Journal: Geoderma

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Geoderma

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0016-7061
1872-6259

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  • Short-term impacts of forest clear-cut on P accessibility in soil microaggregates: An oxygen isotope study
    Item type: Journal Article
    Siebers, Nina; Bauke, Sara L.; Tamburini, Federica; et al. (2018)
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  • Flood pulses control soil nitrogen cycling in a dynamic river floodplain
    Item type: Journal Article
    Shrestha, Juna; Niklaus, Pascal A.; Pasquale, Nicola; et al. (2014)
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  • Spatial variability of soil phosphorus in the Fribourg canton, Switzerland
    Item type: Journal Article
    Roger, Aurélien; Libohova, Zamir; Rossier, Nicolas; et al. (2014)
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  • Long-term addition of organic fertilizers has little effect on soil organic phosphorus as characterized by 31P NMR spectroscopy and enzyme additions
    Item type: Journal Article
    Annaheim, Kathrin E.; Doolette, Ashlea L.; Smernik, Ronald J.; et al. (2015)
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  • Fungal diversity as a key driver of soil multifunctionality along a European latitudinal gradient
    Item type: Journal Article
    Han , Xingguo; Doménech-Pascual , Anna; Donhauser , Jonathan; et al. (2025)
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    Soils harbor a vast diversity of microorganisms and play a crucial role in global carbon and nutrients cycles. Yet, the extent and drivers of variations in soil microbial diversity and functioning across environmental gradients at continental scales remain poorly understood. Here, we investigated the diversity and network complexity of prokaryotic and fungal communities and their relationships with soil multifunctionality (SMF) – an integrative index for C-, N- and P-cycling functions – along a 3,000-km latitudinal transect across Europe (37° to 62°N), spanning biomes from Mediterranean drylands, temperate to boreal forests. We found that SMF followed a hump-shaped latitudinal pattern, peaking at mid-latitude temperate forests and declining toward the southern Mediterranean drylands and northern boreal forests. Fungal alpha-diversity, together with mean annual precipitation (MAP), mean annual temperature (MAT), and soil pH and C/N ratio, were key contributors to SMF across latitudes, while prokaryotic alpha-diversity had little effect. Both prokaryotic and fungal communities were predominantly structured by dispersal limitation, land cover, climate and soil properties, with fungal communities more strongly limited by spatial dispersion. Our study highlights the significant role of fungal diversity in sustaining SMF along the European latitudinal gradient and demonstrates the importance of both large-scale climatic and biogeographical factors and local edaphic and land cover variables in shaping microbial diversity. Our findings offer valuable insights for the conservation of ecosystem functions.
  • Quantifying mineral abundances of complex mixtures by coupling spectral deconvolution of SWIR spectra (2.1-2.4 mu m) and regression tree analysis
    Item type: Journal Article
    Mulder, V.L.; Plötze, Michael; Bruin, S. de; et al. (2013)
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  • A comparison of calibration sampling schemes at the field scale
    Item type: Journal Article
    Schmidt, Karsten W.; Behrens, Thorsten; Daumann, J.; et al. (2014)
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  • Soil and macro-pores under uniaxial compression.
    Item type: Journal Article
    Schäffer, Beat; Stauber, M.; Mueller, T. L.; et al. (2008)
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  • Pedoclimatic factors and management determine soil organic carbon and aggregation in farmer fields at a regional scale
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    Büchi, Lucie; Walder, Florian; Banerjee, Samiran; et al. (2022)
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    The degradation of soil from agricultural land is a major threat to food security and a driver of global changes. Soil conservation systems are thus being promoted and/or adopted worldwide. In this on-farm study conducted in Switzerland, we compared the effect of three cropping systems – conventional with tillage, conventional without tillage (i.e. no-till) and organic farming with tillage – on soil quality. Samples from 60 winter wheat fields belonging to these three systems were analysed for soil carbon concentration, soil aggregate distribution and soil biological properties (microbial carbon and mycorrhizal biomarkers), at three different depths (0–5 cm, 5–20 cm and 20–50 cm). Information about cropping practices was collected through surveys. The main differences in soil properties between systems occurred for the surface layer (0–5 cm depth), with increased soil organic carbon concentration and stock under no-till compared to the conventionally tilled fields. No-till and organic fields showed a higher mean aggregate size and proportion of macroaggregates in the surface layer compared to tilled conventional fields, with a greater amount of carbon in the large macroaggregates. However, large within-system variability was also observed, which tended to override differences between systems. Across systems, clay content, microbial carbon, and the mycorrhizal PFLA biomarkers were the major drivers of soil organic carbon concentration, clay to carbon ratio and carbon accumulation in the large macroaggregate fraction. Aggregation at 0–5 cm was mostly related to tillage depth, while climate variables and especially clay content played a major role for deeper layers. Our results demonstrate that within the constraints set by soil texture and climate, organic agriculture and no-till can contribute to improved soil carbon and aggregation properties. Thus, we advocate for the identification of the main drivers of soil quality in order to inform management and improve soil functioning in agricultural fields in the long term.
  • Biochar additions can enhance soil structure and the physical stabilization of C in aggregates
    Item type: Journal Article
    Wang, Daoyuan; Fonte, Steven J.; Parikh, Sanjai J.; et al. (2017)
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