Steve W. Culman
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · The Ohio State University
Publications
128
Citations
7,986
Est. group size
~2
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
20
Publishing since 2006
Steve W. Culman's research focuses on soil health, particularly how agricultural management practices like crop rotation, tillage, and cover cropping affect soil carbon storage, nutrient cycling, and microbial activity. His work includes developing and testing practical measurement tools (like enzyme assays and carbon indices) that farmers and scientists can use to assess soil quality, and studying how disturbances such as pipeline installations impact farmland. This research area bridges soil science, agronomy, and environmental science with direct relevance to farming practices and land management.
Publication output peaked around 2020-2022 and has declined somewhat in the most recent years (2023-2025), though a modest uptick appears in 2025.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Water-based enzyme assays are more sensitive than buffer-based assays to tillage and site in the U.S. Corn Belt
Geoderma · 2025
- Water-Based Enzyme Assays are More Sensitive than Buffer-Based Assays to Tillage and Site in the U.S. Corn Belt
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025
- Comparative analysis and prediction of cation exchange capacity via summation: influence of biochar type and nutrient ratios
Frontiers in Soil Science · 2024
- Crop rotational diversity can mitigate climate‐induced grain yield losses
Global Change Biology · 2024
- Constraints on mineral-associated and particulate organic carbon response to regenerative management: carbon inputs and saturation deficit
Soil and Tillage Research · 2024
- Microbial Proxies for Anoxic Microsites Vary with Management and Partially Explain Soil Carbon Concentration
Environmental Science & Technology · 2024
- How Pipeline Installations Impact Agricultural Fields and Landowners
Crops & Soils · 2024
- Increasing crop rotational diversity can enhance cereal yields
Communications Earth & Environment · 2023
- A soil matrix capacity index to predict mineral-associated but not particulate organic carbon across a range of climate and soil pH
Biogeochemistry · 2023
- Forage harvest management impacts “Kernza” intermediate wheatgrass productivity across North America
Agronomy Journal · 2023
- Anoxic microsites enhance soil carbon storage and respond to management
2023
- Rigorous, empirical, and quantitative: a proposed pipeline for soil health assessments
Soil Biology and Biochemistry · 2022
- Microbial feedbacks on soil organic matter dynamics underlying the legacy effect of diversified cropping systems
Soil Biology and Biochemistry · 2022
- Multi-Criteria Assessment of the Economic and Environmental Sustainability Characteristics of Intermediate Wheatgrass Grown as a Dual-Purpose Grain and Forage Crop
Sustainability · 2022
- Pipeline installation effects on soils and plants: A review and quantitative synthesis
Agrosystems Geosciences & Environment · 2022
- Agronomy Journal×15
- Soil Science Society of America Journal×12
- Soil Biology and Biochemistry×5
- Geoderma×4
- Crop Forage & Turfgrass Management×4
- Sylvie M. Brouder
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Rex A. Omonode
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
- A. Sundermeier
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · The Ohio State University
- Md Nayem Hasan Munna
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · The Ohio State University
- K. R. Islam
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · The Ohio State University
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.
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