Soil Systems, Volume 4, Issue 3

Manganese (Mn) concentrations in approximately 32,000 groundwater analyses from more than 4800 monitoring wells in northern Germany were evaluated. This region was considered well suited to study Mn in shallow groundwater in unconsolidated sediments....

Constructed wetland-microbial electrochemical snorkel (CW-MES) systems, which are short-circuited microbial fuel cells (MFC), have emerged as a novel tool for wastewater management, although the system mechanisms are insufficiently studied in process...

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the global food supply chain and exacerbated the problem of food and nutritional insecurity. Here we outline soil strategies to strengthen local food production systems, enhance their resilience, and create a circu...

In the interesting paper “Non-Flat Earth Recalibrated for Terrain and Topsoil” published in Soil Systems [...]

Microbial diversity has been well documented for the top 0–0.30 m of agricultural soils. However, spatio-temporal research into subsoil microbial diversity and the effects of agricultural management remains limited. Soil type may influence subsoil mi...

A 5-year study evaluated the change in the quantity of soil total C (STC), soil organic C (SOC), and soil inorganic C (SIC) stored in the surface 60 cm of the soil profile on two adjacent blocks of land with a long-term history of cropping (CH) or un...

Visible near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (VNIRS) and laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) are potential methods for the rapid and less expensive assessment of soil quality indicators (SQIs). The specific objective of this study was to co...

Soil microbes are key to nutrient cycling and soil formation, yet the impact of soil properties on microbe biomass remains unclear. Using 240 soil cores of 0–15 cm depth, taken at random points across six cattle-grazed pastures on an undulating...

The objective of this study was to estimate multiple soil property local regression models, confirm the accuracy of the predicted values using visible near-infrared subsurface diffuse reflectance spectra collected by a mobile proximal soil sensor, an...

The changes of pH value followed by various agricultural practices are crucial for biotic components of soil, along with other environmental factors, like temperature and moisture content. In this paper, the earthworms population in triticale continu...