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Human\uffe2\uff80\uff90induced increases in nitrogen (N) deposition are common across many terrestrial ecosystems worldwide. Greater N availability not only reduces biological diversity, but also affects the biogeochemical coupling of carbon (C) and N cycles in soil ecosystems. Soils are the largest active terrestrial C pool and N deposition effects on soil C sequestration or release could have global importance. Here, we show that 27 years of chronic N additions to prairie grasslands increased C sequestration in mineral soils and that a potential mechanism responsible for this C accrual was an N\uffe2\uff80\uff90induced increase in root mass. Greater soil C sequestration followed a dramatic shift in plant community composition from native\uffe2\uff80\uff90species\uffe2\uff80\uff90rich C4 grasslands to naturalized\uffe2\uff80\uff90species\uffe2\uff80\uff90rich C3 grasslands, which, despite lower soil C gains per unit of N added, still acted as soil C sinks. Since both high plant diversity and elevated N deposition may increase soil C sequestration, but N deposition also decreases plant diversity, more research is needed to address the long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term implications for soil C storage of these two factors. Finally, because exotic C3 grasses often come to dominate N\uffe2\uff80\uff90enriched grasslands, it is important to determine if such N\uffe2\uff80\uff90dependent soil C sequestration occurs across C3 grasslands in other regions worldwide.

", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Soil", "Time Factors", "Nitrogen", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Poaceae", "Plant Roots", "Carbon", "Ecosystem", "Fires"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/12-0292.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/12-0292.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/12-0292.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/12-0292.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-09-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/11-0411.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:20:20Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-06-27", "title": "Carbon Stocks Across A Chronosequence Of Thinned And Unmanaged Red Pine (Pinus Resinosa) Stands", "description": "

Forests function as a major global C sink, and forest management strategies that maximize C stocks offer one possible means of mitigating the impacts of increasing anthropogenic CO2emissions. We studied the effects of thinning, a common management technique in many forest types, on age\uffe2\uff80\uff90related trends in C stocks using a chronosequence of thinned and unmanaged red pine (Pinus resinosa) stands ranging from 9 to 306 years old. Live tree C stocks increased with age to a maximum near the middle of the chronosequence in unmanaged stands, and increased across the entire chronosequence in thinned stands. C in live understory vegetation and C in the mineral soil each declined rapidly with age in young stands but changed relatively little in middle\uffe2\uff80\uff90aged to older stands regardless of management. Forest floor C stocks increased with age in unmanaged stands, but forest floor C decreased with age after the onset of thinning around age 40 in thinned stands. Deadwood C was highly variable, but decreased with age in thinned stands. Total ecosystem C increased with stand age until approaching an asymptote around age 150. The increase in total ecosystem C was paralleled by an age\uffe2\uff80\uff90related increase in total aboveground C, but relatively little change in total belowground C. Thinning had surprisingly little impact on total ecosystem C stocks, but it did modestly alter age\uffe2\uff80\uff90related trends in total ecosystem C allocation between aboveground and belowground pools. In addition to characterizing the subtle differences in C dynamics between thinned and unmanaged stands, these results suggest that C accrual in red pine stands continues well beyond the 60\uffe2\uff80\uff93100 year management rotations typical for this system. Management plans that incorporate longer rotations and thinning in some stands could play an important role in maximizing C stocks in red pine forests while meeting other objectives including timber extraction, biodiversity conservation, restoration, and fuel reduction goals.

", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Soil", "Time Factors", "Minnesota", "Forestry", "15. Life on land", "Pinus", "01 natural sciences", "Carbon", "Ecosystem", "Carbon Cycle", "Trees"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/11-0411.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Applications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/11-0411.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/11-0411.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/11-0411.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-06-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/11-1631.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:20:20Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-02-15", "title": "Above- And Belowground Responses Of Arctic Tundra Ecosystems To Altered Soil Nutrients And Mammalian Herbivory", "description": "

Theory and observation indicate that changes in the rate of primary production can alter the balance between the bottom\uffe2\uff80\uff90up influences of plants and resources and the top\uffe2\uff80\uff90down regulation of herbivores and predators on ecosystem structure and function. The Exploitation Ecosystem Hypothesis (EEH) posited that as aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP) increases, the additional biomass should support higher trophic levels. We developed an extension of EEH to include the impacts of increases in ANPP on belowground consumers in a similar manner as aboveground, but indirectly through changes in the allocation of photosynthate to roots. We tested our predictions for plants aboveground and for phytophagous nematodes and their predators belowground in two common arctic tundra plant communities subjected to 11 years of increased soil nutrient availability and/or exclusion of mammalian herbivores. The less productive dry heath (DH) community met the predictions of EEH aboveground, with the greatest ANPP and plant biomass in the fertilized plots protected from herbivory. A palatable grass increased in fertilized plots while dwarf evergreen shrubs and lichens declined. Belowground, phytophagous nematodes also responded as predicted, achieving greater biomass in the higher ANPP plots, whereas predator biomass tended to be lower in those same plots (although not significantly). In the higher productivity moist acidic tussock (MAT) community, aboveground responses were quite different. Herbivores stimulated ANPP and biomass in both ambient and enriched soil nutrient plots; maximum ANPP occurred in fertilized plots exposed to herbivory. Fertilized plots became dominated by dwarf birch (a deciduous shrub) and cloudberry (a perennial forb); under ambient conditions these two species coexist with sedges, evergreen dwarf shrubs, and Sphagnum mosses. Phytophagous nematodes did not respond significantly to changes in ANPP, although predator biomass was greatest in control plots. The contrasting results of these two arctic tundra plant communities suggest that the predictions of EEH may hold for very low ANPP communities, but that other factors, including competition and shifts in vegetation composition toward less palatable species, may confound predicted responses to changes in productivity in higher ANPP communities such as the MAT studied here.

", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Soil", "Arctic Regions", "Animals", "Plant Development", "Rodentia", "Biomass", "Herbivory", "15. Life on land", "Invertebrates", "Plant Roots", "01 natural sciences", "Ecosystem"], "contacts": [{"organization": "David R. Johnson, Laura Gough, G. R. Shaver, John C. Moore, Rodney T. Simpson,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/11-1631.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/11-1631.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/11-1631.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/11-1631.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-07-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/12-0279.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:20:20Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-11-14", "title": "Responses of ecosystem carbon cycle to experimental warming: a meta-analysis", "description": "

Global warming potentially alters the terrestrial carbon (C) cycle, likely feeding back to further climate warming. However, how the ecosystem C cycle responds and feeds back to warming remains unclear. Here we used a meta\uffe2\uff80\uff90analysis approach to quantify the response ratios of 18 variables of the ecosystem C cycle to experimental warming and evaluated ecosystem C\uffe2\uff80\uff90cycle feedback to climate warming. Our results showed that warming stimulated gross ecosystem photosynthesis (GEP) by 15.7%, net primary production (NPP) by 4.4%, and plant C pools from above\uffe2\uff80\uff90 and belowground parts by 6.8% and 7.0%, respectively. Experimental warming accelerated litter mass loss by 6.8%, soil respiration by 9.0%, and dissolved organic C leaching by 12.1%. In addition, the responses of some of those variables to experimental warming differed among the ecosystem types. Our results demonstrated that the stimulation of plant\uffe2\uff80\uff90derived C influx basically offset the increase in warming\uffe2\uff80\uff90induced efflux and resulted in insignificant changes in litter and soil C content, indicating that climate warming may not trigger strong positive C\uffe2\uff80\uff90climate feedback from terrestrial ecosystems. Moreover, the increase in plant C storage together with the slight but not statistically significant decrease of net ecosystem exchange (NEE) across ecosystems suggests that terrestrial ecosystems might be a weak C sink rather than a C source under global climate warming. Our results are also potentially useful for parameterizing and benchmarking land surface models in terms of C cycle responses to climate warming.

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Widespread land use changes, and ensuing effects on ecosystem services, are expected from expanding bioenergy production. Although most U.S. production of ethanol is from corn, it is envisaged that future ethanol production will also draw from cellulosic sources such as perennial grasses. In selecting optimal bioenergy crops, there is debate as to whether it is preferable from an environmental standpoint to cultivate bioenergy crops with high ecosystem services (a \uffe2\uff80\uff9cland\uffe2\uff80\uff90sharing\uffe2\uff80\uff9d strategy) or to grow crops with lower ecosystem services but higher yield, thereby requiring less land to meet bioenergy demand (a \uffe2\uff80\uff9cland\uffe2\uff80\uff90sparing\uffe2\uff80\uff9d strategy). Here, we develop a simple model to address this question. Assuming that bioenergy crops are competing with uncultivated land, our model calculates land requirements to meet a given bioenergy demand intensity based upon the yields of bioenergy crops. The model combines fractional land cover of each ecosystem type with its associated ecosystem services to determine whether land\uffe2\uff80\uff90sharing or land\uffe2\uff80\uff90sparing strategies maximize ecosystem services at the landscape level. We apply this model to a case in which climate protection through GHG regulation\uffe2\uff80\uff94an ecosystem's greenhouse gas value (GHGV)\uffe2\uff80\uff94is the ecosystem service of interest. Our results show that the relative advantages of land sparing and land sharing depend upon the type of ecosystem displaced by the bioenergy crop; as the GHGV of the unfarmed land increases, the preferable strategy shifts from land sharing to land sparing. Although it may be preferable to replace ecologically degraded land with high\uffe2\uff80\uff90GHGV, lower yielding bioenergy crops, average landscape GHGV will most often be maximized through high\uffe2\uff80\uff90yielding bioenergy crops that leave more land for uncultivated, high\uffe2\uff80\uff90GHGV ecosystems. Although our case study focuses on GHGV, the same principles will be applicable to any ecosystem service whose value does not depend upon the spatial configuration of the landscape. Whenever bioenergy crops have substantially lower ecosystem services than the ecosystems with which they are competing for land, the most effective strategy for meeting bioenergy demand while maximizing ecosystem services on a landscape level is one of land sparing: focusing simultaneously on maximizing the yield of bioenergy crops while preserving or restoring natural ecosystems.

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To examine the mechanisms of earthworm effects on forest soil C and N, we double\uffe2\uff80\uff90labeled leaf litter with13C and15N, applied it to sugar maple forest plots with and without earthworms, and traced isotopes into soil pools. The experimental design included forest plots with different earthworm community composition (dominated byLumbricus terrestrisorL. rubellus). Soil carbon pools were 37% lower in earthworm\uffe2\uff80\uff90invaded plots largely because of the elimination of the forest floor horizons, and mineral soil C:N was lower in earthworm plots despite the mixing of high C:N organic matter into soil by earthworms. Litter disappearance over the first winter\uffe2\uff80\uff93spring was highest in theL. terrestris(T) plots, but during the warm season, rapid loss of litter was observed in bothL. rubellus(R) and T plots. After two years, 22.0% \uffc2\uffb1 5.4% of13C released from litter was recovered in soil with no significant differences among plots. Total recovery of added13C (decaying litter plus soil) was much higher in no\uffe2\uff80\uff90worm (NW) plots (61\uffe2\uff80\uff9368%) than in R and T plots (20\uffe2\uff80\uff9329%) as much of the litter remained in the former whereas it had disappeared in the latter. Much higher percentage recovery of15N than13C was observed, with significantly lower values for T than R and NW plots. Higher overwinter earthworm activity in T plots contributed to lower soil N recovery. In earthworm\uffe2\uff80\uff90invaded plots isotope enrichment was highest in macroaggregates and microaggregates whereas in NW plots silt plus clay fractions were most enriched. The net effect of litter mixing and priming of recalcitrant soil organic matter (SOM), stabilization of SOM in soil aggregates, and alteration of the soil microbial community by earthworm activity results in loss of SOM and lowering of the C:N ratio. We suggest that earthworm stoichiometry plays a fundamental role in regulating C and N dynamics of forest SOM.

", "keywords": ["Time Factors", "Nitrogen", "TEMPERATE HARDWOOD FOREST", "New York", "Acer", "C:N ratio", "Trees", "OLD-GROWTH FOREST", "Soil", "litter", "EXOTIC EARTHWORMS", "Animals", "NORTHEASTERN FORESTS", "Oligochaeta", "CARBON DYNAMICS", "Ecosystem", "2. Zero hunger", "decomposition", "NITROGEN DEPOSITION", "Ecology", "Lumbricus", "MICROBIAL BIOMASS", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "DECIDUOUS FOREST", "Carbon", "stoichiometry", "aggregate", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "LUMBRICUS-TERRESTRIS", "Environmental Sciences", "CENTRAL NEW-YORK", "Environmental Monitoring"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/12-1760.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Applications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/12-1760.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/12-1760.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/12-1760.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-07-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/13-0616.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:20:20Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-09-11", "title": "Does agricultural crop diversity enhance soil microbial biomass and organic matter dynamics? A meta-analysis", "description": "

Our increasing dependence on a small number of agricultural crops, such as corn, is leading to reductions in agricultural biodiversity. Reductions in the number of crops in rotation or the replacement of rotations by monocultures are responsible for this loss of biodiversity. The belowground implications of simplifying agricultural plant communities remain unresolved; however, agroecosystem sustainability will be severely compromised if reductions in biodiversity reduce soil C and N concentrations, alter microbial communities, and degrade soil ecosystem functions as reported in natural communities. We conducted a meta\uffe2\uff80\uff90analysis of 122 studies to examine crop rotation effects on total soil C and N concentrations, and the faster cycling microbial biomass C and N pools that play key roles in soil nutrient cycling and physical processes such as aggregate formation. We specifically examined how rotation crop type and management practices influence C and N dynamics in different climates and soil types. We found that adding one or more crops in rotation to a monoculture increased total soil C by 3.6% and total N by 5.3%, but when rotations included a cover crop (i.e., crops that are not harvested but produced to enrich the soil and capture inorganic N), total C increased by 8.5% and total N 12.8%. Rotations substantially increased the soil microbial biomass C (20.7%) and N (26.1%) pools, and these overwhelming effects on microbial biomass were not moderated by crop type or management practices. Crop rotations, especially those that include cover crops, sustain soil quality and productivity by enhancing soil C, N, and microbial biomass, making them a cornerstone for sustainable agroecosystems.

", "keywords": ["Crops", " Agricultural", "2. Zero hunger", "microbial biomass", "soil nitrogen", "sustainable agroecosystems", "Agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Biogeochemistry", "15. Life on land", "12. Responsible consumption", "meta-analysis", "Soil", "crop rotation", "monoculture", "13. Climate action", "gricultural biodiversity", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Biomass", "soil carbon", "Soil Microbiology"], "contacts": [{"organization": "McDaniel, Marshall D., Tiemann, Lisa K., Grandy, A. Stuart,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/13-0616.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Applications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/13-0616.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/13-0616.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/13-0616.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-04-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/14-1158.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:20:20Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-10-21", "title": "Fire Alters Ecosystem Carbon And Nutrients But Not Plant Nutrient Stoichiometry Or Composition In Tropical Savanna", "description": "

Fire and nutrients interact to influence the global distribution and dynamics of the savanna biome, but the results of these interactions are both complex and poorly known. A critical but unresolved question is whether short\uffe2\uff80\uff90term losses of carbon and nutrients caused by fire can trigger long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term and potentially compensatory responses in the nutrient stoichiometry of plants, or in the abundance of dinitrogen\uffe2\uff80\uff90fixing trees. There is disagreement in the literature about the potential role of fire on savanna nutrients, and, in turn, on plant stoichiometry and composition. A major limitation has been the lack of fire manipulations over time scales sufficiently long for these interactions to emerge. We use a 58\uffe2\uff80\uff90year, replicated, large\uffe2\uff80\uff90scale, fire manipulation experiment in Kruger National Park (South Africa) in savanna to quantify the effect of fire on (1) distributions of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus at the ecosystem scale; (2) carbon\uffe2\uff80\uff8a:\uffe2\uff80\uff8anitrogen\uffe2\uff80\uff8a:\uffe2\uff80\uff8aphosphorus stoichiometry of above\uffe2\uff80\uff90 and belowground tissues of plant species; and (3) abundance of plant functional groups including nitrogen fixers. Our results show dramatic effects of fire on the relative distribution of nutrients in soils, but that individual plant stoichiometry and plant community composition remained unexpectedly resilient. Moreover, measures of nutrients and carbon stable isotopes allowed us to discount the role of tree cover change in favor of the turnover of herbaceous biomass as the primary mechanism that mediates a transition from low to high soil carbon and nutrients in the absence of fire. We conclude that, in contrast to extra\uffe2\uff80\uff90tropical grasslands or closed\uffe2\uff80\uff90canopy forests, vegetation in the savanna biome may be uniquely adapted to nutrient losses caused by recurring fire.

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Ecological theory, developed largely from ungulates and grassland systems, predicts that herbivory accelerates nutrient cycling more in productive than unproductive systems. This prediction may be important for understanding patterns of ecosystem change over time and space, but its applicability to other ecosystems and types of herbivore remain uncertain. We estimated fluxes of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) from herbivory of a common tree species (Betula pubescens) by a common species of herbivorous insect along a ~5000\uffe2\uff80\uff90yr boreal chronosequence. Contrary to established theory, fluxes of N and P via herbivory increased along the chronosequence despite a decline in plant productivity. The herbivore\uffe2\uff80\uff90mediated N and P fluxes to the soil are comparable to the main alternative pathway for these nutrients via tree leaf litterfall. We conclude that insect herbivores can make large contributions to nutrient cycling even in unproductive systems, and influence the rate and pattern of ecosystem development, particularly in systems with low external nutrient inputs.Bacterial community composition and diversity was studied in alpine tundra soils across a plant species and moisture gradient in 20 yr\uffe2\uff80\uff90old experimental plots with four nutrient addition regimes (control, nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) or both nutrients). Different bacterial communities inhabited different alpine meadows, reflecting differences in moisture, nutrients and plant species. Bacterial community alpha\uffe2\uff80\uff90diversity metrics were strongly correlated with plant richness and the production of forbs. After meadow type, N addition proved the strongest determinant of bacterial community structure. Structural Equation Modeling demonstrated that tundra bacterial community responses to N addition occur via changes in plant community composition and soil pH resulting from N inputs, thus disentangling the influence of direct (resource availability) vs. indirect (changes in plant community structure and soil pH) N effects that have remained unexplored in past work examining bacterial responses to long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term N inputs in these vulnerable environments. Across meadow types, the relative influence of these indirect N effects on bacterial community structure varied. In explicitly evaluating the relative importance of direct and indirect effects of long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term N addition on bacterial communities, this study provides new mechanistic understandings of the interaction between plant and microbial community responses to N inputs amidst environmental change.

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This study aims to evaluate a remote sensing-based approach to allow estimation of the temporal and spatial distribution of crop evapotranspiration (ET) and irrigation water requirements over irrigated areas in semi-arid regions. The method is based on the daily step FAO-56 Soil Water Balance model combined with a time series of basal crop coefficients and the fractional vegetation cover derived from high-resolution satellite Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) imagery. The model was first calibrated and validated at plot scale using ET measured by eddy-covariance systems over wheat fields and olive orchards representing the main crops grown in the study area of the Haouz plain (central Morocco). The results showed that the model provided good estimates of ET for wheat and olive trees with a root mean square error (RMSE) of about 0.56 and 0.54 mm/day respectively. The model was then used to compare remotely sensed estimates of irrigation requirements (RS-IWR) and irrigation water supplied (WS) at plot scale over an irrigation district in the Haouz plain through three growing seasons. The comparison indicated a large spatio-temporal variability in irrigation water demands and supplies; the median values of WS and RS-IWR were 130 (175), 117 (175) and 118 (112) mm respectively in the 2002\u20132003, 2005\u20132006 and 2008\u20132009 seasons. This could be attributed to inadequate irrigation supply and/or to farmers\u2019 socio-economic considerations and management practices. The findings demonstrate the potential for irrigation managers to use remote sensing-based models to monitor irrigation water usage for efficient and sustainable use of water resources.

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Warming Arctic temperatures can drive changes in vegetation structure and function directly by stimulating plant growth or indirectly by stimulating microbial decomposition of organic matter and releasing more nutrients for plant uptake and growth. The arctic biome is currently increasing in deciduous shrub cover and this increase is expected to continue with climate warming. However, little is known how current deciduous shrub communities will respond to future climate induced warming and nutrient increase. We examined the plant and ecosystem response to a long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term (18 years) nutrient addition and warming experiment in an Alaskan arctic tall deciduous shrub tundra ecosystem to understand controls over plant productivity and carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) storage in shrub tundra ecosystems. In addition, we used a meta\uffe2\uff80\uff90analysis approach to compare the treatment effect size for aboveground biomass among seven long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term studies conducted across multiple plant community types within the Arctic. We found that biomass, productivity, and aboveground N pools increased with nutrient additions and warming, while species diversity decreased. Both nutrient additions and warming caused the dominant functional group, deciduous shrubs, to increase biomass and proportional C and N allocation to aboveground stems but decreased allocation to belowground stems. For all response variables except soil C and N pools, effects of nutrients plus warming were largest. Soil C and N pools were highly variable and we could not detect any response to the treatments. The biomass response to warming and fertilization in tall deciduous shrub tundra was greater than moist acidic and moist non\uffe2\uff80\uff90acidic tundra and more similar to the biomass response of wet sedge tundra. Our data suggest that in a warmer and more nutrient\uffe2\uff80\uff90rich Arctic, tall deciduous shrub tundra will have greater total deciduous shrub biomass and a higher proportion of woody tissue that has a longer residence time, with a lower proportion of C and N allocated to belowground stems.

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Elevated metal concentrations in soils can disturb the soil ecosystem; thus, researcherss rive to identify the most sensitive assay for detection of the early signs of toxicity. The purpose of the present study was to compare eight different ecotoxicological endpoints on the same set of metal-contaminated soils that were collected from seven series of soils sampled during field trials. The endpoints are based on three microbial assays (potential nitrification rate [PNR], substrate-induced respiration [SIR], and basal respiration [BR]) and two plant growth tests, one of which included symbiotic N fixation. The overall sensitivity of the endpoints to detect statistically significant adverse effects ranked as follows: PNR > SIR (lag time) > plant yield and N fixation > SIR (respiration after 24 and 48 h) > BR. The lowest adverse effect concentrations were found with the PNR at 7 mg kg\uffe2\uff88\uff921 of Cd and 107 mg kg\uffe2\uff88\uff921 of Zn. The variability of these endpoints among different uncontaminated soils was additionally assessed on 14 soil samples. That variability showed a strong correlation with sensitivity scores, illustrating that metal-sensitive endpoints have a large natural variability. We question the ecological relevance of highly sensitive microbial assays, because they tend to have a large natural variability. The identification of toxicity in the field requires endpoints that are highly sensitive and that do not vary greatly among soils (i.e., robust); however, no such endpoint was found in the present study. The endpoints that combined average sensitivity and robustness were SIR (lag time), clover yield, and N fixation in clover.

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Increasing attention has been placed on the agroecological impact of applying exogenous organic matter (EOM) amendments, such as green waste compost (GWC) and livestock manure, to agricultural landscapes. However, monitoring the frequency and locality of this practice poses a major challenge, as these events are typically unreported. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the utility of Sentinel-2 imagery for the detection of EOM amendments. Specifically, we investigated the spectral shift resulting from GWC and manure application at two spatial scales, satellite and proximal. At the satellite scale, multispectral Sentinel-2 image pairs were analyzed before and after EOM application to six cultivated fields in the Versailles Plain, France. At the proximal scale, multi-temporal spectral field measurements were taken of experimental plots consisting of 14 total treatments: EOM variety, amendment quantity (15, 30 and 60 t.ha\u22121) and tillage. The Sentinel-2 images showed significant spectral differences before and after EOM application. Exogenous Organic Matter Indices (EOMI) were developed and analyzed for separative performance. The best performing index was EOMI2, using the B4 and B12 Sentinel-2 spectral bands. At the proximal scale, simulated Sentinel-2 reflectance spectra, which were created using field measurements, successfully monitored all EOM treatments for three days, except for the buried green waste compost at a rate of 15 t.ha\u22121.

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In Lake Wanaka, a large alpine New Zealand lake, the macrophytes Lagarosiphon major and Elodea canadensis (Hydrocharitaceae) have invaded parts of the lake where they form tall dense plant beds throughout mid-depths (2\u20137 m) of the littoral zone. We investigated differences in plants, benthic invertebrates, fish, and food webs characterizing native and exotic plant beds in mid-depths of the littoral zone. The 3\u00d7 higher plant biomass and 2\u00d7 higher plant surface area in exotic than in native plant beds (quillworts, milfoils, and charophytes) contributed to greater standing stocks and productivity of epiphyton in the exotic plant beds. Invertebrate communities were less dense (1890/m2 vs 4030/m2) and less diverse (richness = 9 vs 12) in native than in exotic plant beds because of differences in biomass, productivity, and physical structure of native and exotic plant communities. Invertebrat...", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "15. 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Intensive agriculture is highly dependent on chemicals, which has caused numerous environmental problems such as contamination of aquifers, soils and air, with serious consequences on human health. A challenge in the next decades will be the development of economically viable methods to enhance productivity, at the same time that conservation of natural resources, protection of environment and production of healthy agricultural products are ensured. Sustainable agriculture requires management of a healthy living soil. Use of microorganisms such as cyanobacteria appears as a real alternative to achieve more sustainable managements. In this review, we briefly discuss the roles of cyanobacteria in the improvement of soil stability, soil nutrient and moisture status, organic matter content, microbial activities, and the growth and productivity of crops. Application of cyanobacteria is especially promising in croplands from dryland regions where high tolerance of these organisms to harsh environmental conditions converts them into viable alternatives or complements to more widespread conservation practices based on vegetation covers.", "keywords": ["Biocrust; Fertility; Carbon sequestration; Soil erosion; Cropland", "0301 basic medicine", "03 medical and health sciences", "01 natural sciences", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://flore.unifi.it/bitstream/2158/1138562/1/Agricultural%20Res%20Technol%202018.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.19080/ARTOAJ.2018.18.556046"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agricultural%20Research%20%26amp%3B%20Technology%3A%20Open%20Access%20Journal", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.19080/ARTOAJ.2018.18.556046", "name": "item", "description": "10.19080/ARTOAJ.2018.18.556046", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.19080/ARTOAJ.2018.18.556046"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-09-28T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.19084/rca.28476", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-04T16:20:21Z", "type": "Journal Article", "title": "Analytical laboratories for soil fertility assessment, in Portugal", "description": "Open AccessThe main objective of this work was to obtain updated data from soil fertility laboratories located in Portugal. A survey was sent to the Heads of 32 laboratories and a reply was received from 25 of them. 14 of these labs belong to the Ministry of Education, 7 are private and 4 to the Ministry of Agriculture. In addition to soil they also analyse plant material and, the majority, organic soil improver and irrigation water. In the minimum package of analyses they offer (Summary Analysis) pH, organic matter, extractable phosphorus and potassium are always included and 72 % of them also include field texture. But this package differs greatly between labs with regard to the inclusion of other parameters. 76 % of the labs issue fertilisation recommendations, but only 20 % do so automatically. There is a relative homogeneity of methods for the parameters of the summary analysis, except for organic matter. Only two laboratories have accredited tests. The existence of a national interlaboratory test is felt to be important for internal quality control and harmonisation of methodologies.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "nutrient management", "fertiliser recommendations", "plant nutrition", "soil test", "soil analysis", "6. 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The dataset contains Electrochemistry, RAMAN and Xray photoelectron spectroscopy measures. This publication has emanated from research conducted with the financial support of Science Foundation Ireland under Grant No. 13/CDA/2213. J.A.B. acknowledges support from the Irish Research Council under Grant No. GOIPG/2014/399. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Sk\u0142odowska\u2010Curie grant agreements No. 748968 (FREMAB) and 799175 (HiBriCarbon). The results of this publication reflect only the authors' view and the Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.", "keywords": ["Synergistic", "Electocatalysis", "N-doped carbon", "Nanoscience & Materials", "Density functional theory", "Oxygen reduction reaction"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Behan A., James, Mates-Torres, Eric, Stamatin N., Serban, Dom\u00ednguez, Carlota, Iannaci, Alessandro, Fleischer, Karsten, Hoque, Md. Khairul, S. Perova, Tatiana, Garc\u00eda\u2010Melchor, Max, E. 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Mechanical weed control can be grouped into three categories: full-width cultivators, inter-row cultivators and intra-row cultivators. This chapter will highlight the most recent and relevant advances within each category. The focus will be on novel inventions and developments of mechanical devices, designs, and the weed problems they are meant to solve. Moreover, automation technologies that assist weeding operations are becoming increasingly important and will be given special attention.

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Restoration strategies were compared to a continuous grazing strategy with no mesquite treatment. All cattle stocking rates were moderate (7.5\u201315 ha ? animal unit 21 ? year 21 ) and all fires were applied during late winter. Beef cattle (cow\u2013calf) production variables measured included conception rate, weaned calf percentage, weaning weight, weight of calf per exposed cow, weight of calf per hectare, and supplement fed per cow. We observed significant differences in beef production among strategies primarily during the first 2 yr where the continuous grazing strategy exhibited better overall livestock production than the integrated restoration strategies. Differences in livestock production among strategies were minimal over the last 5 yr of the study. These livestock production results suggest livestock and management adapted to restoration strategies after the first 2 yr. 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Estos experimentos nos permiten captar los cambios que se producen en el suelo a lo largo de per\u00edodos prolongados y proporcionan resultados s\u00f3lidos y fiables sobre la experimentaci\u00f3n agr\u00edcola, lo que los convierte en fuentes de conocimiento inestimables y en herramientas esenciales para informar sobre el efecto de los distintos manejos en un agroecosistema. En nuestro estudio, realizamos un seguimiento en un LTE de la finca experimental 'La Canaleja' del INIA-CSIC en Madrid, Espa\u00f1a (40\u25e6 32'N y 3\u25e620'O; 600 m). Este sitio experimental, caracterizado por un clima continental semi\u00e1rido, presenta un suelo franco-arenoso Calcic Haploxeralf con un bajo contenido inicial de carbono org\u00e1nico. En el ensayo, iniciado en 1994, se han empleado hasta la actualidad tres sistemas de laboreo del suelo: no- laboreo (NL), laboreo m\u00ednimo (ML) y laboreo convencional (LC). 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This chapter describes the current status of IWM for grasslands. Its focus is on management practices available to influence transitions in a weed\uffe2\uff80\uff99s life cycle: from the soil seed bank to seedling establishment, from the seedling stage to the mature plant, and from the mature plant to the soil seed bank. We provide a conceptual approach to illustrate how management practices available in IWM affect different transitions and then discuss case studies to illustrate how weed management practices have been integrated. The chapter ends with an outlook for further improving IWM in grasslands, especially also under climate change, and for promoting its application.

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La production de cacao dans la r\uffc3\uffa9gion ama- zonienne de l\uffe2\uff80\uff99\uffc3\uff89quateur repr\uffc3\uffa9sente une source de revenus importante pour la popu- lation locale. Les syst\uffc3\uffa8mes de production de cacao varient entre for\uffc3\uffaat primaire enrichie, syst\uffc3\uffa8mes agroforestiers traditionnels et monoculture. Cette \uffc3\uffa9tude vise \uffc3\uffa0 \uffc3\uffa9valuer la relation entre diversit\uffc3\uffa9 sp\uffc3\uffa9cifique, stocks de carbone, productivit\uffc3\uffa9 agricole et utilisations potentielles des ressources foresti\uffc3\uffa8res pour trois modes d\uffe2\uff80\uff99utilisation des terres dans la r\uffc3\uffa9gion amazonienne de l\uffe2\uff80\uff99\uffc3\uff89quateur : agrofo- resterie \uffc3\uffa0 dominante cacaoy\uffc3\uffa8re (AF Cacao), monoculture de cacao (Monoculture) etfor\uffc3\uffaat primaire (FP). La connaissance et la quanti- fication des meilleurs compromis entre les diff\uffc3\uffa9rents services \uffc3\uffa9cosyst\uffc3\uffa9miques li\uffc3\uffa9s \uffc3\uffa0 la culture du cacao permettent de contri- buer \uffc3\uffa0 la conservation des for\uffc3\uffaats primaires et d\uffe2\uff80\uff99optimiser les revenus des populations locales. La richesse sp\uffc3\uffa9cifique, la diver- sit\uffc3\uffa9 b\uffc3\uffaata, les stocks de carbone (biomasse a\uffc3\uffa9rienne et souterraine, n\uffc3\uffa9cromasse et sols) et la production de cacao et de bois ont \uffc3\uffa9t\uffc3\uffa9 d\uffc3\uffa9termin\uffc3\uffa9s pour chaque syst\uffc3\uffa8me de culture sur des parcelles de 1 600 m2 (n = 28). Nos r\uffc3\uffa9sultats montrent que la diversit\uffc3\uffa9 b\uffc3\uffaata, la richesse sp\uffc3\uffa9cifique et les stocks de carbone sont significativement plus \uffc3\uffa9lev\uffc3\uffa9s dans les syst\uffc3\uffa8mes FP et AF Cacao, tandis que la pro- duction du cacao est 1,5 fois plus \uffc3\uffa9lev\uffc3\uffa9e en Monoculture que sur les parcelles en AF Cacao. Pour ces deux syst\uffc3\uffa8mes, la richesse sp\uffc3\uffa9cifique, la diversit\uffc3\uffa9 b\uffc3\uffaata et les stocks de carbone totaux sont corr\uffc3\uffa9l\uffc3\uffa9s n\uffc3\uffa9gativement avec la productivit\uffc3\uffa9 de cacao. Alors que nos r\uffc3\uffa9sultats montrent que la monoculture de cacao est plus rentable pour les agriculteurs que l\uffe2\uff80\uff99AF Cacao, un syst\uffc3\uffa8me de r\uffc3\uffa9mun\uffc3\uffa9ration mon\uffc3\uffa9taire de la d\uffc3\uffa9forestation \uffc3\uffa9vit\uffc3\uffa9e, bas\uffc3\uffa9 sur les cr\uffc3\uffa9dits carbone, pourrait repr\uffc3\uffa9senter une strat\uffc3\uffa9gie viable pour encourager la mise en \uffc5\uff93uvre de syst\uffc3\uffa8mes AF Cacao, lesquels contribueraient aux efforts de conservation et d\uffe2\uff80\uff99att\uffc3\uffa9nuation des effets du changement climatique tout en permettant de maintenir une production commerciale de cacao dans la r\uffc3\uffa9gion.

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The present study aims at investigating the potential impacts of agricultural policies on GHG emissions from agriculture across the European Union. The study begins by providing evidence on how the key CAP reforms contributed to the structural changes the European agriculture faced in the past. Based on these facts, we introduce the context of implementation of the 2014\u20132022 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), within which many interventions were designed to improve sustainability and increase competitiveness, and we formulate hypotheses on how CAP instruments can contribute differently to influencing GHG emissions from agriculture. The hypotheses formulated concern the following: (1) the influence of the income support payment on land prices and, consequently, on land distribution between small and large landowners; (2) the influence of the coupled payment on agricultural specialization; (3) the influence of agri-environmental-climate measures on the sustainable management of agricultural lands. These causalities can have direct and indirect effects on GHG emissions from agriculture. The method of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is used to investigate the above-mentioned causalities and to cluster observations based on similar combinations of conditions (i.e., drivers) and outcomes (i.e., positive or negative variations in GHG emissions from agriculture between the end and the beginning of the CAP programming period). The results reveal that the increase in GHG emissions from agriculture over the study period is mainly attributable to the low share of agricultural land under management contracts targeting climate change mitigation and carbon sequestration through the CAP. CAP payments coupled with production were found to contribute to further increasing GHG emissions from agriculture in some eastern and northern EU countries. Livestock concentrations, income support payments and the high price of agricultural land drive the increase in GHG emissions for other central and eastern EU countries. The paper concludes by addressing existing shortcomings due to conflicting interventions in the current CAP strategic plans.

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State-of-the-art remote sensing scene classification methods employ different Convolutional Neural Network architectures for achieving very high classification performance. A trait shared by the majority of these methods is that the class associated with each example is ascertained by examining the activations of the last fully connected layer, and the networks are trained to minimize the cross-entropy between predictions extracted from this layer and ground-truth annotations. In this work, we extend this paradigm by introducing an additional output branch which maps the inputs to low dimensional representations, effectively extracting additional feature representations of the inputs. The proposed model imposes additional distance constrains on these representations with respect to identified class representatives, in addition to the traditional categorical cross-entropy between predictions and ground-truth. By extending the typical cross-entropy loss function with a distance learning function, our proposed approach achieves significant gains across a wide set of benchmark datasets in terms of classification, while providing additional evidence related to class membership and classification confidence.

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Organic carbon (OC) accumulation in soil mitigates greenhouse gases emission and improves soil health. We aimed to quantify the dynamics of OC stock in soils and to justify technologies that allow annual increasing OC stock in the arable soil layer by 4‰. We based the study on a field experiment established in 1936 in the 9-field crop rotation with a fallow on Chernozem in European Russia. The RothC version 26.3 was used for the reproducing and forecasting OC dynamics. In all fertilizer applications at FYM background, there was a decrease in the OC stock with preferable loss of active OC, except the period 1964-71 with 2-5‰ annual OC increase. The model estimated the annual C input in the arable soil layer as 1,900 kg·ha-1. For increasing OC stocks by 4‰ per year, one should raise input to 2400 kg·ha-1. Simulation was made for 2016-2090 using climate scenarios RCP4.5 and RCP8.5. Crop rotation without fallowing provided an initial increase of 3‰ and 6‰ of stocks in the RCP8.5 and RCP4.5 scenarios accordingly, followed by a loss in accumulated OC. Simulation demonstrates difficulties to increase OC concentration in Chernozems under intensive farming and potential capacity to rise OC stock through yield management.

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Soil organic carbon (SOC) is an essential condition for soil health and a potential sink for greenhouse gases. SOC dynamics in a long-term field experiment with mineral and organic fertilization on loamy sand Podzol in Vladimir Region, Russia, was traced with the dynamic carbon model RothC since 1968 until the present time. During this period, C stock increased 21% compared with the initial level in the treatment with the application of manure in an average annual rate of 10 t·ha-1. The model was also used to forecast SOC changes until 2090 for two contrasting RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 climatic scenarios. Until 2090, the steady growth of SOC stocks is expected in all compared treatments for both climate scenarios. This rate of growth was the highest until 2040, decreased in 2040-2070 and increased again in 2070-2090 for RCP4.5. The highest annual gain was within 21-27‰ under RCP4.5 and 16-21‰ in 2020-2040 in 0-20 cm soil layer. The expected accumulation of C allows increasing current C stock 1.6-1.7 times for RCP4.5 and 2.0-2.2 times for RCP8.5 scenario. Modelling demonstrated potentially more favourable conditions for SOC stability in arable Podzols than in Retisols in Central Russia in the 21st century.

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The current lack of efficient methods for high throughput field phenotyping is a constraint on the goal of increasing durum wheat yields. This study illustrates a comprehensive methodology for phenotyping this crop's water use through the use of the two-source energy balance (TSEB) model employing very high resolution imagery. An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with multispectral and thermal cameras was used to phenotype 19 durum wheat cultivars grown under three contrasting irrigation treatments matching crop evapotranspiration levels (ETc): 100%ETc treatment meeting all crop water requirements (450 mm), 50%ETc treatment meeting half of them (285 mm), and a rainfed treatment (122 mm). Yield reductions of 18.3 and 48.0% were recorded in the 50%ETc and rainfed treatments, respectively, in comparison with the 100%ETc treatment. UAV flights were carried out during jointing (April 4th), anthesis (April 30th), and grain-filling (May 22nd). Remotely-sensed data were used to estimate: (1) plant height from a digital surface model (H, R2 = 0.95, RMSE = 0.18m), (2) leaf area index from multispectral vegetation indices (LAI, R2 = 0.78, RMSE = 0.63), and (3) actual evapotranspiration (ETa) and transpiration (T) through the TSEB model (R2 = 0.50, RMSE = 0.24 mm/h). Compared with ground measurements, the four traits estimated at grain-filling provided a good prediction of days from sowing to heading (DH, r = 0.58\uffe2\uff80\uff930.86), to anthesis (DA, r = 0.59\uffe2\uff80\uff930.85) and to maturity (r = 0.67\uffe2\uff80\uff930.95), grain-filling duration (GFD, r = 0.54\uffe2\uff80\uff930.74), plant height (r = 0.62\uffe2\uff80\uff930.69), number of grains per spike (NGS, r = 0.41\uffe2\uff80\uff930.64), and thousand kernel weight (TKW, r = 0.37\uffe2\uff80\uff930.42). The best trait to estimate yield, DH, DA, and GFD was ETa at anthesis or during grain filling. Better forecasts for yield-related traits were recorded in the irrigated treatments than in the rainfed one. These results show a promising perspective in the use of energy balance models for the phenotyping of large numbers of durum wheat genotypes under Mediterranean conditions.

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Soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration in arable soils is a challenging goal. We focused on the effect of crop rotation and previous land use for future carbon sequestration on two experimental fields on Retisols with four contrasting fertilization treatments each. We analyzed the SOC dynamics and used the RothC model to forecast the SOC. We found a consistent increase in SOC stocks and stable fractions of the soil organic matter (SOM) with C accumulation in the next 70 years compared to the 90-year experimental period, more evident under the Representative Concentration Pathway 4.5 (RCP4.5) compared with the RCP8.5 scenario. The expected increase in SOC will be higher in the crop rotation with a grass field than in the experiment with an alternation of row crops and cereals. The efficiency depended on stable SOM fractions, and fields with more extended cultivation history showed higher SOM stability. Proper crop rotations are more important for SOC stability than the uncertainty associated with the climate change scenarios that allows timely adaptation. The goal of a 4\u2030 annual increase of SOC stocks may be reached under rotation with grasses in 2020\u201340 and 2080\u201390 when applying a mineral or organic fertilizer system for scenario RCP4.5 and a mineral fertilizer system in 2080\u20132090 for scenario RCP8.5.

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Among the agricultural practices promoted by the Common Agricultural Policy to increase soil functions, the use of cover crops is a recommended tool to improve the sustainability of Mediter-ranean woody crops such as olive orchards. However, there is a broad range of cover crop ty-pologies in relation to its implementation, control and species composition. In that sense, the in-fluence of different plant species on soil quality indicators in olive orchards remains unknown yet. This study describes the effects of four treatments based on the implementation of different ground covers (CC-NAT, CC-GRA and CC-MIX) and conventional tillage (TILL) on soil erosion, soil physicochemical and biological properties, and soil microbial communities after 8 years of cover crop establishment. Our results have demonstrated that the presence of a temporary cover crop (CC), compared to a soil under tillage (TILL), can reduce soil losses and maintain good soil physicochemical properties and modify greatly the structure and diversity of soil bacterial com-munities and its functioning. The presence of a homogeneous CC of gramineous (Lolium rigidum or Lolilum multiflorum) (CC-GR) for 8 years significantly increased the functional properties of the soil as compared to TILL; although the most significant change was a modification on the bacte-rial community composition that was clearly different from the rest of treatments. On the other hand, the use of a mixture of plant species (CC-MIX) as a CC for only two years although did not modify greatly the structure and diversity of soil bacterial communities compared to the TILL soil, induced significant changes on the functional properties of the soil, and reverted those properties to a level similar to that of an undisturbed soil that had maintained a natural cover of spontaneous vegetation for decades (CC-NAT).

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Grasslands are at risk of degradation due to unsustainable management practices and climate change. Sustainable grassland soil management can promote ecosystem service delivery and improve the resilience of the entire grassland ecosystem to anthropogenic change. Here, we re-view the principal soil quality indicators (SQIs) and how they have been used to evaluate the sustainability of different grassland management practices globally. We then discuss sustainable grazing management practices, before reviewing some novel grassland species which may im-prove grassland resilience with relevance for grassland management in Europe and the UK. We also give an overview of current sustainable grassland management methods and their assessment at field scale. From this, we suggest that sustainable Grazing Management Plans (GMPs), together with the testing of drought-resistant grass species and appropriate SQIs monitoring, is key to increasing resilience of grassland ecosystems to anthropogenic change.

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Although crop conversion from annual to perennial crops has been considered as one path towards climate-smart and resource-efficient agriculture, the effects of this conversion on soil multifunctionality and biomass yields remain unclear. Here, we investigated the effects of one annual and three perennial crops (a grass (Lolium perenne), a legume (Medicago sativa), and their mixture) on soil multifunctionality and biomass yield on the Yellow River floodplain. Soil multifunctionality was assessed by the capacity of water regulation and the multifunctionality of carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) cycles. Results showed that perennial crops enhanced soil multifunctionality by 207% for L. perenne, 311% for M. sativa, and 438% for L. perenne + M. sativa, compared with annual winter wheat (Triticum aestivum). The effect of perennial crops on soil multifunctionality increased with infiltration rate, dissolved organic C, microbial biomass C, and extracellular enzymatic activities for both C and N acquisition. However, we observed that perennial crops had lower biomass yield than annual crop. Therefore, the transition of agricultural landscapes to perennials needs to take into account the balance between environmental protection and food security, as well as environmental heterogeneity, to promote sustainable agricultural development.

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Droplet-based microfluidics has revolutionized numerous fields such as biomedical research, pharmaceuticals, drug discovery, food engineering, flow chemistry, and cosmetics. This paper presents a comprehensive study focusing on the detection and characterization of droplets with volumes in the nanoliter range. Leveraging the precise control of minute liquid volumes, we introduced a novel spectroscopic On-Chip microsensor equipped with integrated microfluidic channels for droplet generation, characterization, and sensing, simultaneously. The microsensor, designed with Interdigitated-Ring-Shaped Electrodes (IRSE) and seamlessly integrated with microfluidic channels, offers enhanced capacitance and impedance signal amplitudes, reproducibility, and reliability in droplet analysis. We were able to make analyses of droplets length in the range 1.0-6.0 mm, velocity 0.66-2.51 mm/s, droplet volume 1.07nL-113.46nL. Experimental results demonstrated that the microsensor's has a great performance in terms of droplet size, velocity, and length, with a significant signal amplitude of capacitance and impedance, and real-time detection capabilities, thereby highlighting its potential for facilitating microcapsule reactions and enabling on-site real-time detection for chemical and biosensor analyses on-chip.

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In the Czech Republic, the Universal Soil Loss Equation provides the basis for defining the soil protection strategy. Field rainfall simulators were used to define the actual cover-management factor values of the most extensively seeded crops in the Czech Republic. More than 380 simulations between 2016 and 2021 provided data. The methodology focused on multi-seasonal measurements to cover the most important phenological phases. A comparison with the original USDA values for maize showed that it is desirable to redefine the C-factor. 71 fallow plot experiments showed that the rainfall-runoff relation is much easier to replicate than the actual sediment transport. For 30-minute intensive rainfall, the runoff ratio reached 62%, and the coefficient of variation was 25%. On saturated soil, the runoff ratio reached 81% and the coefficient of variation dropped to 12%. Soil protection techniques have a significant effect on runoff reduction. Maize seeded after cover crops and combined with reduced tillage or direct seeding can reduce the runoff ratio to 10-20% for ‘dry’ conditions and to 12-40% for ‘saturated’ conditions. Concerning soil loss, the variations are greater, with the coefficient of variation reaching 42% during fallow plot experiments. The reader should consider associated uncertainties.

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Understanding and estimating the economic value that society places on agricultural soil quality protection and improvement can guide the development of policies aimed at mitigating pollution, promoting conservation, or incentivizing sustainable land management practices. We estimate the general public\u2019s willingness to pay (WTP) for agricultural soil quality protection and improvement in Spain (n = 1000) and the UK (n = 984) using data from a cross-sectional survey via Qualtrics panels in March\u2013April 2021. We use a double-bound dichotomous choice contingent valuation approach to elicit the individuals\u2019 WTP. We investigate the effect of uncertainty on the success of policies aiming at achieving soil protection. In addition, to understand the heterogeneity in individuals\u2019 WTP for agricultural soil quality protection and improvement, we model individuals\u2019 WTP through individuals\u2019 awareness and attitudes toward agricultural soil quality protection and the environment; trust in institutions; risk and time preferences; pro-social behavior; and socio-demographics in Spain and the UK. We found that there is significant public support for agricultural soil quality protection and improvement in Spain and the UK. We also found that the support does not vary significantly under uncertainty of success of policies aiming at achieving soil protection. However, the individual\u2019s reasons for supporting agricultural soil quality protection and improvement are found to depend on the level of uncertainty and country. Hence, promoting public support for soil protection needs to be tailored according to the level of the general public\u2019s perceived uncertainty and geographic location.

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Micro and nanoplastics have become increasingly relevant as contaminants to be monitored due to their potential health effects and environmental impact. Nanoplastics, in particular, have been shown to be difficult to detect in drinking water, requiring new capture technologies. In this work, we applied the acoustofluidic seed particle method to capture nanoplastics in an optimized, tilted grid of silica clusters even at the high flow rate of 5 mL/min. Moreover, we achieved, using this technique, the enrichment of nanoparticles ranging from 500 nm to 25 nm as a first in the field. We employ fluorescence to observe the enrichment profiles according to size, using washing buffer flow at 0.5 mL/min, highlighting the size-dependent nature of silica seed particle release of various sizes of nanoparticle. These results highlight the versatility of acoustic trapping for a wide range of nanoplastic particles and allow further study into the complex dynamics of the seed particle method at these size ranges. Moreover, with reproducible size-dependent washing curves, we provide a new window into the rate of nanoplastic escape in high-capacity acoustic traps, relevant for both environmental and biomedical applications.

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Understanding tree growth and carbon sequestration are of crucial interest to forecast the feedback of forests to climate change. To have a global understanding of the wood formation, it is necessary to develop new methodologies for xylogenesis measurements, valid across diverse wood structures and applicable to both angiosperms and gymnosperms. In this study, the authors present a new workflow to study xylogenesis using high-resolution X-ray computed tomography (HRXCT), which is generic and offers high potential for automatization. The HXRCT-based approach was benchmarked with the current classical approach (microtomy) on three tree species with contrasted wood anatomy (Pinus nigra, Fagus sylvatica, and Quercus robur). HRXCT proved to estimate the relevant xylogenesis parameters (timing, duration, and growth rates) across species with high accuracy. HRXCT showed to be an efficient avenue to investigate tree xylogenesis for a wide range of wood anatomies, structures, and species. HRXCT also showed its potential to provide quantification of intra-annual dynamics of biomass production through high-resolution 3D mapping of wood biomass within the forming growth ring.

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Forage quality and quantity are important factors affecting livestock production from grazing lands. \uffe2\uff80\uff98\uffe2\uff80\uff98Greenness\uffe2\uff80\uff99\uffe2\uff80\uff99 has been proposed as an indicator of herbage quality in semiarid environments, particularly nitrogen (N) content. The objective of this study was to assess the potential of estimating N content of forage using dead:green ratios and accumulated growing-degree- days (AGDD). Standing crop samples were collected April through October over 3 years from each of 3 replicated grazing regimes on a silty range site in eastern Montana. Samples were sorted into live, current dead, and old dead components, then dried, ground, and analyzed for N content. The AGDD for base temperature 45 degreesF (7.2 degreesC) was calculated from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported monthly average temperatures for Miles City. An equation to predict percent N in the total standing crop from percent dead forage and AGDD was developed using multiple linear regression. This equation accounted for 75.9% of variation in percent N, and prediction error variance was 0.026. To validate this equation, data were obtained from samples collected from April through September in an independent study of 8 areas on silty and clay- pan range sites grazed during autumn and winter. Samples from these sites were treated and analyzed in the same manner as those used to develop the equation. The developed equation was used to predict percent N for the validation data. The resulting correlation between predicted and actual values was 0.79. The regression coefficient for actual values on predicted values was 0.995 +/- 0.125. The intercept did not differ from 0.0 (P = 0.22), and prediction error variance was 0.042. This equation has utility for predicting N level of forage from Northern Great Plains rangelands.\uffc2\uffa0\uffc2\uffa0

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