The year 2021 marks the 80th anniversary of the publication of Factors of Soil Formation. A
System of Quantitative Pedology by Hans Jenny. Given the exponential surge in annual …

Rainfall erosivity (R-factor) is a crucial natural factor in assessing soil loss by water erosion.
Understanding the spatial–temporal variation of R-factor and its driving forces is essential to …

Plants and their associated below-ground microbiota possess the tools for rock weathering.
Yet the quantitative evaluation of the impact of these biogenic weathering drivers relative to …

Phosphorus (P) is an essential limiting nutrient in marine and terrestrial ecosystems.
Understanding the natural and anthropogenic influence on P concentration in soils is critical …

The lack of field‐based data in the tropics limits our mechanistic understanding of the drivers
of net primary productivity (NPP) and allocation. Specifically, the role of local edaphic factors …

In semiarid regions, wind and water erosion are serious environmental and ecological
problems around world. They have different impacts on soil quality over a range of spatial …

Primary minerals that enter soils through bedrock weathering and atmospheric deposition
can generate poorly crystalline minerals (PCM) that preferentially associate with soil organic …

Soils and agriculture are inextricably linked, in the past as well as today. The Pacific islands,
which often represent organized gradients of the essential soil-forming factors of substrate …

Erosion causes significant soil and nutrient losses that can reach streams and degrade
habitats. Phosphorus (P) is among the nutrients of greatest concern for water pollution. Due …

Phosphorus (P) in streambank soils can directly enter waterbodies via streambank erosion.
How much and what form of P is entailed by this terrestrial-aquatic transfer has implications …