype Classification to Mechanism-Specific and Undetermined Categories by TOAST, A-S-C-O, and Causative Classification System Direct Comparison in the North Dublin Population Stroke Study

    Michael Marnane;Caroline A. Duggan;Orla C. Sheehan;Aine Merwick

  • Temperature and Moisture Effects on Microbial Biomass and Soil Organic Matter Mineralization

    Denis Curtin;Michael H. Beare;Guillermo Hernandez-Ramirez

  • Crop rotation and tillage impact on carbon sequestration in Canadian prairie soils

    B.G McConkey;B.C Liang;C.A Campbell;D Curtin

  • Hot Water-Extractable Nitrogen as an Indicator of Soil Nitrogen Availability

    D. Curtin;C. E. Wright;M. H. Beare;F. M. McCallum

  • Significance of Iron Oxides and Calcium Carbonate Particle Size in Phosphate Sorption by Calcareous Soils

    J. Ryan;D. Curtin;M.A. Cheema

  • Estimating the organic carbon stabilisation capacity and saturation deficit of soils: a New Zealand case study

    M. H. Beare;S. J. McNeill;D. Curtin;R. L. Parfitt

  • Organic Matter Fractions Contributing to Soil Nitrogen Mineralization Potential

    Denis Curtin;Guang Wen

  • Soil microbial and biochemical properties after ten years of fertilization with urea and anhydrous ammonia

    V. O. Biederbeck;D. Curtin;O. T. Bouman;C. A. Campbell

  • Carbon sequestration in a Brown Chernozem as affected by tillage and rotation

    C. A. Campbell;B. G. McConkey;R. P. Zentner;F. B. Dyck

  • Lime-Induced Changes in Indices of Soil Phosphate Availability

    D. Curtin;J.K. Syers

  • Tillage and crop rotation effects on soil organic C and N in a coarse-textured Typic Haploboroll in southwestern Saskatchewan

    C.A. Campbell;B.G. McConkey;R.P. Zentner;F. Selles

  • Soil quality-effect of tillage and fallow frequency. Soil organic matter quality as influenced by tillage and fallow frequency in a silt loam in southwestern Saskatchewan

    C.A Campbell;V.O Biederbeck;B.G McConkey;D Curtin

  • Managing nitrogen for sustainable crop production

    C. A. Campbell;R. J. K. Myers;D. Curtin

  • Extractability and adsorption of sulphate in soils

    D. Curtin;J. K. Syers

  • Electrical Conductivity and Soluble Ions

    Jim Miller;Denis Curtin

  • Plant Responses to Sulfate and Chloride Salinity: Growth and Ionic Relations

    D. Curtin;H. Steppuhn;F. Selles

  • Efficiency of soil and fertilizer phosphorus use: reconciling changing concepts of soil phosphorus behaviour with agronomic information (FAO Fertilizer and Plant Nutrition Bulletin 18)

    J. K. Syers;A. E. Johnston;D. Curtin

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael H. Beare
Michael H. Beare Plant & Food Research
C. A. Campbell
C. A. Campbell Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
F. Selles
F. Selles Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Brian McConkey
Brian McConkey Viresco Solutions Inc.
Robert P. Zentner
Robert P. Zentner Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
J. K. Syers
J. K. Syers Massey University
Martin H. Chantigny
Martin H. Chantigny Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Edward G. Gregorich
Edward G. Gregorich Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Jeff Baldock
Jeff Baldock Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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