Soils are essential for supporting food production and providing ecosystem services but are
under pressure due to population growth, higher food demand, and land use competition …

Soils are subject to varying degrees of direct or indirect human disturbance, constituting a
major global change driver. Factoring out natural from direct and indirect human influence is …

Abstract Seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted in September 2015
aim to end hunger and poverty, to protect the Planet, and to ensure peace and prosperity for …

Agriculture expanded during the last 50 years from the Pampas to NW Argentina at the
expense of natural forests and rangelands. In parallel, productivity was boosted through the …

Aims Drivers of soil organic carbon (SOC) storage are likely to vary in importance in different
regions and at different depths due to local factors influencing SOC dynamics. This paper …

Precise determination of changes in organic carbon (OC) stocks is prerequisite to
understand the role of soils in the global cycling of carbon and to verify changes in stocks …

This study aimed to quantify SOC stocks and potential C sequestration for Nigeria using
legacy soil data. Mass preserving splines were fitted to legacy SOC and bulk density (BD) …

Artificial drainage is among the most widespread land improvements for agriculture.
Drainage benefits crop production, but also promotes nutrient losses to water resources …

Climate change and stagnating crop yields may cause a decline of SOC stocks in
agricultural soils leading to considerable CO2 emissions and reduced agricultural …

Soil organic matter not only affects soil properties and productivity but also has an essential
role in global carbon (C) cycle. We studied changes in the topsoil C content of Finnish …