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Laurie E. Drinkwater

Laurie E. Drinkwater

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
46
Citations
13097
World Ranking
2615
National Ranking
646

Overview

What is she best known for?

The fields of study she is best known for:

  • Ecology
  • Agriculture
  • Ecosystem

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Agronomy, Green manure, Fertilizer, Nutrient and Nitrogen cycle. Her work carried out in the field of Agronomy brings together such families of science as Soil organic matter, No-till farming, Soil fertility and Agroecosystem. The concepts of her Green manure study are interwoven with issues in Food science, Crop residue and Botany.

Her Fertilizer research includes themes of Mollisol, Drainage basin, Cover crop, Crop rotation and Crop yield. She has included themes like Agriculture and Poaceae in her Nutrient study. As a part of the same scientific study, Laurie E. Drinkwater usually deals with the Nitrogen cycle, concentrating on Ecology and frequently concerns with Human impact on the nitrogen cycle and Nitrogen balance.

Her most cited work include:

  • Legume-based cropping systems have reduced carbon and nitrogen losses (870 citations)
  • Nutrient Imbalances in agricultural development (830 citations)
  • Replacing bare fallows with cover crops in fertilizer-intensive cropping systems: A meta-analysis of crop yield and N dynamics (480 citations)

What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?

Her primary areas of study are Agronomy, Fertilizer, Cover crop, Agroecosystem and Agriculture. Agronomy is closely attributed to Nutrient in her work. Her Fertilizer study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Cash crop, Crop, Drainage basin, Water quality and Manure.

Her biological study deals with issues like Tillage, which deal with fields such as Organic farming. Her Agroecosystem research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Soil water, Ecosystem and Nitrogen. Her research integrates issues of Natural resource economics and Sustainability in her study of Agriculture.

She most often published in these fields:

  • Agronomy (56.16%)
  • Fertilizer (19.18%)
  • Cover crop (17.81%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2016-2021)?

  • Agronomy (56.16%)
  • Cover crop (17.81%)
  • Crop yield (13.70%)

In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:

Laurie E. Drinkwater mainly investigates Agronomy, Cover crop, Crop yield, Tillage and Monoculture. The various areas that Laurie E. Drinkwater examines in her Agronomy study include Agriculture and Agroecosystem. Her research in Cover crop focuses on subjects like Fertilizer, which are connected to Growing season, Ecosystem, Manure, Soil texture and Cash crop.

Her work investigates the relationship between Tillage and topics such as Nutrient management that intersect with problems in Livelihood, Agricultural productivity, Sustainable management, Environmental resource management and Nutrient cycle. Her Weed study also includes

  • Competition that intertwine with fields like Soil biology, Soil fertility, Soil water and Soil management,

  • Organic farming that intertwine with fields like Sowing, Cropping and Crop rotation. Her Hybrid study also includes fields such as

  • Biomass and Nutrient most often made with reference to Phenology,

  • Plant nutrition that intertwine with fields like Crop.

Between 2016 and 2021, her most popular works were:

  • Cultivar mixtures: a meta-analysis of the effect of intraspecific diversity on crop yield (72 citations)
  • N2O emissions from grain cropping systems: a meta-analysis of the impacts of fertilizer-based and ecologically-based nutrient management strategies (34 citations)
  • Plant Phylogeny and Life History Shape Rhizosphere Bacterial Microbiome of Summer Annuals in an Agricultural Field. (23 citations)

In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Ecology
  • Agriculture
  • Ecosystem

Laurie E. Drinkwater spends much of her time researching Tillage, Nutrient management, Agriculture, Agronomy and Phylogenetics. Her Tillage research integrates issues from Fertilizer, Cash crop, Cover crop, Soil texture and Manure. Her Nutrient management research includes elements of Agroforestry, Livelihood, Agricultural productivity, Sustainable management and Environmental resource management.

Laurie E. Drinkwater has researched Agriculture in several fields, including Soil organic matter, Monoculture, Crop yield and Abiotic component. Her Agronomy study combines topics in areas such as Agroecosystem and Intraspecific competition. Her Life history theory research incorporates themes from Nitrogen cycle and Root microbiome.

Best Publications

  • Nutrient Imbalances in agricultural development

    P.M. Vitousek;Rosamond L. Naylor;T. Crews;M.B. David

  • Legume-based cropping systems have reduced carbon and nitrogen losses

    L. E. Drinkwater;P. Wagoner;M. Sarrantonio;M. Sarrantonio

  • Replacing bare fallows with cover crops in fertilizer-intensive cropping systems: A meta-analysis of crop yield and N dynamics.

    C. Tonitto;M.B. David;L.E. Drinkwater

  • Permanganate Oxidizable Carbon Reflects a Processed Soil Fraction that is Sensitive to Management

    Steven W. Culman;Sieglinde S. Snapp;Mark A. Freeman;Meagan E. Schipanski

  • Fundamental Differences Between Conventional and Organic Tomato Agroecosystems in California

    L. E. Drinkwater;D. K. Letourneau;F. Workneh;A. H. C. van Bruggen

  • Nutrients in agroecosystems: Rethinking the management paradigm

    L. E. Drinkwater;S. S. Snapp

  • Sources of nitrate yields in the Mississippi River Basin.

    Mark B. David;Laurie E. Drinkwater;Gregory F. McIsaac

  • Short-Term Dynamics of Root- and Shoot-Derived Carbon from a Leguminous Green Manure

    P. Puget;L.E. Drinkwater

  • The fate of nitrogen in grain cropping systems: a meta‐analysis of 15N field experiments

    Jennifer B. Gardner;Laurie E. Drinkwater

  • Potentially Mineralizable Nitrogen as an Indicator of Biologically Active Soil Nitrogen

    Laurie E. Drinkwater;Cynthia A. Cambardella;Jean D. Reeder;Charles W. Rice

  • Cultivar mixtures: a meta-analysis of the effect of intraspecific diversity on crop yield

    Emily R. Reiss;Laurie E. Drinkwater

  • Effect of tillage and farming system upon VAM fungus populations and mycorrhizas and nutrient uptake of maize

    L. Galvez;D. D. Douds;L. E. Drinkwater;P. Wagoner

  • Comparison of substrate utilization assay and fatty acid analysis of soil microbial communities

    Jeffrey S Buyer;Laurie E Drinkwater

  • Diversity of communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi present in conventional versus low-input agricultural sites in eastern Pennsylvania, USA ☆

    Marlise Franke-Snyder;David D Douds;Larisa Galvez;John G Phillips

  • Effect of compost addition and crop rotation point upon VAM fungi

    D.D. Douds;L. Galvez;M. Franke-Snyder;C. Reider

  • Agricultural Management and Labile Carbon Additions Affect Soil Microbial Community Structure and Interact with Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling

    Sean T. Berthrong;Daniel H. Buckley;Laurie E. Drinkwater

  • Nitrogen fixation in annual and perennial legume-grass mixtures across a fertility gradient

    Meagan E. Schipanski;Meagan E. Schipanski;Laurie E. Drinkwater

  • The impact of nitrogen source and crop rotation on nitrogen mass balances in the Mississippi River Basin

    J Blesh;L. E. Drinkwater

  • Variables associated with corky root and phytophthora root rot of tomatoes in organic and conventional farms

    F. Workneh;A. H. C. Van Bruggen;L. E. Drinkwater;C. Shennan

  • Understanding the variability in soybean nitrogen fixation across agroecosystems

    M. E. Schipanski;L. E. Drinkwater;M. P. Russelle

  • Effects of tillage intensity on nitrogen dynamics and productivity in legume-based grain systems

    L.E. Drinkwater;R.R. Janke;L. Rossoni-Longnecker

  • Fostering soil stewardship through soil quality assessment

    Michelle M Wander;Laurie E Drinkwater

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark B. David
Mark B. David University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Carol Shennan
Carol Shennan University of California, Santa Cruz
Sieglinde S. Snapp
Sieglinde S. Snapp International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Deborah K. Letourneau
Deborah K. Letourneau University of California, Santa Cruz
David D. Douds
David D. Douds Agricultural Research Service
Louise E. Jackson
Louise E. Jackson University of California, Davis
A.H.C. van Bruggen
A.H.C. van Bruggen University of Florida
Fusuo Zhang
Fusuo Zhang China Agricultural University
Pedro A. Sanchez
Pedro A. Sanchez University of Florida
Cheryl A. Palm
Cheryl A. Palm University of Florida

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