Sandy soils cover approximately 900 million ha worldwide particularly in arid and semi-arid
regions. There are extensive areas of sandy soils under cultivation, but the soil fertility is …

Plaggic Anthrosol are artificially created fertile soils with a high content of humus, nitrogen,
phosphorus, potassium, and trace elements, which are also have of great importance as a …

Background: There is considerable uncertainty about the actual size of the global soil
organic carbon (SOC) pool and its spatial distribution due to insufficient and heterogeneous …

Background Soil organic carbon (SOC) storage is highly variable across sites and primarily
depends on site properties and land use. It is therefore difficult for farmers to evaluate the …

Understanding the turnover of organic matter (OM) in soils necessitates information on
biological stability and ecological functions. For easy characterization of slowly cycling OM …

This study was aimed to evaluate the role of minerals in the preservation of organic carbon
(OC) in different soil types. Sequential density fractionation was done to isolate particulate …

At the scale of hillslopes, a detailed mechanistic understanding of the processes controlling
OC stabilization is still lacking. Here, we aimed to study the impact of geomorphic and …

Abstract Carbon sequestration in Plaggic Anthrosols is most often investigated by bulk soil
carbon inventories, without considering the form in which the carbon is stored (eg …

Subtropical recent alluvial soils are low in organic carbon (C). Thus, increasing organic C is
a major challenge to sustain soil fertility. Biochar amendment could be an option as biochar …

Agricultural practices that promote the formation of soil organic matter (SOM) are considered
important climate change mitigation strategies by increasing resilience to climate shocks …