Soil organic carbon models need independent time-series validation for reliable prediction

J Le Noë, S Manzoni, R Abramoff, T Bölscher… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Numerical models are crucial to understand and/or predict past and future soil organic
carbon dynamics. For those models aiming at prediction, validation is a critical step to gain …

Biodegradable and conventional microplastics exhibit distinct microbiome, functionality, and metabolome changes in soil

Y Sun, C Duan, N Cao, C Ding, Y Huang… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Environmental concerns with liberal petroleum-based plastic use have led to demand for
sustainable biodegradable alternatives. However, the inadequate end-of-life treatment of …

The impact of mineral reactive surface area variation on simulated mineral reactions and reaction rates

F Qin, LE Beckingham - Applied Geochemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Reactive transport modeling is an essential tool to simulate complex geochemical reactions
in porous media that can impact formation properties including porosity and permeability …

Microplastic dilemma: Assessing the unexpected trade-offs between biodegradable and non-biodegradable forms on plant health, cadmium uptake, and sediment …

W Zhou, D Huang, S Chen, G Wang, R Li, W Xu… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite extensive substitution of biodegradable plastics (BPs) for conventional plastics
(CPs), research on their environmental ecological consequences as microplastics (MPs) is …

Isolation, identification and biodiversity of antiscalant degrading seawater bacteria using MALDI-TOF-MS and multivariate analysis

MY Ashfaq, MA Al-Ghouti, H Qiblawey… - Science of The Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) is a commonly used desalination technique owing to its
lesser environmental and economic impacts as compared to thermal desalination …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying microbial metabolism in soils using calorespirometry—a bioenergetics perspective

A Chakrawal, AM Herrmann, H Šantrůčková… - Soil Biology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) measures the partitioning between anabolic and
catabolic processes. While most work on CUE has been based on carbon (C) mass flows …

Probabilistic indicators for soil and groundwater contamination risk assessment

D la Cecilia, GM Porta, FHM Tang, M Riva, F Maggi - Ecological Indicators, 2020 - Elsevier
Deterministic assessments of whether, when, and where environmental safety thresholds
are exceeded by pollutants are often unreliable due to uncertainty stemming from …

Soil nitrogen deficiency aggravated the aging of biodegradable microplastics in paddy soil under the input of organic substances with contrasting C/N ratios

J Huang, Y Liu, H Xie, X Liu, Y Feng, B Wang - Journal of Hazardous …, 2025 - Elsevier
The application of organic substances to the agricultural field has effectively enhanced soil
nutrient levels and crop yields. Biodegradable microplastics (bio-MPs), a pervasive …

On the modeling paradigm of plant root nutrient acquisition

J Tang, WJ Riley - Plant and Soil, 2021 - Springer
Plant root nutrient acquisition, and to a lesser extent foliar nutrient uptake, maintain plant
metabolism and strongly regulate terrestrial biogeochemistry and carbon-climate feedbacks …

Linear two-pool models are insufficient to infer soil organic matter decomposition temperature sensitivity from incubations

J Tang, WJ Riley - Biogeochemistry, 2020 - Springer
Terrestrial carbon (C)-climate feedbacks depend strongly on how soil organic matter (SOM)
decomposition responds to temperature. This dependency is often represented in land …