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References were also evaluated, comprising the following three sites: B1, weathered sulfide substrate without revegetation; BM, barren material after gold extraction and PRNH (private reserve of natural heritage), an uncontaminated forest site near the mining area. The organic and microbial biomass carbon contents and substrate-induced respiration rates for these sites from highest to lowest were: PRNH > LEGS > BS > B1 and BM. These attributes were negatively correlated with soluble and total arsenic concentration in the soil. The sites that have undergone revegetation (LEGS and BS) had higher densities of bacteria, fungi, phosphate solubilizers and ammonium oxidizers than the sites without vegetation. Principal component analysis showed that the LEGS site grouped with PRNH, indicating that the use of leguminous species associated with an uncontaminated soil cover layer contributed to the improvement of the biological attributes. With the exception of acid phosphatase, all the biological attributes were indicators of soil recovery, particularly the following: microbial carbon, substrate-induced respiration, density of culturable bacteria, fungi and actinobacteria, phosphate solubilizers and metabolic quotient.", "keywords": ["Arsenic - Contamination", "Microbial biomass", "Quociente microbial", "01 natural sciences", "Mining", "Arsenic", "Photometry", "Respira\u00e7\u00e3o induzida por substrato", "Soil", "Substrate-induced respiration", "Soil Pollutants", "Biomass", "Microbial quotient", "Soil Microbiology", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "Ars\u00eanico - Contamina\u00e7\u00e3o", "Spectrophotometry", " Atomic", "Biomassa microbiana", "Phosphate solubilizers", "Solubilizantes de fosfato", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Biodegradation", " Environmental", "13. 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How to scientifically construct the ecological security pattern of small-scale counties, and achieve sustainable economic development based on ecological environment protection, it has become an important proposition in regulating the ecological process effectively. Taking Fengxian County of China as an example, this paper selected the importance of ecosystem service functions and ecological sensitivity to evaluate the ecological importance and identify ecological sources. Furthermore, we constructed the ecological resistance surface by various landscape assignments and nighttime lighting modifications. Through a minimum cumulative resistance model, we obtained ecological corridors and finally constructed the ecological security pattern comprehensively combining with ecological resistance surface construction. Accordingly, we further clarified the specific control measures for ecological security barriers and regional functional zoning. This case study shows that the ecological security pattern is composed of ecological sources and corridors, where the former plays an important security role, and the latter ensures the continuity of ecological functions. In terms of the spatial layout, the ecological security barriers built based on ecological security pattern and regional zoning functions are away from the urban core development area. As for the spatial distribution, ecological sources of Fengxian County are mainly located in the central and southwestern areas, which is highly coincident with the main rivers and underground drinking water source area. Moreover, key corridors and main corridors with length of approximately 115.71\uffc2\uffa0km and 26.22\uffc2\uffa0km, respectively, formed ecological corridors of Fengxian County. They are concentrated in the western and southwestern regions of the county which is far away from the built-up areas with strong human disturbance. The results will provide scientific evidence for important ecological land protection and ecological space control at a small scale in underdeveloped and plain counties. In addition, it will enrich the theoretical framework and methodological system of ecological security pattern construction. To some extent, it also makes a reference for improving the regional ecological environment carrying capacities and optimizing the ecological spatial structure in such kinds of underdeveloped small-scale counties.</p", "keywords": ["Ecological corridors", "Ecological sensitivity", "Fengxian County of Jiangsu Province China", "Ecological sources", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Ecological importance", "6. Clean water", "12. Responsible consumption", "Ecological security pattern", "13. Climate action", "8. Economic growth", "11. 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Even if these harsh environments have often been regarded as inhospitable, there is a growing amount of literature on glacial biodiversity, specifically concerning European mountains. Glaciers and permafrost-related landforms (e.g. rock glaciers) host a variety of cold-adapted taxa, from bacteria to vertebrates. They have been included in the Natura 2000 network, specifically in the habitat type: Permanent Glaciers (code 8340), but their biodiversity is still poorly known. Even if local extinctions and population reductions of cold-adapted species due to glacier and permafrost shrinking have been already documented, none of the species living in this habitat type are listed in the Habitat Directive Annexes. With this commentary, we call for urgent actions for an ecological characterization of this habitat type in order to plan monitoring and management of the biodiversity hosted by them. An increased knowledge of this no longer permanent habitat appears particularly urgent, because it is not replaceable and is likely to go extinct in the next decades.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "570", "Cold-adapted species", " Cryosphere", " Glacial biodiversity", " Glacier retreat", " Habitat monitoring programme", " Permafrost", "Permafrost", "Cold-adapted specie", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Cold-adapted species; Cryosphere; Glacial biodiversity; Glacier retreat; Habitat monitoring programme; Permafrost", "Habitat monitoring programme", "13. Climate action", "Cold-adapted species", "14. 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Exploring networks can expose opportunities for targeting. Using mixed-methods combining social network analysis (SNA) and surveys, networks for key soil functions in case studies in Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands are explored. We find a diversity of contrasting networks that reflect local conditions, sustainability challenges and governance structure. Farmers were found to occupy a central role in the agri-environmental governance network. A comparison of the SNA and survey results indicate low acceptance of messages from many central actors indicating scope to better harness the network for sustainable land management. The source of the messages was important when it came to the implementation of farm management actions. Two pathways for enhanced farmer uptake of multi-functionality are proposed that have wider application are; to increase trust between farmers and actors that are agents of multi-functional messages and/or to increase the bundling or multi-functionality of messages (mandate) of actors trusted by farmers.</p", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Conservation of Natural Resources", "Farmers", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "Agriculture", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "Soil functions", "Trust", "AKIS", "01 natural sciences", "Article", "Environmental Policy", "12. 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We evaluated the role of two representative Cerrado Oxisols (350 and 650\u00a0g clay\u00a0kg\u22121) as sources or sinks of atmospheric C when managed under three tillage systems (conventional tillage (CT), reduced tillage (RT), and no-till (NT)) in 8- and 5-year long-term experiments. A literature review was also carried out and the mean C sequestration rates in no-till soils of tropical and subtropical regions of Brazil were calculated and compared with values for soils from temperate regions of the world. The original C stocks in 0\u201320\u00a0cm layer of soils under native Cerrado were higher in the clayey (54.0\u00a0Mg\u00a0ha\u22121) than in the sandy clay loam soil (35.4\u00a0Mg\u00a0ha\u22121), suggesting a higher physical stability of organic matter associated with variable clay minerals in the clayey Oxisol. The original C stocks of the native Cerrado soils appear not to have decreased after 23 years of conventional tillage in the sandy clay loam Oxisol, except when the soil had been subjected to erosion (15% loss of C), or after 25 years in the clayey Oxisol. Compared to conventionally tilled soil, the C stocks in no-till sandy clay loam Oxisol increased by 2.4\u00a0Mg\u00a0ha\u22121 (C sequestration rate\u00a0=\u00a00.30\u00a0Mg\u00a0ha\u22121\u00a0year\u22121) and in the clayey Oxisol by 3.0\u00a0Mg\u00a0ha\u22121 (C sequestration rate\u00a0=\u00a00.60\u00a0Mg\u00a0ha\u22121\u00a0year\u22121). The mean rate of C sequestration in the no-till Brazilian tropical soils was estimated to be 0.35\u00a0Mg\u00a0ha\u22121\u00a0year\u22121, similar to the 0.34\u00a0Mg\u00a0ha\u22121\u00a0year\u22121 reported for soils from temperate regions but lower than the 0.48\u00a0Mg\u00a0ha\u22121\u00a0year\u22121 estimated for southern Brazilian subtropical soils. Considering the large area (about 70 million hectares) of the Cerrado which is currently used and potentially available for cropland, the adoption of no-till systems could turn the Cerrado soils into a significant sink for atmospheric C and contribute to the mitigation of global climate change.", "keywords": ["Carbon sequestration", "2. Zero hunger", "Tropical zones", "Soil organic matter", "Conservation agriculture", "Sustainable agriculture", "No-till", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Ecosystem Field Scale", "Tropical soils", "13. Climate action", "C sequestration", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Conservation tillage", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.still.2005.02.023"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Soil%20and%20Tillage%20Research", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.still.2005.02.023", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.still.2005.02.023", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.still.2005.02.023"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2006-04-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s10533-008-9222-7", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:14:53Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2008-07-31", "title": "Fluxes Of Greenhouse Gases From Andosols Under Coffee In Monoculture Or Shaded By Inga Densiflora In Costa Rica", "description": "The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of N fertilization and the presence of N2 fixing leguminous trees on soil fluxes of greenhouse gases. For a one year period, we measured soil fluxes of nitrous oxide (N2O), carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4), related soil parameters (temperature, water-filled pore space, mineral nitrogen content, N mineralization potential) and litterfall in two highly fertilized (250 kg N ha\u22121 year\u22121) coffee cultivation: a monoculture (CM) and a culture shaded by the N2 fixing legume species Inga densiflora (CIn). Nitrogen fertilizer addition significantly influenced N2O emissions with 84% of the annual N2O emitted during the post fertilization periods, and temporarily increased soil respiration and decreased CH4 uptakes. The higher annual N2O emissions from the shaded plantation (5.8 \u00b1 0.3 kg N ha\u22121 year\u22121) when compared to that from the monoculture (4.3 \u00b1 0.1 kg N ha\u22121 year\u22121) was related to the higher N input through litterfall (246 \u00b1 16 kg N ha\u22121 year\u22121) and higher potential soil N mineralization rate (3.7 \u00b1 0.2 mg N kg\u22121 d.w. d\u22121) in the shaded cultivation when compared to the monoculture (153 \u00b1 6.8 kg N ha\u22121 year\u22121 and 2.2 \u00b1 0.2 mg N kg\u22121 d.w. d\u22121). This confirms that the presence of N2 fixing shade trees can increase N2O emissions. Annual CO2 and CH4 fluxes of both systems were similar (8.4 \u00b1 2.6 and 7.5 \u00b1 2.3 t C-CO2 ha\u22121 year\u22121, \u22121.1 \u00b1 1.5 and 3.3 \u00b1 1.1 kg C-CH4 ha\u22121 year\u22121, respectively in the CIn and CM plantations) but, unexpectedly increased during the dry season.", "keywords": ["OXYDE NITREUX", "570", "571", "[SDV.BIO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biotechnology", "forest management", "livelihoods", "01 natural sciences", "logging", "METHANE", "policies", "MINERALIZATION", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "tropical forests", "CH4", "N2O", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "RELATION SOL-PLANTE-ATMOSPHERE", "AGROFORESTRY", "[SDV.BIO] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biotechnology", "WATER-FILLED PORE SPACE(WFPS)", "climate change", "governance", "13. Climate action", "small enterprises", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "CO2", "ecosystems"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-008-9222-7"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Biogeochemistry", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s10533-008-9222-7", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s10533-008-9222-7", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s10533-008-9222-7"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2008-07-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s10533-009-9396-7", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:14:53Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2009-12-12", "title": "Soil Biogeochemistry During The Early Spring In Low Arctic Mesic Tundra And The Impacts Of Deepened Snow And Enhanced Nitrogen Availability", "description": "Air temperature freeze\u2013thaw cycles often occur during the early spring period directly after snowmelt and before budbreak in low arctic tundra. This early spring period may be associated with nitrogen (N) and carbon (C) loss from soils as leachate or as trace gases, due to the detrimental impact of soil freeze\u2013thaw cycles and a developing active layer on soil microorganisms. We measured soil and microbial pools of C and N in early spring during a period of fluctuating air temperature (ranging from \u22124 to +10\u00b0C) and in midsummer, in low arctic birch hummock tundra. In addition we measured N2O, CH4 and CO2 production in the early spring. All of these biogeochemical variables were also measured in long-term snowfence (deepened snow) and N-addition plots to characterize climate-change related controls on these variables. Microbial and soil solution pools of C and N, and trace gas production varied among the five early spring sample dates, but only marginally and no more than among sample dates in midsummer. N-addition greatly elevated N2O fluxes, indicating that although denitrifiers were present their activity during early spring was strongly limited by N-availability, but otherwise trace gas production was very low in early spring. The later thaw, warmer winter and colder spring soil temperatures resulting from deepened snow did not significantly alter N pools or rates in early spring. Together, our results indicate strong stability in microbial and soil solution C and N pool sizes in the early spring period just after snowmelt when soil temperatures are close to 0\u00b0C (\u22121.5 to +5\u00b0C). A review of annual temperature records from this and other sites suggests that soil freeze\u2013thaw cycles are probably infrequent in mesic tundra in early spring. We suggest that future studies concerned with temperature controls on soil and microbial biogeochemistry should focus not on soil freeze\u2013thaw cycles per se, but on the rapid and often stepped increases in soil temperature that occur under the thawing snowpack.", "keywords": ["13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. 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No-till farming systems are well known agricultural practices and are widely used in temperate areas. In that regard, different settings and widths of riparian buffer zones (12, 24, 36, 48 and 60\u00a0m) with woody vegetation, shrubs or grasses were assessed. The methodology was comprised of the evaluation of a large number of experimental sites and the sampling was conducted after the first rain period and respective fertilizer applications. The results point to the fact that effectiveness is largely controlled by buffer zone width and vegetation type. Indeed, buffer zones with 60\u00a0m width composed of woody soils were more effective in phosphorus (99.9%) and nitrogen (99.9%) removal when compared to shrub (66.4% and 83.9%, respectively) or grass vegetation (52.9% and 61.6%, respectively) areas. Woody vegetation has deep rooting systems and woody soils have a higher content of organic matter when compared to grass and shrubs areas.", "keywords": ["2. 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Ammonia volatilization losses and crop productivity after supplying co-fermented biogas residues were investigated at a marshland site in Northern Germany. Due to the ecological risks of monocultures, maize (Zea mays) in monoculture as the dominant biogas crop in the marsh was tested against a crop rotation (maize, wheat (Triticum aestivum), Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum)) and perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne). Biogas residues, applied by trail hoses, and CAN (mineral fertilizer) were used as nitrogen fertilizers. Ammonia losses at all application dates were investigated by an approach including passive flux samplers and a calibrated dynamic chamber method. Simultaneously a micrometeorological technique was used as a reference. A comparison of methods showed a close correlation (r2\u00a0=\u00a00.92) between micromet and passive flux sampler techniques. Ammonia volatilization losses (on average 15% NH4+-N applied) occurred mainly within the first 10\u00a0h. Concomitant with high ammonia losses, a significant yield depression of 5\u00a0t\u00a0DM\u00a0ha\u22121 for ryegrass fertilized by biogas residues compared to CAN was observed. Little or no affect of biogas was observed for maize and wheat. The crop rotation had yields (34\u00a0t\u00a0DM\u00a0ha\u22121\u00a02\u00a0year\u22121) that were comparable with the maize monoculture (31\u00a0t\u00a0DM\u00a0ha\u22121\u00a02\u00a0year\u22121).", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "/dk/atira/pure/core/keywords/nachhaltigkeitswissenschaft; name=Sustainability Science", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "/dk/atira/pure/core/keywords/biology; name=Ecosystems Research", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "7. Clean energy", "Energy crops", "6. 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This review aims to synthesise scientific and policy discussions surrounding AP, examining evidence of their benefits and detrimental environmental and agricultural impacts. Following the proposal of a preliminary general taxonomy of AP, this paper presents the findings from a survey conducted among international experts from the plastic industry, farmer organisations, NGOs and environmental research institutes. This analysis highlights knowledge gaps, demands and perspectives for the sustainable future use of AP. Stakeholder positions vary on the options of \uffe2\uff80\uff98rejection\uffe2\uff80\uff99 or \uffe2\uff80\uff98reduction\uffe2\uff80\uff99 of AP, as well as the role of alternative materials such as (bio)degradable and compostable plastics. However, there is consensus on critical issues such as redesign, labelling, traceability, environmental safety standards, deployment and retrieval standards, as well as innovative waste management approaches. All stakeholders express concern for the environment. A \uffe2\uff80\uff98best practice\uffe2\uff80\uff99-based circular model was elaborated capturing these perspectives. In the context of global food systems increasingly reliant on AP, scientists emphasise the need to simultaneously preserve nature-based and traditional knowledge-based sustainable agricultural practices to enhance food system resilience.</p", "keywords": ["multi-actor approach", "330", "Multi-actor approach", "Agriculture", "Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering", "630", "Environmental sciences", "plastic pollution", "plastic waste", "Agriplastics", "Plastic pollution", "Plastic waste", "agriplastics", "GE1-350", "TD1-1066", "agriculture"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Valentina E. Tartiu, Rachel Hurley, Cecilie Baann, Demetres Briassoulis, Evelia Schettini, Fabiana Convertino, Bernard Le Moine, Adalgisa Martinelli, Luc Vernet, Sissel B. 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There are some three billion people in these regions, however, who lack consistent access to energy and rely on traditional solid fuels such as firewood, cattle manure, and crop residues for meeting cooking and heating needs. Excessive use of such highly polluting resources creates serious environmental, social and public health issues. In this context, household digesters (which convert readily available feedstocks such as cattle manure, human excreta, and crop residues into biogas) have the potential to play a significant role in supplying methane as a clean, renewable energy resource for remote geographies. In addition to bioenergy production, the slurry generated from anaerobic digestion is rich in nutrients and can improve the physical, chemical, and biological attributes of soil when applied to agricultural land. This type of approach has the potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions while simultaneously improving the quality of life. Despite a long history of research and innovation for the development and optimization of household digesters, little is known and has been reported for the application of these systems in decentralized communities. The primary purpose of this paper seeks to review the dearth of literature pertaining to small-scale anaerobic digesters in remote geographies and in regions where much of the world's population reside.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Sewage", "1. No poverty", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "Waste Disposal", " Fluid", "01 natural sciences", "7. Clean energy", "6. Clean water", "Refuse Disposal", "12. Responsible consumption", "Manure", "Bioreactors", "13. Climate action", "Biofuels", "11. 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A mouldboard plough (30\u00a0cm tillage depth) treatment was compared with a rotary harrow (8\u00a0cm tillage depth) treatment over a period of approximately 40 years. The rotary harrow treatment led to a significant 8% increase in the mean stocks of soil organic C, 6% of total N and 4% of total P at 0\u201330\u00a0cm depth compared with the plough treatment, but had no main effect on the stocks of total S. The tillage effects were identical at both sites, but the differences between the sites of the two experiments were usually stronger than those between the two tillage treatments. The rotary harrow treatment led to a significant increase in the mean stocks of microbial biomass C (+18%), N (+25%), and P (+32%) and to a significant decrease in the stocks of ergosterol (\u221226%) at 0\u201330\u00a0cm depth, but had no main effect on the stocks of microbial biomass S or on the mean basal respiration rate. The mean microbial biomass C/N (6.4) and C/P (25) ratios were not affected by the tillage treatments. In contrast, the microbial biomass C/S ratio was significantly increased from 34 to 43 and the ergosterol-to-microbial biomass C ratio significantly decreased from 0.20% to 0.13% in the rotary harrow in comparison with the plough treatment. The microbial biomass C-to-soil organic C ratio varied around 2.1% in the plough treatment and declined from 2.6% at 0\u201310\u00a0cm depth to 2.0 at 20\u201330\u00a0cm depth in the rotary harrow treatment. The metabolic quotient qCO2 revealed exactly the inverse relationships with depth and treatment to the microbial biomass C-to-soil organic C ratio. Rotary harrow management caused a reduction in the microbial turnover in combination with an improved microbial substrate use efficiency and a lower contribution of saprotrophic fungi to the soil microbial community. This contrasts the view reported elsewhere and points to the need for more information on tillage-induced shifts within the fungal community in arable soils.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. 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In southern California, ecosystem vulnerability to these environmental change drivers may differ for grassland versus shrubland vegetation types. We hypothesized that (1) these vegetation types would differ in their responses to precipitation and N manipulation; (2) reduced precipitation (\u201cdrought treatment\u201d) would have a negative effect on soil microbial abundance and alter microbial community composition, (3) these changes would be associated with reductions in soil C and N pools, (4) N addition would increase microbial abundance as well as soil C and N pools, and (5) combined drought and N deposition would have offsetting effects on soil properties. We tested these hypotheses at the Loma Ridge Global Change Experiment in southern California. Across vegetation types, we found that microbial biomass based on phospholipid fatty acids declined with drought and N addition. Microbial composition differed more strongly by vegetation type than with environmental change treatments. Added precipitation had little effect on microbial biomass but reduced labile C and N pools; these reductions were mitigated by N addition. Drought reduced labile forms of soil C and N, whereas N addition increased labile soil C pools and all soil N pools. Negative effects of drought and N addition were additive for microbial biomass, which could inhibit soil C cycling if both of these environmental changes occur together. Drought interacted with N addition to significantly increase the most labile N pool under the drought\u00a0+\u00a0N treatment, which suggests a build-up of available N under these conditions. These results imply that multiple environmental changes may combine non-additively to affect below-ground microorganisms and soil C and N pools, which may have important consequences for ecosystem services such as productivity, biodiversity, and soil quality in Mediterranean climate regimes of North America.", "keywords": ["Veterinary and Food Sciences", "Soil Science", "Microbial communities", "Shrubland", "veterinary and food sciences", "Carbon and nitrogen cycle", "11. Sustainability", "Global change", "2. Zero hunger", "Agricultural", "Drought", "Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences", "Ecology", "Forestry Sciences", "Agronomy & Agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Biological Sciences", "15. Life on land", "Grassland", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)", "6. Clean water", "Environmental sciences", "Biological sciences", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Environmental Sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://escholarship.org/content/qt1p4898qc/qt1p4898qc.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2016.05.018"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Applied%20Soil%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.apsoil.2016.05.018", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.apsoil.2016.05.018", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.apsoil.2016.05.018"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-11-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.ecoena.2019.100006", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:15:52Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-05-24", "title": "Ecosystem services from combined natural and engineered water and wastewater treatment systems: going beyond water quality enhancement", "description": "Abstract   Combined natural and engineered water and waste water systems (cNES) are nature-based solutions that utilise naturally occurring processes to remove impurities from water and therefore contribute to the ecosystem service of water quality enhancement. We hypothesise that these systems may also have a potential to deliver ecosystem services other than their primary purpose of water purification and we use spatially-explicit modelling tools to determine these benefits. We focused on three different types of cNES: bank filtration (BF), managed aquifer recharge/soil aquifer treatment (MAR/SAT), and constructed wetlands (CW), and combined the ecosystem services cascade, DESSIN and CICES conceptual frameworks with multiple InVEST 3.4.4 models to investigate the spatial distribution of intermediate ecosystem services within the sites as well as in the surrounding landscape. We also determined the role of habitats present within the sites in wider landscape\u2019s connectivity to the nearest Natura 2000 areas using the Circuitscape 4.0 model, assessed the public perception of the aesthetic value of two of the cNES technologies, i.e. CW and MAR/SAT, via an online survey, and linked the determined ecosystem services to their likely beneficiaries. Our results indicated that the sites characterised with semi-natural ecosystems had a good potential for ecosystem services provision and that the selected cNES technologies were favourably received by the public as compared to their engineered equivalents. We concluded that determination of ecosystem services potential from nature-based solutions, such as cNES technologies, should be done in consideration of various contextual factors including the type of habitats/ecosystems present within the proposed solutions, the location within the landscape as well as properties and ecosystem services potential of the areas surrounding the sites, all of which can be facilitated by deployment of spatially-explicit ecosystem service models at early stages of the planning process.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Nature-based solutions", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "Water and waste water treatment", "Habitat connectivity", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "551", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "12. Responsible consumption", "Circuitscape", "13. Climate action", "11. Sustainability", "Ecosystem services", "InVEST models", "14. 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The nutrient content of the drainage water can be obtained directly from water analysis, which immediately focuses attention on filter media selection. There are many factors that may be important before choosing a medium or media e.g. nutrient removal capacity, lifetime, hydraulic conductivity, the potential for pollution swapping , attenuation of non-target contaminants (e.g. pesticides, organic carbon, etc.), and local availability and transportation cost of media to site. In this study, a novel decision support tool (DST) was developed, which brought all these factors together in one place for five nutrient scenarios. A systematic literature review was conducted to create a database containing 75 media with an associated static scoring system across seven criteria (% of nutrient concentration reduction, removal of other pollutants, lifetime, hydraulic conductivity, negative externalities) and a dynamic scoring system across two criteria (delivery cost and availability). The DST was tested using case studies from Ireland, Belgium and USA with different agricultural practices and nutrient scenarios. It was then validated by SWOT (strength, weakness, opportunities and threats) analysis. The DST provided a rapid, easily modifiable screening of many media-based treatments for specific dual or single nutrient-based water drainage problems. This provides stakeholders (farmers/regulators/advisors) with a versatile, flexible and robust yet easy-to-understand framework to make informed choices on appropriate media-based mitigation measures according to users relevant technical, economic and logistical factors.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Farm pollution", "Nitrogen", "Phosphorus", "Agriculture", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "nitrogen", "6. Clean water", "farm pollution", "12. Responsible consumption", "13. 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In this regard, bioelectrochemical systems (BES) can be hybridized with existing technologies, upgrading the removal performance of original techniques while avoiding replacement costs. Yet, few demonstrations of merged systems have been given. For the first time, in this work it was built a lab-scale model of a BES merged with a secondary settler, namely e-settler, to enhance the polishing performance of already existing WWTPs. In particular, to concomitantly increase nitrogen removal and perform wastewater (WW) disinfection, avoiding further tertiary treatments. In the e-settlers, nitrogen removal was increased through bioelectrochemical stimulation. Concomitant ammonium and nitrate removal without nitrite accumulation and a negligible amount of nitrous oxide emissions were observed. Ti-MMO as anode material showed a high disinfectant action. In conclusion, it was demonstrated how a simple bioelectrochemical set-up can upgrade existing WWTPs. The following step requires the study at a larger scale, identifying optimal operational and structural parameters for the in-situ application. The main limitations of the e-settlers were discussed, linking them to possible solutions that need to be deepened in a lab-scale model of conventional secondary treatments (activated sludge followed by secondary settler) This work was funded through: the ELECTRA project [grant agreement no. 826244], which was financially supported by the Horizon 2020 programme of the European Union; the NSFC-EU Environmental Biotechnology joint program (No. 31861133001); the Key Research and Development Project of Shandong Province (No. 2020CXGC011202). S.P is a Serra H\u00fanter Fellow (UdG-AG-575) and acknowledges the funding from the ICREA Academia award. LEQUiA [2017-SGR-1552] has been recognized as consolidated research group by the Catalan Government Open Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Elsevier", "keywords": ["Sewage -- Purification -- Nitrogen removal", "Bioelectrochemical system; Wastewater; Ammonium; Nitrate; Secondary treatments; Disinfection", "Aig\u00fces residuals -- Plantes de tractament", "Aig\u00fces residuals -- Depuraci\u00f3 -- Desnitrificaci\u00f3", "13. Climate action", "11. Sustainability", "0207 environmental engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "Sewage disposal plants", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "12. 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The purification of Ga is achieved by a three-step ion exchange chromatography to remove matrix and interfering elements. The 71Ga/69Ga ratios are analyzed by multi-collector inductively-coupled-plasma mass-spectrometer (MC-ICP-MS). The external reproducibility of the measurements (0.05\u2030, 2 s.d.) was assessed by replicate analyses of the USGS BCR-2 and BHVO-2 standards. This newly developed technique was then used to investigate the extent of Ga isotopic fractionation during igneous processes by analyzing well-characterized samples from the Kilauea Iki lava lake, USA. These samples were formed in a closed system and have MgO contents ranging from 26.9 to 2.4wt.%. We found that igneous processes do not fractionate Ga isotopes within the analytical uncertainty and that the Ga isotopic composition of mafic-ultramafic lavas can be used to estimate the composition of their mantle source. Twelve ocean island basalts, two mid-ocean-ridge basalts, one continental flood basalt and one komatiite have homogeneous and nearly identical Ga isotopic compositions within analytical uncertainties averaging 0.00\u00b10.06\u2030 (2s.d.). This value represents the best estimate for the Ga isotopic composition of the bulk silicate Earth", "keywords": ["Bulk Silicate Earth", "Komatiite", "Gallium", "Geology", "MORB", "01 natural sciences", "[SDU.STU.GC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geochemistry", "Geochemistry and Petrology", "13. Climate action", "[SDU.STU.GC] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geochemistry", "14. Life underwater", "OIB", "MC-ICP-MS", "Basalt", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.11.020"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Chemical%20Geology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.11.020", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.11.020", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.11.020"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.ecoleng.2013.07.011", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:15:53Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-07-31", "title": "Co-Application Of Biochar And Lignite Fly Ash On Soil Nutrients And Biological Parameters At Different Crop Growth Stages Of Zea Mays", "description": "Abstract   Worldwide, the fly ash, generated in huge quantities from thermal power plants is a menace, especially its handling and disposal. Utilization of fly ash as a soil amendment to improve soil quality has received a great deal of attention. Co-application of biochar with fly ash may further enhance soil quality and crop productivity. Field experiment was conducted in an acidic red soil, from Dhanbad, India, to investigate the effects of lignite fly ash (LFA) and biochar (BC) on soil nutrients, biological properties, and the yield of Zea mays. The treatments were (i) control, (ii) BC (4\u00a0t/ha), (iii) LFA (4\u00a0t/ha), and (iv) BC (2\u00a0t/ha)\u00a0+\u00a0LFA (2\u00a0t/ha). Soil samples were collected at three different crop stages of maize (vegetative, taselling and grain filling) and analyzed for pH, EC, organic carbon, N, P, K, soil enzymes, microbial biomass, and respiration. Soil bulk density and water holding capacity measured after the harvest of crop were not affected by the treatments. Soil P (+110%) and K (+64%) contents increased by LFA\u00a0+\u00a0BC application due to the presence of plant nutrient in BC and LFA. Soil enzymes like dehydrogenase activity (+60.7%), alkaline phosphatase (+32.2%), fluorescein hydrolases activity (12.3%) and microbial biomass (+25.3%) increased due to co-application of LFA and BC probably due to the pH-buffering and sorption of the organic matter to mineral surfaces to create a more reactive network for water, air and nutrient interactions in the soil. Available heavy metal (Zn, Ni, Co, Cu, Cd, and Pb) contents in soil decreased by LFA\u00a0+\u00a0BC application due to surface adsorption and precipitation caused by increase in soil pH. Maize grain yield increased by 11.4% for BC, 28.1% for BC\u00a0+\u00a0LFA treatment, and the yield was not significantly affected for the LFA alone treatment. Regression analysis showed soil P as the major factor for the increase in crop yield.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "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", "12. Responsible consumption"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Md. A. Ansari, Lal C. Ram, Joshy George, V. A. Selvi, R. Ebhin Masto,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2013.07.011"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Engineering", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.ecoleng.2013.07.011", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.ecoleng.2013.07.011", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2013.07.011"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-09-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.eja.2007.12.005", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:15:55Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2008-03-31", "title": "Long-Term Effect Of Tillage, Crop Rotation And N Fertilization To Wheat On Gaseous Emissions Under Rainfed Mediterranean Conditions", "description": "Abstract   A field study was conducted to assess the effect of N fertilizer application to wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), tillage system and crop rotation on total denitrification N losses, N2O and CO2 emissions under Mediterranean conditions in a long-term trial started 18 years ago on a Vertisol soil. The tillage system consisted of conventional tillage vs. no-tillage and the crop rotation system consisted of two different 2-years rotations: wheat\u2013sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) (WS) and wheat\u2013faba bean (Vicia faba L.) (WF). Fertilizer rates were 0 and 100\u00a0kg\u00a0N\u00a0ha\u22121 applied to wheat splitted in two amendments of 50\u00a0kg\u00a0N\u00a0ha\u22121 each. Two different fertilization systems were studied. In the old fertilized plots system fertilizer had been applied for 18 years since the beginning of the trial, and in the new fertilized plots system fertilizer was applied for the first time when this experiment was started. Measurements were carried out after fertilizer applications.  In the long term, continued fertilizer application produced a higher soil total N content. Nevertheless, no increase in denitrification potential, N2O\u00a0+\u00a0N2 production by denitrification, N2O or CO2 emissions was observed either by the recent application of N or by the continued application during 18 years. The soil presented a higher potential to denitrify up to N2 than up to N2O. So, denitrification was probably occurring mainly in the form of N2, while N2O emissions were occurring in a great manner by nitrification, both denitrification and nitrification occurring simultaneously at soil field capacity (60\u201370%) expressed as water filled pore space (WFPS). Conventional tillage induced an increase in soil total N content and in the potential to denitrify up to N2 with respect to no-tillage. This higher potential was translated into higher N2O\u00a0+\u00a0N2 production by denitrification presumably stimulated in the short time by the higher available carbon provided by decomposing roots and by the subsequent creation of soil anaerobic microsites. Contrarily, no effect of tillage was observed on N2O emissions because of being produced in an important manner by nitrification, which does not depend on carbon availability. The wheat\u2013faba bean rotation induced higher soil nitrate contents than the wheat\u2013sunflower, although the effect in the long time was not observed regarding soil total N content. The same as for the fertilizer effect, this increase in nitrate content was not followed by a higher denitrification potential or higher N2O\u00a0+\u00a0N2 production by denitrification because of the lack of organic matter, while an increase was observed in N2O emissions.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2007.12.005"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/European%20Journal%20of%20Agronomy", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.eja.2007.12.005", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.eja.2007.12.005", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.eja.2007.12.005"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2008-05-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.geoderma.2012.01.036", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:16:16Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-03-05", "title": "The Effect Of Clear Cutting On Podzolisation And Soil Carbon Dynamics In Boreal Forests (Middle Taiga Zone, Russia)", "description": "Abstract   Boreal forests are one of the most important terrestrial carbon sink, and a large portion of C is allocated in soil for long-term storage. However forest harvesting may quickly affect soil carbon stocks and dynamics, especially where organic substances drive the soil-forming processes, such as in Podzols. To evaluate the effects of clear cutting on carbon dynamics and podzolisation process over a short time period, a pristine boreal forest (Komi Republic, Russian Federation) and a recently clear cut site (5\u00a0year-old) were selected. Soils are polygenic: podzolisation occurs within the clay-depleted eluvial horizon, formed by a previous lessivage process. Because podzolisation can start only after the eluvial horizon has reached a sort of threshold, bisequal soils allow to individuate comparable pedogenic conditions prior to anthropogenic disturbances.  After harvesting, C storage tended to increase in the upper part of the soil profile (organic layer and podzolic sequum) from 2.2 to 5.0\u00a0kg\u00a0m\u2212\u00a02. The abundance of woody materials on the forest floor together with an increase in soil water saturation, discernible by the vegetation survey and iron fractionation, prevented litter degradation and allowed organic matter accumulation at the soil surface. Fulvic acids (FA) in the organic layer of the pristine site showed a low incorporation of polysaccharide and proteinaceous moieties, confirming a higher degradation of the humified fraction than at the clear cut site. The lack of disturbances allowed a selection of FA with the more oxidised and mobile fractions accumulating in the deeper horizons, as currently observed in Podzols. Almost no differences were instead found in the chemical composition of FA along the profile from the clear cut site. A larger portion of FA showed the tendency to migrate through the profile after clear cutting even below the Bhs horizon (C-fulvic acid/C-humic acid >\u00a01) with a marked increase in the FA-carbon stocks with respect to the pristine forest soil (0.66 and 0.30\u00a0kg\u00a0m\u2212\u00a02 down to 30\u00a0cm, respectively).  Clear cutting also affected Al and Fe dynamics. The reducing conditions acted upon soil mineral surfaces and enhanced Fe mobilisation probably both in the ionic form and complexed with organic matter. The Al dynamics was instead more related to short term transformations of the layer silicate phases. Traces of a poorly crystalline chlorite were detectable in the Bhs in the pristine forest, but at the clear site only hydroxy-interlayered vermiculite was present. The high amounts of organic acids that migrated through the Bhs after clear cutting may have partially complexed the Al from pedogenic chlorite, giving rise to hydroxy-interlayered behaviour, as normally occurs in Podzol eluvial horizons from where the organic Al-complexes migrate.  Our findings suggested that if this trend proceeds further the whole podzolic sequum may migrate downwards. This may have important implication on C budget, as organic carbon will be transferred deeper in the soil profile limiting its losses at least over a short time period.", "keywords": ["BISEQUAL SOILS; CARBON STOCKS; CLAY MINERALOGY; FULVIC ACIDS; NORWAY SPRUCE", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://iris.unito.it/bitstream/2318/100698/2/Falsone%20et%20al%202012%20Geoderma%20AperTO.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2012.01.036"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Geoderma", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.geoderma.2012.01.036", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.geoderma.2012.01.036", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.geoderma.2012.01.036"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-05-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fenvs.2020.591695", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:20:20Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-12-09", "title": "Assessment of Soil Functions: An Example of Meeting Competing National and International Obligations by Harnessing Regional Differences", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>The increased demand for bio based products worldwide provides an opportunity for Eastern European countries to increase their production in agriculture and forestry. At the same time, such economic development must be congruent with the European Union\u2019s long-term climate and biodiversity objectives. As a country that is rich in bioresources, the Latvian case study is highly relevant to many other countries\u2014especially those in Central and Eastern Europe\u2014and faces a choice of transition pathways to meet both economic and environmental objectives. In order to assess the trade-offs between investments in the bioeconomy and the achievement of climate and biodiversity objectives, we used the Functional Land Management (FLM) framework for the quantification of the supply and demand for the primary productivity, carbon regulation and biodiversity functions. We related the supply of these three soil functions to combinations of land use and soil characteristics. The demand for the same functions were derived from European, national and regional policy objectives. Our results showed different spatial scales at which variation in demand and supply is manifested. High demand for biodiversity was associated with areas dominated by agricultural land at the local scale, while regional differences of unemployment rates and the target for GDP increases framed the demand for primary productivity. National demand for carbon regulation focused on areas dominated by forests on organic soils. We subsequently identified mismatches between the supply and demand for soil functions, and we selected spatial locations for specific land use changes and improvements in management practices to promote sustainable development of the bio-economy. Our results offer guidance to policy makers that will help them to form a national policy that will underpin management practices that are effective and tailored toward local climate conditions and national implementation pathways.</p></article>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "functional land management", "forestry", "1. No poverty", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "soil functions", "15. Life on land", "central and Eastern European countries", "climate regulation", "12. Responsible consumption", "Environmental sciences", "primary productivity", "13. Climate action", "8. Economic growth", "11. Sustainability", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "GE1-350", "agriculture", "biodiversity"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2020.591695"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Frontiers%20in%20Environmental%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3389/fenvs.2020.591695", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fenvs.2020.591695", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fenvs.2020.591695"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-12-09T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.05.042", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:15:50Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-05-08", "title": "Toxicity screening of biochar-mineral composites using germination tests", "description": "This study assessed the properties and toxicity (water cress germination trials) of 38 waste-derived, novel biochar-mineral composites (BMCs) produced via slow pyrolysis and hydrothermal carbonization (hydrochars). The biochars were produced from sewage sludge and compost-like output (CLO) by varying the type of mineral additive (zeolite, wood ash and lignite fly ash), the mineral-to-feedstock ratio and the carbonization process. While pure hydrochars completely inhibited germination of water cress, this effect was ameliorated by mineral additives. Seedlings grew best in pyrolysis chars and while wood ash addition decreased plant growth in many cases, 1:10 addition to CLO doubled germination rate. The factors responsible for the phytotoxicity can be attributed to pH, salinity and organic contaminants. Importantly, while pure minerals inhibited germination, conversion of minerals into BMCs reduced their inhibitory effects due to buffered release of minerals. Overall, mineral wastes (e.g., combustion ashes) and waste biomass can be used safely as sources of nutrients and stable organic carbon (for soil carbon sequestration) when converted into specific biochar-mineral composites, exploiting synergies between the constituents to deliver superior performance.", "keywords": ["Minerals", "Bioresource and Agricultural Engineering", "Ash", "Germination", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "01 natural sciences", "630", "6. Clean water", "12. Responsible consumption", "Biochar", "Soil", "Engineering", "13. Climate action", "Geological Engineering", "Charcoal", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "BMCHTC", "Hydrochar", "Pyrolysis", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://arrow.tudublin.ie/context/beschrecart/article/1073/viewcontent/Toxicity_screening_of_biochar_mineral_composites_using_germination_tests.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.05.042"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Chemosphere", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.05.042", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.05.042", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.05.042"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-09-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.envres.2019.108608", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:16:02Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-07-26", "title": "Antibiotic resistance gene distribution in agricultural fields and crops. A soil-to-food analysis", "description": "Despite the social concern about the generalization of antibiotic resistance hotspots worldwide, very little is known about the contribution of different potential sources to the global risk. Here we present a quantitative analysis of the distribution of Antibiotic Resistance Genes (ARGs) in soil, rhizospheric soil, roots, leaves and beans in tomato, lettuce and broad beans crops (165 samples in total), grown in nine commercial plots distributed in four geographical zones in the vicinity of Barcelona (North East Spain). We also analyzed five soil samples from a nearby forest, with no record of agricultural activities. DNA samples were analyzed for their content in the ARGs sul1, tetM, qnrS1, blaCTX-M-32, blaOXA-58, mecA, and blaTEM, plus the integron intI1, using qPCR methods. In addition, soil microbiomes from the different plots were analyzed by amplicon-targeted 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Our data show a decreasing gradient of ARG loads from soil to fruits and beans, the latter showing only from 0.1 to 0.01% of the abundance values in soil. The type of crop was the main determinant for both ARG distribution and microbiome composition among the different plots, with minor contributions of geographic location and irrigation water source. We propose that soil amendment and/or fertilization, more than irrigation water, are the main drivers of ARG loads on the edible parts of the crop, and that they should therefore be specifically controlled.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "Microbiomes", "Agriculture", "Drug Resistance", " Microbial", "Irrigation water", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "Anti-Bacterial Agents", "3. Good health", "qPCR", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "Antibiotic resistance genes", "Genes", " Bacterial", "Spain", "RNA", " Ribosomal", " 16S", "Rhizosphere", "Endophytes", "Food Analysis", "Soil Microbiology", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2019.108608"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Environmental%20Research", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.envres.2019.108608", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.envres.2019.108608", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.envres.2019.108608"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-10-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.fcr.2012.09.011", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:16:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-10-23", "title": "Upland Rice Production Under Conservation Agriculture Cropping Systems In Cold Conditions Of Tropical Highlands", "description": "In response to the extensive development of upland rice on the hillsides of the Malagasy highlands, alternative cropping systems based on conservation agriculture have been recommended to halt loss of soil fertility. To assess the yield performances of these cropping systems, an experiment was set up in 2003 at Andranomanelatra (1640 m asl) in the Malagasy highlands. Grain yield, yield components, biomass accumulation and nitrogen uptake of upland rice were analyzed in the 2004-2005, 2006-2006, and 2006-2007 seasons, and root length density was measured in the 2007-2008 season. The rice crop was planted every second year following two different crops: maize intercropped with soybean (M + S, with both conventional tillage and no tillage) and maize intercropped with Brachiaria ruziziensis (M + B only with no tillage). For each cropping system, two levels of fertilization were used: no fertilizer or application of organic inputs and mineral fertilizer. The season, cropping system, and fertilization treatment had significant effects on rice grain yields. Higher yields were associated with a greater number of plants per m2, which decreased significantly over the three seasons, probably due to the highly variable beginning of the rains, and in the final season, with attacks by soil insects. The rice yield with conventional tillage was the highest and differed significantly from rice yield when maize was intercropped with Brachiaria under the no-till system, but not when the maize was intercropped with soybean with no tillage. In all three seasons, grain yields were closely linked to crop N at harvest. Differences in N uptake between treatments appeared very early in the crop cycle. Under conventional tillage, root length density at 68 days after sowing was higher between 0 and 30 cm depth than with no tillage. In these cold highlands conditions, plant establishment appeared to be more difficult with no tillage and resulted in reduced plant development and plant N uptake, particularly when rice was planted after maize intercropped with Brachiaria.", "keywords": ["[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "0106 biological sciences", "Glycine max", "F08 - Syst\u00e8mes et modes de culture", "rendement des cultures", "F50 - Anatomie et morphologie des plantes", "Zea mays", "01 natural sciences", "630", "fertilisation", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_10176", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_16034", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_8076", "syst\u00e8me de culture", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3301", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_4510", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_8511", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_10795", "F07 - Fa\u00e7ons culturales", "2. 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This study investigated the effects of two acclimation conditions on chloramphenicol (CAP)-degrading anode biofilm formation in microbial fuel cells (MFCs). The one was continuously added the extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) extracted from anaerobic sludge and increasing concentrations of CAP after the first start-up phase, while the other was added the EPS-1 (N-acyl-homoserine lactones, namely AHLs were extracted from the EPS) at the same conditions. The results demonstrated that AHLs in the sludge EPS played a crucial role for enhanced CAP-degrading anode biofilm formation in MFCs. The AHL-regulation could not only maintain stable voltage outputs but also significantly accelerate CAP removal in the EPS MFC. The maximum voltage of 653.83\u00a0mV and CAP removal rate of 1.21\u00a0\u00b1\u00a00.05\u00a0mg/L\u00b7h were attained from the EPS MFC at 30\u00a0mg/L of CAP, which were 0.84 and 1.57 times higher than those from the EPS-1 MFC, respectively. These improvements were largely caused by the thick and 3D structured biofilm, strong and homogeneous cell viability throughout the biofilm, and high protein/polysaccharide ratio along with more conductive contents in the biofilm EPS. Additionally, AHLs facilitated the formation of a biofilm with rich biodiversity and balanced bacterial proportions, leading to more beneficial mutualism among different functional bacteria. More bi-functional bacteria (for electricity generation and antibiotic resistance/degradation) were specifically enriched by AHLs as well. These findings provide quorum sensing theoretical knowledge and practical instruction for rapid antibiotic-degrading electrode biofilm acclimation in BESs.", "keywords": ["Chloramphenicol", "Sewage", "Bioelectric Energy Sources", "Extracellular Polymeric Substance Matrix", "Biofilms", "Acyl-Butyrolactones", "Electrodes", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Wu, Xiayuan, Zhang, Lina, Lv, Zuopeng, Xin, Fengxue, Dong, Weiliang, Liu, Guannan, Li, Yan, Jia, Honghua,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2021.112649"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Environmental%20Research", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.envres.2021.112649", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.envres.2021.112649", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.envres.2021.112649"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-05-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.geoderma.2023.116636", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:16:19Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-08-11", "title": "Exploitation of the SoilPRO\u00ae (SP) apparatus to measure soil surface reflectance in the field: Five case studies", "description": "The SoilPRO\u00ae (SP) is an assembly designed to acquire soil reflectance information in the field without disturbing the soil surface, and regardless of atmospheric and solar radiation conditions. This paper summarizes five case studies in which the SP assembly was used for different applications. The case studies consisted of: (1) generating surface spectral measurements under any atmospheric condition; (2) comparing the performance of the SP to the traditional bare fiber method for vicarious calibration of hyperspectral satellite sensors; (3) assessing water repellency of a soil surface governed by organic matter hydrophobicity; (4) spatial prediction of the rate of water infiltration into the soil profile as governed by the soil surface seal; and (5) using the SP apparatus to measure soil surface reflectance in South Shetland Island, Antartica under severe weather conditions. The case studies included calculation of spectral quality, prediction accuracy and measurement stability. The paper discusses each of the cases in detail and concludes that the SP (or similar assembly) is the best way to measure the reflectance of the original soil surface in the field. In the first case study, the spectrum collected by the SP under daily changing illumination was shown to be stable relative to the traditional measurement methods of contact probe or bare fiber. The second case study indicated that use of the SP for vicarious calibration is much more efficient (in terms of time and stability) than ground-truth practice over a large area, and in the third case study, the SP was able to assess a soil surface property governed by organic matter hydrophobicity better than the contact probe, which destroys the soil surface organic seal. A similar achievement was gained in the fourth case study, providing a better assessment of the water-infiltration rate into the soil. In the fifth case study, the SP demonstrated impressive high-quality acquisition of soil surface reflectance with a very low sun angle over the South Pole. Based on these case studies and the high quality of the data generated by the SP in the field, we suggest building, in parallel to the classical soil spectral libraries generated in the laboratory, field soil spectral libraries that will preserve the soil surface properties scanned in the field. We anticipate the development of more applications for the SP assembly based on the capabilities shown in this paper.", "keywords": ["EJP SOIL", "ProbeField", "Field measurements", "Science", "Soil reflectance", "EJPSOIL", "Q", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "01 natural sciences", "SoilPRO", "Soil surface properties", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2023.116636"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Geoderma", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.geoderma.2023.116636", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.geoderma.2023.116636", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.geoderma.2023.116636"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-10-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.jaridenv.2005.12.008", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:16:22Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2006-01-27", "title": "Carbon Sequestration In Semi-Arid Rangelands: Comparison Of Pinus Ponderosa Plantations And Grazing Exclusion In Nw Patagonia", "description": "Abstract   The large global extension of arid and semi-arid regions together with their widespread degradation give these areas a high potential to sequester carbon. We explored the possibilities of semi-arid ecosystems to sequester carbon by means of rangeland exclusion and afforestation with  Pinus ponderosa  in NW Patagonia (Argentina). We sampled all pools where organic carbon accumulates in a network of five trios of adjacent grazed, non-grazed and afforested stands (age: 12\u201325 years, density 605\u20131052\u00a0trees\u00a0ha \u22121 ). After 15 years since trees were planted, afforestation added \u223c50% more C to the initial ecosystem carbon pool, with annual sequestration rate ranging 0.5\u20133.3\u00a0Mg\u00a0C\u00a0ha \u22121  year \u22121 . Carbon gains in afforested stands were higher above than below-ground (150% vs. 32%). Root biomass differences (374% more in afforested vs. grazed stands,     p  =  0.0  0  1  1    ) explained below-ground carbon contrasts whereas soil organic carbon showed no differences with afforestation. By contrast, grazing exclosures did not result in significant changes in the total carbon storage in comparison with the adjacent grazed stands (    p  =  0.4  2    ) suggesting a slow ecosystem recovery in the time frame of this study (\u223c15 years of exclusion). Nevertheless, higher litter amount was found in the former (+53%,     p  =  0.0  7    ). Neither, soil organic carbon nor root carbon showed significant differences between grazed and non-grazed conditions. Considering that more than 1.1 millions of hectares of the studied ecosystems are highly degraded and suitable for tree planting, afforesting this area could result in a carbon sequestration rate of 1.7\u00a0Tg C year \u22121 , almost 6% of the current fossil fuel emissions of Argentina; however environmental consequences which could emerge from this deep land use shift must be taken into account when afforestation program are being designed.", "keywords": ["Argentina", "Drylands", "Ecosystem carbon pool", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Grazing", "Afforestation", "13. 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Recent studies indicate a microbial and phytophages origin of OM in the throughfall of temperate forest ecosystems and reported inputs of dissolved (<0.45 \u03bcm) organic carbon (DOC) with throughfall range between 40 and 160 kg C ha -1  year -1 . Data on particulate organic matter (0.45 \u03bcm<POM<2 mm) associated with throughfall fluxes are rare and not often considered in terrestrial ecosystem element budgets. Using field and laboratory experiments, we investigated the direct effects of canopy infestation by two functional groups of herbivores (sap and leaf feeders) on dissolved and particulate organic matter fluxes in throughfall and their impact on forest floor processes. Throughfall fluxes of particulate amino-nitrogen beneath infested spruce were about 60% and those of hexose-carbon beneath infested hardwood trees up to 70% higher compared to uninfested control trees. Corresponding fluxes to filtered samples showed no statistically significant differences. In column irrigation experiments, different levels of aphid infestation (uninfested, moderately, heavy infested) were simulated by adding honeydew to the irrigation solution. Forest floor solution chemistry from forest floor showed a significant reduction in NH 4 -N and NO 3 -N fluxes, slightly reduced DON fluxes and significantly increased CO 2  effluxes following honeydew application. We suggest that the amount of POM compounds transported with throughfall solution and its subsequent effects on forest floor processes depend on the herbivore functional group and on the level of infestation. From both a quantitative and qualitative point of view, our data indicate that herbivory-mediated organic matter in particulate and dissolved forms contribute considerably to the overall throughfall input of organic substances into the forest floor.", "keywords": ["13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. 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Biomasses were firstly characterized in terms of macromolecular and elemental composition. Lab-scale TGA-GC/MS torrefaction experiments allowed the in-depth study of the solid mass transformation and the production profile of 23 volatile species (200 to 300\u202f\u00b0C at 3\u202f\u00b0C\u00b7min-1 and 300\u202f\u00b0C for 30\u202fmin). The proportion of the torrefied products (solid, CO, CO2, water and volatile species) was evaluated through mass balance in a lab-scale furnace under typical torrefaction conditions (300\u202f\u00b0C, 40\u202fmin). The results show a similar characterization and behavior in torrefaction for oak and shrublands, and slightly different characteristics for fern. However, fern may grow separately from shrublands and is considered to present a low fire risk. This suggests that the in-situ direct valorization of these biomasses through torrefaction mobile units seems promising. However, other properties, such as density, flowability and grindability need to be studied to confirm the feasibility of the process. Regarding torrefaction products, a higher carbon content and an interesting increase in heating value were measured for the torrefied solid, which makes it suitable for energetic valorization, among other uses. The composition of permanent gases was evaluated and found in agreement with previous studies. Finally, the volatile species released were studied in function of the torrefaction temperature, in view of their possible valorization as green chemicals.", "keywords": ["[SPI.GPROC] Engineering Sciences [physics]/Chemical and Process Engineering", "Volatile species", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "02 engineering and technology", "333", "Torrefaction", "Wildfires", "[CHIM.GENI]Chemical Sciences/Chemical engineering", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "G\u00e9nie chimique", "[SPI.GPROC]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Chemical and Process Engineering", "SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy", "Biomass", "G\u00e9nie des proc\u00e9d\u00e9s", "ta215", "ta218", "660", "[SDE.IE]Environmental Sciences/Environmental Engineering", "[CHIM.GENI] Chemical Sciences/Chemical engineering", "Temperature", "Solid mass loss", "15. 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However, little information is available concerning the effect of digestate atmospheric exposure on trace elements speciation and, consequently, on their mobility and bio-accessibility when digestate is stored in open tanks or handled before land spreading. In this study, we investigated at laboratory-scale the effect of digestate aeration on the distribution of Al, As, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Mo, Ni, Pb, Sb, Se and W using the diffusive gradients in thin films technique (DGT)-based fractionation. For this purpose, experiments were performed to assess the variation in distribution between the labile, soluble and particulate fractions over time in digested sewage sludge during passive and forced aeration. Results showed that aeration promoted a dissolution of Al, As, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Mo and Pb, suggesting a possible increase in their mobility that may likely occur during storage in open tanks or handling before land spreading. Labile elements' fraction increased only during forced aeration (except for Fe and Mn), suggesting that their short-term bio-accessibility can increase only after significant aeration as the one assumed to occur when land spreading takes place.", "keywords": ["550", "[SPI.GPROC] Engineering Sciences [physics]/Chemical and Process Engineering", "Speciation", "[SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences", "Diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT)", "Chemical Fractionation", "01 natural sciences", "630", "Soil", "Digested sewage sludge", "[SPI.GPROC]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Chemical and Process Engineering", "Fractionation", "Diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT); Digested sewage sludge; Fractionation; Metalloids; Metals; Speciation; Chemical Fractionation; Environmental Monitoring; Sewage; Soil; Trace Elements", "Metalloids", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Sewage", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. 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The development of reusable SERS substrates through regeneration is a constant concern of scientists in the field, related to the sustainability of the method. Cold\u00a0atmospheric plasma\u00a0(CAP) is an advantageous green method well-known for its effectiveness towards the successful degradation of organic molecules and materials\u2019 activation/modification. In the present study, we explored for the first time nanosecond pulsed\u00a0dielectric\u00a0barrier discharge (NSP-DBD) plasma as a rapid, energy efficient method for SERS solid substrates regeneration, implemented either directly in the\u00a0gas\u00a0or in the liquid phase as well as through immersion of the substrates in plasma activated water (PAW). We investigated the critical\u00a0cold plasma\u00a0factors (e.g. feeding\u00a0gas, plasma treatment and retention time) in order to propose the most cost-effective alternative and shed light on the underlying regeneration mechanisms. The different SERS analysis case scenarios (analyte's class , concentration andcross check) were considered, in order to simulate real SERS measurements conditions/requirements. In practical terms, such an approach will contribute to a significant reduction of the detection costs, revealing the NSP-DBD process as a flexible, fast, green, effective and low-cost solution towards the SERS substrates regeneration.", "keywords": ["02 engineering and technology", "0210 nano-technology", "7. 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Here, seasonal patterns of N cycling were characterized in subtropical wetlands in Everglades National Park, Florida, USA. Two restored sites and one reference site with different nutrient status, soil depth, and vegetation communities, were selected. Soil available N, microbial biomass, potential N mineralization and denitrification rates, enzyme activities of leucine aminopeptidase (LAP) and N-acetyl-\u03b2-d-glucosaminidase (NAG) were measured across the wet and dry seasons from 2010 to 2011. In general, most N processes were significantly correlated with soil water contents (P<0.05) which reflected the precipitation regime. The lower elevation and shallower soil (2-3cm depth) at the restored site may contribute to their higher soil water contents compared to the reference site with ~10cm soil depth, which further led to the earlier peaks of microbial biomass at the two restored sites. Potential N mineralization was positively correlated with LAP at the restored sites whereas with NAG at the reference site (P<0.05), implying that different vegetation composition may provide varying substrates for soil microbes. The build-up of nitrate in the dry spring of 2011 induced a pulse of denitrification after rewetting by a sudden rainfall, implying the presence of a hot moment of denitrification during the dry-rewetting transition period. The decrease of MBC:MBN ratio from dry to wet season indicates a possible microbial composition shift from fungi to bacteria, shedding lights on the potential contribution of fugal groups to denitrification in the dry season. Our study highlight that even under the same climate regime, the small-scale variations could affect the seasonal patterns of N cycling.", "keywords": ["13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. 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As a novel approach, a simple 'non-ideal' module, accounting for the effects of ionic strength (I) on the main acid-base equilibriums, was coupled to a HS-AD model, to jointly evaluate the effects of 'non-ideality' and the TS content dynamics on the HS-AD bio-physical-chemistry. 'Non-ideality' influenced the pH, concentration of inhibitors (i.e. NH3), and liquid-gas transfer (i.e. CO2), particularly at higher TS (i.e. \u2265 20%). Meanwhile, fitting the experimental data for batch assays at 15% TS showed that HS-AD of OFMSW might be operated at I\u202f\u2265\u202f0.5\u202fM. Therefore, all HS-AD simulations should account for 'non-ideal' corrections, when assessing the main inhibitory mechanisms (i.e. NH3 buildup and acidification) potentially occurring in HS-AD of OFMSW.", "keywords": ["[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]", "high-solids anaerobic digestion model", "Solid Waste", "01 natural sciences", "7. 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Sustainability", "High-solids anaerobic digestion modelNon-ideal bio-physical-chemical correctionsIonic strengthTotal solids dynamicsAmmonia inhibition", "Anaerobiosis", "ionic strength", "Methane", "ammonia inhibition", "non-ideal bio-physical-chemical corrections", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.iris.unina.it/bitstream/11588/746250/1/post-print.pdf"}, {"href": "https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-02623438/file/S0301479719303044.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.03.014"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Environmental%20Management", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.03.014", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.03.014", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.03.014"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-05-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.079", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:16:38Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-12-07", "title": "Vineyards in transition: A global assessment of the adaptation needs of grape producing regions under climate change", "description": "This paper suggests how climate change may transform vineyards. We consider changes in agro-climatic indicators derived from climatic variables as drivers for adaptation needs. We use two climate scenarios, GCM GFL-ESM2M and HadGEM2-ES, with 0.5\u00b0 spatial resolution and daily time step forced by two emission scenarios, RCP2.6 and 6.0, to estimate the transition of potential vineyards in the major grape production world areas by the late 21st century. We present and discuss changes in three impact indicators - one drought indicator and two temperature ones - aimed at exploring the benefits of transition-based policies. The drought indicator provides insights to prepare adaptation for extreme events in probabilistic terms. The temperature indicators offer information on the transition towards suitable zones of production. Future projections suggest a lack of water to maintain current levels of production in all regions of the world. Furthermore, thermal suitability of grapevine may be greatly affected in China and the Mediterranean region. Nevertheless, the possibility of quality wines is not altered within the regions with adequate suitability. Lastly, a portfolio of strategies to adapt to the future climate is presented.", "keywords": ["[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "China", "Models", " Statistical", "Mediterranean Region", "Climate Change", "Oceania", "Temperature", "Agriculture", "South America", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Droughts", "South Africa", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. 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Societal demands on soils and land are increasing, including contributions to climate change mitigation and adaptation, ecosystem services, biodiversity and biomass production for food, feed, fiber and energy. This adverse combination of reducing capacities and increasing demands requires rapid transition towards sustainable soil and land management that mitigates trade-offs and creates synergies. Likewise, a transformation of soil and land research is required to scientifically support the sustainable transformation. Based on a literature analysis combined with engagement of soil and land scientists, we developed a systemic research framework for sustainable soil and land management to support the implementation of the Horizon Europe Mission 'A Soil Deal for Europe'. The framework summarizes soil and land related topics into six societal challenges and associates them with eight knowledge types that outline integrated research for development and implementation of sustainable soil and land management. We propose that research should be aligned with living labs and lighthouses to leverage local solutions, innovation, training and education. We outline the role of experimentation, data analysis, assessment, modelling and the importance of research for institutions, governance and policy support. For encouraging a swift transition towards a systems approach for sustainable soil and land management, we concluded that among all knowledge types, those addressing socio-economic interrelations with soil health and related policies currently represent the biggest bottleneck.", "keywords": ["[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Conservation of Natural Resources", "Ecosystem service", "Climate Change", "Holistic", "Sustainable Development", "15. 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However, the incomplete biodegradation of the contaminants and the formation of the intermediary metabolites in the process may increase the toxicity in soil during bioremediation, and motile inoculants may mobilize the pollutants through biosorption. Therefore, controlling these factors should be a fundamental part of soil remediation approaches. The aim of this study was to evaluate the sources of risk associated with the cometabolism-based transformation of 14C-labeled pyrene by inoculated Pseudomonas putida G7 and identify ways to minimize risk. Our model scenario examined the increase in bioaccessibility to a distant source of contamination facilitated by sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) roots. A biochar trap for mobilized pollutant metabolites and bacteria has also been employed. The experimental design consisted of pots filled with a layer of sand with 14C-labeled pyrene (88 mg kg-1) as a contamination focus located several centimeters from the inoculation point. Half of the pots included a biochar layer at the bottom. The pots were incubated in a greenhouse with sunflower plants and P. putida G7 bacteria. Pots with sunflower plants showed a higher biodegradation of pyrene, its mobilization as metabolites through the percolate and the roots, and bacterial mobilization toward the source of contamination, also resulting in increased pyrene transformation. In addition, the biochar layer efficiently reduced the concentrations of pyrene metabolites collected in the leachates. Therefore, the combination of plants, motile bacteria and biochar safely reduced the risk caused by the biological transformation of pyrene.", "keywords": ["Risk", "2. Zero hunger", "570", "Pyrenes", "Bacteria", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Plants", "01 natural sciences", "Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons", "6. Clean water", "Sunflower", "Soil", "Biodegradation", " Environmental", "13. 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Here, we explored the potential of earthworm gut-inhabiting bacterial strains (Mycobacterium vanbaalenii (MV), Rhodococcus jostii (RJ), Streptomyces fulvissimus (SF), Bacillus simplex (BS), and Sporosarcina globispora (SG) to degrade plastic films (\u2300\u00a0=\u00a015\u00a0mm) made from commonly used polymers: low-density polyethylene film (LDPE-f), polylactic acid (PLA-f), polybutylene adipate terephthalate film (PBAT-f), and a commercial biodegradable mulch film, Bionov-B\u00ae (composed of Mater-Bi, a feedstock with PBAT, PLA and other chemical compounds). A 180-day experiment was conducted at room temperature (x\u0304 =19.4\u00a0\u00b0C) for different strain-plastic combinations under a low carbon media (0.1\u00d7 tryptic soy broth). Results showed that the tested strain-plastic combinations did not facilitate the degradation of LDPE-f (treated with RJ and SF), PBAT-f (treated with BS and SG), and Bionov-B (treated with BS, MV, and SG). However, incubating PLA-f with SF triggered a reduction in the molecular weights and an increase in crystallinity. Therefore, we used PLA-f as model plastic to study the influence of temperature ('room temperature' & '30\u00a0\u00b0C'), carbon source ('carbon-free' & 'low carbon supply'), and strain interactions ('single strains' & 'strain mixtures') on PLA degradation. SF and SF\u00a0+\u00a0RJ treatments significantly fostered PLA degradation under 30\u00a0\u00b0C in a low-carbon media. PLA-f did not show any degradation in carbon-free media treatments. The competition between different strains in the same system likely hindered the performance of PLA-degrading strains. A positive correlation between the final pH of culture media and PLA-f weight loss was observed, which might reflect the pH-dependent hydrolysis mechanism of PLA. Our results situate SF and its co-culture with RJ strains as possible accelerators of PLA degradation in temperatures below PLA glass transition temperature (Tg). Further studies are needed to test the bioremediation feasibility in soils.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "Bacteria", "ddc:550", "Polyesters", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "Gastrointestinal Microbiome", "03 medical and health sciences", "Biodegradation", " Environmental", "Life Science", "Animals", "Soil Pollutants", "Oligochaeta", "Plastics", "Soil Microbiology", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172175"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Science%20of%20The%20Total%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172175", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172175", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172175"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-06-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173265", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:16:41Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-05-15", "title": "Comparing the impact of microplastics derived from a biodegradable and a conventional plastic mulch on plant performance", "description": "Agricultural lands have been identified as plastic sinks. One source is plastic mulches, which are a source of micro- and nano-sized plastics in agricultural soils. Because of their persistence, there is now a push towards developing biodegradable plastics, which are designed to undergo (partial) breakdown after entering the environment. Yet, limited research has investigated the impacts of both conventional and biodegradable plastics on distinct plants. Moreover, comparisons among studies are difficult due to differences in experimental design. This study directly compares the effects of artificially weathered conventional polyethylene (PE) and starch-based biodegradable polybutylene adipate terephthalate (PBAT) on four food crops, including two monocots (barley, Hordeum vulgare, and wheat, Triticum aestivum L.) and two dicots (carrot, Daucus carota, and lettuce, Lactuca sativa L.). We investigated the effects of environmentally relevant low, medium, and high (0.01\u00a0%, 0.1\u00a0%, 1\u00a0% w/w) concentrations of PE and starch-PBAT blend on seed germination (acute toxicity), and subsequently on plant growth and chlorophyll through a pot-plant experiment (chronic toxicity). Germination of all species was not affected by both plastics. However, root length was reduced for lettuce and wheat seedlings. No other effects were recorded on monocots. We observed a reduction in shoot length and bud wet weight of carrot seedlings for the highest concentration of PE and starch-PBAT blend. Chronic exposure resulted in a significant decrease in shoot biomass of barley and lettuce. Additionally, a positive increase in the number of leaves of lettuce was observed for both plastics. Chlorophyll content was increased in lettuce when exposed to PE and starch-PBAT blend. Overall, adverse effects in dicots were more abundant than in monocots. Importantly, we found that the biodegradable plastic caused more commonly adverse effects on plants compared to conventional plastic, which was confirmed by a mini-review of studies directly comparing the impact of conventional and biodegradable microplastics.", "keywords": ["Microplastics", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "seed germination", "Germination", "Biodegradable Plastics", "02 engineering and technology", "myrkyllisyys", "01 natural sciences", "630", "maatalous", "Soil Pollutants", "Triticum", "agriculture", "Plant growth", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "mikromuovi", "580", "2. Zero hunger", "Toxicity", "kasvien kasvu", "Microplastic", "toxicity", "Agriculture", "Hordeum", "it\u00e4minen", "plant growth", "biodegradable plastic", "15. Life on land", "Biodegradable plastic", "Seed germination", "biohajoaminen", "6. Clean water", "Biodegradation", " Environmental", "microplastic", "Plastics"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173265"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Science%20of%20The%20Total%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173265", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173265", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173265"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-07-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/fenvs.2021.650155", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:20:20Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-04-06", "title": "Effects of Microplastic Fibers on Soil Aggregation and Enzyme Activities Are Organic Matter Dependent", "description": "<p>Microplastic as an anthropogenic pollutant accumulates in terrestrial ecosystems over time, threatening soil quality and health, for example by decreasing aggregate stability. Organic matter addition is an efficient approach to promote aggregate stability, yet little is known about whether microplastic can reduce the beneficial effect of organic matter on aggregate stability. We investigated the impacts of microplastic fibers in the presence or absence of different organic materials by carrying out a soil incubation experiment. This experiment was set up as a fully factorial design containing all combinations of microplastic fibers (no microplastic fiber addition, two different types of polyester fibers, and polyacrylic) and organic matter (no organic matter addition, Medicago lupulina leaves, Plantago lanceolata leaves, wheat straw, and hemp stems). We evaluated the percentage of water-stable aggregates (WSA) and activities of four soil enzymes (\uffce\uffb2-glucosidase, \uffce\uffb2-D-celluliosidase, N-acetyl-b-glucosaminidase, phosphatase). Organic matter addition increased WSA and enzyme activities, as expected. In particular, Plantago or wheat straw addition increased WSA and enzyme activities by 224.77 or 281.65% and 298.51 or 55.45%, respectively. Microplastic fibers had no effect on WSA and enzyme activities in the soil without organic matter addition, but decreased WSA and enzyme activities by 26.20 or 37.57% and 23.85 or 26.11%, respectively, in the presence of Plantago or wheat straw. Our study shows that the effects of microplastic fibers on soil aggregation and enzyme activities are organic matter dependent. A possible reason is that Plantago and wheat straw addition stimulated soil aggregation to a greater degree, resulting in more newly formed aggregates containing microplastic, the incorporated microplastic fibers led to less stable aggregates, and decrease in enzyme activities This highlights an important aspect of the context dependency of microplastic effects in soil and on soil health. Our results also suggest risks for soil stability associated with organic matter additions, such as is common in agroecosystems, when microplastics are present.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "570", "soil health", "soil aggregate stability", "500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "enzyme activity", "Environmental sciences", "plastic pollution", "13. 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La quantification du COS est n\u00e9cessaire pour mettre en \u0153uvre des techniques et des pratiques de stockage. Cependant, l'\u00e9chantillonnage du COS dans un monde qui couvre environ 1,5 milliard d'hectares de sols agricoles est un v\u00e9ritable d\u00e9fi. C'est pourquoi l'utilisation de technologies telles que les capteurs satellitaires constitue une alternative prometteuse pour quantifier et cartographier le COS dans diff\u00e9rents types d'agro\u00e9cosyst\u00e8mes \u00e0 travers le monde. L'objectif de cette th\u00e8se est d'\u00e9valuer le potentiel des images satellitaires Sentinel-2 (S2) et Sentinel-1 (S1) pour la cartographie du COS dans les agro-\u00e9cosyst\u00e8mes de la France m\u00e9tropolitaine en utilisant des mod\u00e8les spectraux et spatio-spectraux. Le chapitre 1 aborde l'\u00e9tat d'avancement de la cartographie du COS en France et pr\u00e9sente les principales limitations et m\u00e9thodes actuellement utilis\u00e9es avec les donn\u00e9es d'images satellitaires pour la pr\u00e9diction du COS. Le chapitre 2 pr\u00e9sente les zones d'\u00e9tude situ\u00e9es dans les r\u00e9gions Bretagne, Occitanie et Centre Val de Loire. De plus, les principaux ensembles de donn\u00e9es utilis\u00e9s sont d\u00e9crits et une analyse pr\u00e9liminaire de l'une des zones d'\u00e9tude est pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e. Le troisi\u00e8me chapitre \u00e9value le potentiel des images S2 et des produits d\u00e9riv\u00e9s de S1 et S2 pour pr\u00e9dire le SOC \u00e0 l'aide d'images \u00e0 date unique. Dans ce chapitre comme dans le second, des limitations li\u00e9es principalement aux conditions de surface du sol ont \u00e9t\u00e9 observ\u00e9es ; et les meilleures dates d'image pour d\u00e9tecter le SOC ont \u00e9t\u00e9 identifi\u00e9es. Dans la quatri\u00e8me au lieu d'images \u00e0 date unique, l'utilisation de mosa\u00efques temporelles S2 de sol nu (S2Bsoil) par p\u00e9riodes est abord\u00e9e comme l'utilisation de covariables d\u00e9riv\u00e9es de l'imagerie satellitaire et du terrain. Ce chapitre traite de l'importance de la s\u00e9lection des p\u00e9riodes de production de S2Bsol et de l'utilisation de covariables pertinentes pour comprendre la variabilit\u00e9 spatiale du COS \u00e0 l'\u00e9chelle r\u00e9gionale. Enfin, le dernier chapitre aborde les principaux constats et perspectives \u00e0 envisager dans un futur proche.", "keywords": ["[SDV.SA.AGRO] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Agronomy", "[SDE.MCG] Environmental Sciences/Global Changes", "S\u00e9ries satellitaires Sentinel", "Digital soil mapping", "Soil organic carbon", "Carbone organique du sol", "Bare soil", "Sentinel time series", "Sol nu", "Croplands", "Terres agricoles", "[SDV.SA.SDS] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Soil study", "Cartographie num\u00e9rique des sols"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Urbina Salazar, Diego Fernando", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/9b81642374175d90e0b717deca64ff67"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "9b81642374175d90e0b717deca64ff67", "name": "item", "description": "9b81642374175d90e0b717deca64ff67", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/9b81642374175d90e0b717deca64ff67"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.soilbio.2004.07.017", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:16:42Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2004-07-27", "title": "Microbial Activity In Pig Slurry-Amended Soils Under Semiarid Conditions", "description": "Soil amendment with manures from intensive animal industries is nowadays a common practice that may favorably or adversely affect several soil properties, including soil microbial activity. In this work, the effect of consecutive annual additions of pig slurry (PS) at rates of 30, 60, 90, 120 and 150 m 3  ha -1  y -1  over a 4-year period on soil chemical properties and microbial activity was investigated and compared to that of an inorganic fertilization and a control (without amendment). Field plot experiment conducted under a continuous barley monoculture and semiarid conditions were used. Eight months after the fourth yearly PS and mineral fertilizer application (i.e. soon after the fourth barley harvest), surface soil samples (Ap horizon, 0-15 cm depth) from control and amended soils were collected and analysed for pH, electrical conductivity (EC), contents of total organic C, total N, available P and K, microbial biomass C, basal respiration and different enzymatic activities. The control soil had a slightly acidic pH (6.0), a small EC (0.07 dS m -1 ), adequate levels of total N (1.2 g kg -1 ) and available K (483 mg kg -1 ) for barley growth, and small contents of total organic C (13.2 g kg -1 ) and available P (52 mg kg -1 ). With respect to the control and mineral fertilized soils, the PS-amended soils had greater pH values (around neutrality or slightly alkaline), electrical conductivities (still low) and contents of available P and K, and slightly larger total N contents. A significant decrease of total organic C was observed in soils amended at high slurry rate (12.3 g kg -1 ). Compared with the control and mineral treatments, which produced almost similar results, the PS-amended soils were characterized by a higher microbial biomass C content (from 311 to 442 g kg -1 ), microbial biomass C/total organic C ratio (from 2.3 to 3.6%) and dehydrogenase (from 35 to 173 \u03bcg INTF g -1 ), catalase (from 5 to 24 \u03bcmol O 2  g -1  min -1 ), BAA-protease (from 0.7 to 1.9 \u03bcmol NH +  4  g -1  h -1 ) and \u03b2-glucosidase (from 117 to 269 \u03bcmol PNP g -1  h -1 ) activities, similar basal respirations (from 48 to 77 \u03bcg C-CO 2  g -1  d -1 ) and urease activities (from 1.5 to 2.2 \u03bcmol NH +  4  g -1  h -1 ), and smaller metabolic quotients (from 6.4 to 7.7 ng C-CO 2  \u03bcg -1  biomass C h -1 ) and phosphatese activities (from 374 to 159 \u03bcmol PNP g -1  h -1 ). For example, statistical analysis of experimental data showed that, with the exception of metabolic quotient and total organic C content, these effects generally increased with increasing cumulative amount of PS. In conclusion, cumulative PS application to soil over time under semiarid conditions may produce not only beneficial effects but also adverse effects on soil properties, such us the partial mineralization of soil organic C through extended microbial oxidation. Thus, PS should not be considered as a mature organic amendment and should be treated appropriately before it is applied to soil, so as to enhance its potential as a soil organic fertilizer.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. 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In this study, we determined the effect of elevated CO 2  on decomposition of grass root material ( Lolium perenne  L.).  14 C-labeled root material, produced under ambient (35\u00a0Pa pCO 2 ) or elevated CO 2  (70\u00a0Pa pCO 2 ) was incubated in soil for 64 days. The soils were taken from a pasture ecosystem which had been exposed to ambient (35\u00a0Pa pCO 2 ) or elevated CO 2  (60\u00a0Pa pCO 2 ) under FACE-conditions for 10 years and two fertilizer N rates: 140 and 560\u00a0kg N ha \u22121 \u00a0year \u22121 . In soil exposed to elevated CO 2 , decomposition rates of root material grown at either ambient or elevated CO 2  were always lower than in the control soil exposed to ambient CO 2 , demonstrating a change in microbial activity. In the soil that received the high rate of N fertilizer, decomposition of root material grown at elevated CO 2  decreased by approximately 17% after incubation for 64 days compared to root material grown at ambient CO 2 . The amount of  14 CO 2  respired per amount of  14 C incorporated in the microbial biomass ( q  14 CO 2 ) was significantly lower when roots were grown under high CO 2  compared to roots grown under low CO 2 . We hypothesize that this decrease is the result of a shift in the microbial community, causing an increase in metabolic efficiency. Soils exposed to elevated CO 2  tended to respire more native SOC, both with and without the addition of the root material, probably resulting from a higher C supply to the soil during the 10 years of treatment with elevated CO 2 . The results show the importance of using soils adapted to elevated CO 2  in studies of decomposition of roots grown under elevated CO 2 . Our results further suggest that negative priming effects may obscure CO 2  data in incubation experiments with unlabeled substrates. From the results obtained, we conclude that a slower turnover of root material grown in an \u2018elevated-CO 2  world\u2019 may result in a limited net increase in C storage in ryegrass swards.", "keywords": ["organic-matter dynamics", "2. Zero hunger", "microbial biomass", "atmospheric carbon-dioxide", "turnover", "fine roots", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. 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This generates a pattern of landscape cross-sectional and longitudinal heterogeneity in texture, microtopography and plant cover. Agricultural uses restrain such mechanisms, eliminating the mosaic of soil environments and vegetation patches in natural flood-plains. The ecological restoration performed in ca. 5000\u00a0ha of agricultural lands in the Guadiamar river basin (SW Spain), affected by the Aznalcollar mine spill in 1998 (Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn-rich pyritic sludge), has focused on the re-creation of those controlling mechanisms (enhancement of the natural river flooding dynamics and patchy afforestation). We have studied temporal trends, and the role of specific habitats differentiation in the river terraces, on the recovery of the soil biochemical status in the emerging ecosystems. During 2000\u20132004, the geometric mean of enzyme activities (dehydrogenase, \u03b2-glucosidase, urease, arylsulfatase, acid and alkaline phosphatase) increased three-fold in the most-impacted, coarser textured, upper-watershed soils; and by six-fold in less polluted, loamy soils at the mid-watershed. In 2005, sampling was stratified by microhabitats at two representative watershed sections. Vegetation cover-type and transport/sedimentation processes are the main driving forces increasing both the mean value and intra-site spatial heterogeneity of soil properties (especially enzyme activities) in reclaimed areas. In the wet season, soil enzyme activity under adult trees (holm-oaks and Eucaliptus), and in spots where silt and plant residues had accumulated during previous floodings, was more than 50% higher than in bare areas. However, activities were strongly inhibited in eroded areas where pollutant residues appeared in the surface. Woody patches and the grassy matrix of revegetated areas showed distinctive soil N features. Specific plant species effects were observed, such as a generally high enzymatic activity in soils under Tamarix gallica.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. 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N. Sepehrnia is funded by a Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, United Kingdom under the grant agreement No. 101026287. We acknowledge University of Aberdeen, UK for supporting this project. ; Peer reviewed", "keywords": ["GE", "Soil Science", "610", "Plant Science", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "01 natural sciences", "6. 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Hochst (Caesalpinioideae) and Guiera senegalensis J.F. Gmel (Combretaceae) are commonly found in farmers\u2019 fields at varying densities in semi-arid Senegal and throughout the Sahel where soils have chronically low phosphorus (P) availability. It seems plausible that shrub litter and the rhizospheres could influence P fractions and other chemical soil properties that affect crop productivity. Thus, a study was done at two sites, on the distribution of inorganic and organic soil P pools, organic C levels, and pH in soil beneath and outside the canopies of P. reticulatum and G. senegalensis (0-30 cm depth). Both sites had low total P ranging from 64 mg P kg\u22121 to 135 mg P kg-1, and low extractable PO4 (resin Pi) (1\u20136 mg P kg\u22121) with P fractions dominated by NaOH-P. Organic P (Po) made up about 50% of total P, and most of the organic P (>60%) was found in the NaOH-P fractions. The labile P, particularly bicarb-Po was higher in soil beneath shrub canopies (8.4 mg P kg \u22121), than outside the canopy (6.2 mg P kg \u22121). Similarly, C, N and P to a lesser extent, were more concentrated beneath shrub canopies. P. reticulatum soil was dominated by the NaOH-Po fraction, whereas G. senegalensis had higher bicarb-Po at one of the study sites. An index of biologically available organic P (Bicarb-Po) / (Bicarb-Po + Bicar-Pi + Resin Pi) was > 60% and indicates that biological processes represent an important part of P cycling in these shrub ecosystems. The differential ability of shrubs in modifying soil chemical properties under their canopies has major implications for biogeochemical cycling of nutrients and C in sandy soils of semi arid Sahelian ecosystems.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "550", "Total C", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. 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P.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-009-0044-8"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-009-0044-8", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-009-0044-8", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-009-0044-8"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2009-06-16T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.03.059", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:16:26Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-04-19", "title": "The value of manure - Manure as co-product in life cycle assessment", "description": "Livestock production is important for food security, nutrition, and landscape maintenance, but it is associated with several environmental impacts. To assess the risk and benefits arising from livestock production, transparent and robust indicators are required, such as those offered by life cycle assessment. A central question in such approaches is how environmental burden is allocated to livestock products and to manure that is re-used for agricultural production. To incentivize sustainable use of manure, it should be considered as a co-product as long as it is not disposed of, or wasted, or applied in excess of crop nutrient needs, in which case it should be treated as a waste. This paper proposes a theoretical approach to define nutrient requirements based on nutrient response curves to economic and physical optima and a pragmatic approach based on crop nutrient yield adjusted for nutrient losses to atmosphere and water. Allocation of environmental burden to manure and other livestock products is then based on the nutrient value from manure for crop production using the price of fertilizer nutrients. We illustrate and discuss the proposed method with two case studies.", "keywords": ["[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]", "assessment", "resource", "01 natural sciences", "630", "nitrogen", "Fertilizer", "allocation", "life cycle", "manures", "Feeds and feeding. Animal nutrition", "farmyard manure", "Housing and environmental control", "2. Zero hunger", "ta412", "Agriculture and the environment", "Agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "fertilizer", "Crop Production", "[SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio]", "Livestock supply chains", "green manures", "Fertilisers", "performance", "energy", "Livestock", "330", "fertilizers", "Allocation", "ta1172", "Environmental Sciences & Ecology", "333", "Article", "soil", "12. Responsible consumption", "nutrient use", "Life cycle assessment", "life cycle assessment", "livestock supply chains", "nutrients", "Animals", "livestock production", "alocation", "Fertilizers", "Rangelands. Range management. 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Climate action", "manure", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "protein"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.03.059"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Environmental%20Management", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.03.059", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.03.059", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.03.059"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-07-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110327", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-29T16:16:26Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-03-26", "title": "Management of poultry manure in Poland \u2013 Current state and future perspectives", "description": "This review aimed to analyse the current state of management practices for poultry manure in Poland and present future perspectives in terms of technologies allowing closing the loops for circular economy, and thus recovery of nutrients and energy. The scope of the review focused primarily on: (1) the analysis of poultry production and generation of poultry manure with special references to quantities, properties (e.g. fertilizing properties), seasonality, etc.; (2) the overview of current practices and methods for managing poultry manure including advantages and limitations; (3) the analysis of potential and realistic threats and risk related to managing poultry manure, and also (4) the analysis of promising technologies for converting poultry manure into added value products and energy. The review addressed the following technologies: composting of poultry manure to obtain fertilizers and soil improvers, anaerobic digestion of poultry manure for energy recovery, and also pyrolysis of poultry manure into different types of biochar that can be applied in agriculture, horticulture and industry. Poultry manure is rich in macro- and micronutrients but also can contain various contaminants such as antibiotics or pesticides, and thus posing a realistic threat to soil and living organisms when applied to soil directly or after biological treatment. The main challenge in poultry manure processing is to assure sufficient closing of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorous loops and safe application to soil.", "keywords": ["LITTER", "Nitrogen", "SEWAGE-SLUDGE", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "Circular", "ANAEROBIC CO-DIGESTION", "02 engineering and technology", "SORPTION", "Poultry manure", "Poultry", "12. Responsible consumption", "Soil", "METHANE", "Nutrient and energy recovery", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "Animals", "BIOGAS PRODUCTION", "ORGANIC FRACTION", "Fertilizers", "PRODUCTION", "2. Zero hunger", "BIOCHAR", "PYROLYSIS", "Composting", "Agriculture", "15. 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Potential effectiveness of mitigation measures and possible confounding factors are often assessed using studies conducted in headwater catchments. However, success is often evaluated based on trends in river mouth water chemistry. It is not clear how transferrable insights from headwater catchments are to larger rivers. Here, relationships between P and suspended solids (SS) identified in small agricultural headwater catchments were applied to 30 larger, mixed land use catchments draining into M\u00e4laren, a Swedish great lake. Relationships identified in headwater streams between SS concentration, catchment agricultural land percentage and arable land clay content were corroborated for the larger catchments (R2\u00a0=\u00a00.59, p-value<0.001. The same was true for connections between SS and particulate P (R2\u00a0=\u00a00.74, p-value<0.001). This study highlights the importance of agricultural land, clay content and SS for P transport, on both smaller headwater as well as larger catchment scales, supporting the use of headwater findings on larger, management relevant scales. Consequently, these relationships should be used to target mitigation measures to reduce SS and P losses. To explore the effectiveness of mitigation measures on water quality, we assessed long-term (20 year) trends in tributary water quality and compared these trends to the amount of mitigation measures implemented in the catchment. Overall improving trends were detected using regional Mann Kendall tests, but few decreasing trends in nutrient concentrations were found for individual sites using Generalized Additive Models (GAM). The lack of significant trends and identifiable connections to amount of mitigation measures implemented could be due to several reasons, e.g. insufficient time for recently implemented measures to have an effect, ongoing release of legacy P as well as low areal coverage and poor spatial placement of implemented measures. In addition, trend detection requires large amounts of data and the results should be carefully interpreted and communicated.", "keywords": ["Environmental Sciences (social aspects to be 507)", "Agriculture", "Phosphorus", "Oceanography", " Hydrology", " Water Resources", "15. Life on land", "Oceanography", "6. Clean water", "Soil", "Lakes", "Rivers", "13. 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As vegetable cultivation is one of the most important agricultural land uses worldwide, a deeper understanding of NH3 volatilization is necessary in vegetable production systems. We therefore conducted a 3-year (2010-2012) field experiment to characterize NH3 volatilization and evaluate the effect of different N fertilizer treatments on this process during the growth period of Chinese cabbage. Ammonia volatilization rate, rainfall, soil water content, pH, and soil NH4(+) were measured during the growth period. The results showed that NH3 volatilization was significantly and positively correlated to topsoil pH and NH4(+) concentration. Climate factors and fertilization method also significantly affected NH3 volatilization. Specifically, organic fertilizer (OF) increased NH3 volatilization by 11.77%-18.46%, compared to conventional fertilizer (CF, urea), while organic-inorganic compound fertilizer (OIF) reduced NH3 volatilization by 8.82%-12.67% compared to CF. Furthermore, slow-release fertilizers had significantly positive effects on controlling NH3 volatilization, with a 60.73%-68.80% reduction for sulfur-coated urea (SCU), a 71.85%-78.97% reduction for biological Carbon Power\u00ae urea (BCU), and a 77.66%-83.12% reduction for bulk-blend controlled-release fertilizer (BBCRF) relative to CF. This study provides much needed baseline information, which will help in fertilizer choice and management practices to reduce NH3 volatilization and encourage the development of new strategies for vegetable planting.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "China", "Nitrogen", "Brassica", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "Soil", "Ammonia", "13. 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