In Progress
Simulation and Modeling
Grimm, Volker, Eloy Revilla, Uta Berger, Florian Jeltsch, Wolf M. Mooij, Steven F. Railsback, Hans-Hermann Thulke, Jacob Weiner, Thorsten Wiegand, and Donald L. DeAngelis. "Pattern-oriented modeling of agent-based complex systems: lessons from ecology." science 310, no. 5750 (2005): 987-991.
Karplus, Walter J.. “The spectrum of mathematical modeling and systems simulation.” ACM Sigsim Simulation Digest 9 (1977): 32-38.
Platt, John R. "Strong Inference: Certain systematic methods of scientific thinking may produce much more rapid progress than others." science 146, no. 3642 (1964): 347-353.
Cover Crops
Runck, B. C., Khoury, C. K., Ewing, P. M., & Kantar, M. (2020). The hidden land use cost of upscaling cover crops. Communications biology, 3(1), 1-4.
Snapp, Sieglinde S., Scott M. Swinton, Ricardo Labarta, Dale Mutch, J. Roy Black, Richard Leep, Judith Nyiraneza, and K. O'neil. "Evaluating cover crops for benefits, costs and performance within cropping system niches." Agronomy journal 97, no. 1 (2005): 322-332.
Zulauf, C. and G. Schnitkey. "Policy Budget for Cover Crops and the Lesson of Crop Insurance." farmdoc daily (12):12, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, January 27, 2022.
Biology General
Lewontin RC. 1972. The apportionment of human diversity. In Evolutionary biology: volume 6 (eds Dobzhansky T, Hecht MK, Steere WC), pp. 381-398. New York, NY: Springer.
Agricultural Systems and Land Change Science
Meyfroidt et al. (2018). Middle-range theories of land system change. Global Environmental Change, 53, 52-67, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.08.006.
Ambikapathi, R., Schneider, K.R., Davis, B. et al. Global food systems transitions have enabled affordable diets but had less favourable outcomes for nutrition, environmental health, inclusion and equity. Nat Food (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-022-00588-7
Foley, J., Ramankutty, N., Brauman, K. et al. Solutions for a cultivated planet. Nature 478, 337–342 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10452