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Environmental Sciences
Australia
2023

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Plant Science and Agronomy

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69
Citations
20894
World Ranking
740
National Ranking
71

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
73
Citations
21808
World Ranking
1405
National Ranking
64

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  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Peter J. Thorburn is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Their research spans primarily the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant focus on subfields including Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Agronomy and Crop Science, Soil Science, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics of their work concentrate on climate change impacts on agriculture, crop yield and soil fertility, greenhouse technology and climate control, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, wheat and barley genetics and pathology, water quality monitoring technologies, and plant water relations and carbon dynamics.

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Peter J. Thorburn has coauthored numerous publications alongside Gerrit Hoogenboom, Kurt Christian Kersebaum, Taru Palosuo, Benjamin Dumont, and Sebastian Gayler.

They have contributed to academic literature in several publication venues, with multiple works appearing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Environmental Modelling & Software, Agronomy for Sustainable Development, European Journal of Agronomy, and Marine Pollution Bulletin.

Selected recent papers include:

  • Modelling climate change impacts on maize yields under low nitrogen input conditions in sub-Saharan Africa, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Fine-scale prediction of biomass and leaf nitrogen content in sugarcane using UAV LiDAR and multispectral imaging, 2020, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
  • Handling missing data in near real-time environmental monitoring: A system and a review of selected methods, 2021, Future Generation Computer Systems
  • Predicting the Trend of Dissolved Oxygen Based on the kPCA-RNN Model, 2020, Water
  • The chaos in calibrating crop models: Lessons learned from a multi-model calibration exercise, 2021, Environmental Modelling & Software

Best Publications

  • Rising Temperatures Reduce Global Wheat Production

    S. Asseng;F. Ewert;P. Martre;P. Martre;R. P. Rötter

  • APSIM - Evolution towards a new generation of agricultural systems simulation

    Dean P. Holzworth;Neil I. Huth;Peter G. deVoil;Eric J. Zurcher

  • Uncertainty in Simulating Wheat Yields Under Climate Change

    S. Asseng;F. Ewert;C. Rosenzweig;J. W. Jones

  • The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP): Protocols and Pilot Studies

    C. Rosenzweig;C. Rosenzweig;J. W. Jones;J. L. Hatfield;A. C. Ruane;A. C. Ruane

  • Similar estimates of temperature impacts on global wheat yield by three independent methods

    Bing Liu;Bing Liu;Senthold Asseng;Christoph Müller;Frank Ewert

  • Multimodel ensembles of wheat growth: many models are better than one

    Pierre Martre;Pierre Martre;Daniel Wallach;Senthold Asseng;Frank Ewert

  • Climate change impact and adaptation for wheat protein

    Senthold Asseng;Pierre Martre;Andrea Maiorano;Reimund P Rötter

  • Analysis of soil wetting and solute transport in subsurface trickle irrigation

    Claire M. Cote;Keith L. Bristow;Philip B. Charlesworth;Freeman J. Cook

  • Nitrate in groundwaters of intensive agricultural areas in coastal Northeastern Australia

    Peter J Thorburn;Jody S Biggs;Keith L Weier;Brian A Keating

  • Growth and function of the sugarcane root system

    D.M. Smith;N.G. Inman-Bamber;P.J. Thorburn

  • The uncertainty of crop yield projections is reduced by improved temperature response functions.

    Enli Wang;Pierre Martre;Zhigan Zhao;Zhigan Zhao;Frank Ewert

  • “If they don’t tell us what they do with it, why would we trust them?” Trust, transparency and benefit-sharing in Smart Farming

    Emma Jakku;Bruce Taylor;Aysha Fleming;Claire Mason

  • Sources of water used by riparian Eucalyptus camaldulensis overlying highly saline groundwater.

    Lisa J. Mensforth;Peter J. Thorburn;Steve D. Tyerman;Glen R. Walker

  • A conceptual framework for guiding the participatory development of agricultural decision support systems

    E. Jakku;P.J. Thorburn

  • Agricultural production systems modelling and software

    Dean P. Holzworth;Val Snow;Sander Janssen;Ioannis N. Athanasiadis

  • Towards protecting the Great Barrier Reef from land-based pollution

    Frederieke J. Kroon;Peter Thorburn;Britta Schaffelke;Stuart Whitten

  • Towards improved calibration of crop models – Where are we now and where should we go?

    Sabine J. Seidel;Taru Palosuo;Peter Thorburn;Daniel Wallach

  • Combining measurements of transpiration and stable isotopes of water to determine groundwater discharge from forests

    Peter J. Thorburn;Thomas J. Hatton;Glen R. Walker

  • Modelling decomposition of sugar cane surface residues with APSIM–Residue

    Peter J. Thorburn;Mervyn E. Probert;Fiona A. Robertson

  • Using the APSIM model to estimate nitrous oxide emissions from diverse Australian sugarcane production systems.

    P.J. Thorburn;J.S. Biggs;K. Collins;M.E. Probert

  • Management of sugarcane harvest residues: consequences for soil carbon and nitrogen

    Fiona A. Robertson;Peter J. Thorburn

  • Salt accumulation in semi-arid floodplain soils with implications for forest health

    Ian D. Jolly;Glen R. Walker;Peter J. Thorburn

Frequent Co-Authors

Senthold Asseng
Senthold Asseng Technical University of Munich
Bruno Basso
Bruno Basso Michigan State University
Alex C. Ruane
Alex C. Ruane Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Pierre Martre
Pierre Martre INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Andrew J. Challinor
Andrew J. Challinor University of Leeds
Kenneth J. Boote
Kenneth J. Boote University of Florida
Davide Cammarano
Davide Cammarano Aarhus University
Jørgen E. Olesen
Jørgen E. Olesen Aarhus University
Kurt Christian Kersebaum
Kurt Christian Kersebaum Czech Academy of Sciences
Sebastian Gayler
Sebastian Gayler University of Hohenheim

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