Alain Plante

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University of Pennsylvania

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Professor Alain Plante is a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in soil science and agronomy. His recent research incorporates topics such as soil organic matter stability, nitrogen fertilizer effects, and the impacts of extreme weather on carbon export in ecological systems. He has published extensively on soil quality assessment, mineral characteristics, and the interplay of soil composition and ecosystem services.

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Acquisition of New Thermal Analysis Instrumentation for Increased Capacity of Characterization of Organic Matter in Soils and Sediments

Open Date: 2016-08-01

Close Date: 2017-07-31

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Luquillo CZO: The role of hot spots and hot moments in tropical landscape evolution and functioning of the critical zone

Open Date: 2013-12-01

Close Date: 2018-11-30

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CHARACTERIZATION OF SOIL ORGANIC MATTER QUALITY BY THERMAL ANALYSIS

Open Date: 2013-09-01

Close Date: 2018-08-31

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CONFERENCE PROPOSAL FOR THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SOIL AND SEDIMENTARY ORGANIC MATTER STABILIZATION AND DESTABILIZATION (SOM6)

Open Date: 2012-01-15

Close Date: 2016-01-14

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CZO: Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory

Open Date: 2009-10-01

Close Date: 2013-09-30

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Zhengfeng An

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Maize straw-based organic amendments and nitrogen fertilizer effects on soil and aggregate-associated carbon and nitrogen

Soil organic matter stability in forest and cropland components of two agroforestry systems in western Canada

Interpreting ramped combustion thermograms using 13C NMR spectroscopy to characterize soil organic matter composition

Mineral characteristics of volcanic ash-derived soils affecting boron adsorption

Beyond bulk: Density fractions explain heterogeneity in global soil carbon abundance and persistence

Global fjords as transitory reservoirs of labile organic carbon modulated by organo-mineral interactions

Assessment of artificial neural network to identify compositional differences in ultrahigh-resolution mass spectra acquired from coal mine affected soils

Iron speciation in soil size fractions under different land uses

Extreme rainstorms drive exceptional organic carbon export from forested humid-tropical rivers in Puerto Rico

Ecosystem services-based soil quality index tailored to the metropolitan environment for soil assessment and management

Assessing the impact of organic versus conventional agricultural management on soil hydraulic properties in a long‐term experiment

Decomposability of soil organic matter over time: the Soil Incubation Database (SIDb, version 1.0) and guidance for incubation procedures

Collaborators (20)

Zhengfeng An

Craig Rasmussen

Matthew Amato

Sunghwan Kim

Claudio Zaccone

Thomas S. Bianchi

Matthew Ricker

Cameron Carlyle

Derrick Vaughn

Sophie F. von Fromm

Marco Keiluweit

Scott Chang

Kasey Clark

E. Marin‐Spiotta

Alfonso Mucci

Emmanuel Omondi

Susan E. Crow

Alison Hoyt

Craig Smeaton

Caitlin Hicks Pries

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