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Kees Jan van Groenigen

Kees Jan van Groenigen

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
49
Citations
15390
World Ranking
2213
National Ranking
177

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
48
Citations
15080
World Ranking
5407
National Ranking
414

Overview

Kees Jan van Groenigen is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions to several subfields including Soil Science, Plant Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their work covers a range of topics, notably Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement, Plant responses to elevated CO2, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Climate change impacts on agriculture, and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology.

They have published in a variety of scientific venues, frequently contributing to journals such as Global Change Biology, Geoderma, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature Food, and The Science of The Total Environment.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Bruce A. Hungate, Ji Chen, Pete Smith, Shan Huang, and Yakov Kuzyakov. Collaboration with these scholars has resulted in multiple scientific outputs.

Selected recent papers by Kees Jan van Groenigen include:

  • A trade-off between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO2, 2021, Nature
  • Greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation in rice agriculture, 2023, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Soil carbon loss with warming: New evidence from carbon-degrading enzymes, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Climate change exacerbates the environmental impacts of agriculture, 2024, Science
  • Rice paddy soils are a quantitatively important carbon store according to a global synthesis, 2021, Communications Earth & Environment

Best Publications

  • Productivity limits and potentials of the principles of conservation agriculture

    Cameron M. Pittelkow;Xinqiang Liang;Bruce A. Linquist;Kees Jan van Groenigen

  • When does no-till yield more? A global meta-analysis

    Cameron M. Pittelkow;Bruce A. Linquist;Mark E. Lundy;Xinqiang Liang

  • An agronomic assessment of greenhouse gas emissions from major cereal crops

    Bruce Linquist;Kees Jan van Groenigen;Kees Jan van Groenigen;Maria Arlene Adviento-Borbe;Cameron Pittelkow

  • Interactions between plant growth and soil nutrient cycling under elevated CO2: a meta-analysis

    Marie Anne de Graaff;Marie Anne de Graaff;Kees Jan van Groenigen;Kees Jan van Groenigen;Johan Six;Bruce Hungate

  • Earthworms increase plant production: a meta- analysis

    Jan Willem van Groenigen;Ingrid M. Lubbers;Hannah M. J. Vos;George G. Brown

  • A trade-off between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO2.

    C. Terrer;C. Terrer;R. P. Phillips;B. A. Hungate;J. Rosende

  • Increased soil emissions of potent greenhouse gases under increased atmospheric CO2

    Kees Jan van Groenigen;Kees Jan van Groenigen;Craig W. Osenberg;Bruce A. Hungate

  • Fertilizer management practices and greenhouse gas emissions from rice systems: A quantitative review and analysis

    Bruce A. Linquist;Maria Arlene Adviento-Borbe;Cameron M. Pittelkow;Chris van Kessel

  • Toward more realistic projections of soil carbon dynamics by Earth system models

    Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo;Anders Ahlström;Anders Ahlström;Steven D. Allison;Niels H. Batjes

  • Greenhouse-gas emissions from soils increased by earthworms

    Ingrid M. Lubbers;Kees Jan van Groenigen;Steven J. Fonte;Johan Six

  • Climate, duration, and N placement determine N2O emissions in reduced tillage systems: a meta‐analysis

    Chris van Kessel;Rodney Venterea;Johan Six;Maria Arlene Adviento-Borbe

  • Element interactions limit soil carbon storage

    Kees Jan Van Groenigen;Johan Six;Bruce A. Hungate;Marie Anne De Graaff;Marie Anne De Graaff

  • Faster Decomposition Under Increased Atmospheric CO2 Limits Soil Carbon Storage

    Kees Jan van Groenigen;Kees Jan van Groenigen;Xuan Qi;Craig W. Osenberg;Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo

  • Accelerated microbial turnover but constant growth efficiency with warming in soil

    Shannon B. Hagerty;Kees Jan van Groenigen;Steven D. Allison;Bruce A. Hungate

  • A keystone microbial enzyme for nitrogen control of soil carbon storage.

    Ji Chen;Ji Chen;Ji Chen;Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo;Kees Jan Van Groenigen;Bruce A. Hungate

  • Sequestering Soil Organic Carbon: A Nitrogen Dilemma

    Jan Willem van Groenigen;Chris van Kessel;Bruce A. Hungate;Oene Oenema

  • Enhanced efficiency nitrogen fertilizers for rice systems: Meta-analysis of yield and nitrogen uptake

    Bruce A. Linquist;Lijun Liu;Chris van Kessel;Kees Jan van Groenigen;Kees Jan van Groenigen

  • Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria are more effective under drought: a meta-analysis

    Rachel L. Rubin;Kees Jan van Groenigen;Bruce A. Hungate

  • Soil carbon loss with warming: New evidence from carbon-degrading enzymes.

    Ji Chen;Lars Elsgaard;Kees Jan van Groenigen;Jørgen Eivind Olesen

  • Abundance, production and stabilization of microbial biomass under conventional and reduced tillage

    Kees-Jan van Groenigen;Jaap Bloem;Erland Bååth;Pascal Boeckx

  • Increased greenhouse-gas intensity of rice production under future atmospheric conditions

    Kees Jan van Groenigen;Kees Jan van Groenigen;Chris van Kessel;Bruce A. Hungate

  • Water management to mitigate the global warming potential of rice systems: A global meta-analysis

    Yu Jiang;Daniela Carrijo;Shan Huang;Ji Chen

  • Bioenergy from “surplus” land: environmental and socio-economic implications

    Jens Dauber;Chris Brown;Ana Luisa Fernando;John Finnan

  • Assessing the effect of elevated carbon dioxide on soil carbon: a comparison of four meta-analyses

    Bruce A. Hungate;Kees Jan van Groenigen;Johan Six;Julie D. Jastrow

  • Effects of multiple global change treatments on soil N 2 O fluxes

    Jamie R. Brown;Joseph C. Blankinship;Joseph C. Blankinship;Audrey Niboyet;Audrey Niboyet;Kees Jan van Groenigen

  • Global warming and shifts in cropping systems together reduce China's rice production

    Changqing Chen;Kees Jan van Groenigen;Huiyi Yang;Bruce A. Hungate

  • Soil C storage as affected by tillage and straw management: An assessment using field measurements and model predictions

    Kees Jan van Groenigen;Kees Jan van Groenigen;Astley Hastings;Dermot Forristal;Brendan Roth

  • Grazing intensity significantly changes the C : N : P stoichiometry in grassland ecosystems

    Miao He;Guiyao Zhou;Tengfei Yuan;Kees Jan van Groenigen

  • High carbon use efficiency in soil microbial communities is related to balanced growth, not storage compound synthesis

    Paul Dijkstra;Elena Salpas;Dawson Fairbanks;Erin B. Miller

  • Increased plant uptake of native soil nitrogen following fertilizer addition – not a priming effect?

    Xiao Jun Allen Liu;Xiao Jun Allen Liu;Kees Jan van Groenigen;Kees Jan van Groenigen;Paul Dijkstra;Bruce A. Hungate

  • Liming and straw retention interact to increase nitrogen uptake and grain yield in a double rice-cropping system

    Ping Liao;Shan Huang;Natasja C. van Gestel;Yongjun Zeng

  • Nighttime warming increases winter-sown wheat yield across major Chinese cropping regions

    Chengyan Zheng;Jun Zhang;Jin Chen;Changqing Chen

  • Using metabolic tracer techniques to assess the impact of tillage and straw management on microbial carbon use efficiency in soil

    Kees Jan van Groenigen;Kees Jan van Groenigen;Dermot Forristal;Mike Jones;Niamh Smyth

  • Acclimation of CH4 emissions from paddy soil to atmospheric CO2 enrichment in a growth chamber experiment

    Haoyu Qian;Yaguo Jin;Jin Chen;Shan Huang

  • Grassland conversion along a climate gradient in northwest China: Implications for soil carbon and nutrients

    Xiaomin Huang;Xiaomin Huang;Zhenwei Song;Kees Jan van Groenigen;Zhiyu Xu

  • Corrigendum to ’Liming and straw retention interact to increase nitrogen uptake and grain yield in a double rice-cropping system’ [Field Crops Research 216 (2018) 217-224]

    Ping Liao;Shan Huang;Natasja C. van Gestel;Yongjun Zeng

  • Nitrogen availability controls plant carbon storage with warming

    Guiyao Zhou;César Terrer;Bruce Hungate;Natasja van Gestel

  • Increased Carbon Throughput But No Net Soil Carbon Loss in Field Warming Experiments: Combining Data Assimilation and Meta-Analyses

    N. van Gestel;Z. Shi;K. J. van Groenigen;C. W. Osenberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce A. Hungate
Bruce A. Hungate Northern Arizona University
Chris van Kessel
Chris van Kessel University of California, Davis
Yiqi Luo
Yiqi Luo Cornell University
Johan Six
Johan Six ETH Zurich
Weijian Zhang
Weijian Zhang Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Paul Dijkstra
Paul Dijkstra Northern Arizona University
Bruce A. Linquist
Bruce A. Linquist University of California, Davis
Craig W. Osenberg
Craig W. Osenberg University of Georgia
Egbert Schwartz
Egbert Schwartz Northern Arizona University
Rodney T. Venterea
Rodney T. Venterea Agricultural Research Service

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