Dr. Beyhan Y. Amichev
Soil Scientist
U.S. Department of Agriculture - Natural Resources Conservation Service - Soil And Plant Science Division (USDA-NRCS-SPSD), Bryan Texas MLRA Soil Survey Office
Specialization & Expertise
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Education |
- Ph.D., Biogeochemistry of Carbon, Department of Forestry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA, U.S.A., 2007
- GIT, Geospatial Information Technology, Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate Program, Virginia Tech Graduate School, Blacksburg, VA, U.S.A., 2005
- M.S., Forest Soils and Biology, Department of Forestry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, U.S.A., 2003
- B.S., Forest Resource Management, Department of Forestry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, U.S.A., 2001
Professional Experience
2017-2021: Project Manager & Agroforestry Research Scientist
University of Saskatchewan, Soil Science Department, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
University of Saskatchewan, Soil Science Department, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Institution:
University of Saskatchewan, Center for Northern Agroforestry and Afforestation, Soil Science Department, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Project:
”Development of a Management Support Toolbox for Carbon Sequestration Strategies Using Agroforestry Shelterbelt Systems in Saskatchewan.” (Principal Investigator: Dr. Colin Laroque)
Duties:
My duties in this research project were two-fold:
First, as an agroforestry research scientist, I was responsible for the completion of several project activities, which were to:
Second, as project manager, my duties were to:
As project manager, I also collaborated with and consulted federal and provincial government researchers and scientists (e.g., Government of Canada’s Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC); Government of Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Environment) in the research field of shelterbelt agroforestry systems and their carbon sequestration potential. A significant outcome from this collaboration with AAFC researchers was an updated shelterbelt component in the HOLOS model, which estimates whole-farm GHG emission on individual farms in Canada. The shelterbelt systems project was approved as an affiliated project in the North American Carbon Program, established and maintained by NASA.
Supervisor: Dr. Ken Van Rees.
University of Saskatchewan, Center for Northern Agroforestry and Afforestation, Soil Science Department, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Project:
”Development of a Management Support Toolbox for Carbon Sequestration Strategies Using Agroforestry Shelterbelt Systems in Saskatchewan.” (Principal Investigator: Dr. Colin Laroque)
Duties:
My duties in this research project were two-fold:
First, as an agroforestry research scientist, I was responsible for the completion of several project activities, which were to:
- Synthesize and summarize an inventory of all existing (ca. 2016) and removed shelterbelts in Saskatchewan to determine the most common shelterbelt designs used by farmers;
- Inventory and analyze all shelterbelt management activities used by farmers and to estimate their effects on maximizing carbon sequestration in shelterbelts;
- Determine the future climate change impacts on the carbon sequestration potential of shelterbelts;
- Develop a shelterbelt carbon sequestration tool (Belt-CaT) that can be used to estimate carbon stocks in existing shelterbelts, and to provide carbon stocks predictions for future shelterbelts; and
- Write journal publications, published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Second, as project manager, my duties were to:
- Organize and carry out monthly project meetings to coordinate project activities, discuss research progress, and plan for data collection, analysis, and dissemination;
- Organize and moderate project workshops held annually at the end of each project fiscal year;
- Develop and maintain a project website to disseminate research data, publications, shelterbelt management support information, and technical reports (two-page shelterbelt fact sheets); and
- Prepare quarterly and final project reports.
As project manager, I also collaborated with and consulted federal and provincial government researchers and scientists (e.g., Government of Canada’s Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC); Government of Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Environment) in the research field of shelterbelt agroforestry systems and their carbon sequestration potential. A significant outcome from this collaboration with AAFC researchers was an updated shelterbelt component in the HOLOS model, which estimates whole-farm GHG emission on individual farms in Canada. The shelterbelt systems project was approved as an affiliated project in the North American Carbon Program, established and maintained by NASA.
Supervisor: Dr. Ken Van Rees.
2011-2017: Agroforestry Research Scientist
University of Saskatchewan, Soil Science Department, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
University of Saskatchewan, Soil Science Department, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Institution:
University of Saskatchewan, Center for Northern Agroforestry and Afforestation, Soil Science Department, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Project:
"Shelterbelts as an Agroforestry Management Practice for the Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases."
(Principal Investigator: Dr. Ken Van Rees)
Duties:
The overall focus of my work was to conduct research in shelterbelt agroforestry systems.
More specifically, my research work included:
Supervisor: Dr. Ken Van Rees.
University of Saskatchewan, Center for Northern Agroforestry and Afforestation, Soil Science Department, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Project:
"Shelterbelts as an Agroforestry Management Practice for the Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases."
(Principal Investigator: Dr. Ken Van Rees)
Duties:
The overall focus of my work was to conduct research in shelterbelt agroforestry systems.
More specifically, my research work included:
- Stratification of the agricultural land base of Saskatchewan into manageable number of homogenous cluster units for shelterbelt analysis purposes;
- Mapping the probable locations and quantifying the expected length and density of all planted shelterbelts in Saskatchewan;
- Adapting and using the RBS method (Randomized Branch Selection) to select at random, and map, the locations of shelterbelt sampling sites;
- Developing allometric relationships between biomass of shelterbelt species with measurement parameters (e.g., height, DBH, age);
- Parameterizing the 3PG model (Physiological Principles in Predicting Growth) and running tree growth simulations for six commonly used shelterbelt species in the Canadian prairies;
- Adapting the CBM-CFS3 model (Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector) and running whole-ecosystem carbon simulations across the province of Saskatchewan for six shelterbelt species using site-specific input data regarding tree growth, climate, and soil characteristics.; and
- Writing publications and preparing reports.
Supervisor: Dr. Ken Van Rees.
2010-2011: Canadian Government Laboratory Visiting Fellow
Pacific Forestry Center, Natural Resources Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada
Pacific Forestry Center, Natural Resources Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada
Institution:
Government of Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Pacific Forestry Center, Victoria, BC, Canada
Project: "Assessing site suitability for forest residue removal from managed forests in Canada."
(Principal Investigator: Dr. Brian Titus)
Duties:
In general, my duties included:
More specifically, I:
Supervisor: Dr. Évelyne Thiffault.
Government of Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Pacific Forestry Center, Victoria, BC, Canada
Project: "Assessing site suitability for forest residue removal from managed forests in Canada."
(Principal Investigator: Dr. Brian Titus)
Duties:
In general, my duties included:
- Methodological development, networking and communication with experts across the country from a wide range of disciplines (geology, soils, forestry);
- Critical analysis of relevance of different data, spatial layering and construction of geographic data;
- Report writing;
- Working closely with Canadian Forest Service staff across the country to ensure cohesion of the larger national project, which was to scale spatial indicators of sustainable intensive biomass harvesting from forest sites up to a national level.
More specifically, I:
- Developed a method for 90-m raster cell-based mapping of forest soil properties;
- Defined boundaries of four case study areas across Canada (in BC, ON, QC, and NS) as clusters of grid cells with similar attributes;
- Applied the new method in an ON case study area to extrapolate and map known soil properties across the case study area;
- Completed identification of clusters within case studies in BC, QC, and NS and attributed soil properties to them; and
- Wrote a report on predictive 90-m raster cell-based forest soil mapping.
Supervisor: Dr. Évelyne Thiffault.
2007-2010: Post-Doctoral Research Scientist
University of Saskatchewan, Soil Science Department, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
University of Saskatchewan, Soil Science Department, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Institution:
University of Saskatchewan, Soil Science Department, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Project:
“Willow afforestation of agriculturally marginal land and growth in bioenergy production systems.”
(Principal Investigator: Dr. Ken Van Rees)
Duties:
The focus of my work was ecosystem carbon simulation modeling in large-scale willow and hybrid poplar (HP) afforestation of abandoned agricultural land for bioenergy production using the framework of the operational scale Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector (CBM-CFS3). My research utilized all available data from past and current willow and HP bioenergy systems in order to adapt the CBM-CFS3 model for simulations in these ecosystems. A critical component of my work was describing and quantifying forest growth and stand dynamics of short-rotation willow and HP stands using a well-accepted stand-growth model: 3PG, Physiological Principles in Predicting Growth.
More specifically, I:
Supervisor: Dr. Ken Van Rees.
University of Saskatchewan, Soil Science Department, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Project:
“Willow afforestation of agriculturally marginal land and growth in bioenergy production systems.”
(Principal Investigator: Dr. Ken Van Rees)
Duties:
The focus of my work was ecosystem carbon simulation modeling in large-scale willow and hybrid poplar (HP) afforestation of abandoned agricultural land for bioenergy production using the framework of the operational scale Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector (CBM-CFS3). My research utilized all available data from past and current willow and HP bioenergy systems in order to adapt the CBM-CFS3 model for simulations in these ecosystems. A critical component of my work was describing and quantifying forest growth and stand dynamics of short-rotation willow and HP stands using a well-accepted stand-growth model: 3PG, Physiological Principles in Predicting Growth.
More specifically, I:
- Assisted in establishing research field trials;
- Prepared technical reports;
- Presented results at professional meetings; and
- Published papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Supervisor: Dr. Ken Van Rees.
2002-2007: Graduate Research Assistant
Virginia Tech, Forestry Department, Blacksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Virginia Tech, Forestry Department, Blacksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Institution:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Forestry Department, Blacksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Duties:
As part of my doctoral degree program, I researched and developed new methods for measuring and monitoring of terrestrial carbon pools on coal-mined land using modern laboratory, statistical, and geospatial methods of analysis of both remote sensing and field data. As part of my master’s degree program, I compiled nation-wide soils databases from all the contiguous United States (STATSGO database), critically analyzed and validated soils attribute data, estimated soil carbon stocks, and created soil carbon stocks maps for all forested soils across the contiguous United States. I established research field trials and published papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Supervisors:
Dr. James Burger - doctoral degree program
Dr. Stephen Prisley - master's degree program
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Forestry Department, Blacksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Duties:
As part of my doctoral degree program, I researched and developed new methods for measuring and monitoring of terrestrial carbon pools on coal-mined land using modern laboratory, statistical, and geospatial methods of analysis of both remote sensing and field data. As part of my master’s degree program, I compiled nation-wide soils databases from all the contiguous United States (STATSGO database), critically analyzed and validated soils attribute data, estimated soil carbon stocks, and created soil carbon stocks maps for all forested soils across the contiguous United States. I established research field trials and published papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Supervisors:
Dr. James Burger - doctoral degree program
Dr. Stephen Prisley - master's degree program
2001-2002: Research Assistant
Virginia Tech, Wood Science & Forest Products Department, Blacksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Virginia Tech, Wood Science & Forest Products Department, Blacksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Institution:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Wood Science & Forest Products Department, Blacksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Duties:
I assisted enrolled graduate students with forestry data analyses and manuscript review. I compiled and analyzed statistical and geospatial data in a geographic information systems (GIS) to create professional maps and charts in support of manuscript publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Supervisor: Dr. A.L.(Tom) Hammett.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Wood Science & Forest Products Department, Blacksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Duties:
I assisted enrolled graduate students with forestry data analyses and manuscript review. I compiled and analyzed statistical and geospatial data in a geographic information systems (GIS) to create professional maps and charts in support of manuscript publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Supervisor: Dr. A.L.(Tom) Hammett.
2001: Field Technician - Soil sampling
U.S. Department of Agriculture – Forest Service, Sumter, SC, U.S.A.
U.S. Department of Agriculture – Forest Service, Sumter, SC, U.S.A.
Institution:
U.S. Department of Agriculture – Forest Service, Sumter, SC, U.S.A.
Duties:
I collected soil samples from research sites at the Trice Research Forest in South Carolina, U.S.A.
U.S. Department of Agriculture – Forest Service, Sumter, SC, U.S.A.
Duties:
I collected soil samples from research sites at the Trice Research Forest in South Carolina, U.S.A.
Research Biography
Dr. Beyhan Amichev is a Soil Scientist at the Bryan Texas Major Land Resource Area (MLRA) Soil Survey Office of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).
Prior to joining the USDA, he was an agroforestry research scientist and project manager at the Center for Northern Agroforestry and Afforestation in the Soil Science Department in the College of Agriculture and Bioresources at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada. Dr. Amichev has 10 years of research experience in carbon modelling in various terrestrial ecosystems with the Physiological Principles in Predicting Growth (3PG) model and the Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector (CBM-CFS3), and was responsible for the shelterbelt carbon modelling estimates for the province of Saskatchewan, Canada.
Since 2003, Dr. Amichev has authored/co-authored 30 peer-reviewed publications, more than a dozen of which are directly related to terrestrial carbon sequestration in various ecosystems. His expertise in geospatial information systems and technology, soil carbon dynamics, tree/forest growth and stand dynamics, and terrestrial carbon modelling were essential for the completion of the shelterbelt carbon sequestration project.
Dr. Amichev's interest in terrestrial carbon sequestration began nearly 20 years ago in an undergraduate class project at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA, estimating soil carbon in a study area using an existing national soils database. This sparked his interest in terrestrial carbon sequestration, which grew steadily during his M.Sc. degree program at Virginia Tech (funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture - Forest Service), during which he estimated forest soils carbon stocks of all forested land across the contiguous United States. The success of predicting and promoting carbon sequestration in forested terrestrial ecosystems lead to Dr. Amichev's Ph.D. degree program, which he also completed at Virginia Tech (funded by the U.S. Department of Energy), in which he developed a new methodology to measure soil organic carbon and to model and predict the whole-ecosystem carbon sequestration potential of forests planted on disturbed landscapes, which included reclaimed mined land following coal mining operations in the Eastern United States. By the end of his graduate research training in 2007, the world community's interest in carbon cycling and sequestration was increasing exponentially and many researchers were looking into various ways to mitigate climate change via carbon sequestration in sustainable terrestrial ecosystems.
Beginning in 2007, as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Northern Agroforestry and Afforestation, Dr. Amichev was involved in a willow short-rotation bioenergy research project aimed at determining the carbon sequestration potential of various willow cultivars planted on marginal agricultural land under harsh Canadian climate conditions. The goal was to identify successful willow cultivars that can thrive and survive and be used as a bioenergy source at the farm scale, reducing fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions across the agricultural sector.
Following the willow project, in 2011, Dr. Amichev continued his carbon research as a research associate in a much larger carbon cycling and sequestration project at the University of Saskatchewan involving trees planted on agricultural landscapes, which are often referred to as shelterbelts or windbreaks. Although, by then, much was known about shelterbelt agroforestry systems across Canada and the world in terms of their functions and ecosystem services, a major knowledge gap still existed about the amount of atmospheric carbon shelterbelt trees can sequester throughout their lives (up to 100 years), while concurrently protecting the soil, crops, livestock, and infrastructure on the agricultural landscape. The first stage of the shelterbelt carbon project successfully highlighted the remarkable carbon sequestration potential of these systems, which lead to securing more funding for the second phase of the project, developing a shelterbelt management support toolbox. The aim of the project was to promote the retention of the existing vast shelterbelt network in the Canadian Prairies and to promote the establishment of new shelterbelts in the future. An additional outcome of the project was a decision support system targeted at farmers who desire to know the carbon stocks of their shelterbelt systems.
Dr. Amichev, as Soil Scientist at USDA-NRCS, is involved in various soil survey projects aiming to improve the utilization of vast soils data to meet customer needs, including soil organic carbon sequestration projects. His career goals are to continue his terrestrial carbon modelling work by further expanding awareness about the role of terrestrial carbon sequestration in mitigating climate change to the broader research community and the public.
Prior to joining the USDA, he was an agroforestry research scientist and project manager at the Center for Northern Agroforestry and Afforestation in the Soil Science Department in the College of Agriculture and Bioresources at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada. Dr. Amichev has 10 years of research experience in carbon modelling in various terrestrial ecosystems with the Physiological Principles in Predicting Growth (3PG) model and the Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector (CBM-CFS3), and was responsible for the shelterbelt carbon modelling estimates for the province of Saskatchewan, Canada.
Since 2003, Dr. Amichev has authored/co-authored 30 peer-reviewed publications, more than a dozen of which are directly related to terrestrial carbon sequestration in various ecosystems. His expertise in geospatial information systems and technology, soil carbon dynamics, tree/forest growth and stand dynamics, and terrestrial carbon modelling were essential for the completion of the shelterbelt carbon sequestration project.
Dr. Amichev's interest in terrestrial carbon sequestration began nearly 20 years ago in an undergraduate class project at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA, estimating soil carbon in a study area using an existing national soils database. This sparked his interest in terrestrial carbon sequestration, which grew steadily during his M.Sc. degree program at Virginia Tech (funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture - Forest Service), during which he estimated forest soils carbon stocks of all forested land across the contiguous United States. The success of predicting and promoting carbon sequestration in forested terrestrial ecosystems lead to Dr. Amichev's Ph.D. degree program, which he also completed at Virginia Tech (funded by the U.S. Department of Energy), in which he developed a new methodology to measure soil organic carbon and to model and predict the whole-ecosystem carbon sequestration potential of forests planted on disturbed landscapes, which included reclaimed mined land following coal mining operations in the Eastern United States. By the end of his graduate research training in 2007, the world community's interest in carbon cycling and sequestration was increasing exponentially and many researchers were looking into various ways to mitigate climate change via carbon sequestration in sustainable terrestrial ecosystems.
Beginning in 2007, as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Northern Agroforestry and Afforestation, Dr. Amichev was involved in a willow short-rotation bioenergy research project aimed at determining the carbon sequestration potential of various willow cultivars planted on marginal agricultural land under harsh Canadian climate conditions. The goal was to identify successful willow cultivars that can thrive and survive and be used as a bioenergy source at the farm scale, reducing fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions across the agricultural sector.
Following the willow project, in 2011, Dr. Amichev continued his carbon research as a research associate in a much larger carbon cycling and sequestration project at the University of Saskatchewan involving trees planted on agricultural landscapes, which are often referred to as shelterbelts or windbreaks. Although, by then, much was known about shelterbelt agroforestry systems across Canada and the world in terms of their functions and ecosystem services, a major knowledge gap still existed about the amount of atmospheric carbon shelterbelt trees can sequester throughout their lives (up to 100 years), while concurrently protecting the soil, crops, livestock, and infrastructure on the agricultural landscape. The first stage of the shelterbelt carbon project successfully highlighted the remarkable carbon sequestration potential of these systems, which lead to securing more funding for the second phase of the project, developing a shelterbelt management support toolbox. The aim of the project was to promote the retention of the existing vast shelterbelt network in the Canadian Prairies and to promote the establishment of new shelterbelts in the future. An additional outcome of the project was a decision support system targeted at farmers who desire to know the carbon stocks of their shelterbelt systems.
Dr. Amichev, as Soil Scientist at USDA-NRCS, is involved in various soil survey projects aiming to improve the utilization of vast soils data to meet customer needs, including soil organic carbon sequestration projects. His career goals are to continue his terrestrial carbon modelling work by further expanding awareness about the role of terrestrial carbon sequestration in mitigating climate change to the broader research community and the public.
Publications
Only select peer-reviewed journal publications from the past 6 years are listed. A full list of publications can be found here: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7453-4115.
- Amichev, B.Y., C.P. Laroque, and K.C.J. Van Rees. 2021. Shelterbelt Management Practices for Maximized Ecosystem Carbon Stocks on Agricultural Landscapes in Saskatchewan, Canada. Environmental Management. doi:10.1007/s00267-021-01511-9
- Rudd, L., S. Kulshreshtha, K. Belcher, B. Amichev. 2021. Carbon life cycle assessment of shelterbelts in Saskatchewan, Canada. Journal of Environmental Management. doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113400
- Kröbel, R., J. Moore, Y.Z. Ni, A. McPherson, L. Poppy, R.Y. Soolanayakanahally, B.Y. Amichev, T. Ward, C.P. Laroque, K.C.J. Van Rees, and F. Akhter. 2020. Demonstration and Testing of the Improved Shelterbelt Component in the Holos Model. Frontiers in Environmental Science 8: 149. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2020.00149.
- Amichev, B.Y., C.P. Laroque, and K.C.J. Van Rees. 2020. Shelterbelt Removals in Saskatchewan, Canada: Implications for long-term carbon sequestration. Agroforestry Systems 94(5): 1665–1680. doi: 10.1007/s10457-020-00484-8.
- Amichev, B.Y., C.P. Laroque, K.W. Belcher, M.J. Bentham, and K.C.J. Van Rees. 2020. Shelterbelt Systems Establishment in Saskatchewan, Canada: A Multi-criteria Fuzzy Logic Approach to Land Suitability Mapping. New Forests 51(6): 933–963. doi: 10.1007/s11056-019-09766-1.
- Mayrinck, R., C. Laroque, B. Amichev, and K. Van Rees. 2019. Above- and Below-ground Carbon Sequestration in Shelterbelt Trees in Canada: A Review. Forests 10(10): 922. doi: 10.3390/f10100922.
- Sealey, L.L., B.Y. Amichev, and K.C.J. Van Rees. 2019. Quantifying Cumulative Effects of Harvesting on Aspen Regeneration through Fuzzy Logic Suitability Mapping. Soil Science Society of America Journal 83(Suppl1):S187-S200. doi:10.2136/sssaj2018.09.0355.
- Ha, T.V., B.Y. Amichev, K.W. Belcher, M.J. Bentham, S.N. Kulshreshtha, C.P. Laroque, and K.C.J. Van Rees. 2019. Shelterbelt Agroforestry Systems Inventory and Removal Analyzed by Object-based Classification of Satellite Data in Saskatchewan, Canada. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 45 (2):246-263. doi.org/10.1080/07038992.2018.1540297.
- Amichev, B.Y., T.A. Volk, R.D. Hangs, N. Bélanger, V. Vujanovic, and K. C.J. Van Rees. 2018. Growth, Survival, and Yields of 30 Short-Rotation Willow Cultivars on the Canadian Prairies: 2nd Rotation Implications. New Forests 49 (5):649-665. doi.org/10.1007/s11056-018-9650-8.
- Amichev, B.Y., and K. C.J. Van Rees. 2018. Early Nitrogen Fertilization Effects on 13 Years of Growth of 4 Hybrid Poplars in Saskatchewan, Canada. Forest Ecology and Management 419-420: 110-122. doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.03.031.
- Woytiuk, K., D. Sanscartier, B. Amichev, W. Campbell, K. Van Rees. 2017. Life-cycle Assessment of Torrefied Coppice Willow Co-firing with Lignite Coal in an Existing Pulverized Coal Boiler. Biofuels, Bioproducts & Biorefining 11(5): 830-846. doi.org/10.1002/bbb.1788.
- Rempel, J.C., S.N. Kulshreshtha, B.Y. Amichev, K.C.J. Van Rees. 2017. Costs and benefits of shelterbelts: A review of producers' perception and mind map analysis for Saskatchewan, Canada. Canadian Journal of Soil Science 97(3): 341-352. doi.org/10.1139/cjss-2016-0100.
- Piwowar, J.M., B.Y. Amichev, K.C.J. Van Rees. 2017. The Saskatchewan Shelterbelt Inventory. Canadian Journal of Soil Science 97(3): 433-438. doi.org/10.1139/cjss-2016-0098.
- Amichev, B.Y., M.J. Bentham, S. Kulshreshtha, C.P. Laroque, J.M. Piwowar, and K.C.J. Van Rees. 2017. Carbon sequestration and growth of six common tree and shrub shelterbelts in Saskatchewan, Canada. Canadian Journal of Soil Science 97(3): 368-381. doi.org/10.1139/cjss-2016-0107.
- Fabio, E.S., T.A. Volk, R.O. Miller, M.J. Serapiglia, H.G. Gauch, K.C.J. Van Rees, R.D. Hangs, B.Y. Amichev, J.A. Kuzovkina, M. Labrecque, G.A. Johnson, R.G. Ewy, G.J. Kling, and L.B. Smart. 2017. Genotype by environment interactions analysis of North American shrub willow yield trials confirms superior performance of triploid hybrids. Global Change Biology Bioenergy 9(2): 445-459. doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12344.
- Amichev, B.Y., M.J. Bentham, S. Kulshreshtha, W.A. Kurz, C.P. Laroque, J.M. Piwowar, and K.C.J. Van Rees. 2016. Carbon sequestration by white spruce shelterbelts in Saskatchewan: 3PG and CBM-CFS3 model simulations. Ecological Modelling 325:35-46. doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2016.01.003.