Publications

When research about SOILs is published in an academic journal by a University of Guelph researcher, Soils At Guelph wants to share it. 

The research below includes the abstract and link to the entire study. 

Soil phosphorus bioavailability as influenced by long-term management and applied phosphorus source

Long-term effects of crop rotation, tillage, and fertilizer nitrogen on soil health indicators and crop productivity in a temperate climate

Adjusting Nitrogen Rates with Split Applications: Modelled Effects on N Losses and Profits Across Weather Scenarios

Winter phosphorus release from cover crops and linkages with runoff chemistry

Nutrient release from living and terminated cover crops under variable freeze-thaw cycles

In-situ estimation of soil water retention curve in silt loam and loamy sand soils at different soil depths

Corn and soybean yields and returns are greater in rotations with wheat

Long-term tillage and crop rotation effects on soil quality, organic carbon, and total nitrogen

Soil organic carbon content: Decreases partly attributed to dilution by increased depth of cultivation in southern Ontario

Researchers analyzed soil orga …

Legume Cover Crop Management on Nitrogen Dynamics and Yield in grain corn systems

Crop rotations differ in soil carbon stabilization efficiency, but the response to quality of structural plant inputs is ambiguous

This study set out to evaluate …

Tracing crop residue N into subsequent crops: Insight from long-term crop rotations that vary in diversity

Long-term diverse rotation alters nitrogen cycling bacterial groups and nitrous oxide emissions after nitrogen fertilization

This study measured the impact …

Cumulative impact of cover crops on soil carbon sequestration and profitability in a temperate humid climate

Survey of interseeded red clover management and perceived challenges by Ontario wheat growers

It takes three to tango: the importance of microbes, host plant, and soil management to elucidate manipulation strategies for the plant microbiome

Soil organic matter as catalyst of crop resource capture

Riparian land-use systems impact soil microbial communities and nitrous oxide emissions in an agro-ecosystem

Long-term evidence shows that crop-rotation diversification increases agricultural resilience to adverse growing conditions in North America

Short-term response of soil N-cycling genes and transcripts to fertilization with nitrification and urease inhibitors, and relationship with field-scale N2O emissions

Differences in field-scale N2O flux linked to crop residue removal under two tillage systems in cold climates

Modifying fertilizer rate and application method reduces environmental nitrogen losses and increases corn yield in Ontario

Separating the effect of crop from herbicide on soil microbial communities in glyphosate-resistant corn

Increased nitrogen retention by cover crops: implications of planting date on soil and plant nitrogen dynamics

Increasing crop diversity mitigates weather variations and improves yield stability

Long-term rotation and tillage effects on soil structure and crop yield

Biomass yield assessment of five potential energy crops grown in southern Ontario, Canada

Quantifying C stocks in high-yield, short-rotation woody crop production systems for forest and bioenergy values and CO2 emission reduction

Management sensitivity, repeatability, and consistency of interpretation of soil health indicators on organic farms in southwestern Ontario

Nitrogen dynamics and yields of fresh bean and sweet corn with different cover crops and planting dates

Comparable soluble N to controlled-release fertilizers: Storage cabbage yield, profit margins, and nitrogen use efficiency

Quantifying soil quality in a horticultural-cover cropping system

Residue management leading to higher field-scale N2O flux is associated with different soil bacterial nitrifier and denitrifier gene community structures

Effects of tillage practices on phosphorus transport in tile drain effluent under sandy loam agricultural soils in Ontario, Canada

Characterization of the heavy, hydrolysable and non-hydrolysable fractions of soil organic carbon in conventional and no-tillage soils

Speciation of phosphorus from agricultural muck soils to stream and lake sediments

Predicting soil organic matter from cellular phone images under varying soil moisture

Fire-derived organic matter retains ammonia through covalent bond formation

Risk assessment of unsuitable winter conditions for manure and nutrient application across Ontario.

Greenhouse gas emissions from gradually-filled liquid dairy manure storages with different levels of inoculant

Liquid dairy manure storages e …

Effects of 30 years of crop rotation and tillage on bacterial and archaeal ammonia oxidizers