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Biosphere, Volume 1, Issue 1

December 2025 - 6 articles

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Articles (6)

  • Article
  • Open Access
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21 Pages

11 November 2025

Analysis of historical and future land use/land cover (LULC) dynamics using spatiotemporal data is crucial for better management of natural resources and environmental monitoring. This study investigated LULC transformations over a span of 60 years (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
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17 Pages

Selection and Evaluation of Feldspar-Potassium-Solubilizing Purple Nonsulfur Bacteria for Enhancing Hybrid Maize (Zea mays L.) Growth

  • Nguyen Quoc Khuong,
  • Tran Ngoc Han,
  • Le Thi My Thu,
  • Nguyen Thi Tuyet Hue,
  • Nguyen Duc Trong,
  • Le Thanh Quang,
  • Tran Trong Khoi Nguyen,
  • Nguyen Thanh Toan,
  • Ngo Thanh Phong and
  • Phung Thi Hang

Potassium (K) is present in soils mainly in minerals, including feldspar. However, most of it is unavailable to plants. In the in-dyked alluvial soils of the Mekong Delta, available K is typically low despite the abundance of K-bearing feldspar, lead...

  • Article
  • Open Access
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16 Pages

Ammonia Losses, Wheat Biomass, and N Dynamics as Influenced by Organo-Mineral Fertilizer

  • Helen Carla Santana Amorim,
  • Francielle Roberta Dias de Lima,
  • Mariene Helena Duarte,
  • Rafael Marta Carbone Carneiro,
  • Gustavo Avelar Zorgdrager Van Opbergen,
  • Raphael Felipe Rodrigues Corrêa and
  • Luiz Roberto Guimarães Guilherme

Organo-mineral fertilizers can slow N release to plants, reducing N losses to the environment and enhancing N use efficiency (NUE). Yet, this greater NUE is not always coupled to greater crop yields, which warrants further investigation. Here, we ass...

  • Article
  • Open Access
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26 Pages

The Role of Soil Diversity (Pedodiversity) in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework: Example of the Contiguous United States of America (USA)

  • Elena A. Mikhailova,
  • Hamdi A. Zurqani,
  • Lili Lin,
  • Zhenbang Hao,
  • Christopher J. Post,
  • Mark A. Schlautman,
  • Gregory C. Post,
  • Gretchen A. Highberger and
  • George B. Shepherd

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) is an important agreement committing 196 countries (the United States is not part of GBF) to reduce and stop the loss of biodiversity by 2030. Biodiversity and soil diversity (pedodiversity) ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,521 Views
22 Pages

Monitoring Wise Use of Wetlands During Land Conversion for the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands: A Case Study of the Contiguous United States of America (USA)

  • Elena A. Mikhailova,
  • Hamdi A. Zurqani,
  • Lili Lin,
  • Zhenbang Hao,
  • Christopher J. Post,
  • Mark A. Schlautman,
  • Gregory C. Post,
  • Camryn E. Brown and
  • George B. Shepherd

Wetlands provide the world with important ecosystem services (ES) including carbon (C) storage. The Ramsar Convention (RC) is the only global treaty on wetlands outside of the United Nations (UN) with 172 contracting parties across the world as of 20...

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