{"type": "FeatureCollection", "features": [{"id": "10.1007/s11104-014-2165-y", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:10Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-06-19", "title": "Soil Bacterial Communities Of Different Natural Forest Types In Northeast China", "description": "The types of natural forests have long been suggested to shape below-ground microbial communities in forest ecosystem. However, detailed information on the impressionable bacterial groups and the potential mechanisms of these influences are still missing. The present study aims to deepen the current understanding on the soil microbial communities under four typical forest types in Northeast Asia, and to reveal the environmental factors driving the abundance, diversity and composition of soil bacterial communities. Four forest types from Changbai Nature Reserve, representing mixed conifer-broadleaf forest and its natural secondary forest, evergreen coniferous forest, and deciduous coniferous forest were selected for this study. Namely, Broadleaf-Korean pine mixed forest (BLKP), secondary Poplar-Birch forest (PB), Spruce-Fir forest (SF), and Larch forest (LA), respectively. Soil bacterial community was analyzed using bar-coded pyrosequencing. Nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) was used to illustrate the clustering of different samples based on both Bray-Curtis distances and UniFrac distances. The relationship between environmental variables and the overall community structure was analyzed using the Mantel test. The two mixed conifer-broadleaf forests (BLKP and PB) displayed higher total soil nutrients (organic carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus) and soil pH, but a lower C/N ratio as compared to the two coniferous forests (SF and LA). The mixed conifer-broadleaf forests had higher alpha-diversity and had distinct bacterial communities from the coniferous forests. Soil texture and pH were found as the principle factors for shaping soil bacterial diversity and community composition. The two mixed conifer-broadleaf forests were associated with higher proportion of Acidobacteria, Verrucomicrobia, Bacteroidetes, and Chloroflexi. While the SF and LA forests were dominated by Proteobacteria and Gemmatimonadetes. Different natural forest type each selects for distinct microbial communities beneath them, with mixed conifer-broadleaf forests being associated with the low-activity bacterial groups, and the coniferous forests being dominated by the so-called high-activity members. The differentiation of soil bacterial communities in natural forests are presumably mediated by the differentiation in terms of soil properties, and could be partially explained by the copiotroph/oligotroph ecological classification model and non-random co-occurrence patterns.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "14. Life underwater", "15. 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The size, structure and function of the soil microbial community can be impacted by land-use change and residue management. The objectives of this study were to examine the impact of land-use change from (1) native forest (NF) to first rotation (1R) hoop pine plantation and (2) 1R hoop pine plantation to second rotation (2R) hoop pine plantation on the soil microbial community. The impact of residue management on the soil microbial community was also investigated in the 2R forest, where soil microbial parameters were measured in tree rows (2R-T) and windrows (2R-W). In addition, relationships between soil microbial parameters and soil N parameters were investigated.", "keywords": ["Environmental sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Earth sciences", "Agricultural", "570", "veterinary and food sciences", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Soil sciences not elsewhere classified", "630"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-010-0238-y"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Soils%20and%20Sediments", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11368-010-0238-y", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11368-010-0238-y", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11368-010-0238-y"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2010-04-30T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.flora.2022.152019", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-04-03T16:16:47Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-02-01", "title": "Artemisia sieberi dominated landscapes of Northeastern Iran host great diversity in lichen and annual plant species", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "01 natural sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flora.2022.152019"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Flora", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.flora.2022.152019", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.flora.2022.152019", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.flora.2022.152019"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-014-2025-9", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:09Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-01-28", "title": "Successive Straw Biochar Application As A Strategy To Sequester Carbon And Improve Fertility: A Pot Experiment With Two Rice/Wheat Rotations In Paddy Soil", "description": "A pot study spanning four consecutive crop seasons was conducted to compare the effects of successive rice straw biochar/rice straw amendments on C sequestration and soil fertility in rice/wheat rotated paddy soil. We adopted 4.5\u00a0t\u00a0ha\u22121, 9.0\u00a0t\u00a0ha\u22121 biochar and 3.75\u00a0t\u00a0ha\u22121 straw for each crop season with an identical dose of NPK fertilizers. We found no major losses of biochar-C over the 2-year experimental period. Obvious reductions in CH4 emission were observed from rice seasons under the biochar application, despite the fact that the biochar brought more C into the soil than the straw. N2O emissions with biochar were similar to the controls without additives over the 2-year experimental period. Biochar application had positive effects on crop growth, along with positive effects on nutrient (N, P, K, Ca and Mg) uptake by crop plants and the availability of soil P, K, Ca and Mg. High levels of biochar application over the course of the crop rotation suppressed NH3 volatilization in the rice season, but stimulated it in the wheat season. Converting straw to biochar followed by successive application to soil is viable for soil C sequestration, CH4 mitigation, improvements of soil and crop productivity. Biochar soil amendment influences NH3 volatilization differently in the flooded rice and upland wheat seasons, respectively.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Jiangwei Wang, Jiangwei Wang, Xu Zhao, Shenqiang Wang, Guangxi Xing,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-014-2025-9"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-014-2025-9", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-014-2025-9", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-014-2025-9"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-01-29T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-014-2036-6", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:10Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-02-14", "title": "Variable Effects Of Nutrient Enrichment On Soil Respiration In Mangrove Forests", "description": "Mangrove forests are globally important sites of carbon burial that are increasingly exposed to nutrient pollution. Here we assessed the response of soil respiration, an important component of forest carbon budgets, to nutrient enrichment over a wide range of mangrove forests. We assessed the response of soil respiration to nutrient enrichment using fertilization experiments within 22 mangrove forests over ten sites. We used boosted regression tree (BRT) models to determine the importance of environmental and plant factors for soil respiration and its responsiveness to fertilizer treatments. Leaf area index explained the largest proportion of variation in soil respiration rates (LAI, 45.9\u00a0%) followed by those of site, which had a relative influence of 39.9\u00a0% in the BRT model. Nutrient enrichment enhanced soil respiration only in nine out of 22 forests. Soil respiration in scrub forests showed a positive response to nutrient addition more frequently than taller fringing forests. The response of soil respiration to nutrient enrichment varied with changes in specific leaf area (SLA) and stem extension, with relative influences of 14.4\u00a0%, 13.6\u00a0% in the BRT model respectively. Soil respiration in mangroves varied with LAI, but other site specific factors also influenced soil respiration and its response to nutrient enrichment. Strong enhancements in aboveground growth but moderate increases in soil respiration with nutrient enrichment indicated that nutrient enrichment of mangrove forests has likely increased net ecosystem production.", "keywords": ["Rhizophora", "Carbon cycling", "0106 biological sciences", "Salinity", "Nitrogen", "Phosphorus", "Growth", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "13. Climate action", "1110 Plant Science", "8. Economic growth", "Avicennia", "1111 Soil Science", "Soil CO2 efflux"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-014-2036-6"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-014-2036-6", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-014-2036-6", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-014-2036-6"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-02-15T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-014-2129-2", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:10Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-05-08", "title": "Coupled Response Of Soil Carbon And Nitrogen Pools And Enzyme Activities To Nitrogen And Water Addition In A Semi-Arid Grassland Of Inner Mongolia", "description": "Previous studies have demonstrated positive net primary production effects with increased nitrogen (N) and water availability in Inner Mongolian semi-arid grasslands. However, the responses of soil carbon (C) and N concentrations and soil enzyme activities as indicators of impacts of long-term N (urea) and water addition are still unclear. We tested the effect of 7\u00a0years of a N and water addition experiment on soil C, N, and specific soil-bound enzymes in a semi-arid grassland of Inner Mongolia. We determined concentrations of soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil total nitrogen (TN) in both the 0\u201310 and 10\u201320\u00a0cm soil layers. Concentrations of labile carbon (LC) and inorganic nitrogen (nitrate and ammonium), and soil pH were measured. Additionally, soil dehydrogenase (DHA), \u03b2-glucosidase (BG) and acid and alkaline phosphomonoesterase (PME) enzyme activities were determined in the 0\u201310\u00a0cm soil layer. SOC concentration in the 0\u201310\u00a0cm soil layer showed no response to N addition or N plus water addition, but increased with water addition alone by 0.3\u201315.7\u00a0%. N addition significantly increased nitrate by 46.0\u2013138.4\u00a0% and ammonium by 19.0\u201373.3\u00a0% in the 0\u201310\u00a0cm soil layer, whereas water addition did not affect them. The activities of DHA and alkaline PME enzymes, as well as soil pH, in the 0\u201310\u00a0cm layer decreased with N addition, however water addition alone caused these enzyme activities to increase. Unlike the surface soil (0\u201310\u00a0cm), the lower soil layer (10\u201320\u00a0cm), was responsive to N and water addition in that SOC and TN concentrations decreased with N addition and increased with water addition. The accumulation of SOC and TN in N and water addition plots may be caused by the input of plant biomass exceeding SOC decomposition. Decrease in microbial activity, derived from decreased DHA and alkaline PME activities might result from suppression effects of lower pH and decreased microbial N supply. Water availability is proved to be more important than N availability for soil C and N accumulation in this semi-arid grassland.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-014-2129-2"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-014-2129-2", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-014-2129-2", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-014-2129-2"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-05-09T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-014-2154-1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:10Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-05-26", "title": "Hierarchical Responses Of Plant Stoichiometry To Nitrogen Deposition And Mowing In A Temperate Steppe", "description": "Background and aims Stoichiometric relations drive powerful constraints on many ecosystem processes. However, our understanding of the hierarchical responses of plant C:N:P stoichiometry at different levels of biological organization to global change factors remains limited. Methods we examined the plant C:N:P stoichiometric responses to N deposition and mowing (hay making) at both species- and community-level by carrying out a 4yearfieldexperimentinthetemperatesteppeofnorthern China. Results Our results showedthat N additionand mowing resulted in higher plant N concentrations, lower C:N, and higher N:P at both species- and community-level. Mowing had a limited negative influence on the effects of N addition. We observed divergent responses of both plant P concentrations and C:P to N addition at specieslevel and community-level: N addition led to higher plant P and lower C:P at species-level, but this effect was not observed at the community-level. Conclusions Our results indicate that stoichiometric responses at community-level to N addition and mowing diverge from more traditionally examined speciesspecific responses. Our results suggest that the hierarchicalresponsesofplant stoichiometrytoanthropogenic disturbance deserves more attention when we model the interactions of terrestrial ecosystem C, N, and P cycling under scenarios of increasing N availability concomitantly occurring with active land management.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "11. Sustainability", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-014-2154-1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-014-2154-1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-014-2154-1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-014-2154-1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-05-27T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11368-010-0293-4", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:20Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-09-05", "title": "Chemical Properties, Microbial Biomass, And Activity Differ Between Soils Of Organic And Conventional Horticultural Systems Under Greenhouse And Open Field Management: A Case Study", "description": "Increasing soil organic matter content is important in improving soil fertility; however, conventional farming practices generally lead to a reduction in such organic material. A comparative study of organic and conventional arable farming systems was conducted in Shanghai, China, to determine the influence of management practices on soil chemistry, microbial activity, and biomass. Soils used in greenhouses and open field cultivation were obtained from plots subjected to organic farming methods for 3\u00a0years or from conventionally farmed fields in the same area. Four combinations of field type and management system were evaluated: (1) organic management in open fields (ORG-OP); (2) conventional management in open fields (CNV-OP); (3) organic management in plastic tunnel fields (ORG-GR); and (4) conventional management in plastic tunnel fields (CNV-GR). Soils obtained at the 0- to 10-cm depth were analyzed using an approach combining traditional soil analysis, microbiological analysis using enzymology and microcalorimetric techniques, and a written survey of management practices among the farmers. Organic management resulted in significant increases (p\u2009<\u20090.001) in total organic C and total N, Olsen-P, cation exchange capacity (CEC), soil respiration, microbial biomass C (C                            min) and N (N                            min), and alkaline phosphatase and urease activity. Sucrase activity was highest in CNV-GR soil and lowest in ORG-OP and CNV-OP soils. No significant difference was observed between ORG-OP and CNV-OP. The Olsen-P, total organic C, total N, CEC, N                            min, and sucrase and alkaline phosphatase activities were greater in greenhouse soils than those under open field cultivation, which indicated a higher level of soil management under greenhouse conditions. The microcalorimetry power\u2013time curves for all samples described typical microbial metabolic activity. In soil samples supplemented with glucose and ammonium sulfate, the heat dissipation per cell unit suggested that microorganisms in soils under organic management had more efficient metabolism. In addition, microbial growth in soils under conventional management displayed lower growth rates, lower peak heat, and longer peak heat times, all of which indicated lower activity of soil microorganisms compared with organic management. There was a large positive correlation (p\u2009<\u20090.01) between the values of P                            max (the peak value of thermal power), Q                            total (total heat flux), and k (microbial growth rate constant) and the chemical properties. However, there was a significant negative correlation (p\u2009<\u20090.05) between the value of t                            max (the time required to reach peak thermal power) and chemical properties other than sucrase activity. Organic production systems significantly improved soil microbial characteristics and increased soil organic C, thus improving soil quality and fertility. Further studies investigating the long-term functional significance of carbon sequestration under organic practices are therefore warranted.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-010-0293-4"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Soils%20and%20Sediments", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11368-010-0293-4", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11368-010-0293-4", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11368-010-0293-4"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2010-09-06T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-014-2167-9", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:10Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-06-19", "title": "Soil Substrate Utilization Pattern And Relation Of Functional Evenness Of Plant Groups And Soil Microbial Community In Five Low Mountain Natura 2000", "description": "Species rich, semi-natural grassland systems provide several ecosystem functions. The goal was to assess how aboveground composition and evenness affects soil substrate utilization pattern and soil microbial functional evenness. At five German NATURA 2000 grassland sites, the interactions of plant functional groups (graminoids, forbs and legumes) and belowground microbial functional evenness were investigated in relation to soil properties and sampling date. Functional evenness of soil microorganisms was measured with high spatial resolution by community level physiological profiling (CLPP) using multi-SIR (substrate-induced respiration) at three sampling dates during the vegetation period. Evenness indices were used to compare plant functional group diversity and soil microbial functional diversity. All sites differed in the consistently high soil microbial functional evenness, which was strongly predicted by soil pH, but not by plant functional groups or aboveground plant dry matter production. However, soil microbial functional evenness was particularly decreased by an increasing legume proportion and showed seasonal changes, probably driven by shifts in resource availability and soil water content. Our results suggest that changes in soil chemical properties or in a single key plant functional group may have stronger effects on soil microbial functional evenness than changes in plant functional group evenness.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-014-2167-9"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-014-2167-9", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-014-2167-9", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-014-2167-9"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-06-20T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-014-2200-z", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:10Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-07-23", "title": "Effects Of Tree Species Composition On The Co2 And N2o Efflux Of A Mediterranean Mountain Forest Soil", "description": "Tree species composition shifts can alter soil CO2 and N2O effluxes. We quantified the soil CO2 and N2O efflux rates and temperature sensitivity from Pyrenean oak, Scots pine and mixed stands in Central Spain to assess the effects of a potential expansion of oak forests. Soil CO2 and N2O effluxes were measured from topsoil samples by lab incubation from 5 to 25\u00a0\u00b0C. Soil microbial biomass and community composition were assessed. Pine stands showed highest soil CO2 efflux, followed by mixed and oak forests (up to 277, 245 and 145\u00a0mg CO2-C m\u22122\u00a0h\u22121, respectively). Despite contrasting soil microbial community composition (more fungi and less actinomycetes in pine plots), carbon decomposability and temperature sensitivity of the soil CO2 efflux remain constant among tree species. Soil N2O efflux rates and its temperature sensitivity was markedly higher in oak stands than in pine stands (70 vs. 27\u00a0\u03bcg N2O-N\u00a0m\u22122\u00a0h\u22121, Q10, 4.5 vs. 2.5). Conversion of pine to oak forests in the region will likely decrease soil CO2 effluxes due to decreasing SOC contents on the long run and will likely enhance soil N2O effluxes. Our results present only a seasonal snapshot and need to be confirmed in the field.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "Telecomunicaciones", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. Climate action", "Agricultura", "15. Life on land"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-014-2200-z"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-014-2200-z", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-014-2200-z", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-014-2200-z"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-07-24T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-014-2332-1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:10Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-12-02", "title": "Assessment Of Climate Change Impacts On Soil Organic Carbon And Crop Yield Based On Long-Term Fertilization Applications In Loess Plateau, China", "description": "Climate change may significantly impact crop yields and soil. In this study the DNDC model, together with climatic outputs from Hadley Centre\u2019s general circulation model (HadCM3), was used to investigate the influence of projected climate change and management practices on soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics and crop yield of the Chinese Loess Plateau. The results identify management practices with the greatest potential to mitigate climate change and to increase SOC in this area. Field experiments on winter-wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and summer maize (Zea mays L.) rotation included a control and four types of fertilization treatments: T1 (control), T2 (inorganic fertilizer), T3 (NPK inorganic fertilization combined with wheat or maize residue return), T4 (NPK inorganic fertilization combined with low amount of manure) and T5 (NPK inorganic fertilization combined with high amount of manure). DNDC model was calibrated using the field data from 1991 to 2000 and validated from 2001 to 2010. Furthermore, a baseline climate and three future climate scenarios (A1B, A2 and B1) were considered. DNDC model effectively simulated the SOC and crop yields. The findings showed that in 1991\u20132010, T1 maintained its initial SOC level but reduced crop yields, while T2 promoted crop production with less effect on soil carbon storage. However, T3, T4 and T5 enhanced both crop yield and soil carbon, and the best results were observed under T5. The investigated climate scenarios substantially affect SOC content and crop yields. In terms of SOC content, B1 had great effects on T1, T4 and T5, while A1B on T2 and T3. Considering crop yields, in all treatments, the trends are B1\u2009>\u2009A1B\u2009>\u2009A2 for winter-wheat and A2\u2009>\u2009A1B\u2009>\u2009B1 for summer maize, respectively. The impacts of climate changes on SOC dynamics and crop yields were different depending on the management applied. Thus, the adoption of certain management practices in the Chinese Loess Plateau agroecosystems could be critical in maximizing SOC sequestration and reducing CO2 in the atmosphere. Reasonably low temperature and high precipitation can enhance winter-wheat yields, while maize yields need medium temperature and precipitation. We recommended the combined application of inorganic and organic fertilizers to achieve a balance between food security and soil carbon sequestration objectives.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "8. Economic growth", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-014-2332-1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-014-2332-1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-014-2332-1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-014-2332-1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-11-30T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-014-2363-7", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:10Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-12-22", "title": "Soil Properties And Apricot Growth Under Intercropping And Mulching With Erect Milk Vetch In The Loess Hilly-Gully Region", "description": "Soil in the loess hilly-gully region of northern Shaanxi Province, China, is infertile and rainfall is scarce and uneven. The objectives of this study were to improve soil quality, promote apricot (Prunus armeniaca L.) growth, and assess whether erect milk vetch (Astragalus adsurgens Pall.) and apricot compete for soil moisture and soil nutrients under intercropping systems. Taking clean tillage as the control, soil moisture and soil nutrients were monitored in apricot orchards in which erect milk vetch was interplanted for 5\u00a0years and interplant-mulched and mulched for 4\u00a0years. Intercropping and intercrop-mulching with erect milk vetch reduced soil moisture and soil nutrients and decreased fruit yield, fruit weight, and economic output. Mulching with erect milk vetch increased soil moisture in the 0\u201360-cm soil layer; increased soil organic matter, total N, and soil-available nutrients in the 0\u201320-cm soil layer; and increased fruit yield, fruit weight, and economic output. Under intercropping and intercrop-mulching, erect milk vetch and apricot competed for soil moisture and soil nutrients. Intercropping and intercrop-mulching with erect milk vetch are inappropriate, but mulching with erect milk vetch is a suitable method for managing soil quality in apricot orchards in the loess hilly-gully region.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Gangshuan Bai, Gangshuan Bai, Sheni Du, Sheni Du, Jian Yu,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-014-2363-7"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-014-2363-7", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-014-2363-7", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-014-2363-7"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-12-23T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-014-2181-y", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:10Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-07-02", "title": "Nutrient Availability And Ph Jointly Constrain Microbial Extracellular Enzyme Activities In Nutrient-Poor Tundra Soils", "description": "Tundra soils, which usually contain low concentrations of soil nutrients and have a low pH, store a large proportion of the global soil carbon (C) pool. The importance of soil nitrogen (N) availability for microbial activity in the tundra has received a great deal of attention; however, although soil pH is known to exert a considerable impact on microbial activities across ecosystems, the importance of soil pH in the tundra has not been experimentally investigated. We tested a hypothesis that low nutrient availability and pH may limit microbial biomass and microbial capacity for organic matter degradation in acidic tundra heaths by analyzing potential extracellular enzyme activities and microbial biomass after 6\u00a0years of factorial treatments of fertilization and liming. Increasing nutrients enhanced the potential activity of \u03b2-glucosidase (synthesized for cellulose degradation). Increasing soil pH, in contrast, reduced the potential activity of \u03b2-glucosidase. The soil phospholipid fatty acid concentrations (PLFAs; indicative of the amount of microbial biomass) increased in response to fertilization but were not influenced by liming. Our results show that soil nutrient availability and pH together control extracellular enzyme activities but with largely differing or even opposing effects. When nutrient limitation was alleviated by fertilization, microbial biomass and enzymatic capacity for cellulose decomposition increased, which likely facilitates greater decomposition of soil organic matter. Increased soil pH, in contrast, reduced enzymatic capacity for cellulose decomposition, which could be related with the bioavailability of organic substrates.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "570", "typpi", "pH", "13. Climate action", "entsyymiaktiivisuus", "PLFA", "610", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "7. Clean energy", "TUNDRA"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-014-2181-y"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-014-2181-y", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-014-2181-y", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-014-2181-y"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-07-03T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-014-2214-6", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:10Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-08-09", "title": "The Intercropping Cowpea-Maize Improves Soil Phosphorus Availability And Maize Yields In An Alkaline Soil", "description": "This study assessed whether growing cowpea can increase phosphorus (P) availability in the rhizosphere and improve the yield of legume-cereal systems. In alkaline Mediterranean soils with P deficiency, it is assumed that legumes increase inorganic P availability. A field experiment was conducted at the Staoueli experimental station, in Algiers province, Algeria, to compare the growth, grain yield, P availability, and P uptake by plants with sole-cropped cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. cv. Moh Ouali) and maize (Zea mays L. cv. ILT), intercropped cowpea-maize, and fallow. P availability in the rhizosphere was increased in both sole cropping and intercropping systems compared with fallow. It was highest in intercropping. The increase in P availability was associated with (i) significant pH changes of the rhizosphere of cowpea in sole cropping and intercropping systems, with the rhizosphere acidification significantly higher in intercropping (\u22120.73\u00a0units) than in sole cropping (\u22120.42\u00a0units); (ii) significant increase in the rhizosphere pH of intercropped maize (+0.49\u00a0units) compared to fallow; (iii) increased soil respiration (C-CO2 from microbial and root activity) in intercropping compared with sole cropping and fallow; and (iv) higher efficiency in utilization of the rhizobial symbiosis in intercropping than in sole-cropped cowpea. With cowpea-maize intercropping, cowpea increased the P uptake, by increasing the P availability by rhizosphere pH changes in an alkaline soil. Overall, this study showed that intercropping cowpea improved the plant biomass and grain yield of maize in this soil.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]", "P availability", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "630", "6. Clean water", "[SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio]", "acidification", "Intercropping", "Rhizosphere", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Biological N-2-fixation", "Biological N2-fixation", "Rhizosphere acidification"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-014-2214-6"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-014-2214-6", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-014-2214-6", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-014-2214-6"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-08-10T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-014-2292-5", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:10Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-10-14", "title": "Soil Organic C And Total N Pools In The Kalahari: Potential Impacts Of Climate Change On C Sequestration In Savannas", "description": "The impacts of climate change on carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) fluxes are not fully understood, especially in savanna ecosystems. This study aimed to assess the potential impacts of climate change in soil C and N pools in the savannas. Soil organic carbon (SOC) and total nitrogen (TN) were quantified at four sites with consistent sandy soils along a precipitation gradient in the southern Africa savannas. Soils were sampled at 240 locations at each site at four depths: 10, 30, 70 and 120\u00a0cm. The driest site and the wettest site had the SOC content of 1,397\u00a0g\u00a0m\u22122 and 1,982\u00a0g\u00a0m\u22122, respectively. Mean C:N ratio was highest (26\u2009\u00b1\u20096) at the wettest site and lowest at the next-wettest (15\u2009\u00b1\u20092). Our results support the hypothesis of low nitrogen fixation in the area, particularly in the dry southern region. We found a significant spatial relationship between SOC/TN content and tree height or tree mass only in the driest. The Botswana Kalahari (BK) soil is estimated to contain about 0.99\u2009\u00d7\u20091015\u00a0g C belowground of which about 92\u00a0% is SOC. Furthermore, under IPCC RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 carbon emission scenarios, total belowground C is predicted to drop to 0.92 and 0.86\u2009\u00d7\u20091015\u00a0g C, respectively by the end of the century. Our results provide insight into soil C stocks in Kalahari savannas and suggest that savannas may be bigger stores of organic C than currently thought. The current climate change projections together with field measurements suggest that C storage in these savannas may decrease in the future as the region warms and dries into the next century.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-014-2292-5"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-014-2292-5", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-014-2292-5", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-014-2292-5"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-10-15T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-014-2337-9", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:10Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-12-01", "title": "Quantifying The Impact Of Drought On Soil-Plant Interactions: A Seasonal Analysis Of Biotic And Abiotic Controls Of Carbon And Nutrient Dynamics In High-Altitudinal Grasslands", "description": "Understanding the impacts of ever more severe and widespread drought events has become a central focus of recent ecological research. Accordingly, the objective of this study is to investigate fundamental mechanisms that control drought effects on climate sensitive ecosystems by regulating soil-plant interactions. Field experiments were conducted in high altitudinal grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau. Based on historical records, we simulated extreme drought events, intercepting water inputs in early (spring), mid (summer), and late (autumn) periods of the plant-growing season (PGS). We measured vegetation responses to changes in soil physical, chemical, and biological properties, examining how the interplay of abiotic and biotic processes regulate the impacts of drought above and below ground. Decreasing water input resulted in proportional increases in summer and autumn soil temperature, but reduced soil temperature during the spring drought. As a result, soil microbial biomass and available N and P concentrations remained stable during the early-PGS drought, while enzymatic activity, decomposition of organic materials, and nutrient release increased during the mid- and late-PGS. Concerted changes in microbial and plant activity determined seasonal fluctuations in carbon assimilation, microbial activity and nutrient dynamics, with varying degrees of resistance and resilience to drought stress observed at different PGS periods. Significant interactions were observed between plant productivity and microbial activity in response to moisture variability and associated changes in soil temperature, with the largest deleterious drought effects registered during the summer, when competition for limiting resources between plants and microorganisms was strongest.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-014-2337-9"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-014-2337-9", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-014-2337-9", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-014-2337-9"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-12-02T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.fcr.2003.08.013", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:16:43Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2003-11-05", "title": "Crop Yields, Soil Fertility And Phosphorus Fractions In Response To Long-Term Fertilization Under The Rice Monoculture System On A Calcareous Soil", "description": "Abstract   A 14-year field trial was conducted on a calcareous soil to evaluate the effects of continuous rice (Oryza sativa L.) cropping and fertilization on crop yield, soil fertility and phosphorus fractions. The application of N and P enhanced rice yields, while K had no yield-increasing effect because of large available soil K resource. The soil organic carbon remained at a stable level except for a decrease in the unfertilized treatment after 1988. Total N did not show clear changes with time or between treatments despite some fluctuation. The available soil K trend after 1985 as well as the comparison between treatments indicated clearly decreasing available soil K, particularly in the NP treatment. Available soil P significantly decreased in the P-omitted treatments, but remained at a stable level in the P-applied treatments with time. Of the total inorganic P (Pi), Ca phosphates (Ca-P) were the dominant Pi forms, accounting for 69\u201371%, followed by Fe phosphates (Fe-P), P occluded within Fe oxides (O-P) and then Al phosphates (Al-P). Of the Ca-P fractions, Ca2-P [CaHPO4\u00b7nH2O], Ca8-P [Ca8H2(PO4)6\u00b7nH2O] and Ca10-P [Ca10(PO4)6\u00b7(OH)2] accounted for 3.1\u20136.2, 5.8\u20136.4 and 87\u201391%, respectively. The NK treatment had significant Ca2-P depletion with time compared with the NPK treatment, and the similar trend was observed for Ca8-P despite decreasing Ca8-P with time for the two treatments. In the NK treatment, Ca2-P and Ca8-P had a good correlation with Olsen-P. The significant changes with time were not observed for Fe-P, O-P and Ca10-P. The P application caused a weak accumulation of Fe-P, O-P and Ca10-P, but had no significant effect on total Pi over time. The results suggest that (i) P application is indispensable to maintain high yields of rice under N application and (ii) there was a substantial P release from Ca2-P and Ca8-P linked to P uptake by crops. Hence, soil indigenous P supply, P transformation and the yield responses to fertilizer P application must be synthetically considered to optimize fertilization strategies for irrigated rice production on the calcareous soil at the experimental site.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "070300 Crop and Pasture Production", "0703 (four-digit-FOR)", "Flooding", "etc.)", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "300105 Applied Hydrology (Drainage", "Irrigation", "Quality", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2003.08.013"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Field%20Crops%20Research", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.fcr.2003.08.013", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.fcr.2003.08.013", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.fcr.2003.08.013"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2004-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-014-2369-1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:10Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-01-09", "title": "Uncoupling The Effects Of Phosphorus And Precipitation On Arbuscular Mycorrhizas In The Serengeti", "description": "Background and aims  The Serengeti grassland is characterized by antiparallel gradients of soil phosphorus (P) and precipitation. We hypothesized that grasses associate with arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi to ameliorate water stress and improve nutrient acquisition; and, that geographic patterns in AM fungal abundance relate to nutrient and water limitation of host plants.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Nancy Collins Johnson, Jeffrey Ryan Propster,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-014-2369-1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-014-2369-1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-014-2369-1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-014-2369-1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-01-10T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-015-2431-7", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:10Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-03-13", "title": "Above- And Belowground Linkages Of A Nitrogen And Phosphorus Co-Limited Tropicalmountain Pasture System-Responses To Nutrient Enrichment", "description": "Little is known about how N and P co-limited ecosystems respond to single nutrient enrichment. This work assesses the susceptibility of above- and belowground ecosystem components and of their linkages in an N and P co-limited pasture to N- and P-enrichment. We tested if the plants\u2019 responses can be explained by the concept of serially linked nutrients introduced by Agren (Ecol Lett 7:185\u2013191, 2004). In this concept, the control of the growth rate by one nutrient is assumed to depend on the control of a different cellular process by another nutrient. We investigated the responses of shoot and root biomass and C:N:P stoichiometry of the grass Setaria sphacelata (Schumach.) to moderate N, P, and N\u2009+\u2009P application over 5\u00a0years. In addition, the effects of nutrient enrichment on soil nutrient pools, on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) as well as on microbial biomass, activity, and community structure (phospholipid fatty acids: PLFA) were tested. In order to evaluate the importance of different factors explaining microbial responses, we applied a likelihood-based information-theoretic approach. The application of N\u2009+\u2009P increased aboveground grass biomass (+61\u00a0%). Root biomass was stimulated by P-treatment (+45\u00a0%). Grass C:N:P stoichiometry responded by altering the P-uptake (P-treatment) or by translocating P from shoot to root (N-treatment). In particular, root C:N and C:P stoichiometry decreased in P- and in N-treatment. Extractable fractions of soil C, N, and P were significantly affected by nutrient enrichment. P application increased the biomass of Gram-positive bacteria (+22\u00a0%) and the abundance of AMF (+46\u00a0%), however, results of the IT-approach suggested indirect effects of nutrient enrichment on microbes. The responses of the N and P co-limited pasture to particular nutrient enrichment support the concept of serially linked nutrients. The present study provides evidence for the fundamental importance of P for controlling resource allocation of plants in responses to nutrient enrichment. Resource allocation of the grass rather than direct effects of nutrient additions drives changes in AMF, microbial biomass, community structure, and activity.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-015-2431-7"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-015-2431-7", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-015-2431-7", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-015-2431-7"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-03-14T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-015-2518-1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:10Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-05-22", "title": "Legumes Have A Greater Effect On Rhizosphere Properties (Ph, Organic Acids And Enzyme Activity) But A Smaller Impact On Soil P Compared To Other Cover Crops", "description": "Plants affect phosphorus (P) cycling through uptake and the mobilization of P from several soil pools into soil solution. The effects of seven cover crop species \u2013 three legumes (variable morphology), three cereals (variable domestication degree), one mustard (non-mycorrhizal) \u2013 on P cycling were compared in a greenhouse experiment. Monocultures and legume-cereal mixtures were grown in an artificial plant growth substrate across three P input treatments (low P, manure, mineral fertilizer) to quantify changes in plant nutrients in aboveground and belowground biomass and properties of the plant growth substrate (pH, organic acids, enzyme activity, P). Legumes had the highest biomass, P uptake, and P mobilization potential (lower pH, higher organic acids and phosphatase activity) but cereals and mixtures mobilized more P than legumes. Biomass allocation to roots varied among species, with no trade-off between allocation to roots and P mobilization potential. Cereals had higher biomass, P uptake and N concentration in mixtures, whereas legumes had a mixed response in mixtures. Phosphorus concentration in the plant growth substrate affected plant growth and nutrient uptake but not P mobilization potential, with few differences between manure and mineral fertilizer. Despite smaller effects on rhizosphere properties compared to legumes, cereals and mixtures had a greater impact on soil P and should affect P cycling more strongly when used as cover crops.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Gabriel Maltais-Landry, Gabriel Maltais-Landry,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-015-2518-1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-015-2518-1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-015-2518-1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-015-2518-1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-05-23T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-015-2533-2", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:10Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-05-26", "title": "Biochar Amendment Increases Maize Root Surface Areas And Branching: A Shovelomics Study In Zambia", "description": "Positive crop yield effects from biochar are likely explained by chemical, physical and/or biological factors. However, studies describing plant allometric changes are scarcer, but may be crucial to understand the biochar effect. The main aim of the present study is to investigate the effect of biochar on root architecture under field conditions in a tropical setting. The presented work describes a shovelomics (i.e., description of root traits in the field) study on the effect of biochar on maize root architecture. Four field experiments we carried out at two different locations in Zambia, exhibiting non-fertile to relatively fertile soils. Roots of maize crop (Zea mays L.) were sampled from treatments with fertilizer (control) and with a combination of fertilizer and 4\u00a0t.ha\u22121 maize biochar application incorporated in the soil. For the four sites, the average grain yield increase upon biochar addition was 45\u2009\u00b1\u200914\u00a0% relative to the fertilized control (from 2.1\u20136.0 to 3.1\u20139.1 ton ha\u22121). The root biomass was approximately twice as large for biochar-amended plots. More extensive root systems (especially characterized by a larger root opening angle (+14\u2009\u00b1\u200911\u00a0%) and wider root systems (+20\u2009\u00b1\u200915\u00a0%)) were observed at all biochar-amended sites. Root systems exhibited significantly higher specific surface areas (+54\u2009\u00b1\u200914\u00a0%), branching and fine roots: +70\u2009\u00b1\u200956\u00a0%) in the presence of biochar. Biochar amendment resulted in more developed root systems and larger yields. The more extensive root systems may have contributed to the observed yield increases, e.g., by improving immobile nutrients uptake in soils that are unfertile or in areas with prolonged dry spells.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "10122 Institute of Geography", "UFSP13-8 Global Change and Biodiversity", "1110 Plant Science", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "910 Geography & travel", "15. Life on land", "1111 Soil Science", "3. 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Test if in Cistus albidus plants, a summer semi-deciduous species, ammonium (NH4                                                +                   ) can inhibit NRA, despite the availability of NO3                                                \u2212                   , and whether Olea europaea plants, evergreen sclerophyll, are more tolerant of NH4                            + than the former. One-year-old C. albidus and wild O. europaea potted plants were supplied with both NH4                            + and NO3                            \u2212 at increasing levels (0.1; 0.2; 0.4; 0.8 and 1.6\u00a0% N). Tolerance of NH4                            + was evaluated using integrative (mortality and biomass accumulation) and plant nitrogen metabolism parameters (in vitro NRA and concentrations of NO3                            \u2212 and NH4                            +) determined in roots and leaves.                            C. albidus plants were consistently less NH4                            + tolerant than O. europaea, displaying: higher mortality; growth and NRA inhibition and NH4                            + accumulation above 0.2\u00a0% NH4NO3-N in the soil. In contrast, O. europaea plants seemed to buffer the full range of tested NH4NO3 levels.                            C. albidus plants were less NH4                            + tolerant than O. europaea. The ecological implications of this contrasting NH4                            + tolerance are discussed.", "keywords": ["ammonium", "NRA", "0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "Cistus albidus", "partitioning", "Mediterranean", "root shoot", "15. Life on land", "Olea europaea", "6. Clean water"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11104-015-2552-z"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-015-2552-z"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-015-2552-z", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-015-2552-z", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-015-2552-z"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-06-17T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-015-2427-3", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:10Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-03-11", "title": "Enhanced Biological N-2 Fixation And Yield Of Faba Bean (Vicia Faba L.) In An Acid Soil Following Biochar Addition: Dissection Of Causal Mechanisms", "description": "Acid soils constrain legume growth and biochars have been shown to address these constraints and enhance biological N2 fixation in glasshouse studies. A dissection of causal mechanisms from multiple crop field studies is lacking. In a sub-tropical field study, faba bean (Vicia faba L.) was cultivated in rotation with corn (Zea mays) following amendment of two contrasting biochars, compost and lime in a rhodic ferralsol. Key soil parameters and plant nutrient uptake were investigated alongside stable 15\u2009N isotope methodologies to elucidate the causal mechanisms for enhanced biological N2 fixation and crop productivity. Biological N2 fixation was associated with plant Mo uptake, which was driven by reductions in soil acidity following lime and papermill (PM) biochar amendment. In contrast, crop yield was associated with plant P and B uptake, and amelioration of soil pH constraints. These were most effectively ameliorated by PM biochar as it addressed both pH constraints and low soil nutrient status. While liming resulted in the highest biological N2 fixation, biochars provided greater benefits to faba bean yield by addressing P nutrition and ameliorating Al toxicity.", "keywords": ["Molybdenum", "2. Zero hunger", "compost", "abundance", "Plant Sciences", "Soil Science", "Plant Science", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Rhodic ferralsol", "natural 15N isotope", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "field assessment", "lime", "phosphorus", "Boron"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-015-2427-3"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-015-2427-3", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-015-2427-3", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-015-2427-3"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-03-12T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-015-2441-5", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:10Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-03-14", "title": "Carbon And Nitrogen Partitioning Of Wheat And Field Pea Grown With Two Nitrogen Levels Under Elevated Co2", "description": "Crop responses to elevated atmospheric CO2 are likely to be different in semi-arid cropping systems of Australia. This experiment aimed to investigate the interactive effects of atmospheric CO2 and nitrogen (N) fertiliser on carbon (C) and N partitioning in the soil-plant system of Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and field pea (Pisum sativum L.). Plants were grown with 40 or 100\u00a0mg\u00a0N\u00a0kg\u22121 under ambient CO2 (390\u00a0ppm) or elevated CO2 (eCO2; 550\u00a0ppm) using free-air CO2 enrichment (SoilFACE). Repeated 13CO2 pulse labelling was used to quantify C transfer via plant to the soil. Destructive sampling was performed at grain filling and maturity. eCO2 increased shoot biomass of field pea (36\u00a0%) and wheat (55\u00a0%) but only increased root biomass of wheat (13.5\u00a0%) in the 25\u201350\u00a0cm soil layer. Total N content of both species was greater under eCO2, and for field pea it indicated enhanced biological N2 fixation. However, eCO2 increased the C:N ratio of wheat even at the high N level. Greater 13C in soil of wheat grown under eCO2 indicated a minor increase in soil C via rhizodeposition. Increased biomass and C:N ratio of wheat could have implications for residue decomposition. eCO2 and low N tended to increase grain yield but the increase was highly variable and not significant. Additional N content of field pea under eCO2 exceeded the N that would be removed in wheat grain, albeit with lower than expected grain yield due to dry conditions.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-015-2441-5"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-015-2441-5", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-015-2441-5", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-015-2441-5"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-03-15T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-015-2528-z", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:10Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-05-28", "title": "How Does Soil Particulate Organic Carbon Respond To Grazing Intensity In Permanent Grasslands?", "description": "Modification in grazing intensity causes functional changes in permanent grasslands, e.g. in carbon (C) cycling. However, we still know little about how the soil organic C of permanent grasslands responds to grazing intensity. In a grassland experiment with three levels of grazing intensity, we monitored root and rhizome C stocks, particulate organic C stocks, total soil C stocks, above-ground net primary production and plant species groups abundance over 7\u00a0years. A simple model was used to estimate the mortality of roots and rhizomes, decomposition rates of particulate organic C, and C fluxes under different grazing intensities. After 7\u00a0years, low grazing intensity and no grazing led to a modification in above-ground vegetation (production, plant species composition, nitrogen content) and a reduction in C transferred between roots and particulate organic matter fractions, while the C stocks of root and rhizomes, particulate organic matter and total soil were not significantly affected by grazing intensity. However, particulate organic C showed a strong interannual variability. Particulate organic C could have reacted more slowly than expected to changes in grazing intensity, or a marked interannual variability of particulate organic C stocks, through an increase in decomposition rates in all the grazing treatments, could have slowed down the accumulation of particulate organic C and masked the effect of the grazing intensity treatments.", "keywords": ["580", "Carbon cycling", "2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "Decomposition rates", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "630", "[SDE.BE] Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology", "Particulate organic matter", "13. Climate action", "Grazing intensity", "Grassland ecosystem", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-015-2528-z"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-015-2528-z", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-015-2528-z", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-015-2528-z"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-05-28T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-015-2534-1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-06-10", "title": "Effect Of Irrigation On The Soil Respiration Of Constructed Grasslands In Inner Mongolia, China", "description": "We tested the responses of soil respiration to irrigation, at different proportions of field capacity, in constructed grasslands in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of northern China, and tried to identify the underlying physiological mechanisms. The experiment included a legume (Medicago sativa) and a forage grass (Elymus nutans) in sole-crops and a mixed sowing, with four water treatments: a control and three levels of irrigation (low, medium, and high) at three application times: during the regreening, elongation, and heading stages. The soil respiration rate (R                            s) responded strongly to water addition. Irrigation increased the cumulative growing season R                            s, which ranged from 257\u00a0g C m\u22122\u00a0years\u22121 to 500\u00a0g C m\u22122\u00a0years\u22121 for M. sativa, from 299 to 391\u00a0g C m\u22122\u00a0years\u22121 for E. nutans + M. sativa, and from 209 to 296\u00a0g C m\u22122\u00a0years\u22121 for E. nutans. Irrigation increased the cumulative R                            s by 7 to 49\u00a0%. R                            s of the grass\u2013legume mixture was 1.2 to 1.4 times the corresponding values in the E. nutans plots. In addition to the effects of soil temperature and moisture content, R                            s was explained by differences in the net photosynthetic rate and in microbial biomass. Water addition increased Q                            10, which was strongly and positively correlated with the total C, C/N ratio, and cellulose content of the plants.                            R                            s responded strongly to irrigation, although the response differed between the two species. The grass\u2013legume mixtures showed increased R                            s compared to values in the grass sole-crop. R                            s appears to be determined by moisture and temperature, but also by the net photosynthetic rate and by microbial properties such as microbial biomass.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Min Liu, Qinpu Luo, Sha Xu, Wei Zhang, Ji\u2013Rui Gong, Yihui Wang,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-015-2534-1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-015-2534-1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-015-2534-1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-015-2534-1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-06-10T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.fcr.2010.08.010", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:16:44Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-10-01", "title": "Dryland Maize Yields And Water Use Efficiency In Response To Tillage/Crop Stubble And Nutrient Management Practices In China", "description": "Abstract   Rainfed crop production in northern China is constrained by low and variable rainfall. This study explored the effects of tillage/crop residue and nutrient management practices on maize ( Zea mays  L.) yield, water use efficiency (WUE), and N agronomic use efficiency (NAE) at Shouyang Dryland Farming Experimental Station in northern China during 2003\u20132008. The experiment was set-up using a split-plot design with 3 tillage/crop residue methods as main treatments: conventional, reduced (till with crop residue incorporated in fall but no-till in spring), and no-till (with crop residue mulching in fall). Sub-treatments were 3 NP fertilizer rates: 105\u201346, 179\u201378 and 210\u201392\u00a0kg\u00a0N and P\u00a0ha \u22121 . Maize grain yields were greatly influenced by the growing season rainfall and soil water contents at sowing. Mean grain yields over the 6-year period in response to tillage/crop residue treatments were 5604, 5347 and 5185\u00a0kg\u00a0ha \u22121 , under reduced, no-till and conventional tillage, respectively. Grain yields under no-till, were generally higher (+19%) in dry years but lower (\u22127%) in wet years. Mean WUE was 13.7, 13.6 and 12.6\u00a0kg\u00a0ha \u22121 \u00a0mm \u22121  under reduced, no-till, and conventional tillage, respectively. The no-till treatment had 8\u201312% more water in the soil profiles than the conventional and reduced tillage treatments at sowing and harvest time. Grain yields, WUE and NAE were highest with the lowest NP fertilizer application rates (at 105\u00a0kg\u00a0N and 46\u00a0kg\u00a0P\u00a0ha \u22121 ) under reduced tillage, while yields and WUE tended to be higher with additional NP fertilizer rates under conventional tillage, however, there was no significant yield increase above the optimum fertilizer rate. In conclusion, maize grain yields, WUE and NAE were highest under reduced tillage at modest NP fertilizer application rates of 105\u00a0kg\u00a0N and 46\u00a0kg\u00a0P\u00a0ha \u22121 . No-till increased soil water storage by 8\u201312% and improved WUE compared to conventional tillage, thus showing potentials for drought mitigation and economic use of fertilizers in drought-prone rainfed conditions in northern China.", "keywords": ["prone savannas", "2. Zero hunger", "nitrogen losses", "reduced tillage", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "fertilizer", "6. Clean water", "northern china", "soil", "crop residue", "conservation tillage", "systems", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "agriculture"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2010.08.010"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Field%20Crops%20Research", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.fcr.2010.08.010", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.fcr.2010.08.010", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.fcr.2010.08.010"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2011-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-015-2556-8", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-06-15", "title": "Land Use Change Decreases Soil Carbon Stocks In Tibetan Grasslands", "description": "\u00a9 2015, Springer International Publishing Switzerland. Backgrounds and aims: Land use is an important factor affecting soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics and can produce positive C climate feedback, but its effects remain unknown for Tibetan ecosystems. Methods: Recent land use changes have converted the traditional winter Kobresia pastures of nomads in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau to Elymus pastures or even to cropland. Detailed SOC measurements up to 30-cm depth were combined with analysis of \u03b413C, \u03b415N, bulk density, microbial C, and N contents in three land use types. Results: Bulk density was decreased by conversion from Kobresia pasture to cropland but increased by conversion to Elymus pasture. The loss of 1\u00a0% of SOC caused by land use change leads to \u03b413C increase of 0.8 \u2030. Conversion to cropland significantly decreased SOC stocks (10\u00a0%) and microbial biomass C, but the C loss (1.6\u00a0%) was insignificant in Elymus pasture. Land use changes strongly increased soil \u03b415N in the top 5\u00a0cm. Conclusions: Conversion to Elymus pasture did not change the C stocks, but conversion to cropland decreased C stocks by 10\u00a0% within 10\u00a0years. Soil \u03b413C and \u03b415N data indicate acceleration of C and N cycling due to the replacement of Kobresia pasture by Elymus pasture and cropland.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Soil organic carbon", "13. Climate action", "\u03b413C", "Pasture", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Cropland", "Alpine meadow", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Total nitrogen", "15. Life on land", "\u03b415N"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-015-2556-8"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-015-2556-8", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-015-2556-8", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-015-2556-8"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-06-16T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-015-2610-6", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-07-29", "title": "The Fate Of Fertiliser P In Soil Under Pasture And Uptake By Subterraneum Clover - A Field Study Using P-33-Labelled Single Superphosphate", "description": "Single superphosphate (SSP) is a major source of phosphorus (P) used in grazing systems to improve pasture production. The aim of this experiment was to determine the fate of fertiliser P in clover pastures under field conditions. A procedure was developed to radiolabel SSP granules with a 33P radiotracer, which was then applied to the soil surface (equivalent to ~12\u00a0kg P ha\u22121) of a clover pasture. Recovery of fertiliser P was determined in clover shoots, fertiliser granules and soil fractions (surface layer: 0\u20134\u00a0cm and sub-surface layer: 4\u20138\u00a0cm). The P diffusion patterns of the 33P-labelled SSP granules were not significantly different to those of commercial SSP granules (P\u2009>\u20090.05). Recovery of fertiliser P in clover shoots was 30\u201335\u00a0%. A considerable proportion of the fertiliser P (~28\u00a0%) was recovered in the surface soil layer and was largely inorganic P. Recovery of fertiliser P by clover plants was up to 35\u00a0% in the year of application. Much of the fertiliser P in soil fractions was inorganic P, which highlights the importance of inorganic P forms and dynamics in soils under clover pasture on a single season timeframe at these sites.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-015-2610-6"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-015-2610-6", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-015-2610-6", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-015-2610-6"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-07-30T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-015-2625-z", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-08-08", "title": "Long-Term Impacts Of Season Of Grazing On Soil Carbon Sequestration And Selected Soil Properties In The Arid Eastern Cape, South Africa", "description": "The Karoo biomes of South Africa are major feed resources for livestock farming, yet soil nutrient depletion and degradation is a major problem. The objective of this study was to assess impacts of long-term (>75\u00a0years) grazing during spring (SPG), summer (SUG), winter (WG) and exclosure (non-grazed control) treatments on soil nutrients, penetration resistance and infiltration tests. A soil sampling campaign was carried out to collect soil to a depth of 60\u00a0cm to analyse bulk density, soil physical and chemical parameters as well as soil compaction and infiltration. Generally, grazing treatments reduced soil organic C (SOC) stocks and C:N ratios, and modified soil properties. There was higher SOC stock (0.128\u00a0Mg\u00a0ha\u22121\u00a0yr\u22121) in the exclosure than in the SPG (0.096\u00a0Mg\u00a0ha\u22121\u00a0yr\u22121), SUG (0.099\u00a0Mg\u00a0ha\u22121\u00a0yr\u22121) and WG (0.105\u00a0Mg\u00a0ha\u22121\u00a0yr\u22121). The C:N ratios exhibited similar pattern to that of C. From the grazing treatments, the WG demonstrated 7 to 10\u00a0% additional SOC stock over the SPG and SUG, respectively. Short period animal exclusion could be an option to be considered to improve plant nutrients in sandy soils of South Africa. However, this may require a policy environment which supports stock exclusion from such areas vulnerable to land degradation, nutrient and C losses by grazing-induced vegetation and landscape changes.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Soil organic carbon", "[SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes", "Exclosure", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Total nitrogen", "15. Life on land", "630", "[SDE.BE] Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology", "[SDE.MCG] Environmental Sciences/Global Changes", "Grazing season", "\u00e9cosyst\u00e8me aride", "13. Climate action", "Arid ecosystem", "mati\u00e8re organique", "saison de p\u00e2turage", "carbone organique du sol", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Organic matter", "[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology", "azote total"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-015-2625-z"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-015-2625-z", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-015-2625-z", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-015-2625-z"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-08-09T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-015-2706-z", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-10-20", "title": "Lime Increases Productivity And The Capacity Of Lucerne (Medicago Sativa L.) And Phalaris (Phalaris Aquatica L.) To Utilise Stored Soil Water On An Acidic Soil In South-Eastern Australia", "description": "We hypothesised that a) species with greater acid soil tolerance have an increased capacity to utilise incipient rainfall; and b) liming increases the productivity and the ability of pasture species to utilise available water resources in the profile of an acid soil. A field experiment was established on a moderately acidic yellow Kandosol and monitored over 5\u00a0years. Five perennial pasture species including lucerne (Medicago sativa L.), phalaris (Phalaris aquatica L.), chicory (Cichorium intybus L.), tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.) and cocksfoot (Dactylis glomerata L.), were sown in monocultures with and without 2.9\u00a0t/ha lime. Both lucerne and phalaris were more persistent than chicory, tall fescue and cocksfoot under severe drought, despite both being considered sensitive to soil acidity. Surface liming increased the soil water deficit by up to 27\u00a0mm at 0.75\u20131.65\u00a0m under perennial pastures compared to unlimed treatments, despite lime having no physical presence at that depth. Lime increased lucerne, phalaris and cocksfoot cumulative herbage biomass by 150, 30 and 20\u00a0%, respectively, but had no significant effect on chicory or tall fescue biomass. The two most acid-sensitive species, lucerne and phalaris, were more resilient under drought despite the acidic nature of the soil. We contend that species sensitive to acidity can be a valuable addition to pastures on acid soils. Lime used in conjunction with deep-rooted perennial species is likely to maximise the ability of pastures to utilise scarce available soil water reserves.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0402 animal and dairy science", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-015-2706-z"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-015-2706-z", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-015-2706-z", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-015-2706-z"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-10-20T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-016-2794-4", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-01-15", "title": "Compost Vs Biochar Amendment: A Two-Year Field Study Evaluating Soil C Build-Up And N Dynamics In An Organically Managed Olive Crop", "description": "This study was performed under the framework of the EU project FP7 KBBE.2011.1.2\u201302 FERTIPLUS co-funded by the European Commission, Directorate General for Research & Innovation, within the 7th Framework Programme of RTD, Theme 2-Biotechnologies, Agriculture & Food. ML Cayuela is supported by a \u201cRam\u00f3n y Cajal\u201d research contract from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. Peer reviewed", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Nitrous oxide", "Organic farming", "Olive mill waste compost", "Semi-arid", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "12. Responsible consumption"], "contacts": [{"organization": "S\u00e1nchez-Garc\u00eda, M., S\u00e1nchez-Monedero, M.A., Roig, A., L\u00f3pez-Cano, I., Moreno, B., Benitez, E., Cayuela, M.L.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-016-2794-4"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-016-2794-4", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-016-2794-4", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-016-2794-4"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-01-15T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.fcr.2014.07.017", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-04-03T16:16:45Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-08-23", "title": "High-Yielding Traits Of Heavy Panicle Varieties Under Triangle Planting Geometry: A New Plant Spatial Configuration For Hybrid Rice In China", "description": "Abstract   Triangle planting geometry (TPG) is a new rice arrangement mode, whereby plants form a \u201cdense intra-hill, sparse inter-hill\u201d group structure. This allows them to have more spatial options, thus avoiding excessive infra-hill competition when compared to conventional row configurations. However, there is limited information on how TPG might affect rice production, especially for newly-bred varieties featuring a heavy panicle size (5\u00a0g panicle\u22121). This study was conducted to evaluate grain yield performance and yield component changes of heavy panicle varieties under TPG. Moreover, to identify any promising agronomy traits and population structural features that might explain the difference in yield performance as well as to probe whether the high-yielding performance of TPG is reproducible in other circumstances. In 2012, Eryou498 (a heavy panicle variety) was grown under four planting geometries (PGs) in two fields that had similar soil fertility, but that were conducted with either conventional tillage or zero-tillage systems. In 2013, two heavy panicle varieties and two medium panicle varieties (2\u20135\u00a0g panicle\u22121) were grown under three PGs in two ecological regions. Grain yield and effective panicles were significantly affected by both variety and PG. A significant interaction of PG and variety was seen on grain yield, but the high-yielding performance of TPG was consistent with all varieties. Sufficient total spikelets were the basis of achieving a high grain yield. Effective panicles predominantly attributed to total spikelets across all four experiments. Robust spikelets were crucial when grain yield was at a high level. Heavy panicle varieties and TPG showed some similar high-yielding traits. These included rapid crop growth rate (CGR) during the two weeks before full heading, plenty non-structural carbohydrate (NSC) accumulated at full heading, mass NSC output in two weeks after full heading, and high radiation use efficiency (RUE). Rice under TPG presented a more compact top three leaves as well as more stretched lower leaves when compared to other PGs. Overall, all leaves of heavy panicle varieties were more stretched than those found in medium ones. Heavy panicle varieties accumulated more nitrogen (N) in leaves from elongation to 30 days after full heading while PG showed no significant effect on leaf N concentration during the late grain-filling period. These results suggest that the high-yielding performance of TPG is reproducible in other circumstances. The combination of TPG and heavy panicle varieties is advantageous, allowing for a more efficient canopy structure for heavy panicle varieties and a more robust photosynthetic ability at late grain-filling period under TPG.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Yongjian Sun, Zhiyuan Yang, Na Li, Hui Xu, Jun Ma,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2014.07.017"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Field%20Crops%20Research", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.fcr.2014.07.017", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.fcr.2014.07.017", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.fcr.2014.07.017"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-11-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-015-2586-2", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-07-10", "title": "Phosphorus And Nitrogen Fertiliser Use Efficiency Of Wheat Seedlings Grown In Soils From Contrasting Tillage Systems.", "description": "This paper assessed the effect that the vertical stratification of nutrients in conservation cropping systems of Australia has on phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) fertiliser use efficiency. Intact soil cores from two long-term tillage experiments, located on a Vertosol and on a Calcarosol were used to assess if tillage system (zero tillage - ZT vs conventional tillage - CT) and soil water influence fertiliser use efficiency (using 33P and 15\u2009N) of wheat under controlled growth conditions. Adding P increased shoot growth and P uptake on the Calcarosol, provided the surface remained moist and N was applied. The percentage of plant P derived from fertiliser (Pdff) was greater on the Calcarosol regardless of tillage practice. Pdff increased when the soil remained wet or when N was added. The percentage of N derived from fertiliser (%Ndff) was not affected by tillage practice on the Vertosol but when the soil surface was allowed to dry, it was significantly greater under ZT than CT on the Calcarosol. Adding P increased N fertiliser recovery but tillage practice had no effect. The effect of tillage practice on P and N fertiliser use efficiency depends on soil and topsoil water status.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "\u00b3\u00b3P", "\u00b9\u2075N", "Wheat", "tillage", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "nutrient use efficiency", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "630"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-015-2586-2"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-015-2586-2", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-015-2586-2", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-015-2586-2"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-07-11T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-015-2611-5", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-07-29", "title": "Differences In Fertilization Impacts On Organic Carbon Content And Stability In A Paddy And An Upland Soil In Subtropical China", "description": "The stability of soil organic carbon (SOC) is of great importance in controlling long-term carbon (C) sequestration and feedbacks of soil C pools to climate change. It has been well documented that rice cropping and organic amendments could enhance SOC stocks, while the stability of the sequestered C has not been well understood yet. The objective of this study was to examine the difference in SOC content and stability between a paddy and an upland field under long-term fertilization and to explore the potential link between SOC chemical and biological stability. Soils were collected from two adjacent long-term paddy (annually double-rice cropping) and upland (annually double-corn cropping) experiments with the same soil parent material, where different fertilization regimes were initiated in 1981 and 1986, respectively. The chemical and biological stability of SOC were measured by acid hydrolysis and aerobic incubations, respectively. The C concentration was significantly higher in the paddy soil than in the upland soil, regardless of fertilization regimes. As compared to the initial level, long-term rice cropping without any fertilization (CK) significantly enhanced SOC concentration, whereas corn cropping led to a slight decline. Manure amendments combined with inorganic NPK fertilizers (NPKM) significantly increased SOC content relative to the inorganic NPK application alone treatment (NPK) in both the upland and paddy fields. The paddy soil had significantly greater cumulative C released per gram of soil C (i.e., the biological stability of SOC) than the upland soil. Cumulative C released per gram of soil C was significantly higher in NPKM than in NPK in both the paddy and upland soils, whereas no significant difference was observed between the CK and NPK treatments. Acid hydrolysis could reveal the difference in C stability between the paddy and upland soils, but could not characterize the effect of fertilization. Rice cropping facilitates SOC accumulation relative to upland cropping, whereas the inherent SOC stability is lower under the former than the latter in the site. The lower SOC turnover in the paddy than in the upland is mainly due to anaerobic conditions. Organic amendments significantly enhance SOC, but reduce its stability in both the paddy and upland fields. The sensitivity of acid hydrolysis is relatively low in determining SOC stability.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Weijian Zhang, Shan Huang, Xichu Yu, Yanni Sun,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-015-2611-5"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-015-2611-5", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-015-2611-5", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-015-2611-5"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-07-30T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-015-2676-1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-09-24", "title": "Effects Of Nitrogen Addition On Litter Decomposition And Nutrient Release In Two Tropical Plantations With N-2-Fixing Vs. Non-N-2-Fixing Tree Species", "description": "Atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition has elevated rapidly in tropical regions where N2-fixing tree species are widespread. However, the effect of N deposition on litter decomposition in forests with N2-fixing tree species remains unclear. We examined the effect of N addition on litter decomposition and nutrient release in two tropical plantations with Acacia auriculiformis (AA, N2-fixing) and Eucalyptus urophylla (EU, non-N2-fixing) in South China. Three levels of N additions were conducted: control, medium-N (50\u00a0kg\u00a0N\u00a0ha\u22121 yr.\u22121) and high-N (100\u00a0kg\u00a0N\u00a0ha\u22121 yr.\u22121) in each plantation. Initial decomposition rate (k                                                a                   ) for the control plots was faster in the AA plantation than in the EU plantation, but later in decomposition, larger fraction of slowly decomposing litter (A) remained in the former. N addition increased the slow fraction (A), decreasing soil microbial biomass and reducing acid-unhydrolyzable residue (AUR) degradation in the AA plantation. In the EU plantation, however, N additions significantly increased initial decomposition rate (k                                                a                   ) and soil N availability. Furthermore, N addition decreased litter carbon and N release (in the AA plantation), while litter phosphorus release also decreased in both plantations. With ongoing N deposition in future, tropical plantations with N2-fixing tree species would potentially increase carbon accumulation and nutrient retention in forest floor by slowing litter decomposition.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-015-2676-1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-015-2676-1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-015-2676-1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-015-2676-1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-09-24T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-015-2751-7", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-11-26", "title": "Linking Dissolved Organic Carbon Cycling To Organic Carbon Fluxes In Rice Paddies Under Different Water Management Practices", "description": "Although paddy soils are generally characterized by relatively high dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentrations and fluxes, little is yet known on how water management influences the cycling of this important organic C pool. This work aims at providing insights into the link between DOC cycling during rice cropping and organic C input to the subsoils and export with surface waters, as well as methane (CH4) emissions in a temperate paddy soil as a function of different water management practices. DOC quantity, quality and fluxes, as well as CH4 emissions were evaluated at field-scale over two cropping seasons for three water management systems including continuous flooding, dry seeding with delayed flooding, and intermittent irrigation. DOC cycling in the different water management systems were strongly linked to the reducing soil conditions resulting from field flooding. In contrast to dry seeding or intermittent irrigation, adoption of continuous flooding not only favoured the accumulation of DOC in the topsoil (>10\u201320\u00a0mg C l\u22121), but also enhanced C inputs to the subsoil (33\u201351\u00a0g C m\u22122), and exports with surface waters (18\u201344\u00a0g C m\u22122). Moreover, changes in DOC quality in paddy soils were linked to a positive feedback on the abiotic release of soil-derived DOC, and substrate availability for CH4 production. Water management practices in rice paddies strongly affect the temporal trends in DOC quantity and quality over the cropping season, with important implications on organic C fluxes.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Organic carbon fluxes", " soil redox conditions", " reductive dissolution", " surfacewaters", " subsoil", " methane emissions", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://iris.unito.it/bitstream/2318/1543501/4/Said-Pullicino_Open%20access.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-015-2751-7"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-015-2751-7", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-015-2751-7", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-015-2751-7"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-11-26T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.foreco.2007.11.016", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-04-03T16:16:51Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2008-01-07", "title": "The Effects Of Prescribed Fire And Silvicultural Thinning On The Aboveground Carbon Stocks And Net Primary Production Of Overstory Trees In An Oak-Hickory Ecosystem In Southern Ohio", "description": "Abstract   More than 70 years of fire suppression has influenced forest dynamics and led to the accumulation of fuels in many forests of the United States. To address these changes, forest managers increasingly seek to restore historical ecosystem structure and function through the reintroduction of fire and disturbance processes that mimic fire such as silvicultural thinning. In oak forests of eastern North America, prescribed fire and thinning are important tools used to facilitate oak (Quercus spp.) regeneration and recruitment. The global scientific community is increasingly raising concerns about the accumulation of atmospheric CO2, and its potential to impact global climate; therefore, activities such as prescribed fire and thinning that can influence the carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems should be evaluated. We used field measurements and modeling with the PnET-II carbon balance model in oak forests of southern Ohio, USA, to (1) assess the efficacy of prescribed fire and silvicultural thinning in facilitating oak recruitment and regeneration, and (2) quantify the impacts of these treatments on aboveground carbon stocks and net primary production. Silvicultural thinning increased recruitment of maples, but oak recruitment was minimal. Prescribed burning caused an increase in the mortality rate of oaks\u2019 major competitor (Acer rubrum L.) in the overstory (stems \u226510\u00a0cm DBH), but oak mortality also increased following the burn treatments. Our measurements of stem growth suggest that the timing of the prescribed fires coincided with the initiation of growth in oaks, which may have created vulnerability in these species that are generally considered fire-resistant. The pre-treatment aboveground biomass of overstory trees was approximately 233\u00a0Mg/ha (Mg\u00a0=\u00a01\u00a0\u00d7\u00a0106\u00a0g). Prescribed burning had significant impacts on the mortality of stems; however, it had no significant effects on the aboveground net primary production (ANPP). Thinning removed approximately 30% of the aboveground biomass and resulted in significant but transient (1 year) reduction of ANPP (386 and 560\u00a0g\u00a0C\u00a0m\u22122\u00a0year\u22121 for thinned and non-thinned stands, respectively). In sum, thinning created recruitment opportunities in our study area, but these opportunities were captured by maples, and oak recruitment was minimal. Prescribed fire caused mortality in oaks and maples, and the oak mortality may have been related to the coincidence of the burn treatment and the initiation of oak stem growth. Finally, our data suggest that there is a transient impact of thinning on ANPP, but that there is no long-term effect of thinning and/or burning treatments on the aboveground carbon uptake in oak forests.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "13. Climate action", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2007.11.016"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Forest%20Ecology%20and%20Management", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.foreco.2007.11.016", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.foreco.2007.11.016", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.foreco.2007.11.016"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2008-04-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-016-2830-4", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-02-19", "title": "Selenium fertilization strategies for bio-fortification of food: an agro-ecosystem approach", "description": "Although the global importance of selenium (Se) deficiency to human and animal health has been recognized for decades, strategic Se fertilization interventions addressing agro-ecosystem specific conditions have not been developed. This research aims to identify such strategies based on an inventory of production-ecological factors controlling the potential impact of Se fertilizers on crop performance and nutritional content. The effect of agro-ecosystem properties on crop response to Se fertilization was assessed using a meta-analysis approach based on 243 experiments performed during 1960 to 2014. The meta-analysis confirms the high impact of fertilization as an effective agronomic biofortification strategy. Site specific properties strongly affect crop responses to Se fertilization implying the need for tailor-made solutions. However, the minor influence of soil organic matter, total soil Se levels and acidity suggests that consideration of other agro-ecosystem properties like climate and bioavailable Se measurements is also required to optimize fertilizer strategies. Fertilization characteristics including formulation, dose and timing were found to be driving variables enhancing crop Se uptake. The highest uptake efficiencies are found for foliar and selenate based fertilizers. The current low recoveries and the scarce resource availability challenges the fertilizer approach to develop strategies that maximize the uptake efficiency of Se.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "D.W. Bussink, Prem S. Bindraban, A. M. D. van Rotterdam, G. H. Ros,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-016-2830-4"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-016-2830-4", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-016-2830-4", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-016-2830-4"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-02-19T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-016-2868-3", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-03-29", "title": "Microbial Acclimation Triggered Loss Of Soil Carbon Fractions In Subtropical Wetlands Subjected To Experimental Warming In A Laboratory Study", "description": "Wetlands store a substantial amount of soil organic carbon (SOC), and their response to climate warming is critical for predicating global carbon (C) cycling in future climate change. To understand whether warming causes substantial C loss in wetland soils, a 6-year microcosm experiment was carried out to examine the impact of rising temperature (3\u20135\u00a0\u00b0C) on SOC and its two fractions (labile versus recalcitrant) in six types of wetland soils with varied nutrient status. Warming decreased SOC contents in nutrient-enriched soils by invoking a large loss in recalcitrant organic C fractions, while in nutrient-poor soils SOC loss was limited by substrate limitation. With low temperature ranges in the winter (1\u201310\u00a0\u00b0C), warming increased the microbial capacity for recalcitrant organic C acquisition greater than that for labile organic C fractions. A relatively higher cross-site contribution of fungi in warmed soils as one strategy of microbial acclimation to rising temperature implies an adjustment of microbial C utilization patterns, leading to substantial C loss in wetland soils. In order to maintain the functional roles of wetlands for C sequestration, our results further suggested that more attention should be paid to nutrient-enriched wetlands in future climate warming scenarios.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. Climate action", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-016-2868-3"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-016-2868-3", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-016-2868-3", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-016-2868-3"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-03-29T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-016-2889-y", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-05-06", "title": "A global meta-analysis of changes in soil carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur, and stoichiometric shifts after forestation", "description": "Planted forests, established on non-forest lands, play an important role in enhancing terrestrial carbon (C) sequestration. Understanding the changes in soil C, nutrients and stoichiometry in planted forests is important for forest management. We conducted a global meta-analysis of changes in C, nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and sulfur (S) and their stoichiometry in mineral soils of planted forest across broad climatic zones from 139 papers. Soil C and N are slightly decreased after forestation on grassland, moderately increased after forestation on cropland, and substantially increased after forestation on barren land. Forestation does not affect total soil P, but the available P is significantly depleted after the forestation of grassland and cropland with N-fixers. Changes in soil nutrients (N, P and S) and shifts in stoichiometry (ratios of C:N, C:P and N:P) are significantly related to soil C dynamics (p\u2009<\u20090.05). Soil C sequestration is the lowest in the boreal zone, and greater under plantation with N-fixing species than under non-fixing species. Changes in soil C and nutrients after forestation mainly differ to prior land use. Compared with forestation of grassland, forestation of barren land is a more effective approach to enhancing C sequestration.", "keywords": ["13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-016-2889-y"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-016-2889-y", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-016-2889-y", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-016-2889-y"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-05-06T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-016-2949-3", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-06-14", "title": "Phosphorus Availability And Microbial Community In The Rhizosphere Of Intercropped Cereal And Legume Along A P-Fertilizer Gradient", "description": "Positive below-ground interactions (facilitation) should be more pronounced when resources limit crop growth, according to the stress-gradient hypothesis. Our aim was to test this hypothesis for intercropped durum wheat and faba bean along a P-fertilizer gradient. A field experiment was conducted in a long-term P-fertilizer trial with three rates of P-fertilization (No, Low and High P). Microbial biomass was assessed by chloroform fumigation-extraction. Quantitative PCR was applied to evaluate the abundance of relevant microbial groups. Phosphorus availability and microbial biomass systematically increased in the rhizosphere compared to bulk soil. P-fertilization resulted in higher abundance of targeted bacterial phyla, whole bacterial and fungal communities, and depressed mycorrhizal colonization of durum wheat, but not faba bean. Microbial biomass carbon significantly increased in the rhizosphere only in P-fertilized treatments, pointing to P limitation of microbial communities. Intercropping yielded a significant effect on rhizosphere microbial properties only at High P. Microbial biomass P increased in the rhizosphere of intercropped faba bean only at No P level, and was thus the sole finding supporting the stress-gradient hypothesis. P-fertilization was the main driver of microbial communities in this field trial, and P-fertilizer application modulated the species-specific effect in the intercrop. Plant performance did not validate the stress-gradient hypothesis as positive plant-plant interactions occurred regardless of the level of P-fertilization.", "keywords": ["[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "engrais phosphat\u00e9", "F08 - Syst\u00e8mes et modes de culture", "[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]", "F62 - Physiologie v\u00e9g\u00e9tale - Croissance et d\u00e9veloppement", "mycorhization", "Triticum turgidum", "630", "fertilisation", "[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_37554", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_5800", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_10795", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_24199", "2. 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Life on land", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_16367", "plante l\u00e9gumi\u00e8re", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7958", "628", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3910", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_35986", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "culture intercalaire", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_8165", "F04 - Fertilisation"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-016-2949-3"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-016-2949-3", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-016-2949-3", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-016-2949-3"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-06-14T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-016-3083-y", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:12Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-10-25", "title": "Long-Term Fertilizer And Crop-Rotation Treatments Differentially Affect Soil Bacterial Community Structure", "description": "Soil microbial communities influence nutrient cycling, chemistry and structure of soil, and plant productivity. In turn, agronomic practices such as fertilization and crop rotation alter soil physical and chemical properties and consequently\u00a0soil microbiomes. Understanding the long-term effects of agronomic practices on soil microbiomes is essential for improving agronomic practices to optimize these microbial communities for agricultural sustainability. We examine the composition and substrate-utilization profiles of microbial communities at the Morrow Plots in Illinois. Microbial community composition is assessed with 16S rRNA gene sequencing and subsequent bioinformatic analyses. Community- level substrate utilization is characterized with the BIOLOG EcoPlate. Fertilizer and rotation treatments significantly affected microbial community structure, while substrate utilization was affected by fertilizer, but not crop-rotation treatments. Differences in relative abundance and occurrence of bacterial taxa found in fertilizer treatments can explain the observed differences in community level substrate utilization. Long-term fertilization and crop-rotation treatments affect soil microbial community composition and physiology, specifically through chronic nutrient limitation, long-term influx of microbes and organic matter via manure application, as well as through changes in soil chemistry. Relatively greater abundance of Koribacteraceae and Solibacterales taxa in soils\u00a0might prove useful as indicators of soil degradation.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. Climate action", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-016-3083-y"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-016-3083-y", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-016-3083-y", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-016-3083-y"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-10-25T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-016-2995-x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-07-26", "title": "Prescribed Fire Alters Foliar Stoichiometry And Nutrient Resorption In The Understorey Of A Subtropical Eucalypt Forest", "description": "Changes to soil nutrient concentrations following vegetation fire may affect biogeochemical cycling and foliar stoichiometry. Phosphorus (P)-limited plant communities are widespread and may be particularly sensitive to fire, but have received relatively little research attention in this context. We measured soil nutrient concentrations, foliar carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and P stoichiometry of understorey plants in a recently, frequently burned eucalyptus forest area in south-east Queensland, Australia, and compared these properties to an adjacent unburned area. Surface soils in the area subjected to relatively recent, frequent prescribed burning had higher P concentrations than those in the adjacent unburned area, although this did not include the \u2018available\u2019 forms of P. All plant species had high foliar N:P ratios, regardless of fire history, consistent with widespread P-limitation. Some species had lower foliar N:P ratios in the burned area, indicating interspecific variation in nutrient requirements and burning responses. The nutrient resorption proficiencies of a grasstree (Xanthorrhoea johnsonii Lee) were lower in the burned area, suggesting that the nutrient cycling of this species was made less conservative by burning. The stoichiometric patterns observed in the responses of plants to prescribed burning highlight the significance of fire in this P-impoverished plant community, and suggest the potential value of stoichiometric approaches in fire ecology.", "keywords": ["580", "Agricultural", "ecological stoichiometry", "Forest meteorology. Forest microclimatology", "FoR 07 (Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences)", "phosphorus limitation", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Environmental sciences", "fire ecology", "Biological sciences", "Research. Experimentation", "veterinary and food sciences", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Soils. Soil science", "Other environmental sciences not elsewhere classified", "FoR 05 (Environmental Sciences)", "FoR 06 (Biological Sciences)", "forest fire"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-016-2995-x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-016-2995-x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-016-2995-x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-016-2995-x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-07-26T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-016-2872-7", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-04-08", "title": "Challenges in imaging and predictive modeling of rhizosphere processes", "description": "Background: Plant-soil interaction is central to human food production and ecosystem function. Thus, it is essential to not only understand, but also to develop predictive mathematical models which can be used to assess how climate and soil management practices will affect these interactions. Scope: In this paper we review the current developments in structural and chemical imaging of rhizosphere processes within the context of multiscale mathematical image based modeling. We outline areas that need more research and areas which would benefit from more detailed understanding. Conclusions: We conclude that the combination of structural and chemical imaging with modeling is an incredibly powerful tool which is fundamental for understanding how plant roots interact with soil. We emphasize the need for more researchers to be attracted to this area that is so fertile for future discoveries. Finally, model building must go hand in hand with experiments. In particular, there is a real need to integrate rhizosphere structural and chemical imaging with modeling for better understanding of the rhizosphere processes leading to models which explicitly account for pore scale processes.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "X-ray CT", "Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::570 | Biowissenschaften", " Biologie", "Soil Science", "Plant Science", "Chemical mapping", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::580 | Pflanzen (Botanik)", "13. Climate action", "Rhizosphere", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Mathematical modeling", "Correlative imaging"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/390303/1/Roose%2520et%2520al%25202016%2520Plant%2520Soil%2520Marschner%2520Review%2520Accepted.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-016-2872-7"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-016-2872-7", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-016-2872-7", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-016-2872-7"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-04-08T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-016-2911-4", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-05-05", "title": "Elevated Co2 Induced Rhizosphere Effects On The Decomposition And N Recovery From Crop Residues", "description": "Elevated atmospheric CO2 (eCO2) can affect soil-plant systems via stimulating plant growth, rhizosphere activity and the decomposition of added (crop residues) or existing (priming) soil organic carbon (C). Increases in C inputs via root exudation, rhizodeposition and root turnover are likely to alter the decomposition of crop residues but will ultimately depend on the N content of the residues and the soil. Two soil column experiments were conducted under ambient CO2 (aCO2, 390\u00a0ppm) and eCO2 (700\u00a0ppm) in a glasshouse using dual-labelled (13C/15N) residues of wheat (Triticum aestivum cv. Yitpi) and field pea (Pisum sativum L. cv. PBA Twilight). The effects of eCO2 and soil N status on wheat rhizosphere activity and residue decomposition and also N recovery from crop residues with different N status (C/N ratio 19.4\u2013115.4) by different plant treatments (wheat, wheat + 25\u00a0mg N kg\u22121 and field pea). Total belowground CO2 efflux was enhanced under eCO2 despite no increases in root biomass. Plants decreased residue decomposition, indicating a negative rhizosphere effect. For wheat, eCO2 reduced the negative rhizosphere effect, resulting in greater rates of decomposition and recovery of N from field pea residues, but only when N fertiliser was added. For field pea, eCO2 enhanced the negative rhizosphere effect resulting in lower decomposition rates and N recovery from field pea residue. The effect of eCO2 on N utilisation varied with the type of residue, enhancing N utilisation of wheat but repressing that of field pea residues, which in turn could alter the amount of N supplied to subsequent crops. Furthermore, reduced decomposition of residues under eCO2 may slow the formation of new soil C and have implications for long-term soil fertility.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "630", "6. Clean water", "3. Good health"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Butterly, CR, Wang, X, Armstrong, RD, Chen, D, Tang, C,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-016-2911-4"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-016-2911-4", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-016-2911-4", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-016-2911-4"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-05-05T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-017-3235-8", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:12Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-03-29", "title": "Responses Of Soil Extracellular Enzyme Activities To Experimental Warming And Co2 Enrichment At The Alpine Treeline", "description": "Climate warming and elevated CO2 can modify nutrient cycling mediated by enzymes in soils, especially in cold-limited ecosystems with a low availability of nutrients and a high temperature sensitivity of decomposition and mineralization. We estimated responses of soil extracellular enzyme activities (EEAs) to 6\u00a0years of soil warming and 9\u00a0years of CO2 enrichment at an Alpine treeline site. EEAs were measured in the litter (L), fermentation (F) and humified (H) horizons under Larix decidua and Pinus uncinata trees.                          Soil warming indirectly affected EEAs through altered soil moisture, fine root biomass, and C:N ratio of the organic horizons. Warming increased \u03b2-glucosidase and \u03b2-xylosidase activities in the F horizon but led to reduced laccase activity in the L horizon, probably caused by drying of the litter horizon associated with the treatment. In the H horizon, previous CO2 enrichment altered the activity of leucine amino peptidase, N-acetylglucosaminidase, and phosphatase. No interactive effects between warming and CO2 enrichment were detected. Warming affected the temperature sensitivity of \u03b2-xylosidase but not of the other enzymes. Altered EEAs after six years of soil warming indicate a sustained stimulation of carbon, nitrogen and nutrient cycling under climatic warming at the alpine treeline.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "High Temperature", "Nutrient Cycling", "Climate Change", "Larix Decidua", "Fine Root", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Alpine Environment", "Carbon Dioxide", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Treeline", "Enzyme Activity", "10122 Institute of Geography", "Coniferous Tree", "Pinus Uncinata", "13. Climate action", "Fermentation", "1110 Plant Science", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Global Change", "Warming", "910 Geography & travel", "1111 Soil Science"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-017-3235-8"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-017-3235-8", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-017-3235-8", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-017-3235-8"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-03-29T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-017-3281-2", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:12Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-05-20", "title": "Increased Litter In Subtropical Forests Boosts Soil Respiration In Natural Forests But Not Plantations Of Castanopsis Carlesii", "description": "Changes in net primary productivity in response to climate change are likely to affect litter inputs to forest soil. However, feedbacks between changes in litter input and soil carbon dynamics remain poorly understood in tropical and subtropical forests. This study aims to test whether the effects of litter manipulation on soil respiration differ between natural and plantation forests. Soil respiration, soil properties, fine root biomass and enzyme activity were measured in adjacent plots with doubling vs. eliminating litter input in both natural and plantation forests of Castanopsis carlesii in southern China. After only 3\u00a0years of litter manipulation, the magnitude of change in soil respiration was greater in response to a doubling of the litter input (+24%) than to the elimination of litter input (\u221215%) in the natural forest, possibly due to a positive priming effect on decomposition of soil organic carbon (SOC). The quick and intense priming effect was corroborated by elevated enzyme activities for five of the six enzymes analyzed. In contrast, the response to litter removal (\u221231%) was greater than the response to litter addition (1%; not significant) in the plantation forest. The lack of positive priming in the plantation forest may be related to its lower soil fertility, which could not meet the demand of soil microbes, and to its high clay content, which protected SOC from microbial attack. The positive priming effect in the natural forest but not plantation forest of C. carlesii is also consistent with the significant declines in total soil carbon observed following litter addition in the natural forest but not the plantation forest. Increases in aboveground litter production may trigger priming effects and subsequently transfer more soil carbon to atmospheric CO2 in the natural forest but not in the plantation forest with low fertility. Changes in litter inputs resulting from global change drivers may have different impacts on natural and plantation forests.", "keywords": ["Litter addition", "Carbon cycling", "Subtropical forest", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Soil respiration", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Litter removal", "Priming effect", "15. Life on land"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-017-3281-2"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-017-3281-2", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-017-3281-2", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-017-3281-2"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-05-20T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-017-3369-8", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:12Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-08-22", "title": "Thaw Pond Development And Initial Vegetation Succession In Experimental Plots At A Siberian Lowland Tundra Site", "description": "<p>Background and aims: Permafrost degradation has the potential to change the Arctic tundra landscape. We observed rapid local thawing of ice-rich permafrost resulting in thaw pond formation, which was triggered by removal of the shrub cover in a field experiment. This study aimed to examine the rate of permafrost thaw and the initial vegetation succession after the permafrost collapse. Methods: In the experiment, we measured changes in soil thaw depth, plant species cover and soil subsidence over nine years (2007\u20132015). Results: After abrupt initial thaw, soil subsidence in the removal plots continued indicating further thawing of permafrost albeit at a much slower pace: 1 cm y<sup>\u22121</sup> over 2012\u20132015 vs. 5 cm y<sup>\u22121</sup> over 2007\u20132012. Grass cover strongly increased after the initial shrub removal, but later declined with ponding of water in the subsiding removal plots. Sedges established and expanded in the wetter removal plots. Thereby, the removal plots have become increasingly similar to nearby \u2018natural\u2019 thaw ponds. Conclusions: The nine years of field observations in a unique shrub removal experiment at a Siberian tundra site document possible trajectories of small-scale permafrost collapse and the initial stage of vegetation recovery, which is essential knowledge for assessing future tundra landscape changes.</p>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "Ecology (including Biodiversity Conservation)", "Permafrost degradation", "Betula nana", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Thermokarst", "Vegetation dynamics", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. Climate action", "Arctic tundra", "Environmental Sciences", "SDG 15 - Life on Land", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-017-3369-8"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-017-3369-8", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-017-3369-8", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-017-3369-8"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-08-22T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-017-3401-z", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:15:12Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-09-11", "title": "Biochemical Proxies Indicate Differences In Soil C Cycling Induced By Long-Term Tillage And Residue Management In A Tropical Agroecosystem", "description": "A potential benefit of conservation agriculture (CA) is soil organic carbon (SOC) accrual, yet recent studies indicate limited or no impact of CA on total SOC in tropical agroecosystems. We evaluated biochemical indicators of soil C cycling after 9\u00a0years (18 seasons) of contrasting tillage with and without maize residue retention in western Kenya. Potential activities of C-cycling enzymes (\u03b2-glucosidase, GLU; \u03b2-galactosidase, GAL; glucosaminidase, GLM; cellobiohydrolase, CEL), permanganate-oxidizable C (POXC), and soil organic matter (SOM) composition (by infrared spectroscopy) were measured. POXC tended to be greater under reduced tillage and residue retention, but did not significantly differ among treatments (\u2264 2% of SOC). Despite no significant differences in SOC concentrations or stocks, activities of all 4 C-cycling enzymes responded strongly to tillage, and to a lesser extent to residue management. Activities of GLU, GAL, and GLM were greatest under the combination of reduced tillage and residue retention relative to other treatments. Reduced tillage produced an enrichment in carboxyl C\u00a0=\u00a0O (+6%) and decreased polysaccharide C-O (\u22123.5%) relative to conventional tillage irrespective of residue management. Though enzyme activities and POXC are typically associated with SOC accrual, changes in soil C cycling at this site have not translated into significant differences in SOC after 9\u00a0years. Elevated enzyme activities may have offset potential SOC accumulation under CA. However, the ratio of C-cycling enzyme activities to SOC was higher under reduced tillage and residue retention relative to other treatments, indicating that stoichiometric scaling of SOC and enzyme activities does not explain absence of significant differences in SOC among tillage and residue managements. Potential factors that may explain the low SOC accrual rates in this tropical agroecosystem included the low, albeit realistic, levels of residue retention, nutrient limitations, and high temperatures favoring decomposition.", "keywords": ["glucosidase", "Conservation agriculture", "actividad enzim\u00e1tica", "residuos", "glucosidasa", "Tillage", "residue", "Enzyme activities", "2. Zero hunger", "Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences", "Soil organic carbon", "Agronomy & Agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Biological Sciences", "15. Life on land", "Kenya", "agricultura de conservaci\u00f3n", "enzyme activity", "soil organic carbon", "conservation agriculture", "Residue", "13. 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