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On-site soil analysis: A novel approach combining NIR spectroscopy, remote sensing and deep learning Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Michel Kok, Sam Sarjant, Sven Verweij, Stefan F.C. Vaessen, Gerard H. Ros
Soil health is essential to global sustainable food production. Beyond its role in food production, soil also plays a crucial role in maintaining ecosystem health and mitigating climate change. Monitoring and improving the health of agricultural soils requires insight into spatial variation in soil properties and associated ecosystem functions. Measuring this variation via classic sampling and analysis
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Soil physicochemical properties explain land use/cover histories in the last sixty years in China Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Hao Chen, Mehdi Rahmati, Carsten Montzka, Huiran Gao, Harry Vereecken
Enhancing our comprehension of soil processes and their impact on Earth requires precise quantification of human-induced soil alterations, particularly those related to land use/cover (LUC) histories. Thoroughly validated LUC and soil maps specific to China, and an explainable machine-learning approach were applied to reveal how soil physicochemical properties, independently or in combination, explain
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Gaussian process regression for three-dimensional soil mapping over multiple spatial supports Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Jie Wang, Patrick Filippi, Sebastian Haan, Liana Pozza, Brett Whelan, Thomas FA Bishop
This study investigates the complexity of spatial soil modelling, particularly focusing on the challenge of variable vertical support in traditional soil data collection. Traditional soil sampling, described in terms of horizons, often fails to accurately pinpoint the specific depths for specific soil properties. This gap is significant, as depth-specific data is crucial for a thorough understanding
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Effects of lithology and soil horizons on gully morphology in the Mollisol region of China Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Yanru Wen, Till Kasielke, Heng Jiang, Harald Zepp, Bin Zhang
Gully erosion is the most destructive form of land degradation in NE China and many other regions around the globe. It is generally accepted that lithology and topography have an important impact on gully morphology. However, the effects of lithology and slope gradient on gully cross-sectional morphology remain unclear. This study aims to elucidate how the sequence of soil horizons and rock strata
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Estimating sediment transport capacity on sloping farmland on the Loess Plateau considering soil particle size characteristics Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Qiming Zhu, Jun'e Liu, Xiaoqian Qi, Xike Cheng, Zhengchao Zhou
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Lithology-driven soil properties control of N2O production by ammonia oxidizers in subtropical forest soils Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Xiangyu Wan, Xinyi Yang, Yuling Zhang, Peilei Hu, Pengpeng Duan, Dejun Li, Kelin Wang
Lithology can strongly influence soil's physical and chemical properties, significantly affecting soil nitrogen (N) transformation rates. Ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA), ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) and complete ammonia oxidizers (comammox ) constitute the major producers of soil nitrous oxide (NO), but the importance of different lithology on their relative contributions still poorly understood
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Estimating the universal scaling of gas diffusion in coarse-textured soils Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 J. Valdes-Abellan, D. Benavente, B. Ghanbarian, P. Moldrup, E. Arthur, T. Norgaard, L. Wollesen de Jonge
Gas diffusion, , in partially saturated soils, constitutes a critical topic in soil sciences. However, it is a complex process and this limits its characterization and estimation. In this study, we analyzed and parameterized the soil gas diffusion using a combination of percolation theory (PT) and the effective-medium approximation (EMA). Here, we selected 126 coarse-textured soils with measurements
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High-resolution soil erosion mapping in croplands via Sentinel-2 bare soil imaging and a two-step classification approach Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Lulu Qi, Yue Zhou, Kristof Van Oost, Jiamin Ma, Bas van Wesemael, Pu Shi
Erosion-induced lateral soil redistribution leads to spatially heterogenous soil composition, which can be captured through the distinctive spectral reflectance of soils under varying levels of erosion influence. This points to the potential of using remotely sensed soil spectra to detect severe erosion and deposition hotspots in exposed croplands and, importantly, further differentiate the intra-class
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Contrasting stocks and origins of particulate and mineral-associated soil organic carbon in a mangrove-salt marsh ecotone Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Prakhin Assavapanuvat, Joshua L. Breithaupt, Kevin M. Engelbert, Christian Schröder, Joseph M. Smoak, Thomas S. Bianchi
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Spatial variation characteristics and influencing factors of sediment connectivity in the black soil region of northeast China Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-04 Wang Jia-nan, Fan Hao-ming, Jia Yan-feng
Connectivity has become an important indicator of the sediment transfer potential through sediment sources to catchment sinks. Connectivity plays a vital role in investigating the rate of soil erosion caused by runoff and sediment output across the watershed landscape. However, there have been few quantitative studies on the spatial variations in sediment connectivity in the black soil region of Northeast
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Available nitrogen and enzyme activity in rhizosphere soil dominate the changes in fine-root nutrient foraging strategies during plantation development Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Qianbin Cao, Yunchao Zhou, Yunxing Bai, Zhengui Han
The variation in fine-root traits in response to soil resources (i.e., fine-root nutrient foraging strategy) is critical for plants to adapt to environmental changes and even win in intra- or interspecific resource competition. However, the patterns and driving mechanisms that change in fine-root traits and nutrient foraging strategies during the development of plantations remain unclear. We analyzed
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Effect of different headcut heights on the process of headcut erosion and sediment production in the granite hilly area of South China Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Dalan Liao, Zhe Lin, Ling He, Qiuyue Tang, Xiaoqian Duan, Yusong Deng
Granite hilly areas are among the most ecologically fragile zones in China, and are susceptible to backward erosion under conditions of prolonged heavy rainfall and steep slopes. However, the spatiotemporal dynamics governing sediment generation and energy dissipation during gully headcut erosion in hilly granite areas remain unclear. In this study, through a field in situ scouring test, we investigated
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Detritivores maintain stoichiometric homeostasis, but alter body size and population density in response to altitude induced stoichiometric mismatches Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-27 Peng Zhang, Zheng Zhou, Weixin Liu, Donghui Wu, Stefan Scheu
Maintaining a balance between growth needs and available food resources is critical to the development of any organism. Ecological stoichiometry provides a theoretical basis for studying stoichiometric mismatches between organisms and their food resources. Recent studies have shown that detritivore taxa occupying different multidimensional stoichiometric niches (MSNs) exhibit different stoichiometric
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National-scale mapping of soil-thickness probability in hilly and mountainous areas of Japan using legacy and modern soil survey Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-27 Naoyuki Yamashita, Yasuhiro Ohnuki, Junko Iwahashi, Akihiro Imaya
Soil thickness is a crucial parameter for local, regional and globalscale assessments, including those related to carbon cycles, water retention capacity, and landslide risk in the context of biogeochemical, soil physical, and slope stability models. This study had two primary objectives: 1) to predict maps depicting the probability of the A-horizon thickness exceeding 15 cm (AT15) and the A and B-horizon
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How will permafrost carbon respond to future climate change? A new assessment for future thaw trends of permafrost carbon on the Tibetan Plateau Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-27 Tongqing Shen, Zhongbo Yu, Dawei Zhang, Qin Ju, Xuegao Chen, Hui Lin, Ting Nie, Qin Wang, Xinrong Si, Peng Jiang
Permafrost degradation on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) is anticipated to result in the thaw of permafrost carbon. Existing studies have been conducted to assess the future thaw of frozen carbon on the TP, primarily focusing on the deepening of the active layer while neglecting the impact of permafrost area shrinkage. This oversight may lead to a significant underestimation of the potential thaw of frozen
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Soil cover shapes organic matter pools and microbial communities in soils of maritime Antarctica Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Victoria Martin, Hannes Schmidt, Alberto Canarni, Marianne Koranda, Bela Hausmann, Carsten W. Müller, Andreas Richter
Bryophytes and biological soil crusts (biocrusts) are the two major biological soil cover types of maritime Antarctica and play a crucial role for key ecosystem functions in the barely vegetated and little developed soils. Besides their profound impacts on nutrient cycling, they also provide habitats and activity hotspots for unique soil microbial communities. Yet, the effects of biological soil cover
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Carbon sequestration potential in hedgerow soils: Results from 23 sites in Germany Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Sophie Drexler, Axel Don
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Microbial adaption to stoichiometric imbalances regulated the size of soil mineral-associated organic carbon pool under continuous organic amendments Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Xiali Mao, Tao Sun, Lijuan Zhu, Wolfgang Wanek, Qi Cheng, Xiangjie Wang, Jingjie Zhou, Xiu Liu, Qingxu Ma, Lianghuan Wu, Davey L. Jones
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Historical charcoal production as a factor in soil cover heterogeneity in a fluvioglacial landscape − A case study from northern Poland Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Jerzy Jonczak, Vincenzo Barbarino, Aleksandra Chojnacka, Bogusława Kruczkowska, Krzysztof Szewczyk, Barbara Gmińska-Nowak, Ewa Kołaczkowska, Dominika Łuców, Agnieszka Halaś, Agnieszka Mroczkowska, Sandra Słowińska, Mateusz Kramkowski, Anna Kowalska, Michał Słowiński
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Chemical processes and prediction of dissolved phosphorus leaching in mineral and organic soils Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Jian Liu, Hilmar Tor Sævarsson, Marianne Bechmann, Tore Krogstad, Anne Falk Øgaard
In agricultural areas dominated by subsurface drainage, leaching of phosphorus (P) from soils is a concern for downstream water quality. Still, the role of chemical processes in subsoils and organic soils in influencing dissolved P leaching needs to be clarified for better predicting the P leaching. In ten mineral and organic soils, we examined a wide range of chemical characteristics including various
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Long-term conventional cultivation after desert reclamation is not conducive to the improvement of soil carbon pool and nutrient stocks, a case study from northwest China Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-21 Dengke Ma, Zhibin He, Wenliang Ju, Wenzhi Zhao, Peng Zhao, Wen Wang, Pengfei Lin
Reclamation in desert-oasis areas is effective for improving land productivity and ensuring food supply. However, the understanding of the sustainable productivity of soils under long-term conventional cultivation after desert reclamation is still poor. This study was conducted to determine soil structural properties, organic carbon stocks (SOCS) and nutrient stocks under four desert reclamation ages
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Year-round CO2 emissions from the drawdown area of a tropical reservoir: Strong seasonal and spatial variation Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Ícaro Barbosa, José R. Paranaíba, Sebastian Sobek, Sarian Kosten, Rafael M. Almeida, Vitor Duque, Natália Mendonça, Nathan Barros, Raquel Mendonça
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The formation of humic acid and micro-aggregates facilitated long-time soil organic carbon sequestration after Medicago sativa L. introduction on abandoned farmlands Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Xin Song, Zi-Qiang Yuan, Chao Fang, Zhen-Hong Hu, Feng-Min Li, Jordi Sardans, Josep Penuelas
The substantial carbon sequestration observed in abandoned farmland assumes a pivotal role in mitigating the impacts of global warming. However, it remains unclear how to effectively manage abandoned farmlands to achieve this goal, especially over the long term, and understand the underlying mechanisms. The introduction of legumes can augment vegetation coverage, mitigate soil erosion, and ameliorate
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Operational sampling designs for poorly accessible areas based on a multi-objective optimization method Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Maxime Dumont, Guilhem Brunel, Paul Tresson, Jérôme Nespoulous, Hassan Boukcim, Marc Ducousso, Stéphane Boivin, Olivier Taugourdeau, Bruno Tisseyre
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Soil inorganic carbon storage and spatial distribution in irrigated farmland on the North China Plain Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Jia Liang, Ye Zhao, Lei Chen, Jing Liu
Rapid expansion of irrigated agriculture in semi-arid regions alters the global carbon cycle and terrestrial soil carbon pools, in particular the potential for inorganic carbon sequestration in soils. Current research on soil inorganic carbon (SIC) pools in irrigated farmland focuses on local scale. The impact of irrigated agriculture on soil inorganic carbon pools and sequestration potential at the
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Measurement and prediction of gas permeability function for biochar-amended rooted soils Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 X. Huang, W. Cai, S. Bordoloi
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An improvement of the Revised Wind Erosion Equation by considering the effect of non-photosynthetic vegetation Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Xiufan Liu, Heqiang Du, Xinlei Liu, Yawei Fan, Sen Li, Tao Wang, Zichen Guo
Non-photosynthetic vegetation (NPV) can significantly impact the magnitude of wind erosion. However, most wind erosion models did not take NPV into account, which led to large uncertainties in wind erosion simulation. To reduce these uncertainties, the effects of NPV on wind erosion should be considered in wind erosion simulations. Herein, we collected the hyperspectral and fractional coverage () data
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Soil dissolved organic matter quality and bacterial community composition regulate the substrate-binding affinity of hydrolytic enzymes under short-term nitrogen addition Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Xiaoqing Zhang, Quanxin Zeng, Xiaochun Yuan, Qiufang Zhang, Jiacong Zhou, Min Xu, Hao Sun, Linna Chen, Xiaoli Gao, Yuehmin Chen
Soil enzymes play important roles in soil C and nutrient cycling. However, the effects of N addition on soil enzyme kinetics and the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Thus, we aimed to determine the effects of short-term N addition on the soil properties, microbial properties, maximum reaction rate (, which is attained at saturating substrate concentrations), and Michaelis constant (, where a high
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Driving mechanisms of soil bacterial α and β diversity under long-term nitrogen addition: Subtractive heterogenization based on the environment selection Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Zhu Yang, Handan Dai, Yongtao Huang, Biao Dong, Shenglei Fu, Chenlu Zhang, Xiaowei Li, Yuhua Tan, Xiaoxin Zhang, Xiao Zhang
Soil bacterial α and β diversity patterns under nitrogen (N) addition have been intensively examined, but γ diversity patterns remain largely unknown, especially, the mechanisms that concurrently control changes in α, β and γ diversity remain elusive. Therefore, we formulated a conceptual framework that simultaneously considers candidate drivers including ubiquitous species, rare species, and community
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Microbial response to long-term fertilization of paddy soils: Apparent and real priming effects Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Qiong Liu, Zhenke Zhu, Khatab Abdalla, Tida Ge, Xiaohong Wu, Yakov Kuzyakov, Johanna Pausch
Fertilization is crucial for increasing crop productivity and it alters soil microbial biomass and activities. These alterations exert implications for soil carbon (C) stocks, primarily through the priming effect (PE). Here, we investigated the mechanisms underlying PE and their impact on soil C stocks in paddy soils subjected to long-term (31 years) fertilization. Soils from four depths within the
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Rare earth elements in clay-sized fractions: Implications for weathering fingerprint from parent materials to soils Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Xianming Zhang, Yuntao Jing, Wanfu Zhao, Yongjun Jiang, Dong-Xing Guan, Hongxia Du, Ying Qian, Fei Ye, Wancang Zhao
Rare earth elements (REEs) have gained attention as tracers of pedogenic processes over the last few decades. Clay-sized fractions (CSFs, < 2 μm) may play a crucial role in hosting REEs. To better understand the pedochemical signals of REEs in clay-sized phases, such as iron oxides and phyllosilicates, we analyzed REE speciation in CSFs of carbonate rocks (limestone), clastic rocks (sandstone and shale)
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Wet-dry cycling influences the formation of mineral-associated organic matter and its sensitivity to simulated root exudates Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Andrea Jilling, Noah W. Sokol, Karen Morán-Rivera, A. Stuart Grandy
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Effects of long-term sewage sludge addition to a calcareous soil on soil organic C fractions and soil functions Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 A. Simões-Mota, P. Barré, F. Baudin, R.M. Poch, E. Bruni, R. Anton, A. Enrique, I. Virto
Soil organic matter (SOM) is a recognized carbon reservoir and paramount in soil functioning and agrosystems productivity. Different management strategies have been established to enhance SOM in arable soils, and one is the application of exogenous organic matter (EOM). Despite significant efforts in recent years, the consequences of EOM addition on increasing soil organic C (SOC) storage and stability
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A new method for high-precision estimation of soil organic matter using two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy—to support collaborative use of global open soil spectral libraries Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Ke Xia, Taixia Wu, Shiwen Zhang, Shudong Wang, Xintao Li, Qiang Shen, Tao Li
Soil organic matter (SOM) plays a crucial role in controlling soil function and quality, mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, and improving the global carbon cycle. However, spectral analysis and scale effects have long been challenging issues in remote sensing estimation of SOM. The collaborative utilization of soil spectral libraries (SSL) provides a solution to scale effects, but the lack of effective
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Contrasting properties of soil organic matter fractions isolated by different physical separation methodologies Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 S. Leuthold, J.M. Lavallee, M.L. Haddix, M.F. Cotrufo
Physical soil organic matter (SOM) fractions provide increased insight into the biogeochemical functioning of soils. Several fractionation methodologies have been developed to separate particulate (POM) from mineral-associated organic matter (MAOM) fractions either by particle size, particle density, or some combination of these two properties. The proliferation of approaches to separation has led
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Sensitivity of soil dust emissions to driving factor variability in earth's main drylands Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Xuesong Wang, Chunlai Zhang
The identification of driving factors that contribute to dust emissions holds great significance on studying global climate change. In the present study, we constructed a new index, Dust Sensitivity Index, which allowed us to identify the sensitivity of dust emissions responding to variations in driving factors over 2003–2017 in Earth's main drylands. We found that dust emissions were sensitive to
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Changes in plant lignin components and microbial necromass matter with subtropical forest restoration Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Xiaolin Chen, Xiangyin Ni, Gaochao Zheng, Mingyan Hu, Han Y.H. Chen
Soil organic carbon (SOC) represents the largest carbon reservoir in terrestrial ecosystems. Therefore, understanding how to enhance SOC is crucial for the global carbon cycle and atmospheric CO removal. While there has been reported on SOC accumulation following forest restoration efforts, changes in plant lignin and microbial necromass across soil fractions and depths remain unclear. To address this
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The roles of sampling depth, lateral profile density and vertical sampling density in 3D digital soil mapping of soil organic carbon Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Mei-Wei Zhang, Xiao-Lin Sun, Xiao-Qing Wang, Hua-Lei Yang, Hui-Li Wang, Zhi-Gang Huang, Dai-Hua Jiang, Yun-Jin Wu
Sampling density and depth play crucial roles in three-dimensional (3D) soil modeling and prediction, particularly in digital soil mapping (DSM). However, previous studies have yielded inconsistent and even contradictory results regarding impacts of sampling density and depth on the accuracy of 3D DSM. Hence, this study aimed to evaluate the impacts of sampling depth, vertical sampling density and
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Soil organic matter thermal pools as influenced by depth, tillage, and soil texture – A Rock-Eval® analysis study on the cropland soils of the Swiss Plateau Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Cedric Deluz, David Sebag, Eric Verrecchia, Pascal Boivin
This study investigated the relationships between the soil organic matter content (SOM), SOM thermal pools, soil properties, and tillage practices, on cropland soils of the central plateau of Switzerland. Soil samples were collected in 45 no-till and conventional tillage fields in five layers from 0 to 40 cm depth. Soil organic carbon content (SOC) and hydrocarbon compound (HC) pools were analysed
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A framework for optimizing environmental covariates to support model interpretability in digital soil mapping Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Babak Kasraei, Margaret G. Schmidt, Jin Zhang, Chuck E. Bulmer, Deepa S. Filatow, Adrienne Arbor, Travis Pennell, Brandon Heung
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A super learner ensemble to map potassium fixation in California vineyard soils Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Stewart G. Wilson, Gordon L. Rees, Anthony T. O'Geen
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Interpreting the differences in microbial carbon and nitrogen use efficiencies estimated by 18O labeling and ecoenzyme stoichiometry Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Lifei Sun, Lingrui Qu, Daryl L. Moorhead, Yongxing Cui, Wolfgang Wanek, Shuailin Li, Changpeng Sang, Chao Wang
Microbial carbon and nitrogen use efficiencies (CUE and NUE) are central to our understanding of soil C and N cycling. Although both the O-labeling approach and ecoenzyme stoichiometry model have been widely used to estimate microbial CUE and NUE, comparisons of the two methods are scarce. Here, we investigated soil microbial CUE and NUE of 11 locations along a forest transect in eastern China using
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Estimation of soil organic carbon by combining hyperspectral and radar remote sensing to reduce coupling effects of soil surface moisture and roughness Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Ranzhe Jiang, Yuanyuan Sui, Xin Zhang, Nan Lin, Xingming Zheng, Bingze Li, Lei Zhang, Xiaokai Li, Haiye Yu
Soil organic carbon (SOC) is important in the global carbon cycle. Accurate estimation of SOC content in cultivated land is a prerequisite for evaluating the carbon sequestration potential and quality of soils. However, existing SOC prediction studies based on hyperspectral remote sensing neglect the spectral response of the physical properties of surface soil, leading to inadequate model generalization
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Soil surface roughness of sloping croplands affected by land degradation degree and residual of incorporated straw Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Chengshu Wang, Guanghui Zhang, Shiqi Chen
Changes in soil surface roughness (SSR) are not only closely associated with the characteristics of the underlying surface but also play a vital role in hydrological and soil erosion processes. SSR of degraded croplands is likely affected by the residual of incorporated straw, however, few studies have been focused on this topic. This study was conducted to investigate the changes in SSR of sloping
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Comparing laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy and visible near-infrared spectroscopy for predicting soil properties: A pan-European study Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Alex Wangeci, Daniel Adén, Thomas Nikolajsen, Mogens H. Greve, Maria Knadel
Soil organic carbon (SOC), texture, clay/organic carbon (OC) ratio, and extractable phosphorus are among the key soil descriptors representing the physical, chemical, and biological properties. However, analyzing these soil properties using conventional methods of analysis is time-consuming and often involves the use of hazardous chemicals. Therefore, scaling these methods to analyze more samples covering
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Soil organic carbon mapping utilizing convolutional neural networks and Earth observation data, a case study in Bavaria state Germany Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Nikolaos Tziolas, Nikolaos Tsakiridis, Uta Heiden, Bas van Wesemael
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 multispectral imagery data may be aggregated to extract large-scale, bare soil, reflectance composites, which enable soil mapping applications. In this paper, this approach was tested in the German federal state of Bavaria, to provide estimations for soil organic carbon (SOC). Different temporal ranges were considered for the generation of the composites, including multi-annual
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Response time of soil moisture to rain in a vineyard with permanent cover Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Rosane da Silva-Dias, Xiana Raposo-Díaz, Aitor García-Tomillo, Manuel López-Vicente
The time elapsed between the moments of maximum rainfall intensity and maximum soil moisture, known as peak to peak (P2P), is part of the hydrological response of the soil, but literature has missed this metric in any woody crop. In a vineyard with permanent vegetation cover (humid climatic conditions), the influence of two cultivars (Agudelo and Blanco Legítimo) and two zones (rows and inter-row areas)
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Nitrogen enrichment does not adversely affect exchangeable bases in rainfed urban arable soils of Kumasi, a tropical West African city Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Stephen Boahen Asabere, Kwabena Abrefa Nketia, Najeeb A. Iddris, George Ashiagbor, Daniela Sauer
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Accuracy and sensitivity of soil erosion estimation using 137Cs technology: A statistical perspective Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 X.C. John Zhang, P.R. Busteed
Random spatial variation of the Cs inventory is the principal contributor to uncertainty in soil erosion estimation using Cs technology. A statistically sound sampling design is imperative for obtaining reliable soil erosion estimations. The objectives of this study are to: 1) characterize the effect of sample size on the estimates of mean inventories; 2) evaluate the sensitivity of the estimated soil
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Is the organic carbon-to-clay ratio a reliable indicator of soil health? Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Raisa Mäkipää, Lorenzo Menichetti, Eduardo Martínez-García, Tiina Törmänen, Aleksi Lehtonen
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Season of grazing interacts with soil texture, selecting for associations of biocrust morphogroups Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Lea A. Condon, Roger Rosentreter, Kari E. Veblen, Peter S. Coates
Livestock grazing, a widespread land use in semi-arid systems, is often placed in opposition to the perpetuation of biological soil crusts (“biocrusts”: lichens, mosses, and algal crusts including cyanobacteria) that live on the soil surface and provide ecosystem functions. The composition of biocrusts and vascular plants varies with climate, soils, and disturbance. In general, ruderal mosses and light
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Fire simulation effects on the transformation of iron minerals in alpine soils Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Sara Negri, Beatrice Giannetta, Jessica Till, Danilo Oliveira de Souza, Daniel Said-Pullicino, Eleonora Bonifacio
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Using local ensemble models and Landsat bare soil composites for large-scale soil organic carbon maps in cropland Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Tom Broeg, Axel Don, Alexander Gocht, Thomas Scholten, Ruhollah Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi, Stefan Erasmi
National soil organic carbon (SOC) maps are essential to improve greenhouse gas accounting and support climate-smart agriculture. Large-scale SOC models based on wall-to-wall soil information from remote sensing remain a challenge due to the high diversity of natural soil conditions and the difficulty of accounting for the spatial location of the soil samples. In this study, we tested if the implementation
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Soil organic carbon increase via microbial assimilation or soil protection against the priming effect is mediated by the availability of soil N relative to input C Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Futao Zhang, Qianqian Wang, Yueling Zhang, Shuihong Yao, Qinhua Wang, Georges Ndzana, Ute Hamer, Yakov Kuzyakov, Bin Zhang
Labile C inputs into soils will be partially transformed into soil organic carbon (SOC) through microbial assimilation or physicochemical protection as such mineral-organic interactions and soil aggregation. The C inputs may stimulate the decomposition of native SOC, inducing a phenomenon known as the priming effect. Increasing C inputs may increase SOC content, yet the relative role of these mechanisms
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Geochemical evidence for changes in provenance and paleoclimate during the Holocene obtained from a fluvial–eolian sequence in the southern Mu Us Desert, north-central China Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Zhiyong Ding, Ruijie Lu, Xuanmei Fan, Xiaokang Liu, Jia Pu, Yaping Shen, Jianpeng Zhang
Identifying the sources and weathering degree of sediments in the northern deserts of China is crucial to understand the evolution of the Asian monsoon system and corresponding induced changes in surface processes. Great progress has been made in the reconstruction of paleoclimate and paleoenvironment from the Early Holocene onwards based on chronostratigraphy and proxies of aeolian sedimentary sequences
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Age and origin of closed depressions in the Paris Basin: A majority of marl pits dug since the Neolithic period? Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Boris Brasseur, Théo Allalou, Laurent Chalumeau, Emilie Gallet-Moron, Jérôme Buridant
Marling (limestone alkaline amendment) agrarian practices have a plurimillennial influence on soil pH and on soil-associated ecosystems. Although the earliest written records in Europe date back to antiquity, the origin of this agrarian practice is not well known. In order to trace the evolution of this practice in the early agrarian societies of Western Europe, we searched for topographic anomalies
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Time to anoxia: Observations and predictions of oxygen drawdown following coastal flood events Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Kaizad F. Patel, Kenton A. Rod, Jianqiu Zheng, Peter Regier, Fausto Machado-Silva, Ben Bond-Lamberty, Xingyuan Chen, Donnie J. Day, Kennedy O. Doro, Matthew H. Kaufman, Matthew Kovach, Nate McDowell, Sophia A. McKever, J. Patrick Megonigal, Cooper G. Norris, Teri O'Meara, Roberta B. Peixoto, Roy Rich, Peter Thornton, Kenneth M. Kemner, Nick D. Ward, Michael N. Weintraub, Vanessa L. Bailey
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Potential of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) to access long-term dynamics of soil salinity using OCO-2 satellite data and machine learning method Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Ruiqi Du, Youzhen Xiang, Junying Chen, Xianghui Lu, Yuxiao Wu, Yujie He, Ru Xiang, Zhitao Zhang, Yinwen Chen
The accumulation of soil salt becomes a worldwide widespread phenomenon, being a major threat to global production. As an environmental stress, soil salinity can reduce the vegetation photosynthetic activity. Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) is an electromagnetic signal actively released by vegetation during photosynthesis. SIF not only can capture lower vegetation photosynthetic activity
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High-resolution digital mapping of soil erodibility in China Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Longhui Sun, Feng Liu, Xuchao Zhu, Ganlin Zhang
Soil erodibility (K) is the intrinsic susceptibility of a soil to water erosion. Currently, its detailed and accurate spatial distribution information especially over large areas is urgently required for national and regional soil erosion assessment and soil conservation decision making. This study combined pedotransfer function with digital soil mapping techniques to develop a high-resolution map
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Microbial survival strategies in biological soil crusts of polymetallic tailing wetlands Geoderma (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Zekai Feng, Guobao Wang, Yuanyuan Jiang, Chiyu Chen, Daijie Chen, Mengyao Li, Jean Louis Morel, Hang Yu, Yuanqing Chao, Yetao Tang, Rongliang Qiu, Shizhong Wang
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