We also found an overall positive relationship of silt+clay with lignin and litter decomposition, which might reflect multiple biological and physical factors that co-vary with particle size, as well as the potential for minerals to catalyze OM decomposition38. Overall, the role of certain metals ...
Here, we studied 16 long-term chronosequences from six continents and found that the ecosystem type is more important than soil age (centuries to millennia) in explaining the proportion of unprotected and mineral-associated carbon fractions in surface soils across global biomes. Soil carbon pools ...
We developed a comprehensive, gridded Global Soil Dataset for use in Earth System Models(GSDE) and other applications. The GSDE provides soil information, such as soil particle--size distribution,organic carbon, and nutrients, and quality control information in terms of confidence level at 30" ...
Land preparation and vegetation type jointly determine soil conditions after long-term land stabilization measures in a typical hilly catchment, Loess Plat... Fractal theory was used to analyze soil particle size distribution (PSD).Results and discussion(1) The effect of land preparation on soil pro...
which consist of variable amount of air and water. The amount of void space within a soil depends on the distribution of particle sizes, and is quantified bysoil porosity. Besidessolid particles, the soil also contains air, the amount of which may vary depending on the soil type. “Soil sa...
Dust particles can consist of either natural soil-borne particles or of particulate matter from human activities, or both of them. Particulate matter is a complex mixture of extremely small particles and liquid droplets consisting of soil or dust particl
To study the fractal dimensions of the soil particle size distributions (PSDs) within different plantations (of Pinus densiflora, Quercus acutissima, Robinia pseudoacacia, and Larix kaempferi) and evaluate PSDs as an indicator of the likelihood of Robini
19 used visible and near-infrared (vis-NIR) spectroscopy to predict FC and PWP as well as particle size (clay, sand and silt content) for 305 soil samples collected within a study area of 8,000 ha in the Bafra plain, Turkey. They compared a number of different regression models, and...
(Uzoma et al., 2011). Powder biochar destroys the pore structure of soil; therefore, adding small particle size biochar would not decrease the water evaporation loss in soil (Zhang et al., 2016). In addition, the effect of biochar on the soil saturated hydraulic conductivity is also related...