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Overview

Liwang Ma is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Service in the United States. Their research primarily intersects agricultural and biological sciences with environmental science, contributing extensively to both fields.

The scientist's work covers a variety of subfields including ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, soil science, environmental chemistry, agronomy and crop science, and plant science.

Main research topics addressed by Liwang Ma include:

  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Soil and water nutrient dynamics
  • Irrigation practices and water management
  • Crop yield and soil fertility
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics
  • Ruminant nutrition and digestive physiology

Notable recent publications by Liwang Ma include:

  • Evaluation of APEX modifications to simulate forage production for grazing management decision-support in the Western US Great Plains, 2021, Agricultural Systems
  • Modeling maize production under growth stage-based deficit irrigation management with RZWQM2, 2021, Agricultural Water Management
  • Effects of residue removal and tillage on greenhouse gas emissions in continuous corn systems as simulated with RZWQM2, 2021, Journal of Environmental Management
  • Drainage N Loads Under Climate Change with Winter Rye Cover Crop in a Northern Mississippi River Basin Corn-Soybean Rotation, 2020, Sustainability
  • Simulated climate change effects on soybean production using two crop modules in RZWQM2, 2020, Agronomy Journal

Liwang Ma frequently collaborates with colleagues such as:

  • Zhiming Qi
  • Quanxiao Fang
  • R. Daren Harmel
  • Kelly R. Thorp
  • Virginia L. Jin

The scientist commonly publishes in journals such as:

  • Transactions of the ASABE
  • Agricultural Water Management
  • Agricultural Systems
  • Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
  • Field Crops Research

Best Publications

  • Water resources and water use efficiency in the North China Plain: Current status and agronomic management options

    Q.X. Fang;L. Ma;T. R. G. Green;Q. Yu;Q. Yu

  • Irrigation strategies to improve the water use efficiency of wheat-maize double cropping systems in North China Plain

    Q.X. Fang;L. Ma;Q. Yu;L.R. Ahuja

  • Root Zone Water Quality Model (RZWQM2): Model Use, Calibration, and Validation

    Liwang Ma;Lajpat Ahuja;B. T. Nolan;Robert Malone

  • Modeling Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics for Soil Management

    M.J. Shaffer;Liwang Ma;Soren Hansen

  • Evaluation of the RZWQM-CERES-Maize hybrid model for maize production

    L. Ma;G. Hoogenboom;L.R. Ahuja;J.C. Ascough

  • Simulating Planting Date Effects on Corn Production Using RZWQM and CERES‐Maize Models

    Saseendran S. Anapalli;L. Ma;D. C. Nielsen;M. F. Vigil

  • Hysteretic Characteristics of Atrazine Adsorption-Desorption by a Sharkey Soil

    Liwang Ma;Lloyd M. Southwick;Guye H. Willis;H. Magdi Selim

  • ROOT ZONE WATER QUALITY MODEL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS USING MONTE CARLO SIMULATION

    L. Ma;J. C. Ascough;L. R. Ahuja;M. J. Shaffer

  • Modeling the Transport and Retention of Cadmium in Soils: Multireaction and Multicomponent Approaches

    H. M. Selim;B. Buchter;C. Hinz;L. Ma

  • Modeling the impacts of climate change on irrigated corn production in the Central Great Plains

    Adlul Islam;Lajpat R. Ahuja;Luis A. Garcia;Liwang Ma

  • Integrating system modeling with field research in agriculture: applications of the root zone water quality model (RZWQM)

    L. Ma;L.R. Ahuja;J.C. Ascough;M.J. Shaffer

  • A Protocol for Parameterization and Calibration of RZWQM2 in Field Research

    L. Ma;L.R. Ahuja;S.A. Saseendran;R.W. Malone

  • Calibrating RZWQM2 model for maize responses to deficit irrigation

    Liwang Ma;Thomas J. Trout;Lajpat R. Ahuja;Walter C. Bausch

  • Evaluating Nitrogen and Water Management in a Double-Cropping System Using RZWQM

    C. Hu;S. A. Saseendran;T. R. Green;L. Ma

  • Modeling a wheat-maize double cropping system in China using two plant growth modules in RZWQM

    Q. Yu;S.A. Saseendran;L. Ma;G.N. Flerchinger

  • Modelling crop canopy and residue rainfall interception effects on soil hydrological components for semi‐arid agriculture

    Joseph A. Kozak;Lajpat R. Ahuja;Timothy R. Green;Liwang Ma

  • Effects of Estimating Soil Hydraulic Properties and Root Growth Factor on Soil Water Balance and Crop Production

    Liwang Ma;Gerrit Hoogenboom;S. A. Saseendran;P. N. S. Bartling

  • Agricultural System Models in Field Research and Technology Transfer

    Lajpat R. Ahuja;Liwang Ma;Terry A Howell

  • Trans-Disciplinary Soil Physics Research Critical to Synthesis and Modeling of Agricultural Systems

    Lajpat R. Ahuja;Liwang Ma;Dennis J. Timlin

  • Application of the Root Zone Water Quality Model (RZWQM) to pesticide fate and transport: an overview.

    Robert W Malone;Lajpat R Ahuja;Liwang Ma;R Don Wauchope

  • Physical nonequilibrium in soils : modeling and application

    Hussein Magd Eldin Selim;Liwang Ma

  • Tillage effect on macroporosity and herbicide transport in percolate

    R.W Malone;S Logsdon;M.J Shipitalo;J Weatherington-Rice

  • Methods of Introducing System Models into Agricultural Research

    Laj R Ahuja;Liwang Ma

Frequent Co-Authors

Lajpat R. Ahuja
Lajpat R. Ahuja Agricultural Research Service
Robert W. Malone
Robert W. Malone Agricultural Research Service
David C. Nielsen
David C. Nielsen Agricultural Research Service
Thomas J. Trout
Thomas J. Trout Agricultural Research Service
Jerry L. Hatfield
Jerry L. Hatfield Iowa State University
Timothy R. Green
Timothy R. Green Agricultural Research Service
H. M. Selim
H. M. Selim Louisiana State University
Gerrit Hoogenboom
Gerrit Hoogenboom University of Florida
Gerald N. Flerchinger
Gerald N. Flerchinger Agricultural Research Service
Dan B. Jaynes
Dan B. Jaynes Agricultural Research Service

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