Publications
* indicates undergraduate student | ** indicates graduate student | *** indicates post-doctoral researcher
Works in progress
Menalled U, Njuric, N, Smith R, Baas D, Basche A, Haramoto E, Park D, Renner K, Tully K, Wortman S, Ryan M. The Cover Crop Challenge: An experiential learning activity for teaching students about cover crop mixtures. Accepted Natural Sciences Education.
Peterson C**, Schomberg H, Thompson A, Mirsky S, Tully K. Cover crop termination method has a limited effect on spring soil moisture and temperature in humid mid-Atlantic U.S. In revision Agricultural Water Management.
Schulenburg A**, Gedan K, Miller J, Tully K. The chemical signature of saltwater intrusion on plant and soil cations on coastal agricultural fields. In review ECOSPHERE.
Wang Z***, Timlin D, Thapa R, Beegum S, Han E, Fleisher D, Schomberg H, Mirsky S, Sun W, Reddy VR, Horton R, Tully K. RYESIM: Process-based vegetative growth model for cereal rye winter cover crop using object-oriented programming and linked-list data structure. In revision Computers and Electronics in Agriculture.
2024
Kirwan ML, Michael HA, Gedan KB, Tully K, Fagherazzi S, McDowell N, Molino GD, Pratt D, Reay MG, Stotts S. 2024. Feedbacks regulating the salinization of coastal landscapes. In press Annual Reviews of Marine Science.
Kaushal S, Mayer P, Cañedo M, Rippy M, Shatkay R, Tully K, Wessel B, Grant S, Maa CM. Salinization of inland waters. 2024. Treatise on Geochemistry 3rd Ed. In press.
Boniface H**, Mirsky S, Ryan MR, Smith R, Ackroyd VA, Bybee-Finley A, Darby H, Duiker S, Hashemi M, Hirsh S, Krezinski I, Mallory E, Mazzone T, Molloy T, Siller A, Thapa R, VanGessel M, Wallace J, Warren N, Wayman S, Tully K. 2024. Environmental conditions outweigh seeding rates for cover crop mixture performance across the Northeast US. Field and Crops Research. 318: 109564. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2024.109564
Schulenburg A**, Gedan K, Miller J, Tully K. 2024. Management strategies for reducing phosphorus levels in saltwater-intruded agricultural fields. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. 370: 109034. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2024.109034
Rosenstock T, Seward P, Joshi N, Lamanna C, Namoi N, Muller L, Akinleye A, Atieno E, Bell P, Champalle C, English W, Eyrich, A-S, Gitau A, Kagwiria D., Kamaou H, Madalinska M, Manda L, Mumo E, Nduah A, Ombewa B, Poultouchidou A, Rioux J, Richards M, Shuck J, Ström H, Tully K. 2024. Evidence for Resilient Agriculture in Africa. Nature Scientific Data. 11: 958. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03805-z
O’Donnell K … Tully K et al. 2024. Saltwater Intrusion and Sea Level Rise threatens U.S. rural coastal landscapes and communities. 2024. Anthropocene. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2024.100427
Basche A, Renner K, Haramoto E, Memalled U, Wortman S, Park D, Smith R, Baas D, Tully K, Ryan M. 2024. Designing and implementing a synchronized multi-university cover crops course. In revision Natural Sciences Education. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nse2.20141
Wang Z***, Timlin DJ, Lui G, Fleisher D, Sun W, Beegum S, Heitman J, Ren T, Chen Y, VR Reddy, Tully K, Horton R. 2024. Coupled heat and water transfer in heterogeneous and deformable soils: numerical model using mixed finite element method. Journal of Hydrology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131068
2023
Mondal P, Walter M, Miller J, Epanchin-Niell R, Gedan K, Yawatkar V, Nguyen E, Tully K. 2023. The spread and cost of saltwater intrusion in the Mid-Atlantic. Nature Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-023-01186-6
Tully K, Hickman J, Russo T, Niell C, Palm CA. 2023. The fate of nitrogen during agricultural intensification in East Africa: nitrogen budgets in contrasting agroecosystems. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JG007128
Wang Z***, Hua S, Timlin DJ, Kojima, Y, Lu S, Sun W, Fleisher D, Horton R, Reddy VR, Tully K. 2023. Time Domain Reflectometry Waveform Interpretation with Convolutional Neural Networks. Water Resources Research, 59: e2022WR033895. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR033895
2022
Kottkamp A**, Jones CN, Palmer M, Tully K. 2022. Physical protection in aggregates and organo-mineral associations contribute to carbon stabilization at the transition zone of seasonally flooded wetlands. Wetlands, 42:40. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-022-01557-3
Rice CP, Otte BA, Kramer M, Schomberg HH, Mirsky SB, Tully K. 2022. Benzoxazinoids in roots and shoots of cereal rye (Secale cereale) and their fates in soil after cover crop termination. Chemoecology, 32: 117–128. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00049-022-00371-x
Wang Z ***, Timlin D, Fleisher D, Sun W, Beegum S, Li S, Chen Y, Reddy VR, Tully K, Horton R. 2022. Modeling vapor transfer in soil water and heat simulations: A modularized, partially-coupled approach. Journal of Hydrology, 608 :127541. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.127541
Luo C, Shi Y, Timlin DJ, Ewing R, Fleisher DH Horton R, Tully K, Wang Z***. 2022. A multiscale finite element method for coupled heat and water transfer in heterogeneous soils. Journal of Hydrology, 612: 10828. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.128028.
Gaimaro J**, TImlin D, Tully K. 2022. Comparison of cover crop monocultures and mixtures for suppressing nitrogen leaching losses. 2022. Agricultural Water Management. 261: 107348. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2021.107348
Thapa R**, Tully K, Hamovit N, Yarwood S, Schomberg H, Cabrera M, Reberg-Horton C, Mirsky SB. 2022. Microbial processes and community structure as influenced by cover crop residue type and placement during repeated dry-wet cycles. Applied Soil Ecology. 172: 104349. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2021.104349
Thapa R**, Tully K, Reberg-Horton C, Cabrera M, Davis BW, Fleisher D, Gaskin J, Hitchcock R, Poncet A, Schomberg HH, Seehaver SA, Timlin D, Mirsky SB. 2022. Cover crop residue decomposition in no-till cropping systems: Insights from multi-state on-farm litter bag studies. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. 326: 107823. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2021.107823
2021
Wang Z***, Thapa R, Timlin D, Li S, Sun W, Beegum S, Fleisher D, Reddy VR, Sauer T, Horton, R, Tully K. 2021. Simulations of Water and Thermal Dynamics for Soil Surfaces with Residue Mulch and Surface Runoff. Water Resources Research. 57: 2021WR030431 https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR030431
Dann CE, Cabrera M, Thapa R**, Mirsky SB, Tully K, Reberg-Horton C, Hitchcock R, Morari F. 2021. Modeling water potential of cover crop residues on the soil surface. Ecological Modelling. 459: 109708. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2021.109708
Peterson CM**, Mirsky SB, Tully K. 2021. Evaluation of interseeding cover crop mixtures in mid-Atlantic double-crop soybean. Agronomy Journal. 55: 3935-3951. http://doi.org/10.1002/agj2.20824
Thapa R**, Tully K, Cabrera ML, Dann C, Schomberg HH, Timlin D, Gaskin J, Reberg-Horton C, Mirsky SB. 2021. Cover crop residue moisture content controls diurnal variations in surface residue decomposition. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 308-309:108537. https://doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108537
Weissman D***, Tully K. 2021. Saltwater intrusion affects nitrogen, phosphorus, and iron transformations under oxic and anoxic conditions: A microcosm experiment. Biogeochemistry. 154: 451-469. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-021-00796-6
Wang***, Timlin D, Li S, Fleisher D, Dathe A, Luo C, Don L, Reddy VR, Tully K. 2021. A diffusive model of maize root growth MAIZSIM and its applications in ridge-furrow rainfall harvesting. Agricultural Water Management. 254: 106966. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2021.106966
de la Reguera E**, Tully K. Farming carbon: the link between saltwater intrusion and carbon storage in coastal agricultural fields. 2021. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. 314: 107416. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2021.107416
Wang Z***, Timlin D, Kojima Y, Luo C, Chen Y, Li S, Fleisher D, Tully K, Reddy VR, Horton R. 2021. A piecewise analysis model for electrical conductivity calculation from time domain reflectometry waveforms. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 182: 106012 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2021.106012
Thapa R**, Tully K, Cabrera ML, Dann C, Schomberg HH, Timlin D, Reberg-Horton C, Gaskin J, Davis BN, Mirsky SB. 2021. Effects of moisture and temperature on C and N mineralization from surface-applied cover crop residues. Biology and Fertility of Soils. 57: 485-498. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-021-01543-7
Crystal-Ornelas R***, Thapa R**, Tully K. 2021. Soil organic carbon concentration is affected by organic amendments, conservation tillage, and cover cropping in organic farming systems: A meta-analysis. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. 312: 107356 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2021.107356
2020
Basche A, Tully K, Álvarez-Berríos N, Reyes J, Legnick L, Brown T, Moore-Kucera J, Schattman R, Koepke-Johnson L, Roesch-McNally G. 2020. Evaluating the Untapped Potential of U.S. Conservation Investments to Improve Soil and Environmental Health. Frontiers in Sustain. Food Syst., 26 November 2020 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2020.547876
de la Reguera**, Veach J, Gedan K, Tully K. The effects of saltwater intrusion on germination success of standard and alternative crops. Environmental and Experimental Botany 180:104254 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2020.104254
Weissman D**, Tully K, McClure K, Miller C. 2020 Saltwater intrusion: A growing thread to coastal agriculture. Northeast Climate Hub FactSheet.
Weissman D** and Tully K. 2020. Saltwater intrusion affects nutrient concentrations in soil porewater and surface waters of coastal habitats. Ecosphere. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3041
Otte B**, Rice CP, Davis BW, Schomberg HH, Mirsky SB, Tully K. 2020. Phenolic acids are released to soil during cover crop decomposition. Chemoecology. 30:25-34 doi: 0.1007/s00049-019-00295-z
Wang Z, Timlin D, Kouznesov M, Fleisher D, Li S, Tully K, Reddy V. 2020. Coupled model of surface runoff and surface-subsurface water movement. Advances in Water Resources. 137:103499. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2019.103499
Huddell AM, Galford GL, Tully K, Crowley C, Palm CA, Neill C, Hickman JE, and Menge DNL. 2020. Meta-analysis on the potential for increasing nitrogen losses from intensifying tropical agriculture. Global Change Biology. 26:1668-1680. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14951
Tully K and McAskill C. 2020. Promoting soil health in organically managed systems: A review. Organic Agriculture. 10:339-358. doi:10.1007/s13165-019-00275-1
2019
Otte B**, Mirsky SB, Schomberg H, Davis B, Tully K. 2019. Effect of cover crop termination timing on nitrogen cycling in no-till corn. Agronomy Journal. 111:2832-2842.
Tully K, Gedan K, Epanchin-Niell R, Strong A, Bernhardt E, BenDor T, Mitchell M, Kominoski J, Jordan T, Neubauer S, Weston N. 2019. The invisible flood: the chemistry, ecology, and consequences of saltwater intrusion. Bioscience. 69:368-378.
Tully K, Weissman D**, Wyner WJ*, Miller J, Jordan T. 2019. Soils in transition: Saltwater intrusion alters soil chemistry in agricultural fields. Biogeochemistry. 142: 339-356.
2018
Thapa R**, Mirsky SB, Tully K. 2018. Cover crops reduce nitrate leaching in agroecosystems: a global meta-analysis. Journal of Environmental Quality. 47:1400-1411
Koivunen EE, Tully K, Swett CL. 2018. Co-managing soil and plant pathogens: effects of organic amendments of soil fertility and fungal pathogen survival. Plant and Soil. 432: 171-189.
Thapa R**, Ackroyd VJ***, Poffenbarger H, Tully K, Kramer M, Mirsky SB. 2018. Biomass production and nitrogen accumulation by hairy vetch-cereal rye biculture - A meta-analysis. Agronomy Journal. 110:1197-1208.
Yu K, Carr D, Anderegg W, Tully K, D'odorico P. 2018. Response of a facultative CAM plant and its competitive relationship with a grass to changes in rainfall regime. Plant and Soil 427:321-333.
2017
Hickman JE, Palm CA, Tully K, Diru W, Groffman PM. 2017. A nitrogen tipping point in tropical agriculture: avoiding rapid increases in nitrous oxide fluxes from the African Green Revolution. Global Change Biology. 120: 938-951.
Russo TA, Tully K, Palm CA, Neill C. 2017. Leaching losses from Kenyan maize cropland receiving different rates of nitrogen fertilizer. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems. 108: 195–209.
Tully K, Ryals R. 2017. Nutrient cycling in agroecosystems: Balancing food and environmental objectives. Invited Special Issue in Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems. 7: 761-798.
Tully K, Abwanda S, Thiong'o M, Mutuo PM, Rosenstock TS. 2017. Nitrous oxide and methane fluxes from urine and dung deposited on Kenyan pastures. Journal of Environmental Quality. 46:921-929.
Palm C, Neill C, Lefebvre P and Tully K. 2017. Targeting sustainable intensification of maize-based agriculture in East Africa. Tropical Conservation Science. (Invited Special Issue). 10:1-4.
Michelson H, Tully K. 2017. 2017. The Millennium Villages Project and Local Land Values: Using Hedonic Pricing Methods to Evaluate Development Projects. World Development. 101:377-387.
2016
Neill C, Palm CA, Lefebvre P, Tully K. 2016. Using Soil Characteristics to Target Sustainable Intensification of Maize-based Agriculture in East Africa. Report to International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT).
Tully K, Hickman J, McKenna M, Palm CA, Neill C. 2016. Effects of increased fertilizer application on inorganic soil N in East African maize systems: vertical distributions and temporal dynamics. Ecological Applications. 26: 1907-1919.
Kuyah S, Mbow C, Sileshi G, van Noordwijk M, Tully K, Rosenstock TS. 2016. Chapter 6: Quantifying carbon stocks and carbon stock changes in biomass on smallholder farms and in agricultural landscapes. In Rosenstock TS, Rufino MC, Butterbach-Bahl K, Wollenberg E, Richards M. (eds.), Methods for Measuring Greenhouse Gas Balances and Evaluating Mitigation Options in Smallholder Agriculture. Springer International, p 119-134.
2015
Tully K, Wood SA, Neill C, Palm CP. 2015. The effect of African Green Revolution interventions on nitrogen balances in smallholder maize farms in Western Kenya. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 214:10-20.
Tully K, Sullivan C, Weil R, Sanchez P. 2015 The state of soil degradation in sub-Saharan Africa: baselines, trajectories, and solutions. Sustainability 7(6):6523-6552.
Hickman JE, Tully K, Groffman PM, Diru W, Palm CA. 2015. A potential nitrogen tipping point in tropical agriculture: Avoiding rapid increases in nitrous oxide fluxes from agricultural intensification in Kenya. JGR-Biogeosciences 120:938-951.
Wood SA, Bradford MA, Naeem S, Gilbert J, McGuire KL, Tully K, Zhou J, Palm CP. 2015. Farm management, not soil microbial diversity, controls nutrient loss from tropical smallholder agriculture. Frontiers in Microbiology 6:1-10.
Wood SA, Bradford MA, Gilbert JA, McGuire KL, Palm CA, Tully K, Zhou J, Naeem S. 2015. Agricultural intensification and the functional capacity of soil microbes on smallholder African farms. Journal of Applied Ecology 52:744-752.
2014 and earlier
Tully K, Weil R. 2014. Ion selective electrode offers accurate, inexpensive method for analyzing soil solution nitrate in remote regions. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis. 45:1974-1980.
Rosenstock T, Tully K, Arias-Navarro C, Butterbach-Bahl K, Neufeldt H, Verchot L. 2014. Agroforestry with N-fixing trees: Sustainable development’s friend or foe? Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 6:15-21.
Tully K, Lawrence D, Wood SA. 2013. Organically managed coffee agroforests have larger soil phosphorus but smaller soil nitrogen pools than conventionally managed agroforests. Biogeochemistry, 115:385-397.
Tully, K, Wood SA, Lawrence D. 2013. Fertilizer type and species composition affect nutrient leachate in coffee agroecosystems. Agroforestry Systems. 87:1083-1100.
Tully K, Wood TE, Schwantes AM, Lawrence D. 2013. Soil nutrient availability and reproductive effort drive patterns in nutrient resorption in Pentaclethra macroloba. Ecology. 94:930-940.
Tully K, Lawrence D, Scanlon TM. 2012. More trees less loss: Nitrogen losses decrease with increasing biomass in coffee agroforests. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. 161:137-144.
Tully K, and Lawrence D. 2012. Canopy and leaf composition drive patterns of nutrient release from pruning residues in a coffee agroforest. Ecological Applications. 22:1330-1344.
Huang C-Y, Tully K, Clark DA, Oberbauer SF, McGlynn TP. 2012. The δ15 N signature of the detrital food web tracks a landscape-scale soil phosphorus gradient in a Costa Rican lowland tropical rain forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology. 28: 395-403.
Tully K, Lawrence D. 2011. Closing the Loop: Nutrient balances in organic and conventional coffee agroforests. Journal of Sustainable Development, 35: 671-695.
Tully K, Lawrence D. 2010. Declines in leaf litter nitrogen linked to rising temperatures in a wet tropical forest. BIOTROPICA. 42: 526-530.
Goeghegan J, Lawrence D, Schneider L, Tully K. 2010. Accounting for Carbon in Models of Land Use and Implications for Payments for Environmental Services: An Application to SYPR. Regional Environmental Change. 42: 526-530.
Lawrence D, Radel R, Tully K, Schmook B, Schneider L. 2010 Untangling a global decline in tropical forest resilience: constraints on the sustainability of shifting cultivation. BIOTROPICA. 40: 21-30.
Vandecar K, Lawrence D, Wood TE, Das R, Oberbauer S, Schwendenmann L, Tully K. 2009. Diurnal fluctuations in labile soil phosphorus in response to climatic conditions and soil CO2 efflux in a wet tropical forest, La Selva, Costa Rica. Ecology. 90: 2547-2555.
Tully K. 2002. Tilting. Kenyon Chapbook Series: Featured work for emerging authors. ISBN: 0-9726005-5-8.
