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Human Health Risk Assessment From Exposure to Toxic Metals in Soils and Leafy Vegetables in Smallholder Farms of Northeastern Brazil

Journal of Applied Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study assessed human health risks associated with exposure to potentially toxic metals (PTMs) in soils and leafy vegetables cultivated in smallholder agricultural systems in Northeastern Brazil. Soil and vegetable samples were collected from 18 agricultural areas and analyzed for cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr), copper (Cu), iron (Fe), nickel
Fernando Ferreira da Cunha Filho, Alex Souza Moraes, João Paulo Siqueira da Silva, Edvane Borges da Silva, Ademir Amaral, André Maciel Netto   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hydrological Conditions Outweigh Soil Texture, Temperature, and Terrain in German Agricultural Land Use

Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The availability of fertile land suitable for agriculture is limited. In the European Union, political demand for self‐sufficiency in staple food production currently competes with increasing ambitions for nature restoration and green energy. Meanwhile, the overall agricultural area shrinks due to land sealing.
David Emde, Axel Don, Carsten W. Mueller, Florian Schneider   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Estimating Soil Compaction Risk at Regional Scales Using Meteorological Data and Soil Spectroscopy

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Soil compaction is a significant form of soil degradation in Europe, reducing agricultural productivity, limiting carbon sequestration and increasing greenhouse gases emissions. In response, the forthcoming European Union Soil Monitoring and Resilience Law requires spatial assessment of topsoil and subsoil compaction risk at district, that is,
Felipe Bachion de Santana, Rebecca. L. Hall, Longnan Shi, Owen Fenton, Victoria Lowe, Giulia Bondi, Lilian O'Sullivan, Karen Daly   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Alleles From Crop Wild Relatives Accumulated by Long‐Term Adaptation to Low‐Input Environments Contribute to Yield Advantages in Wheat (Triticum aestivum)

Plant Breeding, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Increasingly variable climate conditions are affecting crop production, leading to greater yield fluctuations, which in turn are impacting global food security. Introducing alleles from regions where the expected stress conditions occur, so‐called exotic alleles, could serve as a means to mitigate these effects. We examined the value of exotic
Michael Schneider, Agim Ballvora, Thomas F. Döring, Monika M. Messmer, Jens Léon   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chemical Properties of the Forest Litter in Istria and the Croatian Littoral

Ekológia (Bratislava), 2014
The experiment was set up in the forest ecosystem with diverse vegetation zones in the area of Istria and the Croatian Littoral. Research included the following systematic soil units: lithic lepto-sols, rendzic leptosols, rendzic leptosols - eroded ...
Špoljar Andrija, Barčić Damir, Peremin Volf Tomislava, Husnjak Stjepan, Ivica Martinović   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Greater Resistance to Drought‐Induced Embolism Is Linked to Higher Yield Maintenance in Soybean

Plant, Cell &Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With increasing drought events worldwide, crop breeding must focus on drought resistance to maintain crop yields. To ensure a high level of gas exchange and growth, plants need to maintain the integrity of their vascular system under drought conditions. While the impact of drought‐induced vascular damage on tree species is well‐documented, its
Viviane Schell, Léa Kervroëdan, Déborah Corso, Daniela Yipenin N'do, Michel‐Pierre Faucon, Sylvain Delzon   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Redistribution of soil water by mature trees towards dry surface soils and uptake by seedlings in a temperate forest

Plant Biology, EarlyView.
Mature beech trees redistributed soil water, equal to ca. 10% of stand transpiration, from deeper moist soils to dry surface soils, where it was taken up by seedlings of different tree species. Abstract Hydraulic redistribution is considered a crucial dryland mechanism that may be important in temperate environments facing increased soil drying–wetting
B. D. Hafner, B. D. Hesse, T. E. E. Grams   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of Soils along the Toposequence of Tsokundi River in Wukari LGA, Taraba State, Northeastern Nigeria [PDF]

Bulgarian Journal of Soil Science
Soils along the Toposequence of Tsokundi River in Wukari LGA of Taraba State, Nigeria were studied with the aim of characterizing them for sustainable crop production. Three soil units (Upper, Middle and Lower slopes) were identified in the area.
Adashu Tanko Gani, Jacob Usman
doaj   +1 more source

Functional traits explain growth response to successive hotter droughts across a wide set of common and future tree species in Europe

Plant Biology, EarlyView.
Functional traits can explain significant tree growth reductions in response to the 2018–2020 drought for a wide set of 71 species including angiosperms and gymnosperms. Moreover, four distinct response types emerged: ‘Sufferer’, ‘Late sufferer’, ‘Recoverer’ and ‘Resister’, with gymnosperms predominately appearing as ‘Sufferer’ and ‘Late sufferer ...
L. Kretz, F. Schnabel, R. Richter, A. Raabgrund, J. Kattge, K. Andraczek, A. Kahl, T. Künne, C. Wirth   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Digital soil mapping from conventional field soil observations

Soil and Water Research, 2013
We tested the performance of a formalized digital soil mapping (DSM) approach comprising fuzzy k-means (FKM) classification and regression-kriging to produce soil type maps from a fine-scale soil observation network in Rišňovce, Slovakia.
Juraj BALKOVIČ, Zuzana RAMPAŠEKOVÁ, Vladimír HUTÁR, Jaroslava SOBOCKÁ, Rastislav SKALSKÝ   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source