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Assessing Soil and Management Quality Indexes in A Rural Watershed Under Long‐Term No‐Tillage in Southern Brazil

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Soil quality assessment is essential to detect management failures and prevent land degradation in agricultural systems. No‐tillage system (NTS) is a conservation management widely adopted in Brazil, but its effectiveness is compromised when adherence to the core principles of crop rotation and ground cover is not complete, and basic ...
Edson Lucas Camilo, Miguel David Fuentes‐Guevara, Renata Alessandra Martins Borecki, Leandro Rampim, Cristiano Andre Pott, Marcelo Marques Lopes Muller   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Onset of extensive human fire use 50,000 y ago. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Jiang S, Zhao D, Kaboth-Bahr S, Beaufort L, Tu H, Lu Z, Cheng Z, Zhang S, Zhong Y, Hao X, Pei W, Cui G, Yang Y, Lin A, Huang J, Wan S.   +15 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Nitrogen‐Fixing Woody Plants Sequester More Soil Mineral‐Associated Carbon and Lose Less Particulate Carbon Than Herbs Post Vegetation Restoration

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Dividing soil organic carbon (SOC) into particulate (POC) and mineral‐associated organic carbon (MAOC) is crucial for understanding the formation, persistence, and functions of soil carbon. However, current understanding of the dynamics of new and old carbon in POC and MAOC following vegetation restoration remains unclear.
Yang Liao, Jianli Yang, Fan Wang, Lingbo Dong, Wenwen Lv, Jianzhao Wu, Jingwei Shi, Jiwei Li, Zhouping Shangguan, Lei Deng   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Entropy and seasonal isotopic duality reveal the sustainability paradox of the upper Ganga River. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Kumar M, Tripathi S, Singh R, Rai SP, Das N, Agarwal V, Jha PK, Torres-Martinez JA.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Significant Imbalance Between Human Activities and Ecosystem Services in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China: Evidence From an Improved Coupling Coordination Degree Model

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Maintaining balanced interactions between humans and ecosystems in plateau regions is critical to achieving global sustainable development. However, existing methodologies are insufficient to fully elucidate the complex coupling and coordination relationships between human activities and ecosystems, as well as the sustainable development ...
Yaohang Sun, Dongxia Yue, Jianjun Guo, Hanhua Deng, Jiaoyu Zheng, Gang Jin   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tectonism rather than "snowball Earth" glaciation is responsible for the Great Unconformity. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Zhan RR, Duan L, Zattin M, Christie-Blick N, Wan B, Wei RH, Yang Z, Wang J, Gou L, Olivetti V, Chen KY, Zhang X.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Zagros Restoration: Smart Choices for Oak Forests

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Widespread forest degradation across the northern Zagros region of Iran driven by both human activity and natural processes has created an urgent need for targeted afforestation and forest enrichment strategies. Hence, the aim of this study was identifying the most suitable native tree and shrub species for restoring degraded forest areas in ...
Farzad Yavari, Ahmad Alijanpour, Abbas Banj Shafiei, Hadi Beygi Heidarlou, Alishir Kurban, Anwar Eziz, Hossein Azadi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Arctic zircon U-Pb ages reveal multiphase glaciations in East Siberia during the late Quaternary. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Feng H, Yao Z, Shi X, Zhang Z, Lu H, Zhang H, Liu Y, Shan X, Dong J, Dong L, Yang G, Hu L, Vasilenko Y, Astakhov A, Bosin A.   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Response of Soil Fungal Communities to the Alpine Steppe Degradation Gradient

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The degradation of alpine steppe on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau has become a critical ecological security issue. Soil fungi, as core regulators of grassland ecosystem functioning, play a pivotal role in mediating the feedback between degradation and soil ecological processes.
Xiaoyun Wang, Guoying Zhou, Yuanming Xiao, Wenying Wang, Xinyu Yang, Jinrong Liu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preconditioning of sediment failure by astronomically paced weak-layer deposition. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Wang X, Maselli V, Flessati L, Wang H, Sun Z, Wang Q, Chen J, Li Q, Alberti S, Kienast M, Xie S, Sun Q.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source