{"type": "FeatureCollection", "features": [{"id": "10.1186/s12870-019-1987-4", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:42Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-10-07", "title": "Measurement of leaf lamina moisture with a low-cost electrical humidity sensor: case study on a wheat water-mutant", "description": "Abstract                                Background                 <p>The presence and persistence of water on the leaf can affect crop performance and thus might be a relevant trait to select for or against in breeding programmes. Low-cost, rapid and relatively simple methods are of significant importance for screening of large populations of plants for moisture analysis of detached leaves. Leaf moisture can be detected using an electric circuit, where the resistance changes are proportional to the moisture of the measured surface. In this study, we present a protocol to analyse genotypic differences through the electrical properties of living or stored tissues, performed using a commercial device. Expanded and non-expanded leaves were compared to determine the effects of leaf maturity on these data. Two wheat genotypes that differ in tissue affinity for bound water were used to define the influence of water status.</p>                                               Results                 <p>The device indirectly estimates leaf moisture content using two electrodes applied to the leaf lamina of fresh and stored samples. Single moisture readings using this moisture meter had mean execution time of ~\uffe2\uff80\uff891.0\uffe2\uff80\uff89min. Exponential associations provided good fits for relationships between the moisture meter reading (MMR) and the electrical resistance applied to the electrodes. MMR normalised for the water/ dry matter ratio (MMRnorm) was lower for mature leaves of the water-mutant than those of wild-type, for the fully hydrated fresh leaves. MMR of fully mature leaves when partially dehydrated and measured after 10\uffe2\uff80\uff89min at 27\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb0C and 40% relative humidity was greater for the water-mutant than the wild-type.</p>                                               Conclusions                 <p>This case study provides a low-cost tool to compare electrical-resistance estimates of leaf moisture content, together with a promising and rapid phenotyping protocol for genotypic screening of wheat under standard environmental conditions. Measurement of changes in MMR with time, of fresh and partially dehydrated leaves, or of MMR normalised to tissue water content allowed for differentiation between the genotypes. Furthermore, the differences observed between genotypes that here relate particular to tissue affinity for bound water suggest that not only the free-water fraction, but also other water fractions, can affect these electrically estimated leaf moisture measures.</p>", "keywords": ["Wheat breeding", "0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "Bound water; Electrical sensor; Leaf moisture; Wheat breeding; Humidity; Plant Leaves; Triticum; Water", "Methodology Article", "Leaf moisture", "Botany", "Water", "Humidity", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Plant Leaves", "03 medical and health sciences", "Electrical sensor", "QK1-989", "Bound water", "Triticum"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://iris.unimore.it/bitstream/11380/1223165/2/rascio2019.pdf"}, {"href": "http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s12870-019-1987-4.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-019-1987-4"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/BMC%20Plant%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1186/s12870-019-1987-4", "name": "item", "description": "10.1186/s12870-019-1987-4", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1186/s12870-019-1987-4"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-10-07T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1186/s12932-020-00066-8", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:42Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-02-14", "title": "Effects of metal cation substitution on hexavalent chromium reduction by green rust", "description": "Abstract<p>Chromium contamination is a serious environmental issue in areas affected by leather tanning and metal plating, and green rust sulfate has been tested extensively as a potential material for in situ chemical reduction of hexavalent chromium in groundwater. Reported products and mechanisms for the reaction have varied, most likely because of green rust\uffe2\uff80\uff99s layered structure, as reduction at outer and interlayer surfaces might produce different reaction products with variable stabilities. Based on studies of Cr(III) oxidation by biogenic Mn (IV) oxides, Cr mobility in oxic soils is controlled by the solubility of the Cr(III)-bearing phase. Therefore, careful engineering of green rust properties, i.e., crystal/particle size, morphology, structure, and electron availability, is essential for its optimization as a remediation reagent. In the present study, pure green rust sulfate and green rust sulfate with Al, Mg and Zn substitutions were synthesized and reacted with identical chromate (CrO42\uffe2\uff88\uff92) solutions. The reaction products were characterized by X-ray diffraction, pair distribution function analysis, X-ray absorption spectroscopy and transmission electron microscopy and treated with synthetic \uffce\uffb4-MnO2 to assess how easily Cr(III) in the products could be oxidized. It was found that Mg substitution had the most beneficial effect on Cr lability in the product. Less than 2.5% of the Cr(III) present in the reacted Mg-GR was reoxidized by \uffce\uffb4-MnO2 within 14\uffc2\uffa0days, and the particle structure and Cr speciation observed during X-ray scattering and absorption analyses of this product suggested that Cr(VI) was reduced in its interlayer. Reduction in the interlayer lead to the linkage of newly-formed Cr(III) to hydroxyl groups in the adjacent octahedral layers, which resulted in increased structural coherency between these layers, distinctive rim domains, sequestration of Cr(III) in insoluble Fe oxide bonding environments resistant to reoxidation and partial transformation to Cr(III)-substituted feroxyhyte. Based on the results of this study of hexavalent chromium reduction by green rust sulfate and other studies, further improvements can also be made to this remediation technique by reacting chromate with a large excess of green rust sulfate, which provides excess Fe(II) that can catalyze transformation to more crystalline iron oxides, and synthesis of the reactant under alkaline conditions, which has been shown to favor chromium reduction in the interlayer of Fe(II)-bearing phyllosilicates.</p>", "keywords": ["Chromium", "550", "Geography & travel", "Remediation", "02 engineering and technology", "910", "551", "01 natural sciences", "Chromium", " Green rust", " X-ray absorption spectroscopy", " Remediation", "remediation", "500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften", " Geologie::551 Geologie", " Hydrologie", " Meteorologie", "GE1-350", "info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/910", "QD1-999", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "Green rust", "X-ray absorption spectroscopy", "540", "ddc:910", "6. Clean water", "Environmental sciences", "Chemistry", "green rust", "13. Climate action", "chromium", "500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften", "0210 nano-technology", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/158695/1/s12932-020-00066-8.pdf"}, {"href": "http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s12932-020-00066-8.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1186/s12932-020-00066-8"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Geochemical%20Transactions", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1186/s12932-020-00066-8", "name": "item", "description": "10.1186/s12932-020-00066-8", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1186/s12932-020-00066-8"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-02-14T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1186/s12916-021-01913-w", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:42Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-02-11", "title": "High intake of vegetables is linked to lower white blood cell profile and the effect is mediated by the gut microbiome", "description": "Abstract                 Background                 <p>Chronic inflammation, which can be modulated by diet, is linked to high white blood cell counts and correlates with higher cardiometabolic risk and risk of more severe infections, as in the case of COVID-19.</p>                                Methods                 <p>Here, we assessed the association between white blood cell profile (lymphocytes, basophils, eosinophils, neutrophils, monocytes and total white blood cells) as markers of chronic inflammation, habitual diet and gut microbiome composition (determined by sequencing of the 16S RNA) in 986 healthy individuals from the PREDICT-1 nutritional intervention study. We then investigated whether the gut microbiome mediates part of the benefits of vegetable intake on lymphocyte counts.</p>                                Results                 <p>Higher levels of white blood cells, lymphocytes and basophils were all significantly correlated with lower habitual intake of vegetables, with vegetable intake explaining between 3.59 and 6.58% of variation in white blood cells after adjusting for covariates and multiple testing using false discovery rate (q\uffe2\uff80\uff89&lt;\uffe2\uff80\uff890.1). No such association was seen with fruit intake. A mediation analysis found that 20.00% of the effect of vegetable intake on lymphocyte counts was mediated by one bacterial genus, Collinsella, known to increase with the intake of processed foods and previously associated with fatty liver disease. We further correlated white blood cells to other inflammatory markers including IL6 and GlycA, fasting and post-prandial glucose levels and found a significant relationship between inflammation and diet.</p>                                Conclusion                 <p>A habitual diet high in vegetables, but not fruits, is linked to a lower inflammatory profile for white blood cells, and a fifth of the effect is mediated by the genus Collinsella.</p>                                Trial registration                 <p>The ClinicalTrials.gov registration identifier is NCT03479866.</p>", "keywords": ["Adult", "Male", "0301 basic medicine", "610", "Leukocyte Count", "03 medical and health sciences", "RNA", " Ribosomal", " 16S", "Leukocytes", "Humans", "Lymphocyte Count", "White blood cell", " Gut microbiome", " Diet", " Vegetable intake", " Chronic inflammation", "White blood cell", "Clostridium", "2. Zero hunger", "Gut microbiome", "Clostridiales", "0303 health sciences", "Mediation Analysis", "Interleukin-6", "R", "COVID-19", "Chronic inflammation; Diet; Gut microbiome; Vegetable intake; White blood cell", "Chronic inflammation", "General Medicine", "Fasting", "Middle Aged", "Diet", "Gastrointestinal Microbiome", "3. Good health", "Actinobacteria", "Vegetable intake", "Fruit", "Medicine", "Female", "Biomarkers", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://air.unimi.it/bitstream/2434/1101012/2/s12916-021-01913-w.pdf"}, {"href": "https://iris.unitn.it/bitstream/11572/329112/1/s12916-021-01913-w.pdf"}, {"href": "http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s12916-021-01913-w.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-021-01913-w"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/BMC%20Medicine", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1186/s12916-021-01913-w", "name": "item", "description": "10.1186/s12916-021-01913-w", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1186/s12916-021-01913-w"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-02-11T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1186/s12934-021-01520-7", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:42Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-01-11", "title": "Multi-pathogen Infections and Alzheimer&rsquo;s Disease", "description": "<p>Alzheimer&amp;rsquo;s disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease associated with the overproduction and accumulation of amyloid-&amp;beta; peptide and hyperphosphorylation of tau proteins in the brain. Despite extensive research on the amyloid-based mechanism of AD pathogenesis, the underlying cause of AD remains poorly understood. No disease-modifying therapies currently exist, and numerous clinical trials have failed to demonstrate any benefits. The recent discovery that the amyloid-&amp;beta; peptide has antimicrobial activities supports the possibility of an infectious aetiology of AD and suggests that amyloid-&amp;beta; plaque formation might be induced by infection. AD patients have a weakened blood-brain barrier and immune system and are thus at elevated risk of microbial infections. Such infections can cause chronic neuroinflammation, production of the antimicrobial amyloid-&amp;beta; peptide, and neurodegeneration. Various pathogens, including viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites have been associated with AD. Most research in this area has focused on individual pathogens, with herpesviruses and periodontal bacteria being most frequently implicated. The purpose of this review is to highlight the potential role of multi-pathogen infections in AD. Recognition of the potential coexistence of multiple pathogens and biofilms in AD's aetiology may stimulate the development of novel approaches to its diagnosis and treatment. Multiple diagnostic tests could be applied simultaneously to detect major pathogens, followed by anti-microbial treatment using antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, and anti-biofilm agents.</p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "Bacteria", "Review", "Antifungal", "Microbiology", "Antiviral Agents", "QR1-502", "3. Good health", "Antibacterial", "Anti-biofilm", "03 medical and health sciences", "0302 clinical medicine", "Anti-Infective Agents", "Alzheimer Disease", "Biofilms", "Animals", "Humans", "Antiviral", "Alzheimer\u2019s disease"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s12934-021-01520-7.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1186/s12934-021-01520-7"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microbial%20Cell%20Factories", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1186/s12934-021-01520-7", "name": "item", "description": "10.1186/s12934-021-01520-7", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1186/s12934-021-01520-7"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-01-11T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1186/s13007-019-0523-8", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:42Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-12-18", "title": "Dynamic biospeckle analysis, a new tool for the fast screening of plant nematicide selectivity", "description": "Abstract                 Background                 <p>Plant feeding, free-living nematodes cause extensive damage to plant roots by direct feeding and, in the case of some trichodorid and longidorid species, through the transmission of viruses. Developing more environmentally friendly, target-specific nematicides is currently impeded by slow and laborious methods of toxicity testing. Here, we developed a bioactivity assay based on the dynamics of light \uffe2\uff80\uff98speckle\uffe2\uff80\uff99 generated by living cells and we demonstrate its application by assessing chemicals\uffe2\uff80\uff99 toxicity to different nematode trophic groups.</p>                                Results                 <p>Free-living nematode populations extracted from soil were exposed to methanol and phenyl isothiocyanate (PEITC). Biospeckle analysis revealed differing behavioural responses as a function of nematode feeding groups. Trichodorus nematodes were less sensitive than were bacterial feeding nematodes or non-trichodorid plant feeding nematodes. Following 24\uffc2\uffa0h of exposure to PEITC, bioactivity significantly decreased for plant and bacterial feeders but not for Trichodorus nematodes. Decreases in movement for plant and bacterial feeders in the presence of PEITC also led to measurable changes to the morphology of biospeckle patterns.</p>                                Conclusions                 <p>Biospeckle analysis can be used to accelerate the screening of nematode bioactivity, thereby providing a fast way of testing the specificity of potential nematicidal compounds. With nematodes\uffe2\uff80\uff99 distinctive movement and activity levels being visible in the biospeckle pattern, the technique has potential to screen the behavioural responses of diverse trophic nematode communities. The method discriminates both behavioural responses, morphological traits and activity levels and hence could be used to assess the specificity of nematicidal compounds.</p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "570", "0303 health sciences", "Selective plane illumination microscopy (SPIM)", "Nematodes", "QH301-705.5", "Methodology", "Plant culture", "630", "SB1-1110", "Dynamic speckle", "03 medical and health sciences", "Isothiocyanate", "Biology (General)", "Selective plan illumination microscopy (SPIM)"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s13007-019-0523-8.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1186/s13007-019-0523-8"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20Methods", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1186/s13007-019-0523-8", "name": "item", "description": "10.1186/s13007-019-0523-8", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1186/s13007-019-0523-8"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-12-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1186/s13570-020-00190-1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:42Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-02-27", "title": "Understanding \u2018culture\u2019 of pastoralism and \u2018modern development\u2019 in Thar: Muslim pastoralists of north-west Rajasthan, India", "description": "Abstract<p>The paper attempts to understand the relation between pastoral cultures and irrigation-based intensive farming regimes promoted by modern development represented by the Indira Gandhi Canal (IGNP) in western Rajasthan. Participant observation and development practice engagement with pastoral communities over the past three decades give an opportunity to reflect on epistemic rationality that constitutes the discourse of modern development, formal statecraft of technocracy, and rule by experts. Historical markers of pastoralism in the interconnected regions of north-west Rajasthan and bordering regions of Multan and Bahawalpur in Pakistan are situated to trace thelonguee dureeof pastoral life systems in the Thar desert region. This oscillation between enhanced moisture regimes following inundation and increased desiccation of a moisture-deficient arid region has been at the core of sustaining the culture of pastoralism among semi-nomadic pastoralists of Muslim communities in north-west Rajasthan. The IGNP canal produces a space for modern development that opens up irrigated farming and an intensive natural resource use regime. This political economy of the IGNP canal systematically marginalizes pastoral natural resource use that was ecologically embedded. The varied experiences of adaptation responses by pastoral communities to this state-led marginalization points to the tenacious ability of pastoralism to continually adapt to the radically changing ecology. The paper argues for a complementarity of pastoral and farming use as an inclusive development vision. Beginnings can be made by a compassionate engagement with cultures of pastoralism that are endowed with resilience rooted in a historically constituted rationality to adapt and innovate with changing times. This may hold cues for a sustainable future of Thar.</p", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "05 social sciences", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "0507 social and economic geography", "1. No poverty", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "16. Peace & justice", "SF1-1100", "Animal culture", "12. Responsible consumption", "pastoral resilience", "Sufi Mysticism", "13. Climate action", "IGNP canal", "11. Sustainability", "Bikaner"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Rahul Ghai", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1186/s13570-020-00190-1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Pastoralism", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1186/s13570-020-00190-1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1186/s13570-020-00190-1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1186/s13570-020-00190-1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-02-27T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1186/s13750-017-0108-9", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:42Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-11-10", "title": "How does tillage intensity affect soil organic carbon? A systematic review", "description": "Abstract                 Background                 <p>The loss of carbon (C) from agricultural soils has been, in part, attributed to tillage, a common practice providing a number of benefits to farmers. The promotion of less intensive tillage practices and no tillage (NT) (the absence of mechanical soil disturbance) aims to mitigate negative impacts on soil quality and to preserve soil organic carbon (SOC). Several reviews and meta-analyses have shown both beneficial and null effects on SOC due to no tillage relative to conventional tillage, hence there is a need for a comprehensive systematic review to answer the question: what is the impact of reduced tillage intensity on SOC?</p>                                Methods                 <p>We systematically reviewed relevant research in boreo-temperate regions using, as a basis, evidence identified within a recently completed systematic map on the impacts of farming on SOC. We performed an update of the original searches to include studies published since the map search. We screened all evidence for relevance according to predetermined inclusion criteria. Studies were appraised and subject to data extraction. Meta-analyses were performed to investigate the impact of reducing tillage [from high (HT) to intermediate intensity (IT), HT to NT, and from IT to NT] for SOC concentration and SOC stock in the upper soil and at lower depths.</p>                                Results                 <p>A total of 351 studies were included in the systematic review: 18% from an update of research published in the 2\uffc2\uffa0years since the systematic map. SOC concentration was significantly higher in NT relative to both IT [1.18\uffc2\uffa0g/kg\uffc2\uffa0\uffc2\uffb1\uffc2\uffa00.34 (SE)] and HT [2.09\uffc2\uffa0g/kg\uffc2\uffa0\uffc2\uffb1\uffc2\uffa00.34 (SE)] in the upper soil layer (0\uffe2\uff80\uff9315\uffc2\uffa0cm). IT was also found to be significant higher [1.30\uffc2\uffa0g/kg\uffc2\uffa0\uffc2\uffb1\uffc2\uffa00.22 (SE)] in SOC concentration than HT for the upper soil layer (0\uffe2\uff80\uff9315\uffc2\uffa0cm). At lower depths, only IT SOC compared with HT at 15\uffe2\uff80\uff9330\uffc2\uffa0cm showed a significant difference; being 0.89\uffc2\uffa0g/kg [\uffc2\uffb1\uffc2\uffa00.20 (SE)] lower in intermediate intensity tillage. For stock data NT had significantly higher SOC stocks down to 30\uffc2\uffa0cm than either HT [4.61\uffc2\uffa0Mg/ha\uffc2\uffa0\uffc2\uffb1\uffc2\uffa01.95 (SE)] or IT [3.85\uffc2\uffa0Mg/ha\uffc2\uffa0\uffc2\uffb1\uffc2\uffa01.64 (SE)]. No other comparisons were significant.</p>                                Conclusions                 <p>The transition of tilled croplands to NT and conservation tillage has been credited with substantial potential to mitigate climate change via C storage. Based on our results, C stock increase under NT compared to HT was in the upper soil (0\uffe2\uff80\uff9330\uffc2\uffa0cm) around 4.6\uffc2\uffa0Mg/ha (0.78\uffe2\uff80\uff938.43\uffc2\uffa0Mg/ha, 95% CI) over \uffe2\uff89\uffa5 10\uffc2\uffa0years, while no effect was detected in the full soil profile. The results support those from several previous studies and reviews that NT and IT increase SOC in the topsoil. Higher SOC stocks or concentrations in the upper soil not only promote a more productive soil with higher biological activity but also provide resilience to extreme weather conditions. The effect of tillage practices on total SOC stocks will be further evaluated in a forthcoming project accounting for soil bulk densities and crop yields. Our findings can hopefully be used to guide policies for sustainable management of agricultural soils.</p>", "keywords": ["Carbon sequestration", "2. Zero hunger", "Farming", "Till", "Agriculture", "Conservation", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Plough", "Environmental sciences", "Land management", "13. Climate action", "Climate change", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "GE1-350", "Land use change"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1186/s13750-017-0108-9"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Environmental%20Evidence", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1186/s13750-017-0108-9", "name": "item", "description": "10.1186/s13750-017-0108-9", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1186/s13750-017-0108-9"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-12-18T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1186/s40064-016-2587-5", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:42Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-08-02", "title": "Contrasting Effects Of Exogenous Phosphorus Application On N2o Emissions From Two Tropical Forest Soils With Contrasting Phosphorus Availability", "description": "An incubation study was conducted to test the effects of phosphorus (P) addition on nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from the soils taken from two tropical rain forests established on different parent materials [meta-sedimentary (MS) and ultrabasic (UB) rock] on Mt. Kinabalu, Borneo. Earlier studies suggest that the forest on UB soils is more strongly limited by P than that on MS soils is. In MS soils, P addition significantly reduced N2O emissions. Since neither ammonium (NH4 (+)) nor nitrate (NO3 (-)) contents were reduced by P addition, we assumed that the decrease in N2O emissions were not due to the previously-reported mechanism: P addition stimulated microbial nitrogen (N) immobilization and collateral inorganic N consumption, reducing resources for producing N2O. Since P addition enhanced the ratios of microbial biomass to CO2 and N2O emissions (indicators of nitrifying and/or denitrifying respiratory efficiency), it was suggested that the N required for the respiration of nitrifying and/or denitrifying bacteria was reduced, leading to reduced N2O emissions. On the other hand, P addition had no effects on N2O emissions in UB soils. The respiratory efficiency did not change significantly by P addition, possibly because the microbial community in the highly-P-depleted UB soils shifted by P addition, with which the enhancement of respiration efficiency did not co-vary. We concluded that (1) P addition may control N2O emissions through increasing respiratory efficiency, and (2) the effects may be different depending on the differences in P availability.", "keywords": ["Nitrous oxide", "13. Climate action", "Research", "Denitrification", "Tropics", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Phosphorus limitation", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Nitrification"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1186/s40064-016-2587-5"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/SpringerPlus", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1186/s40064-016-2587-5", "name": "item", "description": "10.1186/s40064-016-2587-5", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1186/s40064-016-2587-5"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-08-02T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1186/s40168-021-01131-9", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:43Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-10-14", "title": "Microbial colonization and resistome dynamics in food processing environments of a newly opened pork cutting industry during 1.5 years of activity", "description": "AbstractBackground<p>The microorganisms that inhabit food processing environments (FPE) can strongly influence the associated food quality and safety. In particular, the possibility that FPE may act as a reservoir of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms, and a hotspot for the transmission of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) is a concern in meat processing plants. Here, we monitor microbial succession and resistome dynamics relating to FPE through a detailed analysis of a newly opened pork cutting plant over 1.5 years of activity.</p>Results<p>We identified a relatively restricted principal microbiota dominated byPseudomonasduring the first 2 months, while a higher taxonomic diversity, an increased representation of other taxa (e.g.,Acinetobacter,Psychrobacter), and a certain degree of microbiome specialization on different surfaces was recorded later on. An increase in total abundance, alpha diversity, and \uffce\uffb2-dispersion of ARGs, which were predominantly assigned toAcinetobacterand associated with resistance to certain antimicrobials frequently used on pig farms of the region, was detected over time. Moreover, a sharp increase in the occurrence of extended-spectrum \uffce\uffb2-lactamase-producingEnterobacteriaceaeand vancomycin-resistantEnterococcaceaewas observed when cutting activities started. ARGs associated with resistance to \uffce\uffb2-lactams, tetracyclines, aminoglycosides, and sulphonamides frequently co-occurred, and mobile genetic elements (i.e., plasmids, integrons) and lateral gene transfer events were mainly detected at the later sampling times in drains.</p>Conclusions<p>The observations made suggest that pig carcasses were a source of resistant bacteria that then colonized FPE and that drains, together with some food-contact surfaces, such as equipment and table surfaces, represented a reservoir for the spread of ARGs in the meat processing facility.</p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "Bacteria", "Food Handling", "Swine", "Tecnolog\u00eda de los alimentos", "Research", "QR100-130", "610", "Food processing environments", "Antimicrobial resistance", "Gen\u00e9tica", "630", "Anti-Bacterial Agents", "Microbial ecology", "Red Meat", "03 medical and health sciences", "Genes", " Bacterial", "Pork Meat", "Animals", "Metagenomics"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s40168-021-01131-9.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-021-01131-9"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microbiome", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1186/s40168-021-01131-9", "name": "item", "description": "10.1186/s40168-021-01131-9", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1186/s40168-021-01131-9"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-10-14T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1186/s40168-022-01405-w", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:43Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-12-12", "title": "The global distribution and environmental drivers of the soil antibiotic resistome", "description": "Abstract                 Background                 <p>Little is known about the global distribution and environmental drivers of key microbial functional traits such as antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). Soils are one of Earth\uffe2\uff80\uff99s largest reservoirs of ARGs, which are integral for soil microbial competition, and have potential implications for plant and human health. Yet, their diversity and global patterns remain poorly described. Here, we analyzed 285 ARGs in soils from 1012 sites across all continents and created the first global atlas with the distributions of topsoil ARGs.</p>                                Results                 <p>We show that ARGs peaked in high latitude cold and boreal forests. Climatic seasonality and mobile genetic elements, associated with the transmission of antibiotic resistance, were also key drivers of their global distribution. Dominant ARGs were mainly related to multidrug resistance genes and efflux pump machineries. We further pinpointed the global hotspots of the diversity and proportions of soil ARGs.</p>                                Conclusions                 <p>Together, our work provides the foundation for a better understanding of the ecology and global distribution of the environmental soil antibiotic resistome.</p>", "keywords": ["Ecolog\u00eda (Biolog\u00eda)", "0301 basic medicine", "SDG-03: Good health and well-being", "550", "Antibiotic resistance", "Edafolog\u00eda (Biolog\u00eda)", "Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs)", "910", "http://metadata.un.org/sdg/3", "631.4", "Microbial ecology", "2417.14 Gen\u00e9tica Vegetal", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "XXXXXX - Unknown", "Global scale", "Humans", "Global change", "SCALE", "Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "Ecology", "Research", "QR100-130", "Human health", "15. Life on land", "Gen\u00e9tica", "Anti-Bacterial Agents", "3. Good health", "Phenotype", "Mobile genetic elements", "13. Climate action", "BACTERIA", "2511.02 Biolog\u00eda de Suelos", "RESISTANCE GENES"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-022-01405-w"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microbiome", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1186/s40168-022-01405-w", "name": "item", "description": "10.1186/s40168-022-01405-w", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1186/s40168-022-01405-w"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-07-11T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1186/s40663-019-0163-5", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:43Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-02-07", "title": "Spatial distribution of the potential forest biomass availability in Europe", "description": "Abstract Background European forests are considered a crucial resource for supplying biomass to a growing bio-economy in Europe. This study aimed to assess the potential availability of forest biomass from European forests and its spatial distribution. We tried to answer the questions (i) how is the potential forest biomass availability spatially distributed across Europe and (ii) where are hotspots of potential forest biomass availability located? Methods The spatial distribution of woody biomass potentials was assessed for 2020 for stemwood, residues (branches and harvest losses) and stumps for 39 European countries. Using the European Forest Information SCENario (EFISCEN) model and international forest statistics, we estimated the theoretical amount of biomass that could be available based on the current and future development of the forest age-structure, growing stock and increment and forest management regimes. We combined these estimates with a set of environmental (site productivity, soil and water protection and biodiversity protection) and technical (recovery rate, soil bearing capacity) constraints, which reduced the amount of woody biomass that could potentially be available. We mapped the potential biomass availability at the level of administrative units and at the 10\u2009km\u00a0\u00d7\u00a010\u2009km grid level to gain insight into the spatial distribution of the woody biomass potentials. Results According to our results, the total availability of forest biomass ranges between 357 and 551 Tg dry matter per year. The largest potential supply of woody biomass per unit of land can be found in northern Europe (southern Finland and Sweden, Estonia and Latvia), central Europe (Austria, Czech Republic, and southern Germany), Slovenia, southwest France and Portugal. However, large parts of these potentials are already used to produce materials and energy. The distribution of biomass potentials that are currently unused only partially coincides with regions that currently have high levels of wood production. Conclusions Our study shows how the forest biomass potentials are spatially distributed across the European continent, thereby providing insight into where policies could focus on an increase of the supply of woody biomass from forests. Future research on potential biomass availability from European forests should also consider to what extent forest owners would be willing to mobilise additional biomass from their forests and at what costs the estimated potentials could be mobilised.", "keywords": ["Europe", "2. Zero hunger", "Forest biomass", "Ecology", "13. Climate action", "Forest biomass", " EFISCEN", " Europe", " Potential supply", " Spatial distribution", "EFISCEN", "Potential supply", "Spatial distribution", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "QH540-549.5", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s40663-019-0163-5.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1186/s40663-019-0163-5"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Forest%20Ecosystems", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1186/s40663-019-0163-5", "name": "item", "description": "10.1186/s40663-019-0163-5", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1186/s40663-019-0163-5"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-02-07T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1186/s40793-021-00386-x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:43Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-08-26", "title": "Isoprene-degrading bacteria associated with the phyllosphere of Salix fragilis, a high isoprene-emitting willow of the northern hemisphere", "description": "AbstractBackground<p>Isoprene accounts for about half of total biogenic volatile organic compound emissions globally, and as a climate active gas it plays a significant and varied role in atmospheric chemistry. Terrestrial plants are the largest source of isoprene, with willow (Salix) making up one of the most active groups of isoprene producing trees. Bacteria act as a biological sink for isoprene and those bacteria associated with high isoprene-emitting trees may provide further insight into its biodegradation.</p>Results<p>A DNA-SIP experiment incubating willow (Salix fragilis) leaves with13C-labelled isoprene revealed an abundance ofComamonadaceae, Methylobacterium, MycobacteriumandPolaromonasin the isoprene degrading community when analysed by 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing. Metagenomic analysis of13C-enriched samples confirmed the abundance ofComamonadaceae, Acidovorax, Polaromonas, VariovoraxandRamlibacter. MycobacteriumandMethylobacteriumwere also identified after metagenomic analysis and aMycobacteriummetagenome-assembled genome (MAG) was recovered. This contained two complete isoprene degradation metabolic gene clusters, along with a propane monooxygenase gene cluster. Analysis of the abundance of the alpha subunit of the isoprene monooxygenase,isoA,in unenriched DNA samples revealed that isoprene degraders associated with willow leaves are abundant, making up nearly 0.2% of the natural bacterial community.</p>Conclusions<p>Analysis of the isoprene degrading community associated with willow leaves using DNA-SIP and focused metagenomics techniques enabled recovery of the genome of an active isoprene-degradingMycobacteriumspecies and provided valuable insight into bacteria involved in degradation of isoprene on the leaves of a key species of isoprene-emitting tree in the northern hemisphere.</p>", "keywords": ["Salix fragilis", "2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "570", "0303 health sciences", "isoprene monooxygenase", "Isoprene", "Climate", "isoA", "15. Life on land", "Microbiology", "630", "QR1-502", "6. Clean water", "Environmental sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "Willow tree", "13. Climate action", "Isoprene monooxygenase", "GE1-350", "willow tree", "isoprene", "climate", "DNA stable isotope probing", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/81258/1/Published_Version.pdf"}, {"href": "https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s40793-021-00386-x.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-021-00386-x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Environmental%20Microbiome", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1186/s40793-021-00386-x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1186/s40793-021-00386-x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1186/s40793-021-00386-x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-08-26T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1186/s40793-023-00479-9", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:43Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-03-30", "title": "Abundance, classification and genetic potential of Thaumarchaeota in metagenomes of European agricultural soils: a meta-analysis", "description": "Abstract                 Background                 <p>For a sustainable production of food, research on agricultural soil microbial communities is inevitable. Due to its immense complexity, soil is still some kind of black box. Soil study designs for identifying microbiome members of relevance have various scopes and focus on particular environmental factors. To identify common features of soil microbiomes, data from multiple studies should be compiled and processed. Taxonomic compositions and functional capabilities of microbial communities associated with soils and plants have been identified and characterized in the past few decades. From a fertile Loess\uffe2\uff80\uff93Chernozem-type soil located in Germany, metagenomically assembled genomes (MAGs) classified as members of the phylum Thaumarchaeota/Thermoproteota were obtained. These possibly represent keystone agricultural soil community members encoding functions of relevance for soil fertility and plant health. Their importance for the analyzed microbiomes is corroborated by the fact that they were predicted to contribute to the cycling of nitrogen, feature the genetic potential to fix carbon dioxide and possess genes with predicted functions in plant-growth-promotion (PGP). To expand the knowledge on soil community members belonging to the phylum Thaumarchaeota, we conducted a meta-analysis integrating primary studies on European agricultural soil microbiomes.</p>                                Results                 <p>Taxonomic classification of the selected soil metagenomes revealed the shared agricultural soil core microbiome of European soils from 19 locations. Metadata reporting was heterogeneous between the different studies. According to the available metadata, we separated the data into 68 treatments. The phylum Thaumarchaeota is part of the core microbiome and represents a major constituent of the archaeal subcommunities in all European agricultural soils. At a higher taxonomic resolution, 2074 genera constituted the core microbiome. We observed that viral genera strongly contribute to variation in taxonomic profiles. By binning of metagenomically assembled contigs, Thaumarchaeota MAGs could be recovered from several European soil metagenomes. Notably, many of them were classified as members of the family Nitrososphaeraceae, highlighting the importance of this family for agricultural soils. The specific Loess-Chernozem Thaumarchaeota MAGs were most abundant in their original soil, but also seem to be of importance in other agricultural soil microbial communities. Metabolic reconstruction of Switzerland_1_MAG_2 revealed its genetic potential i.a. regarding carbon dioxide (CO$$_2$$                                                                   2                                        ) fixation, ammonia oxidation, exopolysaccharide production and a beneficial effect on plant growth. Similar genetic features were also present in other reconstructed MAGs. Three Nitrososphaeraceae MAGs are all most likely members of a so far unknown genus.</p>                                Conclusions                 <p>On a broad view, European agricultural soil microbiomes are similarly structured. Differences in community structure were observable, although analysis was complicated by heterogeneity in metadata recording. Our study highlights the need for standardized metadata reporting and the benefits of networking open data. Future soil sequencing studies should also consider high sequencing depths in order to enable reconstruction of genome bins. Intriguingly, the family Nitrososphaeraceae commonly seems to be of importance in agricultural microbiomes.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "570", "Soil microbial diversity", "Metagenomically assembled genomes", "Research", "European soil", "Open metagenome data analysis", "15. Life on land", "Microbiology", "Thaumarchaeota", "QR1-502", "Environmental sciences", "Agricultural microbiome", "Soil health", "GE1-350"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s40793-023-00479-9.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-023-00479-9"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Environmental%20Microbiome", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1186/s40793-023-00479-9", "name": "item", "description": "10.1186/s40793-023-00479-9", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1186/s40793-023-00479-9"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-03-30T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1186/s40537-023-00735-2", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:43Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-04-29", "title": "Transfer learning approach based on satellite image time series for the crop classification problem", "description": "Abstract<p>This paper presents a transfer learning approach to the crop classification problem based on time series of images from the Sentinel-2 dataset labeled for two regions: Brittany (France) and Vojvodina (Serbia). During preprocessing, cloudy images are removed from the input data, the time series are interpolated over the time dimension, and additional remote sensing indices are calculated. We chose TransformerEncoder as the base model for knowledge transfer from source to target domain with French and Serbian data, respectively. Even more, the accuracy of the base model with the preprocessing step is improved by 2% when trained and evaluated on the French dataset. The transfer learning approach with fine-tuning of the pre-trained weights on the French dataset outperformed all other methods in terms of overall accuracy 0.94 and mean class recall 0.907 on the Serbian dataset. Our partially fine-tuned model improved recall of crop types that were poorly classified by the base model. In the case of sugar beet, class recall is improved by 85.71%.</p", "keywords": ["Domain adaptation", "Computer engineering. Computer hardware", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "Attention mechanism", "Information technology", "QA75.5-76.95", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "02 engineering and technology", "Remote sensing", "T58.5-58.64", "Transfer learning", "Crop classification", "TK7885-7895", "Encoder\u2013decoder architecture", "Electronic computers. Computer science", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-023-00735-2"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Big%20Data", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1186/s40537-023-00735-2", "name": "item", "description": "10.1186/s40537-023-00735-2", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1186/s40537-023-00735-2"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-04-29T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/agriculture11080700", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:22:23Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-07-27", "title": "Organic Amendment vs. Mineral Fertilization under Minimum Tillage: Changes in Soil Nutrients, Soil Organic Matter, Biological Properties and Yield after 10 Years", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Conservation tillage is recognized as a sustainable management practice, however its combination with organic residues application still constitutes a challenge in some areas. A field trial was established in a semiarid agro-ecosystem to study the effects of different crop nutrient sources under minimum tillage (MT). Application of organic amendments at the beginning of a five-year crop rotation (ORG treatment) was evaluated and compared to the control plot where wheat was continuously grown with traditional mineral fertilization (MIN treatment). In addition to wheat yield and biomass, several soil properties were measured (pH, soil nutrients (i.e., Olsen P, exchangeable K, and mineral N), soil organic matter (i.e., C, N, C/N ratio), potentially mineralizable nitrogen, total microbial activity and heavy metals) throughout the 10-year study. The wheat yield was significantly higher under the ORG treatment than under the MIN, although climatic conditions (e.g., rainfall) exerted a great influence too. The organic amendments increased soil nutrients content mainly right after their application but the levels were adequate for the whole crop rotation. Plots under organic amendment application did not accumulate significantly more soil organic matter than those mineral-fertilized, probably due to the low protective capacity of coarse-textured soils. The application of organic amendments under MT resulted in a promising management agro-ecosystem compared to the mineral fertilized because crop nutrients came from organic wastes, no herbicides were applied while the yields were higher.</p></article>", "keywords": ["Carbon sequestration", "2. Zero hunger", "Semiarid conditions", "sustainable agro-ecosystems", "soil fertility", "Agriculture (General)", "soil conservation", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Soil fertility", "carbon sequestration", "6. Clean water", "S1-972", "12. Responsible consumption", "Soil conservation", "semiarid conditions", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "soil conservation; soil fertility; carbon sequestration; sustainable agro-ecosystems; semiarid conditions", "Sustainable agro-ecosystems"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/11/8/700/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/11/8/700/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture11080700"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agriculture", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/agriculture11080700", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/agriculture11080700", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/agriculture11080700"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-07-26T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1186/s40793-022-00407-3", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:43Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-04-01", "title": "Rhizosheath\u2013root system changes exopolysaccharide content but stabilizes bacterial community across contrasting seasons in a desert environment", "description": "Abstract                 Background                 <p>In hot deserts daily/seasonal fluctuations pose great challenges to the resident organisms. However, these extreme ecosystems host unique microenvironments, such as the rhizosheath\uffe2\uff80\uff93root system of desert speargrasses in which biological activities and interactions are facilitated by milder conditions and reduced fluctuations. Here, we examined the bacterial microbiota associated with this structure and its surrounding sand in the desert speargrass Stipagrostis pungens under the contrasting environmental conditions of summer and winter in the Sahara Desert.</p>                                Results                 <p>The belowground rhizosheath\uffe2\uff80\uff93root system has higher nutrient and humidity contents, and cooler temperatures than the surrounding sand. The plant responds to the harsh environmental conditions of the summer by increasing the abundance and diversity of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) compared to the winter. On the contrary, the bacterial community associated with the rhizosheath\uffe2\uff80\uff93root system and its interactome remain stable and, unlike the bulk sand, are unaffected by the seasonal environmental variations. The rhizosheath\uffe2\uff80\uff93root system bacterial communities are consistently dominated by Actinobacteria and Alphaproteobacteria and form distinct bacteria communities from those of bulk sand in the two seasons. The microbiome-stabilization mediated by the plant host acts to consistently retain beneficial bacteria with multiple plant growth promoting functions, including those capable to produce EPS, which increase the sand water holding capacity ameliorating the rhizosheath micro-environment.</p>                                Conclusions                 <p>Our results reveal the capability of plants in desert ecosystems to stabilize their below ground microbial community under seasonal contrasting environmental conditions, minimizing the heterogeneity of the surrounding bulk sand and contributing to the overall holobiont resilience under poly-extreme conditions.</p>", "keywords": ["Desert; Desertification; Environmental fluctuation; Environmentally-independent microbiome; Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS); PGP microorganisms; Plant legacy; Plant-microbiome; Rhizosheath", "Plant legacy", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "Environmentally-independent microbiome", "15. Life on land", "Rhizosheath", "Microbiology", "QR1-502", "Environmental fluctuation", "Environmental sciences", "Plant-microbiome", "03 medical and health sciences", "PGP microorganisms", "13. Climate action", "Desert; Desertification; Environmental fluctuation; Environmentally-independent microbiome; Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS); PGP microorganisms; Plant legacy; Plant-microbiome; Rhizosheath;", "Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS)", "GE1-350", "Desert", "Desertification", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://air.unimi.it/bitstream/2434/921619/2/Marasco%20et%20al.%202022_Rhizosheat%20bact%20comm_EnvMicrobiome.pdf"}, {"href": "https://iris.unive.it/bitstream/10278/5089931/1/doi.org%3a10.1186%3as40793-022-00407-3.pdf"}, {"href": "https://arpi.unipi.it/bitstream/11568/1159772/2/Marasco%20et%20al.%20-%202022%20-%20Rhizosheath%e2%80%93root%20system%20changes%20exopolysaccharide%20.pdf"}, {"href": "https://flore.unifi.it/bitstream/2158/1285602/1/Marasco%20et%20al%20Env%20Microbiome%202022.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-022-00407-3"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Environmental%20Microbiome", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1186/s40793-022-00407-3", "name": "item", "description": "10.1186/s40793-022-00407-3", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1186/s40793-022-00407-3"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-04-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1186/s43170-024-00290-7", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:43Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-09-19", "title": "Unmanned aerial vehicle-based evaluation of pollination performance employing clustering image processing technique", "description": "Abstract           <p>             The global decline of pollinator populations is posing a threat to agricultural productivity, increasingly forcing farmers to introduce pollinators to their fields. Selecting suitable pollinator species is critical for effective crop pollination. This study presents an efficient method for early pollination assessment, utilizing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) footage for reliable estimation and timely reactions. Twelve oilseed rape (             Brassica napus var. oleracea             ) isolation cages with three pollinator treatments were set up, including the control with no pollinators. The trial employed UAV image acquisition, generating high-resolution RGB orthomosaics. A K-means clustering algorithm was implemented to identify oilseed rape flowers, a direct indicator of pollination performance. The percentage of detected oilseed rape flower coverage within each cage was the primary metric for performance assessment. These initial results demonstrated a negative correlation of 0.92 between estimated flower coverage and expert observations, affirming the efficacy of the proposed methodology. By integrating UAVs and clustering image processing, this research contributes to precision agriculture, offering a robust approach for evaluating pollination performance. The findings underscore the potential of advanced technology to support informed decision-making in agricultural practices, addressing the urgent need for sustainable pollination management in the face of declining pollinator populations.           </p", "keywords": ["pollination", "precision agriculture", "oilseed rape", "agricultural productivity", "rapeseed", "UAV technology"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Grbovi\u0107, \u017deljana, Ivo\u0161evi\u0107, Bojana, Franeta, Filip, Milovac, \u017deljko,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1186/s43170-024-00290-7"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/CABI%20Agriculture%20and%20Bioscience", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1186/s43170-024-00290-7", "name": "item", "description": "10.1186/s43170-024-00290-7", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1186/s43170-024-00290-7"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-09-19T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1186/s43591-021-00007-x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:43Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-05-03", "title": "Microplastics have shape- and polymer-dependent effects on soil aggregation and organic matter loss \u2013 An experimental and meta-analytical approach", "description": "Abstract<p>Microplastics are a diverse and ubiquitous contaminant, a global change driver with potential to alter ecosystem properties and processes. Microplastic-induced effects in soils are manifold as microplastics differ in a variety of properties among which the shape is of special interest. Our knowledge is limited regarding the impact of various microplastic shapes on soil processes. Therefore, we conducted this two-part research comprising a meta-analysis on published literature and a lab experiment focusing on microplastic shapes- and polymer-induced effects on soil aggregation and organic matter decomposition. We here focus on fibers, films, foams and particles as microplastic shapes.</p><p>In the meta-analysis, we found a strong research focus on fibrous and particulate microplastic materials, with films and foams neglected.</p><p>Our experiment showed that microplastic shapes are important modulators of responses in soil aggregation and organic matter decomposition. Fibers, irrespective of their chemistry, negatively affected the formation of aggregates. However, for other shapes like foams and particles, the polymer identity is an important factor co-modulating the soil responses.</p><p>Further research is needed to generate a data-driven foundation to permit a better mechanistic understanding of the importance and consequences of microplastics added to soils.</p>", "keywords": ["Experiment", "Meta-analysis", "13. Climate action", "Soil aggregation", "Microplastic", "500", "Shape", "500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::500 Naturwissenschaften::500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik", "15. Life on land", "Organic matter loss", "01 natural sciences", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Anika Lehmann, Eva F. Leifheit, Maurice Gerdawischke, Matthias C. Rillig,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s43591-021-00007-x.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1186/s43591-021-00007-x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microplastics%20and%20Nanoplastics", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1186/s43591-021-00007-x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1186/s43591-021-00007-x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1186/s43591-021-00007-x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-05-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1201/9781351174664-382", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:44Z", "type": "Report", "created": "2018-12-15", "title": "Fault diagnosis of wind turbine structures using decision tree learning algorithms with big data", "description": "Open AccessSafety and Reliability \u2013 Safe Societies in a Changing World", "keywords": ["0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "7. Clean energy", "Decision tree learning for big data on wind turbines"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1201/9781351174664-382"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1201/9781351174664-382", "name": "item", "description": "10.1201/9781351174664-382", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1201/9781351174664-382"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-06-15T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1242/dev.200363", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:44Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-05-16", "title": "Arabidopsis root responses to salinity depend on pectin modification and cell wall sensing", "description": "ABSTRACT                <p>Owing to its detrimental effect on plant growth, salinity is an increasing worldwide problem for agriculture. To understand the molecular mechanisms activated in response to salt in Arabidopsis thaliana, we investigated the Catharanthus roseus receptor-like kinase 1-like family, which contains sensors that were previously shown to be involved in sensing the structural integrity of the cell walls. We found that herk1 the1-4 double mutants, lacking the function of HERKULES1 (HERK1) and combined with a gain-of-function allele of THESEUS1 (THE1), strongly respond to salt application, resulting in an intense activation of stress responses, similarly to plants lacking FERONIA (FER) function. We report that salt triggers pectin methyl esterase (PME) activation and show its requirement for the activation of several salt-dependent responses. Because chemical inhibition of PMEs alleviates these salt-induced responses, we hypothesize a model in which salt directly leads to cell wall modifications through the activation of PMEs. Responses to salt partly require the functionality of FER alone or HERK1/THE1 to attenuate salt effects, highlighting the complexity of the salt-sensing mechanisms that rely on cell wall integrity.</p", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Salinity", "Catharanthus roseus", "Arabidopsis Proteins", "Receptor-like kinase 1 like", "Arabidopsis", "15. Life on land", "Pectin modifications", "Cell wall integrity", "Cell Wall", "Gene Expression Regulation", " Plant", "Salt stress responses", "Plant cell wall signaling", "Pectins", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.200363"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Development", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1242/dev.200363", "name": "item", "description": "10.1242/dev.200363", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1242/dev.200363"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-12-20T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1264/jsme2.23.201", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:44Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2008-08-13", "title": "Relationships Between Fungal Biomass And Nitrous Oxide Emission In Upland Rice Soils Under No Tillage And Cover Cropping Systems", "description": "The relationships between soil microbial properties and nitrous oxide emission were examined in upland soil under different tillage systems [no tillage (NT), rotary and plow tillage] and cover crop systems (fallow, cereal rye, and hairy vetch) in 2004 and 2005. Microbiological analyses included the determination of soil ergosterol as an indicator of fungal biomass, bacterial plate counting, and MPN estimations of ammonia oxidizers and denitrifiers. The combined practice of NT with rye-cover crop treatment increased fungal biomass but not bacterial populations in 0-10 cm deep soils. Such increase in fungal biomass was not found in 10-20 cm and 20-30 cm deep cover-cropped NT soil. The combined practice of NT with rye-cover cropping resulted in higher in situ N(2)O emission rates compared with rotary- and plow-till treatments. N(2)O flux was positively correlated with soil ergosterol content but not with denitrifier MPN and other soil chemical properties. These results suggested a significant contribution of fungi to N(2)O emission in cover-cropped NT soils.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1264/jsme2.23.201"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microbes%20and%20Environments", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1264/jsme2.23.201", "name": "item", "description": "10.1264/jsme2.23.201", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1264/jsme2.23.201"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2008-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0187681", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:54Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-11-08", "title": "Effects Of Tillage Practice On Soil Structure, N2o Emissions And Economics In Cereal Production Under Current Socio-Economic Conditions In Central Bosnia And Herzegovina", "description": "Conservation tillage is expected to have a positive effect on soil physical properties, soil Carbon (C) storage, while reducing fuel, labour and machinery costs. However, reduced tillage could increase soil nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions and offset the expected gains from increased C sequestration. To date, conservation tillage is barely practiced or studied in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH). Here, we report a field study on the short-term effects of reduced (RT) and no tillage (NT) on N2O emission dynamics, yield-scaled N2O emissions, soil structure and the economics of cereal production, as compared with conventional tillage (CT). The field experiment was conducted in the Sarajevo region on a clayey loam under typical climatic conditions for humid, continental BH. N2O emissions were monitored in a Maize-Barley rotation over two cropping seasons. Soil structure was studied at the end of the second season. In the much wetter 2014, N2O emission were in the order of CT > RT > NT, while in the drier 2015, the order was RT > CT > NT. The emission factors were within or slightly above the uncertainty range of the IPCC Tier 1 factor, if taking account for the N input from the cover crop (alfalfa) preceding the first experimental year. Saturated soils in spring, formation of soil crusts and occasional droughts adversely affected yields, particularly in the second year (barley). In 2014, yield-scaled N2O emissions ranged from 83.2 to 161.7 g N Mg-1 grain (corn) but were much greater in the second year due to crop failure (barley). RT had the smallest yield-scaled N2O emission in both years. NT resulted in economically inacceptable returns, due to the increased costs of weed control and low yields in both years. The reduced number of operations in RT reduced production costs and generated positive net returns. Therefore, RT could potentially provide agronomic and environmental benefits in crop production in BH.", "keywords": ["Crops", " Agricultural", "Science", "Nitrogentap", "Nitrous Oxide", "Zea mays", "7. Clean energy", "Sustainable farming", "Soil", "VDP::Jordfag: 913", "Humans", "Fertilizers", "B\u00e6rekraftig landbruk", "Bosnia and Herzegovina", "2. Zero hunger", "VDP::Soil sciences: 913", "Nitrogen loss", "Q", "R", "Hordeum", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Carbon", "Crop Production", "13. Climate action", "Medicine", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Seasons", "Methane", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187681"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLOS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371/journal.pone.0187681", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0187681", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0187681"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-11-08T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1263/jbb.102.157", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:44Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2006-10-03", "title": "Effects Of Long-Term Heavy Metal Contamination On Soil Microbial Characteristics", "description": "In this study, total heavy metal content and its effects on soil microbiological characteristics were investigated in soil samples from an area with known long-term pollution problems. The total heavy metal concentrations of contaminated soil samples were 109 and 1,558 mg/kg for Hg and As, respectively. Key microbiological parameters measured included dehydrogenase activity, ATP content and number of culturable aerobic bacteria, actinomycetes, fungi and asymbiotic nitrogen-fixers. Quantitative analysis of soil microbial populations shows a marked decrease in total culturable numbers of the different microbial groups of the contaminated soil samples. Certain groups of soil microbes were particularly sensitive to long-term contamination (asymbiotic nitrogen-fixers and heterotrophic bacteria). Dehydrogenase activity was found to be a sensitive assay for determining the effect of heavy metals on physiologically active soil microbial biomass and sustains the high applicability of this parameter for soil ecotoxicological testing as reported by other authors.", "keywords": ["Time Factors", "Fungi", "Mercury", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "Arsenic", "Actinobacteria", "13. Climate action", "Soil Pollutants", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Biomass", "Oxidoreductases", "Soil Microbiology", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Maria Elisa Pampulha, A. Oliveira,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1263/jbb.102.157"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Bioscience%20and%20Bioengineering", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1263/jbb.102.157", "name": "item", "description": "10.1263/jbb.102.157", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1263/jbb.102.157"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2006-09-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1266/ggs.88.93", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:44Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-03-03", "title": "Soil Bacterial Community Structure In Five Tropical Forests In Malaysia And One Temperate Forest In Japan Revealed By Pyrosequencing Analyses Of 16s Rrna Gene Sequence Variation", "description": "Bacterial community structure was investigated in five tropical rainforests in Sarawak, Malaysia and one temperate forest in Kyoto, Japan. A hierarchical sampling approach was employed, in which soil samples were collected from five sampling-sites within each forest. Pyrosequencing was performed to analyze a total of 493,790 16S rRNA amplicons. Despite differences in aboveground conditions, the composition of bacterial groups was similar across all sampling-sites and forests, with Acidobacteria, Proteobacteria, Verrucomicrobia, Planctomycetes and Bacteroidetes accounting for 90% of all Phyla detected. At higher taxonomic levels, the same taxa were predominant, although there was significant heterogeneity in relative abundance of specific taxa across sampling-sites within one forest or across different forests. In all forests, the level of bacterial diversity, estimated using the Chao1 index, was on the order of 1,000, suggesting that tropical rainforests did not necessarily have a large soil bacterial diversity. The average number of reads per species (OTUs) per sampling-site was 8.0, and more than 40-50% of species were singletons, indicating that most bacterial species occurred infrequently and that few bacterial species achieved high predominance. Approximately 30% of species were specific to one sampling-site within a forest, and 40-60% of species were uniquely detected in one of the six forests studied here. Only 0.2% of species were detected in all forests, while on average 32.1% of species were detected in all sampling-sites within a forest. The results suggested that bacterial communities adapted to specific micro- and macro-environments, but macro-environmental diversity made a larger contribution to total bacterial diversity in forest soil.", "keywords": ["DNA", " Bacterial", "0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "Bacteria", "Malaysia", "Genetic Variation", "Biodiversity", "Sequence Analysis", " DNA", "15. Life on land", "Polymerase Chain Reaction", "Trees", "03 medical and health sciences", "Japan", "RNA", " Ribosomal", " 16S", "Phylogeny", "Soil Microbiology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1266/ggs.88.93"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Genes%20%26amp%3B%20Genetic%20Systems", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1266/ggs.88.93", "name": "item", "description": "10.1266/ggs.88.93", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1266/ggs.88.93"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.12681/ta.36870", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:44Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-12-17", "title": "Retrofit Strategies for Seismic Protection of Multi-Story Structures with Extended KDamper Devices", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>This paper evaluates the efficiency of the extended version of the KDamper (EKD) as a seismic retrofitting solution for existing multi-story building structures. Two distinct approaches are investigated. The first one considers the implementation of an EKD device at the structure's base level, a straightforward approach that simplifies the design process. The second one involves the dispersion of multiple EKDs throughout the height of the structure, a more computationally demanding approach, that aims to control higher modes, especially in high-rise structures. Three test cases are investigated, representing low, mid, and high-rise building structures. The primary objective is to provide insights into the effectiveness of each retrofitting strategy based on the structure's height and number of stories, presenting a comprehensive assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of each option. Overall, the results underscore the positive influence of the EKD system on the dynamic response of all examined multi-story structures, establishing it as a compelling technology for seismic retrofitting. Designers can compare different retrofitting strategies based on building height and number of stories to choose the most efficient option.</p></article>", "keywords": ["KDamper", "Seismic Retrofitting", "Damping", "Negative Stiffness"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.12681/ta.36870"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Technical%20Annals", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.12681/ta.36870", "name": "item", "description": "10.12681/ta.36870", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.12681/ta.36870"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-04-30T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.12688/openreseurope.13135.2", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:44Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-09-06", "title": "A Google Earth Engine-enabled Python approach for the identification of anthropogenic palaeo-landscape features", "description": "<ns4:p>The necessity of sustainable development for landscapes has emerged as an important theme in recent decades. Current methods take a holistic approach to landscape heritage and promote an interdisciplinary dialogue to facilitate complementary landscape management strategies. With the socio-economic values of the \u201cnatural\u201d and \u201ccultural\u201d landscape heritage increasingly recognised worldwide, remote sensing tools are being used more and more to facilitate the recording and management of landscape heritage. The advent of freeware cloud computing services has enabled significant improvements in landscape research allowing the rapid exploration and processing of satellite imagery such as the Landsat and Copernicus Sentinel datasets. This research represents one of the first applications of the Google Earth Engine (GEE) \u00a0Python application programming interface (API) in studies of historic landscapes. The complete free and open-source software (FOSS) cloud protocol proposed here consists of a Python code script developed in Google Colab, which could be adapted and replicated in different areas of the world. A multi-temporal approach has been adopted to investigate the potential of Sentinel-2 satellite imagery to detect buried hydrological and anthropogenic features along with spectral index and spectral decomposition analysis. The protocol's effectiveness in identifying palaeo-riverscape features has been tested in the Po Plain (N Italy).</ns4:p>", "keywords": ["FOS: Computer and information sciences", "Landscape Archaeology", "Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)", "Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "Articles", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Fluvial and Alluvial Archaeology", "12. 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Over recent decades, extensive research has been carried out in the use of remote sensing energy balance models to estimate and monitor ETa at the field level. However, one of the major limitations remains the coarse spatial resolution in the thermal infrared (TIR) domain. In this context, the recent advent of the Sentinel missions of the European Space Agency (ESA) has greatly improved the possibility of monitoring crop parameters and estimating ETa at higher temporal and spatial resolutions. In order to bridge the gap between the coarse-resolution Sentinel-3 thermal and the fine-resolution Sentinel-2 shortwave data, sharpening techniques have been used to downscale the Sentinel-3 land surface temperature (LST) from 1 km to 20 m. However, the accurate estimates of high-resolution LST through sharpening techniques are still unclear, particularly when intended to be used for detecting crop water stress. The goal of this study was to assess the feasibility of the two-source energy balance model (TSEB) using sharpened LST images from Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3 (TSEB-PTS2+3) to estimate the spatio-temporal variability of actual transpiration (T) and water stress in a vineyard. T and crop water stress index (CWSI) estimates were evaluated against a vine water consumption model and regressed with in situ stem water potential (\uffce\uffa8stem). Two different TSEB approaches, using very high-resolution airborne thermal imagery, were also included in the analysis as benchmarks for TSEB-PTS2+3. One of them uses aggregated TIR data at the vine+inter-row level (TSEB-PTairb), while the other is based on a contextual method that directly, although separately, retrieves soil and canopy temperatures (TSEB-2T). The results obtained demonstrated that when comparing airborne Trad and sharpened S2+3 LST, the latter tend to be underestimated. This complicates the use of TSEB-PTS2+3 to detect crop water stress. TSEB-2T appeared to outperform all the other methods. This was shown by a higher R2 and slightly lower RMSD when compared with modelled T. In addition, regressions between T and CWSI-2T with \uffce\uffa8stem also produced the highest R2.</p>", "keywords": ["evapotranspiration; TSEB; Sentinel-2; Sentinel-3; crop water stress index; vine water status; grapevines", "2. Zero hunger", "crop water stress index", "Science", "Q", "evapotranspiration", "634", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "13. 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Effects of elevated CO2 on grain and residue production will be influenced by crop selection. This field study evaluated soybean [C3; Glycine max(L.) Merr.] and grain sorghum [C4; Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench.] cropping systems managed under conservation tillage practices and two atmospheric CO2 concentrations (ambient and twice ambient) for three growing seasons. Elevated CO2 increased soybean and sorghum yield by 53% and 17% increase, respectively; reductions in whole plant water use were also greater for soybean than sorghum. These findings suggest that increasing CO2 could improve future food security, especially in soybean production systems. Elevated CO2 increased aboveground residue production by > 35% for both crops; such shifts could complement conservation management by increasing soil surface cover, thereby reducing soil ero...", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. 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The aim was to design an effective, mutually interconnected system of measures, on tiles, manholes, outlets as well as on ditches (s.c. main drainage facilities, MDF) that will increase water retention and storage in intensively farmed and tile-drained catchments and will reduce water pollution from subsurface non-point sources (drainage runoff). This approach consists of (I) selecting suitable sites using the Catchment Measures Need Index (CAMNI) method; (II) obtaining information on land drainage in the area of interest; (III) conducting a field survey and water quality monitoring; (IV) designing appropriate systems of measures; and (V) analysing the estimated costs of the proposed measures. Measures were proposed for fourteen sub-catchments that were selected based on the results of a CAMNI analysis and whether an MDF or a heavily modified stream is present. A total of 44 point measures, 62 areal measures, and 99 line measures were proposed. Implementation of these measures would reduce the load of N-NO3, a major pollutant from drainage runoff, by 44 tons per year (48%). From the financial point of view, these measures are not self-financing and the benefits do not cover the expected costs of their implementation and maintenance. However, these measures have a profound ecological and societal benefits which, when taken into account, make these measures suitable for implementation when (co-)financed from public budgets. Putting the presented approach into practice, for example, in the framework of complex land consolidations or by watershed management authorities, could significantly improve the condition and water regime of intensively drained agricultural landscapes.", "keywords": ["13. Climate action", "11. 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Its subspecies, Xylella fastidiosa subsp. fastidiosa is the causal agent of Pierce's disease of grapevines. Pierce's disease has presented a serious challenge for the grapevine industry in the United States and turned into an epidemic in Southern California due to the invasion of the insect vector Homalodisca vitripennis. In an attempt to minimize the effects of Xylella fastidiosa subsp. fastidiosa in vineyards, various studies have been developing and testing strategies to prevent the occurrence of Pierce's disease, i.e., prophylactic strategies. Research has also been undertaken to investigate therapeutic strategies to cure vines infected by Xylella fastidiosa subsp. fastidiosa. This report explicitly reviews all the strategies published to date and specifies their current status. Furthermore, an epidemiological model of Xylella fastidiosa subsp. fastidiosa is proposed and key parameters for the spread of Pierce's disease deciphered in a sensitivity analysis of all model parameters. Based on these results, it is concluded that future studies should prioritize therapeutic strategies, while investments should only be made in prophylactic strategies that have demonstrated promising results in vineyards.", "keywords": ["VECTOR TRANSMISSION", "0301 basic medicine", "VITRIPENNIS HEMIPTERA CICADELLIDAE", "GLASSY-WINGED SHARPSHOOTER", "PARATRANSGENIC CONTROL", "epidemiological model", "control strategies", "BACTERIUM XYLELLA-FASTIDIOSA", "Microbiology", "03 medical and health sciences", "HOT-WATER TREATMENT", "GONATOCERUS-ASHMEADI", "MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION", "Pierce's disease", "Xylella fastidiosa", "2. Zero hunger", "HOMALODISCA-COAGULATA HEMIPTERA", "0303 health sciences", "VITIS-VINIFERA L.", "15. Life on land", "QR1-502", "grapevine", "3. 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Therefore, soil analyses were done in 1987 to quantify effects of three tillage methods on soil quality following 25 years of continuous coin (Zea mays) cultivation on two well drained soils at South Charleston and Wooster in central Ohio. Crosby soil at South Charleston is classified fine, mixed, mesic Aeric Ochraqualf, and Wooster silt loam at Wooster is a fine loamy, mixed, mesic. Typic Fragiudalf. The three tillage methods were plow till (PT) involving moldboard plowing in the fall, minimum till (MT) involving chisel plowing in the fall, and no till (NT) involving direct sowing in the residue of the previous crop. Soil samples were taken for 0\u201360 cm depth using a truck-mounted core sampler, with separate for row zone (RZ) and traffic zone (TZ) cores taken for assessment of soil physical properties. Soil chemical analyses were done on samples composited by mixing equal proportions of soil fro...", "keywords": ["2. 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To ensure sustainable production, causes of soil degradation must be checked and other sources of fertility provided for crops. To achieve this, the use of herbaceous and forage legumes intercropped with maize were evaluated. The study was conducted in Zaria, Nigeria (longitude 7\u00b0 30\u2032 and 7\u00b0 50\u2032 East, latitude 11\u00b0 00\u2032 and 11\u00b0 10\u2032 North), at the Ahmadu Bello University farm. Results show that the forage legume/maize treatments did not significantly deplete available soil moisture more than the sole maize treatment. Also, the legume/maize treatments resulted in positive carbon credits and higher total nitrogen content in the soils after two years of continuous cropping. Macrotyloma uniflorum, Stylosanthes hamata, and Lablab purpureus/maize intercrops did not reduce maize grain yields compared to the sole maize trea...", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. 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For example, soil erosion in the Northern Guinea savanna ecozones of Nigeria is prominent in cultivated areas during the early part of the rain-fed crop production season, when most soil surfaces are bare. In order to estimate the magnitude and timing of soil loss from cultivated lands. Selected herbaceous legumes (Macrotyloma uniflorum, Stylosanthes hamata and Mucuna pruriens) were inter-cropped with maize, a sole maize and a maize/straw mulched treatments were also maintained and evaluated for soil loss control potential. Sediments were collected in 94 liter capacity drums in each treatment. This study was carried out in Zaria (between longitudes 7\u00b030\u2032 and 7\u00b050\u2032 E and latitudes 11\u00b000\u2032 and 11\u00b010\u2032 N) in 1993 and 1994. Results obtained show that generally, higher sediment yields in 1993 and 1994, were received under legume live mulch and sole maize treatments, than straw m...", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "A. C. Odunze", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1300/j064v20n02_05"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Sustainable%20Agriculture", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1300/j064v20n02_05", "name": "item", "description": "10.1300/j064v20n02_05", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1300/j064v20n02_05"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2002-04-23T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1300/j064v21n04_04", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:45Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2003-08-25", "title": "Organic Wheat Production And Soil Nutrient Status In A Mediterranean Climatic Zone", "description": "ABSTRACT Organic production systems are possible alternatives to current conventional dryland cropping systems in south western Australia, but they remain largely untested for their impact on crop production and soil fertility. The aims of this study were to compare wheat production levels of organic and conventionally managed fields, and relate outcomes to possible differences in soil fertility. Seven paired sites were compared over three years (1992\u20131994); the sites were paired to ensure similarity in soil types, crop history before conversion of the organic paddock from conventional to organic farming, and at most sites, the farm manager of paired fields was the same. In years 1 to 2, there was no difference between the following soil chemical properties of the paired organic and conventionally managed fields: pH, electrical conductivity, mineral nitrogen (ammonium-N and nitrate-N), soil organic C, total P and lactate-extractable-P. Compared to the grain yield of the conventionally grown wheat, yield o...", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1300/j064v21n04_04"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Sustainable%20Agriculture", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1300/j064v21n04_04", "name": "item", "description": "10.1300/j064v21n04_04", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1300/j064v21n04_04"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2003-04-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1300/j064v29n02_04", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:45Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-02-22", "title": "Effect Of Inter-Cropping Millet With Groundnut On The Control Of Cercospora Leaf Spot Of Groundnut In The Sudan Savanna Of North-Eastern Nigeria", "description": "ABSTRACT Field trials were conducted in 1999 and 2000 cropping seasons in Maiduguri, north-eastern Nigeria to assess the effect of inter-cropping millet with groundnut on the control of Cercospora leaf spot of groundnut. Three groundnut cultivars, Ex-Dakar, RMP 12, and Kano 38 and one millet cultivar, Ex-Borno (SAMMIL-1) were used for conducting the experiments. The experimental design was a split-plot design with three replications. The incidence and severity of Cercospora leaf spot were higher in sole groundnut in both seasons. The 1:1 inter-row cropping pattern significantly reduced the incidence and severity of Cercospora leaf spot of groundnut compared with the sole crop in both seasons (60.58% and 59.56%, respectively, for the 1:1 inter-crop, and 84.91% and 82.33%, respectively, for the sole crop in 1999; 48.04% and 60.33%, respectively, for the 1:1 inter-crop and 83.93% and 86.67%, respectively, for sole crop in 2000). Seed yields in both seasons were generally higher in Ex-Dakar than RMP 12 and Ka...", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "01 natural sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "A. S. Muhammad, B. S. Bdliya,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1300/j064v29n02_04"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Sustainable%20Agriculture", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1300/j064v29n02_04", "name": "item", "description": "10.1300/j064v29n02_04", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1300/j064v29n02_04"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2007-01-23T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1300/j064v20n03_06", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:45Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2003-08-20", "title": "Fodder Production From Contour Hedges In The Central Kenyan Highlands", "description": "ABSTRACT The highlands of central Kenya are characterized by a bi-modal rainfall distribution (600 to 2,000 mm yr\u22121), gently to steeply rolling topography, and a high population density (500 to 800 persons km\u22122) that has led to the exploitation of decreasingly productive lands and increased soil erosion. Most farmers in the central highlands practice mixed farming, with dairy production under cut and carry systems the predominant livestock enterprise. This trial was established in 1993 to investigate the potential for incorporating fodder producing contour hedges into a maize cropping system. Maize production was reduced in treatments that contained Napier grass hedges, either pure or in combination with calliandra. The pure calliandra hedge was not competitive with maize. Seasonal runoff and soil loss were not significantly different between treatments during most seasons although these factors were quantitatively greater in the no-hedge control than in the hedge treatments. Fodder production was general...", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land"], "contacts": [{"organization": "B. Okoba, Michael O\u2019Neill, B. Duinker, S. D. Angima,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1300/j064v20n03_06"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Sustainable%20Agriculture", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1300/j064v20n03_06", "name": "item", "description": "10.1300/j064v20n03_06", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1300/j064v20n03_06"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2002-07-17T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1300/j064v24n03_04", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:45Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2004-07-15", "title": "Water Use And Seasonal Differences In Maize Performance In The Transitional Humid Zone Of Nigeria", "description": "ABSTRACT Maize (Zea mays) was grown in four consecutive (wet and dry) seasons in two years at the experimental fields of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria. Water use of maize and yield responses in the humid forest-Savanna transition zone of Nigeria were assessed using drainage lysimeters which were irrigated daily depending on the evaporative demand of the atmosphere. Results show significant differences (p < 0.01) in water use, yields and yield components between the seasons and the years. Seasonal averages of water used from sowing to harvest were 363 mm and 271 mm for the wet and dry seasons, respectively. These are equivalent to mean water use efficiency (WUE) of 122 g and 176 g of water per gram dry matter for the wet and dry seasons, respectively. Significant yield differences were recorded between the wet (7.6 t ha\u22121) and dry (3.8 t ha\u22121) seasons and between the first (6.6 t ha\u22121) and second (4.8 t ha\u22121) years, respectively. Also, the lysimeter surfaces gave supe...", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Adeniyi Gbadegesin, Philip A. Idinoba, Monica E. Idinoba, Shrikant Jagtap,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1300/j064v24n03_04"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Sustainable%20Agriculture", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1300/j064v24n03_04", "name": "item", "description": "10.1300/j064v24n03_04", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1300/j064v24n03_04"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2004-07-06T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1300/j064v29n03_06", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:45Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-03-08", "title": "Winter Cereal Cover Crop Removal Strategy Affects Spring Soil Nitrate Levels", "description": "ABSTRACT The use of winter cereal cover crops in no-till row crop systems has increased in the North Central Corn Belt. Timing of the cover crop removal can be managed to improve nitrogen availability for subsequently grown crops. Growers utilizing cover crop systems have several alternatives regarding the removal strategy for the winter cereal cover crop prior to seeding rotational corn (Zea mays L.) or soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.]. These alternatives include: herbicide burn-down; harvest of the winter annual cover crop as an early spring forage; or, allowing the winter cereal cover crop to mature as grain. The objective of this study was to evaluate the affect of winter cereal wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and rye (Secale cereale L.) cover crop burndown or harvest strategies on spring soil nitrate levels. Experiments were established in 1999 through 2001 in East Lansing, Michigan. Each cover crop strategy evaluated had significantly lower or tended to have lower spring soil nitrate levels compared wi...", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "01 natural sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "M. R. Jewett, Kurt D. Thelen,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1300/j064v29n03_06"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Sustainable%20Agriculture", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1300/j064v29n03_06", "name": "item", "description": "10.1300/j064v29n03_06", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1300/j064v29n03_06"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2007-02-12T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.13031/2013.13599", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:45Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-10-22", "title": "Effectiveness Of Vegetated Buffer Strips In Reducing Pesticide Transport In Simulated Runoff", "description": "Several processes take place within vegetated buffer strips that affect their performance. To better understand  these processes, a runoff study was conducted to evaluate vegetated buffer strips performance in reducing atrazine,  metolachlor, and chlorpyrifos transport as affected by the drainage area to buffer strip area ratio. The simulated runoff water  mixed with pesticide\u2013treated soil was distributed onto six vegetated buffer strips, each 1.52 m wide . 20.12 m long, located  downslope of the inflow distribution tank in a well established vegetated grassed waterway. These strips provided for three  replications of two inflow rates designated as \u201cdrainage area/buffer strip area ratio treatments\u201d of 15:1 and 30:1. Infiltration  for the 15:1 treatment averaged 38.8% of the inflow volume, whereas it averaged 30.4% for the 30:1 treatment. Sediment  retention efficiencies averaged 90.1% and 86.8% for the 15:1 and 30:1 treatments, respectively. Concentrations of atrazine  and metolachlor associated with sediment outflows from the strips were larger than their respective inflow concentrations,  while the results were opposite for chlorpyrifos. Concentrations in runoff water for both atrazine and metolachlor in outflow  from the strips were smaller than the inflow concentrations; again, the results were opposite for chlorpyrifos. The 15:1  treatment retained an average of 52.5% of the total input of atrazine, 54.4% of metolachlor, and 83.1% of chlorpyrifos.  Corresponding numbers for the 30:1 treatment were 46.8% for atrazine, 48.1% for metolachlor, and 76.9% for chlorpyrifos.  Analysis of variance using the randomized block design showed that differences of percent retention of pesticide between  treatments were not significant for any of the three pesticides at the 10% significance level. A lack of significant difference  indicates either a need for more than three replications and/or larger area ratio treatments to be studied. The results of this  study indicate that a 30:1 area ratio buffer strip could perform equally as well as a 15:1 area ratio buffer strip. Thus, less  land would be required under buffer strips to get the desired results.", "keywords": ["Bioresource and Agricultural Engineering", "Runoff", "Agriculture", "Buffer strips", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "01 natural sciences", "Filter strips", "6. Clean water", "Metolachlor", "Pesticide", "Water quality", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Atrazine", "Chlorpyrifos", "Herbicide", "Best management practices", "Insecticide", "Simulation", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Arora, Kapil, Mickelson, Steven, Baker, James,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.13031/2013.13599"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Transactions%20of%20the%20ASAE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.13031/2013.13599", "name": "item", "description": "10.13031/2013.13599", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.13031/2013.13599"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2003-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.13031/2013.11442", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:45Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-10-22", "title": "Long\u0096Term Grazing Density Impacts On Soil Compaction", "description": "Livestock activity can modify soil properties by degrading soil structure, increasing soil bulk density, and reducing infiltration rate. Impacts of grazing on soil compaction were studied on rangeland in the tall-grass prairie region of Oklahoma. Rotational grazing treatments included low (12.5 cows/ha), medium (25 cows/ha), and high (50 cows/ha) stocking densities with ungrazed pastures used as control sites. Soil compaction was assessed 10 years after grazing treatments were installed using penetration resistance, bulk density, and rate of water infiltration. Long-term livestock grazing increased resistance to penetration and bulk density values, but only in the upper 10 cm. The surface infiltration rate decreased from 28.5 cm/day for the ungrazed treatment to 7 cm/day under light grazing, 5 cm/day under moderate stocking, and 5 cm/day for the heavily grazed treatment. Long-term grazing impacts were restricted to the soil surface, thus increasing the potential soil loss due to erosion. The reduced rainfall infiltration caused by compaction suggests that less water is available for plant use.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land"], "contacts": [{"organization": "K.N. Potter, R. Stevens, J. A. Daniel, H. Aljoe, W. Altom,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.13031/2013.11442"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Transactions%20of%20the%20ASAE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.13031/2013.11442", "name": "item", "description": "10.13031/2013.11442", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.13031/2013.11442"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2002-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.13031/2013.17311", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:45Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-10-22", "title": "Vegetated Filter Strip Removal Of Cattle Manure Constituents In Runoff", "description": "Pasture runoff can contribute to elevated concentrations of nutrients, solids, and bacteria in downstream  waters. The objective of this study was to determine the effects of vegetative filter strip (VFS) length on concentrations  and transport of nitrogen, phosphorus, solids and fecal coliform in runoff from plots treated with cattle manure. Three  plots with dimensions of 2.4 \u00d730.5 m were used. The upper 12.2 m of each plot was treated with cattle manure, while the  lower 18.3 m acted as a VFS. Runoff produced by rainfall simulators was sampled at VFS lengths of 0, 6.1, 12.2, and 18.3  m and analyzed for total Kjeldahl nitrogen (N), ammonia N, nitrate N, total phosphorus (P), ortho-P, fecal coliforms, total  suspended solids and other parameters. The VFS significantly reduced concentrations and mass transport of incoming  solids, fecal coliform, and most nutrient forms, particularly P. The relationships among VFS length, concentration and  mass transport were well-represented by first-order exponential decay functions. Approximately 75% of incoming total  Kjeldahl N, total P, ortho-P, and total suspended solids was removed within the first 6.1 m of the filter strips. Runoff  concentrations of fecal coliform concentrations entering the filter strips were as high as 2 \u00d7107 FC/100 mL; after a filter  length of 6.1 m, however, the runoff exhibited no measurable concentration of fecal coliforms. This experiment suggests  that even relatively short filter strips can markedly improve quality of runoff from grassed areas receiving cattle manure.", "keywords": ["0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Stephen R. Workman, Brian T. Larson, Teng T. Lim, Dwayne R. Edwards, Lloyd Dunn,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.13031/2013.17311"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Transactions%20of%20the%20ASAE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.13031/2013.17311", "name": "item", "description": "10.13031/2013.17311", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.13031/2013.17311"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "1998-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.13031/2013.25698", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:46Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-10-22", "title": "Grazing And Haying Effects On Runoff And Erosion From A Former Conservation Reserve Program Site", "description": "Grazing and haying effects on runoff and erosion from a former Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) site near Streeter, North Dakota, were determined. Treatments included undisturbed CRP, twice-over rotational grazing, season-long grazing, haying, and burning. Runoff and erosion were measured from simulated rainfall which was applied to 3.7 \u00a5 10.7 m (12.0 \u00a5 35.1 ft) plots. Following an initial stabilization period, no significant difference in runoff or erosion was found between the season-long grazing and burned treatments. Use of the CRP site for grazing or haying resulted in a significant increase in runoff compared to leaving the area in an undisturbed condition. Similar amounts of erosion were measured from the twice-over rotational grazing, season-long grazing, and hayed treatments. If adequate canopy and basal cover is maintained, use of this CRP site for grazing or haying would not be expected to result in excessive erosion.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Biological Engineering", "610", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "630"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Gilley, John E., Patton, B. D., Nyren, P. E., Simanton, J. R.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.13031/2013.25698"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Applied%20Engineering%20in%20Agriculture", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.13031/2013.25698", "name": "item", "description": "10.13031/2013.25698", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.13031/2013.25698"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "1996-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.13031/2013.29954", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:46Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-10-22", "title": "Corn Yield Response To Nitrogen Fertilizer And Irrigation In The Southeastern Coastal Plain", "description": "Availability of spatially-indexed data and crop yield maps has caused increased interest in site-specific management of crop inputs, especially water and fertilizer. As commercial equipment to implement site-specific applications of water and nutrients becomes available, crop response to variable inputs and decision support systems will be required to ensure profitable crop production while conserving natural resources and protecting the environment. The objective of this research was to determine corn yield response to a range of nitrogen fertilizer and irrigation amounts on a relatively uniform southeastern Coastal Plain soil under conservation tillage. Corn was grown in a field experiment using a center pivot irrigation system that had been modified to make site-specific applications of water and fertilizer during the period 1999-2001 on a site near Florence, South Carolina. Treatments included three antecedent crop rotations (prior four years), three irrigation regimes (0, 75%, and 150% of a base rate, IBR), and four nitrogen fertilizer amounts (50%, 75%, 100%, and 125% of a base rate, NBR), and with four replications. As expected, corn grain yields increased with irrigation and N fertilizer. Mean corn grain yields for the three-year study ranged from 6.3 to 8.9 Mg/ha for the 0% IBR treatment, 9.4 to 10.5Mg/ha for the 75% IBR treatment, and 10.0 to 10.6 Mg/ha for the 150% IBR treatment. The mean corn grain yields in response to N applications ranged from 6.4 to 8.0 Mg/ha for the 50% NBR treatment, 8.6 to 9.4 Mg/ha for the 75% NBR treatment, 9.1 to 10.9 Mg/ha for the 100% NBR treatment, and 8.8 to 11.7 for the 125% NBR treatment. However, the nature of the response varied among the three years, mainly because of differences in rainfall and rainfall distribution during the growing season. Also, during the first year, there was less response to N fertilizer (7.9 to 9.1 Mg/ha) possibly because of residual soil N from antecedent soybean crop. A regression analysis indicated that the slopes of the corn yield response to increased N fertilizer application were low for both irrigated and rainfed treatments in 1999. In both 2000 and 2001, the slopes were greater for the corn yield response to increased N fertilizer. In 2000, the irrigated treatments had a greater slope of the yield response for additional N fertilizer than did the rainfed treatments. Using an orthogonal contrast analysis, the overall yield response for the combined irrigation treatments to N fertilizer was quadratic in 1999 and 2000, and linear in 2001. These quadratic yield responses indicated that, for these conditions, a potential upper limit on production for the applied N-fertilizer and water (rainfall and irrigation) was approached. For the rainfed treatment, yield response to N fertilizer was linear in all three years. These results provide useful information that should be helpful in developing management strategies and decision support systems for profitable management of both water and N fertilizer on spatially-variable soils in the southeastern Coastal Plain while conserving natural resources and protecting the environment.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Kenneth C. Stone, E. J. Sadler, D. E. Evans, C. R. Camp, J. A. 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Seasonal dynamics of fungi were studied in an almond orchard in California where experimental release of the atoxigenic biopesticide Aspergillus flavus AF36 to displace toxigenic Aspergillus strains has been conducted for five years. The presence of the vegetative compatibility group (VCG) YV36, to which AF36 belongs, in the blossoms, and the honey bees that attend these blossoms, was assessed. In blossoms, A. flavus frequencies ranged from 0 to 4.5%, depending on the year of study. Frequencies of honey bees carrying A. flavus ranged from 6.5 to 10%. Only one A. flavus isolate recovered from a blossom in 2016 belonged to YV36, while members of the VCG were not detected contaminating honey bees. Exposure of pollinator honey bees to AF36 was detected to be very low. The density of several Aspergillus species was found to increase during almond hull split and throughout the final stages of maturation; this also occurred in pistachio orchards during the maturation period. Additionally, we found that AF36 effectively limited almond aflatoxin contamination in laboratory assays. This study provides knowledge and understanding of the seasonal dynamics of Aspergillus fungi and will help design aflatoxin management strategies for almond. The evidence of the low levels of VCG YV36 encountered on almond blossoms and bees during pollination and AF36's effectiveness in limiting aflatoxin contamination in almond provided additional support for the registration of AF36 with USEPA to use in almond in California.", "keywords": ["honey bees", "Crop and Pasture Production", "Crops", " Agricultural", "0301 basic medicine", "aflatoxins", "570", "General Science & Technology", "Science", "Veterinary and Food Sciences", "Crops", "Food Contamination", "Flowers", "Microbiology", "630", "California", "Trees", "03 medical and health sciences", "aspergillus flavus", "Aflatoxins", "Species Specificity", "Animals", "Nuts", "california", "Pest Control", " Biological", "Pollination", "2. 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A randomized complete block field experiment was conducted in southwest Virginia in a fine, mixed, mesic, Aquic  Agriudolls and in a fine-loamy, mixed, mesic, Typic Hapludults. Three cover-cropped treatments and one fall-tilled fallow  treatment were analyzed. The treatments permitted investigation of the effects of a crop, the condition of the crop, and the  contribution of root reinforcement to the alteration of soil response to machine traffic. Effects resulting from three levels of  traffic\u2014one, three, and five passes\u2014were investigated. Undisturbed soil core samples were analyzed to determine the  effects of machine traffic on dry bulk density, pore size distribution, and saturated hydraulic conductivity. Measurable soil  response to machine traffic was limited to the uppermost 150 mm of the soil profile. Treatments that included a rye cover  produced samples with significantly lower dry bulk densities and higher noncapillary porosities than the bare soil  treatment for the soil surface layer (25-75 mm) following multiple machine passes. Soil compaction appeared to be  reduced by the reinforcing effect of a network of undisturbed roots within the soil. There was no convincing evidence that  above-ground biomass contributed directly to the reduction of machine-induced compaction effects.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land"], "contacts": [{"organization": "J. V. Perumpral, D. R. Ess, D. H. 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A source area of 0.41 ha (mainly Canisteo silty clay loam soil), having an average slope of 3%, was fall chisel-plowed, spring disked, and planted to corn. Three herbicides (atrazine, metolachlor, and cyanazine) were applied to the source area in each spring. Six vegetative buffer strips, 1.52 m wide \u00a5 20.12 m long, were isolated with metal borders downslope of the source area in a well established bromegrass (Bromus inermis) waterway. These strips provided for three replications of two drainage to buffer area ratio treatments of 15:1 and 30:1. Herbicide retention was dependent on the antecedent moisture conditions of the strips. These retentions ranged from 11 to 100% for atrazine, 16 to 100% for metolachlor, and 8 to 100% for cyanazine. Herbicide retention by the buffer strips for the two treatments were not significantly different for the observed storm events. Herbicide concentrations in solution in outflow from the strips were less than the inflow concentrations for all the three herbicides. Infiltration was the key process for herbicide retention by the buffer strips, although there was some adsorption to in-place soil and/or vegetation. Metolachlor concentrations in sediment increased in outflow for the two treatments; however, the opposite was true for atrazine and cyanazine. Herbicide retention by sediment deposition in the strip represented about 5% of the total herbicide retention by the buffer strips. The buffer strips were found to have high percent sediment retention, ranging from 40 to 100%; thus, the strips would be more effective for retaining strongly adsorbed herbicides.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Bioresource and Agricultural Engineering", "Runoff", "Management practices", "Agriculture", "Buffer strips", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Filter strips", "630", "6. 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