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Nicholas B. Comerford

Nicholas B. Comerford

D-Index & Metrics

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
47
Citations
6954
World Ranking
2582
National Ranking
635

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
48
Citations
7168
World Ranking
5609
National Ranking
2040

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Sergei A. Wilde Distinguished Lectureship on Forest Soils, American Society of Agronomy
  • 2001 - Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

Overview

Nicholas B. Comerford is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their research primarily spans multiple fields of study including Environmental Science, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Materials Science. Their work also extends into subfields such as Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Soil Science, and Biomaterials.

Their academic contributions include investigation of key topics related to soil and nutrient management. Main topics of their work include:

  • Phosphorus and nutrient management
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Clay minerals and soil interactions

One documented recent publication by Comerford is titled "Biochar Chemistry in a Weathered Tropical Soil: Kinetics of Phosphorus Sorption", published in 2021 in the journal Agriculture. This paper has been cited multiple times and demonstrates their focus within agricultural and soil chemistry research.

Collaborations have been a part of their scientific work. Frequent co-authors include Marina Moura Morales, Maurel Behling, Daniel Carneiro de Abreu, and Iraê Amaral Guerrini.

Their publications are often found in the journal Agriculture, reflecting their active involvement in agricultural science research.

Comerford's professional recognition includes receiving the Sergei A. Wilde Distinguished Lectureship on Forest Soils from the American Society of Agronomy in 2011. Additionally, they were named a Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) in 2001.

Best Publications

  • Low-Molecular-Weight Organic Acids in Selected Forest Soils of the Southeastern USA

    T. R. Fox;N. B. Comerford

  • Phosphorus and Aluminum Release from a Spodic Horizon Mediated by Organic Acids

    T. R. Fox;N. B. Comerford;W. W. McFee

  • Development of an environmental virtual field laboratory

    V. Ramasundaram;S. Grunwald;A. Mangeot;N. B. Comerford

  • Influence of oxalate and soil organic matter on sorption and desorption of phosphate onto a spodic horizon

    J. S. Bhatti;N. B. Comerford;C. T. Johnston

  • Characterization of soil organic carbon pools by acid hydrolysis

    M.L. Silveira;N.B. Comerford;K.R. Reddy;W.T. Cooper

  • Sorption and desorption of phosphate on biochar and biochar–soil mixtures

    M. M. Morales;N. Comerford;Iraê Amaral Guerrini;N. P S Falcão

  • Effects of timber management on the hydrology of wetland forests in the southern United States

    Ge Sun;Steven G. McNulty;James P. Shepard;Devendra M. Amatya

  • Rhizosphere phosphatase activity and phosphatase hydrolyzable organic phosphorus in two forested spodosols

    T.R. Fox;N.B. Comerford

  • Kinetics of phosphorus release from Spodosols: effects of oxalate and formate.

    T. R. Fox;N. B. Comerford;W. W. McFee

  • Litter dynamics and monthly fluctuations in soil phosphorus availability in an Amazonian agroforest

    Deborah A. McGrath;Nicholas B. Comerford;Mary L. Duryea

  • Carbon Mineralization and Labile Organic Carbon Pools in the Sandy Soils of a North Florida Watershed

    Mi-Youn Ahn;Andrew R. Zimmerman;Nick B. Comerford;James O. Sickman

  • Regional modelling of soil carbon at multiple depths within a subtropical watershed.

    G.M. Vasques;S. Grunwald;N.B. Comerford;J.O. Sickman

  • An exploratory analysis of phosphorus transformations in tropical soils using structural equation modeling

    A. C. Gama-Rodrigues;M. V. S. Sales;P. S. D. Silva;N. B. Comerford

  • Soil Factors Affecting Nutrient Bioavailability

    N.B. Comerford

  • Phosphorus mineralization kinetics and response of microbial phosphorus to drying and rewetting in a Florida Spodosol

    P.F. Grierson;N.B. Comerford;E.J. Jokela

  • Influence of Oxalate Loading on Phosphorus and Aluminum Solubility in Spodosols

    T. R. Fox;N. B. Comerford

  • Influence of soil pH on inorganic phosphorus sorption and desorption in a humid brazilian Ultisol

    Shinjiro Sato;Nicholas Brian Comerford

  • Alocação de nutrientes em plantios de eucalipto no Brasil

    Reynaldo Campos Santana;Nairam Félix de Barros;Roberto Ferreira Novais;Hélio Garcia Leite

  • Land use and landscape effects on aggregate stability and total carbon of Andisols from the Colombian Andes

    Natalia Hoyos;Nicholas B. Comerford

  • Pyrolysis methods impact biosolids-derived biochar composition, maize growth and nutrition

    Maria Isidoria Silva Gonzaga;Cheryl L. Mackowiak;Nicholas Brian Comerford;Ederlon Flávio da Veiga Moline

  • Importance of weed control, fertilization, irrigation, and genetics in slash and loblolly pine early growth on poorly drained spodosols.

    D.G. Neary;D.L. Rockwood;N.B. Comerford;B.F. Swindel

  • SIMULATING NUTRIENT UPTAKE BY SINGLE OR COMPETING AND CONTRASTING ROOT SYSTEMS

    P. J. Smethurst;N. B. Comerford

  • Grazing depresses soil carbon storage through changing plant biomass and composition in a Tibetan alpine meadow

    D. S. Sun;Karsten Wesche;D. D. Chen;S. H. Zhang

  • Forest Soils and Nutrient Cycles

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric J. Jokela
Eric J. Jokela University of Florida
Sabine Grunwald
Sabine Grunwald University of Florida
Pauline F. Grierson
Pauline F. Grierson University of Western Australia
Wendell P. Cropper
Wendell P. Cropper University of Florida
Thomas R. Fox
Thomas R. Fox Boehringer Ingelheim (Germany)
Cheryl L. Mackowiak
Cheryl L. Mackowiak University of Florida
K. R. Reddy
K. R. Reddy University of Florida
Ge Sun
Ge Sun US Forest Service
James O. Sickman
James O. Sickman University of California, Riverside
Willie G. Harris
Willie G. Harris University of Florida

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