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  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA)

Overview

Marty R. Schmer is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Service in the United States and focuses on research within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields including Soil Science, Agronomy and Crop Science, Plant Science, Environmental Chemistry, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
  • Bioenergy crop production and management
  • Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
  • Agricultural Innovations and Practices

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Marty R. Schmer include:

  • Long-Term Evidence Shows that Crop-Rotation Diversification Increases Agricultural Resilience to Adverse Growing Conditions in North America (2020), published in One Earth
  • Increasing crop rotational diversity can enhance cereal yields (2023), published in Communications Earth & Environment
  • Indicators of water use efficiency across diverse agroecosystems and spatiotemporal scales (2022), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • A global atlas of soil viruses reveals unexplored biodiversity and potential biogeochemical impacts (2024), published in Nature Microbiology
  • Microbial feedbacks on soil organic matter dynamics underlying the legacy effect of diversified cropping systems (2022), published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Marty R. Schmer collaborates frequently with several co-authors including Virginia L. Jin, Girma Birru, Tala Awada, Ariel Freidenreich, and Brian J. Wienhold.

The scientist has published multiple articles in key venues that include:

  • Journal of Environmental Quality
  • Agronomy Journal
  • One Earth
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Marty R. Schmer has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA) since 2018.

Best Publications

  • Net energy of cellulosic ethanol from switchgrass

    Marty R. Schmer;Kenneth P. Vogel;Robert B. Mitchell;Richard K. Perrin

  • Long-Term Evidence Shows that Crop-Rotation Diversification Increases Agricultural Resilience to Adverse Growing Conditions in North America

    Timothy M. Bowles;Maria Mooshammer;Yvonne Socolar;Francisco Calderón

  • Farm-Scale Production Cost of Switchgrass for Biomass

    Richard K Perrin;Kenneth P. Vogel;Marty R. Schmer;Robert B. Mitchell

  • Soil Carbon Storage by Switchgrass Grown for Bioenergy

    Mark A. Liebig;Marty R. Schmer;Kenneth P. Vogel;Robert B. Mitchell

  • Long-term tillage impact on soil hydraulic properties

    Humberto Blanco-Canqui;Brian J. Wienhold;Virginia L. Jin;Marty R. Schmer

  • Diversification and ecosystem services for conservation agriculture: Outcomes from pastures and integrated crop-livestock systems

    Matt A. Sanderson;David Archer;John Hendrickson;Scott Kronberg

  • Establishment Stand Thresholds for Switchgrass Grown as a Bioenergy Crop

    Marty R. Schmer;Kenneth P. Vogel;Robert B. Mitchell;Lowell E. Moser

  • Increasing crop rotational diversity can enhance cereal yields

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  • Plant Adaptation Regions: Ecological and Climatic Classification of Plant Materials

    Kenneth P. Vogel;Marty R. Schmer;Robert B. Mitchell

  • Dedicated Energy Crops and Crop Residues for Bioenergy Feedstocks in the Central and Eastern USA

    R. B. Mitchell;M. R. Schmer;W. F. Anderson;V. Jin

  • Field-scale soil property changes under switchgrass managed for bioenergy

    Schmer Mr;Liebig Ma;Vogel Kp;Mitchell Rb

  • Energy Potential and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Bioenergy Cropping Systems on Marginally Productive Cropland

    Marty R. Schmer;Kenneth P. Vogel;Gary E. Varvel;Ronald F. Follett

  • Soil Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Response to Corn Stover Removal and Tillage Management Across the US Corn Belt

    Virginia L. Jin;John M. Baker;Jane M.-F. Johnson;Douglas L. Karlen

  • Sugarcane straw removal effects on plant growth and stalk yield

    Izaias P Lisboa;Izaias P Lisboa;Maurício R Cherubin;Renato P Lima;Carlos Clemente Cerri

  • Switchgrass Harvest and Storage

    Robert B. Mitchell;Marty R. Schmer

  • Switchgrass Biomass Simulation at Diverse Sites in the Northern Great Plains of the U.S.

    Jim R. Kiniry;Marty R. Schmer;Kenneth P. Vogel;Robert B. Mitchell

  • Winter oilseed production for biofuel in the US Corn Belt: opportunities and limitations

    Aaron J. Sindelar;Marty R. Schmer;Russell W. Gesch;Frank Forcella

  • Indicators of water use efficiency across diverse agroecosystems and spatiotemporal scales.

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  • Twelve Years of Stover Removal Increases Soil Erosion Potential without Impacting Yield

    Virginia L. Jin;Marty R. Schmer;Brian J. Wienhold;Catherine E. Stewart

  • Can Cover Crop and Manure Maintain Soil Properties After Stover Removal from Irrigated No-Till Corn?

    Humberto Blanco-Canqui;Richard B. Ferguson;Virginia L. Jin;Marty R. Schmer

  • Temporal and Spatial Variation in Switchgrass Biomass Composition and Theoretical Ethanol Yield

    Marty R. Schmer;Kenneth P. Vogel;R. B. Mitchell;B. S. Dien

  • Spatial and Temporal Effects on Switchgrass Stands and Yield in the Great Plains

    Marty R. Schmer;R. B. Mitchell;K. P. Vogel;Walter H. Schacht

  • Long-Term Corn and Soybean Response to Crop Rotation and Tillage

    Aaron J. Sindelar;Marty R. Schmer;Virginia L. Jin;Brian J. Wienhold

  • Energy Potential and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Bioenergy Cropping Systems on Marginally Productive Cropland: Energy Potential and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Bioenergy Cropping Systems on Marginally Productive Cropland

    Marty Schmer;Kenneth Vogel;Gary Varvel;Ronald Follett

Frequent Co-Authors

Virginia L. Jin
Virginia L. Jin US Department of Agriculture
Robert B. Mitchell
Robert B. Mitchell US Department of Agriculture
Brian J. Wienhold
Brian J. Wienhold US Department of Agriculture
Kenneth P. Vogel
Kenneth P. Vogel Agricultural Research Service
Mark A. Liebig
Mark A. Liebig Agricultural Research Service
Gary E. Varvel
Gary E. Varvel University of Nebraska–Lincoln
David W. Archer
David W. Archer Agricultural Research Service
Bruce S. Dien
Bruce S. Dien National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research
Matt A. Sanderson
Matt A. Sanderson Agricultural Research Service
Richard B. Ferguson
Richard B. Ferguson University of Nebraska–Lincoln

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