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Jan Vanderborght is affiliated with Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a notable focus on several subfields including Plant Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Soil Science, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics related to plant and soil interactions, including plant nutrient uptake and metabolism, soil and unsaturated flow, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, soil moisture and remote sensing, irrigation practices and water management, hydrology and watershed management studies, and rice cultivation and yield improvement.

Recent publications by Jan Vanderborght include:

  • Soil hydrology in the Earth system, 2022, published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • A functional-structural model of upland rice root systems reveals the importance of laterals and growing root tips for phosphate uptake from wet and dry soils, 2020, published in Annals of Botany
  • CPlantBox, a whole-plant modelling framework for the simulation of water- and carbon-related processes, 2020, published in in silico Plants
  • On the impact of increasing drought on the relationship between soil water content and evapotranspiration of a grassland, 2020, published in Vadose Zone Journal
  • Linking rhizosphere processes across scales: Opinion, 2022, published in Plant and Soil

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Jan Vanderborght include:

  • Harry Vereecken
  • Andrea Schnepf
  • Mathieu Javaux
  • Guillaume Lobet
  • Daniel Leitner

Key venues for their publications reflect an interdisciplinary approach, focusing on both plant and soil sciences as well as environmental modeling. These include:

  • Vadose Zone Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Plant and Soil
  • in silico Plants
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • On the value of soil moisture measurements in vadose zone hydrology: a review

    H. Vereecken;J. A. Huisman;H. Bogena;J. Vanderborght

  • Modeling Soil Processes: Review, Key Challenges, and New Perspectives

    H. Vereecken;A. Schnepf;J. W. Hopmans;M. Javaux

  • On the spatio-temporal dynamics of soil moisture at the field scale

    H. Vereecken;J.A. Huisman;Y. Pachepsky;C. Montzka

  • Imaging and characterisation of subsurface solute transport using electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) and equivalent transport models

    Andreas Kemna;Jan Vanderborght;Bernd Kulessa;Harry Vereecken

  • Pedotransfer functions in Earth system science: challenges and perspectives

    Kris Van Looy;Johan Bouma;Michael Herbst;John Koestel

  • Use of a Three-Dimensional Detailed Modeling Approach for Predicting Root Water Uptake

    Mathieu Javaux;Tom Schröder;Jan Vanderborght;Harry Vereecken

  • Review of Dispersivities for Transport Modeling in Soils

    Jan Vanderborght;Harry Vereecken

  • Soil hydrology in the Earth system

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  • Nutrient acquisition from arable subsoils in temperate climates: A review

    Timo Kautz;Wulf Amelung;Frank Ewert;Thomas Gaiser

  • Upscaling Hydraulic Properties and Soil Water Flow Processes in Heterogeneous Soils: A Review

    H Vereecken;R Kasteel;Jan Vanderborght;T Harter

  • Variability of the gas transfer velocity of CO2 in a macrotidal estuary (The Scheldt)

    Alberto Vieira Borges;Jean-Pierre Vanderborght;Laure-Sophie Schiettecatte;Frédéric Gazeau;Frédéric Gazeau

  • Proof of concept of regional scale hydrologic simulations at hydrologic resolution utilizing massively parallel computer resources

    Stefan J. Kollet;Reed M. Maxwell;Carol S. Woodward;Steve Smith

  • Soil hydrology: Recent methodological advances, challenges, and perspectives

    H. Vereecken;J. A. Huisman;H. J. Hendricks Franssen;N. Brüggemann

  • Explaining soil moisture variability as a function of mean soil moisture: A stochastic unsaturated flow perspective

    H Vereecken;T Kamai;T Harter;R Kasteel

  • A simple three-dimensional macroscopic root water uptake model based on the hydraulic architecture approach

    Valentin Couvreur;Jan Vanderborght;Mathieu Javaux;Mathieu Javaux

  • Vertical distribution of nitrate concentration in interstitial water of marine sediments with nitrification and denitrification

    Jean-Pierre Vanderborght;Gilles Billen

  • 20 years of long-term atrazine monitoring in a shallow aquifer in western Germany.

    David Vonberg;Jan Vanderborght;Nils Cremer;Thomas Pütz

  • CRootBox: a structural-functional modelling framework for root systems.

    Andrea Schnepf;Daniel Leitner;Magdalena Landl;Guillaume Lobet

  • Modelling Water Flow and Solute Transport in Heterogeneous Soils: A Review of Recent Approaches☆

    Jan Feyen;Diederik Jacques;Anthony Timmerman;Jan Vanderborght

  • Root Water Uptake: From Three-Dimensional biophysical Processes to Macroscopic Modeling Approaches

    Mathieu Javaux;Mathieu Javaux;Valentin Couvreur;Jan Vanderborght;Harry Vereecken

  • Three-dimensional electrical resistivity tomography to monitor root zone water dynamics

    Sarah Garré;Mathieu Javaux;Jan Vanderborght;Loïc Pagès

  • Potential of electrical resistivity tomography to infer aquifer transport characteristics from tracer studies: A synthetic case study

    Jan Vanderborght;Andreas Kemna;Horst Hardelauf;Harry Vereecken

  • Two-dimensional characterization of hydraulic heterogeneity by multiple pumping tests

    Wei Li;Andreas Englert;Olaf A. Cirpka;Jan Vanderborght

Frequent Co-Authors

Harry Vereecken
Harry Vereecken Forschungszentrum Jülich
Mathieu Javaux
Mathieu Javaux Université Catholique de Louvain
Andrea Schnepf
Andrea Schnepf Forschungszentrum Jülich
Andreas Kemna
Andreas Kemna University of Bonn
Johan Alexander Huisman
Johan Alexander Huisman Forschungszentrum Jülich
Lutz Weihermüller
Lutz Weihermüller Forschungszentrum Jülich
Jan Feyen
Jan Feyen University of Cuenca
Xavier Draye
Xavier Draye Université Catholique de Louvain
Heye Bogena
Heye Bogena Forschungszentrum Jülich
Marnik Vanclooster
Marnik Vanclooster Université Catholique de Louvain

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