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Overview

Richard T. Conant is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States. Their research focuses on multiple aspects of environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a particular emphasis on soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics.

The main fields of study in their work include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

They have contributed to several subfields such as:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Soil Science
  • Ecology
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Molecular Biology

The central topics addressed in their research consist of:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Bioenergy crop production and management
  • Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Richard T. Conant has frequently published in the following journals:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Nature Food
  • Journal of Environmental Quality
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Nature Communications

Recent papers authored by or involving Richard T. Conant include:

  • Quantification of global and national nitrogen budgets for crop production, 2021, Nature Food
  • Essential outcomes for COP26, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Global Research Alliance N2O chamber methodology guidelines: Guidelines for gap-filling missing measurements, 2020, Journal of Environmental Quality
  • Important constraints on soil organic carbon formation efficiency in subtropical and tropical grasslands, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Improving N2O emission estimates with the global N2O database, 2020, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Their research collaborations include frequent co-authors such as:

  • M. Francesca Cotrufo
  • Peter Grace
  • Christopher D. Dorich
  • Pete Smith
  • William W. L. Cheung

Best Publications

  • Stabilization mechanisms of soil organic matter: Implications for C-saturation of soils

    J. Six;R. T. Conant;E. A. Paul;K. Paustian

  • Natural climate solutions

    Bronson W. Griscom;Bronson W. Griscom;Justin Adams;Peter W. Ellis;Richard A. Houghton

  • GRASSLAND MANAGEMENT AND CONVERSION INTO GRASSLAND: EFFECTS ON SOIL CARBON

    Richard T. Conant;Keith Paustian;Edward T. Elliott

  • Temperature and soil organic matter decomposition rates – synthesis of current knowledge and a way forward

    Richard T. Conant;Richard T. Conant;Michael G. Ryan;Göran I. Ågren;Hannah E. Birge

  • The potential to mitigate global warming with no‐tillage management is only realized when practised in the long term

    Johan Six;Johan Six;Stephen M. Ogle;F. Jay breidt;Rich T. Conant

  • Greenhouse gas mitigation potentials in the livestock sector

    Mario Herrero;Benjamin Henderson;Petr Havlík;Philip K. Thornton;Philip K. Thornton

  • Soil carbon saturation: concept, evidence and evaluation

    Catherine E. Stewart;Keith Paustian;Richard T. Conant;Alain F. Plante;Alain F. Plante

  • Climate change mitigation through livestock system transitions

    Petr Havlík;Hugo Valin;Mario T. Herrero;Mario T. Herrero;Michael Obersteiner

  • Brief History of Agricultural Systems Modeling

    James W. Jones;John M. Antle;Bruno O. Basso;Kenneth J. Boote

  • Grassland management impacts on soil carbon stocks: a new synthesis.

    Richard Conant;Richard Conant;Carlos Eduardo P. Cerri;Brooke Osborne;Keith Paustian

  • Natural climate solutions for the United States.

    Joseph E. Fargione;Steven Bassett;Timothy Boucher;Scott D. Bridgham

  • Effects of soil moisture on the temperature sensitivity of heterotrophic respiration vary seasonally in an old-field climate change experiment

    Vidya Suseela;Richard T. Conant;Richard T. Conant;Matthew D. Wallenstein;Jeffrey S. Dukes;Jeffrey S. Dukes

  • Sensitivity of organic matter decomposition to warming varies with its quality

    Richard T. Conant;Rhae A. Drijber;Michelle L. Haddix;William J. Parton

  • CONSTRAINTS OF NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY ON PRIMARY PRODUCTION IN TWO ALPINE TUNDRA COMMUNITIES

    William D. Bowman;Theresa A. Theodose;James C. Schardt;Richard T. Conant

  • Toward a new generation of agricultural system data, models, and knowledge products: State of agricultural systems science

    James W. Jones;John M. Antle;Bruno Basso;Kenneth J. Boote

  • Impact of soil texture on the distribution of soil organic matter in physical and chemical fractions

    Alain F. Plante;Richard T. Conant;Catherine E. Stewart;Keith Paustian

  • Soil Carbon Saturation: Linking Concept and Measurable Carbon Pools

    Catherine E. Stewart;Alain F. Plante;Keith Paustian;Richard T. Conant

  • Potential soil carbon sequestration in overgrazed grassland ecosystems

    Richard T. Conant;Keith Paustian

  • Controls on soil respiration in semiarid soils

    Richard T Conant;Peter Dalla-Betta;Carole C Klopatek;Jeffrey M Klopatek

  • Experimental warming shows that decomposition temperature sensitivity increases with soil organic matter recalcitrance

    Richard T. Conant;J. Megan Steinweg;Michelle L. Haddix;Eldor A. Paul

  • Does the acid hydrolysis-incubation method measure meaningful soil organic carbon pools?

    Eldor A. Paul;Sherri J. Morris;Richard T. Conant;Alain F. Plante

  • Biological, chemical and thermal indices of soil organic matter stability in four grassland soils

    Alain F. Plante;José M. Fernández;Michelle L. Haddix;J. Megan Steinweg

  • Impacts of periodic tillage on soil C stocks: A synthesis

    Richard T. Conant;Mark Easter;Keith Paustian;Amy Swan

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith Paustian
Keith Paustian Colorado State University
Johan Six
Johan Six ETH Zurich
Eldor A. Paul
Eldor A. Paul Colorado State University
Michelle L. Haddix
Michelle L. Haddix Colorado State University
Alain F. Plante
Alain F. Plante University of Pennsylvania
Peter Grace
Peter Grace Queensland University of Technology
Matthew D. Wallenstein
Matthew D. Wallenstein Colorado State University
Dennis S. Ojima
Dennis S. Ojima Colorado State University
Mario Herrero
Mario Herrero Cornell University
Stephen M. Ogle
Stephen M. Ogle Colorado State University

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