Landscape fabric is a fairly convenient way to lay down a weed-blocking subsurface. But there are many disadvantages and ...

Forest soils have an important role in protecting our climate: they remove large quantities of methane – a powerful ...

New research shows how changing rainfall speeds up soil carbon loss and how biochar helps soil cope with stress.

Though a founding concept of ecology suggests that the physical environment determines where organisms can survive, modern scientists have suspected there is more to the story of how microbial ...

Wildfires may be releasing more planet-warming carbon dioxide and toxic chemicals than previously anticipated — by changing the composition of the soil systems that they burn, a new study has found.

A cutting-edge machine learning model has been developed to predict soil organic carbon (SOC) levels, a critical factor for soil health and crop productivity. The innovative approach utilizes ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Aims A century of atmospheric deposition of sulfur and nitrogen has acidified soils and undermined the health and recruitment of foundational ...