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Mechanisms of urea combined with nitrification inhibitors on prompting cadmium uptake and accumulation in rape (Brassica napus L.) Plant Soil (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-23 Li Li, Lin Chen, Xin Fu, Zhong Hu, Qingru Zeng, Xiao Deng, Yang Yang, Si Luo
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Oat/Soybean Intercropping Reshape the Soil Bacterial Community for Enhanced Nutrient Cycling Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-23 Huaiying Ma, Jie Zhou, Junyong Ge, Kazem Zamanian, Xingyu Wang, Yadong Yang, Zhaohai Zeng, Baoping Zhao, Yuegao Hu, Huadong Zang
Intercropping, particularly within legume‐based systems, has been shown to enhance yields and optimize resource use efficiency. Yet, the potential contribution of intercropping on soil microbial communities and functions to soil nutrients cycling are not fully understood. We conducted the same field experiments at Youyu (Site1) and Zhangbei (Site2) in Northern China to evaluate the impact of oat/soybean
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Analysis of Adoption of Soil Nutrient Management Practices: A Case of Rice Farmers in Liberia Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-23 Chikamso Christian Apeh, Stella Nwawulu Chiemela, Andrew Chiahalam Apeh, Richard Anayo Okere, Sunday Ifeanyi Ukwuaba, Anthony NwaJesus Onyekuru
The declining level of crop yield in connection with soil infertility poses a major threat to farmers’ food security and income leading to adoption of different soil nutrient management (SNM) practices by rice farmers. The study identified five soil SNM options adopted by rice farmers and the factors influencing their adoption in the South Eastern region of Liberia. A multistage sampling technique
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Unraveling the threshold and interaction effects of environmental variables on soil organic carbon mapping in plateau watershed Geoderma (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-22 Chi Zhang, Yiyun Chen, Yujiao Wei, Peiheng Yu, Yongsheng Hong, Yazhen Hu, Jiaxue Wang, Zhou Shi
Understanding the spatial distribution and mechanisms driving soil organic carbon (SOC) is crucial for assessing soil carbon stocks and implementing effective carbon sequestration strategies in agricultural landscapes. The linear and nonlinear relationships between environmental variables and SOC have been extensively documented, but the threshold and interaction effects among multiple covariates on
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Plant N:P stoichiometric-nonstructural carbohydrate linkages are age-dependent in extremely overfertilized apple production systems Plant Soil (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-21 Jiarui Zhao, Zhanjun Liu, Chao Ai, Xinpeng Xu, Bingnian Zhai, Yuanjun Zhu, Dongfeng Ning
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Synergistic effect of elevated CO2 and straw amendment on N2O emissions from a rice–wheat cropping system Biol. Fertil. Soils (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-21 Shengji Yan, Yunlong Liu, Daniel Revillini, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Kees Jan van Groenigen, Ziyin Shang, Xin Zhang, Haoyu Qian, Yu Jiang, Aixing Deng, Pete Smith, Yanfeng Ding, Weijian Zhang
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Carbon sequestration through conservation tillage in sandy soils of arid and semi-arid climates: A meta-analysis Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-21 Samantha L. Colunga, Leila Wahab, Alejandro Fierro Cabo, Engil Pereira
This meta-analysis assessed soil organic carbon (SOC) percent changes in sandy soils, transitioning from conventional tillage (CT) to conservational tillage (CST) in arid and semi-arid climates. High levels of SOC in sandy soils are difficult to attain especially when precipitation levels are very low, contributing to low biomass production, and increased decomposition of organic matter. While CT practices
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Combined effects of soil colloid and soil extracellular enzymes on nitrogen loss from sloping farmland Geoderma (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-21 Xuekai Jing, Qingwen Zhang, Shanghong Chen, Yulong Shi, Li Zheng, Dinghui Liu, Mingxiang Xu
The extracellular enzyme plays a crucial role in nitrogen (N) conversion. Soil colloid serves as an important transporter of N transport in hydrological processes. This study investigated soil colloid-mediated N loss co-transporting with soil extracellular enzymes. Five simulated rainfall experiments were conducted under four tillage treatments in a purple sloping farmland in Sichuan, China. The N
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Phosphorus fertilization promotes carbon cycling and negatively affects microbial carbon use efficiency in agricultural soils: Laboratory incubation experiments Geoderma (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-21 Antonio Rafael Sánchez-Rodríguez, María Carmen del Campillo, José Torrent, Emily C. Cooledge, David R. Chadwick, Davey L. Jones
Soil organic carbon (SOC) loss from intensive agriculture represents a major global concern. Consequently, strategies to improve soil management to mitigate or abate SOC losses and enhance carbon (C) sequestration are urgently needed. Nutrient availability, especially nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P), regulates soil C cycling and storage. While N effects are well studied, less is known about how soil
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Enhanced VNIR and MIR proximal sensing of soil organic matter and PLFA-derived soil microbial properties through machine learning ensembles and external parameter orthogonalization Geoderma (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-21 Christopher Hutengs, Nico Eisenhauer, Martin Schädler, Simone Cesarz, Alfred Lochner, Michael Seidel, Michael Vohland
Portable visible-to-near-infrared (VNIR) and mid-infrared (MIR) spectroscopy coupled with machine learning can provide detailed and inexpensive information on various key soil properties. However, on-site VNIR and MIR proximal sensing applications are hampered by soil moisture and particle size variations, which distort reflectance spectra collected on field-condition soils and impede the integration
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Transgenerational plasticity of Elymus nutans was regulated by multiple factors and not directly related to within-generational plasticity Plant Soil (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Cunzhi Jia, Dali Chen, Xiaohua Zhao, Xiuzhen Fu, Xiaowen Hu
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Recruitment of beneficial microbes and differential metabolites promoted Pb transport in Salix integra Thunb. after inoculation with Bacillus megaterium B6 Plant Soil (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Ping Chen, Jian Zhou, Guang Cai Chen, BeiBei Su, Qian Wang, Da Zhuang Huang, Xiao Yun Niu
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Organic matter stability in temperate forest soils is affected by tree species identity but not by litter quality Plant Soil (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Veronika Jílková, Roukaya Al Haj Ishak Al Ali, Miloslav Devetter, Stanislav Jabinski, Kateřina Jandová
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Depth extrapolation of field-scale soil moisture time series derived with cosmic-ray neutron sensing (CRNS) using the soil moisture analytical relationship (SMAR) model Soil (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Daniel Rasche, Theresa Blume, Andreas Güntner
Abstract. Ground-based soil moisture measurements at the field scale are highly beneficial for different hydrological applications, including the validation of space-borne soil moisture products, landscape water budgeting, or multi-criteria calibration of rainfall–runoff models from field to catchment scale. Cosmic-ray neutron sensing (CRNS) allows for the non-invasive monitoring of field-scale soil
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Laboratory channel widening quantification using deep learning Geoderma (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Ziyi Wang, Haifei Liu, Chao Qin, Robert R. Wells, Liekai Cao, Ximeng Xu, Henrique G. Momm, Fenli Zheng
Linear erosion channel (LEC) devastates arable land and significantly contributes to soil loss in agricultural watersheds. In the presence of a less- or non-erodible layer, channel widening governs the erosion process once the channel bed incises to this layer, accompanied by failure block generation and transport. Current knowledge on channel widening, however, is limited due to the lack of robust
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Which and how many soil sensors are ideal to predict key soil properties: A case study with seven sensors Geoderma (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 J. Schmidinger, V. Barkov, H. Tavakoli, J. Correa, M. Ostermann, M. Atzmueller, R. Gebbers, S. Vogel
Soil sensing enables rapid and cost-effective soil analysis. However, a single sensor often does not generate enough information to reliably predict a wide range of soil properties. Within a case-study, our objective was to identify how many and which combinations of soil sensors prove to be suitable for high-resolution soil mapping. On a subplot of an agricultural field showing a high spatial soil
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Early root architectural traits and their relationship with yield in Ipomoea batatas L Plant Soil (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Luis O. Duque, Gabriella Hoffmann, Kenneth V. Pecota, G. Craig Yencho
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Interactions of nitrogen and phosphorus in plant nutrition - Analysis of a 60-years old field experiment Plant Soil (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Marie Spohn
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Soil bacterial communities are influenced by mulching methods and growth stages in dryland wheat fields Plant Soil (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Yao Zhang, Hongbo Cheng, Shouxi Chai, Jiajia Yang, Yuwei Chai, Wenjie Wang
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An innovative soil mesocosm system for studying the effect of soil moisture and background NO on soil surface C and N trace gas fluxes Biol. Fertil. Soils (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Logapragasan Subramaniam, Florian Engelsberger, Benjamin Wolf, Nicolas Brüggemann, Laurent Philippot, Michael Dannenmann, Klaus Butterbach-Bahl
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Tillage erosion as an underestimated driver of carbon dynamics Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Anna Juřicová, Lena Katharina Öttl, Florian Wilken, Tomáš Chuman, Daniel Žížala, Robert Minařík, Peter Fiener
Arable soils may play an important role in climate mitigation actions as soil management directly affects carbon (C) sequestration and mineralisation. To evaluate the C sequestration potential in hilly terrain it is essential that not only changes in vertical C fluxes (more C input and/or reduced mineralisation), but also lateral soil organic carbon (SOC) redistribution due to erosion processes are
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Enhancing soil profile analysis with soil spectral libraries and laboratory hyperspectral imaging Geoderma (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Yuwei Zhou, Asim Biswas, Yongsheng Hong, Songchao Chen, Bifeng Hu, Zhou Shi, Yan Guo, Shuo Li
Soil visible-near-infrared (vis–NIR) spectroscopy offers a rapid, uncontaminated, and cost-efficient method for estimating physicochemical properties such as soil organic carbon (SOC). The development of soil spectral libraries (SSLs) and localized modeling methods has significantly improved the selection of appropriate modeling sets from SSLs for soil analysis. Nevertheless, most studies assume that
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Organic–Inorganic Fertilization Shifts Dissolved Organic Matter Chemodiversity in Runoff From Tropical Cropland: Roles of Soil Nutrient Stoichiometry Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Dongming Wu, Xiaoyan Wu, Wen Zhang, Xiongwei Zhao, Youfeng Leng, Changhua Fang, Qinfen Li, Huifeng Cai, Miao Chen
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is a crucial quality indicator for water health. However, it remains unknown how organic–inorganic fertilization differently shifts the DOM chemodiversity in cropland‐impacted runoff, especially the roles of terrestrial nutrient stoichiometry. Here, a field experiment subjected to 7‐year history of four fertilization regimes, that is, unfertilized (CK), chemical fertilization
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Effect of Check Dams on Sediment Concentration in a Watershed in the Loess Hilly Area During a Heavy Rain Event Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Mian Li, Zhenzhou Shen, Bo Hui, Xizhi Lv, Er Yang, Li Ma, Yongxin Ni, Hongzhe Bao
Understanding the changes of sediment concentration in rivers, especially under heavy rains, is of great significance to accurately evaluate the effectiveness of soil and water conservation measures in the Loess Hilly Area. On July 26, 2017, an extremely heavy rain (maximum rain intensity of 66.6 mm/h, the highest rainfall of 256.8 mm in 10 h, and a return period of 100 years) occurred over the 821
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Adaptation of Polygonatum genotypes to the areas of transplantation greatly influences the rhizospheric microbial community Plant Soil (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Jiabin Shi, Piao Chen, Minming Zhu, Huihui Chen, Jinping Si, Lingshang Wu
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Soil water regulates plant diversity response to gradual and step nitrogen addition Plant Soil (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Jiu-Ying Pei, Yang Zheng, Yan Yu, Josep Peñuelas, Jordi Sardans, Man-Qiong Liu, Chao Fang, Wen-Bin Ke, Jian-Sheng Ye
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Moderate effects of distance to air-filled macropores on denitrification potentials in soils Biol. Fertil. Soils (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Hester van Dijk, Maik Geers-Lucas, Sina Henjes, Lena Rohe, Hans-Jörg Vogel, Marcus A. Horn, Steffen Schlüter
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Effects of moss restoration on soil erosion and soil water content in a temperate vineyard Soil (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Corinna Gall, Silvana Oldenburg, Martin Nebel, Thomas Scholten, Steffen Seitz
Abstract. Soil erosion is a serious problem worldwide, as it jeopardizes soil fertility and thus food security. At the same time, agriculture itself is one of the biggest drivers of soil erosion, and vineyards in particular are vulnerable due to often steep slopes, fragile soils, and management practices. Therefore, the search for alternative management practices becomes vital. Since soil erosion is
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Do XRF local models have temporal stability for predicting plant-available nutrients in different years? A long-term study showing the effect of soil fertility management in a tropical field Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Tiago Rodrigues Tavares, Budiman Minasny, Alex McBratney, José Paulo Molin, Gabriel Toledo Marques, Marcos Mantelli Ragagnin, Felipe Rodrigues dos Santos, Hudson Wallace Pereira de Carvalho, José Lavres
This study evaluates the temporal stability of X-ray fluorescence (XRF) models for predicting plant-available calcium (av-Ca) and potassium (av-K) in a tropical agricultural field under changing soil management. Understanding this stability is crucial for advancing XRF as a quick and clean tool for soil nutrient monitoring. XRF models were tested across six sampling periods (2015, 2019, 2020, and three
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Imitating pangolin scale structure for reducing adhesion and resistance of rotary tillage in wet-adhesive soil Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Fubin Zhang, Zhitao Luo, Enlai Zheng, Lei Han, Jin Qian, Haoping Yao, Yinyan Shi, Xiaochan Wang
The bionic design of soil-engaging components has recently received much attention in conservation tillage and is extremely important for reducing tillage resistance and increasing implement passability in wet-adhesive rice paddy soil. In this paper, to reduce adhesion and resistance of rotary tillage in wet-adhesive soil, a novel imitating pangolin scale structure is first proposed, and the bionic
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Sediment Transport Dynamics Modeling of Overland Flow on Gentle Slopes Based on Flume Experiments Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Kai Zhang, Chengcheng Zhang, Zhidan Wang, Yikui Bai, Xuan Wang
Soil erosion is a global environmental issue, and sediment transport capacity (Tc) is critical for developing soil erosion models. This study conducted flume drainage experiments at six flow discharges (0.15, 0.25, 0.35, 0.45, 0.55, and 0.65 L s−1) and eight slope gradients (1.5, 3.0, 4.5, 6.0, 7.5, 9.0, 10.5, and 12.0°) to investigate how the Tc of gentle slopes in the northeastern hilly region of
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Forest age and precipitation magnitude affected the contribution rate of rainfall to soil water Plant Soil (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-16 Ranran Ren, Beibei Zhang, Qing Xu, Deqiang Gao, Wenbin Xu, Ke Diao
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Mosaic of biological soil crusts and vascular plants contributes to the spatial heterogeneity of key soil properties at different successional stages of restored inland sand dunes Plant Soil (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Karolina Chowaniec, Szymon Zubek, Joanna Zalewska-Gałosz, Małgorzata Stanek, Kaja Skubała
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Complementarity for nitrogen use in maize/faba bean intercropping with inoculation Plant Soil (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Xiao-Fei Li, Ping Wang, Xiu-Li Tian, Nan Dong, Long Li
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Slope position affects nonstructural carbohydrate allocation strategies in different types of biological soil crusts in the Gurbantunggut Desert Plant Soil (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Shujun Zhang, Ao Yang, Yongxin Zang, Kunze Guo, Xiaobing Zhou, Xiaoying Rong, Benfeng Yin, Yuanming Zhang
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity in agricultural fields is explained by the historical proximity to natural habitats Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Oscar Zárate Martínez, Inga Hiiesalu, Siim-Kaarel Sepp, Kadri Koorem, Martti Vasar, A.Y. Ayesh Piyara Wipulasena, Siqiao Liu, Alar Astover, Maarja Öpik, Meelis Pärtel, Tanel Vahter
Soil microbes are essential to maintain terrestrial ecosystem functionality. However, their diversity is threatened by land-use change, such as agricultural expansion and intensification. One important microbial group mediating the exchange of nutrients between plants and soil is arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. The response of microorganism diversity to present and past habitat amount has been poorly
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Prediction and spatial–temporal changes of soil organic matter in the Huanghuaihai Plain by combining legacy and recent data Geoderma (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Fangfang Zhang, Ya Liu, Shiwen Wu, Jie Liu, Yali Luo, Yuxin Ma, Xianzhang Pan
Soil organic matter (SOM) is critical for soil fertility, crop growth, and plays an important role in the global carbon cycle and climate change. Therefore, spatial prediction of SOM is important to rational soil resource utilization, agricultural production, and ecological environment management. However, large-area SOM mapping research heavily relies on legacy soil data, and large-scale recent SOM
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Soil microbial respiration does not respond to nitrogen deposition but increases with latitude Eur. J. Soil Sci. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Qingkui Wang, Xuechao Zhao, Shengen Liu, Qinggui Wang, Zhuwen Xu, Xiaotao Lü, Wei Zhang, Peng Tian
Facing global changes, substantial modifications in soil microbes and their functions have been widely evidenced and connected. However, the response of soil microbial respiration (MR) to increasing nitrogen (N) deposition and the role of microbial characteristics in controlling this response remain elusive. In this study, we quantified the intensity of the soil MR in terrestrial ecosystems that suffered
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Five decades' experience of long‐term soil monitoring, and key design principles, to assist the EU soil health mission Eur. J. Soil Sci. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 David A. Robinson, Laura Bentley, Laurence Jones, Chris Feeney, Angus Garbutt, Susan Tandy, Inma Lebron, Amy Thomas, Sabine Reinsch, Lisa Norton, Lindsay Maskell, Claire Wood, Pete Henrys, Susan Jarvis, Simon Smart, Aidan Keith, Fiona Seaton, James Skates, Suzanne Higgins, Giovanna Giuffrè, Bridget A. Emmett
The European Union has a long‐term objective to achieve healthy soils by 2050. The European Commission has proposed a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Soil Monitoring and Resilience (Soil Monitoring Law, SML), the first stage of which is to focus on setting up a soil monitoring framework and assessing soils throughout the EU. Situated in NW Europe, the UK has substantial experience
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Increased sugarcane productivity and environmental improvement in acid sulfate soils: A win–win system Eur. J. Soil Sci. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Robert Quirk
This paper describes a sugarcane farming system on acid sulfate soils (ASS) in coastal, eastern Australia which has improved crop production, increased carbon sequestration, enhanced soil health and controlled drainage discharge to estuaries. The farming system has evolved as a collaboration between innovative sugarcane farmers, researchers and government agencies. The collaboration started when discharge
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Aboveground plant biomass drove the reclamation-year dependence of soil quality along a 49-year vegetation reclamation chronosequence Plant Soil (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-16 Zhijie Long, He Zhu, Yanhong Wu, Zhongjian Ma, Daming Yu, Haijian Bing
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Discovering the role of fairy ring fungi in accelerating nitrogen cycling to promote plant productivity in grasslands Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-16 Mohan Liu, Yuqi Wei, Lu Lian, Junling Zhang, Nan Liu, Gail W.T. Wilson, Matthias C. Rillig, Shangang Jia, Gaowen Yang, Yingjun Zhang
Soil microorganisms play a key role in the provision of plant-bioavailable nutrients, which is crucial for ecosystem functioning and plant productivity. Fairy rings are widespread features in grasslands accompanied by lush dark-green vegetation bands. This enigmatic feature is caused by increased soil bioavailable nitrogen (N) due to the expansion of fairy ring fungi (FRF). However, little is known
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Forest floor nematode communities and associated tree canopies: Is there an ecological linkage? Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 9.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-16 Dan Gafta, Marcel Ciobanu, Adrian-Ilie Stoica
We searched for patterns supporting the hypothesis of compositional and functional linkage between forest floor nematode communities and dominant tree canopies, while controlling for some relevant soil and climate variables. Twenty-one forest sampling sites scattered throughout the South-Eastern Carpathian basin were selected under spruce, beech, and hornbeam-oak canopies. The relative contribution
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Integrated ground-penetrating radar and electromagnetic induction offer a non-destructive approach to predict soil bulk density in boreal podzolic soil Geoderma (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-16 Sashini Pathirana, Sébastien Lambot, Manokararajah Krishnapillai, Mumtaz Cheema, Christina Smeaton, Lakshman Galagedara
Tillage and soil compaction affect soil properties, processes, and state variables influencing soil health, hydrodynamics, and crop growth. Assessing soil compaction levels using traditional methods, such as soil sampling and penetration resistance, is inefficient for scaling up from plot to field scales. Geophysical methods like Ground-penetrating Radar (GPR) and Electromagnetic Induction (EMI) are
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Biomarkers evidence shows a preferential occlusion of microbial necromass in mineral-associated and not particle organic matter Geoderma (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-16 Meilin Xuan, Ling Ai, Fuzhong Wu, Xinying Zhang, Xiangyin Ni
Increasing experimental evidence and modeling efforts have found that microbial necromass is highly associated with mineral-associated organic matter (MAOM). However, recent studies found that MAOM is predominantly derived from plant litter materials, challenging the notion that microbial necromass is preferentially occluded in MAOM. Here, we compiled 245 observations of glucosamine, galactosamine
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Legume cover crops sequester more soil organic carbon than non-legume cover crops by stimulating microbial transformations Geoderma (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-16 Qijuan Hu, Yuting Zhang, Weidong Cao, Yuanyu Yang, Yingxiao Hu, Tieguang He, Zhongyi Li, Pu Wang, Xinping Chen, Ji Chen, Xiaojun Shi
Cover crops are one of the climate-smart agricultural practices used to increase soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration. However, the SOC sequestration potential and underlying mechanisms under different cover crops, especially in orchard agroecosystems, have not been fully elucidated. Here, we investigated three orchards in China using SOC fractionation methods, high-throughput sequencing, and biomarker
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Changes of bacterial versus fungal community composition along a forest degradation gradient of logged-over tropical rain forests, and their consequences on soil enzyme activities in Malaysian Borneo Plant Soil (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-13 Linzi Jiang, Masayuki Ushio, Nobuo Imai, John Sugau, Kanehiro Kitayama
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Artificially selected rhizosphere microbiota modify plant growth in a soil-independent and species-dependent way Plant Soil (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-13 Samuel Jacquiod, Joseph Nesme, Chantal Ducourtieux, Eric Pimet, Manuel Blouin
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Nitrogen enhances drought tolerance of maize during the jointing stage by increasing the proportion of deep nodal roots and reducing the biosynthesis of lignin in root system Plant Soil (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Dasheng Zheng, Yujie Cun, Bingxiao Du, Zhifeng Cui, Yuanhua Ma, Yulan Ye, Yue Zhang, Rui Wang
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Plant-soil interactions change vegetation allocation strategy and biodiversity under various coastal reclamation patterns Plant Soil (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Min Chen, Jiayuan Liu, Yuhong Liu, Zhirui Qin, Xue Wang, Bingtao Hu, Ghulam Mustafa, Yixue Chen
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Soil erodibility and hillslope erosion processes affected by vegetation restoration duration Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Ya Liu, Gang Liu, Ju Gu, Hongqiang Shi, Hairu Li, Yuqian Han, Dandan Liu, Xiaolin Xia, Zhen Guo
Restoring vegetation is an effective way to control regional erosion as well as reduce soil erodibility. However, it is not clear how the vegetation restoration duration affects soil erodibility and how it further influences soil erosion processes. Therefore, the soil physicochemical properties and comprehensive soil erodibility index () at five sampling sites with 3, 20, 55, 80 and 100 years of vegetation
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Multi-year soil response to conservation management in the Virginia Coastal Plain Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Sophie A. Nicholakos, W. Hunter Frame, Mark S. Reiter, Ryan D. Stewart
In the coastal plain region of the United States, conservation agriculture practices are being implemented to improve soil health, minimize environmental impacts, and improve farm profitability. Common practices include cover cropping and conservation tillage using strip tillage, minimal tillage, or no tillage. However, the soil response to specific combinations of conservation tillage and cover crop
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Divergent response of Chernozem organic matter towards short-term water stress in Poa pratensis L. rhizosphere and bulk soil in pot experiments: A spectroscopic study Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Igor V. Danilin, Natalia N. Danchenko, Aliia R. Ziganshina, Yulian R. Farkhodov, Nadezhda V. Yaroslavtseva, Vladimir A. Kholodov
Understanding and controlling rhizospheric processes under abiotic stress is one of the key challenges in addressing food security amid the climate crisis. In this work, the impact of short-term drought and overwatering on soil organic matter (SOM) of Haplic Chernozem in the rhizosphere of L. and in bulk soil was investigated. The vegetation experiment was conducted in a climatic chamber at soil moisture
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Improved 3D characterization of in-situ soil desiccation cracking by multi-source data integration Geoderma (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Jun-Zheng Zhang, Chao-Sheng Tang, Wen Mu, Jin-Jian Xu, Qi-You Zhou, Bin Shi
Desiccation cracking is a common and natural phenomenon under a drought climate. The geometric and morphologic characteristics of the crack pattern are critical to understanding the response of soil mechanical and hydraulic properties to drought climate. It is always a big challenge to obtain the refined geometric structure of the in-situ soil desiccation crack network. This study proposes an integrated
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Comparing LUCAS Soil and national systems: Towards a harmonized European Soil monitoring network Geoderma (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Claire Froger, Elena Tondini, Dominique Arrouays, Katrien Oorts, Christopher Poeplau, Johanna Wetterlind, Elsa Putku, Nicolas P.A. Saby, Maria Fantappiè, Quentin Styc, Claire Chenu, Joost Salomez, Seth Callewaert, Frédéric M. Vanwindekens, Bruno Huyghebaert, Julien Herinckx, Stefan Heilek, Laura Sofie Harbo, Lucas De Carvalho Gomes, Alberto Lázaro-López, Jose Antonio Rodriguez, Sylwia Pindral, Bożena
A recent assessment states that 60–70% of soils in Europe are considered degraded. Protecting such valuable resource require knowledge on soil status through monitoring systems. In Europe, different types of monitoring networks currently exist in parallel. Many EU Member states (MS) developed their own national soil information monitoring system (N-SIMS), some being in place for decades. In parallel
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Spatio-temporal evolution of water erosion in the western Songnen Plain: Analysis of its response to land use dynamics and climate change Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-13 Fansheng Kong, Yan Xu, Hua Du, Yuanyuan He, Chuanfeng Zheng
Preventing water erosion is crucial for maintaining ecosystems and ensuring food security, necessitating a comprehensive understanding of the spatial and temporal patterns of water erosion and its underlying drivers. In the context of global warming, analyzing the impacts of land use dynamics and climate change on water erosion contributes to effective land management and sustainability of both industry
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Greenhouse gas emissions in response to tillage, nitrogen fertilization, and manure application in the tropics Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-13 S.Y. Alasinrin, F.K. Salako, M.A. Busari, U.M. Sainju, B.S. Badmus, T.O. Isimikalu
Cultivation of maize ( L.) can emit significant greenhouse gases (GHGs) due to root respiration, soil organic matter decomposition, and fertilizer losses in a tropical environment. Our objective was to examine the effect of tillage (conventional tillage [CT], minimum tillage [MT], and no-tillage [NT]), N fertilization rate (0, 90, and 120 kg N ha), and manure application rate (0, 5, and 10 Mg ha) on
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Immediate and prolonged effects of snow coverage alteration on soil carbon dynamics and microbial activity: A meta-analysis Geoderma (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-13 Jia Hua, Qiaoqi Sun, Petra Marschner
Snow distribution has been altered over the past decades under global warming, with a significant reduction in duration and extent of snow cover and an increase in unprecedented snowstorms across large areas in cold regions. The altered snow conditions are likely to have immediate (in winter) and carry-over or legacy (which an extended effect might continue in the following spring, summer and autumn)