{"type": "FeatureCollection", "features": [{"id": "10.1371%2fjournal.pone.0077241", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:50Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-10-11", "title": "Enhancement Of Carbon Sequestration In Soil In The Temperature Grasslands Of Northern China By Addition Of Nitrogen And Phosphorus", "description": "Increased nitrogen (N) deposition is common worldwide. Questions of where, how, and if reactive N-input influences soil carbon (C) sequestration in terrestrial ecosystems are of great concern. To explore the potential for soil C sequestration in steppe region under N and phosphorus (P) addition, we conducted a field experiment between 2006 and 2012 in the temperate grasslands of northern China. The experiment examined 6 levels of N (0-56 g N m(-2) yr(-1)), 6 levels of P (0-12.4 g P m(-2) yr(-1)), and a control scenario. Our results showed that addition of both N and P enhanced soil total C storage in grasslands due to significant increases of C input from litter and roots. Compared with control plots, soil organic carbon (SOC) in the 0-100 cm soil layer varied quadratically, from 156.8 to 1352.9 g C m(-2) with N addition gradient (R(2) = 0.99, P < 0.001); and logarithmically, from 293.6 to 788.6 g C m(-2) with P addition gradient (R(2) = 0.56, P = 0.087). Soil inorganic carbon (SIC) decreased quadratically with N addition. The net C sequestration on grassland (including plant, roots, SIC, and SOC) increased linearly from -128.6 to 729.0 g C m(-2) under N addition (R(2) = 0.72, P = 0.023); and increased logarithmically, from 248.5 to 698 g C m(-2)under P addition (R(2) = 0.82, P = 0.014). Our study implies that N addition has complex effects on soil carbon dynamics, and future studies of soil C sequestration on grasslands should include evaluations of both SOC and SIC under various scenarios.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Carbon Sequestration", "China", "Nitrogen", "Science", "Q", "R", "Temperature", "Phosphorus", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Poaceae", "Soil", "13. 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Changes in the capacity of microorganisms to maintain stoichiometric homeostasis, or relatively stable internal concentrations of elements, may serve as an indicator of alterations to soil biogeochemical processes and their associated ecological feedbacks. In this study, an outdoor computerized microcosm was set up to simulate a warmed (+5\u00b0C) climate scenario, using novel, minute-scale temperature manipulation technology. The principle of stoichiometric homeostasis was adopted to illustrate phosphorus (P) biogeochemical cycling coupled with carbon (C) dynamics within the soil-microorganism complex. We hypothesized that enhancing the flux of P from soil to water under warming scenarios is tightly coupled with a decrease in homeostatic regulation ability in wetland ecosystems. Results indicate that experimental warming impaired the ability of stoichiometric homeostasis (H) to regulate biogeochemical processes, enhancing the ecological role of wetland soil as an ecological source for both P and C. The potential P flux from soil to water ranged from 0.11 to 34.51 mg m\u22122 d\u22121 in the control and 0.07 to 61.26 mg m\u22122 d\u22121 in the warmed treatment. The synergistic function of C-P acquisition is an important mechanism underlying C\u2236P stoichiometric balance for soil microorganisms under warming. For both treatment groups, strongly significant (p<0.001) relationships fitting a negative allometric power model with a fractional exponent were found between n-HC\u2236P (the specialized homeostatic regulation ability as a ratio of soil highly labile organic carbon to dissolved reactive phosphorus in porewater) and potential P flux. Although many factors may affect soil P dynamics, the n-HC\u2236P term fundamentally reflects the stoichiometric balance or interactions between the energy landscape (i.e., C) and flow of resources (e.g., N and P), and can be a useful ecological tool for assessing potential P flux in ecosystems.", "keywords": ["570", "Soil ecology", "550", "Science", "Q", "R", "Temperature", "Ecological and Environmental Phenomena", "Phosphorus", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Global Warming", "Models", " Biological", "6. Clean water", "Environmental sciences", "Soil", "13. 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However, its effects on plant community composition and biomass production are not well understood. A four-year field experiment was conducted to examine the effects of warming, nitrogen (N) addition, and their interactions on plant community composition and biomass production in a temperate meadow ecosystem in northeast China. Experimental warming had no significant effect on plant species richness, evenness, and diversity, while N addition highly reduced the species richness and diversity. Warming tended to reduce the importance value of graminoid species but increased the value of forbs, while N addition had the opposite effect. Warming tended to increase the belowground biomass, but had an opposite tendency to decrease the aboveground biomass. The influences of warming on aboveground production were dependent upon precipitation. Experimental warming had little effect on aboveground biomass in the years with higher precipitation, but significantly suppressed aboveground biomass in dry years. Our results suggest that warming had indirect effects on plant production via its effect on the water availability. Nitrogen addition significantly increased above- and below-ground production, suggesting that N is one of the most important limiting factors determining plant productivity in the studied meadow steppe. Significant interactive effects of warming plus N addition on belowground biomass were also detected. Our observations revealed that environmental changes (warming and N deposition) play significant roles in regulating plant community composition and biomass production in temperate meadow steppe ecosystem in northeast China.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "China", "Nitrogen", "Science", "Climate", "Climate Change", "Poaceae", "Global Warming", "7. 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Global change drivers such as climate warming and nitrogen deposition are expected to alter the terrestrial carbon cycle with likely consequences for RS and its components, autotrophic (RA) and heterotrophic respiration (RH). Here we investigate the impacts of a 3\u00b0C soil warming treatment and a 50 kg ha(-1) y(-1) nitrogen addition treatment on RS, RH and their respective seasonal temperature responses in an experimental tussock grassland. Average respiration in untreated soils was 0.96\u00b10.09 \u03bcmol m(-2) s(-1) over the course of the experiment. Soil warming and nitrogen addition increased RS by 41% and 12% respectively. These treatment effects were additive under combined warming and nitrogen addition. Warming increased RH by 37% while nitrogen addition had no effect. Warming and nitrogen addition affected the seasonal temperature response of RS by increasing the basal rate of respiration (R10) by 14% and 20% respectively. There was no significant interaction between treatments for R10. The treatments had no impact on activation energy (E0). The seasonal temperature response of RH was not affected by either warming or nitrogen addition. These results suggest that the additional CO2 emissions from New Zealand tussock grassland soils as a result of warming-enhanced RS constitute a potential positive feedback to rising atmospheric CO2 concentration.", "keywords": ["Atmosphere", "Nitrogen", "Science", "Q", "R", "Temperature", "Water", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Carbon Dioxide", "Models", " Theoretical", "15. Life on land", "Grassland", "Soil", "13. Climate action", "Medicine", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Biomass", "Seasons", "Soil Microbiology", "Research Article", "New Zealand"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371%2fjournal.pone.0091204"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLoS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371%2fjournal.pone.0091204", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371%2fjournal.pone.0091204", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371%2fjournal.pone.0091204"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-03-12T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371%2fjournal.pone.0109319", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:50Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-10-07", "title": "Effects Of Warming And Clipping On Ecosystem Carbon Fluxes Across Two Hydrologically Contrasting Years In An Alpine Meadow Of The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau", "description": "Responses of ecosystem carbon (C) fluxes to human disturbance and climatic warming will affect terrestrial ecosystem C storage and feedback to climate change. We conducted a manipulative experiment to investigate the effects of warming and clipping on soil respiration (Rs), ecosystem respiration (ER), net ecosystem exchange (NEE) and gross ecosystem production (GEP) in an alpine meadow in a permafrost region during two hydrologically contrasting years (2012, with 29.9% higher precipitation than the long-term mean, and 2013, with 18.9% lower precipitation than the long-tem mean). Our results showed that GEP was higher than ER, leading to a net C sink (measured by NEE) over the two growing seasons. Warming significantly stimulated ecosystem C fluxes in 2012 but did not significantly affect these fluxes in 2013. On average, the warming-induced increase in GEP (1.49 \u00b5 mol m(-2) s(-1)) was higher than in ER (0.80 \u00b5 mol m(-2) s(-1)), resulting in an increase in NEE (0.70 \u00b5 mol m(-2) s(-1)). Clipping and its interaction with warming had no significant effects on C fluxes, whereas clipping significantly reduced aboveground biomass (AGB) by 51.5 g m(-2) in 2013. These results suggest the response of C fluxes to warming and clipping depends on hydrological variations. In the wet year, the warming treatment caused a reduction in water, but increases in soil temperature and AGB contributed to the positive response of ecosystem C fluxes to warming. In the dry year, the reduction in soil moisture, caused by warming, and the reduction in AGB, caused by clipping, were compensated by higher soil temperatures in warmed plots. Our findings highlight the importance of changes in soil moisture in mediating the responses of ecosystem C fluxes to climate warming in an alpine meadow ecosystem.", "keywords": ["Science", "Climate Change", "Tibet", "Carbon Cycle", "Soil", "Animals", "Humans", "Biomass", "Herbivory", "Models", " Statistical", "Q", "R", "Temperature", "Water", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Carbon Dioxide", "Plants", "15. Life on land", "Grassland", "13. Climate action", "8. Economic growth", "Medicine", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Seasons", "Hydrology", "Research Article"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Fei Peng, Quangang You, Tao Wang, Jian Guo, Xian Xue, Manhou Xu,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371%2fjournal.pone.0109319"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLoS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371%2fjournal.pone.0109319", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371%2fjournal.pone.0109319", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371%2fjournal.pone.0109319"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-10-07T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371%2fjournal.pone.0191403", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:50Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-01-23", "title": "Effects Of Short-Term Warming And Nitrogen Addition On The Quantity And Quality Of Dissolved Organic Matter In A Subtropical Cunninghamia Lanceolata Plantation", "description": "Increasing temperature and nitrogen (N) deposition are two large-scale changes projected to occur over the coming decades. The effects of these changes on dissolved organic matter (DOM) are largely unknown. This study aimed to assess the effects of warming and N addition on the quantity and quality of DOM from a subtropical Cunninghamia lanceolata plantation. Between 2014 and 2016, soil solutions were collected from 0-15, 15-30, and 30-60 cm depths by using a negative pressure sampling method. The quantity and quality of DOM were measured under six different treatments. The spectra showed that the DOM of the forest soil solution mainly consisted of aromatic protein-like components, microbial degradation products, and negligible amounts of humic-like substances. Warming, N addition, and warming + N addition significantly inhibited the concentration of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in the surface (0-15 cm) soil solution. Our results suggested that warming reduced the amount of DOM originating from microbes. The decrease in protein and carboxylic acid contents was mostly attributed to the reduction of DOC following N addition. The warming + N addition treatment showed an interactive effect rather than an additive effect. Thus, short-term warming and warming + N addition decreased the quantity of DOM and facilitated the migration of nutrients to deeper soils. Further, N addition increased the complexity of the DOM structure. Hence, the loss of soil nutrients and the rational application of N need to be considered in order to prevent the accumulation of N compounds in soil.", "keywords": ["China", "Nitrogen", "Science", "Global Warming", "Models", " Biological", "Carbon Cycle", "Soil", "Imaging", " Three-Dimensional", "Organic Chemicals", "Ecosystem", "2. Zero hunger", "Tropical Climate", "Cunninghamia", "Q", "R", "Temperature", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Nitrogen Cycle", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "Spectrometry", " Fluorescence", "Solubility", "13. Climate action", "Medicine", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371%2fjournal.pone.0191403"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLOS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371%2fjournal.pone.0191403", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371%2fjournal.pone.0191403", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371%2fjournal.pone.0191403"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-01-23T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0001299", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:50Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2007-12-11", "title": "Increased Litterfall In Tropical Forests Boosts The Transfer Of Soil Co2 To The Atmosphere", "description": "Open AccessLa production de liti\u00e8re a\u00e9rienne dans les for\u00eats est susceptible d'augmenter en raison des concentrations \u00e9lev\u00e9es de dioxyde de carbone atmosph\u00e9rique (CO(2)), de la hausse des temp\u00e9ratures et du changement des r\u00e9gimes de pr\u00e9cipitations. Comme les chutes de liti\u00e8re repr\u00e9sentent un flux majeur de carbone de la v\u00e9g\u00e9tation vers le sol, les changements dans les apports de liti\u00e8re sont susceptibles d'avoir des cons\u00e9quences de grande port\u00e9e sur la dynamique du carbone du sol. De telles perturbations du bilan carbone peuvent \u00eatre particuli\u00e8rement importantes sous les tropiques, car les for\u00eats tropicales stockent pr\u00e8s de 30\u00a0% du carbone mondial du sol, ce qui en fait une composante essentielle du cycle mondial du carbone\u00a0; n\u00e9anmoins, les effets de l'augmentation de la production de liti\u00e8re a\u00e9rienne sur la dynamique du carbone souterrain sont mal compris. Nous avons utilis\u00e9 des traitements mensuels \u00e0 long terme et \u00e0 grande \u00e9chelle d'enl\u00e8vement et d'ajout de liti\u00e8re dans une for\u00eat tropicale de plaine pour \u00e9valuer les cons\u00e9quences de l'augmentation des chutes de liti\u00e8re sur la production souterraine de CO(2). Au cours de la deuxi\u00e8me \u00e0 la cinqui\u00e8me ann\u00e9e de traitement, l'ajout de liti\u00e8re a augment\u00e9 la respiration du sol plus que l'enl\u00e8vement de la liti\u00e8re ne l'a diminu\u00e9\u00a0; la respiration du sol \u00e9tait en moyenne 20\u00a0% plus faible dans l'enl\u00e8vement de la liti\u00e8re et 43\u00a0% plus \u00e9lev\u00e9e dans le traitement d'ajout de liti\u00e8re par rapport aux t\u00e9moins, mais l'ajout de liti\u00e8re n'a pas modifi\u00e9 la biomasse microbienne. Nous avons pr\u00e9dit une augmentation de 9% de la respiration du sol dans les parcelles d'ajout de liti\u00e8re, bas\u00e9e sur la diminution de 20% des parcelles d'enl\u00e8vement de la liti\u00e8re et une r\u00e9duction de 11% due \u00e0 une biomasse racinaire fine plus faible dans les parcelles d'ajout de liti\u00e8re. L'augmentation mesur\u00e9e de 43\u00a0% de la respiration du sol \u00e9tait donc 34\u00a0% plus \u00e9lev\u00e9e que pr\u00e9vu et il est possible que ce CO \u00ab\u00a0suppl\u00e9mentaire\u00a0\u00bb (2) soit le r\u00e9sultat d'effets d'amor\u00e7age, c'est-\u00e0-dire la stimulation de la d\u00e9composition de la mati\u00e8re organique du sol plus ancienne par l'ajout de mati\u00e8re organique fra\u00eeche. Nos r\u00e9sultats montrent que l'augmentation de la production de liti\u00e8re a\u00e9rienne en raison du changement global a le potentiel de provoquer des pertes consid\u00e9rables de carbone du sol dans l'atmosph\u00e8re dans les for\u00eats tropicales.", "keywords": ["570", "Atmospheric sciences", "Science", "Atmosphere (unit)", "Soil Science", "Carbon Loss", "630", "Environmental science", "Plant litter", "Trees", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Impact of Climate Change on Forest Wildfires", "Soil", "Meteorology", "Litter", "Biomass", "Biology", "Ecosystem", "2. Zero hunger", "Tropical Climate", "Global and Planetary Change", "Ecology", "Geography", "Atmosphere", "Global Forest Drought Response and Climate Change", "Q", "R", "Temperature", "Tropics", "Water", "Life Sciences", "Geology", "FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Carbon Dioxide", "15. Life on land", "13. Climate action", "FOS: Biological sciences", "Environmental Science", "Physical Sciences", "Medicine", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Seasons", "Soil Carbon Dynamics and Nutrient Cycling in Ecosystems", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://oro.open.ac.uk/36464/1/Sayer%20et%20al%202007.pdf"}, {"href": "https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/69199/1/journal.pone.0001299.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001299"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLoS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371/journal.pone.0001299", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0001299", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0001299"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2007-12-12T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0012346", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:50Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-09-01", "title": "Fruit And Soil Quality Of Organic And Conventional Strawberry Agroecosystems", "description": "Sale of organic foods is one of the fastest growing market segments within the global food industry. People often buy organic food because they believe organic farms produce more nutritious and better tasting food from healthier soils. Here we tested if there are significant differences in fruit and soil quality from 13 pairs of commercial organic and conventional strawberry agroecosystems in California.At multiple sampling times for two years, we evaluated three varieties of strawberries for mineral elements, shelf life, phytochemical composition, and organoleptic properties. We also analyzed traditional soil properties and soil DNA using microarray technology. We found that the organic farms had strawberries with longer shelf life, greater dry matter, and higher antioxidant activity and concentrations of ascorbic acid and phenolic compounds, but lower concentrations of phosphorus and potassium. In one variety, sensory panels judged organic strawberries to be sweeter and have better flavor, overall acceptance, and appearance than their conventional counterparts. We also found the organically farmed soils to have more total carbon and nitrogen, greater microbial biomass and activity, and higher concentrations of micronutrients. Organically farmed soils also exhibited greater numbers of endemic genes and greater functional gene abundance and diversity for several biogeochemical processes, such as nitrogen fixation and pesticide degradation.Our findings show that the organic strawberry farms produced higher quality fruit and that their higher quality soils may have greater microbial functional capability and resilience to stress. These findings justify additional investigations aimed at detecting and quantifying such effects and their interactions.", "keywords": ["570", "Plant Extracts - analysis", "Nitrogen", "Science", "Agriculture - methods", "Fragaria - growth & development", "910", "Ante-disciplinary", "Soil - analysis", "Fragaria", "630", "Inclusive", "Carbon - analysis", "Open Access", "Soil", "Engineering", "Fruit - chemistry", "Interdisciplinary", "Biology", "PLOS", "2. Zero hunger", "Organic Agriculture", "Nitrogen - analysis", "Plant Extracts", "Research", "Physics", "Q", "R", "Agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Fragaria - genetics", "Peer-review", "Carbon", "Open-Access", "Chemistry", "Public Library of Science", "Fruit - growth & development", "Fruit", "Fragaria - chemistry", "Medicine", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012346"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLoS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371/journal.pone.0012346", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0012346", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0012346"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2010-09-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0109063", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:53Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2015-10-14", "title": "Managing Semi-Arid Rangelands For Carbon Storage: Grazing And Woody Encroachment Effects On Soil Carbon And Nitrogen", "description": "Open AccessHigh grazing intensity and wide-spread woody encroachment may strongly alter soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) pools. However, the direction and quantity of these changes have rarely been quantified in East African savanna ecosystem. As shifts in soil C and N pools might further potentially influence climate change mitigation, we quantified and compared soil organic carbon (SOC) and total soil nitrogen (TSN) content in enclosures and communal grazing lands across varying woody cover i.e. woody encroachment levels. Estimated mean SOC and TSN stocks at 0-40 cm depth varied across grazing regimes and among woody encroachment levels. The open grazing land at the heavily encroached site on sandy loam soil contained the least SOC (30 \u00b1 2.1 Mg ha-1) and TSN (5 \u00b1 0.57 Mg ha-1) while the enclosure at the least encroached site on sandy clay soil had the greatest mean SOC (81.0 \u00b1 10.6 Mg ha-1) and TSN (9.2 \u00b1 1.48 Mg ha-1). Soil OC and TSN did not differ with grazing exclusion at heavily encroached sites, but were twice as high inside enclosure compared to open grazing soils at low encroached sites. Mean SOC and TSN in soils of 0-20 cm depth were up to 120% higher than that of the 21-40 cm soil layer. Soil OC was positively related to TSN, cation exchange capacity (CEC), but negatively related to sand content. Our results show that soil OC and TSN stocks are affected by grazing, but the magnitude is largely influenced by woody encroachment and soil texture. We suggest that improving the herbaceous layer cover through a reduction in grazing and woody encroachment restriction are the key strategies for reducing SOC and TSN losses and, hence, for climate change mitigation in semi-arid rangelands.", "keywords": ["Cation-exchange capacity", "01 natural sciences", "nitrogen", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Soil", "Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Management", "Soil water", "Rangeland Degradation and Pastoral Livelihoods", "2. Zero hunger", "Ecology", "Q", "R", "Life Sciences", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Wood", "Soil carbon", "Droughts", "Grazing", "climate change", "Physical Sciences", "Medicine", "Rangeland", "Research Article", "Conservation of Natural Resources", "Nitrogen", "Science", "Plant Development", "Soil Science", "Management", " Monitoring", " Policy and Law", "Environmental science", "soil", "savannas", "Animals", "grazing", "Agroforestry", "Woody plant", "Soil Carbon Sequestration", "Biology", "Ecosystem", "Nature and Landscape Conservation", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "ecosystem", "Soil science", "Soil Fertility", "carbon", "Research Subject Categories::NATURAL SCIENCES", "Feeding Behavior", "15. Life on land", "Carbon", "Loam", "Agronomy", "13. Climate action", "FOS: Biological sciences", "Environmental Science", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Soil Carbon Dynamics and Nutrient Cycling in Ecosystems"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0109063"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLOS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371/journal.pone.0109063", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0109063", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0109063"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2015-10-13T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0033217", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:51Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-03-30", "title": "Light And Heavy Fractions Of Soil Organic Matter In Response To Climate Warming And Increased Precipitation In A Temperate Steppe", "description": "Soil is one of the most important carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) pools and plays a crucial role in ecosystem C and N cycling. Climate change profoundly affects soil C and N storage via changing C and N inputs and outputs. However, the influences of climate warming and changing precipitation regime on labile and recalcitrant fractions of soil organic C and N remain unclear. Here, we investigated soil labile and recalcitrant C and N under 6 years' treatments of experimental warming and increased precipitation in a temperate steppe in Northern China. We measured soil light fraction C (LFC) and N (LFN), microbial biomass C (MBC) and N (MBN), dissolved organic C (DOC) and heavy fraction C (HFC) and N (HFN). The results showed that increased precipitation significantly stimulated soil LFC and LFN by 16.1% and 18.5%, respectively, and increased LFC:HFC ratio and LFN:HFN ratio, suggesting that increased precipitation transferred more soil organic carbon into the quick-decayed carbon pool. Experimental warming reduced soil labile C (LFC, MBC, and DOC). In contrast, soil heavy fraction C and N, and total C and N were not significantly impacted by increased precipitation or warming. Soil labile C significantly correlated with gross ecosystem productivity, ecosystem respiration and soil respiration, but not with soil moisture and temperature, suggesting that biotic processes rather than abiotic factors determine variations in soil labile C. Our results indicate that certain soil carbon fraction is sensitive to climate change in the temperate steppe, which may in turn impact ecosystem carbon fluxes in response and feedback to climate change.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "China", "Conservation of Natural Resources", "Nitrogen", "Science", "Climate Change", "Rain", "Q", "R", "Temperature", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Nitrogen Cycle", "15. Life on land", "Carbon", "Carbon Cycle", "Soil", "13. Climate action", "Medicine", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Biomass", "Desert Climate", "Ecosystem", "Soil Microbiology", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033217"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLoS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371/journal.pone.0033217", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0033217", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0033217"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-03-30T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0034887", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:51Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-04-19", "title": "Changes In The Diversity Of Soil Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi After Cultivation For Biofuel Production In A Guantanamo (Cuba) Tropical System", "description": "Open AccessLes champignons mycorhiziens arbusculaires (FMA) sont un \u00e9l\u00e9ment cl\u00e9 et int\u00e9gral de la stabilit\u00e9, de la durabilit\u00e9 et du fonctionnement des \u00e9cosyst\u00e8mes. Dans cette \u00e9tude, nous avons caract\u00e9ris\u00e9 la biodiversit\u00e9 de l'AMF dans un sol v\u00e9g\u00e9tal natif et dans un sol cultiv\u00e9 avec Jatropha curcas ou Ricinus communis, dans un syst\u00e8me tropical \u00e0 Guantanamo (Cuba), afin de v\u00e9rifier si un changement d'utilisation des terres pour la production de plantes biocarburants a eu un effet sur les communaut\u00e9s de l'AMF. Nous \u00e9valuons \u00e9galement si certaines propri\u00e9t\u00e9s du sol li\u00e9es \u00e0 la fertilit\u00e9 du sol (N total, C organique, biomasse microbienne C, pourcentage de stabilit\u00e9 globale, pH et conductivit\u00e9 \u00e9lectrique) ont \u00e9t\u00e9 modifi\u00e9es avec la culture des deux esp\u00e8ces de cultures. Les g\u00e8nes d'ARNr de la petite sous-unit\u00e9 fongique AM (SSU) ont \u00e9t\u00e9 soumis \u00e0 une PCR, \u00e0 un clonage, \u00e0 un s\u00e9quen\u00e7age et \u00e0 des analyses phylog\u00e9n\u00e9tiques. Vingt types de s\u00e9quences fongiques AM ont \u00e9t\u00e9 identifi\u00e9s\u00a0: 19 appartiennent aux Glomeraceae et un aux Paraglomeraceae. Deux types de s\u00e9quences d'AMF li\u00e9s \u00e0 des esp\u00e8ces d'AMF cultiv\u00e9es (Glo G3 pour Glomus sinuosum et Glo G6 pour Glomus intraradices-G. fasciculatum-G. irregulare) ne se sont pas produits dans le sol cultiv\u00e9 avec J. curcas et R. communis. Les propri\u00e9t\u00e9s du sol (N total, C organique et biomasse microbienne C) \u00e9taient plus \u00e9lev\u00e9es dans le sol cultiv\u00e9 avec les deux esp\u00e8ces v\u00e9g\u00e9tales. La diversit\u00e9 de la communaut\u00e9 AMF a diminu\u00e9 dans le sol des deux cultures, par rapport au sol v\u00e9g\u00e9tal indig\u00e8ne, et variait consid\u00e9rablement en fonction des esp\u00e8ces cultiv\u00e9es plant\u00e9es. Ainsi, le sol de R. communis pr\u00e9sentait une diversit\u00e9 AMF plus \u00e9lev\u00e9e que le sol de J. curcas. En conclusion, R. communis pourrait \u00eatre plus adapt\u00e9 \u00e0 la conservation \u00e0 long terme et \u00e0 la gestion durable de ces \u00e9cosyst\u00e8mes tropicaux.", "keywords": ["Biomass (ecology)", "Jatropha", "Plant Science", "Plant Roots", "7. Clean energy", "Fungal Diversity", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Soil", "Mycorrhizae", "Jatropha curcas", "Soil water", "Saproxylic Insect Ecology and Forest Management", "Mycological Typing Techniques", "Phylogeny", "Soil Microbiology", "2. Zero hunger", "Ecology", "Q", "R", "Cuba", "Life Sciences", "Agriculture", "Biodiversity", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Hydrogen-Ion Concentration", "Medicine", "Research Article", "Science", "Soil fertility", "12. Responsible consumption", "Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions", "Health Sciences", "Biology", "Ecosystem", "Ribosome Subunits", " Small", " Eukaryotic", "Pharmacology", "Tropical Climate", "Soil organic matter", "Electric Conductivity", "Botany", "Medicinal Mushrooms: Antitumor and Immunomodulating Properties", "Spore", "15. Life on land", "Agronomy", "Glomus", "Molecular Typing", "Biofuels", "Insect Science", "FOS: Biological sciences", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Ricinus communis"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034887"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLoS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371/journal.pone.0034887", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0034887", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0034887"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-04-19T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0034642", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:51Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-05-04", "title": "Effects Of Tillage And Nitrogen Fertilizers On Ch4 And Co2 Emissions And Soil Organic Carbon In Paddy Fields Of Central China", "description": "Quantifying carbon (C) sequestration in paddy soils is necessary to help better understand the effect of agricultural practices on the C cycle. The objective of the present study was to assess the effects of tillage practices [conventional tillage (CT) and no-tillage (NT)] and the application of nitrogen (N) fertilizer (0 and 210 kg N ha(-1)) on fluxes of CH(4) and CO(2), and soil organic C (SOC) sequestration during the 2009 and 2010 rice growing seasons in central China. Application of N fertilizer significantly increased CH(4) emissions by 13%-66% and SOC by 21%-94% irrespective of soil sampling depths, but had no effect on CO(2) emissions in either year. Tillage significantly affected CH(4) and CO(2) emissions, where NT significantly decreased CH(4) emissions by 10%-36% but increased CO(2) emissions by 22%-40% in both years. The effects of tillage on the SOC varied with the depth of soil sampling. NT significantly increased the SOC by 7%-48% in the 0-5 cm layer compared with CT. However, there was no significant difference in the SOC between NT and CT across the entire 0-20 cm layer. Hence, our results suggest that the potential of SOC sequestration in NT paddy fields may be overestimated in central China if only surface soil samples are considered.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "China", "Nitrogen", "Science", "Q", "R", "Temperature", "Agriculture", "Oryza", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Carbon Dioxide", "15. Life on land", "12. Responsible consumption", "Soil", "13. Climate action", "Medicine", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Organic Chemicals", "Fertilizers", "Methane", "Research Article"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Wang JinPing, Kou Zhi-Kui, Cao CouGui, Li ChengFang, Zhang Zhi-Sheng, Zhou Dan-Na, Cai MingLi,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034642"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLoS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371/journal.pone.0034642", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0034642", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0034642"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-05-04T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0036434", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:51Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-05-04", "title": "Impact Of Grazing On Soil Carbon And Microbial Biomass In Typical Steppe And Desert Steppe Of Inner Mongolia", "description": "The potential of grazing lands to sequester carbon must be understood to develop effective soil conservation measures and sustain livestock production. Our objective was to evaluate the effects of grazing on soil organic carbon (SOC), total nitrogen (TN), microbial biomass carbon (MBC) in Typical steppe and Desert steppe ecosystems, which are both important grassland resources for animal grazing and ecological conservation in China, and to derive region-specific soil C changes associated with different stocking rates (ungrazed, UG; lightly grazed, LG; moderately grazed, MG; heavily grazed, HG). This study substantiated that significant higher SOC, TN and MBC appeared with the treatment of LG in typical steppe. From 2004 to 2010, grazing treatments increased soil carbon storage in desert steppe, which was partly due to the grazing history. The higher MBC concentration and MBC/SOC suggest a great potential for carbon sequestration in the desert steppe ecosystem. The greater MBC in desert steppe than typical steppe was mainly the result of higher precipitation and temperature, instead of soil substrate. The change of MBC and the strong positive relationships between MBC and SOC indicated that MBC in the soil was a sensitive index to indicate the dynamics of soil organic carbon in both steppes in Inner Mongolia of China.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "China", "Nitrogen", "Science", "Q", "R", "Temperature", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Microbiology", "Carbon", "Soil", "13. Climate action", "Medicine", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Biomass", "Herbivory", "Desert Climate", "Organic Chemicals", "Ecosystem", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0036434"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLoS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371/journal.pone.0036434", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0036434", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0036434"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-05-04T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0052180", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:51Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-12-22", "title": "Effects Of Grazing Intensity And Environmental Factors On Species Composition And Diversity In Typical Steppe Of Inner Mongolia, China", "description": "In the present study, we aim to analyze the effect of grazing, precipitation and temperature on plant species dynamics in the typical steppe of Inner Mongolia, P.R. China. By uncoupling biotic and abiotic factors, we provide essential information on the main drivers determining species composition and species diversity. Effects of grazing by sheep were studied in a controlled experiment along a gradient of seven grazing intensities (from ungrazed to very heavily grazed) during six consecutive years (2005-2010). The results show that plant species composition and diversity varied among years but were little affected by grazing intensity, since the experimental years were much dryer than the long term average, the abiotic constraints may have overridden any grazing effect. Among-year differences were predominantly determined by the abiotic factors of precipitation and temperature. Most of the variation in species dynamics and coexistence between C3 and C4 species was explained by seasonal weather conditions, i.e. precipitation and temperature regime during the early-season (March-June) were most important in determining vegetation dynamics. The dominant C3 species Stipa grandis was highly competitive in March-June, when the temperature levels were low and rainfall level was high. In contrast, the most common C4 species Cleistogenes squarrosa benefited from high early-season temperature levels and low early-season rainfall. However, biomass of Stipa grandis was positively correlated with temperature in March, when effective mean temperature ranges from 0 to 5\u00b0C and thus promotes vernalization and vegetative sprouting. Our results suggest that, over a six-year term, it is temporal variability in precipitation and temperature rather than grazing that determines vegetation dynamics and species co-existence of grazed steppe ecosystems. Furthermore, our data support that the variability in the biomass of dominant species, rather than diversity, determine ecosystem functioning. The present study provides fundamental knowledge on the complex interaction of grazing - vegetation - climate.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "China", "Sheep", "Science", "Climate", "Q", "R", "Temperature", "Biodiversity", "Environment", "Plants", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "13. Climate action", "Medicine", "Animals", "Biomass", "Ecosystem", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0052180"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLoS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371/journal.pone.0052180", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0052180", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0052180"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-12-21T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0043102", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:51Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-08-15", "title": "Seasonal Exposure To Drought And Air Warming Affects Soil Collembola And Mites", "description": "Open AccessGlobal environmental changes affect not only the aboveground but also the belowground components of ecosystems. The effects of seasonal drought and air warming on the genus level richness of Collembola, and on the abundance and biomass of the community of Collembola and mites were studied in an acidic and a calcareous forest soil in a model oak-ecosystem experiment (the Querco experiment) at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL in Birmensdorf. The experiment included four climate treatments: control, drought with a 60% reduction in rainfall, air warming with a seasonal temperature increase of 1.4\u00b0C, and air warming + drought. Soil water content was greatly reduced by drought. Soil surface temperature was slightly increased by both the air warming and the drought treatment. Soil mesofauna samples were taken at the end of the first experimental year. Drought was found to increase the abundance of the microarthropod fauna, but reduce the biomass of the community. The percentage of small mites (body length 0.20 mm) increased, but the percentage of large mites (body length >0.40 mm) decreased under drought. Air warming had only minor effects on the fauna. All climate treatments significantly reduced the richness of Collembola and the biomass of Collembola and mites in acidic soil, but not in calcareous soil. Drought appeared to have a negative impact on soil microarthropod fauna, but the effects of climate change on soil fauna may vary with the soil type.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Science", "Climate", "Climate Change", "01 natural sciences", "Soil", "Animals", "Body Size", "Biomass", "Arthropods", "Ecosystem", "Mites", "Air", "Q", "R", "Temperature", "Water", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "Droughts", "13. Climate action", "Medicine", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Seasons", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0043102"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLoS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371/journal.pone.0043102", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0043102", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0043102"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-08-15T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0053761", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:51Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-01-14", "title": "Warming Rather Than Increased Precipitation Increases Soil Recalcitrant Organic Carbon In A Semiarid Grassland After 6 Years Of Treatments", "description": "Improved understanding of changes in soil recalcitrant organic carbon (C) in response to global warming is critical for predicting changes in soil organic C (SOC) storage. Here, we took advantage of a long-term field experiment with increased temperature and precipitation to investigate the effects of warming, increased precipitation and their interactions on SOC fraction in a semiarid Inner Mongolian grassland of northern China since April 2005. We quantified labile SOC, recalcitrant SOC and stable SOC at 0-10 and 10-20 cm depths. Results showed that neither warming nor increased precipitation affected total SOC and stable SOC at either depth. Increased precipitation significantly increased labile SOC at the 0-10 cm depth. Warming decreased labile SOC (P\u200a=\u200a0.038) and marginally but significantly increased recalcitrant SOC at the 10-20 cm depth (P\u200a=\u200a0.082). In addition, there were significant interactive effects of warming and increased precipitation on labile SOC and recalcitrant SOC at the 0-10 cm depth (both P<0.05), indicating that that results from single factor experiments should be treated with caution because of multi-factor interactions. Given that the absolute increase of SOC in the recalcitrant SOC pool was much greater than the decrease in labile SOC, and that the mean residence time of recalcitrant SOC is much greater, our results suggest that soil C storage at 10-20 cm depth may increase with increasing temperature in this semiarid grassland.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Time Factors", "Nitrogen", "Science", "Rain", "Q", "R", "Temperature", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Poaceae", "Carbon", "Droughts", "Soil", "Soil biology", "13. Climate action", "Medicine", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Biomass", "Organic Chemicals", "Soil Microbiology", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0053761"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLoS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371/journal.pone.0053761", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0053761", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0053761"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-01-14T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0056536", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:51Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-02-20", "title": "Long-Term Effect Of Manure And Fertilizer On Soil Organic Carbon Pools In Dryland Farming In Northwest China", "description": "Open AccessEs imperativo comprender la din\u00e1mica del carbono org\u00e1nico del suelo (COS) afectado por las pr\u00e1cticas agr\u00edcolas para mantener la productividad del suelo y mitigar el calentamiento global. Los objetivos de este estudio fueron investigar los efectos de la fertilizaci\u00f3n a largo plazo en el COS y las fracciones de COS para todo el perfil del suelo (0\u2013100 cm) en el noroeste de China. El estudio se inici\u00f3 en 1979 en Gansu, China, e incluy\u00f3 seis tratamientos: control no fertilizado (CK), fertilizante de nitr\u00f3geno (N), fertilizantes de nitr\u00f3geno y f\u00f3sforo (P) (NP), fertilizantes de paja m\u00e1s N y P (NP+S), esti\u00e9rcol de granja (FYM) y esti\u00e9rcol de granja m\u00e1s fertilizantes de N y P (NP+FYM). Los resultados mostraron que la concentraci\u00f3n de COS en la capa de suelo de 0\u201320 cm aument\u00f3 con el tiempo, excepto en los tratamientos con CK y N. La fertilizaci\u00f3n a largo plazo influy\u00f3 significativamente en las concentraciones de COS y el almacenamiento a 60 cm de profundidad. Por debajo de 60 cm, las concentraciones y almacenamientos de COS no fueron estad\u00edsticamente significativos entre todos los tratamientos. La concentraci\u00f3n de COS a diferentes profundidades en el perfil de suelo de 0\u201360 cm fue mayor bajo NP+FYM seguido por bajo NP+S, en comparaci\u00f3n con bajo CK. El almacenamiento de SOC en 0\u201360 cm en los tratamientos NP+FYM, NP+S, FYM y NP aument\u00f3 en un 41,3%, 32,9%, 28,1% y 17,9%, respectivamente, en comparaci\u00f3n con el tratamiento con CK. El esti\u00e9rcol org\u00e1nico m\u00e1s la aplicaci\u00f3n de fertilizantes inorg\u00e1nicos tambi\u00e9n aumentaron las piscinas de carbono org\u00e1nico del suelo l\u00e1bil en 0\u201360 cm de profundidad. La concentraci\u00f3n promedio de carbono org\u00e1nico particulado (POC), carbono org\u00e1nico disuelto (DOC) y carbono de biomasa microbiana (MBC) en esti\u00e9rcol org\u00e1nico m\u00e1s tratamientos con fertilizantes inorg\u00e1nicos (NP+S y NP+FYM) en 0\u201360 cm de profundidad aument\u00f3 en un 64.9-91.9%, 42.5-56.9% y 74.7\u201399.4%, respectivamente, sobre el tratamiento CK. Las concentraciones de POC, MBC y DOC aumentaron linealmente con el aumento del contenido de SOC. Estos resultados indican que las adiciones a largo plazo de esti\u00e9rcol org\u00e1nico tienen los efectos m\u00e1s beneficiosos en la construcci\u00f3n de dep\u00f3sitos de carbono entre los tipos de fertilizaci\u00f3n investigados.", "keywords": ["Crops", " Agricultural", "China", "Biogeochemical Cycling of Nutrients in Aquatic Ecosystems", "Nitrogen", "Science", "Soil Science", "Organic chemistry", "Environmental science", "Meta-analysis in Ecology and Agriculture Research", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Soil", "Fertilizer", "Soil water", "Environmental Chemistry", "Fertilizers", "Soil Carbon Sequestration", "Biology", "Triticum", "Ecology", " Evolution", " Behavior and Systematics", "Soil science", "2. Zero hunger", "Soil organic matter", "Soil Fertility", "Q", "Total organic carbon", "R", "Soil Chemical Properties", "Life Sciences", "Straw", "Agriculture", "Phosphorus", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Soil carbon", "Carbon", "Agronomy", "6. Clean water", "Manure", "Chemistry", "13. Climate action", "Environmental Science", "Physical Sciences", "Environmental chemistry", "Medicine", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Soil Carbon Dynamics and Nutrient Cycling in Ecosystems", "Animal science", "Research Article"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Enke Liu, Yan Cai, Xurong Mei, Yanqing Zhang, Tingting Fan,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0056536"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLoS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371/journal.pone.0056536", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0056536", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0056536"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-02-20T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0054779", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:51Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-02-06", "title": "Addition of External Organic Carbon and Native Soil Organic Carbon Decomposition: A Meta-Analysis", "description": "Extensive studies have been conducted to evaluate the effect of external organic Carbon on native soil organic carbon (SOC) decomposition. However, the direction and extent of this effect reported by different authors is inconsistent.The objective was to provide a synthesis of existing data that comprehensively and quantitatively evaluates how the soil chemical properties and incubation conditions interact with additional external organic C to affect the native SOC decomposition.A meta-analysis was conducted on previously published empirical studies that examined the effect of the addition of external organic carbon on the native SOC decomposition through isotopic techniques.The addition of external organic C, when averaged across all studies, enhanced the native SOC decomposition by 26.5%. The soil with higher SOC content and fine texture showed significantly higher priming effects, whereas the soil with higher total nitrogen content showed an opposite trend. The soils with higher C:N ratios had significantly stronger priming effects than those with low C:N ratios. The decomposition of native SOC was significantly enhanced more at early stage of incubation (<15d) than at the later stages (>15d). In addition, the incubation temperature and the addition rate of organic matter significantly influenced the native SOC decomposition in response to the addition of external organic C.", "keywords": ["Soil", "Collection Review", "Nitrogen", "Science", "Q", "R", "Temperature", "Medicine", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Carbon Dioxide", "15. Life on land", "Carbon"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Silong Wang, Xiao-Feng Wang, Weidong Zhang,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0054779"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLoS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371/journal.pone.0054779", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0054779", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0054779"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-02-06T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0056562", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:51Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-02-20", "title": "Carbon Dioxide Flux From Rice Paddy Soils In Central China: Effects Of Intermittent Flooding And Draining Cycles", "description": "Open AccessSe realiz\u00f3 un experimento de campo para (i) examinar el patr\u00f3n de flujos de di\u00f3xido de carbono (CO(2)) del suelo diurno y estacional en los arrozales en el centro de China y (ii) evaluar el papel del agua de inundaci\u00f3n en el control de las emisiones de CO(2) del suelo y el agua de inundaci\u00f3n en el drenaje intermitente del suelo de los arrozales. Las tasas de flujo de CO(2) del suelo oscilaron entre -0.45 y 8.62 \u00b5mol.m(-2).s(-1) durante la temporada de cultivo de arroz. Los eflujos netos de CO(2) del suelo del arrozal fueron menores cuando se inund\u00f3 el arrozal que cuando se dren\u00f3. Las emisiones de CO(2) para las condiciones de drenaje mostraron una variaci\u00f3n diurna distinta con un eflujo m\u00e1ximo observado en la tarde. Cuando el arrozal se inund\u00f3, los flujos de CO(2) del suelo diurno se invirtieron con un flujo m\u00e1ximo negativo justo despu\u00e9s del mediod\u00eda. En per\u00edodos alternos de drenaje/inundaci\u00f3n, se produjo un evento repentino similar a un pulso de eflujo de CO(2) en r\u00e1pido aumento en respuesta a una nueva inundaci\u00f3n despu\u00e9s del drenaje. El an\u00e1lisis de correlaci\u00f3n mostr\u00f3 una relaci\u00f3n negativa entre el flujo de CO(2) del suelo y la temperatura en condiciones de inundaci\u00f3n, pero se encontr\u00f3 una relaci\u00f3n positiva en condiciones de drenaje. Los resultados mostraron que los ciclos de drenaje e inundaci\u00f3n juegan un papel vital en el control de las emisiones de CO(2) de los suelos de los arrozales.", "keywords": ["Carbon sequestration", "Organic chemistry", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Soil", "Agricultural soil science", "Soil water", "Psychology", "2. Zero hunger", "Global and Planetary Change", "Ecology", "Q", "R", "Temperature", "Life Sciences", "Hydrology (agriculture)", "Geology", "Carbon cycle", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "6. Clean water", "FOS: Psychology", "Chemistry", "Emissions", "Physical Sciences", "Medicine", "Seasons", "Methane", "Research Article", "China", "Science", "Soil Science", "Flooding (psychology)", "Environmental science", "Carbon Cycle", "Humans", "Biology", "Ecosystem", "Soil science", "Soil organic matter", "Oryza", "FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences", "Carbon Dioxide", "15. Life on land", "Soil biodiversity", "Floods", "Agronomy", "Geotechnical engineering", "Carbon dioxide", "13. Climate action", "FOS: Biological sciences", "Global Methane Emissions and Impacts", "Environmental Science", "Flux (metallurgy)", "Psychotherapist", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Soil Carbon Dynamics and Nutrient Cycling in Ecosystems"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Yi Liu, Kaiyuan Wan, Yong Tao, Zhiguo Li, Guoshi Zhang, Shuanglai Li, Fang Chen,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0056562"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLoS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371/journal.pone.0056562", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0056562", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0056562"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-02-20T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0060441", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:51Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-03-27", "title": "Nitrogen Addition And Warming Independently Influence The Belowground Micro-Food Web In A Temperate Steppe", "description": "Climate warming and atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition are known to influence ecosystem structure and functioning. However, our understanding of the interactive effect of these global changes on ecosystem functioning is relatively limited, especially when it concerns the responses of soils and soil organisms. We conducted a field experiment to study the interactive effects of warming and N addition on soil food web. The experiment was established in 2006 in a temperate steppe in northern China. After three to four years (2009-2010), we found that N addition positively affected microbial biomass and negatively influenced trophic group and ecological indices of soil nematodes. However, the warming effects were less obvious, only fungal PLFA showed a decreasing trend under warming. Interestingly, the influence of N addition did not depend on warming. Structural equation modeling analysis suggested that the direct pathway between N addition and soil food web components were more important than the indirect connections through alterations in soil abiotic characters or plant growth. Nitrogen enrichment also affected the soil nematode community indirectly through changes in soil pH and PLFA. We conclude that experimental warming influenced soil food web components of the temperate steppe less than N addition, and there was little influence of warming on N addition effects under these experimental conditions.", "keywords": ["China", "Food Chain", "Nematoda", "Nitrogen", "Science", "deposition", "Models", " Biological", "northern china", "Soil", "soil nematodes", "Animals", "Biomass", "organic-matter", "global change", "Phospholipids", "Soil Microbiology", "2. Zero hunger", "elevated co2", "Analysis of Variance", "species composition", "Q", "R", "Temperature", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Plants", "15. Life on land", "13. Climate action", "international", "climate-change manipulations", "plant-communities", "Medicine", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "community structure", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0060441"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLoS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371/journal.pone.0060441", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0060441", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0060441"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-03-27T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0062207", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:51Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-04-23", "title": "Response Of Soil Respiration To Acid Rain In Forests Of Different Maturity In Southern China", "description": "The response of soil respiration to acid rain in forests, especially in forests of different maturity, is poorly understood in southern China despite the fact that acid rain has become a serious environmental threat in this region in recent years. Here, we investigated this issue in three subtropical forests of different maturity [i.e. a young pine forest (PF), a transitional mixed conifer and broadleaf forest (MF) and an old-growth broadleaved forest (BF)] in southern China. Soil respiration was measured over two years under four simulated acid rain (SAR) treatments (CK, the local lake water, pH 4.5; T1, water pH 4.0; T2, water pH 3.5; and T3, water pH 3.0). Results indicated that SAR did not significantly affect soil respiration in the PF, whereas it significantly reduced soil respiration in the MF and the BF. The depressed effects on both forests occurred mostly in the warm-wet seasons and were correlated with a decrease in soil microbial activity and in fine root biomass caused by soil acidification under SAR. The sensitivity of the response of soil respiration to SAR showed an increasing trend with the progressive maturity of the three forests, which may result from their differences in acid buffering ability in soil and in litter layer. These results indicated that the depressed effect of acid rain on soil respiration in southern China may be more pronounced in the future in light of the projected change in forest maturity. However, due to the nature of this field study with chronosequence design and the related pseudoreplication for forest types, this inference should be read with caution. Further studies are needed to draw rigorous conclusions regarding the response differences among forests of different maturity using replicated forest types.", "keywords": ["China", "Science", "Q", "R", "Temperature", "Water", "Acid Rain", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Hydrogen-Ion Concentration", "15. Life on land", "Plant Roots", "01 natural sciences", "Carbon", "Trees", "Soil", "Medicine", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Biomass", "Ecosystem", "Soil Microbiology", "Research Article", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Guohua Liang, Juxiu Liu, Shizhong Liu, Guoyi Zhou, Qingyan Qiu, Xiaomei Chen, Guowei Chu, Xingzhao Liu, Deqiang Zhang,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0062207"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLoS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371/journal.pone.0062207", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0062207", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0062207"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-04-23T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0065277", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:51Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-06-04", "title": "Emissions Of Ch4 And N2o Under Different Tillage Systems From Double-Cropped Paddy Fields In Southern China", "description": "Understanding greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions is becoming increasingly important with the climate change. Most previous studies have focused on the assessment of soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration potential and GHG emissions from agriculture. However, specific experiments assessing tillage impacts on GHG emission from double-cropped paddy fields in Southern China are relatively scarce. Therefore, the objective of this study was to assess the effects of tillage systems on methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) emission in a double rice (Oryza sativa L.) cropping system. The experiment was established in 2005 in Hunan Province, China. Three tillage treatments were laid out in a randomized complete block design: conventional tillage (CT), rotary tillage (RT) and no-till (NT). Fluxes of CH4 from different tillage treatments followed a similar trend during the two years, with a single peak emission for the early rice season and a double peak emission for the late rice season. Compared with other treatments, NT significantly reduced CH4 emission among the rice growing seasons (P<0.05). However, much higher variations in N2O emission were observed across the rice growing seasons due to the vulnerability of N2O to external influences. The amount of CH4 emission in paddy fields was much higher relative to N2O emission. Conversion of CT to NT significantly reduced the cumulative CH4 emission for both rice seasons compared with other treatments (P<0.05). The mean value of global warming potentials (GWPs) of CH4 and N2O emissions over 100 years was in the order of NT

Andean lupin in Europe has regained interest in recent years due to its high seed protein and oil content and its potential use for food, feed as well as a crop used in biorefineries. A search for suitable germplasm in combination with a determination of appropriate agronomical practices such as planting date are needed for commercial farming in new areas. The current study aims to evaluate the performance of six selected L. mutabilis accessions in a Mediterranean area using two different planting dates for two consecutive experimental years. A split plot design with accessions as subplots and planting dates as main plots was used. Measurements such as days to flowering, plant height, total number of pods and seeds per plant, seed yield and seed crude protein content were taken. All accessions performed better when cultivation started not later than the end of autumn since high temperatures occurred during late spring shortened the growth cycle and reduced yield. Earlier cultivation applied, in the middle of autumn, did not enhance significantly seed yield production. Among the accessions, LIB223 was characterized by the highest seed crude protein content in the early planting treatment, while accessions with prolonged growth cycle (LIB209, LIB214 and LIB223) produced higher seed yield than other accessions and could be further studied as promising breeding material for cultivation under the edaphoclimatic conditions tested.

", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "nutrient content", "Southern Europe", "S", "Agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Lupinus mutabilis", "tarwi", "crude protein", "seed production", "lupins", "planting date", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Lazaridi, Efstathia, Papadopoulos, George K., Bebeli, Penelope J.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/10/12/2020/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/10/12/2020/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/3117963037"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agronomy", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "3117963037", "name": "item", "description": "3117963037", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/3117963037"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-12-21T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0168134", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:20:54Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-12-13", "title": "Chinese Milk Vetch As Green Manure Mitigates Nitrous Oxide Emission From Monocropped Rice System In South China", "description": "Open AccessMonocropped rice system is an important intensive cropping system for food security in China. Green manure (GM) as an alternative to fertilizer N (FN) is useful for improving soil quality. However, few studies have examined the effect of Chinese milk vetch (CMV) as GM on nitrous oxide (N2O) emission from monocropped rice field in south China. Therefore, a pot-culture experiment with four treatments (control, no FN and CMV; CMV as GM alone, M; fertilizer N alone, FN; integrating fertilizer N with CMV, NM) was performed to investigate the effect of incorporating CMV as GM on N2O emission using a closed chamber-gas chromatography (GC) technique during the rice growing periods. Under the same N rate, incorporating CMV as GM (the treatments of M and NM) mitigated N2O emission during the growing periods of rice plant, reduced the NO3- content and activities of nitrate and nitrite reductase as well as the population of nitrifying bacteria in top soil at maturity stage of rice plant versus FN pots. The global warming potential (GWP) and greenhouse gas intensity (GHGI) of N2O from monocropped rice field was ranked as M

Conferences are ideal platforms for studying gender gaps in science because they are important cultural events that reflect barriers to women in academia. Here, we explored women\u2019s participation in ecology conferences by analyzing female representation, behavior, and personal experience at the 1st Meeting of the Iberian Society of Ecology (SIBECOL). The conference had 722 attendees, 576 contributions, and 27 scientific sessions. The gender of attendees and presenters was balanced (48/52% women/men), yet only 29% of the contributions had a woman as last author. Moreover, men presented most of the keynote talks (67%) and convened most of the sessions. Our results also showed that only 32% of the questions were asked by women, yet the number of questions raised by women increased when the speaker or the convener was a woman. Finally, the post-conference survey revealed that attendees had a good experience and did not perceive the event as a threatening context for women. Yet, differences in the responses between genders suggest that women tended to have a worse experience than their male counterparts. Although our results showed clear gender biases, most of the participants of the conference failed to detect it. Overall, we highlight the challenge of increasing women\u2019s scientific leadership, visibility and interaction in scientific conferences and we suggest several recommendations for creating inclusive meetings, thereby promoting equal opportunities for all participants.

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The Chesapeake Bay watershed is representative of governance challenges relating to agricultural nonpoint source pollution and, more generally, of sustainable resources governance in complex multi-actor settings. We assess information flows around Best Management Practices (BMPs) undertaken by dairy farmers in central Pennsylvania, a subregion of the watershed. We apply a mixed-method approach, combining Social Network Analysis, the analysis of BMP-messaging (i.e. information source, flow, and their influences), and qualitative content analysis of stakeholders\u2019 interviews. Key strategic actors were identified through network centrality measures such as degree of node, betweenness centrality, and clustering coefficient. The perceived influence/credibility (by farmers) of BMP-messages and their source, allowed for the identification of strategic entry points for BMP-messages diffusion. Finally, the inductive coding process of stakeholders\u2019 interviews revealed major hindrances and opportunities for BMPs adoption. We demonstrate how improved targeting of policy interventions for BMPs uptake may be achieved, by better distributing entry-points across stakeholders. Our results reveal governance gaps and opportunities, on which we draw to provide insights for better tailored policy interventions. We propose strategies to optimize the coverage of policy mixes and the dissemination of BMP-messages by building on network diversity and actors\u2019 complementarities, and by targeting intervention towards specific BMPs and actors. We suggest that (i) conservation incentives could target supply chain actors as conservation intermediaries; (ii) compliance-control of manure management planning could be conducted by accredited private certifiers; (iii) policy should focus on incentivizing inter-farmers interaction (e.g. farmers\u2019 mobility, training, knowledge-exchange, and engagement in multi-stakeholders collaboration) via financial or non-pecuniary compensation; (iv) collective incentives could help better coordinate conservation efforts at the landscape or (sub-)watershed scale; (v) all relevant stakeholders (including farmers) should be concerted and included in the discussion, proposition, co-design and decision process of policy, in order to take their respective interests and responsibilities into account.

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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. The objective of the study is to enhance soil multifunctionality while exerting a marginal influence on farmer income. Here, we investigated the effects of annual winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and two perennial crops (a grass (Lolium perenne L.), a legume (Medicago sativa L.), 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. C cycle multifunctionality index is the average of \u03b2-xylosidase, \u03b2-cellobiosidase, and \u03b2-1, 4-glucosidase. N cycle multifunctionality index is the average of L-leucine aminopeptidase and \u03b2-1, 4-N-acetyl-glucosaminidase, and acid phosphatase represented (and dominated) P cycle functions. The 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 (T. 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 a 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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ABSTRACT The market of stabilized, slow and controlled release nitrogen (N) fertilizers represents 1% of the world fertilizer consumption. On the other hand, the increase in availability, innovation and application of these technologies could lead to the improvement of N use efficiency in agroecossystems and to the reduction of environmental impacts. The objective of this study was to quantify agronomic efficiency relative index, ammonia volatilization, and CO2 emissions from conventional, stabilized and controlled release N fertilizers in corn summer crop. The experiment was carried out in a corn crop area located in Lavras, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, without irrigation. All treatments were applied in topdressing at rate of 150 kg ha-1 N. N-NH3 losses from N fertilizers were: Granular urea (39% of the applied N ) = prilled urea (38%) > urea coated with 16% S0 (32%) = blend of urea + 7.9% S0 + polymers + conventional urea (32%) > prilled urea incorporated at 0.02 m depth (24%) > urea + 530 mg kg-1 of NBPT (8%) = Hydrolyzed leather (9%) > urea + thermoplastic resin (3%) = ammonium sulfate (1%) = ammonium nitrate (0.7%). Thermoplastic resin coated urea, ammonium nitrate and ammonium sulfate presented low values of cumulative CO2 emissions in corn crop. On the other hand, hydrolyzed leather promoted greater C-CO2 emission, when compared with other nitrogen fertilizers.

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