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14 November 2026
Sustainable nutrient management is essential for agricultural productivity and soil function, yet short-term responses to fertilizer sources in horticultural systems remain poorly understood. This study evaluated how organic and inorganic fertilizers...
Polyethylene mulching films are a major source of plastic pollution in agricultural soils especially due to improper end-use disposal. This global plastic waste problem has promoted the development of biodegradable mulching films able to fully decomp...
Balanced cotton nutrition is fundamental to sustaining crop productivity, enhancing nutrient-use efficiency, and maintaining environmental stability. A field experiment was conducted over two consecutive growing seasons (2024–2025) at the exper...
Agricultural phosphorus (P) inputs are often unbalanced with P outputs, resulting in surpluses and deficits that can lead to undesirable soil P buildup or depletion. The degree to which soil total P and available P stocks and concentrations respond t...
Biodegradation is emerging as a promising and sustainable strategy for the removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from soil. This approach integrates various strategies, such as bioaugmentation and biostimulation of microbial communities...
Corporate carbon offsetting schemes heavily rely on tree planting for carbon sequestration, and in Scotland, the government presents tree planting as a key carbon sink in the face of climate change. However, carbon offsetting schemes rarely consider...
As drainage-impeded soils cover extensive acreage that is widely used as grazed pastures, understanding how they retain organic matter and potentially mineralizable N may be important for improving management. We evaluated the vertical distribution o...
Biological soil crusts are key components of dryland ecosystems, contributing to soil stabilization, nutrient cycling, and primary productivity. However, little is known about how nutrient availability influences the early development of biocrusts fr...
Sericulture generates large volumes of organic residues that are rarely reintegrated into production systems. We evaluated a closed-loop system in which silkworm (Bombyx mori) frass, uneaten leaves and larval litter were composted for 2.5 months in a...
This study aimed to model the current and future sheet erosion susceptibility in the Oued Zat watershed, located in the High Atlas of Morocco, using machine learning and climate projections. Sheet-erosion occurrence data were derived from field surve...
Hyper-arid agricultural soils combine low organic carbon, high calcium carbonate contents, salinity, and frequent gypsum accumulation, making rapid quantification of soil organic carbon (SOC), soil inorganic carbon (SIC), and gypsum valuable but anal...
Soil lead (Pb) is a major source of human lead exposure, especially for children. Phosphorus (P)-based amendments can transform Pb into stable Pb–phosphate minerals, reducing its bioaccessibility and the risk of human exposure. However, field-b...
Critical Zone Science (CZS) provides an integrated understanding of interactions among soil, water, rock, atmosphere and biota, while Soil Security offers a complementary framework for evaluating soils through the dimensions of Capability, Condition,...
The response of fertilizer sources containing wood ash to liming is still poorly understood in tropical soils. The objective was to evaluate the effects of wood ash and organomineral fertilizers whether or not combined with liming on the chemical pro...
The rare Central Asian plant Acanthophyllum gypsophiloides occurs in environmentally contrasting mountain and foothill localities of the Syrdarya Karatau. We evaluated whether three populations—Sayasu, Kuyik, and Birlik—are associated wit...
Sorption of Cu(II) by different horizons of a podzolic soil (A(O)EL, EL, and IIBD) was studied in model laboratory experiments and described using surface complexation models. To elucidate the role of individual components, Cu(II) sorption was invest...
Seasonal nitrogen dynamics in irrigated sugar beet reflect interacting thermal, soil-water, depth, and fertilization conditions, yet responses of individual N fractions remain insufficiently resolved. A two-year field experiment (2025–2026) exa...
Potentially toxic element (PTE) transfer to food crops depends strongly on soil properties. This study evaluated the accumulation of Ba, Cd, Cu, Ni, and Zn in lettuce, rice, sunflower, and tomato grown in an Entisol and an Oxisol under two crop-speci...
Field-scale monitoring of soil and water processes under commercial irrigation remains uncommon, despite its value for understanding salinity and sodicity development outside laboratory settings. This study monitored two furrows on a commercial sugar...
Maintaining soil moisture conditions in the vadose zone is crucial to maintaining water availability in a semi-arid environment. However, understanding of biophysical factors related to soil moisture conditions in the Wallacea tectonic landscape rema...
This study aims to evaluate the effects of two cover crop management practices on soil fertility. Key bioindicators, such as organic carbon content, were measured, along with the amount and activity of microbial biomass, which are mainly responsible...
Crude petroleum oil (CPO), acting as an abiotic soil factor, significantly influences the chemical properties of tropical riverine mangrove roots; however, there has been a lack of systematic explanation regarding the effects of varying concentration...
Legacy coal-mined lands in the Appalachian coalfield retain chemically heterogeneous soils, but consistent multi-site comparisons are scarce. This study asked whether soil properties differ among sites, which properties structure sample-level variati...
A comparative descriptive study was conducted to characterize the morphogenetic and physical properties of six soil profiles in the Kostanay region of northern Kazakhstan. This study aimed to differentiate the soil genetic horizons, assess their stru...
Soil microbial communities play essential roles in maintaining soil functions, nutrient cycling, and sustainable crop production. Beneficial fungi such as Trichoderma represent promising biological tools for integrated soil management by enhancing pl...
Soils are complex, heterogeneous systems that link terrestrial ecology and astrobiology. Microbial persistence in these systems reflects not only intrinsic cellular resistance but also interactions among organisms, mineral components, organic matter,...
Acid mine drainage (AMD) is characterized by low pH and elevated dissolved Cu and Pb concentrations, requiring effective treatment while minimizing secondary waste generation. This study investigates the interaction of natural heulandite–clinop...
The present study investigated the effects of cow manure compost and biochar on the dissipation and half-life of Othello and Atlantis herbicides in wheat cultivation. A greenhouse experiment was conducted as a completely randomized design (CRD) with...
Road construction can remove or redistribute organic-rich topsoil and disturb underlying subsoil, but its short-term C mineralization responses to repeated drying–rewetting remain poorly understood. We incubated topsoil and subsoil from a road-...
Permafrost wetlands are important components of the global carbon cycle, functioning as carbon stores while also releasing methane (CH4). Although biochar amendment has been proposed as a strategy to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, its effec...
Long-term soil organic carbon (SOC) monitoring provides a rare opportunity to test the performance of process-based models against real data. We evaluated RothC using 20 georeferenced soil profiles sampled in 2004 and 2024 in the semi-arid steppe of...
Manganese (III,IV) (hydr) oxide minerals, and especially birnessite, have long been identified as important sorbents and oxidants of metals and metalloids in soil and sediment environments. Although the oxidation of dissolved ferrous iron (Fe(II)) co...
Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) is a widely cultivated forage legume, but its productivity is severely constrained under saline–alkali conditions due to impaired nutrient uptake, ionic imbalance, and disruption of its symbiosis with Ensifer melilo...
Heavy-metal contamination and uncertainty regarding the long-term stability of soil carbon represent interconnected challenges for sustainable soil management. Although carbon sequestration and heavy-metal remediation have been widely investigated, t...
Low productivity in sub-Saharan Africa is closely linked to declining soil fertility and suboptimal fertilizer use. While balanced fertilization can improve yields and sustain soil fertility, evidence for fertilizer optimization in smallholder maize...
Soil contamination with heavy metal(loid)s derived from anthropogenic activities adversely affects soil quality and agricultural productivity. This study aimed to assess the variations in As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Hg, Ni, Pb, and Zn concentrations in soils fro...
The rice–wheat cropping systems in sun-tropical Vertisols of India face major challenges in sustaining soil health and crop productivity due to climate variability and intensive agricultural practices, which accelerate soil organic carbon (SOC)...
This study investigates how Quaternary colluvial deposits preserved within rock shelters record palaeoenvironmental changes and potential evidence of human occupation in Serra da Capivara, Northeast Brazil (NEB). It integrates morphostratigraphic and...
Freshwater macrophytes harvested from eutrophic water bodies may be repurposed as soil amendments, but their species-specific effects on soil chemical and biological quality remain insufficiently understood. This study evaluated the effects of dried...
Reliable national-scale, multi-depth soil property maps remain scarce across much of Africa, particularly in arid regions. Here, we present the first national-scale digital soil mapping (DSM) for Namibia: sixteen physical and chemical soil properties...
This study tested whether the N2O response to increasing rates of the same rice husk biochar differed between two chicken compost-amended agricultural soils. A clay loam paddy soil and a loam vegetable soil were amended with 2% (w/w) chicken compost...
Subsurface contamination in mining-affected paddy soils raises questions about how concentration changes with depth relate to contamination persistence and metal partitioning. We sampled 46 paddy field sites in Guangdong, China, at 0–20, 20&nda...
Mineral fertilization strongly influences soil enzymatic activity, organic carbon dynamics, and microbial nutrient limitation in agroecosystems, yet a systematic synthesis isolating the effects of mineral fertilizers alone independent of organic amen...
Ecoenzymatic stoichiometry links extracellular enzyme allocation to microbial resource-acquisition patterns, yet its behavior in managed subtropical soils remains poorly resolved. This uncertainty is especially important where strong edaphic heteroge...
Fertilizer source shapes soil nutrient dynamics in tomato systems, yet its effects across soil depths and crop season stages remain poorly understood. A two-year field experiment (2024–2025) was conducted on a Crider silt loam soil at Western K...
Coffee farming in Colombia is influenced by various voluntary sustainability standards that require measures to preserve and improve soil quality. This study evaluated the impact of nine certification schemes on soil chemical quality in 320 coffee fa...
Increasing soil contamination by potentially toxic elements (PTEs) compromises environmental quality and ecosystem health, reinforcing the need for effective remediation strategies. Phytoremediation uses plants to remove, immobilize, or neutralize co...
Desertification is a major environmental problem in drylands, resulting from the interaction between climatic and anthropogenic factors and involving processes such as vegetation loss and soil erosion. In northeastern Brazil, long-term land-use press...
Erosion affects soil health, nutrient cycling, and ecosystem productivity. Although the physical manifestations of erosion are well known, further research is needed to understand how its biochemical consequences interact to limit soil functionality...
Soil metal contamination poses potential risks to ecosystem health, yet its vertical distribution and impacts on microbial communities in protected wildlife habitats remain poorly understood. This study investigated the vertical variation (0–80...
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