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The Society of South (SSSSA) is a scientific society that promotes the advancement of and technology, as well as the responsible practice thereof. The society provide a platform for scientists in South , where research-based publication, resources and information are shared.

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A holistic perspective on architecture is needed as a …

A strong consensus exists among , environmental and agricultural communities about the importance of structure and its role in functioning. Soils are widely recognized as highly heterogeneous three-dimensional porous systems (Six, Bossuyt, Degryze, & Denef, 2004 ), where pores define the boundaries among solid components.

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Current Status of Applied Geochemistry Research in Southern …

Activities of the GEMAS and URGE Project Teams for 2013-14 include publication of (ι) a Atlas on the geochemistry of agricultural and grazing land , reporting data elaboration and geochemical maps for 68 determinands, covering almost the entire territory until the Urals, and (ιι) case studies on urban geochemical ...

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Do we speak one language on the way to sustainable …

vey, conducted within the - community of and other important -related stakeholders. It is based on a large body of -derived definitions of terminology related to functions, ecosystem ser-vices (SESs) and threats (STs). Survey participants rated their agreement with each definition and the suit-

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Potential and limits of land and for sustainable …

Many authors already showed that LUCAS survey is a useful database for digital mapping techniques: erodibility map (Panagos et al., 2014, Panagos et al., 2015), creation of maps for the topsoil organic carbon content of (de Brogniez et al., 2015) or a map of topsoil physical properties (Ballabio et al., 2016).

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: Policy, knowledge and …

Working with nature can help prevent the worst impacts of climate change, and biodiversity and ecosystem loss. Nature-based solutions offer ways to do this. and policy have begun to recognise their potential. The knowledge base is expanding rapidly, with gaps identified and plans to fill them. However, challenges for implementation remain at the local level, as demonstrated by the case ...

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Change in active microbial community structure, abundance and …

Biochar amendment of is known to enhance carbon sequestration and fertility. Its effect on microbial activity and functioning, however, is not well understood, particularly in field conditions. We collected topsoil samples from plots in a rice paddy in southwest China either amended with biochar for 18 months or not amended.

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Degradation Assessment , A Review of Status …

As formation is an extremely slow process, can be considered a non-renewable resource. Soils should thus be adequately protected and conserved to ensure that functions are not lost or diminished. functions are, however, threatened by a wide range of processes. ’s resources may continue to degrade due to changes in climate, land use and other human activities ...

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14 PhD positions across in Macro and … –

The Innovative Training Network "SOPLAS – ” is funded by the Commission under the Horizon 2020 programme (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) and offers 14 fully funded PhD positions (for early-stage researchers (ESR)) with attractive complementary training activities and generous ...

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Data Centre 2.0: data and knowledge in …

and the Climate Law, which include actions for sustainable management. In December 2020, the EC launched the Observatory (EUSO) to better support EU environmental, agricultural, and climate policies, and to be the long-term central scientific and technical point of reference in the EC concerning all matters. One ...

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Editor’s Choice:

The has a well-deserved reputation for high quality and rigorous reporting of research. This selection shows the variety of papers from around world that are providing novel insights into the physics, chemistry and biology that underpin processes, and are directly applicable to decision-making in the real world.

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Security for the Union – ScienceDirect

Here, we discuss the implications of security for the Union's sustainability and the possible implementation of this concept in the future EU sustainable management strategies. Capability. capability is related to functions and the capacity of soils to deliver specific ecosystem services (Stavi et al., 2016).

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Connectivity elements and mitigation measures in policy …

The current use of erosion models was investigated through an exploratory survey of 46 model applications covering 18 countries. This novel analysis of erosion model applications revealed a variation in parameterisation, incorporation of landscape elements and mitigation measures with implications for connectivity and ...

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SoilTrEC: Transformations Catchments

Describe from 1st principles how structure impacts processes and function in profiles, Establish 4 EU Critical Zone Observatories to study processes at field scale, Develop a Critical Zone Integrated Model of processes and function, Create a GIS-based modelling framework to delineate threats and assess mitigation at EU scale, Quantify Impacts of changing land use ...

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Global Development in Research: Agriculture …

Abstract. The importance of resource to global food supply and climate change mitigation by carbon sequestration are the two most important factors for the constantly growing interest in global research. In view of its growing recognition as an important natural resource, the United Nations has declared 2015 as the “International ...

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Journal of – Wiley Online Library

The potential for non-equilibrium water flow and solute transport at any site depends on the nature of the macropore network, which is determined by the factors of structure formation and degradation, including the abundance and activity of biota such as earthworms, properties (e.g. clay content), site factors (e.g. slope position ...

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loss due to : A …

The methodology to perform this first pan- estimate of the total loss due to crop harvesting rests on crop statistics aggregated at regional and national level and texture data obtained through the interpolation of ca. 20,000 topsoil samples of the Land Use/Land Cover Area Frame Survey (LUCAS) (Orgiazzi et al., 2018). Other ...

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Assessment of the cover changes and the loss potential …

Despite the ongoing intensive exploitation of the forest resources and documented impacts on the soils and related functions (Cerdà et al., 2010, Borrelli et al., 2013a), today researchers still lack a well-grounded knowledge about the impacts that the forest management activities have on the functions within ...

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New composition data for and Australia …

Highlights New continental-scale geochemistry data are provided for Australia and . Procedures to guarantee comparability of the datasets are demonstrated. Element concentrations show 3 to 5 orders of magnitude variation on both continents. The data provided define the geochemical background at the continental scale. Tight analytical quality control is a key requirement for ...

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An Underground Revolution: Biodiversity and Ecological …

Combining targeted biological approaches with state-of-the-art technological advances in agricultural (e.g., precision agriculture for tillage and weed control [95] or optimized nutrient and water addition [96]) could serve to reduce external resource use to a minimum while yields could be maintained or even increased. A major ...

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Parliamentary question | Monitoring Law | E-003248/2023 …

Answer in writing. Question for written answer E-003248/2023. to the Commission. Rule 138. César Luena (S&D) Despite healthy living ecosystems being the basis for biodiversity, ecosystem services, stable climate patterns, food security and human health , the proposal for a Monitoring Law, adopted by the Commission on 5 July ...

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– ESDAC – …

Eurosoil 2020 objective is to bring together leading research scientists working on related topics and stakeholders dealing with issues of public concern such as degradation and consequences of climatic changes. The important bridging role of practitioners to translate scientific knowledge into practice will be emphasized. https ...

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long‐term field experiments: knowledge gained about …

We conclude that LTEs are valuable for finding ways forward in protecting soils as well as finding evidence-based alternative management practices for the future; however, experiments should focus more on biological quality indicators as well as GHG emissions to enable better evaluation of trade-offs and mutual benefits of ...

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