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The role of soil communities on the germination of a pioneer tree species in the Atlantic rainforest Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 7.609) Pub Date : 2022-06-24 José A. Morillo, Michele de Sá Dechoum, Francisco I. Pugnaire
Climate change has been modifying precipitation and temperature in many regions of the world, prompting changes in plant communities. It also affects soil microbial communities, indirectly influencing plant species distribution through plant-soil feedbacks. Here we report an experiment designed to test seed germination responses to global change, addressed through the interaction between increased
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Proximal and remote sensor data fusion for 3D imaging of infertile and acidic soil Geoderma (IF 6.114) Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Jie Wang, Xueyu Zhao, Kirstin E. Deuss, David R. Cohen, John Triantafilis
Soil cation exchange capacity (CEC) and pH affect the condition of soil. To improve soil capability in sugarcane growing areas, Sugar Research Australia introduced the Six-Easy-Steps Nutrient Guidelines based on CEC and pH of topsoil (0–0.3 m). A three-dimensional digital soil mapping (DSM) framework has been used to predict CEC and pH by fitting equal-area splines to four depth intervals (i.e., topsoil
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Variations in aluminum fractions within soils associated with different tea (Camellia sinensis L.) varieties: Insights at the aggregate scale Plant Soil (IF 4.192) Pub Date : 2022-06-23 Jia Yang, Zicheng Zheng, Tingxuan Li, Daihua Ye, Yongdong Wang, Huagang Huang, Haiying Yu, Tao Liu, Xizhou Zhang
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The interplay between nitrogenated allelochemicals, mineral nutrition and metabolic profile in barley roots Plant Soil (IF 4.192) Pub Date : 2022-06-23 Mauro Maver, Fabio Trevisan, Begoña Miras-Moreno, Luigi Lucini, Marco Trevisan, Stefano Cesco, Tanja Mimmo
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First Nations’ interactions with underground storage organs in southwestern Australia, a Mediterranean climate Global Biodiversity Hotspot Plant Soil (IF 4.192) Pub Date : 2022-06-23 Alison Lullfitz, Lynette Knapp, Shandell Cummings, Stephen D. Hopper
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Plants can access limited amounts of nitrogen- and sulphur-containing amino acids in soil owing to rapid microbial decomposition Plant Soil (IF 4.192) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Qingxu Ma, Wankun Pan, Sheng Tang, David R. Chadwick, Lianghuan Wu, Davey L. Jones
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Long-term fertilization enhances soil carbon stability by increasing the ratio of passive carbon: evidence from four typical croplands Plant Soil (IF 4.192) Pub Date : 2022-06-23 Wei Zhou, Shilin Wen, Yunlong Zhang, Andrew S. Gregory, Minggang Xu, Syed Atizaz Ali Shah, Wenju Zhang, Honghui Wu, Iain P. Hartley
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The distribution, effectiveness and environmental threshold of soil aggregates phosphorus fractions in the sub-alpine region of Southwest, China Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.977) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Mengke Zhu, Bocong Huang, Zongyang Liu, Yue Wang, Jiao Teng, Xiaosu Tian, Yingwei Ai
This article aims to study total phosphorus (TP), available phosphorus (AP) and phosphorus (P) fractions of soil aggregates along an altitude gradient in the sub-alpine region of Southwest, China. We conclude that soil aggregates TP, AP contents are higher in 3980 m and 3347 m; there are no significant differences in soil aggregates TP at any altitude (p> 0.05); the AP and phosphorus activation coefficient
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Agronomic technology to promote sustainable utilization of newly created farmland in the Chinese Loess Plateau Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.977) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Yurui Li, Xuanchang Zhang, Yansui Liu, Yongsheng Wang, Yunxin Huang, Zhi Lu, Weilun Feng, Zongfeng Chen, Hong'an Wei
The new farmland created by land consolidation often faces the problems of poor soil structure and low productivity, which cause its potential degradation risk. The Gully Land Consolidation Project (GLCP) significantly increased the quantity of farmland in the Chinese Loess Plateau (LP), but the research on the method of simultaneously improving soil quality, agricultural profit, and utilization efficiency
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Soil structure changes induced by tillage and reduction of machinery traffic on sugarcane – A diversity of assessment scales Soil Tillage Res. (IF 5.374) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Felipe Bonini da Luz, Martha Lustosa Carvalho, Guilherme Adalberto Ferreira Castioni, Ricardo de Oliveira Bordonal, Miguel Cooper, João Luís Nunes Carvalho, Maurício Roberto Cherubin
Conventional tillage disturbs soil structure, increasing the soil’s susceptibility to compaction by machinery traffic in sugarcane fields. In this sense, the adoption of reduced tillage or no-tillage practices associated with traffic control has been proposed to preserve the functionality of soil structure, thus reducing soil compaction and plant growth restrictions. A long-term sugarcane experiment
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Nitrogen agronomic efficiency under nitrogen fertilization does not change over time in the long term: Evidence from 477 global studies Soil Tillage Res. (IF 5.374) Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Guopeng Liang, Pengyan Sun, Bonnie G. Waring
Nitrogen agronomic efficiency (NAE) is crucial for global food security due to its important role in determining crop yields. However, we do not know whether NAE under nitrogen (N) application changes in the long term, and what controls these temporal dynamics. These knowledge gaps could result in high uncertainty in predicting the increase in global crop yields due to N fertilization in the future
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Wildfire decouples soil multi-element cycles: Contributions of legacy effects and temporal variations Geoderma (IF 6.114) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Qianqian Qin, Yujian Zhang, Qiang Zhu, Yansong Bai, Xingyue Sun, Yanhong Liu
High-severity wildfires may lead to significant impacts on biogeochemical cycling both by burning biomass and by fire legacies. However, the legacy effects of wildfires on multiple soil element cycles across temporal trajectories have rarely been discussed. Here, we evaluated the availability and stability of seven essential soil elements and their stoichiometric ratios, as well as the coupling of
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Crab bioturbation drives coupled iron-phosphate-sulfide cycling in mangrove and salt marsh soils Geoderma (IF 6.114) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Kai Xiao, Feng Pan, Isaac R. Santos, Yan Zheng, Chunmiao Zheng, Nengwang Chen, Zeyang Lu, Fenfang Wang, Zhenyang Li, Hailong Li
Coastal wetlands sequestering abundant blue carbon in soils are biogeochemical hotspots and critical habitats for benthic animals like invertebrate fiddler crabs. Here, we reveal how crab bioturbation (i.e., burrowing activity) drives the redox geochemistry of ferrous iron (Fe(II)), phosphate (PO43-), and sulfide (S(-II)) under contrasting vegetation types and hydrological conditions. We used in-situ
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Evaluating the effect of EDTA on the internal mechanisms of uptake and translocation of Pb in Bidens pilosa L Plant Soil (IF 4.192) Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Jian Liu, Yating Shen, Liqiang Luo
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What regulates the rhizodeposition of winter oilseed rape during growth? Plant Soil (IF 4.192) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Rainer Remus, Divya Pandey, Dietmar Lüttschwager
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Design of efficient techniques for tomato leaf disease detection using genetic algorithm-based and deep neural networks Plant Soil (IF 4.192) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Mariam Moussafir, Hasna Chaibi, Rachid Saadane, Abdellah Chehri, Abdessamad El Rharras, Gwanggil Jeon
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Harnessing belowground processes for sustainable intensification of agricultural systems Plant Soil (IF 4.192) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Eva Oburger, Hannes Schmidt, Christiana Staudinger
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Soil controls on carboxylate-driven processes and opportunities Plant Soil (IF 4.192) Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Jean-Thomas Cornelis, F. de Tombeur
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Microhabitat-specific differences on the composition and function of biological soil crust communities Plant Soil (IF 4.192) Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Maximiliano J. Bustos, Irene A. Garibotti, Norma Cech, M. Cecilia Navarro, Marina Gonzalez Polo, Patricia Satti
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Experimental warming increased greenhouse gas emissions of a near-natural peatland and Sphagnum farming sites Plant Soil (IF 4.192) Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Jan Oestmann, Ullrich Dettmann, Dominik Düvel, Bärbel Tiemeyer
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Emissions of biological soil crust particulate matter and its proportion in total wind erosion Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.977) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Yusong Wang, Dandan Wang, Xinxiao Yu, Guodong Jia, Xiaomin Chang, Lele Sun, Pengfei Zheng, Yunxiao Qiu
Areas subjected to frequent winds show severe farmland degradation and air pollution caused by wind erosion and particulate matter emissions. Biological soil crust coverage can inhibit wind erosion. This study used wind tunnels to analyze the wind erosion and particulate matter emissions of algae crusts and moss crusts for different wind speeds and coverage conditions, providing the proportion of particulate
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SLAH1 is involved in the long-distance transport of Cl− from roots into shoots in the Cl−-tolerant xerophyte Pugionium cornutum under salt stress Plant Soil (IF 4.192) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Yan-Nong Cui, Xiao-Yu Li, Rui-Wen Liu, Zi-Hua He, Suo-Min Wang, Qing Ma
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Millimetre scale aeration of the rhizosphere and drilosphere Eur. J. Soil Sci. (IF 4.949) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 D. Uteau, R. Horn, S. Peth
Soil aeration is a critical factor for oxygen limited subsoil processes, as transport by diffusion and advection is restricted by the long distance to the free atmosphere. Oxygen transport into the soil matrix is highly dependent on its connectivity to larger pore channels like earthworm and root colonised biopores. Here we hypothesize that the soil matrix around biopores represents different connectivity
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Prioritisation tool for targeting the monitoring of veterinary pharmaceuticals in soils at a national level: the case of Spain Eur. J. Soil Sci. (IF 4.949) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Antonio Rodríguez, Irene Iglesias, Ana de la Torre
Antibiotics used in animal production are a major source of environmental contamination, since most of them are excreted in manure. However, studies on the impact of antimicrobial effects have focused on humans and livestock, neglecting the environment. The European Union (EU) adopted a strategy to prioritise environmental monitoring and develop tools to make it cost-effective. Our aim was to build
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Electron shuttle potential of biochar promotes dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium in paddy soil Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 7.609) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Dan Yuan, Gaoqi Wang, Chunsheng Hu, Shungui Zhou, Tim J. Clough, Nicole Wrage-Mönnig, Jiafa Luo, Shuping Qin
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Forest dieback switches the relationships between microfaunal bacterivore guilds and soil nutrients Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 7.609) Pub Date : 2022-06-19 Sara Sánchez-Moreno, J. Curiel Yuste
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Bacterial community response to environmental change varies with depth in the surface soil Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 7.609) Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Kristin M. Barbour, Claudia Weihe, Steven D. Allison, Jennifer B.H. Martiny
Bacterial communities in the organic leaf litter layer and bulk (mineral and organic) soil are sensitive to environmental change. However, despite close interactions between these communities, the leaf litter layer has historically been studied in isolation from the bulk soil. Whether bacterial response to environmental change is uniform throughout the surface soil remains unclear. Here, we simultaneously
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Spatiotemporal responses of rice root architecture and anatomy to drought Plant Soil (IF 4.192) Pub Date : 2022-06-18 Jenna E. Fonta, Jitender Giri, Phanchita Vejchasarn, Jonathan P. Lynch, Kathleen M. Brown
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A generalizable framework for enhanced natural climate solutions Plant Soil (IF 4.192) Pub Date : 2022-06-18 Lucas C. R. Silva, Mary C. Wood, Bart R. Johnson, Michael R. Coughlan, Heather Brinton, Krista McGuire, Scott D. Bridgham
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Relationship between plant growth and soil chemical properties in a mangrove afforestation stand, Kiribati Plant Soil (IF 4.192) Pub Date : 2022-06-18 Tomomi Inoue, Yasuaki Akaji, Ayato Kohzu, Ko Hinokidani, Hiroshi Adachi, Mio Kezuka, Shigeyuki Baba
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Tillage systems impact on soil physical attributes, sugarcane yield and root system propagated by pre-sprouted seedlings Soil Tillage Res. (IF 5.374) Pub Date : 2022-06-18 Ingrid Nehmi de Oliveira, Zigomar Menezes de Souza, Denizart Bolonhezi, Maria Cecilia Vieira Totti, Moacir Tuzzin de Moraes, Lenon Henrique Lovera, Elizeu de Souza Lima, Diego Alexander Aguilera Esteban, Christtiane Fernandes Oliveira
Soil compaction caused by intense machine traffic is a challenge in the sugarcane production system, but its implications can be mitigated by the higher content of soil organic matter and plant root growth provided by conservation management practices (i.e., no-tillage). Thus, we aim to study the impacts of tillage systems on the soil physical attributes, root system and yield of sugarcane propagated
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Homoacetogenesis competes with hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis for substrates in a peatland experiencing ecosystem warming Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 7.609) Pub Date : 2022-06-18 Cory LeeWays, Laura L. McCullough, Anya M. Hopple, Jason K. Keller, Scott D. Bridgham
Peatlands contain up to half of terrestrial soil organic carbon (C) while simultaneously emitting the potent greenhouse gas methane (CH4). Global change will alter C biogeochemistry in peatlands, but is hard to predict without a mechanistic understanding of the processes that control anaerobic C cycling. One of the least known anaerobic C cycling pathways in wetland systems is homoacetogenesis, the
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Linkages between the temperature sensitivity of soil respiration and microbial life strategy are dependent on sampling season Soil Biol. Biochem. (IF 7.609) Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Shan Yang, Hui Wu, Zhirui Wang, Mikhail V. Semenov, Ji Ye, Liming Yin, Xugao Wang, Irina Kravchenko, Vyacheslav Semenov, Yakov Kuzyakov, Yong Jiang, Hui Li
The temperature sensitivity (Q10) of soil respiration (Rs) is crucial to assess the carbon (C) budget of terrestrial ecosystems under global warming. The Q10 changes along a climatic gradient as well as its seasonal dynamics remain unclear, and the underlying microbial mechanisms are not well known. Here, the seasonal Q10 of Rs at the northern, middle, and southern sites of a natural temperate mixed
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Pore structure evolution due to loess collapse: A comparative study using MIP and X-ray micro-CT Geoderma (IF 6.114) Pub Date : 2022-06-18 B. Yu, W. Fan, T.A. Dijkstra, Y.N. Wei, L.S. Deng
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Straw addition decreased the resistance of bacterial community composition to freeze–thaw disturbances in a clay loam soil due to changes in physiological and functional traits Geoderma (IF 6.114) Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Bin Zhang, Qi Chen, Jiahui Wen, Xueli Ding, Evgenios Agathokleous
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Effect of barometric pumping on relative humidity in the loessal soil of the loess Plateau Geoderma (IF 6.114) Pub Date : 2022-06-18 Hongshou Li, Wenjun Liu, Hongtao Zhan, Shengli Sun, Xiaozhu Wang, Shunren Wang, Fei Li, Xiaowei Wang
Monitoring experiments of soil air in column show that relative humidity (RH) of air in the soil of the Loess Plateau fluctuates with atmospheric pressure (AP), which is barometric pumping resulting in the vertical movement of soil air and the change of its RH. When AP increases, soil air is compressed and atmospheric air enters the soil, causing RH to decrease. When AP decreases, soil air expands
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Enrichment of 13C with depth in soil organic horizons is not explained by CO2 or DOC losses during decomposition Geoderma (IF 6.114) Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Michael Philben, Keri Bowering, Frances A. Podrebarac, Jérôme Laganière, Kate Edwards, Susan E. Ziegler
Stable isotope ratios of soil organic carbon (SOC) are a potentially powerful, integrative tool for analyzing the soil C cycle. However, limited understanding of the mechanisms for C isotope fractionation in soil prevents their widespread application. Soil organic carbon (SOC) is progressively enriched in 13C with age and depth in the soil profile even though CO2 produced during soil respiration is
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Quantifying pH buffering capacity in acidic, organic-rich Arctic soils: Measurable proxies and implications for soil carbon degradation Geoderma (IF 6.114) Pub Date : 2022-06-18 Jianqiu Zheng, Erin C. Berns-Herrboldt, Baohua Gu, Stan D. Wullschleger, David E. Graham
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Forest gaps slow lignin and cellulose degradation of fir (Abies faxoniana) twig litter in an alpine forest Geoderma (IF 6.114) Pub Date : 2022-06-18 Aomiao Wu, Rui Yin, Zhenfeng Xu, Li Zhang, Chengming You, Yang Liu, Han Li, Lixia Wang, Sining Liu, Yunqi Zhang, Yong Wang, Bo Tan
Forest gaps are an essential driver of litter decomposition in alpine forest ecosystems, but how gap size influences lignin and cellulose degradation in twig litter remains poorly understood. Here, we conducted an 8-year decomposition experiment to assess twig litter decomposition (i.e., mass loss, cellulose and lignin degradation) in four gap size classes in an alpine forest of Southwest China, including
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Spectral variable selection for estimation of soil organic carbon content using mid-infrared spectroscopy Eur. J. Soil Sci. (IF 4.949) Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Junwei Wang, Tongqing Liu, Jixiong Zhang, Huimin Yuan, Gifty E. Acquah
The nondestructive and rapid estimation of soil total carbon (SOC) content with mid-infrared spectroscopy (MIR, 4000 to 400 cm-1) will play a vital role in precision agriculture. However, the benefit derived from the full MIR range is compromised by multicollinearity and noise. Hence, variable selection methods have been developed to reduce the full spectrum to a few variables that contribute the most
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Concentration-dependent response of soil parameters and functions to trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) Eur. J. Soil Sci. (IF 4.949) Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Baile Xu, Rabea Alizray, Daniel R. Lammel, Sebastian Riedel, Matthias C. Rillig
Despite growing environmental concerns about perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) worldwide, the ultra-short-chain PFAS, e.g., trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), have been largely neglected in the context of soil pollution. Given the persistence and increasing occurrence of TFA in the soil environment, the accumulated TFA could impact soil properties and functions. Therefore, we investigated
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Long-term effect of integrated farming systems on soil erosion in hilly micro-watersheds (Indian Eastern Himalayas) Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.977) Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Burhan U. Choudhury, Grace Nengzouzam, Satyabrata Mandal, Bira K. Sethy, Samarendra Hazarika, Vinay K. Mishra
Soil erosion from traditional hill agriculture is a major concern for agronomic development in the Eastern Himalayas (India). An integrated farming system (IFS: is the combination of multipurpose trees-MPT interspersed with seasonal agricultural crops) may reduce the severity of erosion while ensuring food and nutritional security. The aim of our study was to identify an IFS, resistant to soil erosion
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Corrigendum Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.977) Pub Date : 2022-06-17
The published version of the referenced article, Khezri et al. (2021), contained errors in Figure 3. 3b (image and caption) were incorrect. The correct version of Figure 3 is as follows: FIGURE 3 Open in figure viewerPowerPoint Caption: Landslide occurrence along the road network of Sarvabad city, Kurdistan province in 2021 (source: Researcher made: 2021) [Colour figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary
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An investigation in laser diffraction soil particle size distribution analysis to obtain compatible results with sieve and pipette method Soil Tillage Res. (IF 5.374) Pub Date : 2022-06-15 David Nimblad Svensson, Ingmar Messing, Jennie Barron
Recent studies have shown that soil particle size analyses using laser diffraction method (LDM) can give compatible results compared with traditional sedimentation based methods, if the clay-silt particle size cutoff is transformed. Additionally, procedures including separation of the sand fraction by wet sieving and running a well dispersed sample of only fractions smaller than sand during laser diffraction
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Effects on soil nitrogen and plant production from land applying three types of biosolids to an agricultural field for three consecutive years Soil Tillage Res. (IF 5.374) Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Zheya Lin, G.W. Price, David L. Burton, O. Grant Clark
Land application of biosolids as a source of crop fertilizer and soil organic matter can be viewed as a sustainable approach to maintain soil productivity. Field-based experiments were conducted to examine the effects of three municipal biosolids (composted, liquid mesophilic anaerobically digested, and alkaline treated) on soil nitrogen dynamics and corn response, applied over three years in Nova
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Relations of fire, palaeohydrology, vegetation succession, and carbon accumulation, as reconstructed from a mountain bog in the Harz Mountains (Germany) during the last 6200 years Geoderma (IF 6.114) Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Mariusz Gałka, Andrei-Cosmin Diaconu, Angelica Feurdean, Julie Loisel, Henning Teickner, Tanja Broder, Klaus-Holger Knorr
Mountain peatland ecosystems are unique islands of biodiversity, hosting endangered, vulnerable, and protected plants and animals. In addition, these ecosystems constitute important natural carbon stores. Their stratigraphy can be used to reconstruct the development of these ecosystems as well as the impact of various human activity over millennia. To examine the dynamics of an ombrotrophic peatland
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National-scale maps for soil aggregate size distribution parameters using pedotransfer functions and digital soil mapping data products Geoderma (IF 6.114) Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Naveen K. Purushothaman, Nagarjuna N. Reddy, Bhabani S. Das
Soil aggregate size distribution (ASD) is a key soil property for quantitative characterization of soil structure. Typically, dry and wet sieving methods are followed to measure mass fractions of soil aggregates under each aggregate size class and their cumulative fractions are used to estimate ASD parameters. In general, available soil ASD databases are small and a comprehensive assessment of existing
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How Soil Meso/Macro Faunas Orchestrate Ecosystem Multifunctionality Under Different Artificial Disturbance Conditions in the Changbai Mountain Region Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.977) Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Xinchang Kou, Yan Tao, Shengzhong Wang, Zhengfang Wu, Haitao Wu, Hongshi He
Biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships have been widely studied in the field of microorganisms in recent years. The research findings revealed that microorganisms positively influence multiple ecosystem functions in diverse ecosystem types. However, the previous studies have neglected the fact that biodiversity at higher trophic levels is also required in order to maintain ecosystem multifunctionality
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Increasing relative abundance of C4 plants mitigates a dryness-stress effect on gross primary productivity along an aridity gradient in grassland ecosystems Plant Soil (IF 4.192) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Jing Wang, Xuefa Wen
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Nitrogen but not phosphorus addition affects symbiotic N2 fixation by legumes in natural and semi-natural grasslands located on four continents Plant Soil (IF 4.192) Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Eduardo Vázquez, Per-Marten Schleuss, Elizabeth T. Borer, Miguel N. Bugalho, Maria C. Caldeira, Nico Eisenhauer, Anu Eskelinen, Philip A. Fay, Sylvia Haider, Anke Jentsch, Kevin P. Kirkman, Rebecca L. McCulley, Pablo L. Peri, Jodi Price, Anna E. Richards, Anita C. Risch, Christiane Roscher, Martin Schütz, Eric W. Seabloom, Rachel J. Standish, Carly J. Stevens, Michelle J. Tedder, Risto Virtanen, Marie
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Long-term straw return increases biological nitrogen fixation by increasing soil organic carbon and decreasing available nitrogen in rice–rape rotation Plant Soil (IF 4.192) Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Huishan Fan, Shengqiang Jia, Man Yu, Xijing Chen, Alin Shen, Yao Su
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Plant functional type affects nitrogen dynamics in urban park soils similarly to boreal forest soils Plant Soil (IF 4.192) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Changyi Lu, D. Johan Kotze, Heikki M. Setälä
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Effects of different organic amendments on the soil pore structure acquired by three-dimensional investigation Eur. J. Soil Sci. (IF 4.949) Pub Date : 2022-06-13 Kefan Xuan, Xiaopeng Li, Xiuling Yu, Yifei Jiang, Jingchun Ji, Renhao Jia, Can Wang, Jianli Liu
The application of organic amendments is an important way to improve soil structure. However, the differences in soil pore properties after adding various organic materials are not fully available, which is important for further selecting the most suitable material for soil improvement. In this study, soil pore structures in a field experiment amended with different organic materials (maize straw,
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Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy characterises the functional chemistry of soil organic carbon in agricultural soils Eur. J. Soil Sci. (IF 4.949) Pub Date : 2022-06-11 J. Wetterlind, R. A. Viscarra Rossel, Markus Steffens
Soil organic carbon (SOC) originates from a complex mixture of organic materials, and to better understand its role in soil functions, one must characterise its chemical composition. However, current methods, such as solid-state 13C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, are time-consuming and expensive. Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy in the visible and infrared regions (vis–NIR: 350–2500
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Relationships among phosphatase activities, functional genes and soil properties following the bacterium Burkholderia sp. ZP-4 amendment Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.977) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Yaohui Liu, Shahla Hosseini Bai, Dianjie Wang, Ling Zhang, Dongnan Hu, Jie Wen, Wenyuan Zhang, Manyun Zhang
Phosphorus (P) limitation widely appears in subtropical and tropical regions. Although phosphate-solubilizing bacteria (PSB) can transform soil P fractions and enhance soil P availability, the mechanism regarding the linkage between PSB abundance and soil P fractions transformation were still unknown. In this study, Burkholderia sp. ZP-4, a PSB strain, was inoculated into subtropical bamboo forest
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Pecan plantation age influences the structures, ecological networks and functions of soil microbial communities Land Degrad. Dev. (IF 4.977) Pub Date : 2022-06-11 Junping Liu, Yujie Tang, Jiashu Bao, Hankun Wang, Fangren Peng, Mengyun Chen, Pengpeng Tan
Understanding the changes in microbial communities with increasing plantation age will benefit the maintenance of forest health and productivity and the sustainable development of forest ecosystems. It was not clear whether the microbial communities of pecan plantations would be affected by their age. Based on MiSeq sequencing, we studied the effects of pecan age on microbial communities in rhizosphere
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Simulation of soil stress under plate sinkage loading: A comparison of finite element and discrete element methods Soil Tillage Res. (IF 5.374) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Mostafa Bahrami, Mojtaba Naderi-Boldaji, Davoud Ghanbarian, Thomas Keller
Stress propagation in soil under vehicular traffic can be simulated either analytically based on the laws of continuum mechanics or numerically using finite element (FEM) and discrete element methods (DEM). Soil stress measured by a stress probe may differ from the "true" stress (i.e. the stress without the probe), as probes under- or over-estimate soil stress. No instrument has yet been developed
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Intensive crop rotations and residue quality increase soil phosphorus lability under long-term no-till in tropical soils Soil Tillage Res. (IF 5.374) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 João Paulo Gonsiorkiewicz Rigon, Carlos Alexandre Costa Crusciol, Juliano Carlos Calonego, Paulo Sérgio Pavinato, Antonio Carlos Azevedo, Ciro Antonio Rosolem
This study assessed soil Phosphorus (P) fractions and lability according to crops in rotation and crop residue P inputs under long-term no-till (NT) in weathered tropical soils. Two experiments were established in split-plot designs with fall-winter as the main plot and spring as the subplots. In one experiment, sunflower and triticale were grown in Typic Rhodudalf (TR) soil in fall-winter; in the
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Plastic-shed vegetable cultivation alters soil gross nitrogen transformation rates and nitrous oxide production pathways Soil Tillage Res. (IF 5.374) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Xin Sun, Yinghua Zhang, Huimin Zhang, Jing Wang, Ahmed S. Elrys, Xiaoshun Tu, Christoph Müller, Jinbo Zhang, Zucong Cai, Yi Cheng
Plastic-shed vegetable cultivation is characterized by high nitrogen (N) application rates, frequent irrigation and multiple cropping, probably leading to different soil N transformation rates compared to open-field cultivation. However, how continuous cultivation of vegetables under plastic sheds affects soil N transformation rates and associated nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions remains unclear. Here
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Net Primary Production constraints are crucial to realistically project soil organic carbon sequestration. Response to Minasny et al. Geoderma (IF 6.114) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 H. Henry Janzen, Kees Jan van Groenigen, David S. Powlson, Timothy Schwinghamer, Jan Willem van Groenigen
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