Eco-functionality of organic matter in soils

E Hoffland, TW Kuyper, RNJ Comans, RE Creamer - Plant and Soil, 2020 - Springer
Background Soil organic matter (SOM) supports multiple soil ecosystem functions,
underpinned by processes such as C sequestration, N mineralization, aggregation …

Soil functions: connecting earth's critical zone

SA Banwart, NP Nikolaidis, YG Zhu… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Soil is the central interface of Earth's critical zone—the planetary surface layer extending
from unaltered bedrock to the vegetation canopy—and is under intense pressure from …

Carbon storage in an arable soil combining field measurements, aggregate turnover modeling and climate scenarios

S Qiu, H Yang, S Zhang, S Huang, S Zhao, X Xu, P He… - Catena, 2023 - Elsevier
Quantifying soil structural dynamics and aggregate turnover is important in understanding
soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks, particularly over decadal and larger time scales. Until now …

Soil microorganism regulated aggregate stability and rill erosion resistance under different land uses

Y Yang, Y Zhang, X Yu, G Jia - Catena, 2023 - Elsevier
How microbial communities respond to soil aggregation and rill erosion resistance has
rarely been addressed. Such a knowledge gap hinders the practice of guiding sustainable …

Needles in haystacks: reevaluating old paradigms for the discovery of bacterial secondary metabolites

MG Chevrette, J Handelsman - Natural Product Reports, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2021 Natural products research is in the midst of a renaissance ushered in
by a modern understanding of microbiology and the technological explosions of genomics …

[HTML][HTML] Modelling and mapping Soil Organic Carbon in annual cropland under different farm management systems in the Apulia region of Southern Italy

M Petito, S Cantalamessa, G Pagnani… - Soil and Tillage …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) plays a crucial role in many soil functions and
ecosystem services. Monitoring its spatial and temporal changes is essential for planning …

Map-based site-specific seeding of seed potato production by fusion of proximal and remote sensing data

MA Munnaf, G Haesaert, AM Mouazen - Soil and Tillage Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Uniform rate seeding (URS), adopted by the majority of farmers worldwide, is an
inappropriate approach particularly in fields with large variability to optimize seeding rate …

Long-term combined organic manure and chemical fertilizer application enhances aggregate-associated C and N storage in an agricultural Udalfs soil

S Qiu, C Hu, D Liu, S Liu, S Zhao, X Xu, Y Zhao, P He… - PloS one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Little information is known on whether carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) immobilization is
synchronized in different sizes of aggregates under different agricultural management …

Optimizing the water-ecosystem-food nexus using nature-based solutions at the basin scale

A Maragkaki, EA Koukianaki, MA Lilli, D Efstathiou… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The water ecosystem food (WEF) nexus duly acknowledges the complex interdependencies
among water, ecosystems, and food production, underscoring nature based solutions (NBS) …

Exogenous and endogenous controls on the development of soil structure

AK Mohammed, DR Hirmas, A Nemes, D Giménez - Geoderma, 2020 - Elsevier
The categorical and qualitative nature of currently available soil structural data along with
the lack of a geographically broad dataset have impeded progress in understanding the …