Staff publications

P. Brown

Brown, Peter G., "Are there any Natural Resources?" Journal of Politics and the Life Sciences December 2004 Vol. 23, No 1. pp 11-20.

S. Gaskin

Biron, M. P., Robson, C., Lapointe, M.F. & Gaskin, S.J. (2004) Comparing different methods of bed shear stress estimates in simple and complex flow fields, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 29, pp. 1403-1415.

Gaskin, S.J., McKernan, M. & Xue, F. (2004) The effect of background turbulence on jet entrainment: an experimental study of a plane jet in a shallow coflow. Journal of Hydraulic Research,42(5), pp. 531-540.

Biron, P.M., Robson, C., Lapointe, M.F.and Gaskin, S.J.(2004) Deflector designs for fish habitat restoration. Environmental Management, Vol. 33 (1), pp. 25-35.

Virjee, K. & Gaskin, S. (2004) A fuzzy cost-recovery criterion for sustainable rural water supply systems, Afgan, N.H. / Bogdan, Z. / Duic, N. (eds):Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, A.A. Balkema Publishers, ISBN: 90 5809 662 9, 380p., pp. 57-66.

C. A. Madramootoo

Elmi, A.A., C.A. Madramootoo and C. Hamel. 2004. Water and fertilizer nitrogen management to minimize nitrate pollution from a cropped soil in Southwestern Quebec, Canada. Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 151(1):117-134.

Sarangi, A., C.A. Madramootoo and C. Cox. 2004. A decision support system for soil and water conservation measures on agricultural watershed. Land Degradation and Development, 14:1-15.

Spedding, T.A., C. Hamel, G.R. Mehuys and C.A. Madramootoo. 2004. Soil microbial dynamics in maize-growing soil under different tillage and residue management systems. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 36(3):499-512.

Stampfli, N. and C.A. Madramootoo. 2004. Watertable management: A technology for achieving more crop per drop. Irrigation and Drainage Systems. December 2004.

Dam, R.F., B.B. Mehdi, M.S.E. Burgess, C.A. Madramootoo, G.R. Mehuys and I.R. Callum. 2004. Soil bulk density and crop yields under eleven consecutive years of corn with different tillage and residue practices in a sandy loam soil. Soil and Tillage Research. December 2004.

Patel, R.M., S.O. Prasher, C.A. Madramootoo, P.K. Goel, R.S. Broughton, K. Stewart and R.B. Bonnell. 2004. Fertilizers and subirrigation with saline water affects yield of green peppers in lysimeters. Journal of Vegetable Crop Production, 10(1):57-66.

E. McKyes

Ibarra, S., McKyes, E. and Broughton, R.S. Measurement of tensile strength of unsaturated sandy loam soil. Soil & Tillage Research, Vol. 81, No. 1, pp. 15-23, 2005.

Ibarra, S., McKyes, E. and Broughton, R.S. A model of stress distribution and cracking in cohesive soils produced by simple tillage implements. Jour. Terramechanics, Vol. 42 (2), pp. 115-139, 2005.

A method of evaluating seed-bed physical quality produced by simple tillage implements. Sandra Y. Ibarra, Edward McKyes and Robert S. Broughton. Soil and Tillage Research, (in press) 2005.

G. Mehuys

Spedding, T.A., C. Hamel, G.R. Mehuys, and C.A. Madramootoo. 2004. Soil microbial dynamics in maize-growing soil under different tillage and residue management systems. Soil Biol. Biochem. 36:499-512.

S. Prasher

Prasher, S.O., M. Beaugeard, J. Hawari, P. Bera, R.M. Patel and S.H. Kim. 2004. Biosoprtion of heavy metals by red algae (Palmaria Palmata). Environmental Technology, Vol. 25(10): 1097-1106.

Patel, R.M., S.O. Prasher, C.M. Madramootoo, P.K. Goel, R.S. Broughton, K.A. Stewart, and R.B. Bonnell. 2004. Fertilizers and Subirrigation with Saline Water Affects Yield of Green Peppers in Lysimeters. Journal of vegetable Crop Production, Vol. 10(1): 57-66.

Givi, J., S.O. Prasher, and R.M. Patel. 2004. Evaluation of pedotransfer functions in predicting the soil water contents at field capacity and wilting point. Agricultural Water Management, Vo. 70(2): 83-96.

Jebellie, S.A., A. Madani, and S.O. Prasher. 2004. Computer simulation of fate and transport of metolachlor in a soil column study. Canadian Water Resources Journal, Vol. 29(3): 159-170.

Yang, C.-C., S.O. Prasher, and P.K. Goel. 2004. Differentiation of crop and weeds by decision tree analysis of multi-spectral data. Transactions of the ASAE, Vol. 47(3): 873-879.

Yang, C.-C., S.O. Prasher, R. Lacroix and S.H. Kim. 2004. Application of multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS) to simulate soil temperature. Transactions of the ASAE, Vol. 47(3): 881-887.

D. Smith

Duzan HM, Zhou X, Souleimanov A, and Smith DL 2004. Perception of Bradyrhizobium japonicum Nod factor by soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] root hairs under abiotic stress conditions. J Exp Bot 55:2641-2646.

Atti S, Bonnell R, Smith DL, Prasher S. 2004. Response of an Indeterminate Soybean {Glycine Max (L.) Merr} to Chronic Water Deficit During Reproductie Development Under Greenhouse Conditions. Cdn. Water Resources Journal Vol 29(4): 209-224.

Seguin P, Zheng W-J, Deng W-H, Smith DL 2004. Isoflavone content of soybean cultivars grown in Eastern Canada. J Sci Food Agric 84:1327-1332.

Smith DL and Almaraz JJ 2004. Climate change and crop production: Contributions, impacts and adaptations. Can J Plant Pathol 26: 253–266.

Liu A, Hamel C, Begna SH, Ma BL, Smith DL 2004. Soil Phosphorous depletion capacity of arbuscular mycorrhizae formed by maize hybrids. Can J Soil Sci 83:337-342.

I. Strachan

Vigier, B., Pattey, E. and Strachan, I.B., 2004. Narrow-band vegetation indices and detection of disease damage in soybeans. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 1(4): 255-259.

Haboudane, D., Miller, J.R., Pattey, E., Zarco-Tejada, P. and Strachan, I.B., 2004. Hyperspectral vegetation indices and novel algorithms for predicting green LAI of crop canopies: Modeling and validation in the context of precision agriculture. Remote Sensing of Environment, 90: 337-352.

Sigurdsson, B.D., Bjarndóttir, B., Strachan I.B., and Pálmason, F., 2004. The Gunnarsholt Experimental Forest II. Annual water balance and water quality (Tilraunaskógurinn í Gunnarsholti II. Vatnið í skóginum). Journal of the Icelandic Forestry Association, (Skógræktarritið. Icelandic with English summary), 51-59.

N. Tufenkji

Tufenkji, N.; Elimelech, M. "Deviation from Classical Colloid Filtration Theory in the Presence of Repulsive DLVO Interactions" Langmuir, 2004, 20, 10818–10828.

Tufenkji, N.; Miller, G. F.; Ryan, J. N.; Harvey, R. W.; Elimelech, M. "Transport of Cryptosporidium Oocysts in Porous Media: Role of Straining and Physico–Chemical Filtration" Environmental Science and Technology, 2004, 38, 5932–5938.

Tufenkji, N.; Elimelech, M. "Correlation Equation for Predicting Single-Collector Efficiency in Physicochemical Filtration in Saturated Porous Media" Environmental Science and Technology, 2004, 38, 529–536. [Acknowledged by THOMSON-ISI as one of the most cited papers in the field of Environment/Ecology and featured on ESI Special Topics Website: http://esi-topics.com]

J.K. Whalen

Jiao, Y., Hendershot, W.H. and Whalen, J.K. 2004. Agricultural practices influence dissolved nutrients leaching through intact soil cores. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 68:2058-2068

Whalen, J.K. 2004. Spatial and temporal distribution of earthworm patches in corn field, hayfield and forest systems of southwestern Québec, Canada. Applied Soil Ecology. 27:143-151.

Jeannotte, R., Sommerville, D.W., Hamel, C., and Whalen, J.K. 2004. A microplate assay for soil microbial biomass phosphorus. Biology and Fertility of Soils. 40:201-205.

Whalen, J.K. and Hamel, C. 2004. Effects of key soil organisms on nutrient dynamics in temperate agroecosystems. Journal of Crop Improvement. 11:175-207.

Whalen, J.K., Sampedro, L. and Waheed, T. 2004. Quantifying surface and subsurface cast production by earthworms under controlled laboratory conditions. Biology and Fertility of Soils 39:287-291.