Drivers of inter-year variability of plant production and decomposers across contrasting island ecosystems [PDF]
, 2012 Despite the likely importance of inter-year dynamics of plant production and consumer biota for driving community- and ecosystem-level processes, very few studies have explored how and why these dynamics vary across contrasting ecosystems.
Bardgett, Richard +6 more
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Effect of Water Erosion on Soil Respiration Characteristics of Chernozem Topsoil
Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2016 Soil respiration characteristics are an important indicator of the soil state. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of water erosion on soil respiration characteristics, in particular to determine whether erosion-damaged areas show ...
Jan Hladký +3 more
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Basal soil respiration in land use and cover systems in a caatinga enclaves moist forest
Semina: Ciências Agrárias, 2022 Deforestation and the disorderly exploitation of natural resources for agricultural expansion occurred at an accelerated pace in the Brejo microregion of the state of Paraíba, Brazil, which resulted in abandonment and erosion of the soil in a large part of the region.
João Henrique Constantino Sales Silva +3 more
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Journal of Plant Interactions, 2017 This study aims to explore relationships between plant diversity and soil microbial function and the factors that mediate the relationships. Artificial plant communities (1, 2, 4 and 8 species) were established filled with natural and mine tailing soils,
Xiao-Yan Wang, Yuan Ge, Jiang Wang
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Geoderma, 2019 Abstract Drained peatlands are hotspots of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from agricultural soils. As a consequence of both drainage-induced mineralisation and anthropogenic mixing with mineral soils, large areas of former peatlands under agricultural use underwent a secondary transformation of the peat (e.g. formation of aggregates).
Säurich, Annelie +6 more
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Decomposition of coarse woody debris in a long-term litter manipulation experiment: A focus on nutrient availability [PDF]
, 2018 The majority of above-ground carbon in tropical forests is stored in wood, which is returned to the atmosphere during decomposition of coarse woody debris.
Gora, Evan M. +3 more
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Land use impact on carbon mineralization in well aerated soils is mainly explained by variations of particulate organic matter rather than of soil structure [PDF]
SOIL, 2022 Land use is known to exert a dominant impact on a range of essential soil functions like water retention, carbon sequestration, organic matter cycling and plant growth.
S. Schlüter +6 more
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Microbial carbon mineralization in tropical lowland and montane forest soils of Peru [PDF]
, 2016 Climate change is affecting the amount and complexity of plant inputs to tropical forest soils. This is likely to influence the carbon (C) balance of these ecosystems by altering decomposition processes e.g., "positive priming effects" that accelerate ...
Bardgett, Richard D. +8 more
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Semina: Ciências Agrárias, 2015 This study aimed to evaluate the effects of sugar cane cultivation with and without burning of residues on microbial biomass, soil basal respiration and their derived indices.
Francisco Pereira Paredes Junior +2 more
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The impact of windthrow and fire disturbances on selected soil properties in the Tatra National Park
Soil and Water Research, 2008 : In November 2004, forest stands in the Tatra National Park (TANAP) were affected by windthrow and in July 2005, the wildfire broke out on a part of the affected area.
Erika Gömöryová +4 more
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