Lynchets are ridges formed by erosion and sediment accumulation downstream of
agricultural plots and offer valuable insights into past agricultural activity. These …

Spectroscopic methods combined with statistics have recently gathered substantial interest
in pedological studies. Near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy has been utilized, for example, for …

The Black Sea basin has a strategic geographic location bridging Asia and Europe and
depends on traditional livestock practices for their local economies. Anthrax, a zoonotic …

Holocene environmental dynamics and the onset of early subsistence farming during the
Neolithic period have led to major surface modification and landscape transformation in the …

The patchy character of the distribution of Chernozems and Luvisols formed on loess is often
observable on the pedological maps, on a large scale, in Czechia. The focus of the paper is …

Long-term human-environmental interactions in naturally fragile drylands are a focus of
geomorphological and geoarchaeological research. Furthermore, many dryland societies …

Modern processes of climate change are accompanied by a number of negative factors,
which include aridization, desertification, soil degradation and erosion. The research was …

Studies on organic matter have always been an important part of soil environment
characterization. However, an extraction of humic substances from the organo-mineral …

Recent research has revealed the patterns of spatial and temporal variability of crop yields
for the Polissia and the Forest-Steppe regions of Ukraine. In addition, the approaches to …

The discussion on the formation of Chernozems still has no consensus, and one of the
outstanding questions is the type of the vegetation that supported the persistence of these …