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Aggregated database of forest soil chemical properties in the Czech Republic based on surveys from 2000 to 2020
Key messageThe dataset includes data from forest soil surveys conducted in the period 2000–2020. It provides soil and site variables from 8269...
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Soil radiocarbon abundance in global forest ecosystems controlled by climate and soil properties
BackgroundSoil is the largest carbon pool on land. A small proportional change of soil carbon may lead to strong feedback to the climate system....
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Soil Science in Italian Universities
The community of soil scientists in Italian universities is small, approximately 100 people as permanent staff, distributed from North to South in...
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An in-depth evaluation of metagenomic classifiers for soil microbiomes
BackgroundRecent endeavours in metagenomics, exemplified by projects such as the human microbiome project and TARA Oceans, have illuminated the...
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Soil Microbiome as a Key Factor in Soil Health
The present demands for both sustaining food security and the environment, impose a great challenge to the field of agriculture. Conventional...
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Soil Fertility and Soil Health
Soil is a fundamental resource that supports the production of food and other environmental services. Soil fertilitySoil fertility, together with...
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Responses of soil microbial community activities and soil physicochemical properties to coal fly ash soil amendment
BackgroundHundreds of millions of tons coal fly ash are produced annually to support economic development and industrial production. However,...
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Response of the Soil Bacterial Community to Soil Fertility During Vegetation Restoration in Soil and Water Loss Areas in South China
PurposeVegetation restoration is an effective measure for improving soil fertility in areas prone to water and soil erosion. However, how soil...
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Estimate of the Soil Carbon Stock of Forested Regions in Russia Using Databases of Soil Properties
AbstractStudy relevance and goals. Soil is one of the key pools of carbon in terrestrial ecosystems. According to recent data, the soil carbon pool...
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Bayesian Inference of Soil Traits from Green Manure Fields in a Tropical Sandy Soil
Green manure represents a crucial soil management practice for soil traits and potentially sequestering organic carbon (OC) within the soil profile....
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Land use and soil characteristics affect soil organisms differently from above-ground assemblages
BackgroundLand-use is a major driver of changes in biodiversity worldwide, but studies have overwhelmingly focused on above-ground taxa: the effects...
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The Development of Soil Science in Molise
Surveys on soil science in Molise are relatively recent as the first scientific studies were carried out only in the early 1990s and financed by the...
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Soil Management
Ethiopia is characterized by diverse climateClimate, topography, geology, soils, hydrology, and culture. The diversity in these soil forming...
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Major Soil Types
Ethiopia has diverse soil resources. Natural conditions, such as parent materialParent material, climateClimate, topography, biotic and land use/land...
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Use of Soil Maps to Interpret Soil-Landform Assemblages and Soil-Landscape Evolution
Soils are a key link to the surficial sedimentologic system(s) that originally deposited the unconsolidated parent material, or to the weathering...
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A Spatial Database of Ecosystems of the Lake Baikal Basin
AbstractA database, including a map layer of ecosystems of the Lake Baikal basin, has been compiled at a scale of 1 : 500 000. The area is divided...
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Effects of defoliation on root traits, nitrogen fixation, soil nitrogen availability, soil enzyme activities and soil bacterial communities of forage legumes
Background and AimsForage legumes fix atmospheric nitrogen through a mutualistic relationship with soil rhizobia bacteria. However, frequent...
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Soil Erosion Research and Soil Conservation Policy in South Africa
Soil erosion has been identified as an issue in South African farming for more than a century. Erosion of land surfaces by water or wind is a natural...
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The burdock database: a multi-omic database for Arctium lappa, a food and medicinal plant
BackgroundBurdock is a biennial herb of Asteraceae found in Northern Europe, Eurasia, Siberia, and China. Its mature dry fruits, called Niu Bang Zi ,...
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The Development of Soil Science in Tuscany
Concerning agronomical and forestry studies, Tuscany has an ancient tradition. Especially since the eighteenth century, and all along the century...