Soil inorganic carbon (SIC) contributes to up to half of the terrestrial C stock and is especially
significant in arid and semi-arid environments, yet has not been explored as much as soil …

Humans have long utilized resources from all forest biomes, but the most indelible
anthropogenic signature has been the expanse of human populations in temperate forests …

Abstract The European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC), hosted by the European Commission's
Joint Research Centre (JRC), is the focal point for soil data, support to policy making and …

Soil mapping, classification, and pedologic modeling have been important drivers in the
advancement of our understanding of soil from the earliest days of the scientific study of …

Soil organic carbon plays an important role in the carbon cycling of terrestrial ecosystems,
variations in soil organic carbon stocks are very important for the ecosystem. In this study, a …

Biochar addition to soils has been proposed as a means to increase soil fertility and carbon
sequestration. However, its effect on soil nitrogen (N) cycling and N availability is poorly …

The flow of plant-derived carbon in soil is a key component of global carbon cycling.
Conceptual models of trophic carbon fluxes in soil have assumed separate bacterial and …

Applied geochemistry and environmental sciences invariably deal with compositional data.
Classically, the original or log-transformed absolute element concentrations are studied …

In the context of major global environmental challenges such as food security, climate
change, fresh water scarcity and biodiversity loss, the protection and the sustainable …

The aim of this study was to determine the effects of burn severity on soil properties
(chemical, biochemical and microbiological) in fire-prone pine ecosystems three years after …