Peer-reviewed

2024

Hayek, M., Piipponen, J., Kummu, M., Resare Sahlin, K., McClelland, S.C., and Carlson, K. (2024). Opportunities for carbon sequestration from removing or intensifying pasture-based beef production. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.121 (46) e2405758121. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2405758121

Schipanski, M.E., McClelland, S.C., Hughes, H.M., Jabbour, R., Malin, D., Hillier, J., Paustian, K., and Reaves, E. (2024). Improving Decision Support Tools for Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Organic Production Systems. Organic Agriculture. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13165-024-00466-5

Saifuddin, M., Abramoff, R., Foster, E.J., and McClelland, S.C. (2024). Soil Carbon Offsets Cannot Substitute for Fossil Fuel Emissions Reductions. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2781

Eash, L., Ogle, S., McClelland, S.C., Fonte, S.J., and Schipanski, M.E. (2024). Climate mitigation potential of cover crops in the United States is regionally concentrated and lower than previous estimates. Global Change Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17372

2023

McClelland, S.C., Haddix, J.D., Azad, S., Boughton, E., Boughton, R., Miller, R.S., Swain, H., and Dillon, J.A. (2023). Quantifying biodiversity impacts in livestock using life cycle perspectives. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2636

Hughes, H.M., McClelland, S.C., Paustian, K., Schipanski, M.E., and Hillier, J. (2023). Modelling the soil carbon impacts of cover crops in temperate regions. Agricultural Systems. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2023.103663

Moore, J., Manter, D.K., Bruner, E., Bowman, M., Hunter, M., and McClelland, S.C. (2023). Applying Decision Support Tools to Estimate Current and Future Climate Mitigation Potential for US Agriculture. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 78(2), pp.193-206. 

2022

Todd-Brown, K.E.O, Abramoff, R.Z., Beem-Miller, J., Blair, H.K., Earl, S., Frederick, K.J., Fuka, D.R., Guevara Santamaria, M., Harden, J.W., Heckman, K., Haren, L.J.,  Holmquist, J.R., Hoyt, A.M., Klinges, D.H., LeBauer, D.S., Malhotra, A., McClelland, S.C., Nave, L.E., Rocci, K.S., Schaeffer, S.M., Stoner, S., van Gestel, N., von Fromm, S.F., Younger, M.L. (2022). Review and Synthesis: The promise of big soil data, moving current practices towards future potential. Biogeosciences, 19(14), pp.3505-3522.

Tedeschi, L.O., Abdalla, A.L., Alvarez, C., Anuga, S.W., Arango, J., Beauchemin, K.A., Becquet, P., Berndt, A., Burns, R., De Camillis, C., Chara, J., Echazarreta, J.M., Hassouna, M., Kenny, D., Mathot, M., Mauricio, R.M., McClelland, S.C., Niu, M., Onyango, A.A., Parajuli, R., Pereira, L.G.R., del Prado, A., Tieri, M.P., Uwizeye, A., Kebreab, E. (2022). Quantification of methane emitted by ruminants: A review of methods. Journal of Animal Science, 100(7). 

McClelland, S.C., Cotrufo, M.F., Haddix, M.L., Paustian, K., and Schipanski, M.E.(2022). Infrequent organic amendment applications increased plant productivity and  Soil organic carbon in irrigated but not dryland perennial pastures. Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2022.107969 

Arndt, C., Hristov, A. N., Price, W. J., McClelland, S. C., Pelaez, A. M., Cueva, S. F., Oh, J., Bannink, A., Bayat, A. R., Crompton, L. A., Dijkstra, J., Eugène, M. A., Kebreab, E., Kreuzer, M., McGee, M., Martin, C., Newbold, C. J., Reynolds, C. K., Schwarm, A., Shingfield, K. J., Veneman, J. B., Yáñez-Ruiz, D. R., Yu ZhongTang (2022). Full Adoption of The Most Effective Strategies to Mitigate Methane Emissions by Ruminants Can Help Meet the 1.5°C Target by 2030 but Not 2050. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2111294119 

2021

McClelland, S.C., Paustian, K., Williams, S., and Schipanski, M.E. (2021). Modeling cover crop biomass production and related emissions to improve farm-scale decision support tools. Agricultural Systems, 191, p.103151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2021.103151

Jabbour, R., McClelland, S.C., and Schipanski, M.E. (2021). Use of decision‐support tools by students to link crop management practices with greenhouse gas emissions: A case study. Natural Sciences Education, p.e20063 

McClelland, S.C., Paustian, K., Schipanski, M.E. (2021). Management of cover crops in temperate climate influences soil organic carbon stocks – A meta-analysis. Ecological Applications. http://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2278   

Older

Garbowski, M., Avera, B, Bertram, J., Courkamp, J., Gray, J., Hein, K., Lawrence, R., McIntosh, M., McClelland, S.C., Post, A., Slette, I., Winkler, D., Brown, C. (2020). Getting to the root of restoration: Considering root traits for improved restoration outcomes under drought and competition. Restoration Ecology. 

Niu, M., Kebreab, E., Hristov, A. N., Oh, J., Arndt, C., Bannink, A.,…, McClelland, S.C.,… & Crompton, L. A. (2018). Prediction of enteric methane production, yield and intensity in dairy cattle using an intercontinental database. Global Change Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14094

McClelland, S.C., Arndt, C., Gordon, D.R., Thoma, G. (2018). Type and number of environmental impact categories used in livestock life cycle assessment: A systematic review. Livestock Science. ISSN 1871-1413 

Wezel, A., Soboksa, G., McClelland, S.C., Delespesse, F. Boissau, A. (2015). The blurred boundaries of ecological, sustainable, and agroecological intensification. A review. Agronomy for Sustainable Development. DOI 10.1007/s13593-015-0333-y 

Other articles

2023

McClelland, S.C. and Woolf, D. (2023). Sensationalized soil carbon sequestration estimates excuse further climate inaction. Global Change Biology.

Hayek, M., Samuel, J., and McClelland, S.C. (2023). Methane metrics: the political stakes. Nature.

Older

FAO. 2022. Methane emissions in livestock and rice systems – Sources, quantification, mitigation, and metrics. Draft for Public Review. Rome. https://www.fao.org/3/cc2468en/cc2468en.pdf 

FAO. 2022. Prioritizing the reduction of methane in livestock climate actions in East Africa – Policy brief. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/cc0714en 

FAO, CCAC, NZAGRC and Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases. 2021. Ambición climática en el sector ganadero de América Latina y el Caribe – Construcción de redespara su revisión e implementación. Roma, FAO. https://doi.org/10.4060/cb7332es