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Biochar application significantly increases soil organic carbon under conservation tillage: an 11-year field experiment

Biochar, 2023
Biochar application and conservation tillage are significant for long-term organic carbon (OC) sequestration in soil and enhancing crop yields, however, their effects on native soil organic carbon (native SOC) without biochar carbon sequestration in situ
Xinyu Ding, Guitong Li, Xiaorong Zhao, Qimei Lin, Xiang Wang   +4 more
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Quantitative characterization of non-DLVO factors in the aggregation of black soil colloids

Scientific Reports, 2022
The variable role and fate of soil colloids under different environmental conditions are derived from their dispersion and aggregation properties. In this work, dynamic and static light scattering were used to characterize the original size, aggregation ...
Xiaodan Gao, Qi Kou, Kailu Ren, Yan Zuo, Yingde Xu, Yun Zhang, Rattan Lal, Jingkuan Wang   +7 more
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Soil organic matter and clay zeta potential influence aggregation of a clayey red soil (Ultisol) under long-term fertilization

Scientific Reports, 2021
The effect of soil organic matter (SOM) on aggregation of variably-charged red soils (Ultisol) through clay zeta potential is not fully understood. Therefore, the objectives of this study were to investigate the SOM effect on the clay zeta potential and ...
Yangbo He, Mingxuan Yang, Rui Huang, Yao Wang, Waqar Ali   +4 more
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Improvement of Water and Nitrogen Use Efficiencies by Alternative Cropping Systems Based on a Model Approach

Plants, 2023
The conventional double cropping system of winter wheat and summer maize (WW-SUM) in the North China Plain (NCP) consumes a large amount of water and chemical fertilizer, threatening the sustainable development of agriculture in this region.
Le Han, Yunrui Li, Yonghao Hou, Hao Liang, Puyu Feng, Kelin Hu   +5 more
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Contrasting response of fungal versus bacterial residue accumulation within soil aggregates to long-term fertilization

Scientific Reports, 2022
Soil microorganisms are critical for soil carbon (C) cycling. They primarily regulate the turnover of the soil organic C (SOC) by adjusting their community structure, and contributing residues with a considerable amount to the resistant SOC. Nevertheless,
Yingde Xu, Liangjie Sun, Xiaodan Gao, Jingkuan Wang   +3 more
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Distributions of straw-derived carbon in Mollisol’s aggregates under different fertilization practices

Scientific Reports, 2021
Straw incorporation is an effective measure for increasing soil organic carbon (SOC) thereby improving soil quality and crop productivity. However, quantitative assessments of the transformation and distribution of exogenous carbon (C) in soil aggregates
Zhuang Ge, Tingting An, Roland Bol, Shuangyi Li, Ping Zhu, Chang Peng, Yingde Xu, Na Cheng, Tingyu Li, Yihui Wu, Ninghui Xie, Jingkuan Wang   +11 more
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The Effects of Irrigation and Fertigation on Yield, Water-fertilizer Utilization of Pepper in Hainan Province

Guan'gai paishui xuebao, 2022
【Background and objective】 Hainan province is a pepper base in China and its traditional production uses furrow fertigation, resulting in not only water and fertilizer waste but also nutrient leaching and contaminating the environment.
LEI Fei, PAN Xiaozhong, ZHANG Zhijun, FU Chuanliang, LIU Guobiao, ZENG Jianhua, ZHANG Dongming   +6 more
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COVID‐19 and protected areas: Impacts, conflicts, and possible management solutions

Conservation Letters, 2021
During the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic, management authorities of numerous Protected Areas (PAs) had to discourage visitors from accessing them in order to reduce the virus transmission rate and protect local communities.
Nikoleta Jones, James McGinlay, Angela Jones, Chrisovalantis Malesios, Jens Holtvoeth, Panayiotis G. Dimitrakopoulos, Vassilis Gkoumas, Andreas Kontoleon   +7 more
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Environmental Concerns and Stewardship Behaviors Among Rural Landowners: What Supports Farmers and Non-farmers in Being Good Stewards?

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022
Intensive agriculture is a main factor of biodiversity and ecosystem services loss globally. It is therefore of great importance to understand how rural landowners are managing their lands and how environmental stewardship behaviors could be strengthened.
Michael Drescher, G. Keith Warriner
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Soil Erosion and Land Degradation on Trail Systems in Mountainous Areas: Two Case Studies from South-East Brazil

Soil Systems, 2019
This paper addresses the role of soil erosion and mass movements on mountainous trails due to human trampling on steep slopes. This is the case of several trails situated on forested areas in South-East Brazil, even those located in protected areas.
Luana Rangel, Maria do Carmo Jorge, Antonio Guerra, Michael Fullen   +3 more
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