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The chaos in calibrating crop models: Lessons learned from a multi-model calibration exercise (2021)
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Wallach, D., Palosuo, T., Thorburn, P., Hochman, Z., Gourdain, E., Andrianasolo, F., …Seidel, S. J. (2021). The chaos in calibrating crop models: Lessons learned from a multi-model calibration exercise. Environmental Modelling and Software, 145, Article 105206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2021.105206

Calibration, the estimation of model parameters based on fitting the model to experimental data, is among the first steps in many applications of process-based models and has an important impact on simulated values. We propose a novel method of devel... Read More about The chaos in calibrating crop models: Lessons learned from a multi-model calibration exercise.

Correction to: Assessment of potentially toxic elements in vegetables cultivated in urban and peri-urban sites in the Kurdistan region of Iraq and implications for human health (Environmental Geochemistry and Health, (2020), 42, 5, (1359-1385), 10.1007/s10653-019-00426-z) (2021)
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Hawrami, K. A. M., Crout, N. M., Shaw, G., & Bailey, E. H. (2021). Correction to: Assessment of potentially toxic elements in vegetables cultivated in urban and peri-urban sites in the Kurdistan region of Iraq and implications for human health (Environmental Geochemistry and Health, (2020), 42, 5, (1359-1385), 10.1007/s10653-019-00426-z). Environmental Geochemistry and Health, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-021-00851-z

In the original publication of the article, the affiliation of the first author. ‘‘Karzan A. M. Hawrami’’ was incorrectly published as ‘‘Sulaymaniyah Polytechnic University, Technical Institute of Halabja, Zamaqi, Halabja, Iraq’’. The correct affilia... Read More about Correction to: Assessment of potentially toxic elements in vegetables cultivated in urban and peri-urban sites in the Kurdistan region of Iraq and implications for human health (Environmental Geochemistry and Health, (2020), 42, 5, (1359-1385), 10.1007/s10653-019-00426-z).

How well do crop modeling groups predict wheat phenology, given calibration data from the target population? (2021)
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Wallach, D., Palosuo, T., Thorburn, P., Gourdain, E., Asseng, S., Basso, B., …Seidel, S. J. (2021). How well do crop modeling groups predict wheat phenology, given calibration data from the target population?. European Journal of Agronomy, 124, Article 126195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2020.126195

© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Predicting phenology is essential for adapting varieties to different environmental conditions and for crop management. Therefore, it is important to evaluate how well different crop modeling groups can predict phenology. Multipl... Read More about How well do crop modeling groups predict wheat phenology, given calibration data from the target population?.

Multi-model evaluation of phenology prediction for wheat in Australia (2021)
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Wallach, D., Palosuo, T., Thorburn, P., Hochman, Z., Andrianasolo, F., Asseng, S., …Seidel, S. J. (2021). Multi-model evaluation of phenology prediction for wheat in Australia. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 298-299, Article 108289. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108289

© 2020 Predicting wheat phenology is important for cultivar selection, for effective crop management and provides a baseline for evaluating the effects of global change. Evaluating how well crop phenology can be predicted is therefore of major intere... Read More about Multi-model evaluation of phenology prediction for wheat in Australia.

Kinetics of uranium(VI) lability and solubility in aerobic soils (2020)
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Izquierdo, M., Young, S. D., Bailey, E. H., Crout, N., Lofts, S., Chenery, S., & Shaw, G. (2020). Kinetics of uranium(VI) lability and solubility in aerobic soils. Chemosphere, 258, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.127246

© 2020 Elsevier Ltd Uranium may pose a hazard to ecosystems and human health due to its chemotoxic and radiotoxic properties. The long half-life of many U isotopes and their ability to migrate raise concerns over disposal of radioactive wastes. This... Read More about Kinetics of uranium(VI) lability and solubility in aerobic soils.

Operating at the extreme: Estimating the upper yield boundary of winter wheat production in commercial practice (2020)
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Mitchell, E. G., Crout, N. M., Wilson, P., Wood, A. T., & Stupfler, G. (2020). Operating at the extreme: Estimating the upper yield boundary of winter wheat production in commercial practice. Royal Society Open Science, 7(4), https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191919

© 2020 The Authors. Wheat farming provides 28.5% of global cereal production. After steady growth in average crop yield from 1950 to 1990, wheat yields have generally stagnated, which prompts the question of whether further improvements are possible.... Read More about Operating at the extreme: Estimating the upper yield boundary of winter wheat production in commercial practice.

Author Correction: Greenhouse gas emissions resulting from conversion of peat swamp forest to oil palm plantation (Nature Communications, (2020), 11, 1, (407), 10.1038/s41467-020-14298-w) (2020)
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Cooper, H. V., Evers, S., Aplin, P., Crout, N., Bin Dahalan, M. P., & Sjogersten, S. (2020). Author Correction: Greenhouse gas emissions resulting from conversion of peat swamp forest to oil palm plantation (Nature Communications, (2020), 11, 1, (407), 10.1038/s41467-020-14298-w). Nature Communications, 11, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15178-z

The original version of this article contained an error in Fig. 2a, in which additional tick marks were added to the y-axis. This has been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the article.

The impact of long-term biosolids application (>100 years) on soil metal dynamics (2020)
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Mossa, A. W., Bailey, E. H., Usman, A., Young, S. D., & Crout, N. M. (2020). The impact of long-term biosolids application (>100 years) on soil metal dynamics. Science of the Total Environment, 720, Article 137441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137441

© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Biosolids application to arable land is a common, and cost-effective, practice but the impact of prolonged disposal remains uncertain. We evaluated the dynamics of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) at a long-established ‘dedicate... Read More about The impact of long-term biosolids application (>100 years) on soil metal dynamics.

Greenhouse gas emissions resulting from conversion of peat swamp forest to oil palm plantation (2020)
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Cooper, H. V., Evers, S., Aplin, P., Crout, N., Dahalan, M. P. B., & Sjogersten, S. (2020). Greenhouse gas emissions resulting from conversion of peat swamp forest to oil palm plantation. Nature Communications, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14298-w

© 2020, The Author(s). Conversion of tropical peat swamp forest to drainage-based agriculture alters greenhouse gas (GHG) production, but the magnitude of these changes remains highly uncertain. Current emissions factors for oil palm grown on drained... Read More about Greenhouse gas emissions resulting from conversion of peat swamp forest to oil palm plantation.

Short-Term Iodine Dynamics in Soil Solution (2020)
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Humphrey, O. S., Young, S. D., Crout, N. M., Bailey, E. H., Ander, E. L., & Watts, M. J. (2020). Short-Term Iodine Dynamics in Soil Solution. Environmental Science and Technology, 54(3), 1443-1450. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.9b02296

Assessing the reactions of iodine (I) in soil is critical to evaluate radioiodine exposure and understand soil-to-crop transfer rates. Our mechanistic understanding has been constrained by method limitations in assessing the dynamic interactions of i... Read More about Short-Term Iodine Dynamics in Soil Solution.

Using chemical fractionation and speciation to describe uptake of technetium, iodine and selenium by Agrostis capillaris and Lolium perenne (2019)
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Wang, J., Bailey, E. H., Sanders, H. K., Izquierdo, M., Crout, N. M., Shaw, G., …Young, S. D. (2020). Using chemical fractionation and speciation to describe uptake of technetium, iodine and selenium by Agrostis capillaris and Lolium perenne. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 212, Article 106131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2019.106131

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd To understand the dynamic mechanisms governing soil-to-plant transfer of selenium (Se), technetium-99 (99Tc) and iodine (I), a pot experiment was undertaken using 30 contrasting soils after spiking with 77Se, 99Tc and 129I, and in... Read More about Using chemical fractionation and speciation to describe uptake of technetium, iodine and selenium by Agrostis capillaris and Lolium perenne.

Kinetics of 99Tc speciation in aerobic soils (2019)
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Izquierdo, M., Bailey, E. H., Crout, N. M., Sanders, H. K., Young, S. D., & Shaw, G. G. (2020). Kinetics of 99Tc speciation in aerobic soils. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 388, Article 121762. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2019.121762

© 2019 The Authors Technetium-99 is a significant and long-lived component of spent nuclear fuel relevant to long-term assessments of radioactive waste disposal. Whilst 99Tc behaviour in poorly aerated environments is well known, the long-term bioava... Read More about Kinetics of 99Tc speciation in aerobic soils.

Assessment of potentially toxic elements in vegetables cultivated in urban and peri-urban sites in the Kurdistan region of Iraq and implications for human health (2019)
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Hawrami, K., Crout, N., Shaw, G., & Bailey, E. H. (2020). Assessment of potentially toxic elements in vegetables cultivated in urban and peri-urban sites in the Kurdistan region of Iraq and implications for human health. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 42(5), 1359–1385. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-019-00426-z

Vegetable fields in and around urban areas in the Kurdistan region of Iraq may have higher than background concentrations of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) from contamination sources including municipal waste disposal and waste water used for irri... Read More about Assessment of potentially toxic elements in vegetables cultivated in urban and peri-urban sites in the Kurdistan region of Iraq and implications for human health.

Zinc uptake and phyto-toxicity: Comparing intensity- and capacity-based drivers (2019)
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Mossa, A., Young, S. D., & Crout, N. M. (2020). Zinc uptake and phyto-toxicity: Comparing intensity- and capacity-based drivers. Science of the Total Environment, 699, Article 134314. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134314

© 2019 Elsevier B.V. Metal bioavailability and phytotoxicity may be exaggerated when derived from studies based on amending soils with soluble metal salts. It is therefore important to evaluate soil tests for their consistency in estimating plant upt... Read More about Zinc uptake and phyto-toxicity: Comparing intensity- and capacity-based drivers.

Analysis of 129I and 127I in soils of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, 29 years after the deposition of 129I (2019)
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Shaw, G., Bailey, E., Crout, N., Field, L., Freeman, S., Gaschak, S., …Young, S. (2019). Analysis of 129I and 127I in soils of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, 29 years after the deposition of 129I. Science of the Total Environment, 692, 966-974. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.07.319

The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) represents a unique natural laboratory that received significant 129I contamination across a range of soils and land-use types in a short time period in 1986. Data are presented on 129I and 127I in soil samples coll... Read More about Analysis of 129I and 127I in soils of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, 29 years after the deposition of 129I.

Investigating the use of microdialysis and SEC-UV-ICP-MS to assess iodine interactions in soil solution (2019)
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Humphrey, O., Young, S., Bailey, E., Crout, N., Ander, E., Hamilton, E., & Watts, M. (2019). Investigating the use of microdialysis and SEC-UV-ICP-MS to assess iodine interactions in soil solution. Chemosphere, 229, 41-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.04.215

Element cycling in the terrestrial environment is heavily reliant upon processes that occur in soil solution. Here we present the first application of microdialysis to sample iodine from soil solution. In comparison to conventional soil solution extr... Read More about Investigating the use of microdialysis and SEC-UV-ICP-MS to assess iodine interactions in soil solution.

Iodine uptake, storage and translocation mechanisms in spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) (2019)
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Humphrey, O. S., Young, S. D., Bailey, E. H., Crout, N. M., Ander, E. L., Hamilton, E. M., & Watts, M. J. (2019). Iodine uptake, storage and translocation mechanisms in spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.). Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 41(5), 2145-2156. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-019-00272-z

© 2019, Springer Nature B.V. Iodine is an essential micronutrient for human health; phytofortification is a means of improving humans’ nutritional iodine status. However, knowledge of iodine uptake and translocation in plants remains limited. In thi... Read More about Iodine uptake, storage and translocation mechanisms in spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.).

Fit-for-purpose modelling of radiocaesium soil-to-plant transfer for nuclear emergencies: a review (2019)
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Almahayni, T., Beresford, N. A., Crout, N. M., & Sweeck, L. (2019). Fit-for-purpose modelling of radiocaesium soil-to-plant transfer for nuclear emergencies: a review. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 201, 58-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2019.01.006

Numerous radioecological models have been developed to predict radionuclides transfer from contaminated soils to the food chain, which is an essential step in preparing and responding to nuclear emergencies. However, the lessons learned from applying... Read More about Fit-for-purpose modelling of radiocaesium soil-to-plant transfer for nuclear emergencies: a review.

Nuclear weapons fallout 137Cs in temperate and tropical pine forest soils, 50 years post-deposition (2019)
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Itthipoonthanakorn, T., Dann, S., Crout, N., & Shaw, G. (2019). Nuclear weapons fallout 137Cs in temperate and tropical pine forest soils, 50 years post-deposition. Science of the Total Environment, 660, 807-816. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.01.073

Following nuclear releases to the environment, 137Cs (half-life 30 years) is a long-term contaminant of many ecosystems, including forests. We recently sampled soils under pine forests in temperate and tropical climates to test the hypothesis that mi... Read More about Nuclear weapons fallout 137Cs in temperate and tropical pine forest soils, 50 years post-deposition.

Changes in CO2 during ocean anoxic event 1d indicate similarities to other carbon cycle perturbations (2018)
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Richey, J. D., Upchurch, G., Montañez, I. P., Lomax, B. H., Suarez, M. B., Crout, N. M., …Smith, J. J. (2018). Changes in CO2 during ocean anoxic event 1d indicate similarities to other carbon cycle perturbations. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 491, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.03.035

Past greenhouse intervals of the Mesozoic were repeatedly punctuated by Ocean Anoxic Events (OAEs), major perturbations to the global carbon cycle and abrupt climate changes that may serve as relevant analogs for Earth’s greenhouse gas-forced climate... Read More about Changes in CO2 during ocean anoxic event 1d indicate similarities to other carbon cycle perturbations.