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PUBLICATIONS IN CROP MODELING

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CHAPTERS OF BOOKS

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  • Connor, D.J. Crop models, components of and contributors to models of agroforestry associations. p. 249-256. In: Huxley, P.A. (ed.) Plant Research and Agroforestry. ICRAF, Nairobi, Kenya (1983).

  • Connor, D.J. and Rimmington, G.M. Simulation models and analysis of variability in Australian wheat production. In: Shu Geng and Casey Walsh Cady (eds.) Climatic variation and change: implications for agriculture in the Pacific Rim. University of California, Davis, p. 27-44 (1991).

  • Connor, D.J. and Handoko. Simulation modeling and nitrogen management of rainfed wheat crops. p. 293-302. In: Shi Yuanchun and Cheng Xu (eds.) Integrated Resource Management for Sustainable Agriculture. Beijing Agricultural University Press (1994)

 

​INVITED CONFERENCE PAPERS

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  • Connor, D.J. The Impact of Computers on Agricultural Research. Meredith Memorial Lecture Series 1976, La Trobe University, 1976.

  • Connor, D.J. Mathematical Models in Plant Physiology. Review Paper Aust. Soc. Plant Physiol. Ann. Meeting, Queensland University, Brisbane, 1977.

  • Connor, D.J. The role of modelling in botany. XIII Int. Bot. Congr. Sydney, 1981.

  • Fereres, E. and Connor, D.J. Modelling yield of water-limited crop production. European Society of Agronomy, Annual Meeting, Wageningen, July, 1996.

  • Connor, D.J. Optimizing crop diversification. Third International Crop Science Congress, Hamburg, Germany, August 2000.

 

REFEREED PAPERS

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  • Connor, D.J., Brown, L.F. and Trlica, M.J. Plant cover, light interception and photosynthesis of shortgrass prairie. A functional model. Photosynthetica 8:18-27 (1974).

  • Denholm, J.V. and Connor, D.J. Potential photosynthesis in trellis-type orchard canopies. Aust. J. Pl. Physiol. 9:629-40 (1982).

  • Paltridge, G.W., Denholm, J.V. and Connor, D.J. Determinism, senescence and the yield of plants. J. Theor. Biol.10:383-398  (1984).

  • O'Leary, G.J., Connor, D.J. and D.M. White. A simulation model of the development, growth and yield of the wheat crop. Agric. Systems 17:1-26 (1985).

  • Sadras, V.O. and Connor, D.J. Physiological basis of the response of harvest index to the fraction of water transpired after anthesis. a simple model to estimate harvest index for determinate species. Field Crops Research 26:227-239 (1991).

  • Sadras, V.O., Hall,, A.J. and Connor, D.J. Light-associated nitrogen distribution profiles in flowering canopies of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) altered during grain growth. Oecolgia 95:488-494 (1993).

  • Connor, D.J., Sadras, V.O. and Hall, A.J. Canopy nitrogen distribution and the photosynthetic performance of sunflower crops during grain filling - a quantitative analysis. Oecologia101:274-281 (1995).

  • Wang. Y.P. and Connor, D.J. Simulation of optimal development for spring wheat at two locations in southern Australia under present and future climate conditions. Agric. For. Meteorol. 79:9-28 (1996).

  • Connor, D.J. and Xingmin Mu. An application of STELLA in simulation of wheat development and growth. J. Agric. Univ. Hebei, China 19:108-112 (1996).

  • O'Leary, G.J. and Connor, D.J. A simulation model of the wheat crop in response to water and nitrogen supply. I. Model construction. Agric. Systems. 52:1-29. (1996).

  • O'Leary, G.J. and Connor, D.J. A simulation model of the wheat crop in response to water and nitrogen supply. II. Model validation. Agric. Systems 52:31-55 (1996).

  • O'Leary, G.J., and Connor, D.J. A simulation study of wheat crop response to water supply, nitrogen nutrition, stubble retention and tillage. Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 49, 11-19 (1998).

  • Cantero-Martínez, C., O'Leary, G.J. and Connor, D.J. Soil water and nitrogen interaction of wheat in a dry season under a fallow-wheat cropping system. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 39:29-37 (1999).

  • Connor, D.J. and Fereres, E. A dynamic model of crop growth and partitioning of biomass. Field Crops Research 63:139-157 (1999).

  • Diaz-Ambrona, C.G.H., O'Leary, C.G., Sadras, V.O., OConnell, M.G. and D.J. Connor (2005). Environmental risk analysis of farming systems in a semi-arid environment: effect of rotations and management practices on deep drainage. Field Crops Research 94:257-271.

  • Connor, D.J. (2006). Optimal canopy structure for hedgerow olive orchards. Aust. J. Agric. Res. 57:1067-1072.

  • Liang, W., Lu H., Wang, G., Connor, D.J. and Rimmington, G.M. (2007). A simulation model-assisted study on water and nitrogen dynamics and their effects on crop performance in wheat-maize system. I. The model. Frontiers of Agriculture in China 1(2):155-165.

  • Connor, D.J., Comas, J., Gomez Macpherson, H. and L. Mateos. (2008). Impact of small-holder irrigation on the agricultural production, food supply and economic prosperity of a representative village beside the Senegal River, Mauritania. Agricultural Systems 96:1-15.

  • Lu, H., Liang, W., Wang, G., Connor, D.J. and G.M. Rimmington. (2009). A simulation model assisted study on water and nitrogen dynamics and their effects on crop performance in thewheat-maize system: (II) model calibration, evaluation and simulated experimentation. Agric. Front. China 3:109-121.

  • Lu, H., Liang, W., Wang, G., Connor, D.J. and G.M. Rimmington. (2009). A simulation model assisted study on water and nitrogen dynamics and their effects on crop performance in thewheat-maize system: (II) model calibration, evaluation and simulated experimentation. Agric. Front. China 3:109-121.

  • Connor, D.J., Gómez-del-Campo, M., Comas, J. (2012). Yield characteristics of N-S oriented hedgerow orchards, cv. Arbequina. Sci. Hortic. 133:31-36.

  • Connor, D.J. and M. Gómez-del-Campo (2013). Simulation of oil productivity and quality of N-S oriented olive hedgerow orchards in response to structure and interception of radiation. Sci. Hortic. 150:92-99.

  • Connor, D.J., van Rees, H. and P.S. Carberry. (2015). Impact of systems modelling on agronomic research and adoption of new practices in smallholder agriculture. J. Int Agriculture 14:1478:1489.

  • Connor, D.J., Gómez-del-Campo, M. Trentacoste, E.R. (2016). Relationships between olive yield components and simulated irradiance within hedgerows of various row orientations and spacings. Sci. Hortic. 198:12-20.

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