Jingyi Yang, Ph.D.

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Soil Scientist, Nutrient Modeller in Agroecosystems | Agronome pédologue et modélisateur d’éléments nutritifs dans les écosystèmes agricoles

Dr. Jingyi Yang is a soil scientist and nutrient modeller in agroecosystem in the AAFC Harrow Research and Development Centre where he studies agro-environmental health with a special interest in nitrogen (N) modelling at both regional and field scales. At the regional scale, his research is in the development of a Canadian Agriculture Nitrogen Budget (CANB-Reactive N) model to estimate residual soil N and N losses from gas (N2O, NH3) emissions & nitrate (NO3) leaching. At the field scale, his research is in modeling crop growth, greenhouse gas emissions, soil carbon, N and water dynamics for various field managements on crop production and environmental risks using the DSSAT and DNDC models.

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
2585 County Road 20, Harrow, ON, N0R 1G0

Current research and/or projects

Development of a Canadian Agricultural Nitrogen Budget (CANB- Reactive N) model to simulate two Agroenvironmental indicators: (1) Residual Soil Nitrogen (RSN) and (2) Indicator of Risk of Water Contamination by Nitrogen (IROWCN) in Canadian farmland

Assessing crop growth and soil N loss (N2O, NO3) and water dynamics using dynamic crop-soil models, DNDC and DSSAT

Research and/or project statements

The CANB-Reactive N project reports the progress of two Agro-environmental health indicators from 1981 to 2016 (or to the future census years, 2021, 2026 etc.)

The DNDC and DSSAT assessment project predicts the soil N loss in various management practices and rotations, then addresses best cropping methods to minimize N loss from field crop

Professional activities / interests

Model development using Intel Fortran (i.e., CANB, CANB-Reactive N, Ammonia-DSS)

Developing an EasyGrapher software to graph CANB and DSSAT models outputs using MS Visual Basic

Applied statistics in agriculture

Sensitivity analysis of crop yields and soil nutrients to model input parameters

Data handling and soil nutrient mapping using ArcGIS

Developing input data format programs for the CANB model from various public data sources

Education and awards

Outstanding Profile Award in the Professional category, Fairchild TV, Toronto, Canada, 2017

Ph.D. Soil Science and Modelling, The University of Reading, UK. 1999

MS.c. Soil Fertility and Management, China Agricultural University, China. 1989

BS.c. Soil Science and Agro-chemistry, Jilin Agricultural University, China. 1982

International experience and/or work

Worked as a teaching assistant, lecturer and associate professor at Jilin Agricultural University from 1982-1995

Additional links

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jingyi-Yang-3

Key publications

  1. Xueming Yang, Craig F. Drury, W. Dan Reynolds and Jingyi Yang. 2016. Winter-Hardy Legumes Provide Significant Amounts of N to the Corn in a Soy-Wheat-Corn System in Southern Ontario, Canada. American Society of Agronomy | Crop Science Society of America | Soil Science Society of America. Pheonix, AZ, 2016-11-08. https://scisoc.confex.com/scisoc/2016am/webprogram/Paper99624.html

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  2. Yang, J.Y., Drury, C.F., Yang, X.M., Hoogenboom, G. 2016. Simulating crop yields, soil C N, and water dynamics in long-term fields with diversified climate conditions. Oral presentation in: Climatology and Modeling, ASA-CSSA-SSSA international annual meetings, Nov 6-9, 2016, Phoenix, AZ. https://scisoc.confex.com/crops/2016am/webprogram/Paper99626.html

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  3. He, W., Yang, J.Y., Zhou, W., Drury, C.F., Yang, X.M., Reynolds, W.D., Wang, H., He, P., Li, Z.T. (2016). Sensitivity analysis of crop yields, soil water contents and nitrogen leaching to precipitation, management practices and soil hydraulic properties in semi-arid and humid regions of Canada using the DSSAT model. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems, [online] 106(2), 201-215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10705-016-9800-3

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  4. Second Global Soil Biodiversity Conference Nanjing 2017/10/15 - 2017/10/19

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  5. Yang, J.Y., Drury, C.F., Yang, X.M., Huffman, T., De Jong, R., Keith, R. 2016. Landscape modelling of residual soil nitrogen and leaching loss in Canadian farmland. Invited oral presentation in: the 3rd International Symposium on Environment and Development: Sustainable High-Output Agricultural Systems – East Asia and North American Experiences (ISENREC2016), August 10-13, 2016. Vancouver, BC, Canada.
    http://isenrec2016.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ISENREC-Symposium-Booklet-for-Web.pdf

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  6. Jingyi Yang. 2016. Dr Jingyi Yang- A soil scientist in Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada developing a soil nitrogen model. Fairchild TV: Mandarin Profile, TV show, Saturday 6pm, Sept 10 2016.

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  7. Xueming Yang, Craig Drury, Dan Reynolds, Jongyi Yang, Mary-Anne Reed. 2016. Winter-Hardy Legume Cover Crops Contribute a Significant Amount of Nitrogen to an Organic
    Managed Corn in Southern Ontario, Canada. 71st Soil and Water Conservation Society International Annual Conference Managing Great River Landscapes Louisville 2016/07/24 - 2016/07/27. http://www.swcs.org/documents/filelibrary/16ac/2016_Abstract_Book_613ED0F1ECD40.pdf

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  8. Drury, C.F., Yang, J.Y., De Jong, R., Huffman, T., Reid, K., Yang, X.M., Bittman, S. and Desjardins, R. 2016. Residual Soil Nitrogen. Pages 114-120 in Clearwater, R. L., Martin, T. and Hoppe, T. (eds.) 2016. Environmental sustainability of Canadian agriculture: Agri-environmental indicator report series – Report #4. Ottawa, ON: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.

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  9. Drury, C.F., Yang, J.Y. and De Jong, R. 2016 Water Contamination by Nitrogen. Pages 121-130 in Clearwater, R. L., Martin, T. and Hoppe, T. (eds.) 2016. Environmental sustainability of Canadian agriculture: Agri-environmental indicator report series – Report #4. Ottawa, ON: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.

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  10. Jingyi Yang and Craig Drury 2016. Residual soil nitrogen scenario analysis of Canadian farmland using a Canadian agricultural nitrogen budget (CANB v4.0) model. International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software. Paper 10. July 10-14, 2016, Toulouse, France.
    http://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/iemssconference/2016/Stream-B/10

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  11. Xueming Yang, Craig Drury, Dan Reynolds, Jingyi Yang, Mary-Anne Reeb. 2016. Significance of legume cover crops as nitrogen source for corn in an organic managed cropping system. N 19th Workshop. Skara, Sweden June 27-29, 2016. http://akkonferens.slu.se/nitrogenworkshop/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2014/05/Nitrogen-Absracts-USB_ny.pdf

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  12. Xueming Yang, Craig Drury, Dan Reynodls, jingyi, Yang, Mary-Anne Reeb. 2016. Nitrogen management for organic crops using winter-hardy legumes in southern Ontario, Canada. Skara, Sweden June 27-29, 2016. http://akkonferens.slu.se/nitrogenworkshop/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2014/05/Nitrogen-Absracts-USB_ny.pdf

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  13. Yang, X.M., Drury, C.F., Reynolds, W.D., and Yang, J.Y. (2016). "How do changes in bulk soil organic carbon content affect carbon concentrations in individual soil particle fractions?", Scientific Reports, 6(Article number: 27173), pp. 1-7. doi : 10.1038/srep27173

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  14. Jingyi YANG. 2016. Simulating soil nitrogen dynamics at fields and landscape scales: Experiences from China and Canadian Farmland. Invited presentation in the International Symposium on Improvement of Nutrient Use Efficiency under Zero Growth of Chemical Fertilizer, March 17-18, 2016. Beijing. China. http://china.ipni.net/article/CNP-3181

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  15. Qian, B., De Jong, R., Huffman, T., Wang, H., Yang, J. (2016). Projecting yield changes of spring wheat under future climate scenarios on the Canadian Prairies. Theoretical and applied climatology, [online] 123(3-4), 651-669. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00704-015-1378-1

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  16. Li, Z.T., Yang, J.Y., Drury, C.F., Hoogenboom, G. (2015). Evaluation of the DSSAT-CSM for simulating yield and soil organic C and N of a long-term maize and wheat rotation experiment in the Loess Plateau of Northwestern China. Agricultural Systems, [online] 135 90-104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2014.12.006

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  17. Li, Z.T., Yang, J.Y., Smith, W.N., Drury, C.F., Lemke, R.L., Grant, B., He, W.T., Li, X.G. (2015). Simulation of long-term spring wheat yields, soil organic C, N and water dynamics using DSSAT-CSM in a semi-arid region of the Canadian prairies. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems, [online] 101(3), 401-419. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10705-015-9688-3

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  18. Huffman, T., Qian, B., De Jong, R., Liu, J., Wang, H., McConkey, B., Brierley, T., Yang, J. (2015). Upscaling modelled crop yields to regional scale: A case study using dssat for spring wheat on the canadian prairies, 95(1), 49-61. http://dx.doi.org/10.4141/CJSS-2014-076

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  19. Reynolds, W.D., Drury, C.F., Yang, X.M., Tan, C.S., Yang, J.Y. (2014). Impacts of 48 years of consistent cropping, fertilization and land management on the physical quality of a clay loam soil. Canadian Journal of Soil Science, [online] 94(3), 403-419. http://dx.doi.org/10.4141/CJSS2013-097

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  20. Clair, T.A., Pelletier, N., Bittman, S., Leip, A., Arp, P., Moran, M.D., Dennis, I., Niemi, D., Sterling, S., Drury, C.F., Yang, J. (2014). Interactions between reactive nitrogen and the Canadian landscape: A budget approach. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, [online] 28(11), 1343-1357. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2014GB004880

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Contact

Research facility

Harrow Research and Development Centre
2585 County Road 20
Harrow, ON N0R 1G0
Canada

Expertise

Agriculture›Soil science›Nutrient cycling
Environment›Technology›Computers›Modelling

Affiliations

Adjunct professor, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Language

English

Other languages

Mandarin Chinese