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Overview

Douglas R. Smith is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Service in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, which include a substantial focus on subfields such as Soil Science, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Engineering, Ecology, and Agronomy and Crop Science.

The main topics of their work encompass Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Soil Geostatistics and Mapping, Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, and Crop Yield and Soil Fertility.

Douglas R. Smith has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Heavy metals concentration in soils across the conterminous USA: Spatial prediction, model uncertainty, and influencing factors, 2024, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Importance and strength of environmental controllers of soil organic carbon changes with scale, 2020, Geoderma
  • Comparative analysis of water budgets across the U.S. long-term agroecosystem research network, 2020, Journal of Hydrology
  • Addressing conservation practice limitations and trade-offs for reducing phosphorus loss from agricultural fields, 2022, Agricultural & Environmental Letters
  • Manureshed management to overcome longstanding nutrient imbalances in US agriculture, 2022, Resources Conservation and Recycling

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Kabindra Adhikari
  • Kevin W. King
  • Chad Hajda
  • Peter J. A. Kleinman
  • R. Daren Harmel

Douglas R. Smith's publications are often found in journals such as:

  • Journal of Environmental Quality (15 publications)
  • Agricultural & Environmental Letters (4 publications)
  • Rangeland Ecology & Management (3 publications)
  • The Science of The Total Environment (2 publications)
  • Precision Agriculture (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • Impacts of impervious surface on watershed hydrology: A review

    W. D. Shuster;J. Bonta;H. Thurston;E. Warnemuende

  • Phosphorus transport in agricultural subsurface drainage: a review.

    Kevin W. King;Mark R. Williams;Merrin L. Macrae;Norman R. Fausey

  • Surface runoff and tile drainage transport of phosphorus in the midwestern United States.

    Douglas R. Smith;Kevin W. King;Laura Johnson;Wendy Francesconi

  • Increased soluble phosphorus loads to Lake Erie:unintended consequences of conservation practices?

    Helen P. Jarvie;Laura T. Johnson;Andrew N. Sharpley;Douglas R. Smith

  • Nutrient losses from manure and fertilizer applications as impacted by time to first runoff event.

    D.R. Smith;P.R. Owens;A.B. Leytem;E.A. Warnemuende

  • What is causing the harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie

    Douglas R. Smith;Kevin W. King;Mark R. Williams

  • The soil health tool—Theory and initial broad-scale application

    Richard L. Haney;Elizabeth B. Haney;Douglas R. Smith;R. Daren Harmel

  • Phosphorus and nitrogen limitation and impairment of headwater streams relative to rivers in Great Britain: A national perspective on eutrophication

    Helen P. Jarvie;Douglas R. Smith;Lisa R. Norton;Francois K. Edwards

  • Effects of alum and aluminum chloride on phosphorus runoff from swine manure.

    D.R. Smith;P.A. Moore;C.L. Griffis;T.C. Daniel

  • Greenhouse gas fluxes in an eastern Corn Belt soil: weather, nitrogen source, and rotation.

    Guillermo Hernandez‐Ramirez;Sylvie M. Brouder;Douglas R. Smith;George E. Van Scoyoc

  • Impervious surface impacts to runoff and sediment discharge under laboratory rainfall simulation

    E.A. Pappas;D.R. Smith;C. Huang;W.D. Shuster

  • Applicability of models to predict phosphorus losses in drained fields: a review.

    David E. Radcliffe;D. Keith Reid;Karin Blombäck;Carl H. Bolster

  • Estimating storm discharge and water quality data uncertainty: A software tool for monitoring and modeling applications

    R. D. Harmel;D. R. Smith;K. W. King;R. M. Slade

  • Phosphorus Fate, Management, and Modeling in Artificially Drained Systems

    Peter J. A. Kleinman;Douglas R. Smith;Carl H. Bolster;Zachary M. Easton

  • Sediment phosphorus dynamics for three tile fed drainage ditches in Northeast Indiana

    D.R. Smith;B.E. Haggard;E.A. Warnemuende;C. Huang

  • Phosphorus losses from monitored fields with conservation practices in the Lake Erie Basin, USA.

    Douglas R. Smith;Wendy Francesconi;Stan J. Livingston;Chi-hua Huang

  • Decreasing phosphorus runoff losses from land-applied poultry litter with dietary modifications and alum addition.

    Douglas R. Smith;P. A. Moore;D. M. Miles;B. E. Haggard

  • Nutrient losses from row crop agriculture in Indiana

    D.R. Smith;S.J. Livingston;B.W. Zuercher;M. Larose

  • Nitrogen and phosphorus runoff from cropland and pasture fields fertilized with poultry litter

    R.D. Harmel;D.R. Smith;R.L. Haney;M. Dozier

  • Reducing Phosphorus Runoff from Swine Manure with Dietary Phytase and Aluminum Chloride

    D. R. Smith;P. A. Moore;C. V. Maxwell;B. E. Haggard

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin W. King
Kevin W. King Agricultural Research Service
Brian E. Haggard
Brian E. Haggard University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Helen P. Jarvie
Helen P. Jarvie University of Waterloo
Peter J. A. Kleinman
Peter J. A. Kleinman Agricultural Research Service
Philip A. Moore
Philip A. Moore Agricultural Research Service
Indrajeet Chaubey
Indrajeet Chaubey University of Connecticut
Chi-hua Huang
Chi-hua Huang Purdue University West Lafayette
David C. Goodrich
David C. Goodrich US Department of Agriculture
Tommy C. Daniel
Tommy C. Daniel University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Norman R. Fausey
Norman R. Fausey Agricultural Research Service

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