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Tree monoculture plantations decrease plant diversity in the Italian Prealps

Ecological Solutions and Evidence, Volume 6, Issue 2, April–June 2025.
Tree monoculture plantations significantly alter plant community diversity and composition, reducing biodiversity through species turnover rather than simple gradual filtering. Our study reveals that plantations support distinct species assemblages, restructuring functional diversity and ecosystems compared with mixed forests and grasslands.
Vanessa Manuzi, Simone Balestra, Pietro Gatti, Gianalberto Losapio   +3 more
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The Dependence of Cereal Yields on Soil Organic Carbon in Concert With Other Soil Properties and Management

Soil Use and Management, Volume 41, Issue 2, April‐June 2025.
ABSTRACT Maintaining or even enhancing the productivity of arable soils is essential for ensuring food security, in addition to meeting feed and fibre needs. Relationships between yield, soil properties and management are complex and vary between environments; therefore, site‐specific knowledge of yield‐governing factors is needed to close any ...
Tapio Salo, Riikka Keskinen, Mari Räty, Jaakko Heikkinen, Joel Kostensalo, Janne Kaseva, Eila Turtola, Visa Nuutinen, Helena Soinne   +8 more
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Organic matter characteristics and mineralization in ironstone gravel from two Plinthic soils in the Coastal Plain of Georgia

Soil Science Society of America Journal, Volume 89, Issue 2, March/April 2025.
Abstract Agricultural soils can contain a significant proportion of rock fragments, but most routine procedures for the estimation of soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) stocks promote the exclusion of the >2 mm component. This fractioning eliminates ironstone gravel, which is a common but poorly understood rock fragment found in Plinthic soils. Thus, the
Oliva Pisani, Sabrina A. Klick, Timothy C. Strickland   +2 more
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Tundra plant communities along the mesotopographic gradient in NE Finland

Nordic Journal of Botany, Volume 2025, Issue 2, February 2025.
In this study, we describe plant communities along the mesotopographic gradient in the low‐elevation subcontinental mountains of NE Finland (Utsjoki region). We sampled vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens along 18 mesotopographic ridge‐snowbed transects comprising a total of 180 plots.
Inka Kuusisto, Sanna Huttunen, Risto Virtanen   +2 more
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The Podzol and Podzolic Soils

, 1961
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses podozol and podzolic soils. The term podzol is applied to the bleached horizon that occurs near the surface of soils in the taiga zone. The word was by no means restricted to soils that were well drained. The appreciation of “illuviation” as an important feature of soils with bleached surface horizons led to ...
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Germanic Rampart or Roman Encampment?—New Geoarchaeological Evidence at the Roman Conflict Site at Kalkriese (NW‐Germany)

Geoarchaeology, Volume 40, Issue 1, January/February 2025.
ABSTRACT Kalkriese, near Osnabrueck (NW Germany), is considered the location of the ‘Battle of Varus’, where a coalition of Germanic tribes, under the leadership of Arminius, defeated three Legions under the command of Varus in 9 ad. Roman coinage and remains of military equipment prove that the Oberesch site at Kalkriese saw military operations ...
Joachim W. Härtling, Andreas Stele, Salvatore Ortisi, Andre Jepsen, Marc Rappe, Jens Bussmann, Alexander Fülling   +6 more
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Low vertical transfer rates of carbon inferred from radiocarbon analysis in an Amazon Podzol [PDF]

Biogeosciences, 2013
Hydromorphic Podzol soils in the Amazon Basin generally support low-stature forests with some of the lowest amounts of aboveground net primary production (NPP) in the region.
C. A. Sierra, E. M. Jiménez, B. Reu, M. C. Peñuela, A. Thuille, C. A. Quesada   +5 more
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Cemented Horizons and Hardpans in the Coastal Tablelands of Northeastern Brazil

Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo
Horizons with varying degrees of cementation are a common feature of the soils from the coastal tablelands of Northeastern Brazil. In most cases, these horizons are represented by the following subsurface horizons: fragipan, duripan, ortstein, and placic.
João Bosco Vasconcellos Gomes, José Coelho Araújo Filho, Pablo Vidal-Torrado, Miguel Cooper, Elen Alvarenga da Silva, Nilton Curi   +5 more
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Spodosol development and soil organic carbon distribution along a lithosequence in perhumid coastal temperate rainforest

Soil Science Society of America Journal, Volume 88, Issue 5, Page 1509-1528, September/October 2024.
Abstract A dense concentration of old‐growth forest and a wet, cold climate promote mineral weathering and leaching in coastal temperate rainforest soils. Our objective was to assess soil development and soil organic carbon (SOC) distribution across 18 soil profiles in remote, upland terrain of southeast Alaska where pedon data are sparse. We made soil
Jennifer Fedenko, David D'Amore, Diogo Spinola, Raquel Portes, Ashlee Dere, Rebecca A. Lybrand   +5 more
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Assessing decadal soil redistribution rates using 239+240Pu across diverse lithologies in Southeast Alaska

Soil Science Society of America Journal, Volume 88, Issue 5, Page 1659-1677, September/October 2024.
Abstract Quantifying soil redistribution rates, including both erosion and deposition, is critical for understanding erosion processes, landscape evolution, land management strategies, and the carbon cycle. In the Northeast Pacific coastal temperate rainforest, the interaction of perhumid climate and dense coniferous forest tends to form Spodosols ...
Raquel Portes, Diogo Spinola, Michael E. Ketterer, Markus Egli, Rebecca A. Lybrand, Jennifer Fedenko, Frances Biles, Thomas P. Trainor, Ashlee Dere, David V. D'Amore   +9 more
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