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Plant Science and Agronomy

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Overview

Susan J. Riha is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States, with research primarily focused on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work spans several subfields including global and planetary change, plant science, ecology, bioengineering, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scientist has contributed to investigations in topics such as plant water relations and carbon dynamics, leaf properties and growth measurement, remote sensing in agriculture, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, analytical chemistry and sensors, plant physiology and cultivation studies, as well as plant responses to elevated CO₂. These areas highlight a multidisciplinary approach to understanding plant and environmental interactions.

Riha's recent publications include:

  • Limited impact of vapor pressure deficit on rainfed maize evapotranspiration, CO₂ flux, and canopy temperature, 2022, Agronomy Journal
  • Unpacking the drivers of diurnal dynamics of sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF): Canopy structure, plant physiology, instrument configuration and retrieval methods, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • A minimally disruptive method for measuring water potential in planta using hydrogel nanoreporters, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A minimally disruptive method for measuring water potential in-planta using hydrogel nanoreporters, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Corrigendum to "Unpacking the drivers of diurnal dynamics of sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF): Canopy structure, plant physiology, instrument configuration and retrieval methods" [Remote Sensing of Environment 265 (2021) 112672], 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Jeff Melkonian
  • C. Y. Chang
  • Ying Sun
  • Jiaming Wen
  • Jimei Han

The primary venues where the scientist publishes are:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Agronomy Journal

Best Publications

  • Maize yield and nutrition during 4 years after biochar application to a Colombian savanna oxisol

    Julie Major;Marco Rondon;Marco Rondon;Diego Molina;Susan J. Riha

  • Reversibility of Soil Productivity Decline with Organic Matter of Differing Quality Along a Degradation Gradient

    Joseph M. Kimetu;Johannes Lehmann;Solomon O. Ngoze;Daniel N. Mugendi

  • U.S. Agriculture and Climate Change: New Results

    J. Reilly;F. Tubiello;B. McCarl;D. Abler

  • Long-term black carbon dynamics in cultivated soil

    Binh Thanh Nguyen;Johannes Lehmann;James Kinyangi;Ron Smernik

  • CARBON AND NUTRIENT ACCUMULATION IN SECONDARY FORESTS REGENERATING ON PASTURES IN CENTRAL AMAZONIA

    Ted R. Feldpausch;Marco A. Rondon;Erick C. M. Fernandes;Susan J. Riha

  • Nitrogen dynamics following field application of biochar in a temperate North American maize-based production system

    David Güereña;Johannes Lehmann;Kelly Hanley;Akio Enders

  • A Farm-Level Analysis of Economic and Agronomic Impacts of Gradual Climate Warming

    Harry M. Kaiser;Susan J. Riha;Daniel S. Wilks;David G. Rossiter

  • Nutrient Leaching in a Colombian Savanna Oxisol Amended with Biochar

    Julie Major;Marco Rondon;Diego Molina;Susan J. Riha

  • Long-term impacts of anthropogenic perturbations on dynamics and speciation of organic carbon in tropical forest and subtropical grassland ecosystems

    Dawit Solomon;Johannes Lehmann;James Kinyangi;Wulf Amelung

  • Wastewater management and Marcellus Shale gas development: trends, drivers, and planning implications.

    Brian G. Rahm;Josephine T. Bates;Lara R. Bertoia;Amy E. Galford

  • CO2 efflux from Amazonian headwater streams represents a significant fate for deep soil respiration

    Mark Scott Johnson;Mark Scott Johnson;Johannes Lehmann;Susan J Riha;Alex Vladimir Krusche

  • Toward strategic management of shale gas development: Regional, collective impacts on water resources

    Brian G. Rahm;Susan J. Riha

  • Impact of temperature and precipitation variability on crop model predictions

    Susan J. Riha;Daniel S. Wilks;Patrick Simoens

  • Does the system of rice intensification outperform conventional best management?: A synopsis of the empirical record

    A.J. McDonald;P.R. Hobbs;S.J. Riha

  • Climate change and the geography of weed damage: Analysis of U.S. maize systems suggests the potential for significant range transformations

    Andrew McDonald;Susan Riha;Antonio DiTommaso;Arthur DeGaetano

  • DOC and DIC in Flowpaths of Amazonian Headwater Catchments with Hydrologically Contrasting Soils

    Mark S. Johnson;Johannes Lehmann;Eduardo Guimarães Couto;João Paulo Novães Filho

  • An 8-hydroxyquinoline method for labile and total aluminum in soil extracts

    Bruce R. James;Christopher J. Clark;Susan J. Riha

  • Examining individual recession events instead of a data cloud: Using a modified interpretation of dQ/dt-Q streamflow recession in glaciated watersheds to better inform models of low flow

    Stephen B. Shaw;Susan J. Riha

  • The impact of mound-building termites on surface soil properties in a secondary forest of Central Amazonia

    Ilse L. Ackerman;Wenceslau G. Teixeira;Susan J. Riha;Johannes Lehmann

  • When big trees fall: Damage and carbon export by reduced impact logging in southern Amazonia

    Ted R. Feldpausch;Stefan Jirka;Carlos A.M. Passos;Franklin Jasper

  • pH Buffering in Forest Soil Organic Horizons: Relevance to Acid Precipitation

    Bruce R. James;Susan J. Riha

  • Long-term black carbon dynamics in cultivated soil

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Frequent Co-Authors

Johannes Lehmann
Johannes Lehmann Cornell University
Alice N. Pell
Alice N. Pell Cornell University
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
Bruce R. James
Bruce R. James University of Maryland, College Park
Harry M. Kaiser
Harry M. Kaiser Cornell University
Christopher B. Barrett
Christopher B. Barrett Cornell University
Wulf Amelung
Wulf Amelung University of Bonn
Gaylon S. Campbell
Gaylon S. Campbell Decagon Devices
Antonio DiTommaso
Antonio DiTommaso Cornell University
M. Todd Walter
M. Todd Walter Cornell University

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