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Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

  1. Sharma, R., M.R. Levi, M.C. Ricker, A. Thompson, E.G. King, and K. Robertson. 2024. Scaling of soil organic carbon in space and time in the Southern Coastal Plain, USA. Science of the Total Environment 933: 173060. (doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173060)
  2. Weisberger, D.A. R.G. Leon, C.E. Gruener, M. Levi, N. Gaur, G. Morgan, and N.T. Basinger. 2023. Demographics of Amaranthus palmeri in annual and perennial cover crops. Weed Science (doi.org/10.1017/wsc.2023.66) 
  3. Jackson, D., J. Lessl, and M.R. Levi. 2023. Sulfur Leaching Rate Differs Based on Soil Characteristics in the Vidalia Region of Georgia, USA: Implications for Sweet Onion Production. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis (doi.org/10.1080/00103624.2023.2241507)
  4. Tancredi, M.T., N. Gaur, D. Markewitz, and M.R. Levi. 2022. Determination of high-resolution soil texture profile at the hillslope scale. Geoderma 428: 116189 (doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2022.116189)
  5. Krueger, E.S., M.R. Levi, K. Achieng, J.D. Bolton, J.D., Carlson, N.C. Coops, Z.A. Holden, B.I. Magi, A.J. Rigden, and T.E. Ochsner. 2022. Using Soil Moisture Information to Better Understand and Predict Wildfire Danger: A Review of Recent Discoveries and Outstanding Questions. International Journal of Wildland Fire (doi: 10.1071/WF22056)
  6. Quinby, M., R. Nave, N. Hill, V.R. Sykes, G. Bates, M. Levi, and C. Boyer. (Accepted). Corn production in living mulch systems in the southeastern U.S. Agronomy Journal (doi: 10.1002/agj2.21294)
  7. Lacerda, L.N., J. Snider, Y. Cohen, V. Liakos, M. Levi, G. Vellidis. 2022. Correlation of UAV and Satellite-Derived Vegetation Indices with Cotton Physiological Parameters and their Use as a Tool for Scheduling Variable Rate Irrigation in Cotton. Precision Agriculture. (doi:10.1007/s11119-022-09948-6)
  8. Sharma, R., D.R. Mishra, M.R. Levi, and L.A. Sutter. 2022. Remote Sensing Estimation of Soil Organic Carbon in Wetlands – A Review of State-of-the-Art and Way Forward. Remote Sensing 14:2940. (doi:10.3390/rs14122940)
  9. Hill, N., M. Levi, N. Basinger, A. Thompson, M. Cabrera, J. Wallace, E. Saikawa, A. Avromov, and J. Mullican. 2021. White Clover Living Mulch Enhances Soil Health Compared to Annual Cover Crops. Agronomy Journal. (doi:10.1002/agj2.20768)
  10. Krueger, E., T. Ochsner, M. Levi, and J. Basara, G.J. Snitker, and B.M. Wyatt. 2021. Incorporating in-situ soil moisture measurements in a simple mechanistic forage production model. Agronomy Journal. (doi:10.1002/agj2.20709)
  11. Bestelmeyer, B.T., S. Spiegal, R. Winkler, D. James, M. Levi, and J. Williamson. 2021. Social-ecological dynamics under collaborative adaptive landscape management in the Malpai Borderlands, Southwestern United States. Rangeland Ecology and Management 77: 17-29. (doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2021.03.002)
  12. Levi, M., Krueger, E., Snitker, G., Ochsner, T., Villarreal, M., Elias, E., Peck, D. 2019. Rating Fire Danger from the Ground Up. Eos, 100. doi:10.1029/2019eo137858
  13. Levi, M.R.  and B. Bestelmeyer. 2018.  Digital soil mapping for fire prediction and management in rangelands. Fire Ecology 14:11. (doi.org/10.1186/s42408-018-0018-4)
  14. Browning, D. M., T. M. Crimmins, D. K. James, S. Spiegal,  M. R. Levi, J. Anderson, and D. Peters. 2018.  Synchronous species responses reveal phenological guilds – Implications for management . Ecosphere 9(9):e02395.10.1002/ecs2.2395
  15. Salley, S.W., J.E. Herrick, C.V. Holmes, J.W. Karl,  M.R. Levi , S.E. McCord, C. van der Waal, J.W. Van Zee. 2018.  Assessing and improving the quality of citizen scientists’ soil hand texture estimates . Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. (doi:10.2136/sssaj2018.04.0137)
  16. Fan, Z., S.A. Wills, J.E. Herrick, T.W. Nauman, C.W. Brungard, D.E. Beaudette,  M.R. Levi , A. T. O’Geen. 2018. Algorithms for improving soil identification . Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. (doi:10.2136/sssaj2017.09.0337)
  17. Levi, M.R. 2017.  Modified centroid for estimating sand, silt and clay from soil texture class. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 81:578–588.(doi:10.2136/sssaj2016.09.0301).
  18. Levi, M.R.  2017.  Neighborhood size of training data influences soil map disaggregation.  Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 81:354-368.(doi:10.2136/sssaj2016.08.0258).
  19. Maynard, J.J. and  M.R. Levi. 2017.  Hyper-temporal remote sensing for digital soil mapping: characterizing soil-vegetation response to climatic variability . Geoderma. 285:94-109.
  20. Levi, M.R.  and B. Bestelmeyer. 2016.  Biophysical influences on the spatiotemporal distribution of fire in the Desert Grassland region of the southwestern USA . Landscape Ecology. 31(9):2079-2095 (doi: 10.1007/s10980-016-0383-9).
  21. Levi, M.R. , C. Rasmussen, and M.G. Schaap. 2015.  Spatial pedotransfer function modeling to predict ecosystem response to climate . Vadose Zone Journal. 14:1-14 (doi: 10.2136/vzj2014.09.0126) .
  22. Holleran M.,  Levi M. , and Rasmussen C. 2015.  Quantifying soil and critical zone variability in a forested catchment through digital soil mapping. SOIL 1:47-67 (doi:10.5194/soil-1-47-2015).
  23. Levi, M.R.  and C. Rasmussen. 2014. Covariate selection with iterative principal component analysis for predicting physical soil properties . Geoderma 219-220:46-57 (doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.12.013).
  24. Levi, M.R.  and C. Rasmussen. 2011.  Considerations for atmospheric correction of surface reflectance for soil survey applications. Soil Survey Horizons 52:48-55 (doi:10.2136/ssh2011-52-2-5).
  25. Levi, M.R., J.N. Shaw, C.W. Wood, S.M. Hermann, E.A. Carter, and Y. Feng. 2010. Land management effects on near-surface soil properties in southeastern U.S. Coastal Plain Kandiudults . Soil Science Society of America Journal 74:258-271 (doi:10.2136/sssaj2009.0015).

Book Chapters

  • Abney, R., N. Gaur, and M. Levi, and G. Hawkins. 2022. Forest Land Use and Soil Hydrology. In H. Blanco, S. Kumar, and S. Anderson (Eds.), Soil Management and Hydrology under Fluctuating Climates. Australian CSIRO
  • Bestelmeyer, B.T., A. Ash, J.R. Brown, B. Densambuu, M. Fernandez-Gimenez, J. Johanson, M. Levi, D. Lopez, L. Rumpff, R. Peinetti, and P. Shaver. 2017. State and transition models: Theory, applications, and challenges In D.D. Briske (ed.). Rangeland Systems: Processes, Management and Challenges. Springer.

Conference Proceedings

  • Levi, M.R., J.N. Shaw, C.W. Wood, S.M. Hermann, and E.A. Carter. 2008. Multivariate approaches for dynamic soil property characterization in some southeastern U.S. Coastal Plain map units.  Proceedings of Southern Regional Cooperative Soil Survey Conference, Gainesville, FL. 14–17 July, 2008.

Blog Posts and Popular Publications

  • Levi, M.R. 2017. Predictor variable resolution governs modeled soil types. CSA News Magazine 62(6):17. (doi:10.2134/csa2017.62.0611)
  • LandEcology.org blog post: Technology News: Digital Soil Mapping and Ecological State Change
  • Ochsner, T.E., M.R. Levi, M. Skumanich, S. Connolly and E.S. Krueger. 2021. Meeting report.  Using Soil moisture information to better understand and predict wildfire danger. CSA News Magazine. (doi.org/10.1002/csan.20585) 
  • Krueger, E., T. Ochsner, M. Levi, and J. Basara, G.J. Snitker, and B.M. Wyatt. 2021. Measured Soil Moisture Improves Grassland Yield Models. CSA News Magazine. (doi.org/10.1002/csan.20544)