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Timothy R. Cavagnaro

Timothy R. Cavagnaro

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
67
Citations
12954
World Ranking
850
National Ranking
79

Overview

Timothy R. Cavagnaro is affiliated with Flinders University in Australia and has a research focus primarily within Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their scholarly output spans topics related to plant science, soil science, and ecology, reflecting a comprehensive engagement with multiple interconnected disciplines.

The scientist has contributed notably to research on mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, and plant nutrient uptake and metabolism. Additional topics of work include urban agriculture and sustainability, urban green space and health, horticultural and viticultural research, and peatlands and wetlands ecology.

Cavagnaro's frequent coauthors include Stephanie J. Watts-Williams, M.J. Salomon, Feike A. Dijkstra, Chris Brien, and Claudia Keitel. Collaboration with these researchers indicates active participation in multidisciplinary and collaborative projects.

The primary venues for publishing research are journals and platforms such as The Science of The Total Environment, Plants People Planet, Plant and Soil, Applied Soil Ecology, and the Journal of Cleaner Production. These venues represent focal points for disseminating findings related to environmental and biological sciences.

Recent publications by Cavagnaro include:

  • "Ensuring planetary survival: the centrality of organic carbon in balancing the multifunctional nature of soils" (2022) published in Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology
  • "Global evaluation of commercial arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculants under greenhouse and field conditions" (2021) in Applied Soil Ecology
  • "State of the World's Plants and Fungi 2020" (2020) in Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University)
  • "Carbon allocation to the rhizosphere is affected by drought and nitrogen addition" (2021) in Journal of Ecology
  • "Microbial solutions to soil carbon sequestration" (2023) in Journal of Cleaner Production

Best Publications

  • A Meta-Analysis and Review of Plant-Growth Response to Humic Substances: Practical Implications for Agriculture

    Michael Rose;Antonio Frank Patti;Karen Little;Alicia Brown

  • Roots, Nitrogen Transformations, and Ecosystem Services

    Louise E. Jackson;Martin Burger;Timothy R. Cavagnaro

  • The role of arbuscular mycorrhizas in reducing soil nutrient loss.

    Timothy R. Cavagnaro;S. Franz Bender;Hamid R. Asghari;Marcel G.A. van der Heijden;Marcel G.A. van der Heijden

  • Cassava: the drought, war and famine crop in a changing world

    Anna Burns;Roslyn Gleadow;Julie Cliff;Anabela Zacarias

  • Arbuscular Mycorrhizas, Microbial Communities, Nutrient Availability, and Soil Aggregates in Organic Tomato Production

    Timothy R Cavagnaro;L E Jackson;J Six;H Ferris

  • Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizae on tomato yield, nutrient uptake, water relations, and soil carbon dynamics under deficit irrigation in field conditions.

    Timothy M. Bowles;Felipe H. Barrios-Masias;Eli A. Carlisle;Timothy R. Cavagnaro

  • Ecological intensification and arbuscular mycorrhizas: a meta‐analysis of tillage and cover crop effects

    Timothy M. Bowles;Louise E. Jackson;Malina Loeher;Timothy R. Cavagnaro

  • Why farmers should manage the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

    Matthias C Rillig;Carlos A Aguilar-Trigueros;Tessa Camenzind;Timothy R Cavagnaro

  • The role of arbuscular mycorrhizas in improving plant zinc nutrition under low soil zinc concentrations: a review

    Timothy R. Cavagnaro

  • Functional diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizas extends to the expression of plant genes involved in P nutrition

    Stephen H Burleigh;Timothy Cavagnaro;I Jakobsen

  • Balancing the environmental benefits of reforestation in agricultural regions

    S.C. Cunningham;S.C. Cunningham;R. Mac Nally;P.J. Baker;T.R. Cavagnaro

  • Morphology of arbuscular mycorrhizas is influenced by fungal identity

    Cavagnaro Tr;Gao Ll;Smith Fa;Smith Se

  • Review: Winery wastewater quality and treatment options in Australia

    Kim Mosse;Kim Mosse;Antonio Patti;Antonio Patti;Evan Christen;Timothy Cavagnaro;Timothy Cavagnaro

  • Impact of Herbicides on Soil Biology and Function

    Michael T Rose;Timothy R Cavagnaro;Craig A Scanlan;Terry J Rose

  • Functional diversity in arbuscular mycorrhizas: exploitation of soil patches with different phosphate enrichment differs among fungal species

    T. R. Cavagnaro;F. A. Smith;S. E. Smith;I. Jakobsen

  • Total cyanide content of cassava food products in Australia

    Anna E. Burns;James Bradbury;Timothy R Cavagnaro;Roslyn M Gleadow

  • Does the chemical nature of soil carbon drive the structure and functioning of soil microbial communities

    E.-L. Ng;A.F. Patti;M.T. Rose;C.R. Schefe

  • Does Biochar Improve Establishment of Tree Seedlings in Saline Sodic Soils

    Jessica A. Drake;Timothy R. Cavagnaro;Timothy R. Cavagnaro;Shaun C. Cunningham;Shaun C. Cunningham;W. Roy Jackson

  • Variations in the chemical composition of cassava ( Manihot esculenta Crantz) leaves and roots as affected by genotypic and environmental variation.

    Anna Elizabeth Burns;Roslyn Margaret Gleadow;Anabela M. Zacarias;Constantino Estevão Cuambe

  • Branching out: Towards a trait-based understanding of fungal ecology

    Carlos A. Aguilar-Trigueros;Stefan Hempel;Jeff R. Powell;Ian C. Anderson

Frequent Co-Authors

Shaun C. Cunningham
Shaun C. Cunningham Deakin University
Louise E. Jackson
Louise E. Jackson University of California, Davis
Roslyn M. Gleadow
Roslyn M. Gleadow Monash University
Ronald J. Smernik
Ronald J. Smernik University of Adelaide
Patrick J. Baker
Patrick J. Baker University of Melbourne
F. Andrew Smith
F. Andrew Smith University of Adelaide
Iver Jakobsen
Iver Jakobsen University of Copenhagen
Paul Reich
Paul Reich Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research
Mike J. McLaughlin
Mike J. McLaughlin University of Adelaide
F. A. Smith
F. A. Smith University of Adelaide

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