Contact Information
196 E.R. Madigan Laboratory
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Areas
Research Description
Impacts of climate change on crop physiology, energy fluxes between the atmosphere and plant canopies, carbon sequestration, crop canopy responses to stress
The overall focus of my research is to understand the impacts of atmospheric and climatic change on crop species important to the Midwestern U.S. Included in these analyses are global change scenarios as well as natural variations in growth conditions over a wide range of temporal scales.
Specific research includes:
- determining how vegetation responds to atmospheric change with emphasis on energy fluxes between the atmosphere and plant canopies,
- measuring net ecosystem carbon exchange using eddy covariance techniques to estimate the carbon sequestration potential of Midwest agriculture, and
- working toward a mechanistic understanding of crop canopy responses to stresses, such as drought or insect infestation. In addition, I am also involved in numerous projects that focus on soybean physiological responses to growth in elevated CO2 and O3.
Specific research experiments in which I am involved include SoyFACE and the Ameriflux network. My participation with this project includes running two eddy covariance flux towers in Bondville, IL.
Education
M.S., Bradley University
Ph.D., University of Illinois
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Crop Sciences
Professor, Plant Biology
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
External Links
Recent Publications
Berardi, D. M., Hartman, M. D., Brzostek, E. R., Bernacchi, C. J., DeLucia, E. H., von Haden, A. C., Kantola, I., Moore, C. E., Yang, W., Hudiburg, T. W., & Parton, W. J. (2024). Microbial-explicit processes and refined perennial plant traits improve modeled ecosystem carbon dynamics. Geoderma, 443, Article 116851. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2024.116851
Boughton, R. K., Smith, B. W., Boughton, E. H., Gomez-Casanovas, N., Bernacchi, C., DeLucia, E., Sparks, J., & Swain, H. M. (2024). Patch-burn management changes grazing behavior of cattle in humid subtropical grasslands. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 368, Article 109012. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2024.109012
Gomez-Casanovas, N., Blanc-Betes, E., Bernacchi, CJ., Boughton, EH., Yang, W., Moore, C., Pederson, TL., Saha, A., & DeLucia, EH. (2024). Impact of Sugarcane Cultivation on C Cycling in Southeastern United States Following Conversion From Grazed Pastures. GCB Bioenergy, 16(10), Article e70003. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.70003
Siebers, M. H., Fu, P., Blakely, B. J., Long, S. P., Bernacchi, C. J., & McGrath, J. M. (2024). Fast, Nondestructive and Precise Biomass Measurements Are Possible Using Lidar-Based Convex Hull and Voxelization Algorithms. Remote Sensing, 16(12), Article 2191. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16122191
Time, A., Gomez-Casanovas, N., Mwebaze, P., Apollon, W., Khanna, M., DeLucia, E. H., & Bernacchi, C. J. (2024). Conservation agrivoltaics for sustainable food-energy production. Plants People Planet, 6(3), 558-569. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10481