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Rainer Horn

Rainer Horn

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Environmental Sciences
Germany
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
85
Citations
25502
World Ranking
748
National Ranking
46

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award
  • 1975 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Rainer Horn is affiliated with Kiel University in Germany and has an extensive body of research primarily in the fields of Engineering, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Environmental Science. Their work covers key subfields including Civil and Structural Engineering, Soil Science, Environmental Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Global and Planetary Change.

Horn's research topics focus on various soil-related processes and dynamics, encompassing Soil and Unsaturated Flow, Soil Management and Crop Yield, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Soil erosion and sediment transport, Landslides and related hazards, Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization, and Soil Mechanics and Vehicle Dynamics.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Horn include:

  • Characterizing uncertainty in process-based hydraulic modeling, exemplified in a semiarid Inner Mongolia steppe (2023), Geoderma
  • Managing Soils for Recovering from the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020), Soil Systems
  • Soil structure effects on deformation, pore water pressure, and consequences for air permeability during compaction and subsequent shearing (2021), Geoderma
  • Short-term effects of compaction on soil mechanical properties and pore functions of an Andisol (2022), Soil and Tillage Research
  • Effective stress and pore water dynamics in unsaturated soils: Influence of soil compaction history and soil properties (2021), Soil and Tillage Research

Horn has collaborated frequently with several researchers including Heiner Fleige, José Dörner, Anneka Mordhorst, John Clunes, and Ole Wendroth, with the number of joint publications ranging from 10 to 23 per collaborator.

The scientist's research outputs have appeared in a variety of venues, notable ones being Soil and Tillage Research, Handbuch der Bodenkunde, SSRN Electronic Journal, Geoderma, and the Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition.

In addition to articles, Horn has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Universitätsverlag Kiel | Kiel University Publishing eBooks titled "Festschrift zum 75. Jubiläum der Agrar- und Ernährungswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (1946-2021)" in 2021.

Among formal recognitions, Horn received the designation of Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1975.

Best Publications

  • Scheffer/Schachtschabel Lehrbuch der Bodenkunde

    Wulf Amelung;Hans-Peter Blume;Heinrich Fleige;Rainer Horn

  • Modeling Soil Processes: Review, Key Challenges, and New Perspectives

    H. Vereecken;A. Schnepf;J. W. Hopmans;M. Javaux

  • Reference bulk density and critical degree-of-compactness for no-till crop production in subtropical highly weathered soils

    José Miguel Reichert;Luis Eduardo Akiyoshi Sanches Suzuki;Dalvan José Reinert;Rainer Horn

  • Soil compaction processes and their effects on the structure of arable soils and the environment

    R. Horn;H. Domżżał;Anna Słowińska-Jurkiewicz;C. van Ouwerkerk

  • Soil physical properties related to soil structure

    R. Horn;H. Taubner;M. Wuttke;T. Baumgartl

  • Einführung in die Bodenphysik

    Karl Heinrich Hartge;Rainer Horn;Jörg Bachmann;Stephan Peth

  • Historical increase in agricultural machinery weights enhanced soil stress levels and adversely affected soil functioning

    Thomas Keller;Thomas Keller;Maria Sandin;Tino Colombi;Rainer Horn

  • Land use change impacts on floods at the catchment scale : challenges and opportunities for future research

    M. Rogger;M. Agnoletti;A. Alaoui;J.C. Bathurst

  • Structure formation and its consequences for gas and water transport in unsaturated arable and forest soils

    R. Horn;A. Smucker

  • Nutrient acquisition from arable subsoils in temperate climates: A review

    Timo Kautz;Wulf Amelung;Frank Ewert;Thomas Gaiser

  • Three-Dimensional Quantification of Intra-Aggregate Pore-Space Features using Synchrotron-Radiation-Based Microtomography

    S. Peth;R. Horn;F. Beckmann;T. Donath

  • A method for assessing the impact of load on mechanical stability and on physical properties of soils

    R Horn;H Fleige

  • Effects of trampling by cattle on the hydraulic and mechanical properties of soil

    Liisa Pietola;Rainer Horn;Markku Yli-Halla

  • Modeling Soil Shrinkage Curve across a Wide Range of Soil Types

    X. Peng;R. Horn

  • Mechanisms of aggregate stabilization in Ultisols from subtropical China

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  • A method to predict the mechanical strength of agricultural soils

    Matthias Lebert;Rainer Horn

  • Spatial variability of soil properties affected by grazing intensity in Inner Mongolia grassland

    Ying Zhao;Ying Zhao;Stephan Peth;Julia Krümmelbein;Rainer Horn

  • Effects of soil compaction on root elongation and anatomy of different cereal plant species

    Jerzy Lipiec;Rainer Horn;Jacek Pietrusiewicz;Anna Siczek

  • Physical carbon-sequestration mechanisms under special consideration of soil wettability

    Jörg Bachmann;Georg Guggenberger;Thomas Baumgartl;Ruth H. Ellerbrock

  • Time Dependence of Soil Mechanical Properties and Pore Functions for Arable Soils

    Rainer Horn

  • Modern forestry vehicles and their impacts on soil physical properties

    R. Horn;J. Vossbrink;S. Becker

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephan Peth
Stephan Peth University of Hannover
Ingrid Kögel-Knabner
Ingrid Kögel-Knabner Technical University of Munich
Xinhua Peng
Xinhua Peng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ellen Kandeler
Ellen Kandeler University of Hohenheim
Anthony R. Dexter
Anthony R. Dexter Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation
Ying Zhao
Ying Zhao Ludong University
Karl Stahr
Karl Stahr University of Hohenheim
Wolfgang Zech
Wolfgang Zech University of Bayreuth
Horst H. Gerke
Horst H. Gerke Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research

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