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David Burton

Dalhousie University

6225 University Avenue

Halifax, B3H 4H7

Canada

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Scholarly Papers (6)

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1.

Predicting soil health properties across different agricultural land use systems using mid-infrared spectroscopy

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 29 Aug 2025
Weixi Shu, G. W. Price, Derek H. Lynch, David Burton and Brandon Heung
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Dalhousie University and Dalhousie University
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FTIR, Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy, Chemometrics, Partial Least Squares Regression (PLSR), soil health

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Biological Nitrogen Availability in Vineyards: Assessing the Influence of Soil Particle Size Fractions and Spatial Distribution

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 10 May 2025
David Burton, Bangwei Zhang, Keith D. Fuller, Andrew M. Hammermeister and Godon Price
Dalhousie University, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Government of Canada - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Dalhousie University
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Vineyard Soil Nitrogen Supply, nitrogen mineralization, Particle Size Fraction, Spatial Distribution

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A Comparison of Methodologies for Estimating Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Biosolids-Amended Soils

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 29 Jul 2023
Okenna Obi-Njoku, Michael Yongha Boh, Ward Smith, Brian Grant, Corey Flemming, Godon Price, Guillermo Hernandez-Ramirez, David Burton, Joann Whalen and O. Grant Clark
affiliation not provided to SSRN, McGill University, Government of Canada - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Government of Canada - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Dalhousie University, University of Alberta, Dalhousie University, McGill University and McGill University
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DNDC, N2O emissions, IPCC Tier 3, nitrogen fertilizer, National GHG inventory

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Economic Potential of Agricultural-Riparian Shrub Willow: An Evaluation of the Biomass Producing Capabilities and Costs of Cultivating Salix Viminalis Downslope of Potato Cropping Systems on Pei

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 08 May 2023
Holly D.M. Wilts, David Burton, Aitazaz A. Farooque, William R. Schroeder, Brian Murray, Emily K. Murphy and Matthew Ramsay
University of Prince Edward Island, Dalhousie University, University of Prince Edward Island, Government of Canada - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Government of Canada - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Willow, Salix viminalis, Short rotation coppice, biomass yield, carbon sequestration, Biomass heating

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Developing a Pedo-Transfer Function for the Prediction of Nitrogen Mineralization in the Agricultural Soils of Quebec

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 24 Jul 2025
Chedzer-Clark Clement, Raphael Deragon, Brandon Heung, Jacynthe Dessureault-Rompré, Marc-Olivier Gasser and David Burton
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Université Laval, Dalhousie University, Université Laval, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Dalhousie University
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Nitrogen Mineralization, Potentially Mineralizable Nitrogen, PedoTransfer Function, Random Forest, Machine Learning.

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Towards a Cost-Effective Framework for Estimating Soil Nitrogen Pools Using Pedotransfer Functions and Machine Learning

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 05 Jun 2023
Luke Laurence, Brandon Heung, Hardy Strom, Kyra Styles and David Burton
Olds College, Dalhousie University, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Dalhousie University
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pedotransfer functions, soil nitrogen mineralization, Machine Learning, predictive soil mapping