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61
Citations
18910
World Ranking
2714
National Ranking
1085

Overview

Jason C. Neff is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's primary research topics include Soil and Land Suitability Analysis, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Agricultural Innovations and Practices, Climate variability and models, Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Agriculture, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, and Climate change impacts on agriculture.

Jason C. Neff has several recent publications, notable among them are:

  • Mobile phone use is associated with higher smallholder agricultural productivity in Tanzania, East Africa (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • Validation and intercomparison of satellite-based rainfall products over Africa with TAHMO in-situ rainfall observations (2022, Journal of Hydrometeorology)
  • A Comparison of Approaches to Regional Land-Use Capability Analysis for Agricultural Land-Planning (2021, Land)
  • A standardized land capability classification system for land evaluation using mobile phone technology (2020, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation)
  • The Hidden Costs of Land Degradation in US Maize Agriculture (2020, Earth's Future)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Jason C. Neff include:

  • Jeffrey E. Herrick
  • Tara Ippolito
  • Amy Quandt
  • Madhur Atreya
  • Karan Dikshit

Common publication venues where their work appears are:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
  • Earth's Future
  • SOIL

Best Publications

  • Reconciling carbon-cycle concepts, terminology, and methods

    F. S. Chapin Iii;G. M. Woodwell;J. Randerson;E. B. Rastetter

  • Variable effects of nitrogen additions on the stability and turnover of soil carbon

    Jason C. Neff;Alan R. Townsend;Gerd Gleixner;Scott J. Lehman

  • The impact of boreal forest fire on climate warming.

    J. T. Randerson;H. Liu;M. G. Flanner;S. D. Chambers

  • Dissolved Organic Carbon in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Synthesis and a Model

    Jason C. Neff;Gregory P. Asner

  • Molecular C dynamics downstream: the biochemical decomposition sequence and its impact on soil organic matter structure and function.

    A. Stuart Grandy;Jason C. Neff

  • Increasing Eolian Dust Deposition in the Western United States Linked to Human Activity

    J. C. Neff;A. P. Ballantyne;G. L. Farmer;N. M. Mahowald;N. M. Mahowald

  • Impact of disturbed desert soils on duration of mountain snow cover

    Thomas H. Painter;Thomas H. Painter;Andrew P. Barrett;Christopher C. Landry;Jason C. Neff

  • Observed 20th century desert dust variability: impact on climate and biogeochemistry

    Natalie Mahowald;Silvia Kloster;S. Engelstaedter;Jefferson Keith Moore

  • Effects of soil texture on belowground carbon and nutrient storage in a lowland Amazonian forest ecosystem

    Whendee L. Silver;Jason Neff;Megan McGroddy;Ed Veldkamp

  • Potential carbon release from permafrost soils of Northeastern Siberia

    Koushik Dutta;E. A. G. Schuur;J. C. Neff;S. A. Zimov

  • The contemporary physical and chemical flux of aeolian dust: A synthesis of direct measurements of dust deposition

    Corey R. Lawrence;Jason C. Neff

  • Dissolved Organic Carbon in Alaskan Boreal Forest: Sources, Chemical Characteristics, and Biodegradability

    Kimberly P. Wickland;Jason C. Neff;George R. Aiken

  • The origin, composition and rates of organic nitrogen deposition: A missing piece of the nitrogen cycle?

    Jason C. Neff;Elisabeth A. Holland;Frank J. Dentener;William H. McDowell

  • Breaks in the cycle: dissolved organic nitrogen in terrestrial ecosystems

    Jason C. Neff;F Stuart Chapin;Peter M. Vitousek

  • The ecology of dust

    Jason P Field;Jayne Belnap;David D Breshears;Jason C Neff

  • The earliest stages of ecosystem succession in high-elevation (5000 metres above sea level), recently deglaciated soils.

    S.K Schmidt;Sasha C Reed;Sasha C Reed;Diana R Nemergut;A Stuart Grandy

  • The effects of chronic nitrogen fertilization on alpine tundra soil microbial communities: implications for carbon and nitrogen cycling

    Diana R. Nemergut;Alan R. Townsend;Sarah R. Sattin;Kristen R. Freeman

  • Composition, Dynamics, and Fate of Leached Dissolved Organic Matter in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Results from a Decomposition Experiment

    Cory C. Cleveland;Jason C. Neff;Alan R. Townsend;Eran Hood

  • Vegetation and climate controls on potential CO2, DOC and DON production in northern latitude soils

    Jason C. Neff;David U. Hooper

  • MULTI-DECADAL IMPACTS OF GRAZING ON SOIL PHYSICAL AND BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES IN SOUTHEAST UTAH

    Jason C. Neff;Jason C. Neff;Richard L. Reynolds;Jayne Belnap;Paul J. Lamothe

  • 2 – Sources, Production, and Regulation of Allochthonous Dissolved Organic Matter Inputs to Surface Waters

    J.A. Aitkenhead-Peterson;W.H. McDowell;J.C. Neff

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard L. Reynolds
Richard L. Reynolds United States Geological Survey
Jennifer W. Harden
Jennifer W. Harden United States Geological Survey
Ashley P. Ballantyne
Ashley P. Ballantyne University of Montana
Jeffrey E. Herrick
Jeffrey E. Herrick New Mexico State University
Kimberly P. Wickland
Kimberly P. Wickland United States Geological Survey
Jayne Belnap
Jayne Belnap United States Geological Survey
Thomas H. Painter
Thomas H. Painter University of California, Los Angeles
Gregory P. Asner
Gregory P. Asner Arizona State University
Natalie M. Mahowald
Natalie M. Mahowald Cornell University
Nichole N. Barger
Nichole N. Barger University of Colorado Boulder

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