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Leguminous green manure promotes N accrual in labile and persistent soil organic matter pools
Background and AimsSoil organic nitrogen (SON) provides an important source of crop N uptake. Our study aimed to better understand N incorporation in...
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Global Positive Effects of Litter Inputs on Soil Nitrogen Pools and Fluxes
Soil nitrogen (N) pools and fluxes are strongly influenced by litter inputs in natural ecosystems. However, general responses of soil N pools and...
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Towards a better understanding of soil nutrient dynamics and P and K uptake
AimBalanced crop nutrition is key to improve nutrient use efficiency and reduce environmental impact of farming systems. We developed and tested a...
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Soil Microbial Carbon Pools as an Indicator of Soil Health in Different Land Use Systems of Northeast India
Soil contains the largest pool of terrestrial carbon, and research on soil carbon sequestration potential and its decomposition dynamics becomes a...
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Divergent Controls on Leaf and Root Litter Decay Linking to Soil C, N, and P Pools Under a Subtropical Land-use Change
Land-use changes affect terrestrial ecosystem carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) dynamics directly by altering above- and belowground...
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The influence of abiotic factors and organic carbon pools of soil on the distribution and diversity indices of earthworms under different land-use systems in north western Himalaya, India
Earthworms play an important role in soil processes and ecosystem services. Soil fauna responds quickly to any alteration in the soil environment...
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Carbon Pools and Indices Under Activated Trash Treatments in Sugarcane Plant–Ratoon System Grown in Calcareous Soil of Subtropics
A field investigation was conducted at Sugarcane Research Institute, RPCAU, Pusa, Bihar, India during 2020–2022 on sugarcane plant–ratoon system to...
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The fate of phosphorus from bone char-based fertilizers in soil pools in a 5-year crop rotation
Bone char (BC) is a promising P-recycling fertilizer but with rather low P-solubility, which can be increased by modifying the BC surface with...
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Practical Guide to Measuring Wetland Carbon Pools and Fluxes
Wetlands cover a small portion of the world, but have disproportionate influence on global carbon (C) sequestration, carbon dioxide and methane...
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Unraveling the role of ruzigrass in soil K cycling in tropical crop** systems
The introduction of ruzigrass ( Urochloa ruziziensis ) in rotation or intercropped with a cash crop may improve K cycling in the crop** system due to...
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Long-term K fertilization effects on soil available K, grain yield, and plant K critical value in winter wheat
This study takes advantage of Swiss long-term field experiments (> 30 yrs) with different K fertilization rates at three sites to (i) test the...
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Considering Soil Potassium Pools with Dissimilar Plant Availability
Soil potassium (K) has traditionally been portrayed as residing in four functional pools: solution K, exchangeable K, interlayer (sometimes referred...
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Influence of land use on soil microbial communities of sub Himalayas of India: insights from phospholipid fatty acid profiles, ribosomal intergenic spacer profiles, soil enzymes, and carbon pools
Land use and management practices have a significant impact on soil microbial populations and community composition, thereby influencing ecosystem...
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Does Saline Water Irrigation Influence Soil Carbon Pools and Nutrient Distribution in Soil under Seed Spices?
Salinity in soil and irrigation water is a major environmental stress in arid and semi-arid regions affecting soil organic carbon and its pools. A...
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Conservation agriculture in intensive rice crop** reverses soil potassium depletion
Intensive crop** in the Eastern Gangetic Plain has progressively depleted soil potassium (K) over time due to negative K balances. There is limited...
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Genotypic richness affects inorganic N uptake and N form preference of a clonal plant via altering soil N pools
Similar to species richness, genotypic richness of plants plays a pivotal role in the structure and function of ecosystems. While the contribution of...
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Influence of Different Nutrient Management Practices and Crop** Systems on Organic Carbon Pools in Typic Ustochrept Soil of Indo-Gangetic Plains in India
This is a study of long-term nutrient management and crop** systems on depth-wise distribution of soil organic carbon (SOC) pools, SOC...
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Integrating microbial community properties, biomass and necromass to predict cropland soil organic carbon
Manipulating microorganisms to increase soil organic carbon (SOC) in croplands remains a challenge. Soil microbes are important drivers of SOC...
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Maize/soybean intercrop** promoted activation of soil organic phosphorus fractions by enhancing more phosphatase activity in red soil under different phosphorus application rates
AimsRational intercrop** is crucial for improving phosphorus (P) uptake and utilization. This study aimed to investigate the effects of...
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Local Community Assembly Mechanisms and the Size of Species Pool Jointly Explain the Beta Diversity of Soil Fungi
Fungi play vital regulatory roles in terrestrial ecosystems. Local community assembly mechanisms, including deterministic and stochastic processes,...
