Healthy soil sustains life. Minimize disturbance, keep living roots, boost biodiversity and maintain cover to improve yields, ...

Climate change will have effects on many ecosystems, including the top layer of the earth: the soils. Climateinduced changes in soil properties can lead to changes in soil functions and their ...

Scientists set out to determine if nutrient history changed the function of soil microorganisms. The answer seems to be yes, and that soil treated with high amounts of phosphate can result in poorer ...

Lynette Abbott from The University of Western Australia, focuses again on soil health, this time by assessing and monitoring ...

A research team from the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has clarified the structure ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In pots containing sandy soils at two levels (pH 5 and 7) to which 0.5 mg Se L⁻¹ soil had been added, an increase in the proportion of clay ...

The experiment consisted of a typical high-yield cropping system, with a 150 cm wide strip of both wheat and maize in the intercropping system. For green manure treatment, hairy vetch was sown ...

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PORT ANGELES — Amid all the chatter these days about microbes and probiotics for health, Seattle scientists Anne Bikle and David R. Montgomery are digging in deeper. In their book The Hidden Half of ...

Mediterranean vineyards face a growing threat from heavy rains and soil degradation that strip away fertile topsoil. New ...