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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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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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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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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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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)
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On the effectiveness of multi-scale landscape metrics in soil organic carbon mapping Geoderma (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-13 Jiaxue Wang, Yiyun Chen, Zihao Wu, Yujiao Wei, Zheyue Zhang, Xiaomi Wang, Jingyi Huang, Zhou Shi
Soil organic carbon (SOC) mapping delivers invaluable information to the global carbon budget and climate change mitigation endeavour. Environmental variables at sample locations are frequently used as explanatory variables for simulating the spatial distribution of soil properties. However, these may not fully capture the spatial information generated by soil-forming processes. We applied multi-scale
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Effect of fire on microbial necromass carbon content is regulated by soil depth, time since fire, and plant litter input in subtropical forests Plant Soil (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Juan Zhou, Lingling Wang, Hong Chen, Dokrak Marod, Jianping Wu
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The differential partition of copper in cell wall and symplastic space contributes to the natural variation of copper toxicity tolerance in rice Plant Soil (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Jin Zhang, Yuan Qin, Xuan Chen, Nayun Xiao, Wei Jiang, Haiyang Tang, Hui Zhou, Xianjin Qiu, Jianlong Xu, Fanrong Zeng, Zhong-Hua Chen, Guang Chen, Fenglin Deng
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Effect of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization on the temporal dynamics of soil microbial community and multifunctionality in young and mature subtropical forests Plant Soil (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Dipa Mandal, Pulak Maitra, Cheng Gao, Peng-Peng Lü, Yong-Long Wang, Gan Hui Yun, Jie Li, Xing-Chun Li, Yong Zheng, Liang-Dong Guo
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Using 3D observations with high spatio-temporal resolution to calibrate and evaluate a process-focused cellular automaton model of soil erosion by water Soil (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Anette Eltner, David Favis-Mortlock, Oliver Grothum, Martin Neumann, Tomas Laburda, Petr Kavka
Abstract. Future global change is likely to give rise to novel combinations of the factors which enhance or inhibit soil erosion by water. Thus there is a need for erosion models, necessarily process-focused, which are able to reliably represent rates and extents of soil erosion under unprecedented circumstances. The process-focused cellular automaton erosion model RillGrow is, given initial soil surface
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Gully rehabilitation in southern Ethiopia – value and impacts for farmers Soil (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Wolde Mekuria, Euan Phimister, Getahun Yakob, Desalegn Tegegne, Awdenegest Moges, Yitna Tesfaye, Dagmawi Melaku, Charlene Gerber, Paul D. Hallett, Jo U. Smith
Abstract. Gully erosion can be combatted in severely affected regions like sub-Saharan Africa using various low-cost interventions that are accessible to affected farmers. For successful implementation, however, biophysical evidence of intervention effectiveness needs to be validated against the interests and priorities of local communities. Working with farmers in a watershed in southern Ethiopia
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Crop diversity significantly enhances soil carbon sequestration via alleviating soil inorganic carbon decline caused by rhizobium inoculation Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Chuan-Lin Xiao, Nai-Hao Ji, Ping Wang, Jing-Ru He, Xiang Wang, Long Li
Increasing crop diversity and nitrogen (N) fertilizer application have been identified as effective strategies for enhancing productivity and soil organic carbon (SOC) storage in agroecosystems. However, the impact of these management practices on soil inorganic carbon (SIC) in agroecosystems remains unclear. At present, we evaluated the effects of maize/faba bean intercropping, N application rates
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Patchy degradation‐induced changes in soil aggregates and organic carbon in an alpine swamp meadow on the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Meng‐ai Hu, Zeying Yao, Lina Shi, Qiong Wu, Shiming Tang, Xinqing Shao
Soil cracking induced by grassland degradation has become increasingly common in the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau in recent decades, and the intensification of soil cracking has implications for soil carbon (C) cycling. However, how patchy degradation affects soil aggregates and organic C and the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. In the present study, we investigated the changes in soil aggregates and
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An ensemble estimate of Australian soil organic carbon using machine learning and process-based modelling Soil (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Lingfei Wang, Gab Abramowitz, Ying-Ping Wang, Andy Pitman, Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel
Abstract. Spatially explicit prediction of soil organic carbon (SOC) serves as a crucial foundation for effective land management strategies aimed at mitigating soil degradation and assessing carbon sequestration potential. Here, using more than 1000 in situ observations, we trained two machine learning models (a random forest model and a k-means coupled with multiple linear regression model) and one
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Divergent Effects of Grazing Intensity on Soil Nutrient Fractions in Alpine Meadows Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Tesrang Donke Mipam, Ao Jiang, Luhuai Jing, Sihu Zhang, Wei Yi, Chen Zhao, Yi Ai, Liming Tian
Large herbivore grazing plays a key role in regulating ecosystem functioning and nutrient cycling in terrestrial ecosystems. However, the effects and mechanisms of large herbivore grazing intensity on soil nutrient fractions remain largely unclear in alpine grasslands. Here, we determine 20 indicator variables associated with soil nutrient fractions (e.g., particulate organic carbon, POC; mineral‐associated
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Addressing soil data needs and data gaps in catchment-scale environmental modelling: the European perspective Soil (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Brigitta Szabó, Piroska Kassai, Svajunas Plunge, Attila Nemes, Péter Braun, Michael Strauch, Felix Witing, János Mészáros, Natalja Čerkasova
Abstract. To effectively guide agricultural management planning strategies and policy, it is important to simulate water quantity and quality patterns and to quantify the impact of land use and climate change on soil functions, soil health, and hydrological and other underlying processes. Environmental models that depict alterations in surface and groundwater quality and quantity at the catchment scale
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Soil net carbon balance depends on soil C: N: P stoichiometry Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Shengxian Chen, Jian Huang, Ruijia Guo, Hongliang Ma, Junjie Guo, Ning Ling, Qicheng Xu, Min Wang, Qirong Shen, Shiwei Guo
Exogenous carbon (C) input may induce priming effects, leading to the loss of soil organic C (SOC) by accelerating the decomposition of native soil organic matter (SOM), while also replenishing SOC through various mechanisms. However, the net C balance resulting from priming and replenishment of SOC under long-term nitrogen (N) fertilization and its stoichiometric regulation mechanisms remain largely
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Prediction of soil organic carbon fractions in tropical cropland using a regional visible and near-infrared spectral library and machine learning Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Lingju Dai, Zheng Wang, Zhiqing Zhuo, Yuxin Ma, Zhou Shi, Songchao Chen
Soil organic carbon (SOC) is not a single and uniform entity, therefore understanding SOC fractions, particularly particulate organic carbon (POC) and mineral-associated organic carbon (MAOC), offers valuable insights into SOC dynamics. However, traditional laboratory measurements of SOC fractions are labor-intensive and costly. Therefore, leveraging rapid and cost-effective soil spectroscopy holds
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Interaction between POM and pore structure during straw decomposition in two soils with contrasting texture Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Tianyu Ding, Zichun Guo, Yongqi Qian, Yuekai Wang, Fahui Jiang, Zhongbin Zhang, Xinhua Peng
Particulate organic matter (POM) decomposition is influenced by soil pore structure, and the volume loss associated with POM decomposition might also promote the generation of new pores. However, the interaction between POM decomposition and soil pore structure remains unclear. Therefore, the objective of this study was to explore this interaction during straw decomposition. A 57-day soil incubation
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The development of biological soil crust along the time series is mediated by archaeal communities Geoderma (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Bin Song, Jie Fang, Zhenhua Yu, Zihao Liu, Na Li, Rodica Pena, Zhiren Hu, Zhiwei Xu, Jonathan M. Adams, Bahar S. Razavi
Biological soil crusts (BSCs) play an essential role in soil stabilization and nutrient cycling in arid environments, being a hotspot of microbial activity including soil enzyme production. However, the changes in microbial communities of the BSCs from different age are poorly understood. In over a 60-year dune revegetation chronosequence (2021, 2016, 1973, and 1962) in the southeastern Tengger Desert
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Straw Returning With No‐Tillage Alleviates Microbial Metabolic Carbon Limitation and Improves Soil Multifunctionality in the Northeast Plain Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-08 Juncong Chu, Lihong Wang, Rong Jia, Jie Zhou, Huadong Zang, Junhe Wang, Yadong Yang, Ying Jiang, Yuxian Wang, Leanne Peixoto, Zhaohai Zeng
Straw returning has been broadly recognized as an agronomic strategy to manage soil quality and has great potential to enhance soil fertility. However, soil microbial metabolism and ecosystem multifunctionality in response to various straw returning strategies in the black soil remain poorly understood. Here, a 5‐year field trial was conducted to discover the effects of four straw management strategies
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Increases of N2O emissions due to enhanced nitrification in a sandy loam soil under long-term manure application Biol. Fertil. Soils (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-07 Xia Liao, Christoph Müller, Heyang Sun, Junji Yuan, Deyan Liu, Zengming Chen, Tiehu He, Anne Jansen-Willems, Jiafa Luo, Weixin Ding
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Finer soil properties mapping framework for broad-scale area: A case study of Hubei Province, China Geoderma (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-07 Ruizhen Wang, Weitao Chen, Hao Chen, Xuwen Qin
Fine-scale spatial distribution of soil physicochemical properties is crucial for soil quality management, agriculture planning and geotechnical engineering. Existing soil map databases are usually developed in national scale, potentially leading to issues of coarse resolution and restricted applicability in fine-scaled studies. For broad-scale area, conventional digital soil mapping methods are challenging
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Soil pore dynamics and infiltration characteristics as affected by cultivation duration for Mollisol in northeast China Geoderma (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-07 Jue Peng, Yuyao Wu, Tongtong Geng, Chenyang Zhang, Junguang Wang, Chongfa Cai
Elucidating the effects of long-term cultivation on pore structure and infiltration characteristics is essential for understanding soil degradation mechanism and improving cropland sustainability. In this study, we evaluated a number of indicators regarding soil properties, pore structure, and water infiltration during long-term cultivation and the relationship of basic properties and pore structure
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Construction and demolition waste (CDW) in urban soils as a factor controlling their diversity Geoderma (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-07 Andrzej Greinert, Agnieszka Piernik, Umberto Grande, Piotr Hulisz
Despite the crucial importance of technogenic materials in the urban environment, the influence of construction and demolition waste (CDW) on soil diversity still needs to be recognized. To address this knowledge gap, our study aimed to analyze how CDW can shape urban soil diversity. We propose a comprehensive approach based on a statistical analysis of over 100 profiles from Zielona Góra (western
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The soil microbial community and nitrogen availability affect the growth, biochemistry and potential allelopathic effects of the invasive plant Solidago canadensis Plant Soil (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Ling Yuan, Xiaoli Xie, Yuqian Zhang, Junmin Li, Mark van Kleunen
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Variation in leaf litter silicon concentration along soil fertility and climate gradients in tropical montane forests in western Panama Plant Soil (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Ryosuke Nakamura, Evidelio Garcia, James W. Dalling
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Root exudates drive root avoidance of maize in response to neighboring wheat Plant Soil (IF 3.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Xiao-Tong Yin, Fang-Fang Zhang, Rui-Peng Yu, Na Liu, Wei-Ping Zhang, Dario Fornara, Liesje Mommer, Xue-Xian Li, Long Li
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Sorption retards remediation of clayey sulfuric soils with straw‐derived dissolved organic matter Eur. J. Soil Sci. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Angelika Kölbl, Luke Mosley, Rob Fitzpatrick, Klaus Kaiser
When sulfidic soils become drained, oxidation of pyrite can cause acidification and formation of iron (Fe) oxyhydroxy sulfate phases such as jarosite. Remediation via re‐establishment of reducing conditions requires submergence and addition of biodegradable organic carbon (OC) to stimulate activity of reducing bacteria. Addition of straw‐derived dissolved organic carbon (DOC) has been shown to induce