Soils store more carbon than the atmosphere and vegetation combined, with soil microorganisms playing the main role. As a result, the global soil carbon cycle—by which carbon enters, moves through, ...
A new global study shows that increasing soil salinity is systematically reshaping the storage and distribution of soil ...
Ch. 1. Pedospheric Processes and the Carbon Cycle / R. Lal, J. Kimble and R. Follett -- Ch. 2. Stocks and Dynamics of Soil Carbon Following Deforestation for Pasture in Rondonia / Christopher Neill, ...
Soils store more carbon than the atmosphere and vegetation combined, with soil microorganisms playing the main role. As a result, the global soil carbon cycle—by which carbon enters, moves through, ...
Agricultural systems face a dual and often conflicting challenge: sustaining food production while restoring soil functions under climate and land ...
A study examining the effects of higher temperatures on soil shows that warming alone does not increase levels of carbon dioxide emitted from the soil. Instead, higher temperatures combined with more ...
Viruses that infect other microbes may influence the movement of more than a billion tonnes of carbon in soil, according to the first attempt at quantifying their role in one of the planet’s main ...
A field planted with cereal rye, one of the most common cover crops in Iowa. Photo by Ally Larson/Iowa State University. AMES, Iowa – Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons ...
Over the last two decades, my mother has devoted herself to creating a small homestead farm in upstate New York. I’ve had a front-row seat to the tribulations and glories of raising a large flock of ...