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Fire and soil microorganisms: where should we focus on?
Gema Bárcenas-Moreno University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain Currently, the complexity of soil microbial ecology on soil systems is a hot topic in the environmental sciences, since the scientific...
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Turning unproductive soil into profits
Preeti Roychand La Trobe University AgriBio Centre for AgriBioscience Melbourne, VIC, Australia Sandy soils in Western Australia are bad soils for growing plants due to their poor nutrients and water...
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Soil facts
As part of the activities of the International Year of Soils, FAO has published the following Soil Facts. Contribute with your comments! The current rate of soil degradation threatens the capacity to...
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Soil science and policy challenges
Sarah Connors, EGU Science Policy Fellow Antonio Jordán, University of Seville Discussions during the 5th International Conference of Fire Effects on Soil Properties in the O’Brien Centre for...
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The long, long travel from rock to soil (I)
There is hardly a subject in all nature, of which the majority of people has so unclear terms and which has hitherto been so completely misunderstood, as the soil on which they walk. F.A. Fallou Soil...
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Go ask a statistician!
Caroline Spann University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna Austria Center Vienna during EGU General Assembly 2016, by Kai Boggild. During the EGU2016 Assembly, the chair of the statistics...
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New and traditional soil amendments – not so new after all?
Caroline Spann University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna As of increasing demands for 4F (food, feed, fiber and fuel production) from agricultural sites there are many researches being...
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Why your scientific paper was accepted?
As one of the executive editors of Solid Earth, one of my main duties is to keep up the journal’s reputation and a high quality of published articles. For a manuscript to be considered as a candidate...
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Monday paper: The challenge and future of rocky desertification control in...
Zhang, J. Y., Dai, M. H., Wang, L. C., Zeng, C. F., and Su, W. C. 2016. The challenge and future of rocky desertification control in karst areas in southwest China. Solid Earth, 7:83-91,...
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Plant carbon allocation, soil nutrient availability and the mycorrhizal business
The soil market: plants spend some of their carbon on buying nutrients from mycorrhizae Similar to the way that we take up carbon (C) through the food we eat, plants absorb C in the form of CO2 from...
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