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Agroecosystems” (1979-1985) and “Organic C, N, S and P Formation and Loss from Great Plains
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Cole, C.V., J. Hanson, and S.W. Running. 1983. State of the art in applications of ecological models to land resources. pp. 987–988 in: Lauenroth, W.K., G.V. Skogerboe, and M. Flug (eds.). Analysis of ecological systems: State-of-the-art in ecological modeling. Elsevier
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Cole was a leader in the international scientific community. He was highly involved in the
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His research expanded into plant responses to phosphorus and broader studies of phosphorus cycling in relation to organic carbon and nitrogen transformations. He was the principal investigator on two major interdisciplinary projects, entitled “Organic Matter and
Nutrient Cycling in Semiarid
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Cole, C.V., C. Cerri, K. Minami, A. Mosier, N. Rosenberg and P. Sauerbeck. 1995. Agricultural options for mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions. Chapter 23 in: IPCC Climate Change 1995: Impacts, Adaptations, and
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Cole, C. V. and R. L. Sanford, Jr. 1989. Biological aspects of the phosphorus cycle. In H. Tiessen (ed.) Phosphorus Cycles in
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Cole, C.V., J. Duxbury, J. Freney, O. Heinemeyer, K. Minami, A. Mosier, K. Paustian, N. Rosenberg, N. Sampson, D. Sauerbeck, and Q. Zhao. 1997. Global estimates of potential mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions by agriculture. Nutrient
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Phosphorus Cycling that brought together 240 scientists from 51 countries. These occurred in Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa, culminating in a final synthesis workshop in Budapest in 1993.
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Metherell, A. K., C. V. Cole, W. J. Parton. 1993. Dynamics and interactions of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulphur cycling in grazed pastures. Pages 1420-1421 in
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Cole, C.V., and M.L. Jackson. 1950. Colloidal dihydroxy dihydrogen phosphates of aluminum and iron with crystalline character established by electron and x-ray diffraction. J. Phys. Colloid Chem. 54:128-142.
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Cole, C.V., E.T. Elliott, H.W. Hunt, and D.C. Coleman. 1978. Trophic interactions in soils as they affect energy and nutrient dynamics. V. Phosphorus transformations. Microb. Ecol. 4:381-387.
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Cole, C.V., and R.D. Heil. 1981. Phosphorus effects on terrestrial nitrogen cycling. In: F.E. Clark, and T. Rosswall, (eds.). Terrestrial nitrogen cycles. Ecol. Bull. (Stockholm) 33:363-374.
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McGill, W.B. and C.V. Cole. 1981. Comparative aspects of organic C, N, S, and P cycling through soil organic matter during pedogenesis. Geoderma 26:267-286.
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the knowledge of phosphorus chemistry, including a method for extracting phosphorus from soil that has been adopted worldwide and cited over 5,000 times.
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