Grants & Publications

Boughton RK, Smith BW, Boughton EH, Gomez-Casanovas N et al (2024). Patch-burn management changes grazing behavior of cattle in humid subtropical grasslands. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment;  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2024.109012. 

Time A, Gomez-Casanovas N,  Mwebaze P, Apollon W, Madhu Khanna M, DeLucia EH, Bernacchi CJ (2024). Conservation agrivoltaics for sustainable food-energy production. Plants, People, Planet; https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10481. 

Gou Y...Gomez-Casanovas et al (2023). Grassland intensification effects cascade to alter multifunctionality of wetlands within metaecosystems. Nature Communications; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-44104-2. 

Blanc-Betes E, Gomez-Casanovas N, Hartman MD, Hudiburg TW, Khanna M, Parton WJ, DeLucia EH. (2023).Climate vs Energy Security: Quantifying the Trade-offs of BECCS Deployment and Overcoming Opportunity Costs on Set-Aside Land. Environmental Science and Technology, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c05240.  

Gomez-Casanovas, N., Mwebaze, P., Khanna, M., Branham, B., Time, A., DeLucia, E. H., Bernacchi, C. J., Knapp, A. K., Hoque, M. J., Du, X., Blanc-Betes, E., Barron-Gafford, G. A., Peng, B., Guan, K., Macknick, J., Miao, R., & Miljkovic, N. (2023). Knowns, uncertainties, and challenges in agrivoltaics to sustainably intensify energy and food production. Cell Reports Physical Science, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2023.101518. 

Blanc-Betes E, Gomez-Casanovas N, Yang WH, Chandrasoma J, Clark TJ, DeLucia EH, Hyde CA, Kent AD, Pett-Ridge J, Rabinowitz JD, Raglin SS, Schwender J, Shen Y, Van allen R, von Haden AC (2023). Accelerating the development of a sustainable bioenergy portfolio through stable isotopes. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.13056, Global Change Biology-Bioenergy. 

Paudel S*, Gomez-Casanovas N*, Boughton EH, Chamberlain SD, Wagle P, Peterson BL,  Bajgain R, Starks PJ, Basara J, Bernacchi CJ, DeLucia, Goodman LA, Gowda PH, Reuter R, Sparks JP, Swain HM, Xiao X, Steiner JL. Does Intensive Management of Perennial Pasture Improve Multiple Ecosystem Services?. Accepted, Agriculture, Ecology and Environment. (* Shared co-first authorship) Click Here to view.

Amartya S, Boughton E, Gomez-Casanovas N, Li H, McMillan N, Zhang N. Evapotranspiration in a Subtropical wetland savanna using low-cost Lysimeter, Eddy Covariance and Modeling approaches. Ecohydrology; https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2475 

Boughton EH, Gomez-Casanovas N, Swain H, Bernacchi C, Boughton RK, Brinsko K, et al. (2022) Patch-Burn Grazing Impacts Forage Resources in Subtropical Humid Grazing Lands. Rangel Ecol Manag. 1;84:10–21.

Fu P, Montes CM, Siebers MH, Gomez-Casanovas N, McGrath JM, Ainsworth EA, et al. (2022) Advances in field-based high-throughput photosynthetic phenotyping. J Exp Bot.  23;73(10):3157–72.

Moore CE, Gibson CD, Miao G, Dracup EC, Gomez-Casanovas N, Masters MD, et al. (2022) Substantial carbon loss respired from a corn–soybean agroecosystem highlights the importance of careful management as we adapt to changing climate. Environ Res Lett.;17(5):054029.

Kantola IB, Masters MD, Blanc-Betes E, Gomez-Casanovas N, DeLucia EH. (2022) Long-term yields in annual and perennial bioenergy crops in the Midwestern United States GCB Bioenergy;14(6):694–706.

York LM, Cumming JR, Trusiak A, Bonito G, von Haden AC, Kalluri UC...Gomez-Casanovas N...et al. (2022) Bioenergy Underground: Challenges and opportunities for phenotyping roots and the microbiome for sustainable bioenergy crop productionPlant Phenome J. 2022;5(1):e20028.

Gomez-Casanovas N, Blanc-Betes E, Moore CE, Bernacchi CJ, Kantola I, DeLucia EH. (2021) A review of transformative strategies for climate mitigation by grasslands. Sci Total Environ. 10;799:149466.

Browning DM, Russell ES, Ponce-Campos GE, Kaplan N, Richardson AD, Seyednasrollah B...Gomez-Casanovas N..et al. (2021) Monitoring agroecosystem productivity and phenology at a national scale: A metric assessment framework. Ecol Indic. 1;131:108147.

Siebers MH*, Gomez-Casanovas N*, Fu P, Meacham-Hensold K, Moore CE, Bernacchi CJ (2021). Emerging approaches to measure photosynthesis from the leaf to the ecosystem scale. Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1042/ETLS20200292.(* Shared co-first authorship)

Jacot J, Kiniry JR, Browning DM, Williams AS, Coronel A, Su J, Miller GR, Mohanty B, Boughton E, Saha A, Gomez-Casanovas N, Johnson JMF (2021). Use of image analysis and PhenoCam measurements to refine plant parameters in the ALMANAC process-based simulation model. Accepted, Journal of Experimental Agriculture International.

Gomez-Casanovas N, DeLucia NJ, DeLucia EH, Boughton EH, Bernacchi CJ (2020). Seasonal controls of CO2 and CH4 dynamics in a temporarily flooded subtropical wetland. Journal of Geophysical Research, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JG005257.

Blanc-Betes E, Kantola IB, Gomez-Casanovas N, Hartman MD, Parton WJ, Lewis AL, Beerling DJ, DeLucia EH (2020). In silico assessment of the potential of basalt amendments to ameliorate yields and reduce the N2O emission factor of agriculture. Global Change Biology: Bioenergy, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12757.

Moore C, Berardi D, Betes-Blanc E, DeLucia EH, Dracup EC, Egenriether S, Gomez-Casanovas N, Hartman M, Hudiburg T, Kantola I, Masters MD, Parton W, Van Allen R, von Haden A, Yang WY,  Bernacchi CJ (2020). The carbon and nitrogen cycle impacts of converting perennial switchgrass to an annual maize crop rotation. Global Change Biology-Bioenergy, DOI: 10.1111/gcbb.12743.

DeLucia NJ, Gomez-Casanovas N, Boughton EH, Bernacchi CJ (2019). The role of management on methane emissions from subtropical wetlands embedded in agricultural ecosystems. Journal of Geophysical Research, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JG005132.

DeLucia EH, Chen S, Guan K, Peng B, Li Y, Gomez-Casanovas N, Kantola I, Bernacchi CJ, Long SP, Ort DR (2019). Are we approaching a water ceiling to maize yields in the US Midwest?. Ecosphere, https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2773.

Gomez-Casanovas N, DeLucia NJ, Bernacchi CJ, Boughton EH, Chamberlain S, Sparks JP, DeLucia EH (2018). Grazing alters net ecosystem C fluxes and reduces the global warming potential of a subtropical pasture. Ecological Applications, DOI: 10.1002/eap.1670.

Gomez-Casanovas N, DeLucia N, Hudiburg T, Bernacchi CJ, DeLucia EH (2018). Conversion of grazed pastures to energy cane as a biofuel feedstock alters the emission of GHGs from soils in Southeastern United States. Biomass and Bioenergy, DOI:10.1016/j.biombioe.2017.11.020.

Chamberlain S, Groffman PM, Boughton E, Gomez-Casanovas N, DeLucia EH, Bernacchi C, Sparks JP (2017). The impact of water management practices on subtropical pasture methane emissions and ecosystem service payments. Ecological Applications, DOI: 10.1002/eap.1514.

Gomez-Casanovas N, Hudiburg T, Bernacchi CJ, DeLucia EH (2016). Nitrogen deposition and greenhouse gas emissions from grasslands: uncertainties and future directions. Global Change Biology, 22, 1348–1360.

Chamberlain S, Gomez-Casanovas N, Walter MT, Boughton E, Bernacchi C, DeLucia EH, Groffman PM, Keel E, Sparks JP (2016). Influence of water table fluctuations on subsurface methane dynamics and surface fluxes in seasonally flooded subtropical pastures. Journal of Geophysical Research, DOI: 10.1002/2015JG003283.

Joo E, Hussain MZ, Zeri M, Masters M, Miller J, Gomez-Casanovas N, DeLucia EH, Bernacchi CJ (2016). The influence of drought-heat stress on long-term carbon fluxes of bioenergy crops grown in the Midwestern US. Plant, Cell and Environment, DOI: 10.1111/pce.12751.

Miller JN, VanLoocke A, Gomez-Casanovas N, Bernacchi CJ (2016). Candidate perennial bioenergy grasses have a higher albedo than annual row crops. Global Change Biology Bioenergy, DOI: 10.1111/gcbb.12291.

DeLucia EH, Gomez-Casanovas N, Greenberg J, Hudiburg T, Kantola I, Long S, Miller A, Ort D, Parton W (2014). Feeding and Fueling the Planet - the Theoretical Limit to Productivity on Managed Land. Environmental Science and Technology, 48, 9471-9477.

Gomez-Casanovas N, Anderson-Teixeira K, Zeri M, Bernacchi CJ, DeLucia EH (2013). Gap filling strategies and error in estimating annual soil respiration. Global Change Biology, 19, 1941–1952.

Gomez-Casanovas N, Matamala R, Cook DR, Gonzalez-Meler MA (2012). Net ecosystem exchange modifies the relationship between the autotrophic and heterotrophic components of soil respiration with abiotic factors in prairie grasslands. Global Change Biology, 18, 2532-2545.

Brüggemann N, Gessler A, Kayler Z, Keel S G, Badeck F, Barthel M, Boeckx P, Buchmann N,Brugnoli E, Esperschütz J, Gavrichkova O, Ghashghaie J, Gomez-Casanovas N, Keitel C, Knohl A, Kuptz D, Palacio S, Salmon Y, Uchida Y, Bahn M (2011). Carbon allocation and carbon isotope fluxes in the plant-soil-atmosphere continuum: a review. Biogeosciences, 8, 3457-3489.

Gonzalez-Meler MA, Blanc-Betes E, Flower CE, Ward JK, Gomez-Casanovas N (2009). Plastic and adaptive responses of plant respiration to changes in atmospheric CO2 concentration. Physiologia Plantarum, 137, 473–484.

Gomez-Casanovas N, Blanc-Betes E, Gonzalez-Meler MA, Azcon-Bieto J (2007). Changes in respiratory mitochondrial machinery and cytochrome and alternative pathway activities in response to energy demand underlie the acclimation of respiration to elevated CO2 in the invasive Opuntia ficus-indica. Plant Physiology, 145, 1-13.

Texas A&M AgriLife Research and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Utility-scale photovoltaics on rangelands: Influence on provisioning and supporting services and Soil Organic Carbon dynamics. ($150,000; 2024-2026); Nuria Gomez-Casanovas (PI), Stacy Hines (co-PI).

DOE. Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI; $134M, 2022-2027); (co-PI with Leakey A as Lead PI).

FFAR. Can Adaptive Multi-Paddock (AMP) grazing contribute to sequestering carbon in soils and improve delivery of ecosystem services and socio-ecological resilience in grazing ecosystems? Peter Byck (PI), Nuria Gomez-Casanovas (co-PI), Evan H DeLucia (co-PI), Elena Blanc-Betes (co-PI), Stephen Apfelbaum (co-PI), Richard Teague (co-PI), Francesca Cotrufo (co-PI), Samantha Mosier (co-PI), Robert Clement (co-PI), Ry Thompson (co-PI), Michael Lehman (co-PI), Michael McGraw (co-PI); ($3.1M; 2023-2026).

ASU. Adaptive Multi-Paddock Grazing Research Project: Southeast US. Nuria Gomez-Casanovas (PI), Evan H DeLucia (co-PI), Elena Blanc-Betes (co-PI), Peter Byck (co-PI) ($118K; 2022-2023).

AFRI-SAS. Transforming Food and Solar Energy Production Using Agrivoltaics. Madhu Khanna (PI), Nuria Gomez-Casanovas (co-PI), Greg Barron-Gafford (co-PI), Carl J Bernacchi (co-PI), Alan Knapp (co-PI), Nenad Miljkovic (co-PI), Lane H Chad (co-PI), Evan H Delucia (co-PI), Bruce E Branham (co-PI), Steve John (co-PI), Kaiyu Guan (co-PI) ($10M; 2021-2025).

DOE. Design and Construction of a continuous 13C and 15N labeling isotope facility. Wendy Yang (PI), Nuria Gomez-Casanovas (co-PI), Elena Blanc-Betes (co-PI), Evan H DeLucia (co-PI) ($442,685; 2021-2022) (Director’s Fund, Center for Advanced Bioenergy And Bioproducts Innovation).

DOE. Accelerating research on the environmental costs and benefits of growing sugarcane as bioenergy feedstock in Florida. Evan H DeLucia (PI), Nuria Gomez-Casanovas (co-PI), Elena Blanc-Betes (co-PI), Wendy Yang (co-PI) ($157,544; 2021-2022) (Director’s Fund, Center for Advanced Bioenergy And Bioproducts Innovation).

Exxon Mobil and McDonald’s Foundations (awarded through Arizona State University; collaboration with Aerodyne Research, LLC). Mechanisms driving the spatial variability of soil N2O fluxes from grazed pastures. Nuria Gomez-Casanovas (PI), Evan  H. DeLucia (co-PI), Elena Blanc-Betes (co-PI); $39,000; 2020-2023.

Exxon Mobil and McDonald’s Foundations (awarded through Arizona State University). Can adaptive multi-paddock grazing management increase the net Greenhouse Gas sink strength of grazed pastures? Nuria Gomez-Casanovas (PI), Evan  H. DeLucia (co-PI), Elena Blanc-Betes (co-PI); $292,000; 2020-2023. Award number: 096335 (Extension of award number: 092762).

McDonald’s, Exxon and Shell Foundations (awarded through Arizona State University). Can adaptive multi-paddock grazing management increase the net Greenhouse Gas sink strength of grazed pastures?. Nuria Gomez-Casanovas (PI), Evan  H. DeLucia (co-PI); $663,585; 2018-2019. Award number: 092762.

Exxon Mobil and McDonald’s Foundations (awarded through Arizona State University). Potential of adaptive multi-paddock grazing management to decrease N2O emissions from grazed pastures. Nuria Gomez-Casanovas (PI), Evan  H. DeLucia (co-PI), Elena Blanc-Betes (co-PI), Peter Byck (co-PI); $135,000; 2019-2020. Award number: 096335.

Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI), Foundational Program, Renewable Energy, Natural Resources, and Environment: Agroecosystem Management. Manipulating fire and grazing to enhance the delivery of ecosystem services from subtropical humid grasslands. Elizabeth Boughton (PI), Nuria Gomez-Casanovas (co-PI), Carl J. Bernacchi (co-PI), Evan  H. DeLucia (co-PI), Jed Sparks (co-PI), Hilary Swain (co-PI); $499,921; 2016-2019.

Spanish Education and Science Ministry (Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia; MEC); Physiological acclimation of respiration and photosynthesis to increased CO2 concentration and warming in Mediterranean CAM plants (Aclimatación fisiológica de la respiración y la fotosíntesis al aumento de CO2 y temperatura en plantas CAM mediterráneas; BFI2003-09680).  PI: J. Azcon Bieto; $390,951; 2003-2005. Contributed to the conception, design and writing of the proposal.

Government of Catalonia (Generalitat de Catalunya); Mechanisms underlying plant and soil responses to fire and global change (Mecanismes de les plantes i el sòl en resposta als incendis forestals i al canvi global; 2001-SGR-00094). PI: J. Azcon Bieto; $32,670; 2001-2004. Contributed to the conception, design and writing of the proposal.

Government of Catalonia (Generalitat de Catalunya); Mechanisms underlying plant and soil responses to fire and global change (Mecanismes de les plantes i el sòl en resposta als incendis forestals i al canvi global; 99-SGR-20). PI: J. Azcon Bieto; $23,634; 2000-2001. Contributed to the conception, design and writing of the proposal.