[HTML][HTML] Meta-analysis of 21st century studies shows that deforestation induces profound changes in soil characteristics, particularly soil organic carbon accumulation

AS Mgelwa, MJY Ngaba, B Hu, GA Gurmesa… - Forest Ecosystems, 2024 - Elsevier
Deforestation is one of the most serious environmental problems facing humankind. It
continues to escalate rapidly across many regions of the world, thereby deteriorating the …

The role of the refugee crises in driving forest cover change and fragmentation in Teknaf, Bangladesh

MM Hassan, M Duveneck, J Southworth - Ecological Informatics, 2023 - Elsevier
This research has employed remotely sensed data and image classification techniques for
the first time to track three decades (1989 to 2021) of forest cover change and forest …

Composition of tree species can mediate spatial variability of C and N cycles in mixed beech forests

Y Kooch, M Bayranvand - Forest Ecology and Management, 2017 - Elsevier
Context The process of establishing a mixed canopy composition by intermingling
individuals of beech, hornbeam, and maple is an ongoing trend in adaptive forest …

Biological indicators affected by land use change, soil resource availability and seasonality in dry tropics

AK Singh, XJ Jiang, B Yang, J Wu, A Rai, C Chen… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Land use change (LUC) in tropics, explicitly from forest to conventional agriculture, is
negatively affecting soil health and productivity. However, effect of such LUC on soil …

Litter and topsoil in Alnus subcordata plantation on former degraded natural forest land: a synthesis of age-sequence

MK Parsapour, Y Kooch, SM Hosseini, SJ Alavi - Soil and Tillage Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Alder (Alnus subcordata CAM), as N-fixing tree, are preferred plantation species that may
change soil microbial community and play a vital role in nutrient cycling. Litter and topsoil in …

Tree species effects on soil chemical, biochemical and biological features in mixed Caspian lowland forests

Y Kooch, FS Tarighat, SM Hosseini - Trees, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Key Message Tree influence on litter and soil features is detectable even in a mixed
stand and the soil landscape may be considered as a mosaic of profiles reflecting the …

Water quality parameter as a predictor of small watershed land cover

S Karmakar, SMS Haque, MM Hossain, M Sen… - Ecological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Different land cover affect water quality through interaction at root microsite during various
phase of nutrient uptake. Litter layer and its decomposition, microbial interactions and …

C and N cycle monitoring under Quercus castaneifolia plantation

MK Parsapour, Y Kooch, SM Hosseini… - Forest ecology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
In temperate forests, oak (Quercus castaneifolia) is an important species that grows along an
elevation gradient from the flood prone plains to high topographical positions of the …

Agroforestry shows higher potential than reforestation for soil restoration after slash-and-burn: a case study from Bangladesh

FI Chowdhury, I Barua, AI Chowdhury… - Geology, Ecology …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Increasing land demands for food production has led to large-scale soil degradation in the
hilly regions of south-eastern Bangladesh. An intensification of slash-and-burn techniques …

Soil carbon and nitrogen fractions in response to land use/cover changes

K Haghverdi, Y Kooch - Acta Oecologica, 2020 - Elsevier
The effects of deforestation and land use/cover changes, ie Alnus subcordata and
Cupressus sempervirens plantations, rice cultivation, and also deforested areas of Carpinus …