Midwest soil carbon monitoring requires deeper sampling, study finds
Analysis of three long-term Midwest agricultural trials found that soil carbon change varied with depth and fraction, while permanganate oxidizable ...
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DNA Sequencing and Microscopy Each Reveal Hidden Halves of Soil Nematode Communities in Strawberry Fields
A new study comparing mitochondrial metagenomics with traditional microscopy in Florida strawberry fields finds the two methods are complementary, each ...
Deep Roots, Smart Fertilizer: Wheat Roots Reveal Where Nitrogen Really Works
A two-year study of wheat root architecture and nitrogen-processing enzymes across soil depths shows that moderate fertilizer rates and depth-specific ...
Five Years of Biochar Steers Nitrogen Toward Retention Deep in Alkaline Rice Soils
A five-year field study in Tianjin, China, shows that long-term rice-straw biochar application shifts nitrate reduction toward the nitrogen-retaining DNRA ...
Phosphate Mining Leaves a Toxic Fingerprint in Soils Above a Famous Chinese Lake
A depth-resolved survey of a phosphate-mining watershed upstream of Dianchi Lake shows that tailings soils are the dominant contamination hotspot, ...
Farming soils breathe faster than forests in Northeast India, deep-profile study finds
A depth-resolved study in Tripura, Northeast India, shows that land-use type, not soil depth, is the dominant driver of soil ...
Apple-Based Agroforestry Emerges as a Soil Carbon Champion in the Himalayas
A new study in the wet temperate northwestern Himalayas finds that apple-based agroforestry stores roughly 50 percent more soil organic ...
Biochar and Maize Stover Store Soil Carbon Through Distinct Decade-Long Pathways
A ten-year Chinese field experiment shows biochar and maize stover build soil organic carbon through distinct molecular, microbial, and structural ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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