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Oregon State University
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About: Oregon State University is a education organization based out in Corvallis, Oregon, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Climate change. The organization has 28192 authors who have published 64044 publications receiving 2634108 citations. The organization is also known as: Oregon Agricultural College & OSU.
Topics: Population, Climate change, Gene, Upwelling, Soil water
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TL;DR: An overview of the current knowledge on mineral-organic associations can be found in this article, where the authors identify key questions and future research needs, as well as a survey of the existing research work.
Abstract: Minerals and organic matter (OM) may form intricate associations via myriad interactions. In soils, the associations of OM with mineral surfaces are mainly investigated because of their role in determining the long-term retention of OM. OM “must decay in order to release the energy and nutrients that drive live processes all over the planet” ( Janzen, 2006 ). Thus, the processes and mechanisms that retain OM in soil are a central concern to very different branches of environmental research. An agronomist may want to synchronize periods of high nutrient and energy release with the growth stages of a crop. An environmental chemist may wish to either immobilize an organic soil contaminant or enhance its decomposition into less harmful metabolites, while climate scientists need to understand the processes that mediate the production of potent greenhouse gases from decomposing OM. Associations of OM with pedogenic minerals (henceforth termed mineral–organic associations (MOAs)) are known to be key controls in these and many other processes. Here we strive to present an overview of the current knowledge on MOAs and identify key questions and future research needs.
818 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, a series of case studies are used to develop a more complete understanding of the factors that enable and inhibit efforts at building integration across operations, purchasing and logistics, and the end result of the research is a testable model of how integration can be built across these three key internal supply chain functions.
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TL;DR: The 1992 "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity" as mentioned in this paper warned that humans were on a collision course with the natural world and that fundamental changes were urgently needed to avoid the consequences our present course would bring.
Abstract: Twenty-five years ago, the Union of Concerned Scientists and more than 1700 independent scientists, including the majority of living Nobel laureates in the sciences, penned the 1992 "World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity" (see supplemental file S1). These concerned professionals called on humankind to curtail environmental destruction and cautioned that "a great change in our stewardship of the Earth and the life on it is required, if vast human misery is to be avoided." In their manifesto, they showed that humans were on a collision course with the natural world. They expressed concern about current, impending, or potential damage on planet Earth involving ozone depletion, freshwater availability, marine life depletion, ocean dead zones, forest loss, biodiversity destruction, climate change, and continued human population growth. They proclaimed that fundamental changes were urgently needed to avoid the consequences our present course would bring.
811 citations
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TL;DR: This article showed that countries dependent on point source natural resources (those extracted from a narrow geographic or economic base, such as oil and minerals) and plantations are predisposed to heightened economic and social divisions and weakened institutional capacity.
Abstract: Many oil, mineral, and plantation crop-based economies experienced a substantial deceleration in growth following the commodity boom and bust of the 1970s and early 1980s. This article illustrates how countries dependent on point source natural resources (those extracted from a narrow geographic or economic base, such as oil and minerals) and plantation crops are predisposed to heightened economic and social divisions and weakened institutional capacity. This in turn impedes their ability to respond effectively to shocks, which previous studies have shown to be essential for sustaining rising levels of prosperity. Analysis of data on classifications of export structure, controlling for a wide array of other potential determinants of governance, shows that point source and coffee and cocoa exporting countries do relatively poorly across an array of governance indicators. These governance effects are not associated simply with being a natural resource exporter. Countries with natural resource exports that are diffuse relying primarily on livestock and agricultural produce from small family farms do not show the same strong effects and have had more robust growth recoveries.
804 citations
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University of New Hampshire1, Princeton University2, Centre national de la recherche scientifique3, Woods Hole Research Center4, United States Department of Agriculture5, United States Geological Survey6, Goethe University Frankfurt7, Max Planck Society8, Oregon State University9, Carnegie Institution for Science10
TL;DR: Land- and atmosphere-based estimates of the carbon sink in the coterminous United States for 1980–89 are consistent, within the large ranges of uncertainty for both methods, indicating a relatively stable U.S. sink throughout the period.
Abstract: For the period 1980-89, we estimate a carbon sink in the coterminous United States between 0.30 and 0.58 petagrams of carbon per year (petagrams of carbon = 10(15) grams of carbon). The net carbon flux from the atmosphere to the land was higher, 0.37 to 0.71 petagrams of carbon per year, because a net flux of 0.07 to 0.13 petagrams of carbon per year was exported by rivers and commerce and returned to the atmosphere elsewhere. These land-based estimates are larger than those from previous studies (0.08 to 0.35 petagrams of carbon per year) because of the inclusion of additional processes and revised estimates of some component fluxes. Although component estimates are uncertain, about one-half of the total is outside the forest sector. We also estimated the sink using atmospheric models and the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (the tracer-transport inversion method). The range of results from the atmosphere-based inversions contains the land-based estimates. Atmosphere- and land-based estimates are thus consistent, within the large ranges of uncertainty for both methods. Atmosphere-based results for 1980-89 are similar to those for 1985-89 and 1990-94, indicating a relatively stable U.S. sink throughout the period.
804 citations
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Robert Stone | 160 | 1756 | 167901 |
Menachem Elimelech | 157 | 547 | 95285 |
Thomas J. Smith | 140 | 1775 | 113919 |
Harold A. Mooney | 135 | 450 | 100404 |
Jerry M. Melillo | 134 | 383 | 68894 |
John F. Thompson | 132 | 1420 | 95894 |
Thomas N. Williams | 132 | 1145 | 95109 |
Peter M. Vitousek | 127 | 352 | 96184 |
Steven W. Running | 126 | 355 | 76265 |
Vincenzo Di Marzo | 126 | 659 | 60240 |
J. D. Hansen | 122 | 975 | 76198 |
Peter Molnar | 118 | 446 | 53480 |
Michael R. Hoffmann | 109 | 500 | 63474 |
David Pollard | 108 | 438 | 39550 |
David J. Hill | 107 | 1364 | 57746 |