Publications | The FACES Research Group

2024

Rissing, A., Burchfield, E. (2024). Crop diversification as landscape change: Using land systems science to understand agricultural trajectories in North Carolina. 24 (3). Regional Environmental Change.
Rissing, A., Burchfield, E., Spangler, K., Schumacher, B. (2023). Implications of US agricultural data practice for sustainable food systems research. Nature Food. 4, 213-217.
Schumacher, B., Burchfield, E., Brennan, B., Yost, M. (2023). Leveraging important covariate groups for corn yield prediction. Agriculture. 14(3), 618.
Nelson, K. Burchfield, E. (2023). Defining features of diverse and productive agricultural systems: An archetype analysis of US agricultural counties. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 7(76).
Briske, D., Archer, S. Burchfield, E., Burnidge, W., Derner, J., Gosnell, H., Hatfield, J., Kazanaski, C., Khalil, M., Lark, T., Nagler, P., Sala, O., Sayre, N., Stackhouse-Lawson, K. (2023). Supplying ecosystem services on US rangelands. Nature Sustainability.

Burchfield, E. (2022). Where and how to grow food. Nature Food. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016022-00663-z
Spangler, K., Burchfield, E., Radel, C., Jackson-Smith, D., Johnson, R. (2022). Crop diversification in Idaho’s Magic Valley: the present and the imaginary. Agronomy for Sustainable Development. 42 (99). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13593-022-00833-0.
Burchfield, E. (2022). Shifting cultivation geographies in the Central and Eastern US. Environmental Research Letters. 17, 054049. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac6c3d
Spangler, K., Schumacher, B., Bean, B., Burchfield, E. (2022). Path dependencies in US agriculture: Regional factors of diversification. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 333, 107957. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2022.107957
Burchfield, E., Schumacher, B., Spangler, K., Rissing, A. (2022). The state of US farm operator livelihoods. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2021.795901
Nottebrock, H., Burchfield, E., Fenster, C. (2022). Farmers’ delivery of floral resources: to ‘bee’ or not to ‘bee.' American Journal of Botany. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1809
Schumacher, B., Yost, M., Burchfield, E., Allen, N. (2022). Water in the West: trends, production efficiency, and a call for open data. Journal of Environmental Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.114330

Burchfield, E., Schumacher, B. (2020) Bright spots in US corn production. Environmental Research Letters. 15(10). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aba5b4
Spangler, K., Burchfield, E., Schumacher, B. (2020) Past and current dynamics of US agricultural land use and policy. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 4(9) https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2020.00098

Burchfield, E., Matthews-Pennanen, N., Stoebner, J., Lant, C. (2019). Changing yields in the Central United States under climate and technological change. Climatic Change, 159, 329-346. Preprint available here.
Burchfield, E., Nelson, K., Spangler, K. (2019). The impact of agricultural diversification on U.S. crop production. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. 285 106615. Preprint available here.

Tozier-de-la-Poterie, A., Burchfield, E., Carrico, A. (2018). The implications of group norms for adaptation in collectively-managed agricultural systems: evidence from Sri Lankan Paddy farmers. Ecology and Society. 23(3):21.
Burchfield, E., Williams, N., Carrico, A. (2018). Rescaling drought mitigation in rural Sri Lanka. Regional Environmental Change. 18(8): 1-14.
Burchfield, E., Tozier-de-la-Poterie, A. (2018). Determinants of crop diversification in rice-dominated Sri Lankan agricultural systems. Journal of Rural Studies. 61, 206-215.
Nay, J., Burchfield, E., Gilligan, J. (2018). A machine-learning approach to forecasting remotely sensed vegetation health. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 39(6), 1800-1816. You can learn more about the forecastVeg tool we build for this project here.

Burchfield, E., Gilligan, J. (2016). Agricultural adaptation to drought in the Sri Lankan dry zone. Applied Geography. 77, 92-100.
Burchfield, E., Gilligan, J. (2016). Dynamics of individual and collective agricultural adaptation to water scarcity. Winter Simulation Conference 2016 Proceedings.

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