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This study focuses on a territorial analysis, performed using a Geographic Information System (GIS) in an agricultural area of the Apulia region (southern Italy). Areas of agricultural plastic waste production were identified through land-use maps. The application of plastic waste indices to different crop types and plastic products allowed quantifying and georeferencing actual plastic waste production. From this actual visualization, the other strategies were obtained by properly managing the indices. Two improved scenarios were obtained, the first consisted of extending the lifespan of some plastics, and the second entailed the introduction of some biodegradable alternatives. About 11,103 tons of agricultural plastic waste are yearly produced in the area and 7450 tons come from covering films. Lifespan extension would reduce the annual waste amount by about 25%, while more alternative products are needed to achieve significant results in the second scenario.</p></article>", "keywords": ["Technology", "QH301-705.5", "QC1-999", "plastic detection", "01 natural sciences", "12. Responsible consumption", "Land Use", "11. Sustainability", "Biology (General)", "Waste management", "QD1-999", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "products lifespan", "T", "Physics", "sustainability; GIS; land use; plastic detection; waste management; biodegradable plastic; products lifespan", "land use", "Plastic detection", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "biodegradable plastic", "15. Life on land", "Biodegradable plastic", "sustainability", "GIS", "Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)", "Chemistry", "Sustainability", "13. 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This research built upon a previous work, which explored microbial diversity in the surface snow surrounding the Concordia Research Station. While that study successfully characterized the bacterial assemblage, detecting fungal diversity was hampered by the low DNA content. To address this knowledge gap, in the present study, we optimized the sampling by increasing ice/snow collected to leverage the final DNA yield. The V4 variable region of the 16S rDNA and Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS1) rDNA was used to evaluate bacterial and fungal diversity. From the sequencing, we obtained 3,352,661 and 4,433,595 reads clustered in 930 and 3182 amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) for fungi and bacteria, respectively. Amplicon sequencing revealed a predominance of Basidiomycota (49%) and Ascomycota (42%) in the fungal component; Bacteroidota (65.8%) is the main representative among the bacterial phyla. Basidiomycetes are almost exclusively represented by yeast-like fungi. Our findings provide the first comprehensive overview of both fungal and bacterial diversity in the Antarctic Polar Plateau\u2019s surface snow/ice near Concordia Station and to identify seasonality as the main driver of microbial diversity; we also detected the most sensitive microorganisms to these factors, which could serve as indicators of human impact in this pristine environment and aid in planetary protection for future exploration missions.</p></article>", "keywords": ["amplicon sequencing", "QH301-705.5", "Settore BIO/01", "15. Life on land", "Article", "extraterrestrial analogue", "Antarctic Polar Plateau", "life detection", "13. 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In this study, we investigated the effect of vibro-ball milling (VBM) for 5 and 30 min at a frequency of 20 s\uffe2\uff88\uff921 on the physicochemical composition and enzymatic hydrolysis (30 U g\uffe2\uff88\uff921 total solids (TS) of cellulase and endo-1,4-xylanase from Trichoderma longibrachiatum) of dry and wet solid separated digestates from an agricultural biogas plant. We found that VBM of dry solid digestate improved the physical parameters as both the particle size and the crystallinity index (from 27% to 75%) were reduced. By contrast, VBM of wet solid digestate had a minimal effect on the physicochemical parameters. The best results in terms of cellulose and hemicelluloses hydrolysis were noted for 30 min of VBM of dry solid digestate, with hydrolysis yields of 64% and 85% for hemicelluloses and cellulose, respectively. At the condition of 30 min of VBM, bioethanol and methane production on the dry solid separated digestate was investigated. Bioethanol fermentation by simultaneous saccharification and fermentation resulted in an ethanol yield of 98 geth kg\uffe2\uff88\uff921 TS (corresponding to 90% of the theoretical value) versus 19 geth kg\uffe2\uff88\uff921 TS for raw solid digestate. Finally, in terms of methane potential, VBM for 30 min lead to an increase of the methane potential of 31% compared to untreated solid digestate.</p>", "keywords": ["anaerobic digestion", "Technology", "[SDV.BIO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biotechnology", "QH301-705.5", "sugars recovery", "Biotechnologies", "7. Clean energy", "01 natural sciences", "Article", "milling process", "12. 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In theory, it is an ideal way of meat production, humane to the animals and sustainable for the environment, while keeping the same taste and nutritional values as traditional meat and having additional benefits such as controlled fat content and absence of antibiotics and hormones used in the traditional meat industry. However, in practice, there is still a number of challenges, such as those associated with the upscale of cultured meat (CM). CM food safety monitoring is a necessary factor when envisioning both the regulatory compliance and consumer acceptance. To achieve this, a multidisciplinary approach is necessary. This includes extensive development of the sensitive and specific analytical devices i.e., sensors to enable reliable food safety monitoring throughout the whole future food supply chain. In addition, advanced monitoring options can help in the further optimization of the meat cultivation which may reduce the currently still high costs of production. This review presents an overview of the sensor monitoring options for the most relevant parameters of importance for meat cultivation. Examples of the various types of sensors that can potentially be used in CM production are provided and the options for their integration into bioreactors, as well as suggestions on further improvements and more advanced integration approaches. In favor of the multidisciplinary approach, we also include an overview of the bioreactor types, scaffolding options as well as imaging techniques relevant for CM research. Furthermore, we briefly present the current status of the CM research and related regulation, societal aspects and challenges to its upscaling and commercialization.</p></article>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "QH301-705.5", "Review", "15. Life on land", "sensors", "12. Responsible consumption", "monitoring", "bioreactor", "03 medical and health sciences", "cultivated meat", "13. 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The soil type was an Olton sandy loam with an average of 16.4% clay, 67.6% sand and 0.65 g kg\uffe2\uff88\uff921 of organic matter (OM). The cropping systems evaluated were grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.)\uffe2\uff80\uff94cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) (Srg-Ct), cotton-winter rye (Secale cereale)-grain sorghum (Ct-Rye-Srg), and a rotation of forage (f) sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. and Sorghum sudanense) with winter rye (Srf-Rye), which were under no-tillage (nt) and conventional tillage (ct) practices. Soil microbial communities under cotton based cropping systems (Srg-Ct and Ct-Rye-Srg) showed lower fungal:bacterial ratios compared to the soil under Srf-Rye. Soil under Srf-Rye showed higher population densities of Bacteroidetes and Proteobacteria while lower Actinobacteria compared to Srg-Ct and Ct-Rye-Srg. Chloroflexi, Gemmatimonadetes and Verrucomicrobiae were higher in tilled soil compared to the no-tilled plots. Regardless the limited irrigation available to sustain agricultural production within these dryland cropping systems, this study demonstrated that differences in microbial communities are more affected by crop rotation than tillage management history. Although soil fungal diversity was not analyzed in this study, pyrosequencing suggests that tillage practices can affect bacterial phyla distribution in this sandy soil.</p>", "keywords": ["FAME analysis", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "QH301-705.5", "bacterial diversity", "cropping systems", "pyrosequencing; soil microbial communities; bacterial diversity; FAME analysis; enzyme activities; cropping systems; tillage; GRACEnet", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "GRACEnet", "03 medical and health sciences", "pyrosequencing", "enzyme activities", "soil microbial communities", "tillage", "Biology (General)"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/2/6/910/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/d2060910"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Diversity", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/d2060910", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/d2060910", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/d2060910"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2010-06-07T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/d4030334", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:19:00Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-09-20", "description": "<p>We compared forest floor depth, soil organic matter, soil moisture, anaerobic mineralizable nitrogen (a measure of microbial biomass), denitrification potential, and soil/litter arthropod communities among old growth, unthinned mature stands, and thinned mature stands at nine sites (each with all three stand types) distributed among three regions of Oregon. Mineral soil measurements were restricted to the top 10 cm. Data were analyzed with both multivariate and univariate analyses of variance. Multivariate analyses were conducted with and without soil mesofauna or forest floor mesofauna, as data for those taxa were not collected on some sites. In multivariate analysis with soil mesofauna, the model giving the strongest separation among stand types (P = 0.019) included abundance and richness of soil mesofauna and anaerobic mineralizable nitrogen. The best model with forest floor mesofauna (P = 0.010) included anaerobic mineralizable nitrogen, soil moisture content, and richness of forest floor mesofauna. Old growth had the highest mean values for all variables, and in both models differed significantly from mature stands, while the latter did not differ. Old growth also averaged higher percent soil organic matter, and analysis including that variable was significant but not as strong as without it. Results of the multivariate analyses were mostly supported by univariate analyses, but there were some differences. In univariate analysis, the difference in percent soil organic matter between old growth and thinned mature was due to a single site in which the old growth had exceptionally high soil organic matter; without that site, percent soil organic matter did not differ between old growth and thinned mature, and a multivariate model containing soil organic matter was not statistically significant. In univariate analyses soil mesofauna had to be compared nonparametrically (because of heavy left-tails) and differed only in the Siskiyou Mountains, where they were most abundant and species rich in old growth forests. Species richness of mineral soil mesofauna correlated significantly (+) with percent soil organic matter and soil moisture, while richness of forest floor mesofauna correlated (+) with depth of the forest floor. Composition of forest floor and soil mesofauna suggest the two groups represent a single community. Soil moisture correlated highly with percent soil organic matter, with no evidence for drying in sites that were sampled relatively late in the summer drought, suggesting losses of surface soil moisture were at least partially replaced by hydraulic lift (which has been demonstrated in other forests of the region).</p>", "keywords": ["soil arthropods", "disturbance", "0106 biological sciences", "soil organic matter; soil nitrogen; soil moisture; soil arthropods; thinning; disturbance; forest management", "QH301-705.5", "soil organic matter", "soil nitrogen", "thinning", "forest management", "soil moisture", "Biology (General)", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Robert P. Griffiths, Andrew R. Moldenke, David A. Perry, Stephanie L. Madson,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/4/3/334/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/d4030334"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Diversity", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/d4030334", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/d4030334", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/d4030334"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-09-20T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/jof7050333", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:19:02Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-04-27", "title": "Resilience of Epiphytic Lichens to Combined Effects of Increasing Nitrogen and Solar Radiation", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Lichens are classified into different functional groups depending on their ecological and physiological response to a given environmental stressor. However, knowledge on lichen response to the synergistic effect of multiple environmental factors is extremely scarce, although vital to get a comprehensive understanding of the effects of global change. We exposed six lichen species belonging to different functional groups to the combined effects of two nitrogen (N) doses and direct sunlight involving both high temperatures and ultraviolet (UV) radiation for 58 days. Irrespective of their functional group, all species showed a homogenous response to N with cumulative, detrimental effects and an inability to recover following sunlight, UV exposure. Moreover, solar radiation made a tolerant species more prone to N pollution\u2019s effects. Our results draw attention to the combined effects of global change and other environmental drivers on canopy defoliation and tree death, with consequences for the protection of ecosystems.</p></article>", "keywords": ["mediterranean ecosystems", "0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "chlorophyll fluorescence", "QH301-705.5", "nitrogen pollution", "Fv/Fm ratio", "Biology (General)", "15. 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It was shown that annually, mycorrhizal fungi and nitrogen-fixing bacteria are responsible for 5 to 80% of all nitrogen, and up to 75% of P plant acquisition. However, while bacteria are the most studied soil microorganisms and most frequently reported in the scientific literature, the role of fungi is relatively understudied, although they are the primary organic matter decomposers and govern soil carbon and other elements, including P-cycling. Many fungi can solubilize insoluble phosphates or facilitate P-acquisition by plants and, therefore, form an important part of the commercial microbial products, with Aspergillus, Penicillium and Trichoderma being the most efficient. In this paper, the role of fungi in P-solubilization and plant nutrition will be presented with a special emphasis on their production and application. Although this topic has been repeatedly reviewed, some recent views questioned the efficacy of the microbial P-solubilizers in soil. Here, we will try to summarize the proven facts but also discuss further lines of research that may clarify our doubts in this field or open new perspectives on using the microbial and particularly fungal P-solubilizing potential in accordance with the principles of the sustainability and circular economy.</p></article>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "P-solubilization; alternative P-sources; fungi; new strategies for P-solubilization; sustainable agriculture", "QH301-705.5", "New strategies for P-solubilization", "Sustainable agriculture", "Fungi", "Alternative P-sources", "alternative P-sources", "Review", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "new strategies for P-solubilization", "12. Responsible consumption", "sustainable agriculture", "P-solubilization", "13. 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Furthermore, they were discovered as mediators of plant networking with the surrounding environment, showing a surprising ability to perform as signaling compounds for a multitrophic inter-kingdom level of communication that influences the plant host at the phytobiome scale. Flavonoids orchestrate plant-neighboring plant allelopathic interactions, recruit beneficial bacteria and mycorrhizal fungi, counteract pathogen outbreak, influence soil microbiome and affect plant physiology to improve its resilience to fluctuating environmental conditions. This review focuses on the diversified spectrum of flavonoid functions in plants under a variety of stresses in the modulation of plant morphogenesis in response to environmental clues, as well as their role as inter-kingdom signaling molecules with micro- and macroorganisms. Regarding the latter, the review addresses flavonoids as key phytochemicals in the human diet, considering their abundance in fruits and edible plants. Recent evidence highlights their role as nutraceuticals, probiotics and as promising new drugs for the treatment of several pathologies.</p></article>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "phytochemicals; root exudates; phytobiome; plant-microbe interactions; beneficial microbes; plant secondary metabolites; abiotic stress; biotic stress; rhizosphere; microbiome", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "beneficial microbes", "QH301-705.5", "phytobiome", "plant-microbe interactions", "Review", "Biology (General)", "phytochemicals", "root exudates", "plant secondary metabolites"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://air.unimi.it/bitstream/2434/949072/2/Ghitti%20et%20al%202022%20flavonoids%20are%20intra%20and%20inter%20kingdom%20modulator%20signals.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10122479"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microorganisms", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/microorganisms10122479", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/microorganisms10122479", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/microorganisms10122479"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-12-15T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/microorganisms11010224", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:19:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-01-16", "title": "Microbial-Based Products to Control Soil-Borne Pathogens:Methods to Improve Efficacy and to Assess Impactson Microbiome", "description": "<p>Microbial-based products (either as biopesticide or biofertilizers) have a long history of application, though their use is still limited, mainly due to a perceived low and inconsistent efficacy under field conditions. However, their efficacy has always been compared to chemical products, which have a completely different mechanism of action and production process, following the chemical paradigm of agricultural production. This paradigm has also been applied to regulatory processes, particularly for biopesticides, making the marketing of microbial-based formulations difficult. Increased knowledge about bioinocula behavior after application to the soil and their impact on soil microbiome should foster better exploitation of microbial-based products in a complex environment such as the soil. Moreover, the multifunctional capacity of microbial strains with regard to plant growth promotion and protection should also be considered in this respect. Therefore, the methods utilized for these studies are key to improving the knowledge and understanding of microbial-based product activity and improving their efficacy, which, from farmers\uffe2\uff80\uff99 point of view, is the parameter to assess the usefulness of a treatment. In this review, we are thus addressing aspects related to the production and formulation process, highlighting the methods that can be used to evaluate the functioning and impact of microbial-based products on soil microbiome, as tools supporting their use and marketing.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "analytical methods", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "phenotypic arrays", "QH301-705.5", "mycorrhiza", "biocontrol", "Review", "Biology (General)", "formulation strategies", "analytical methods; biocontrol; formulation strategies; mycorrhiza; phenotypic arrays"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://iris.cnr.it/bitstream/20.500.14243/453424/1/microorganisms-11-00224.pdf"}, {"href": "https://iris.unito.it/bitstream/2318/1891860/1/microorganisms-11-00224.pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/11/1/224/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11010224"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microorganisms", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/microorganisms11010224", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/microorganisms11010224", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/microorganisms11010224"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-01-16T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/microorganisms11030735", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:19:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-03-13", "title": "Inorganic Carbon Assimilation and Electrosynthesis of Platform Chemicals in Bioelectrochemical Systems (BESs) Inoculated with Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum N1-H4", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>The need for greener processes to satisfy the demand of platform chemicals together with the possibility of reusing CO2 from human activities has recently encouraged research on the set-up, optimization, and development of bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) for the electrosynthesis of organic compounds from inorganic carbon (CO2, HCO3\u2212). In the present study, we tested the ability of Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum N1-4 (DSMZ 14923) to produce acetate and D-3-hydroxybutyrate from inorganic carbon present in a CO2:N2 gas mix. At the same time, we tested the ability of a Shewanella oneidensis MR1 and Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA1430/CO1 consortium to provide reducing power to sustain carbon assimilation at the cathode. We tested the performance of three different systems with the same layouts, inocula, and media, but with the application of 1.5 V external voltage, of a 1000 \u2126 external load, and without any connection between the electrodes or external devices (open circuit voltage, OCV). We compared both CO2 assimilation rate and production of metabolites (formate, acetate 3-D-hydroxybutyrate) in our BESs with the values obtained in non-electrogenic control cultures and estimated the energy used by our BESs to assimilate 1 mol of CO2. Our results showed that C. saccharoperbutylacetonicum NT-1 achieved the maximum CO2 assimilation (95.5%) when the microbial fuel cells (MFCs) were connected to the 1000 \u2126 external resistor, with the Shewanella/Pseudomonas consortium as the only source of electrons. Furthermore, we detected a shift in the metabolism of C. saccharoperbutylacetonicum NT-1 because of its prolonged activity in BESs. Our results open new perspectives for the utilization of BESs in carbon capture and electrosynthesis of platform chemicals.</p></article>", "keywords": ["570", "CO<sub>2</sub> capture", "PCA", "[SDV.BIO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biotechnology", "QH301-705.5", "Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA1430/CO1", "3-D-hydroxybutyrate; CO2 capture; Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum NT-1; PCA; Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA1430/CO1; Shewanella oneidensis MR1; electrosynthesis", "<i>Shewanella oneidensis</i> MR1", "Article", "[SDV.BIO] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biotechnology", "electrosynthesis", "CO<sub>2</sub> capture; <i>Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum</i> NT-1; electrosynthesis; 3-D-hydroxybutyrate; PCA; <i>Shewanella oneidensis</i> MR1; <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> PA1430/CO1", "[CHIM.OTHE] Chemical Sciences/Other", "13. Climate action", "Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum NT-1", "Shewanella oneidensis MR1", "3-D-hydroxybutyrate; CO2 capture; clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum NT-1; PCA; pseudomonas aeruginosa PA1430/CO1; shewanella oneidensis MR1; electrosynthesis", "CO$_2$ capture", "3-Dhydroxybutyrate", "3-D-hydroxybutyrate", "Biology (General)", "[CHIM.OTHE]Chemical Sciences/Other", "<i>Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum</i> NT-1"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/11/3/735/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11030735"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microorganisms", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/microorganisms11030735", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/microorganisms11030735", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/microorganisms11030735"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-03-13T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/microorganisms11041064", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:19:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-04-20", "title": "Effect of the Mode of Fermentation on the Behavior of Penicillium bilaiae in Conditions of Abiotic Stress", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>The ability of a Penicillium bilaiae strain to support acid production and simultaneously solubilize inorganic sources of phosphate in conditions of submerged, solid-state fermentation (SSF) and immobilized cell system was examined in this study. Abiotic stress factors such as NaCl and different values of pH were introduced into the different fermentation process schemes to measure the fungal response. The results showed a higher tolerance of P. bilaiae when the fermentation process was carried out in solid-state and immobilized-cell conditions, which mimics the natural state of the soil microorganisms. The acidic culture conditions were not found to be suitable for fungal growth, which increased at a higher pH, with values of 4.0 and 6.0 being optimal for all types of fermentation. The presence of increasing amounts of NaCl provoked low biomass growth, titratable acidity, and simultaneous phosphate (P) solubilization. These results were, however, less pronounced at pH 4.0 and 6.0, particularly in conditions of SSF. Studying stress-tolerant microbial characteristics, particularly in different conditions and combinations of stress factors, is of great importance for further managing the overall microbial inoculants\u2019 production and formulation process as well as their applications in specific soil\u2013plant systems.</p></article>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "stress abiotic factors", "QH301-705.5", "Communication", "P-solubilisation activity", "Different modes of fermentation", "15. Life on land", "Biology (General)", "Stress abiotic factors", "Penicillium bilaiae", "different modes of fermentation", "6. Clean water", "<i>Penicillium bilaiae</i>"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11041064"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microorganisms", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/microorganisms11041064", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/microorganisms11041064", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/microorganisms11041064"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-04-19T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/microorganisms11071721", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:19:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-06-30", "title": "The Combined Applications of Microbial Inoculants and Organic Fertilizer Improve Plant Growth under Unfavorable Soil Conditions", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>The performance of two bio-inoculants either in single or in combined applications with organic fertilizer was tested to determine their effect on plant growth and yield under normal and unfavorable field conditions such as low pH value and low content of P. Arbuscular Mycorrhiza Fungi (AMF; three species of Glomus) and the plant-growth-promoting bacterial strain Kosakonia radicincitans DSM16656 were applied to barley in a two-year field experiment with different soil pH levels and available nutrients. Grain yield; contents of P, N, K, and Mg; and soil microbial parameters were measured. Grain yield and the content of nutrients were significantly increased by the applications of mineral fertilizer, organic fertilizer, AMF, and K. radicincitans, and the combined application of organic fertilizer with AMF and with K. radicincitans over the control under normal growth conditions. Under low-pH and low-P conditions, only the combined application of the organic fertilizer with K. radicincitans and organic fertilizer with AMF could increase the grain yield and content of nutrients of barley over the control.</p></article>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "Yield", "QH301-705.5", "Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi", "arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi", "Soil pH", "Article", "Kosakonia radicincitans", "03 medical and health sciences", "organic fertilizer", "Microbial inoculants", "<i>Kosakonia radicincitans</i>", "Biology (General)", "2. Zero hunger", "microbial inoculants; arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; <i>Kosakonia radicincitans</i>; organic fertilizer; field experiment; soil conditions; soil pH; yield", "soil conditions", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "Field experiment", "field experiment", "13. Climate action", "Organic fertilizer", "Soil conditions", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "microbial inoculants"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/11/7/1721/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11071721"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microorganisms", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/microorganisms11071721", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/microorganisms11071721", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/microorganisms11071721"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-05-26T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/microorganisms11102412", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:19:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-09-27", "title": "Uncovering Microbiome Adaptations in a Full-Scale Biogas Plant: Insights from MAG-Centric Metagenomics and Metaproteomics", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>The current focus on renewable energy in global policy highlights the importance of methane production from biomass through anaerobic digestion (AD). To improve biomass digestion while ensuring overall process stability, microbiome-based management strategies become more important. In this study, metagenomes and metaproteomes were used for metagenomically assembled genome (MAG)-centric analyses to investigate a full-scale biogas plant consisting of three differentially operated digesters. Microbial communities were analyzed regarding their taxonomic composition, functional potential, as well as functions expressed on the proteome level. Different abundances of genes and enzymes related to the biogas process could be mostly attributed to different process parameters. Individual MAGs exhibiting different abundances in the digesters were studied in detail, and their roles in the hydrolysis, acidogenesis and acetogenesis steps of anaerobic digestion could be assigned. Methanoculleus thermohydrogenotrophicum was an active hydrogenotrophic methanogen in all three digesters, whereas Methanothermobacter wolfeii was more prevalent at higher process temperatures. Further analysis focused on MAGs, which were abundant in all digesters, indicating their potential to ensure biogas process stability. The most prevalent MAG belonged to the class Limnochordia; this MAG was ubiquitous in all three digesters and exhibited activity in numerous pathways related to different steps of AD.</p></article>", "keywords": ["anaerobic digestion", "biogas process chain", "metagenome analyses", "13. Climate action", "QH301-705.5", "metagenomic binning", "biogas microbiome", "metaproteome analyses", "15. Life on land", "Biology (General)", "7. Clean energy", "Article", "660.6"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/11/10/2412/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11102412"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microorganisms", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/microorganisms11102412", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/microorganisms11102412", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/microorganisms11102412"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-09-27T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/microorganisms12010163", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:19:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-01-15", "title": "Soil Fungi in Sustainable Agriculture", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>It is widely accepted that the continuously growing human population needs rapid solutions to respond to the increased global demand for high agricultural productivity [...]</p></article>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "n/a", "Editorial", "QH301-705.5", "Biology (General)", "15. Life on land"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms12010163"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microorganisms", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/microorganisms12010163", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/microorganisms12010163", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/microorganisms12010163"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-01-13T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/microorganisms12051002", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:19:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-05-16", "title": "Real-Time PCR (qtPCR) to Discover the Fate of Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) in Agricultural Soils", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>To optimize the application of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) in field trials, tracking methods are needed to assess their shelf life and to determine the elements affecting their effectiveness and their interactions with plants and native soil microbiota. This work developed a real-time PCR (qtPCR) method which traces and quantifies bacteria when added as microbial consortia, including five PGPR species: Burkholderia ambifaria, Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, Azotobacter chroococcum, Pseudomonas fluorescens, and Rahnella aquatilis. Through a literature search and in silico sequence analyses, a set of primer pairs which selectively tag three bacterial species (B. ambifaria, B. amyloliquefaciens and R. aquatilis) was retrieved. The primers were used to trace these microbial species in a field trial in which the consortium was tested as a biostimulant on two wheat varieties, in combination with biochar and the mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus intraradices. The qtPCR assay demonstrated that the targeted bacteria had colonized and grown into the soil, reaching a maximum of growth between 15 and 20 days after inoculum. The results also showed biochar had a positive effect on PGPR growth. In conclusion, qtPCR was once more an effective method to trace the fate of supplied bacterial species in the consortium when used as a cargo system for their delivery.</p></article>", "keywords": ["sustainable agriculture", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "biostimulants", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "microbial consortia (MC)", "real-time PCR (qtPCR)", "traceability", "QH301-705.5", "Biology (General)", "plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR)", "Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/12/5/1002/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms12051002"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microorganisms", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/microorganisms12051002", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/microorganisms12051002", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/microorganisms12051002"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-05-16T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/microorganisms12122562", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:19:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-12-12", "title": "Genome Insights into Beneficial Microbial Strains Composing SIMBA Microbial Consortia Applied as Biofertilizers for Maize, Wheat and Tomato", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>For the safe use of microbiome-based solutions in agriculture, the genome sequencing of strains composing the inoculum is mandatory to avoid the spread of virulence and multidrug resistance genes carried by them through horizontal gene transfer to other bacteria in the environment. Moreover, the annotated genomes can enable the design of specific primers to trace the inoculum into the soil and provide insights into the molecular and genetic mechanisms of plant growth promotion and biocontrol activity. In the present work, the genome sequences of some members of beneficial microbial consortia that have previously been tested in greenhouse and field trials as promising biofertilizers for maize, tomato and wheat crops have been determined. Strains belong to well-known plant-growth-promoting bacterial genera such as Bacillus, Burkholderia, Pseudomonas and Rahnella. The genome size of strains ranged from 4.5 to 7.5 Mbp, carrying many genes spanning from 4402 to 6697, and a GC content of 0.04% to 3.3%. The annotation of the genomes revealed the presence of genes that are implicated in functions related to antagonism, pathogenesis and other secondary metabolites possibly involved in plant growth promotion and gene clusters for protection against oxidative damage, confirming the plant-growth-promoting (PGP) activity of selected strains. All the target genomes were found to possess at least 3000 different PGP traits, belonging to the categories of nitrogen acquisition, colonization for plant-derived substrate usage, quorum sensing response for biofilm formation and, to a lesser extent, bacterial fitness and root colonization. No genes putatively involved in pathogenesis were identified. Overall, our study suggests the safe application of selected strains as \u201cplant probiotics\u201d for sustainable agriculture.</p></article>", "keywords": ["biofertilizers", "0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "traceability", "PGP bacteria", "whole-genome sequencing", "QH301-705.5", "microbial consortia", "risk assessment", "Biology (General)", "Article"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Lisa Cangioli, Silvia Tabacchioni, Andrea Visca, Alessia Fiore, Giuseppe Aprea, Patrizia Ambrosino, Enrico Ercole, Soren S\u00f8rensen, Alessio Mengoni, Annamaria Bevivino,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://iris.enea.it/bitstream/20.500.12079/80427/1/Genome%20Insights%20into%20Beneficial%20Microbial%20Strains%20Composing%20SIMBA%20Microbial%20Consortia%20Applied%20as%20Biofertilizers%20for%20Maize%2c%20Wheat%20and%20Tomato.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms12122562"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microorganisms", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/microorganisms12122562", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/microorganisms12122562", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/microorganisms12122562"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-12-12T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/microorganisms13040848", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:19:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2025-04-10", "title": "Assessing Microbial Activity and Rhizoremediation in Hydrocarbon and Heavy Metal-Impacted Soil", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Rhizodegradation enhances pollutant degradation through plant\u2013microbe interactions in the rhizosphere. Plant roots provide a colonisation surface and root exudates that promote microbial abundance and activity, facilitating organic pollutant breakdown via direct microbial degradation and co-metabolism. This study assessed the rhizodegradation of weathered petroleum hydrocarbons (PHCs) in heavy metal co-contaminated soil in a microcosm-scale pot trial. Treatments included Sinapis alba, Lolium perenne, a L. perenne + Trifolium repens mix, and Cichorium intybus, alongside a non-planted control. After 14 weeks, PHC concentrations were analysed via gas chromatography, and rhizosphere microbial communities were characterised through sequencing. Sinapis alba achieved the highest PHC degradation (68%), significantly exceeding the non-planted control (p &lt; 0.05, Kruskal\u2013Wallis test). Hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria, including KCM-B-112, C1-B045, Hydrogenophaga, unclassified Saccharimonadales sp., and Pedobacter, were enriched in the rhizosphere, with the uncultured clade mle1-27 potentially contributing indirectly. Metals analysis of plant tissues showed that mustard could accumulate copper more than lead and zinc, despite higher concentrations of zinc and lead in the soil. These results highlight the potential of S. alba for rhizoremediation in PHC\u2013heavy metal co-contaminated soils.</p></article>", "keywords": ["petroleum hydrocarbons", "bioremediation", "QH301-705.5", "microbial communities", "phytoremediation", "Biology (General)", "heavy metals", "rhizodegradation", "Article"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Robert Conlon, David N. Dowling, Kieran J. Germaine,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms13040848"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microorganisms", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/microorganisms13040848", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/microorganisms13040848", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/microorganisms13040848"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-04-08T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/microorganisms6040096", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:19:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-09-21", "title": "Genotype-Environment Interaction Shapes the Microbial Assemblage in Grapevine\u2019s Phyllosphere and Carposphere: An NGS Approach", "description": "<p>Plant surface or phyllosphere is the habitat of hyperdiverse microbial communities and it is always exposed to the fluctuating environmental factors, which is thought to be one of the potential drivers of microbial community structuring. Impact of grapevine genotypes in variable environmental factors (i.e., at different geographic locations) on the phyllosphere has never been studied and is the main objective of this report. Using high throughput short amplicon sequencing of 16S rRNA genes and internal transcribed spacer (ITS), we analyzed the impacts of genotypes of Vitis Vinifera (coming from three genetic pool), on the microbial (bacterial and fungal) assemblage in the phyllosphere. First, we performed the analysis of the phyllosphere microbiome while using fifteen genotypes that were chosen to maximize intra-specific diversity and grown in two Mediterranean vineyards. Then, the same analysis was performed on five commercially important varieties of Vitis vinifera that were sampled from three different French agro-climatic zones (or terroir: a combination of climate, soils, and human practices). Our study revealed that, at a particular geographic location, genotypes have an impact on microbial assemblage in the phyllosphere and carposphere of leaf and fruit (or berries), respectively, which is more prominent on the carposphere but the effect of terroir was much stronger than the genotype when the leaf phyllosphere of five grapevine varieties grown in different agro-climatic zones was compared. Impacts of the season and exterior plant organs (leaf and berries) on microbial taxa structuring in the phyllosphere was also assessed and presented in this report.</p>", "keywords": ["580", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "PMCs", "0303 health sciences", "terroir", "QH301-705.5", "genotype", "microbiome", "15. Life on land", "Article", "grapevine", "03 medical and health sciences", "[SDV.MP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology", "13. Climate action", "phyllosphere", "agro-climate zones", "Biology (General)", "[SDV.MP] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/6/4/96/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms6040096"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microorganisms", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/microorganisms6040096", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/microorganisms6040096", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/microorganisms6040096"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-09-21T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/microorganisms7060164", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:19:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-06-07", "title": "Modulating Fermentative, Varietal and Aging Aromas of Wine Using non-Saccharomyces Yeasts in a Sequential Inoculation Approach", "description": "<p>The goal of this study is to assess to what extent non-Saccharomyces yeasts can introduce aromatic changes of industrial interest in fermentative, varietal and aged aromas of wine. Aroma precursors from Riesling and Garnacha grapes were extracted and used in two independent sequential experiments. Synthetic musts were inoculated, either with Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Sc) or with Pichia kluyveri (Pk), Torulaspora delbrueckii (Td) or Lachancea thermotolerans (Lt), followed by Sc. The fermented samples were subjected to anoxic aging at 50 \uffc2\uffb0C for 0, 1, 2 or 5 weeks before an aroma analysis. The fermentative aroma profiles were consistently changed by non-Saccharomyces: all strains induced smaller levels of isoamyl alcohol; Pk produced huge levels of aromatic acetates and can induce high levels of fatty acids (FA) and their ethyl esters (EE); Td produced large levels of branched acids and of their EE after aging, and induced smaller levels of FA and their EE; Lt produced reduced levels of FA and their EE. The varietal aroma was also deeply affected: TDN (1,1,6-trimethyl-1,2- dihydronaphthalene) levels in aged wines were reduced by Pk and enhanced by Lt in Garnacha; the levels of vinylphenols can be much reduced, particularly by Lt and Pk. TD and Lt can increase linalool and geraniol in young, but not in aged wines.</p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "QH301-705.5", "aging", "glycosides", "fruitiness", "floral notes", "phenolic notes", "Article", "3. Good health", "aroma modulation", "03 medical and health sciences", "kerosene", "aroma precursors", "Biology (General)", "fermentation"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/7/6/164/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/7/6/164/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms7060164"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microorganisms", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/microorganisms7060164", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/microorganisms7060164", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/microorganisms7060164"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-06-06T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/microorganisms8010038", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:19:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-12-24", "title": "Tomato RNA-seq Data Mining Reveals the Taxonomic and Functional Diversity of Root-Associated Microbiota", "description": "<p>Next-generation approaches have enabled researchers to deeply study the plant microbiota and to reveal how microbiota associated with plant roots has key effects on plant nutrition, disease resistance, and plant development. Although early \uffe2\uff80\uff9comics\uffe2\uff80\uff9d experiments focused mainly on the species composition of microbial communities, new \uffe2\uff80\uff9cmeta-omics\uffe2\uff80\uff9d approaches such as meta-transcriptomics provide hints about the functions of the microbes when interacting with their plant host. Here, we used an RNA-seq dataset previously generated for tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) plants growing on different native soils to test the hypothesis that host-targeted transcriptomics can detect the taxonomic and functional diversity of root microbiota. Even though the sequencing throughput for the microbial populations was limited, we were able to reconstruct the microbial communities and obtain an overview of their functional diversity. Comparisons of the host transcriptome and the meta-transcriptome suggested that the composition and the metabolic activities of the microbiota shape plant responses at the molecular level. Despite the limitations, mining available next-generation sequencing datasets can provide unexpected results and potential benefits for microbiota research.</p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "QH301-705.5", "tomato", "RNA-seq; fungi; holobiont; meta-transcriptome; microbiota; tomato", "Article", "03 medical and health sciences", "rna-seq", "microbiota", "fungi", "Biology (General)", "RNA-seq", "meta-transcriptome", "holobiont"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/8/1/38/pdf"}, {"href": "https://iris.unito.it/bitstream/2318/1720787/1/Chialva%20et%20al.%2c%202020_tomato_meta-transcriptome.pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/8/1/38/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8010038"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microorganisms", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/microorganisms8010038", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/microorganisms8010038", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/microorganisms8010038"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-12-24T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/microorganisms8030349", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:19:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-03-02", "title": "Isoprene Oxidation by the Gram-Negative Model bacterium Variovorax sp. WS11", "description": "<p>Plant-produced isoprene (2-methyl-1,3-butadiene) represents a significant portion of global volatile organic compound production, equaled only by methane. A metabolic pathway for the degradation of isoprene was first described for the Gram-positive bacterium Rhodococcus sp. AD45, and an alternative model organism has yet to be characterised. Here, we report the characterisation of a novel Gram-negative isoprene-degrading bacterium, Variovorax sp. WS11. Isoprene metabolism in this bacterium involves a plasmid-encoded iso metabolic gene cluster which differs from that found in Rhodococcus sp. AD45 in terms of organisation and regulation. Expression of iso metabolic genes is significantly upregulated by both isoprene and epoxyisoprene. The enzyme responsible for the initial oxidation of isoprene, isoprene monooxygenase, oxidises a wide range of alkene substrates in a manner which is strongly influenced by the presence of alkyl side-chains and differs from other well-characterised soluble diiron monooxygenases according to its response to alkyne inhibitors. This study presents Variovorax sp. WS11 as both a comparative and contrasting model organism for the study of isoprene metabolism in bacteria, aiding our understanding of the conservation of this biochemical pathway across diverse ecological niches.</p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "570", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "QH301-705.5", "microbiology", "monooxygenase", "Biology (General)", "isoprene", "mutagenesis", "Article", "isoprene-fed fermentor"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/8/3/349/pdf"}, {"href": "https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/74586/1/Published_Version.pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/8/3/349/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8030349"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microorganisms", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/microorganisms8030349", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/microorganisms8030349", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/microorganisms8030349"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-02-29T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/microorganisms8050774", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:19:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-05-21", "title": "Comparative Genomics of the Rhodococcus Genus Shows Wide Distribution of Biodegradation Traits", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>The genus Rhodococcus exhibits great potential for bioremediation applications due to its huge metabolic diversity, including biotransformation of aromatic and aliphatic compounds. Comparative genomic studies of this genus are limited to a small number of genomes, while the high number of sequenced strains to date could provide more information about the Rhodococcus diversity. Phylogenomic analysis of 327 Rhodococcus genomes and clustering of intergenomic distances identified 42 phylogenomic groups and 83 species-level clusters. Rarefaction models show that these numbers are likely to increase as new Rhodococcus strains are sequenced. The Rhodococcus genus possesses a small \u201chard\u201d core genome consisting of 381 orthologous groups (OGs), while a \u201csoft\u201d core genome of 1253 OGs is reached with 99.16% of the genomes. Models of sequentially randomly added genomes show that a small number of genomes are enough to explain most of the shared diversity of the Rhodococcus strains, while the \u201copen\u201d pangenome and strain-specific genome evidence that the diversity of the genus will increase, as new genomes still add more OGs to the whole genomic set. Most rhodococci possess genes involved in the degradation of aliphatic and aromatic compounds, while short-chain alkane degradation is restricted to a certain number of groups, among which a specific particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO) is only found in Rhodococcus sp. WAY2. The analysis of Rieske 2Fe-2S dioxygenases among rhodococci genomes revealed that most of these enzymes remain uncharacterized.</p></article>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "QH301-705.5", "Comparative genomics", "Phylogenomics", "phylogenomics", "comparative genomics", "Biolog\u00eda y Biomedicina / Biolog\u00eda", "biodegradation", "Article", "03 medical and health sciences", "Biodegradation", "Rhodococcus", "Biology (General)", "Rhodococcus; comparative genomics; phylogenomics; biodegradation", "<i>Rhodococcus</i>"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/8/5/774/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/8/5/774/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8050774"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microorganisms", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/microorganisms8050774", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/microorganisms8050774", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/microorganisms8050774"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-05-21T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/microorganisms8060889", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:19:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-06-12", "title": "Complete Genome of Isoprene Degrading Nocardioides sp. WS12", "description": "<p>Isoprene is a climate-active gas whose wide-spread global production stems mostly from terrestrial plant emissions. The biodegradation of isoprene is carried out by a number of different bacteria from a wide range of environments. This study investigates the genome of a novel isoprene degrading bacterium Nocardioides sp. WS12, isolated from soil associated with Salix alba (Willow), a tree known to produce high amounts of isoprene. The Nocardioides sp. WS12 genome was fully sequenced, revealing the presence of a complete isoprene monooxygenase gene cluster, along with associated isoprene degradation pathway genes. Genes associated with rubber degradation were also present, suggesting that Nocardioides sp. WS12 may also have the capacity to degrade poly-cis-1,4-isoprene.</p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "QH301-705.5", "Brief Report", "rubber", "<i>Nocardioides</i>", "15. Life on land", "isolate", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. Climate action", "Biology (General)", "isoprene", "genome", "degradation"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/75608/1/Published_Version.pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/8/6/889/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8060889"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microorganisms", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/microorganisms8060889", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/microorganisms8060889", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/microorganisms8060889"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-06-12T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/microorganisms8070967", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:19:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-06-29", "title": "Molecular Ecology of Isoprene-Degrading Bacteria", "description": "<p>Isoprene is a highly abundant biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) that is emitted to the atmosphere in amounts approximating to those of methane. The effects that isoprene has on Earth\uffe2\uff80\uff99s climate are both significant and complex, however, unlike methane, very little is known about the biological degradation of this environmentally important trace gas. Here, we review the mechanisms by which bacteria catabolise isoprene, what is known about the diversity of isoprene degraders in the environment, and the molecular tools currently available to study their ecology. Specifically, we focus on the use of probes based on the gene encoding the \uffce\uffb1-subunit of isoprene monooxygenase, isoA, and DNA stable-isotope probing (DNA-SIP) alone or in combination with other cultivation-independent techniques to determine the abundance, diversity, and activity of isoprene degraders in the environment. These parameters are essential in order to evaluate how microbes might mitigate the effects of this important but neglected climate-active gas. We also suggest key aspects of isoprene metabolism that require further investigation in order to better understand the global isoprene biogeochemical cycle.</p>", "keywords": ["BVOC", "2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "550", "isoprene monooxygenase", "QH301-705.5", "<i>isoA</i>", "Review", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. Climate action", "DNA stable-isotope probing", "Biology (General)", "isoprene", "climate"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Ornella Carri\u00f3n, Terry J. McGenity, J. Colin Murrell,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/75884/1/Published_Version.pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/8/7/967/pdf"}, {"href": "https://repository.essex.ac.uk/28085/1/microorganisms-08-00967-v2.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8070967"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microorganisms", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/microorganisms8070967", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/microorganisms8070967", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/microorganisms8070967"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-06-27T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/microorganisms9040859", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:19:04Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-04-19", "title": "Unraveling the metabolic potential of asgardarchaeota in a sediment from the mediterranean hydrocarbon-contaminated water basin mar piccolo (Taranto, italy)", "description": "<p>Increasing number of metagenome sequencing studies have proposed a central metabolic role of still understudied Archaeal members in natural and artificial ecosystems. However, their role in hydrocarbon cycling, particularly in the anaerobic biodegradation of aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons, is still mostly unknown in both marine and terrestrial environments. In this work, we focused our study on the metagenomic characterization of the archaeal community inhabiting the Mar Piccolo (Taranto, Italy, central Mediterranean) sediments heavily contaminated by petroleum hydrocarbons and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB). Among metagenomic bins reconstructed from Mar Piccolo microbial community, we have identified members of the Asgardarchaeota superphylum that has been recently proposed to play a central role in hydrocarbon cycling in natural ecosystems under anoxic conditions. In particular, we found members affiliated with Thorarchaeota, Heimdallarchaeota, and Lokiarchaeota phyla and analyzed their genomic potential involved in central metabolism and hydrocarbon biodegradation. Metabolic prediction based on metagenomic analysis identified the malonyl-CoA and benzoyl-CoA routes as the pathways involved in aliphatic and aromatic biodegradation in these Asgardarchaeota members. This is the first study to give insight into the archaeal community functionality and connection to hydrocarbon degradation in marine sediment historically contaminated by hydrocarbons.</p>", "keywords": ["<i>Lokiarchaeota</i>", "0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "QH301-705.5", "<i>Heimdallarchaeota</i>", "aromatic hydrocarbons", "<i>Thorarchaeota</i>", "Asgardarchaeota", "metagenome", "Article", "6. Clean water", "03 medical and health sciences", "bioremediation", "13. Climate action", "Mar Piccolo", "aliphatic hydrocarbons", "14. Life underwater", "Biology (General)", "Asgardarchaeota; Mar Piccolo; aromatic hydrocarbons; aliphatic hydrocarbons; Thorarchaeota; Lokiarchaeota; Heimdallarchaeota; bioremediation; metagenome"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/9/4/859/pdf"}, {"href": "https://cris.unibo.it/bitstream/11585/819019/1/microorganisms-09-00859%20%282%29.pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/9/4/859/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9040859"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microorganisms", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/microorganisms9040859", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/microorganisms9040859", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/microorganisms9040859"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-04-16T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/microorganisms9061254", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:19:05Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-06-09", "title": "Fermentation Strategies to Improve Soil Bio-Inoculant Production and Quality", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>The application of plant beneficial microorganisms has been widely accepted as an efficient alternative to chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Isolation and selection of efficient microorganisms, their characterization and testing in soil-plant systems are well studied. However, the production stage and formulation of the final products are not in the focus of the research, which affects the achievement of stable and consistent results in the field. Recent analysis of the field of plant beneficial microorganisms suggests a more integrated view on soil inoculants with a special emphasis on the inoculant production process, including fermentation, formulation, processes, and additives. This mini-review describes the different groups of fermentation processes and their characteristics, bearing in mind different factors, both nutritional and operational, which affect the biomass/spores yield and microbial metabolite activity. The characteristics of the final products of fermentation process optimization strategies determine further steps of development of the microbial inoculants. Submerged liquid and solid-state fermentation processes, fed-batch operations, immobilized cell systems, and production of arbuscular mycorrhiza are presented and their advantages and disadvantages are discussed. Recommendations for further development of the fermentation strategies for biofertilizer production are also considered.</p></article>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "QH301-705.5", "mycorrhiza", "Submerged and solid-state fermentations", "Optimization strategies", "Review", "Biofertilizers", "7. Clean energy", "12. Responsible consumption", "03 medical and health sciences", "submerged and solid-state fermentations", "immobilized cells", "biocontrol", "Biology (General)", "biofertilizers", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "Immobilized cells", "Biocontrol", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "13. Climate action", "8. Economic growth", "Mycorrhiza", "optimization strategies"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9061254"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microorganisms", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/microorganisms9061254", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/microorganisms9061254", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/microorganisms9061254"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-06-09T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/microplastics2010001", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:19:05Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-12-27", "title": "Microplastics: A review of policies and responses", "description": "<p>Although (micro)plastic contamination is a worldwide concern, most scientific literature only restates that issue rather than presenting strategies to cope with it. This critical review assembles the current knowledge on policies and responses to tackle plastic pollution, including peer-reviewed scientific literature, gray literature and relevant reports to provide: (1) a timeline of policies directly or indirectly addressing microplastics; (2) the most up-to-date upstream responses to prevent microplastics pollution, such as circular economy, behavioral change, development of bio-based polymers and market-based instruments as well as source-specific strategies, focusing on the clothing industry, tire and road wear particles, antifouling paints and recreational activities; (3) a set of downstream responses tackling microplastics, such as waste to energy, degradation, water treatment plants and litter clean-up strategies; and examples of (4) multifaceted responses focused on both mitigating and preventing microplastics pollution, e.g., approaches implemented in fisheries and aquaculture facilities. Preventive strategies and multifaceted responses are postulated as pivotal to handling the exacerbated release of microplastics in the environment, while downstream responses stand out as auxiliary strategies to the chief upstream responses. The information gathered here bridges the knowledge gaps on (micro)plastic pollution by providing a synthesized baseline material for further studies addressing this environmental issue.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "ddc:550", "QH301-705.5", "QD415-436", "Microbiology", "Biochemistry", "01 natural sciences", "downstream responses", "QR1-502", "6. Clean water", "12. Responsible consumption", "mitigation", "prevention", "13. Climate action", "policymaking", "Life Science", "microplastic contamination", "14. Life underwater", "Biology (General)", "upstream responses", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2673-8929/2/1/1/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/microplastics2010001"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microplastics", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/microplastics2010001", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/microplastics2010001", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/microplastics2010001"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-12-23T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/mps3010019", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:19:05Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-02-28", "title": "Single Aliquot Regeneration (SAR) Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dating Protocols Using Different Grain-Sizes of Quartz: Revisiting the Chronology of Mircea Vod\u0103 Loess-Paleosol Master Section (Romania)", "description": "<p>The loess-paleosol archive from Mircea Vod\uffc4\uff83 (Romania) represents one of the most studied sections in Europe. We are applying here the current state of the art luminescence dating protocols for revisiting the chronology of this section. Analysis were performed on fine (4\uffe2\uff80\uff9311 \uffc2\uffb5m) and coarse (63\uffe2\uff80\uff9390 \uffc2\uffb5m) quartz extracts using the single aliquot regenerative (SAR) optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating protocol. Laboratory generated SAR dose response curves in the high dose range (5 kGy for fine quartz and 2 kGy for coarse quartz) were investigated by employing a test dose of either 17 or 170 Gy. The results confirm the previously reported different saturation characteristics of the two quartz fractions, with no evident dependency of the equivalent dose (De) on the size of the test dose. The OSL SAR ages are discussed and compared to the previously obtained results on quartz and feldspars. The previous reports regarding the chronological discrepancy between the two quartz fractions are confirmed. However, while previous investigations on other sites concluded that this discrepancy appears only above equivalent doses of about 100 Gy, here fine grain quartz ages underestimate coarse quartz ages starting with equivalent doses as low as around 50 Gy.</p>", "keywords": ["grain size", "QH301-705.5", "luminescence dating; loess; optically stimulated luminescence; single aliquot regeneration protocol; quartz; grain size", "luminescence dating", "optically stimulated luminescence", "Biology (General)", "loess", "quartz", "01 natural sciences", "single aliquot regeneration protocol", "Article", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2409-9279/3/1/19/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9279/3/1/19/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/mps3010019"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Methods%20and%20Protocols", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/mps3010019", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/mps3010019", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/mps3010019"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-02-27T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3785/j.issn.1008-9209.2012.07.262", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:19:14Z", "type": "Journal Article", "description": "Soil respiration is the primary way by which CO<sub>2</sub> absorbed by terrestrial plants returns to the atmosphere. And it may have distinctly dynamic patterns at different temporal scales since it is affected by diverse abiotic and biotic factors. Increasing deposition of nitrogen from the traditional cultivation of sympodial bamboos may lead to the sequestration of carbon in vegetation and soil. And the rising temperature and water content may increase the flux of CO<sub>2</sub> from the soil, but the response of the ecosystem to simultaneous changes in all of these factors is still unknown. Meanwhile, to provide abundant supply of bamboo timber, afforestation of bamboo species such as Oxytenanthera braunii Pilger ap. Engler, Dendrocalamus brandisii Kurz and D. giganteus Munro is encouraged by the government but without scientific directions. And chemical fertilizers are usually applied into fields unscientifically and blindly in the villages of southwest China. Subsequently, what will happen to the soil structure and how to balance soil nutrient environment in the situation of chemical fertilizer abuse?In the context of climate change, the amount of nitrogen allocated to the soil is predicted to increase with the productivity of terrestrial ecosystem, and may alter soil carbon storage capacities. To provide the proof of soil respiration responding to the nitrogen input for sympodial bamboo afforestation at the beginning period, we set up four nitrogen fertilization (CO (NH<sub>2</sub>)<sub>2</sub>) levels in mid-high mountain of southeast China, i. e. N content of 0, 40, 80, 160 kg/hm<sup>2</sup>(expressed on N<sub>0</sub>, N<sub>40</sub>, N<sub>80</sub>, N<sub>160</sub>, respectively), using the two-year old stump of wine bamboo which were planted every five meters. The soil respiration rate is measured by using trenching method and infrared gas analyzer. The responding mechanism is discussed through analyzing the change of soil temperature at 10 cm depth (T10), as well as changes of soil water-soluble organic carbon content (WSOC) and soil water content (SW).Results showed that soil respiration rate was quite different between rainy and dry seasons. The soil respiration rate increased at the end of April or in the beginning of May when the rainy season arrived. Its wave crest arrived in July, Aug. and Sept., and then the rate decreased along with the dry season in Nov., Dec., Feb. and Mar., then the trough of soil respiration rate appeared. The variation rule of T10, WSOC and SW was similar as this way. Exponential function could be used to describe the relationship between T10 and respiration rate. Meanwhile, WSOC and SW showed a linear relationship with the respiration rate respectively, and the regression test indicted that it was significant. And the temperature sensitivity value Q10 of a whole year was 2.45 -2.78 nearby. In rainy season, Q10 decreased to 1.66 - 1.89, which indicated that the sensitivity of respiration rate responding to temperature decreased. On the contrary, Q10 ascended to 4.85 - 9.54 in dry season. The yearly data of WSOC were unstable, and the nitrogen input could not enhance T10 and SW, but N<sub>80</sub> and N<sub>160</sub> could increase WSOC relatively. The changes of SW and T10 explained 96.10%, 94.30%, 94.48% and 92.99% of the variation of soil respiration rate in the treatment of N<sub>0</sub>, N<sub>40</sub>, N<sub>80</sub> and N<sub>160</sub>, which contributed most of the information. The main factor affecting the soil respiration in rainy and dry seasons was quite different, which was SW and T10 respectively.As a consequence, the increase in ecosystem productivity may lead to an increase in carbon turnover in the soil, via an increase in the amount of biomass. But its process and mechanism involving different carbon pools are very complex, and to measure the soil respiration rate alone can not totally reflect the whole change of carbon cycle. Experiments of further control that involves different carbon pools interaction appending to the measurements of CO<sub>2</sub> emission will help to clarify the relative importance of bulk soil and micro-relationship in the prime effect.", "keywords": ["afforestation in semiarid region", "bamboo cultivation", "soil temperature", "QH301-705.5", "Agriculture (General)", "soil water content", "Biology (General)", "soil water-soluble organic carbon content", "S1-972"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Wang ShuDong, Li Weicheng, Wang Shuguang, Zhong ZheKe, Zheng Youmiao, Sheng Haiyan,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3785/j.issn.1008-9209.2012.07.262"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/%E6%B5%99%E6%B1%9F%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6%E5%AD%A6%E6%8A%A5.%20%E5%86%9C%E4%B8%9A%E4%B8%8E%E7%94%9F%E5%91%BD%E7%A7%91%E5%AD%A6%E7%89%88", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3785/j.issn.1008-9209.2012.07.262", "name": "item", "description": "10.3785/j.issn.1008-9209.2012.07.262", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3785/j.issn.1008-9209.2012.07.262"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-05-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3897/neobiota.55.46874", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:19:15Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-04-06", "title": "In-season leaf damage by a biocontrol agent explains reproductive output of an invasive plant species", "description": "<p>One of the biggest challenges in classical biological control of invasive weeds is predicting the likelihood of success. Ambrosia artemisiifolia, a North American plant species that has become invasive in Europe, causes economic losses due to health problems resulting from its huge amount of highly allergenic pollen and as a weed to agricultural crops resulting from high seed densities. Here we assessed whether the pollen and seed output of the annual A. artemisiifolia (at the end of the season) is related to in-season abundance of, or damage by, the accidentally introduced biological control agent Ophraella communa. We monitored the growth and leaf damage of individually labelled A. artemisiifolia plants at four locations in Northern Italy and recorded abundance of different O. communa life stages at regular intervals. We found that the in-season level of leaf damage by O. communa consistently helped to explain seed production in combination with plant volume and site throughout the season. Feeding damage, plant volume and site also explained pollen production by A. artemisiifolia six weeks before male flower formation. At three out of four sites, plants with more than 10% leaf damage in mid-June or early July had a very low likelihood of seed formation. Leaf damage proved to be a better explanatory variable than O. communa abundance. Our results suggest that the monitoring of the in-season leaf damage can help to project the local impact of O. communa on A. artemisiifolia at the end of the season and thus inform management regarding the needs for additional measures to control this prominent invader.</p", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "herbivory", "QH301-705.5", "biological invasions", "common ragweed", "classical biological control", "Ambrosia artemisiifolia", " biological invasions", " classical biological control", " common ragweed", " herbivory", " Ophraella communa", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "3. Good health", "13. 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(Dorylaimida, Belondiridae) associated with Andalusian (Spain) olive groves", "description": "<p>A new species of belondirid nematode, collected in olive groves of the southern Iberian Peninsula, is described, including SEM observations and molecular (LSU, SSU) study. Capitellus caramborumsp. nov. is characterized by its 0.82\uffe2\uff80\uff931.09 mm long body, lip region offset by constriction and 6.0\uffe2\uff80\uff936.5 \uffc2\uffb5m wide with a distinct perioral refractive disc 4.0\uffe2\uff80\uff934.5 \uffc2\uffb5m wide, odontostyle 6.0\uffe2\uff80\uff936.5 \uffc2\uffb5m long, odontophore bearing basal flanges and 1.8\uffe2\uff80\uff932.0 times the odontostyle long, neck 223\uffe2\uff80\uff93296 \uffc2\uffb5m long, pharyngeal expansion occupying 53\uffe2\uff80\uff9359% of the total neck length, female genital system diovarian, uterus simple and 27\uffe2\uff80\uff9338 \uffc2\uffb5m or 1.4\uffe2\uff80\uff931.9 body diameters long, vulva (V = 53\uffe2\uff80\uff9356) longitudinal, tail convex conoid to subcylindrical (24\uffe2\uff80\uff9334 \uffc2\uffb5m, c = 31\uffe2\uff80\uff9338, c\uffe2\uff80\uff99 = 1.8\uffe2\uff80\uff932.1), spicules strongly curved ventrad and 23\uffe2\uff80\uff9325 \uffc2\uffb5m long, and four ventromedian supplements. Morphological and molecular data support the retrieval of Capitellus as a valid genus, its taxonomy being updated, including the transference of Dorylaimellus neocapitatus to it.</p", "keywords": ["LSU", "taxonomy", "new combination", "QH301-705.5", "Description", "morphology", "nematodes", "SSU", "Biology (General)", "phylogeny", "dorylaims"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.101.144719"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Zoosystematics%20and%20Evolution", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3897/zse.101.144719", "name": "item", "description": "10.3897/zse.101.144719", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3897/zse.101.144719"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-02-28T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5194/we-19-39-2019", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:19:43Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-06-06", "title": "Unassisted establishment of biological soil crusts on dryland road slopes", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Abstract. Understanding patterns of habitat natural recovery after human-made disturbances is critical for the conservation of ecosystems under high environmental stress, such as drylands. In particular, the unassisted establishment of nonvascular plants such as biological soil crusts or biocrust communities (e.g., soil lichens, mosses and cyanobacteria) in newly formed habitats is not yet fully understood. However, the potential of biocrusts to improve soil structure and function at the early stages of succession and promote ecosystem recovery is enormous. In this study, we evaluated the capacity of lichen biocrusts to spontaneously establish and develop on road slopes in a Mediterranean shrubland. We also compared taxonomic and functional diversity of biocrusts between road slopes and natural habitats in the surroundings. Biocrust richness and cover, species composition, and functional structure were measured in 17 road slopes (nine roadcuts and eight embankments) along a 13\u2009km highway stretch. Topography, soil properties and vascular plant communities of road slopes were also characterized. We used Kruskal\u2013Wallis tests and applied redundancy analysis (RDA) to test the effect of environmental scenario (road slopes vs.\u00a0natural habitat) and other local factors on biocrust features. We found that biocrusts were common in road slopes after \u223c20\u00a0years of construction with no human assistance needed. However, species richness and cover were still lower than in natural remnants. Also, functional structure was quite similar between roadcuts (i.e., after soil excavation) and natural remnants, and topography and soil properties influenced species composition while environmental scenario type and vascular plant cover did not. These findings further support the idea of biocrusts as promising restoration tools in drylands and confirm the critical role of edaphic factors in biocrust establishment and development in land-use change scenarios.                     </p></article>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "QH301-705.5", "Physiology", "Science", "GC1-1581", "QH1-199.5", "Oceanography", "Microbiology", "01 natural sciences", "GF1-900", "QP1-981", "GE1-350", "Biology (General)", "QH540-549.5", "2. Zero hunger", "Ecology", "Q", "Botany", "General. Including nature conservation", " geographical distribution", "15. Life on land", "QR1-502", "Environmental sciences", "QL1-991", "Human ecology. Anthropogeography", "QK1-989", "QH1-278.5", "Natural history (General)", "Zoology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://we.copernicus.org/articles/19/39/2019/we-19-39-2019.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.5194/we-19-39-2019"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Web%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5194/we-19-39-2019", "name": "item", "description": "10.5194/we-19-39-2019", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5194/we-19-39-2019"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-06-06T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "2318/1735590", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:22:21Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-04-06", "title": "In-season leaf damage by a biocontrol agent explains reproductive output of an invasive plant species", "description": "<p>One of the biggest challenges in classical biological control of invasive weeds is predicting the likelihood of success. Ambrosia artemisiifolia, a North American plant species that has become invasive in Europe, causes economic losses due to health problems resulting from its huge amount of highly allergenic pollen and as a weed to agricultural crops resulting from high seed densities. Here we assessed whether the pollen and seed output of the annual A. artemisiifolia (at the end of the season) is related to in-season abundance of, or damage by, the accidentally introduced biological control agent Ophraella communa. We monitored the growth and leaf damage of individually labelled A. artemisiifolia plants at four locations in Northern Italy and recorded abundance of different O. communa life stages at regular intervals. We found that the in-season level of leaf damage by O. communa consistently helped to explain seed production in combination with plant volume and site throughout the season. Feeding damage, plant volume and site also explained pollen production by A. artemisiifolia six weeks before male flower formation. At three out of four sites, plants with more than 10% leaf damage in mid-June or early July had a very low likelihood of seed formation. Leaf damage proved to be a better explanatory variable than O. communa abundance. Our results suggest that the monitoring of the in-season leaf damage can help to project the local impact of O. communa on A. artemisiifolia at the end of the season and thus inform management regarding the needs for additional measures to control this prominent invader.</p", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "herbivory", "QH301-705.5", "biological invasions", "common ragweed", "classical biological control", "Ambrosia artemisiifolia", " biological invasions", " classical biological control", " common ragweed", " herbivory", " Ophraella communa", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "3. Good health", "13. Climate action", "Ambrosia artemisiifolia; Biological invasions; Classical biological control; Common ragweed; Herbivory; Ophraella communa;", "Ophraella communa", "Ambrosia artemisiifolia", " Biological invasions", " Classical biological control", " Common ragweed", " Herbivory", " Ophraella communa", "", "Biology (General)", "Ambrosia artemisiifolia"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://boa.unimib.it/bitstream/10281/280756/2/10281-280756_VoR.pdf"}, {"href": "https://iris.unito.it/bitstream/2318/1735590/1/Augustinus%20et%20al.%20-%202020%20-%20In-season%20leaf%20damage%20by%20a%20biocontrol%20agent%20explai.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/2318/1735590"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/NeoBiota", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "2318/1735590", "name": "item", "description": "2318/1735590", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/2318/1735590"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-04-06T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10451/51021", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:21:42Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-03-01", "title": "Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in soil, roots and rhizosphere ofMedicago truncatula: diversity and heterogeneity under semi-arid conditions", "description": "<p>Mycorrhizal symbioses are considered indicators of ecosystem biodiversity. However, their diversity and relevance in arid and semi-arid ecosystems are poorly understood. This study addressed this subject, the main objective being to evaluate arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) diversity and heterogeneity in a semi-arid region. Samples of bulk and rhizosphere soil and fine roots ofMedicago truncatulawere collected at four different sites with the same aridity index (6.1), in Bou-Hedma National Park, Tunisia, a semi-arid ecosystem. AMF taxa were assessed by 454- pyrosequencing and identified by BLAST matching of operational taxonomic units (OTUs) against the MaarjAMdatabase, targeting AMF SSUrRNAgene diversity. Roots were the hotspots of AMF diversity (107 OTUs out of a total of 138). Of the 138 OTUs, 113 found correspondence in the MaarjAMdatabase, with 32 AMF virtual taxa (VTX),19 Site-exclusive (SE) and 13 common to at least two sites (Non-site exclusive, NSE); the remaining 25 OTUs grouped in 16 putative new AMF taxa (pNTX), each one consisting of OTUs sharing pairwise distances not higher than 3%. We found a high diversity and heterogeneity of AMF across the four sites, which showed, in a regression analysis, significant relation to six out of the eight environmental parameters evaluated: grazing activity and soil texture, electrical conductivity, organic matter, total phosphorus and total nitrogen. AMF colonization of plants also presented significant differences among the four sites, as well as spore density, microbial biomass and several enzymatic activities (dehydrogenase, \uffce\uffb2-glucosidase and phosphatase) evaluated in rhizosphere soils. The four sites clustered in two groups in a hierarchical clustering evaluation based on their AMF diversity (total numbers of OTU, VTX and pNTX) and the parameters referred above. The crucial role of abiotic factors, other than aridity index, on AMF community composition, was evidenced by the high heterogeneity found between AMF communities across sites under identical aridity conditions.</p", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "Microbial diversity", "0303 health sciences", "QH301-705.5", "R", "Pyrosequencing", "Biodiversity", "15. Life on land", "03 medical and health sciences", "AMF", "Medicine", "Soil heterogeneity", "Heterogeneity", "Biology (General)"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://repositorio.ulisboa.pt/bitstream/10451/51021/1/Mahmoudi%20et%20al%202019.pdf"}, {"href": "https://peerj.com/articles/6401.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10451/51021"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PeerJ", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10451/51021", "name": "item", "description": "10451/51021", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10451/51021"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10451/52117", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:21:42Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-03-23", "title": "Non-Toxic Increases in Nitrogen Availability Can Improve the Ability of the Soil Lichen Cladonia rangiferina to Cope with Environmental Changes", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Climate change and atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition on drylands are greatly threatening these especially vulnerable areas. Soil biocrust-forming lichens in drylands can provide early indicators of these disturbances and play a pivotal role, as they contribute to key ecosystem services. In this study, we explored the effects of different long-term water availability regimes simulating climate changes and their interaction with N addition on the physiological response of the soil lichen Cladonia rangiferina. Three sets of this lichen were subjected to control, reduced watering, and reduced watering and N addition (40 kg NH4NO3 ha\u22121 year\u22121) treatments for 16 months. Finally, all samples were subjected to daily hydration cycles with N-enriched water at two levels (40 and 80 kg NH4NO3 ha\u22121 year\u22121) for 23 days. We found that reduced watering significantly decreased the vitality of this lichen, whereas N addition unexpectedly helped lichens subjected to reduced watering to cope with stress produced by high temperatures. We also found that long-term exposure to N addition contributed to the acclimation to higher N availability. Overall, our data suggest that the interactions between reduced watering and increased N supply and temperature have an important potential to reduce the physiological performance of this soil lichen.</p></article>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "QH301-705.5", "Synergetic effects", "soil lichens; soil biocrust; global change; climate change; biomonitoring; synergetic effects; reduced watering; aridity; drylands; Mediterranean ecosystems", "01 natural sciences", "Article", "03 medical and health sciences", "Climate change", "Reduced watering", "Biology (General)", "Global change", "global change", "Aridity", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "0303 health sciences", "Drylands", "15. Life on land", "synergetic effects", "soil lichens", "6. Clean water", "climate change", "13. Climate action", "biomonitoring", "Biomonitoring", "Mediterranean ecosystems", "Soil lichens", "soil biocrust", "Soil biocrust"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2309-608X/8/4/333/pdf"}, {"href": "https://repositorio.ulisboa.pt/bitstream/10451/52117/1/jof-08-00333-v2.pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2309-608X/8/4/333/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10451/52117"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Fungi", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10451/52117", "name": "item", "description": "10451/52117", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10451/52117"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-03-23T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5281/zenodo.16842801", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:20:35Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-06-17", "title": "Natural Time Series Parameters Forecasting: Validation of the Pattern-Sequence-Based Forecasting (PSF) Algorithm; A New Python Package", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Climate change has contributed substantially to the weather and land characteristic phenomena. Accurate time series forecasting for climate and land parameters is highly essential in the modern era for climatologists. This paper provides a brief introduction to the algorithm and its implementation in Python. The pattern-sequence-based forecasting (PSF) algorithm aims to forecast future values of a univariate time series. The algorithm is divided into two major processes: the clustering of data and prediction. The clustering part includes the selection of an optimum value for the number of clusters and labeling the time series data. The prediction part consists of the selection of a window size and the prediction of future values with reference to past patterns. The package aims to ease the use and implementation of PSF for python users. It provides results similar to the PSF package available in R. Finally, the results of the proposed Python package are compared with results of the PSF and ARIMA methods in R. One of the issues with PSF is that the performance of forecasting result degrades if the time series has positive or negative trends. To overcome this problem difference pattern-sequence-based forecasting (DPSF) was proposed. The Python package also implements the DPSF method. In this method, the time series data are first differenced. Then, the PSF algorithm is applied to this differenced time series. Finally, the original and predicted values are restored by applying the reverse method of the differencing process. The proposed methodology is tested on several complex climate and land processes and its potential is evidenced.</p></article>", "keywords": ["Technology", "330", "QH301-705.5", "univariate", "T", "Physics", "QC1-999", "forecasting", "02 engineering and technology", "Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)", "forecasting; univariate; time series; Python; PSF", "Chemistry", "0203 mechanical engineering", "13. Climate action", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "time series", "TA1-2040", "Biology (General)", "QD1-999", "PSF", "Python"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/12/6194/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/12/6194/pdf"}, {"href": "https://research.usq.edu.au/download/a41f7e6afaf72d3aab08e4fbf5850ce9baed364db9cd274b284e7956b4aa1a6e/1339682/applsci-12-06194-v3.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16842801"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Applied%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5281/zenodo.16842801", "name": "item", "description": "10.5281/zenodo.16842801", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5281/zenodo.16842801"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-06-17T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10481/66123", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:21:43Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-10-26", "title": "Aspegillus terreus: From Soil to Industry and Back", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Aspergillus terreus is an important saprophytic filamentous fungus that can be found in soils. Like many other soil microorganisms, A. terreus demonstrates multiple functions and offers various important metabolites, which can be used in different fields of human activity. The first application of A. terreus on an industrial level is the production of itaconic acid, which is now considered as one of the most important bioproducts in the Green Chemistry field. The general schemes for itaconic acid production have been studied, but in this mini-review some lines of future research are presented based on analysis of the published results. A. terreus is also intensively studied for its biocontrol activity and plant growth-promoting effect. However, this microorganism is also known to infect important crops such as, amongst others, rice, wheat, potato, sugar cane, maize, and soybean. It was suggested, however, that the balance between positive vs. negative effects is dependent on the soil-plant-inoculant dose system. A. terreus has frequently been described as an important human pathogen. Therefore, its safety manipulation in biotechnological processes for the production of itaconic acid and some drugs and its use in soil-plant systems should be carefully assessed. Some suggestions in this direction are discussed, particularly concerning the uses in crop production.</p></article>", "keywords": ["plant growth promotion", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "<i>Aspergillus terreus</i>", "QH301-705.5", "Biocontrol", "Review", "15. Life on land", "Itaconic acid production", "3. Good health", "03 medical and health sciences", "Aspergillus terreus", "pathogenicity", "Plant growth promotion", "Pathogenicity", "biocontrol", "Biology (General)", "itaconic acid production"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/8/11/1655/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10481/66123"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microorganisms", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10481/66123", "name": "item", "description": "10481/66123", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10481/66123"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-10-25T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5281/zenodo.14190971", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:20:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-07-25", "title": "Oleaxonchium olearum gen. et sp. nov. (Nematoda, Dorylaimida) associated with an olive grove in the southern Iberian Peninsula, and new insights into the evolutionary relationships within Belondiridae", "description": "<p>A new belondirid, dorylaimid taxon, Oleaxonchium olearumgen. et sp. nov., collected from an olive grove in the Andalusia region of Spain, is characterised, including its morphological description, morphometrics, SEM study, and molecular (18S-, 28S-rDNA) analyses. The new genus displays a unique combination of traits that distinguishes it from its closest genera: a rectangular lip region with sclerotized margins when observed in lateral view and visibly hexagonal in face view under SEM; a comparatively long cheilostom with thickened walls at its anterior part; a short isthmus-like section separating both pharyngeal regions; a mono-opistho-ovarian didelphic female genital system without pars refringens vaginae; and a short and rounded tail. The new species is characterised by its 2.44\uffe2\uff80\uff932.87 mm long body, lip region 7\uffe2\uff80\uff937.5 \uffc2\uffb5m wide, odontostyle 10\uffe2\uff80\uff9310.5 \uffc2\uffb5m long, neck 723\uffe2\uff80\uff93973 \uffc2\uffb5m long, pharyngeal expansion occupying 63\uffe2\uff80\uff9372% of the total neck length, female anterior genital branch 4\uffe2\uff80\uff936% of body length, tripartite posterior uterus 1.9\uffe2\uff80\uff932.6 body diameters long, with a short intermediate section bearing sclerotized elements, vulva (V = 58\uffe2\uff80\uff9361) a transverse slit, caudal region 29\uffe2\uff80\uff9335 \uffc2\uffb5m long (c = 74\uffe2\uff80\uff9389, c\uffe2\uff80\uff99 = 0.9\uffe2\uff80\uff931.1), and male unknown. As derived from an integrative approach combining morphological and molecular data, the new genus is close to Metaxonchium, the polyphyly of Belondiridae is confirmed, and support is provided in favour of the monophyly of Axonchiinae.</p", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "taxonomy", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "18S-", "28S-rDNA", "QH301-705.5", "morphology", "SEM", "Biology (General)", "phylogeny", "new taxa"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14190971"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Zoosystematics%20and%20Evolution", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5281/zenodo.14190971", "name": "item", "description": "10.5281/zenodo.14190971", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5281/zenodo.14190971"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-07-25T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "21.11116/0000-0008-DFA2-6", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:22:16Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-07-07", "title": "Indicative Marker Microbiome Structures Deduced from the Taxonomic Inventory of 67 Full-Scale Anaerobic Digesters of 49 Agricultural Biogas Plants", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>There are almost 9500 biogas plants in Germany, which are predominantly operated with energy crops and residues from livestock husbandry over the last two decades. In the future, biogas plants must be enabled to use a much broader range of input materials in a flexible and demand-oriented manner. Hence, the microbial communities will be exposed to frequently varying process conditions, while an overall stable process must be ensured. To accompany this transition, there is the need to better understand how biogas microbiomes respond to management measures and how these responses affect the process efficiency. Therefore, 67 microbiomes originating from 49 agricultural, full-scale biogas plants were taxonomically investigated by 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing. These microbiomes were separated into three distinct clusters and one group of outliers, which are characterized by a specific distribution of 253 indicative taxa and their relative abundances. These indicative taxa seem to be adapted to specific process conditions which result from a different biogas plant operation. Based on these results, it seems to be possible to deduce/assess the general process condition of a biogas digester based solely on the microbiome structure, in particular on the distribution of specific indicative taxa, and without knowing the corresponding operational and chemical process parameters. Perspectively, this could allow the development of detection systems and advanced process models considering the microbial diversity.</p></article>", "keywords": ["580", "anaerobic digestion", "2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "NMDS", "0303 health sciences", "QH301-705.5", "biogas microbiome", "Pearson correlations", "7. Clean energy", "Article", "6. Clean water", "660.6", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. Climate action", "indicative taxa", "taxonomic profiling", "Biology (General)", "16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/9/7/1457/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/9/7/1457/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/21.11116/0000-0008-DFA2-6"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Microorganisms", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "21.11116/0000-0008-DFA2-6", "name": "item", "description": "21.11116/0000-0008-DFA2-6", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/21.11116/0000-0008-DFA2-6"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-07-07T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "11586/416233", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:21:54Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-01-02", "title": "Prospective Scenarios for Addressing the Agricultural Plastic Waste Issue: Results of a Territorial Analysis", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Agricultural activities have been positively affected by the use of plastic products, but this has resulted in the production of plastic waste and led to an increase in environmental pollution. To continue benefiting from the use of plastics but addressing at the same time the environmental issue, two strategies seem viable: the development of technologies for extending plastics lifespan and the gradual replacement of traditional non-biodegradable materials by biodegradable ones, at least for some products. This study focuses on a territorial analysis, performed using a Geographic Information System (GIS) in an agricultural area of the Apulia region (southern Italy). Areas of agricultural plastic waste production were identified through land-use maps. The application of plastic waste indices to different crop types and plastic products allowed quantifying and georeferencing actual plastic waste production. From this actual visualization, the other strategies were obtained by properly managing the indices. Two improved scenarios were obtained, the first consisted of extending the lifespan of some plastics, and the second entailed the introduction of some biodegradable alternatives. About 11,103 tons of agricultural plastic waste are yearly produced in the area and 7450 tons come from covering films. Lifespan extension would reduce the annual waste amount by about 25%, while more alternative products are needed to achieve significant results in the second scenario.</p></article>", "keywords": ["Technology", "QH301-705.5", "QC1-999", "plastic detection", "01 natural sciences", "12. Responsible consumption", "11. Sustainability", "Biology (General)", "QD1-999", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "products lifespan", "T", "Physics", "sustainability; GIS; land use; plastic detection; waste management; biodegradable plastic; products lifespan", "land use", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "biodegradable plastic", "15. Life on land", "sustainability", "GIS", "Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)", "Chemistry", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "waste management", "TA1-2040"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/1/612/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/1/612/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/11586/416233"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Applied%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "11586/416233", "name": "item", "description": "11586/416233", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/11586/416233"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-01-02T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10182/16842", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:21:33Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-05-18", "title": "A glycan receptor kinase facilitates intracellular accommodation of arbuscular mycorrhiza and symbiotic rhizobia in the legume Lotus japonicus", "description": "<p>Receptors that distinguish the multitude of microbes surrounding plants in the environment enable dynamic responses to the biotic and abiotic conditions encountered. In this study, we identify and characterise a glycan receptor kinase, EPR3a, closely related to the exopolysaccharide receptor EPR3. Epr3a is up-regulated in roots colonised by arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi and is able to bind glucans with a branching pattern characteristic of surface-exposed fungal glucans. Expression studies with cellular resolution show localised activation of the Epr3a promoter in cortical root cells containing arbuscules. Fungal infection and intracellular arbuscule formation are reduced in epr3a mutants. In vitro, the EPR3a ectodomain binds cell wall glucans in affinity gel electrophoresis assays. In microscale thermophoresis (MST) assays, rhizobial exopolysaccharide binding is detected with affinities comparable to those observed for EPR3, and both EPR3a and EPR3 bind a well-defined \uffce\uffb2-1,3/\uffce\uffb2-1,6 decasaccharide derived from exopolysaccharides of endophytic and pathogenic fungi. Both EPR3a and EPR3 function in the intracellular accommodation of microbes. However, contrasting expression patterns and divergent ligand affinities result in distinct functions in AM colonisation and rhizobial infection in Lotus japonicus. The presence of Epr3a and Epr3 genes in both eudicot and monocot plant genomes suggest a conserved function of these receptor kinases in glycan perception.</p", "keywords": ["570", "QH301-705.5", "ANZSRC::30 Agricultural", "MESORHIZOBIUM-LOTI", "Plant Roots", "veterinary and food sciences", "ROOT", "Polysaccharides", "Gene Expression Regulation", " Plant", "Mycorrhizae", "CELL", "Biology (General)", "Symbiosis", "Glucans", "Plant Proteins", "FUNGAL", "PERCEPTION", "ANZSRC::31 Biological sciences", "LAMINARIN", "Phosphotransferases", "500", "TRANSFORMATION", "EVOLUTION", "ANZSRC::32 Biomedical and clinical sciences", "DEFENSE RESPONSES", "Mutation", "Lotus", "EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE", "Root Nodules", " Plant", "Research Article", "Rhizobium"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10182/16842"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLOS%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10182/16842", "name": "item", "description": "10182/16842", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10182/16842"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-05-18T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10182/7842", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:21:33Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-01-12", "title": "Food and nutritional security require adequate protein as well as energy, delivered from whole-year crop production", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Human food security requires the production of sufficient quantities of both high-quality protein and dietary energy. In a series of case-studies from New Zealand, we show that while production of food ingredients from crops on arable land can meet human dietary energy requirements effectively, requirements for high-quality protein are met more efficiently by animal production from such land. We present a model that can be used to assess dietary energy and quality-corrected protein production from various crop and crop/animal production systems, and demonstrate its utility. We extend our analysis with an accompanying economic analysis of commercially-available, pre-prepared or simply-cooked foods that can be produced from our case-study crop and animal products. We calculate the per-person, per-day cost of both quality-corrected protein and dietary energy as provided in the processed foods. We conclude that mixed dairy/cropping systems provide the greatest quantity of high-quality protein per unit price to the consumer, have the highest food energy production and can support the dietary requirements of the highest number of people, when assessed as all-year-round production systems. Global food and nutritional security will largely be an outcome of national or regional agro-economies addressing their own food needs. We hope that our model will be used for similar analyses of food production systems in other countries, agro-ecological zones and economies.</p></article>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "food access", "QH301-705.5", "agro-ecology", "7. Clean energy", "630", "03 medical and health sciences", "Journal Article", "forage utilisation", "Biology (General)", "Agricultural Science", "Nutrition", "whole-year production", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "Whole-year production", "9. Industry and infrastructure", "R", "food security", "15. Life on land", "nutrition", "food costs", "ANZSRC::090899 Food Sciences not elsewhere classified", "ANZSRC::070301 Agro-ecosystem Function and Prediction", "Medicine", "Food costs", "Agroecology", "Forage utilisation", "New Zealand"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Coles, Graeme D, Wratten, Stephen D, Porter, John R,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://peerj.com/preprints/1841v1.pdf"}, {"href": "https://peerj.com/preprints/1841.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10182/7842"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PeerJ", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10182/7842", "name": "item", "description": "10182/7842", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10182/7842"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-03-09T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "PMC9308969", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-08-23T16:24:28Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-05-27", "title": "A spatiotemporal ensemble machine learning framework for generating land use / land cover time-series maps for Europe (2000 \u2013 2019) based on LUCAS, CORINE and GLAD Landsat", "description": "<title>Abstract</title>                 <p>A seamless spatiotemporal machine learning framework for automated prediction, uncertainty assessment, and analysis of land use / land cover (LULC) dynamics is presented. The framework includes: (1) harmonization and preprocessing of high-resolution spatial and spatiotemporal covariate datasets (GLAD Landsat, NPP/VIIRS) including 5 million harmonized LUCAS and CORINE Land Cover-derived training samples, (2) model building based on spatial k-fold cross-validation and hyper-parameter optimization, (3) prediction of the most probable class, class probabilities and uncertainty per pixel, (4) LULC change analysis on time-series of produced maps. The spatiotemporal ensemble model was fitted by combining random forest, gradient boosted trees, and artificial neural network, with logistic regressor as meta-learner. The results show that the most important covariates for mapping LULC in Europe are: seasonal aggregates of Landsat green and near-infrared bands, multiple Landsat-derived spectral indices, and elevation. Spatial cross-validation of the model indicates consistent performance across multiple years with 62%, 70%, and 87% accuracy when predicting 33 (level-3), 14 (level-2), and 5 classes (level-1); with artificial surface classes such as 'airports' and 'railroads' showing the lowest match with validation points. The spatiotemporal model outperforms spatial models on known-year classification by 2.7% and unknown-year classification by 3.5%. Results of the accuracy assessment using 48,365 independent test samples shows 87% match with the validation points. Results of time-series analysis (time-series of LULC probabilities and NDVI images) suggest gradual deforestation trends in large parts of Sweden, the Alps, and Scotland. An advantage of using spatiotemporal ML is that the fitted model can be used to predict LULC in years that were not included in its training dataset, allowing generalization to past and future periods, e.g. to predict land cover for years prior to 2000 and beyond 2020. The generated land cover time-series data stack (ODSE-LULC), including the training points, is publicly available via the Open Data Science (ODS)-Europe Viewer.</p>", "keywords": ["Time Factors", "Spatiotemporal", "QH301-705.5", "Data Mining and Machine Learning", "Urbanization", "Uncertainty", "Spatial analysis", "R", "Environmental monitoring", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. 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This study determines changes in trait abundance along a gradient of flow velocity, turbidity and elevation, and develops trait\u2013response curves, which facilitate the identification of ecological tipping points. Aquatic macroinvertebrates and abiotic conditions were determined at 88 different locations in the streams of the Guayas basin. After trait information collection, a set of trait diversity metrics were calculated. Negative binomial regression and linear regression were applied to relate the abundance of each trait and trait diversity metrics, respectively, to flow velocity, turbidity and elevation. Tipping points for each environmental variable in relation to traits were identified using the segmented regression method. The abundance of most traits increased with increasing velocity, while they decreased with increasing turbidity. The negative binomial regression models revealed that from a flow velocity higher than 0.5 m/s, a substantial increase in abundance occurs for several traits, and this is even more substantially noticed at values higher than 1 m/s. Furthermore, significant tipping points were also identified for elevation, wherein an abrupt decline in trait richness was observed below 22 m a.s.l., implying the need to focus water management in these altitudinal regions. Turbidity is potentially caused by erosion; thus, measures that can reduce or limit erosion within the basin should be implemented. Our findings suggest that measures mitigating the issues related to turbidity and flow velocity may lead to better aquatic ecosystem functioning. This quantitative information related to flow velocity might serve as a good basis to determine ecological flow requirements and illustrates the major impacts that hydropower dams can have in fast-running river systems. These quantitative relations between invertebrate traits and environmental conditions, as well as related tipping points, provide a basis to determine critical targets for aquatic ecosystem management, achieve improved ecosystem functioning and warrant trait diversity.</p></article>", "keywords": ["NUISANCE PARAMETER", "QH301-705.5", "BIOLOGICAL TRAITS", "Article", "flow velocity", "traits", "threshold values", "HUMAN DISTURBANCES", "14. Life underwater", "Biology (General)", "ECOLOGICAL WATER-QUALITY", "limnology", "sediments", "Biology and Life Sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "turbidity", "flow velocity; limnology; river management; threshold values; tipping points; traits; sediments; turbidity", "13. 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Field harvesters generate point Big Data as they provide yield measurements together with dozens of complex attributes in a frequency of up to one second. Such a flood of data brings uncertainties caused by several factors: accuracy of the positioning system used, trajectory overlaps, raising the cutting bar due to obstacles or unevenness, and so on. This paper deals with 2D and 3D cartographic visualizations of terrain, measured yield, and its uncertainties. Four graphic variables were identified as credible for visualizations of uncertainties in point Big Data. Data from two plots at a fully operational farm were used for this purpose. ISO 19157 was examined for its applicability and a proof-of-concept for selected uncertainty expression was defined. Special attention was paid to spatial pattern interpretations.</p></article>", "keywords": ["point Big Data", "Technology", "QH301-705.5", "T", "Physics", "QC1-999", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "interactive 3D visualization", "ISO 19157", "02 engineering and technology", "Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)", "uncertainty expression", "Chemistry", "yield measurements", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "TA1-2040", "Biology (General)", "QD1-999"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/17/6132/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/17/6132/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8090543"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Applied%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5281/zenodo.8090543", "name": "item", "description": "10.5281/zenodo.8090543", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5281/zenodo.8090543"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-09-03T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5281/zenodo.8092629", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-08-23T16:20:58Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-06-15", "title": "Comparison of Methods for Reconstructing MODIS Land Surface Temperature under Cloudy Conditions", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Land surface temperature (LST) is a vital parameter associated with the land\u2013atmosphere interface. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) LST product can provide precise LST with high time resolution, and is widely applied in various remote sensing temperature research. However, due to its inability to penetrate the cloud and fog, its quality is not able to meet the requirements of actual research. Hence, obtaining continuous and cloudless MODIS LST datasets remains challenging for researchers. The critical point is to reconstruct missing pixels. To compare the performance of different methods, first, three kinds of methods were used to reconstruct the missing pixels, namely, temporal, spatial, and spatiotemporal methods. The predicted values using these methods were validated by the automatic weather system data (AWS) in the Heihe river basin of China. The results demonstrated that, compared with other methods, linear temporal interpolation using Aqua data had the best performance in MODIS LST reconstruction in the Heihe river basin, with an RMSE of 7.13 K and an R2 of 0.82, and the NSE and PBias were 0.78 and \u22120.76%, respectively. Furthermore, the interpolation method was improved using adaptive windows and robust regression. First, the international Geosphere\u2013Biosphere Program (IGBP) classification was employed to distinguish the different land surface types. Then, the invalid LST values were reconstructed using adjacent days\u2019 effective LST values combined with a robust regression. Finally, a mean filter was applied to eliminate outliers. The overall results combined with ERA5 data were validated by AWS, with an RMSE of 6.96 K and an R2 of 0.79 and the NSE and PBias were 0.77 and \u22120.20%, respectively. The validation demonstrated that the scheme proposed in this paper is able to accurately reconstruct the missing values and improve the accuracy of the interpolation method to a certain extent when reconstructing MODIS LST.</p></article>", "keywords": ["Technology", "land surface temperature (LST)", "reconstruction", "land surface temperature (LST); remote sensing; interpolation; reconstruction; MODIS", "QH301-705.5", "T", "Physics", "QC1-999", "Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)", "01 natural sciences", "interpolation", "6. Clean water", "Chemistry", "remote sensing", "MODIS", "13. 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It was shown that annually, mycorrhizal fungi and nitrogen-fixing bacteria are responsible for 5 to 80% of all nitrogen, and up to 75% of P plant acquisition. However, while bacteria are the most studied soil microorganisms and most frequently reported in the scientific literature, the role of fungi is relatively understudied, although they are the primary organic matter decomposers and govern soil carbon and other elements, including P-cycling. Many fungi can solubilize insoluble phosphates or facilitate P-acquisition by plants and, therefore, form an important part of the commercial microbial products, with Aspergillus, Penicillium and Trichoderma being the most efficient. In this paper, the role of fungi in P-solubilization and plant nutrition will be presented with a special emphasis on their production and application. Although this topic has been repeatedly reviewed, some recent views questioned the efficacy of the microbial P-solubilizers in soil. Here, we will try to summarize the proven facts but also discuss further lines of research that may clarify our doubts in this field or open new perspectives on using the microbial and particularly fungal P-solubilizing potential in accordance with the principles of the sustainability and circular economy.</p></article>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "P-solubilization; alternative P-sources; fungi; new strategies for P-solubilization; sustainable agriculture", "QH301-705.5", "New strategies for P-solubilization", "Sustainable agriculture", "Fungi", "Alternative P-sources", "alternative P-sources", "Review", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "new strategies for P-solubilization", "12. Responsible consumption", "sustainable agriculture", "P-solubilization", "13. 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We used a coupled human and natural systems framework and an agent-based landscape model to examine how alternative management scenarios affect fire and ecosystem services metrics in a fire-prone multiownership landscape in the eastern Cascades of Oregon. Our model incorporated existing models of vegetation succession and fire spread and information from original empirical studies of landowner decision making. Our findings indicate that alternative management strategies can have variable effects on landscape outcomes over 50 years for fire, socioeconomic, and ecosystem services metrics. For example, scenarios with federal restoration treatments had slightly less high-severity fire than a scenario without treatment; exposure of homes in the wildland-urban interface to fire was also slightly less with restoration treatments compared to no management. Treatments appeared to be more effective at reducing high-severity fire in years with more fire than in years with less fire. Under the current management scenario, timber production could be maintained for at least 50 years on federal lands. Under an accelerated restoration scenario, timber production fell because of a shortage of areas meeting current stand structure treatment targets. Trade-offs between restoration outcomes (e.g., open forests with large fire-resistant trees) and habitat for species that require dense older forests were evident. For example, the proportional area of nesting habitat for northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis) was somewhat less after 50 years under the restoration scenarios than under no management. However, the amount of resilient older forest structure and habitat for white-headed woodpecker (Leuconotopicus albolarvatus) was higher after 50 years under active management. More carbon was stored on this landscape without management than with management, despite the occurrence of high-severity wildfire. Our results and further applications of the model could be used in collaborative settings to facilitate discussion and development of policies and practices for fire-prone landscapes.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Ecology", "QH301-705.5", "adaptation", "landscape", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "wildfire", "13. Climate action", "11. 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