Armen Kemanian

IEE Faculty Member
IEE Fellow
Titles and Affiliations
Professor, Plant Science

Research Summary

Develops and applies comprehensive agricultural and natural systems simulation models with the goal of improving productivity and environmental stewardship. Research program emphasizes the quantitative understanding of vegetation; soil and landscape processes including crop growth and yield; and the cycling of water, carbon and nutrients.

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Projects

Recent Publications

Global critical soil moisture thresholds of plant water stress

Fu, Z., Ciais, P., Wigneron, J. P., Gentine, P., Feldman, A. F., Makowski, D., Viovy, N., Kemanian, A. R., Goll, D. S., Stoy, P. C., Prentice, I. C., Yakir, D., Liu, L., Ma, H., Li, X., Huang, Y., Yu, K., Zhu, P., Li, X. & Zhu, Z. & 2 others, Lian, J. & Smith, W. K., Dec 2024, In: Nature communications. 15, 1, 4826.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Quantifying co-benefits of water quality policies: An integrated assessment model of land and nitrogen management

Weng, W., Cobourn, K. M., Kemanian, A. R., Boyle, K. J., Shi, Y., Stachelek, J. & White, C., Mar 2024, In: American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 106, 2, p. 547-572 26 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Tradeoffs when interseeding cover crops into corn across the Chesapeake Bay watershed

McConnell, C. A., Rozum, R. K. N., Shi, Y. & Kemanian, A. R., Jun 2023, In: Agricultural Systems. 209, 103684.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Cycles-L: A Coupled, 3-D, Land Surface, Hydrologic, and Agroecosystem Landscape Model

Shi, Y., Montes, F. & Kemanian, A. R., Aug 2023, In: Water Resources Research. 59, 8, e2022WR033453.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Assessing a century of maize and soybean polyculture for silage production

Burton, A. B. & Kemanian, A. R., May 1 2022, In: Agronomy Journal. 114, 3, p. 1615-1626 12 p.

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Maize yield in response to alternating low- and high-density rows of diverse hybrids

Burton, A. B. & Kemanian, A. R., Apr 2022, In: European Journal of Agronomy. 135, 126472.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Wheat intraspecific diversity suppressed diseases with subdued yield, economic return and arthropod predation services

Baniszewski, J., Burton, A., Kemanian, A. R., Roth, G. & Tooker, J., Aug 1 2021, In: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. 315, 107438.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Are polycultures for silage pragmatic medleys or gallimaufries?

Burton, A. B., Baniszewski, J., Roth, G. W., Tooker, J. F. & Kemanian, A. R., Mar 1 2021, In: Agronomy Journal. 113, 2, p. 1205-1221 17 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Artificial Intelligence for Modeling Complex Systems: Taming the Complexity of Expert Models to Improve Decision Making

Gil, Y., Garijo, D., Khider, D., Knoblock, C. A., Ratnakar, V., Osorio, M., Vargas, H., Pham, M., Pujara, J., Shbita, B., Vu, B., Chiang, Y. Y., Feldman, D., Lin, Y., Song, H., Kumar, V., Khandelwal, A., Steinbach, M., Tayal, K. & Xu, S. & 15 others, Pierce, S. A., Pearson, L., Hardesty-Lewis, D., Deelman, E., Silva, R. F. D., Mayani, R., Kemanian, A. R., Shi, Y., Leonard, L., Peckham, S., Stoica, M., Cobourn, K., Zhang, Z., Duffy, C. & Shu, L., Jul 2021, In: ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems. 11, 2, 11.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Cover crop effects on maize drought stress and yield

Hunter, M. C., Kemanian, A. R. & Mortensen, D. A., May 1 2021, In: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. 311, 107294.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Cover crops and drought: Maize ecophysiology and yield dataset

Hunter, M. C., Kemanian, A. R. & Mortensen, D. A., Apr 2021, In: Data in Brief. 35, 106856.

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A semi-commercial case study of willow biomass production in the northeastern United States

Montes, F., Fabio, E. S., Smart, L. B., Richard, T. L., Rodrigo Masip, A. & Kemanian, A. R., Mar 1 2021, In: Agronomy Journal. 113, 2, p. 1287-1302 16 p.

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Organic fertility inputs synergistically increase denitrification-derived nitrous oxide emissions in agroecosystems

Saha, D., Kaye, J. P., Bhowmik, A., Bruns, M. A., Wallace, J. M. & Kemanian, A. R., Oct 2021, In: Ecological Applications. 31, 7, e02403.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Modeling the contributions of nitrogen mineralization to yield of corn

White, C. M., Finney, D. M., Kemanian, A. R. & Kaye, J. P., Jan 1 2021, In: Agronomy Journal. 113, 1, p. 490-503 14 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Reviews and syntheses: Ironing out wrinkles in the soil phosphorus cycling paradigm

A. McConnell, C., P. Kaye, J. & R. Kemanian, A., Nov 6 2020, In: Biogeosciences. 17, 21, p. 5309-5333 25 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review