Dr Tom Orton
Research Officer
School of Agriculture and Food Sciences
Book Chapter
Arrouays, Dominique, Marchant, Ben P., Saby, Nicolas P. A., Meersmans, Jeroen, Orton, Thomas G., Martin, Manuel P., Bellamy, Pat H., Lark, R. M. and Kibblewhite, Mark (2018). Broad-scale soil monitoring schemes. Pedometrics. (pp. 669-691) edited by Alex. B. McBratney, Budiman Minasny and Uta Stockmann. Cham, Switzerland: Springer,. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-63439-5_22
Journal Articles
Forstner, Christian, Orton, Thomas G., Wang, Peng, Kopittke, Peter M. and Dennis, Paul G. (2020). Wastewater treatment processing of silver nanoparticles strongly influences their effects on soil microbial diversity. Environmental Science and Technology, 54 (21) acs.est.0c01312, 13538-13547. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.0c01312
Grundy, Michael J., Searle, Ross, Meier, Elizabeth A., Ringrose-Voase, Anthony J., Kidd, Darren, Orton, Thomas G., Triantafilis, John, Philip, Seonaid, Liddicoat, Craig, Malone, Brendan, Thomas, Mark, Gray, Jonathan and Bennett, John McLean (2020). Digital soil assessment delivers impact across scales in Australia and the Philippines. Geoderma Regional, 22 e00314, e00314. doi: 10.1016/j.geodrs.2020.e00314
Lai, Y. R., Orton, T. G., Pringle, M. J., Menzies, N. W. and Dang, Y. P. (2020). Increment-averaged kriging: a comparison with depth-harmonized mapping of soil exchangeable sodium percentage in a cropping region of eastern Australia. Geoderma, 363 114151, 114151. doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2019.114151
Orton, T. G., Pringle, M. J., Bishop, T. F.A., Menzies, N. W. and Dang, Y. P. (2020). Increment-averaged kriging for 3-D modelling and mapping soil properties: Combining machine learning and geostatistical methods. Geoderma, 361 114094, 114094. doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2019.114094
Forstner, Christian, Orton, Thomas G., Wang, Peng, Kopittke, Peter M. and Dennis, Paul G. (2019). Soil chloride content influences the response of bacterial but not fungal diversity to silver nanoparticles entering soil via wastewater treatment processing. Environmental Pollution, 255 (Pt 2) 113274, 113274. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2019.113274
Steinbuch, Luc, Orton, Thomas G. and Brus, Dick J. (2019). Model-based geostatistics from a Bayesian perspective: investigating area-to-point kriging with small data sets. Mathematical Geosciences, 52 (3), 397-423. doi: 10.1007/s11004-019-09840-6
Forstner, Christian, Orton, Thomas G., Wang, Peng, Kopittke, Peter M. and Dennis, Paul G. (2019). Effects of carbon nanotubes and derivatives of graphene oxide on soil bacterial diversity. Science of the Total Environment, 682, 356-363. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.162
Allen, D. E., Bloesch, P. M., Orton, T. G., Schroeder, B. L., Skocaj, D. M., Wang, W., Masters, B. and Moody, P. M. (2019). Nitrogen mineralisation in sugarcane soils in Queensland, Australia: I. evaluation of soil tests for predicting nitrogen mineralisation. Soil Research, 57 (7), 738-754. doi: 10.1071/sr19031
Orton, T. G., Allen, D. E. and Bloesch, P. M. (2019). Nitrogen mineralisation in sugarcane soils in Queensland, Australia: II. From laboratory to field-based prediction. Soil Research, 57 (7), 755-766. doi: 10.1071/sr19032
Lai, Y.R., Pringle, M.J., Kopittke, P.M., Menzies, N.W., Orton, T.G. and Dang, Y.P. (2018). An empirical model for prediction of wheat yield, using time-integrated Landsat NDVI. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 72, 99-108. doi: 10.1016/j.jag.2018.07.013
Orton, Thomas G., Mallawaarachchi, Thilak, Pringle, Matthew J., Menzies, Neal W., Dalal, Ram C., Kopittke, Peter M., Searle, Ross, Hochman, Zvi and Dang, Yash P. (2018). Quantifying the economic impact of soil constraints on Australian agriculture: a case study of wheat. Land Degradation & Development, 29 (11), 3866-3875. doi: 10.1002/ldr.3130
Brus, D. J., Boogaard, H., Ceccarelli, T., Orton, T. G., Traore, S. and Zhang, M. (2018). Geostatistical disaggregation of polygon maps of average crop yields by area-to-point kriging. European Journal of Agronomy, 97, 48-59. doi: 10.1016/j.eja.2018.05.003
Dennis, Paul G., Kukulies, Tegan, Forstner, Christian, Orton, Thomas G. and Pattison, Anthony B (2018). The effects of glyphosate, glufosinate, paraquat and paraquat-diquat on soil microbial activity and bacterial, archaeal and nematode diversity. Scientific Reports, 8 (1) 2119, 2119. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-20589-6
Orton, T. G., Dobarco, M. Roman and Saby, N. P. A. (2017). Kriging based on areal summary statistics data: Effects of within-unit variability on predictions and uncertainties. Spatial Statistics, 19. doi: 10.1016/j.spasta.2016.11.003
Dobarco, Mercedes Roman, Orton, Thomas G., Arrouays, Dominique, Lemercier, Blandine, Paroissien, Jean-Baptiste, Walter, Christian and Saby, Nicolas P. A. (2016). Prediction of soil texture using descriptive statistics and area-to-point kriging in Region Centre (France). Geoderma Regional, 7 (3), 279-292. doi: 10.1016/j.geodrs.2016.03.006
Pringle, M. J., Allen, D. E., Orton, T. G., Bishop, T. F. A., Butler, D. W., Henry, B. K. and Dalal, R. C. (2016). Effects of land-use change and management on soil carbon and nitrogen in the Brigalow Belt, Australia: II. statistical models to unravel the climate-soil-management interaction. Rangeland Journal, 38 (5), 453-466. doi: 10.1071/RJ16010
Allen, D. E., Pringle, M. J., Butler, D. W., Henry, B. K., Bishop, T. F. A., Bray, S. G., Orton, T. G. and Dalal, R. C. (2016). Effects of land-use change and management on soil carbon and nitrogen in the Brigalow Belt, Australia: I. overview and inventory. Rangeland Journal, 38 (5), 443-452. doi: 10.1071/RJ16009
Jones, Andrew R., Orton, Thomas G. and Dalal, Ram C. (2016). The legacy of cropping history reduces the recovery of soil carbon and nitrogen after conversion from continuous cropping to permanent pasture. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 216, 166-176. doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2015.09.029
Orton, T. G., Pringle, M. J. and Bishop, T. F. A. (2016). A one-step approach for modelling and mapping soil properties based on profile data sampled over varying depth intervals. Geoderma, 262, 174-186. doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2015.08.013
Orton, T. G., Pringle, M. J., Allen, D. E., Dalal, R. C. and Bishop, T. F. A. (2015). A geostatistical method to account for the number of aliquots in composite samples for normal and lognormal random variables. European Journal of Soil Science, 66 (6), 1023-1032. doi: 10.1111/ejss.12297
Pringle, M. J., Allen, D. E., Phelps, D. G., Bray, S. G., Orton, T. G. and Dalal, R. C. (2014). The effect of pasture utilization rate on stocks of soil organic carbon and total nitrogen in a semi-arid tropical grassland. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 195, 83-90. doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2014.05.013
Orton, T. G., Pringle, M. J., Page, K. L., Dalal, R. C. and Bishop, T. F.A. (2014). Spatial prediction of soil organic carbon stock using a linear model of coregionalisation. Geoderma, 230-231, 119-130. doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2014.04.016
Allen, D. E., Bloesch, P. M., Cowley, R. A., Orton, T. G., Payne, J. E. and Dalal, R. C. (2014). Impacts of fire on soil organic carbon stocks in a grazed semi-arid tropical Australian savanna: accounting for landscape variability. Rangeland Journal, 36 (4), 359-369. doi: 10.1071/RJ14044
Brus, D. J., Orton, T. G., Walvoort, D. J. J., Reijneveld, J. A. and Oenema, O. (2014). Disaggregation of soil testing data on organic matter by the summary statistics approach to area-to-point kriging. Geoderma, 226, 151-159. doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2014.02.011
Martin, M. P., Orton, T. G., Lacarce, E., Meersmans, J., Saby, N. P. A., Paroissien, J. B., Jolivet, C., Boulonne, L. and Arrouays, D. (2014). Evaluation of modelling approaches for predicting the spatial distribution of soil organic carbon stocks at the national scale. Geoderma, 223, 97-107. doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2014.01.005
Chauveau, Didier, Saby, Nicolas P. A., Orton, Thomas G., Lemercier, Blandine, Walter, Christian and Arrouays, Dominique (2014). Large-scale simultaneous hypothesis testing in monitoring carbon content from French soil database - a semi-parametric mixture approach. Geoderma, 219, 117-124. doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.12.016
Louis, B. P., Saby, N. P. A., Orton, T. G., Lacarce, E., Boulonne, L., Jolivet, C., Ratie, C. and Arrouays, D. (2014). Statistical sampling design impact on predictive quality of harmonization functions between soil monitoring networks. Geoderma, 213, 133-143. doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.07.018
Meersmans, J., Martin, M. P., Lacarce, E., Orton, T. G., De Baets, S., Gourrat, M., Saby, N. P. A., Wetterlind, J., Bispo, A., Quine, T. A. and Arrouays, D. (2013). Estimation of soil carbon input in France: an inverse modelling approach. Pedosphere, 23 (4), 422-436. doi: 10.1016/S1002-0160(13)60035-1
Villanneau, Estelle J., Saby, Nicolas P. A., Orton, Thomas G., Jolivet, Claudy C., Boulonne, Line, Caria, Giovanni, Barriuso, Enrique, Bispo, Antonio, Briand, Olivier and Arrouays, Dominique (2013). First evidence of large-scale PAH trends in French soils. Environmental Chemistry Letters, 11 (1), 99-104. doi: 10.1007/s10311-013-0401-y
Orton, T. G., Saby, N. P. A., Arrouays, D., Jolivet, C. C., Villanneau, E. J., Marchant, B. P., Caria, G., Barriuso, E., Bispo, A. and Briand, O. (2013). Spatial distribution of Lindane concentration in topsoil across France. Science of the Total Environment, 443, 338-350. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.10.103
Orton, Thomas G., Lark, R. Murray and Sasaki, Jun (2013). Using geostatistics to analyze prediction errors from a simulation model of sediment particle sizes across Tokyo Bay. Journal of Coastal Research, 29 (1), 145-156. doi: 10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-12-00003.1
Paroissien, J. -B., Orton, T. G., Saby, N. P. A., Martin, M. P., Jolivet, C. C., Ratie, C., Caria, G. and Arrouays, D. (2012). Mapping black carbon content in topsoils of central France. Soil Use and Management, 28 (4), 488-496. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-2743.2012.00452.x
Orton, Thomas G., Saby, Nicolas P. A., Arrouays, Dominique, Jolivet, Claudy C., Villanneau, Estelle J., Paroissien, Jean-Baptiste, Marchant, Ben P., Caria, Giovanni, Barriuso, Enrique, Bispo, Antonio and Briand, Olivier (2012). Analyzing the spatial distribution of PCB concentrations in soils using below-quantification limit data. Journal of Environmental Quality, 41 (6), 1893-1905. doi: 10.2134/jeq2011.0478
Meersmans, Jeroen, Martin, Manuel Pascal, De Ridder, Fjo, Lacarce, Eva, Wetterlind, Johanna, De Baets, Sarah, Le Bas, Christine, Louis, Benjamin P., Orton, Thomas G., Bispo, Antonio and Arrouays, Dominique (2012). A novel soil organic C model using climate, soil type and management data at the national scale in France. Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 32 (4), 873-888. doi: 10.1007/s13593-012-0085-x
Arrouays, D., Marchant, B. P., Saby, N. P. A., Meersmans, J., Orton, T. G., Martin, M. P., Bellamy, P. H., Lark, R. M. and Kibblewhite, M. (2012). Generic issues on broad-scale soil monitoring schemes: a review. Pedosphere, 22 (4), 456-469. doi: 10.1016/S1002-0160(12)60031-9
Orton, T. G., Saby, N. P. A., Arrouays, D., Walter, C., Lemercier, B., Schvartz, C. and Lark, R. M. (2012). Spatial prediction of soil organic carbon from data on large and variable spatial supports. I. Inventory and mapping. Environmetrics, 23 (2), 129-147. doi: 10.1002/env.2136
Orton, T. G., Saby, N. P. A., Arrouays, D., Walter, C., Lemercier, B., Schvartz, C. and Lark, R. M. (2012). Spatial prediction of soil organic carbon from data on large and variable spatial supports. II. Mapping temporal change. Environmetrics, 23 (2), 148-161. doi: 10.1002/env.2134
Orton, T. G., Goulding, K. W. T. and Lark, R. M. (2011). Geostatistical prediction of nitrous oxide emissions from soil using data, process models and expert opinion. European Journal of Soil Science, 62 (3), 359-370. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2389.2011.01367.x
Orton, T. G., Rawlins, B. G. and Lark, R. M. (2009). Using measurements close to a detection limit in a geostatistical case study to predict selenium concentration in topsoil. Geoderma, 152 (3-4), 269-282. doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2009.06.014
Orton, T. G. and Lark, R. M. (2009). The Bayesian maximum entropy method for lognormal variables. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 23 (3), 319-328. doi: 10.1007/s00477-008-0217-7
Orton, T. G. and Lark, R. M. (2007). Accounting for the uncertainty in the local mean in spatial prediction by Bayesian Maximum Entropy. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 21 (6), 773-784. doi: 10.1007/s00477-006-0089-7
Orton, T. G. and Lark, R. M. (2007). Estimating the local mean for Bayesian maximum entropy by generalized least squares and maximum likelihood, and an application to the spatial analysis of a censored soil variable. European Journal of Soil Science, 58 (1), 60-73. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2389.2006.00800.x
Parsons, D.J., Orton, T.G., D'Souza, J., Moore, A., Jones, R. and Dodd, C.E.R. (2005). A comparison of three modelling approaches for quantitative risk assessment using the case study of Salmonella spp. in poultry meat. International Journal of Food Microbiology, 98 (1), 35-52. doi: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2004.05.005
Conference Papers
Orton, Thomas, Dang, Yash and Menzies, Neal (2020). Linking remote sensing and climate data with variations in crop yield and soil constraints across paddocks. GRDC Grains Research Update, Goondiwindi, QLD, Australia, 3-4 March 2020. Sydney, Australia: Grains Research Development Corporation.
Lai, Y.R., Pringle, M.J., Kopittke, Peter M., Menzies, Neal W., Orton, T.G. and Dang, Y.P. (2018). Quantifying forfeited wheat yield due to soil sodicity in high, moderate and low rainfall conditions in the northern grains region of Australia. 21st World Congress of Soil Science, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 12-17 August 2018.
Arrouays, Dominique, Marchant, Ben P., Saby, Nicolas P. A., Meersmans, Jeroen, Jolivet, Claudy, Orton, Thomas G., Martin, Manuel P., Bellamy, Patricia H., Lark, Richard M., Louis, Benjamin P., Allard, D. and Kibblewhite, M. (2014). On soil carbon monitoring networks. International Union of Soil Sciences Global Soil Carbon Conference, Madison, WI, United States, 3-6 June, 2013. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer Netherlands. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-04084-4_6
Pringle, M. J., Zund, P. R., Payne, J. E. and Orton, T. G. (2014). Mapping depth-to-rock from legacy data, using a generalized linear mixed model. 1st Conference on GlobalSoilMap, Orleans, France, 7-9 October, 2013. London, United Kingdom: CRC Press. doi: 10.1201/b16500
Pringle, M. J., Payne, J. E., Zund, P. R. and Orton, T. G. (2013). Improved mapping of soil erodibility (K-Factor) in the Burdekin River catchment, Queensland, to aid landscape modelling. 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM), Adelaide, Australia, 1-6 December, 2013. Christchurch, New Zealand: Modelling and Simulation Society Australia and New Zealand.
Research Report
Orton, Thomas and Dang, Yash (2017). Costs of edaphic stress to Australian grains industry. Canberra, ACT Australia: GRDC.