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Soil parent material is a fundamental natural resource for the generation of new soils. Through weathering processes, soil parent materials provide many of the basic building blocks for soils and have a significant bearing on the physico-chemical mak...

The research presented herein explores soil organic carbon concentration (SOCC) under monodominant primeval forests of European beech trees and their association with parent material on a regional scale. Soil sampling to a maximum depth of 0.8 m was...

Conventional maps of soil parent material (SPM) types obtained by field survey and manual mapping or predictions from other map data have limited accuracy. Digital soil mapping of SPM types necessitates accurate acquisition of SPM distribution inform...

An adequate phosphorus (P) supply in the rhizosphere is essential for proper P uptake through plant roots. Distributions of P varies depending on the soil structure, formation, and the parent material from which it originates. More research is needed...

This study analyzes the heavy metal pollution in cultivated soils developed from different parent materials in Yunnan Province and assesses their risk levels. The results show significant regional differences in soil heavy metal pollution, greatly in...

Walnut trees on the Tibetan Plateau have sustainable and nutritious characteristics. They grow naturally without the use of any chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Therefore, the soil fertility of walnut orchards is a key factor influencing walnut y...

Paddy soils developed from various parent materials are widely distributed in the subtropical region in China and have a non-negligible but unclear potential to consume nitrous oxide (N2O) due to long-term flooding. This study selected three of the m...

As natural selenium (Se)-rich soil in China is generally characterized by a high geological background of cadmium (Cd), the safe utilization of such seleniferous soil remains a challenge. The accumulating evidence shows that the threshold value of th...

Successful fertilization treatments targeted to improve stand productivity while reducing operational complexities and cost depend on a clear understanding of soil nutrient availability under varying environmental conditions. Soil nutrient data colle...

Rare earth elements (REEs) are emerging soil contaminants due to increasing fertilizer use, mining activities, and technological applications. However, few studies have assessed their concentrations in soils or associated environmental risks. Here, w...

Despite studies focusing on soil substrates (carbon and nitrogen) and heavy metal availability, the impact of diversified parent materials in arid alkaline regions has received little attention. To reveal the influence of parent material, we investig...

Co-varying disturbance and environmental gradients can shape vegetation dynamics and increase the diversity of plant communities and their features. Pinyon–juniper woodlands are widespread in semi-arid climates of western North America, encompa...

Soil erosion has caused the loss of black soil and exposed the soil parent material in the cultivated layer of sloping farmland in Northeast China. Straw return (STR) and manure fertilization (MF) are critical measures to improve soil quality and cro...

The mineralogical composition of the parent material, together with plant species and soil microorganisms, constitutes the foundational components of an ecosystem’s energy cycle. Afforestation in arid-semi arid regions plays a crucial role in p...

Alluvial parent material soil is an important soil type found on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP) in China. However, due to the limited age data for alluvial soils, the relationship between alluvial geomorphological processes and soil pedogenic...

Soil cation exchange property (SCEP) is important in soil development and environmental buffering. However, the variations in SCEP and its correlation with soil-forming factors in subsurface soil are not fully understood. In this study, we quantified...

The soils of uplands and partially isolated landforms located in the central Volga region were investigated in terms morphology, diversity and geogenic factor specificity. The Samarskaya Luka area is characterized by extreme spatial inhomogeneity and...

Chromium is an element that possess several oxidation states and can easily pass from one to another, so its behavior in soils is very complex. For this reason, determining its fate in the environment can be difficult. In this research work we tried...

Organic matter is essential in improving the physical, chemical and biological properties of soils. Thus, the organic matter is widely considered a crucial indicator of environmental quality and biodiversity. In this study, the effect of gyttja addit...

Different fractions of Ni, Zn, Cu and Pb were determined in metal-spiked forest soils derived from four parent materials using three extractants (H2O, CaCl2 and diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA)). It is important to determine how parent mater...

In soil science, the allocation of soil samples to their respective origins holds paramount significance, as it serves as a crucial investigative tool. In recent times, with the increasing use of proximal sensing and advancements in machine-learning...

Potentially toxic elements such as cadmium (Cd) in agricultural soils represent a global concern due to their toxicity and potential accumulation in the food chain. However, our understanding of cadmium’s complex sources and the mechanisms cont...

Research highlights: this article refers to the deep storage of trace elements as a result of the podzolization process under different types of vegetation cover. This is also an attempt to trace differentiation in the distribution of trace elements...

In the last two decades, as the importance of soil has been recognized as a key component of any ecosystem, there has been an increased global demand to establish criteria for determining soil quality and to develop quantitative indices that can be u...

Airborne geophysical data (AGD) have great potential to represent soil-forming factors. Because of that, the objective of this study was to evaluate the importance of AGD in predicting soil attributes such as aluminum saturation (ASat), base saturati...

The study presents data on the role of lithological factors in the divergence of soil formation in forest–steppe and steppe ecosystems in a region of the East European Plain characterized by extremely contrasting geogenic conditions. Soils from...

The plant–microbe–soil nexus is critical in maintaining biogeochemical balance of the biosphere. However, soil loss and land degradation are occurring at alarmingly high rates, with soil loss exceeding soil formation rates. This necessita...

The postagrogenic transformation of landscapes is one of the key problems leading to a decrease in soil fertility in the territory of Northwest Russia. In order to assess the degree of land degradation, field studies of soils from fallow lands in the...

Physical and chemical soil properties are generally correlated with the parent material, as its composition may influence the pedogenetic processes, the content of nutrients, and the element biocycling. This research studied the chemical and biochemi...

Lime mines are a potential source of pollution, and the surrounding soil environment is generally at threat, especially in abandoned lime mines. This paper focuses on the study area in eastern Anhui, attempting to analyze whether Cd enrichment is rel...

Pantropical variation in soils of the tropical dry forest (TDF) biome is enormously high but has been poorly characterized. To quantify variation in the global distribution of TDF soil physical and chemical properties in relation to climate and geolo...

Late Holocene landscape evolution at the southern frontier of the forest belt of European Russia is studied based on detailed morphological, analytical and microbiomorphic research of a soil chronosequence that included a surface soil and a soil buri...

This study aimed to identify the characteristics of Andisols under tea plantations affected by different Oldeman’s agro-climatic zones, of different ages, and containing different types of volcanic ash material. For this study, three tea planta...

The Pyrenean range (NE Iberian Peninsula) has some favourable lithological and climatic conditions (iron-rich parent materials and udic moisture regimes) for the formation of acid sulfate soils (ASS) that have not been reported on from the region unt...

To investigate the distribution characteristics and hazard levels of eight heavy metals (As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Hg, Ni, Pb, Zn) in karst soil with a high geological background of heavy metals, 32 and 40 surface soil samples were collected from limestone and...

Soil nutrients play critical roles in regulating and improving the sustainable development of economic forests. Consequently, an elucidation of the spatial patterns and drivers of soil nutrients in these forests is fundamental to their management. Fo...

There is a critical need to quantify the role of soil mineral composition on organic carbon (C) stabilization in forest soils. Here, we address this need by studying a matrix of forest ecosystems and soil parent materials with the objective of quanti...

The water level of Lake Neuchâtel (Switzerland) was lowered 150 years ago, initiating soil formation and colonization by riparian forests of the previously submerged areas. Although the soils of the whole area are young and have probably quite...

Ecological characteristics are very important for the Earth’s environment and human lives. Recently, more attention has been paid to the ecological problems in the world. The soil and its parent materials/rocks serve as the supporting materials...

This study investigates the distribution, morphology, and properties of these soils, focusing on areas such as littoral plains, high hilly areas, and rift depression valleys. Black soils occur in the eastern Mediterranean with a limited distribution,...

The presence of the olive tree in Tuscany, Italy, in its forms that have survived to the present day as an essential component of the landscape dates back many centuries. Global change is now threatening it. Therefore, it is important to find markers...

With the objective of increasing information inorganic pollutants in urban soils in Spain, we studied the presence of Cu, Pb, Zn, Ni, Cr, and As in 55 soils in the city of Santiago de Compostela (northwestern Spain). The soils were developed over div...

Clay-rich red soil profiles developed in different lithologies in Indonesia were assessed using geochemical evidence, the migration coefficient and elemental ratios. Our study aimed to ascertain the source of red soil materials and to investigate the...

Microbial functional diversity is significantly associated with both nutrient cycling and organic matter decomposition. However, how different forests as well as the soil parent materials influence the soil microbial carbon metabolism remains poorly...

Understanding nitrogen (N) retention mechanisms in pristine humid temperate rainforest soils is critical for effective ecosystem management and nutrient conservation. The potential abiotic transformation of nitrite (NO2−) into organic N forms i...

The extensive pattern of economic growth has an inestimable negative impact on the ecological environment, which causes the soil pollution problem to become increasingly prominent. In order to improve the effectiveness and rationality of prevention a...

This research was conducted based on 701 soil sampling points in cultivated land (0–20 cm) in Shiyan, a mountainous area in northwest Hubei Province, China. The methods of classical statistics, geostatistics, and geodetector were used to explor...

The soils of the high-elevation mountains along the East African Rift Valley are poorly understood. Assessing the potential of soils for agriculture, climate change mitigation, and environmental functioning requires insight into how they relate to th...

Natural radionuclides (40K, 210Pb, 226Ra, 232Th, and 238U) were evaluated for the first time on volcanic ash soils of the Argentine Patagonian Andes. The study was carried out along a topoedaphoclimatic gradient, encompassing soils from Xeric Molliso...

Selenium (Se) is essential for various metabolic and physiological functions in the human body. However, the mechanisms of Se cycling in soils, particularly under different parent materials and land uses, remain understudied. This study investigates...