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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: 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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CROPS: a new EU-funded project to grow citizen

In February 2024, a new EU-funded project kicked off. CROPS – short for curating, replicating, orchestrating, and propagating citizen across – is a three-year project that brings together six partners from six different countries to develop and demonstrate a modern, inclusive mechanism to support the upscaling of citizen activities and beyond.

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Bachelor of in Plant and | Bachelor’s …

About the Program. The Bachelor of in Plant and is a platform for successful careers in agronomic crops, soils, horticulture, entomology and other related fields. This program makes it possible for students to turn a love of plants and fresh air into a lucrative career. Manage golf courses and athletic fields.

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has lost 3,600 km2 of due to land take in seven years

In the analysis by land type, arable land is the most affected category with a 1,694 km2 impact, or 47 percent of the land consumed between 2012 and 2018. Pasture land came next with 1,276 km2, or 36 percent. Forest loss affected only 338 km2. “The major land use pressure causing these changes”, the report says, “is the ...

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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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71 raster data (GeoTIFF) derived from the Database v2. 16. Apr. 2024. EU Observatory (EUSO team) has published 46 scientific papers in 2023. 10. Apr. 2024. For the entire EU, we provide estimates of sediments removal costs based on 3 quantification methods as documented in the publication.

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The average stock of C was calculated for all non-organic soils (i.e. less than 5% C); arable soils were assumed to be placed at random on soils of different C content, so the average stock of C arable soils is equal the average C stock of non-organic soils —about 53 t C ha −1 for 0–30 cm depth (Smith et al ...

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Three post-doc scientists (f_m_x) in multiscale erosion …

An established collaboration with Commission Observatory (Led by JRC), the University of Basel and the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Working place. The place of work is University Roma Tre at Leonardo Murialdo campus. The affiliation will be with the Department of , Section for Geology, 00146, Rome RM, Italy.

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in Conservation Agricultural Systems – MDPI

Dear Colleagues, Global health is deteriorating due to the direct and indirect effects of climate change, increasing population and resource degradation. Conservation agriculture (CA) is increasingly promoted around the world as an alternative strategy to address degradation resulting from organic matter and nutrient content depletion, sustain crop productivity with lower production ...

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Assessing biodiversity potentials – PubMed

The current knowledge on the effects of physico-chemical properties on biota and the available data at continental scale open the way towards such an evaluation. In this study, the habitat potential for biodiversity was assessed and mapped for the first time throughout by combining several features (pH, texture and ...

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