identifying areas of (dis)agreement and their scale. Next, we compared each map with the UKCEH Countryside Survey 2007 (CS 2007) observations, before stratifying GB into smaller geographical units that represent national-scale controls on SOC concentrations and...
Soil management is understood as integral part of land management that may focus on (i) availability of land for soil use (soil quantity), and (ii) differences in soil types and soil characteristics (soil quality) to define specific interventions that are aimed to sustain soils and to enhance...
In this work, we analyse DNA sequences of two groups of microorganisms (bacteria and fungi) from 715 soil samples collected from 23 countries of the European Union and the United Kingdom (EU + UK) (Fig. 1a). We assess continental-scale effects of vegetation cover (and associated land...
[7,8]; by contrast, the UK lost topsoil at a rate of 9 tonnes/km2/year in 2004 [7,9]. There are intrinsic biophysical factors and anthropogenic factors that currently contribute to soil infertility and erosion in Haiti, including land gradient, rainfall patterns, soil types, and the ...
A digital elevation model of 25 meter resolution and digitized soil map were used as original data for the terrain and soil respectively. Fifteen terrain attributes were derived from the digital elevation model. There were thirteen soil types in the surveyed area of the study site. The ...
In this chapter we address the essence, causes, extent, features and implications of various types of chemical and biological soil degradation. The aspects of chemical degradation, such as pollution, acidification, salinization, nutrient depletion and eutrophication are characterized shortly; for ...
as microorganisms within soil digest dead animals and plants, they lock in their carbon content, holding three times the amount of carbon as does the entire atmosphere. Soils also store water, preventing flood damage: in the UK, damage to buildings, roads and bridges from floods caused by soil...
The ability to map and monitor soil salinity from field to regional scale in near real time (i.e., hours or days rather than weeks or months) meets a fundamental soil information need of researchers, producers, agriculture consultants, farm advisors, soil and crop scientists, natural resource ...
(iii) map the spatial–temporal distribution of soil legacy P across the country; and then (iv) forecast the future agricultural P balance and savings up to 2050, considering potential management strategies to explore more efficiently the use of modern phosphate fertilisers, and soil legacy P for...
The temperature sensitivity of the soil microbial respiration (Q10) was determined on a composite soil sample per soil age (location) from a subset of eight chronosequences selected to cover a wide range of global environmental conditions in terms of climate, vegetation types and soil age. The ...