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Giuliano Bonanomi
Agriculture
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Soil Aggregation in Relation to Organic Amendment: a Synthesis
Soil aggregation, a key aspect of soil physical health, is a crucial component of agroecosystem sustainability as it affects numerous soil processes and agroecosystem productivity. Application of organic amend...
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Open AccessDecomposition and temperature sensitivity of fine root and leaf litter of 43 mediterranean species
Data on the decomposition of fine roots are scarce for the Mediterranean basin. This work aims to compare chemical traits, decomposition rate, and temperature sensitivity (Q10) for root and leaf litter of 43 Medi...
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Decomposition of woody debris in Mediterranean ecosystems: the role of wood chemical and anatomical traits
Data about woody debris (WD) decomposition are very scarce for the Mediterranean basin. The specific aim of this work is to explore the relationships between WD traits with the decay rate.
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Contrasting effects of Rhizophagus irregularis versus bacterial and fungal seed endophytes on Trifolium repens plant-soil feedback
Interactions between plants and soil affect plant–plant interactions and community composition by modifying soils conditions in plant-soil feedback, where associated microbes have the most crucial role. Both a...
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Predicting nitrogen mineralization from organic amendments: beyond C/N ratio by 13C-CPMAS NMR approach
The processes of nitrogen (N) mineralization from organic amendments (OA) is important to provide mineral forms (NH4+ and NO3−) of N for plants. Assessment of N mineralization is usually done by using the C/N rat...
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Explaining trajectories of chemical changes during decomposition of tropical litter by 13C-CPMAS NMR, proximate and nutrients analysis
Litter decomposition is of great concern as it plays a key role in regulating global carbon cycle and nutrient budgets, especially in tropical forests where it is very fast. Therefore, we studied the decomposi...
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Fire effects on litter chemistry and early development of Eucalyptus globulus
Fires affect what happens to litter in ecosystems. Biological and chemical effects of burnt litter on plants are not as of yet fully understood. We aimed to assess the effects of heat-treated leaf litter on ge...
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Soil fertility promotes decomposition rate of nutrient poor, but not nutrient rich litter through nitrogen transfer
Litter decomposition is a critical process in terrestrial ecosystems and understanding the effects of soil fertility on the litter decay rate is of great ecological relevance. Here we test the hypothesis that ...
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OMDY: a new model of organic matter decomposition based on biomolecular content as assessed by 13C-CPMAS-NMR
Modelling organic matter decomposition is fundamental to understand biogeochemical cycling in terrestrial ecosystems. Current models use C/N or Lignin/N ratios to describe susceptibility to decomposition, or i...
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Erratum to: Unimodal pattern of soil hydrophobicity along an altitudinal gradient encompassing Mediterranean, temperate, and alpine ecosystems
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Unimodal pattern of soil hydrophobicity along an altitudinal gradient encompassing Mediterranean, temperate, and alpine ecosystems
Soil water repellency (SWR, i.e. the reduced affinity for water due to the presence of hydrophobic coatings on soil particles) has relevant hydrological implications on the rate of water infiltration, surface ...
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Nitrogen transfer in litter mixture enhances decomposition rate, temperature sensitivity, and C quality changes
Litter decomposition is a critical process in terrestrial ecosystems and, since in natural conditions plant litter occurs in mixtures, understanding the interactive effects of mixed litter is of great ecologic...
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New Modeling Approach to Describe and Predict Carbon Sequestration Dynamics in Agricultural Soils
The contribution of agro-ecosystems to carbon sequestration in the form of soil organic matter (SOM) is increasingly considered as a mitigating factor for climate change. The ecosystem carbon storage depends o...
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Decomposition and nutrient dynamics in mixed litter of Mediterranean species
In the last decade a great research effort addressed the effects of litter diversity on ecosystem functions, reporting both synergistic and antagonistic effects for decomposition dynamics. Four coexisting Medi...
