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Soil |
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A snail, a worm and a group of young people are some of the characters who star in ‘Living in the Soil,’ a comic produced in the context of ‘The International Year of Soils’ that aims to raise awareness about the most significant environmental and social issues related to soil and its need for protection. |
Comics |
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Soil |
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This is a nice game (cards) focusing on soil biodiversity. This card game was initially designed and published in French under the GESSOL research programme, funded by the French Ministry of Ecology. This programme supports many research initiatives regarding soils and their sustainable management (www.gessol.fr). |
Game |
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Soil |
Medium |
Describes the soil properties and a guide to WRB Reference Groups. |
Poster |
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Soil |
Simple |
The following illustrations result from the EU project CIRCUSE* (about soil protection and land management) which terminated in August 2013 (http://www.circuse.eu) and was co-financed by the ERDF. |
Illustrations |
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Soil |
Medium |
This website illustrates processes of soil parent material and landscape development. Video footage was obtained in the Rocky Mountains and southern interior of British Columbia to enable students to visualize similar processes that occurred in the past. The website also allows for an exploration of impacts of climate change on glacier retreats. |
Website |
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Soil |
Medium |
This web-based teaching tool showcases the soil monolith collection stored at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada by providing learning community with an overview of this unique collection of 197 display models assembled over the past 4 decades. The tool enhances teaching and learning by (1) integrating traditional soil science resources (monoliths) into undergraduate and graduate teaching, (2) increasing learner accessibility, and (3) offering interactive student learning activities. |
Website |
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Soil |
Medium |
This web-based teaching tool consists of 6 lab modules on plant nutrients, soil salinity, trace elements, soil respiration, soil water and soil compaction. The modules complement the courses on soil laboratory analysis and supplement learning for other courses where soil analysis is relevant. Each module provides a brief background for the topic, method options and considerations, from sampling through to interpretation of results, and video clips featuring various methods of lab analysis and soil sampling |
Website |
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Soil |
Simple |
It is a multimedia- interactive program with different modules that after outlining the study of soil components goes on to examine the main factors and processes of soil genesis explaining the mechanisms of soil processes. |
Interactive Web Application |
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Soil |
Simple |
Soils are valuable because they provide the basis for food because they are habitat for many animals, plants and microorganisms, they protect water resources and store and transform nutrients. Soil is buffering climate and they tell stories and hold treasuries. This incomplete list already shows that soils are multifunctional and not replaceable. |
Brochure |
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Soil |
Simple |
Estonian Soil Museum is located in the Department of Soil Science and Agrochemistry of Estonian University of Life Sciences. The soil collections play important role in several aspects: research, history of science, teaching of students and enhancing awareness of society. Digital format of the Estonian soil archive. |
Website |
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Soil |
Medium |
This includes six thematic parts about Estonian soils and their properties. No 4 "Pedo-ecological characterization of Estonian Soils" is bilingual (Estonian/English). Practically bilingual is as well No 5 “Collection of soil monoliths ", but all others are only in Estonian. |
Web application |
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Soil |
Medium |
This website provides a window into the diversity of soils research, skills and resources at The James Hutton Institute. |
Website |
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Soil |
Simple |
A movie about soil. This film is an invitation to learn more about the study of soil - pedology - highlighting its work practices and showing some of its characteristic landscapes. |
Video |
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Soil |
Simple |
A movie about soil. This film is an invitation to learn more about the study of soil - pedology - highlighting its work practices and showing some of its characteristic landscapes. |
Video |
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Soil |
Simple |
A movie about soil. This film is an invitation to learn more about the study of soil - pedology - highlighting its work practices and showing some of its characteristic landscapes. |
Video |
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Soil |
Medium |
The Land Use Impacts (LUI) Tool provides university students with multimedia web-based experience to assist in teaching about impacts of various land uses on the University of British Columbia Endowment Lands on soil formation and soil quality. The tool was designed by a team of soil scientists, graduate students, and multimedia specialists with the intention of appealing to multiple learning styles and providing greater access to information |
Website |
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Soil |
Medium |
The Virtual Soil Processes is a teaching tool developed to illustrate the four general soil forming processes - additions, losses, translocations and transformations. The tool is used both as an in-class and off-campus resource in various natural resource courses, such as soil, agriculture, forestry, environmental sciences, or geology, across British Columbia and beyond. |
Website |
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Soil |
Medium |
The present website is meant as an inventory and overview of the current state of soil conservátion in Europe. The intention is to make existing information on soil erosion control practices readily available to farmers, farmer's organizations, policy makers and other interested parties in Europe. The site is a collection of links to erosion control efforts in individual European countries that can be found on the Internet. The site only deals with soil erosion by rain, not by wind. It does not deal with other forms of soil degradation than erosion. |
Website |
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Soil |
Simple |
The Dirt Doctors: A series of exhibits aimed at raising general awareness of the importance of soils to society using novel techniques such as cartoon characters and humor to represent different soils. Comparing and contrasting human and soil health is an underlying theme through the exhibits. |
Website |
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Soil |
Simple |
Soil-Net.com is a free and compelling environmental Internet resource for Key Stages 1-4 providing teachers and students extensive curriculum-based information about soil. As one of the three major natural resources, alongside air and water, soil is vital to the existence of life on earth. Soil-Net.com will help you discover what soil is, the teeming life in the soil and about the many environmental threats facing soils. |
Website |
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Soil |
Simple |
Educational resources for teachers composed and managed by The Soil Science Society of America. |
Website |
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General |
Simple |
Interactive maps for agricultural aspects, geology, land-use etc. |
Interactive map |
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General |
Medium |
DEIMS - Dynamic Ecological Information Management System for LTER sites |
Map with the possibility to select and filter by soil topics worldwide. |
Interactive map |
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General |
Medium |
The National Science Foundation's National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a continental-scale ecological observation facility. NEON collects and provides open data from 81 field sites across the United States that characterize and quantify how our nation's ecosystems are changing. |
Data portal |
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General |
Medium |
Information on field sites, the data produced, protocols, and access to data. |
Data portal |
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General |
Medium |
Book to facilitate and to motivate biologists in the use of statistics. |
Online book |
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Soil |
Advanced |
A modelling platform for physical, chemical and biological processes. |
Model |
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Soil |
Simple |
Several Videos and Presentations. The NSW Soil Knowledge Network is a group of retired and semi-retired soil specialists who are passionate about soil and the land. |
Website |
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Plant |
Simple |
Very general information about roots with a short quiz |
Website |
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Plant |
Simple |
Animated video about general root features |
Video |
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Plant |
Simple |
Animated video about root anatomy and processes in roots |
Video |
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Soil |
Simple |
Video on soil organic matter (SOM) and the role of roots (also other interesting material on soils) |
Website |
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Plant |
Medium |
Root biomass as part of the total tree biomass in forests and its meaning |
IPCC Report |
Website |
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Plant |
Advanced |
Review of an analysis of root distribution for terrestrial biomes |
A comprehensive literature synthesis, we analyze rooting patterns for terrestrial biomes and compare distributions for various plant functional groups. |
Research paper |
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Plant |
Advanced |
Estimating fine-root biomass and production of boreal and cool temperate forests using aboveground measurements: A new approach |
Research paper |
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Plant |
Advanced |
Root biomass and exudates link plant diversity with soil bacterial and fungal biomass. |
Research paper |
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Plant |
Advanced |
The decomposition of fine and coarse roots: their global patterns and controlling factors. |
Research paper |
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Plant |
Advanced |
Influence on decaying roots on subsurface flow and slope stability |
The Influence of Plant Root Systems on Subsurface Flow: Implications for Slope Stability. |
Research paper |
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Plant |
Advanced |
Regulation and function of root exudates |
Research paper |
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Plant |
Advanced |
Methodology: Collection of Root Exudate from Duckweed |
Protocol |
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Plant |
Medium |
PhD Student describing his methodology in field work: “measure above-ground and below-ground biomass -- the living and dead trees, roots and vegetation that contribute to the carbon stock of the forest”. In Sumatra Peat Forest. |
Video |
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Plant |
Advanced |
Discussion of three different methods of measuring carbon input |
Research paper |
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Peatland |
Medium |
Based on the ‘European Mires Book’ of the International Mire Conservation Group (IMCG), this article provides a composite map of national datasets as the first comprehensive peatland map for the whole of Europe. |
Research paper |
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Peatland |
Simple |
An excellent overview of the importance of peatlands in climate change. |
Video |
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Peatland |
Medium |
Tim Moore from McGill University, Department of Geography, speaking at the UW 2014 World Wetlands Day Symposium. |
Video |
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Peatland |
Simple |
Video produced by Tailored Films. Please visit www.raisedbogrestoration.ie for more information. |
Video |
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Peatland |
Medium |
Peatlands and climate change |
Book |
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Peatland |
Medium |
Assessment on Peatlands, Biodiversity and Climate change Main Report |
This Executive Summary presents the key findings of the global Assessment on Peatlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change. |
Book |
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Peatland |
Medium |
Global peatland restoration manual |
Book |
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Peatland |
Medium |
Ecological restoration in drained peatlands - best practices from Finland |
Book |
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General |
Medium |
This unit will introduce you to the basics of the carbon cycle. You will learn how the carbon cycle, climate and the abiotic and biotic components of the environment influence each other in many ways. |
Website |
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Soil |
Simple |
Soil microbiology: An overview |
Presentation |
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Soil |
Medium |
Understanding Soil Microbes and Nutrient Recycling |
Website |
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Soil |
Medium |
This report reviews the current and potential future use of microbial indicators of soil health and recommends specific microbial indicators for soil ecosystem parameters representing policy relevant end points. |
Book |
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Soil |
Medium |
A Farm-Centered Learning Network for Social Change study materials |
Website |
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Soil |
Medium |
How to Prepare a Soil Sample for a Microbial Density and Diversity (MDD) Analysis |
Video |
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Wetland |
Medium |
Wetland: characteristics and boundaries |
Book |
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Wetland |
Simple |
Easy overview of some wetland types. |
Video |
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Wetland |
Simple |
Basic types of wetlands |
Video |
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Wetland |
Medium |
How wetland function; Wetland types; Flora, fauna, soils, water and more; Connectivity and the landscape |
Website |
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Wetland |
Simple |
Why are Wetlands Important? |
Website |
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Wetland |
Simple |
The Convention’s mission is “the conservation and wise use of all wetlands through local and national actions and international cooperation, as a contribution towards achieving sustainable development throughout the world”. |
Website |
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General |
Medium |
Contribution of terrestrial ecosystems to global carbon dynamics |
The contribution of terrestrial ecosystems to global carbon dynamics |
Presentation |
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Soil |
Simple |
The Global Soil Organic Carbon map V1.0 is an important stepping stone to better know the current Soil Organic Carbon stock stored beneath our feet and soils’ potential for further sequestration. |
Map |
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Soil |
Simple |
This dataset (2015) provides maps for Topsoil Soil Organic Carbon in EU-25 that are based on LUCAS 2009 soil point data through a generalized additive model. |
Map |
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Soil |
Medium |
This dataset consists of a number of data layers (raster GRID maps) that are associated with the peer-reviewed publication "Assessment of soil organic carbon stocks under future climate and land cover changes in Europe". |
Map |
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General |
Medium |
ENVIS Centre on Plants and Pollution information materials. |
Website |
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General |
Medium |
World Bank E-learning program: Sustainable Agricultural Land Management Projects: Soil Carbon Monitoring (Self-paced) |
Website |
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Soil |
Medium |
Estimation of soil organic carbon stock in Estonian agricultural land |
Poster |
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Soil |
Medium |
FAO SOILS PORTAL informatiom materials |
Website |
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General |
Medium |
Study materials and reports from International Summer School by the "Educational Network on Soil and Plant Ecology and Management" |
Website |
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Peatland |
Medium |
A book about the mitigation of climate change in agriculture with special focus on peatlands. Book describes peatland characteristics and consequences of utilization, introduces improved management practices and shows case studies of management practices. |
Book |
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Peatland |
Medium |
A book about the overall ecology of peatlands. |
Book |
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Peatland |
Medium |
Peat - a gift from nature. Peatlands perform vital ecosystem services such as regulating water flow and storing carbon found in soils. Peat can also be harvested responsibly using techniques designed for ecological sustainability. Sphagnum peat found in peatlands can be used effectively for treating wastewater. |
Video |
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Peatland |
Medium |
Booklet introducing peatland ecosystem services and restoration possibilities and significance. Case studies of peatland restoration all around the world. |
Booklet |
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Soil and microbes |
Simple |
Basic overview about soil microorganisms and their role in the soil. |
Website |
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Soil and microbes |
Simple |
Basic presentation about microbial ecology. |
Presentation |
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Soil and microbes |
Medium |
This report reviews the current and potential future use of microbial indicators of soil health and recommends specific microbial indicators for soil ecosystem parameters representing policy-relevant endpoints. |
Website |
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Soil and microbes |
Medium |
Our soils are in trouble. By plowing and overtilling, we have increased erosion in agricultural fields. How to improve it? The new paradigm of soil formation. |
Website+video |
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Soil and microbes |
Simple |
Questions and explanations - basic questions about nutrient cycling in soil and the importance of different nutrients for plants. |
Website |
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Soil and microbes |
Medium |
How does the presence of organic matter benefit the soil? |
Video |
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Soil and microbes |
Simple |
Earthworm functions and their importance for soil structure and decomposition. |
Website+video |
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Soil and microbes |
Medium |
Organic matter decomposition and the soil food web |
Website |
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Wetland |
Simple |
Basic wetland ecology |
Fact sheet |
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Wetland |
Medium |
Ecology of Wetland Ecosystems: Water, Substrate, and Life |
Website |
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Wetland |
Medium |
Basic overview of wetland ecology |
Website |
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Wetland |
Medium |
Benefits of wetlands |
Video |
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Wetland |
Medium |
Wetlands conservation: methods, functions, uses and values |
Chapter |
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Wetland |
Advanced |
Wetlands: Most relevant structural and functional aspects |
Research paper |
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Wetland |
Simple |
Wetlands are areas where water covers soil all or part of the time. Wetlands are important because they protect and improve water quality, provide fish and wildlife habitats, store floodwaters and maintain surface water flow during dry periods. |
Website |
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Wetland |
Medium |
Principles of wetland restoration |
Website |
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Wetland |
Medium |
Restoration, Creation, and Recovery of Wetlands |
Website |
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Wetland |
Medium |
Wetland restoration |
Video |
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Wetland |
Medium |
Delaware has lost more than half of its original wetlands since the 1700s. In this first of a two-part series, we explore the challenges we face in trying to restore wetland habitats. 1st part |
Video |
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Wetland |
Medium |
Delaware has lost more than half of its original wetlands since the 1700s. In this first of a two-part series, we explore the challenges we face in trying to restore wetland habitats. 2nd part |
Video |
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Wetland |
Medium |
A presentation about basic biochemical processes in wetlands. |
Presentation |
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Wetland |
Medium |
Nutrient cycling in wetlands - presentation by William Mitsch |
Presentation |
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Wetland |
Medium |
Fundamentals of environmental measurements - conductivity, salinity, and total dissolved solids |
Website |
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Wetland |
Medium |
Sustainable Water Reclamation Using Constructed Wetlands: The Clayton County Water Authority Success Story |
Website |
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Wetland |
Medium |
Man-Made Wetlands in N. Texas Help Treat Reclaimed Water |
Video |
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Wetland |
Medium |
Constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment |
Video |
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Soil fauna |
Medium |
The importance of fauna for soil processes |
Video |
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Climate change |
Medium |
Climate change: Five cheap ways to remove CO2 from the atmosphere |
Article |
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Climate change |
Medium |
One of the key challenges BIFoR addresses is the impact of climate and environmental change on woodlands. How to study the CO2 increase impact on forests? |
Experimental facility |
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Climate change |
Medium |
An interactive tool for increasing knowledge of The impacts of climate change at 1.5C, 2C and beyond |
From the Carbon Brief group, which is a UK-based website covering the latest developments in climate science, climate policy and energy policy. They are specialised in clear, data-driven articles and graphics to help improve the understanding of climate change, both in terms of the science and the policy response. |
Interactive web tool
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Soil |
Medium |
A practical guide to understand soil organic matter and how to manage it in agricultural soils. |
Book |
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Soil |
Medium |
A book about the role of SOC and its global stocks and management for sustainable food production and climate change mitigation. |
Book |
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Soil |
Simple |
The symbiotic relationship between fungi and tree roots |
Video |
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Soil |
Advanced |
Soil carbon stocks are vital for food production and climate change mitigation |
A video about the role of soil carbon stocks for food production and climate change mitigation. |
Video |
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Soil |
Advanced |
Soil Biodiversity and Soil Organic Carbon: keeping drylands alive |
This publication is about the importance of soil organic carbon and managing and investing in soil biodiversity in focus of drylands. |
Book |
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Soil |
Advanced |
Spatio-temporal assessment of topsoil organic carbon stock change in Hungary |
An article about compiling prediction maps for the soil organic carbon stock at 100m resolution in Hungary. |
Research paper |
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Soil |
Advanced |
A survey about the soil carbon stock estimates and sequestration potentials from 20 regions in the world and a discussion whether the 4 per mille initiative is feasible or not. |
Research paper |
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Soil |
Advanced |
Understanding the contribution of subsoil carbon for climate mitigation |
Organic carbon in subsoils provides an important part to carbon storage. This article is about quantifying total stable soil organic carbon and describing its role in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector. |
Research paper |
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Soil |
Advanced |
Using model predictions of soil carbon in farm-scale auditing |
An introduction of a software tool to audit soil carbon. |
Research paper |
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Soil |
Advanced |
Forest soils in France are sequestring substantial amounts of carbon |
A long-term study to assess whether the French forest soils are carbon sinks or sources and the role of forest management. |
Research paper |
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Soil |
Advanced |
Sensitivity of labile carbon fractions to tillage and organic matter management |
Soil labile organic carbon fraction is correlated to many chemical, physical and biological soil quality indicators and influences crucial soil processes e.g. carbon squestration and nutrient cycling. This article analyses the effect of tillage and organic matter amendment on labile soil carbon across pedoclimatic conditions in Europe. |
Research paper |
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Soil |
Advanced |
Distinct assembly processes and microbial communities constrain soil organic carbon formation |
A discussion about the influence of microbial physiology and community assembly processes on microbial growth rate and its efficiency, furthermore the cycling of organic carbon in the view of the community ecology. This article is an introduction of a conceptual framework that cataloges life history and assembly traits associated with different growth efficiencies of microbial communities. |
Review article |
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Soil |
Advanced |
A simulation of global cropland soil organic carbon dynamics on a century scale to identify the impacts of climate change, elevated CO2, nitrogen deposition, landcover change and land management practices.
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Research paper |
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Soil |
Advanced |
An article about the links between land use, soil organic carbon, transient binding agents (extracellular polymeric substances) and their impacts on mean weight diameter of water stable aggregates.
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Research paper |
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Soil |
Advanced |
Modelling CO2 increase and climate change impacts on carbon storage of the vegetation, soil and ecosystem at the pan-European level.
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Research paper |
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Soil |
Advanced |
Agroforestry systems can potentially provide climate change mitigation and at the same time food, thus should be considered in the climate change mitigation strategy. This meta-analysis investigates the influence of different agroforestry systems on soil and above ground carbon sequestration. |
Review article |
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Soil |
Advanced |
Soil organic carbon storage is influenced by livestock grazing in grassland agroecosystems. This review and meta-analysis aimed to investigate the influence of livestock grazing intensity on soil organic carbon, total nitrogen and other soil properties in different countries and climatic zones.
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Review article |
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Soil |
Advanced |
This article describes the possibility to integrate food and energy crop production to improve soil organic carbon content and decrease greenhouse gas emissions from a crop rotation perspective.
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Research paper |
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Soil |
Advanced |
This article investigates the changes in topsoil organic carbon content associated with land-use change. Also, it presents a mixed model to describe the factors that are influencing these changes.
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Research paper |
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Soil |
Advanced |
This article investigates whether the soil quality of croplands and grasslands is better within the Natura 2000 network compared to the area outside it. The soil organic carbon and phosphorus contents of grasslands and croplands were compared.
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Research paper |
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Soil |
Advanced |
A description of an agricultural model that estimates carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus pools, pool changes, their balance and the nutrient fluxes. The data is from arable and grassland systems in the UK during 1800-2010.
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Research paper |
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Soil |
Advanced |
An evaluation of the vulnerability of soil organic matter mineralisation at different disturbance levels in carbon-rich mineral soils and peat soils. |
Research paper |
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Soil |
Advanced |
The temperature sensitivity (Q10) of soil respiration across terrestrial biomes |
This study investigates the variations in temperature sensitivity of soil respiration and examines driving factors that include climate, soil and vegetation across various biomes. |
Research paper |
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Soil |
Advanced |
Forest soils store a significant amount of terrestrial organic carbon. This review article summarises and describes the influence of 13 different forest management practices on soil carbon stocks. |
Review article |
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Soil |
Advanced |
Quantifying carbon stocks in urban parks under cold climate conditions |
Urban green spaces store carbon in vegetation and soil. The amount of organic carbon stored in trees and soils of Finlands’ constructed urban parks was assessed. |
Research paper |
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Soil |
Advanced |
Soil and the intensification of agriculture for global food security |
98,8% of our food is provided by soils. Intensive use of soils causes degradation that decreases soil quality. The loss of organic matter, the release of greenhouse gases, over-fertilizing, erosion and other forms of degradation are resulting in environmental harm and decreases soils ability to produce food. |
Review article |
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Soil |
Advanced |
The influence of soil management on soil health: An on-farm study in southern Sweden |
Soil health indicators, such as wet aggregate stability, autoclaved-citrate extractable soil protein, organic matter, active carbon and heterotrophic soil respiration were measured and compared between managed and unmanaged fields. |
Research paper |
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Soil |
Advanced |
Modelling the soil erosion potential of the European Union forests. |
Research paper |
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Soil |
Advanced |
An article about the effects of water management systems on biomass accumulation, key ecosystem carbon fluxes, net and gross primary productivity, ecosystem respiration, autotrophic respiration, heterotrophic respiration and soil organic matter decay in European rice paddies. |
Research paper |
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Soil |
Advanced |
An evaluation of how some agroforestry practices could affect European agricultural land that is under environmental pressures and what could be the impact of proposed systems on European climate change targets. |
Research paper |
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Soil |
Advanced |
An article about how the intensity of tillage and organic matter addition influences soil microbial parameters and their relationships with labile organic carbon fractions and other soil properties. |
Research paper |
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Soil |
Advanced |
Soil degradation and recovery – Changes in organic matter fractions and structural stability |
How the conversion of grassland to arable and bare fallow management or the introduction of grassland in arable and bare fallow influence organic matter fractions and soil structural stability. |
Research paper |
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Soil |
Advanced |
Land-cover effects on soil organic carbon stocks in a European city |
An investigation of how urban greenspace land-cover affect soil organic carbon stocks. |
Research paper |
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Soil |
Advanced |
Optimal energy use of agricultural crop residues preserving soil organic carbon stocks in Europe |
This research quantifies the amount of available agricultural residues that could be used in energy production without influencing the European Union carbon stock. |
Research paper |
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Soil |
Advanced |
This paper describes how changing deciduous stands to mono-culture spruce plantations affect soil organic matter composition on different soil parent material. |
Research paper |
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Soil |
Advanced |
Assessment of different remote sensing domains to map soil organic carbon content and texture in Central Europe. |
Research paper |
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Soil |
Advanced |
This study measures the impact of adding forest residue biochar on low-productive clay soils. |
Research paper |
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Soil |
Advanced |
The objective of this paper was to monitore and relate N2O and CH4 trace gas fluxes to tillage systems and organic fertilizer types. Another aim was to assess the influence of organic long-term tillage influence on soil organic carbon stocks. |
Research paper |
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Soil |
Advanced |
This article describes the development of the SPADE database and how it can be used to predict soil properties such as soil organic carbon stocks and root zone capacity. |
Research paper |
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General |
Medium |
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The Ex-Ante Carbon-balance Tool (EX-ACT) is an appraisal system developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) providing estimates of the impact of agriculture and forestry development projects, programmes and policies on the carbon-balance. |
Interactive web tool
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General |
Simple |
This video introduces the concepts of carbon capture, sequestration and reuse. |
Video |
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General |
Medium |
This calculator of Carbon Farming Group will calculate your livestock emissions and forestry reductions. |
Online calculator |
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General |
Advanced |
This guide provides help to select the most appropriate calculator for greenhouse gas assesment of activities in agriculture and forestry. It was developped by the ADEME (French Environment and Energy Management Agency), the IRD (French Research Institut for Development) and the FAO (United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation). |
Website/tool |
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General |
Advanced |
2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories |
This section provides guidance for preparing annual greenhouse gas inventories in the Agriculture, Forestry and other land use Sector.
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Website |
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General |
Advanced |
N2O Emissions from managed soils, and CO2 emissions from lime and urea application |
This chapter is about description of the generic methodologies for the inventory of nitrous oxide emissions from managed soils and carbon dioxide emission.
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Chapter |
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Possible Approach for Estimating CO2 emissions from lands converted to permanently flooded land |
This Appendix described a method to estimate the change in the carbon stock before flooding.
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This article investigates soil-atmosphere GHG exchange after fires in hemiboreal Scots pine forests in Estonia. |
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Patterns of carbon sequestration in a young forest ecosystem after clear-cutting |
This article investigates the changing carbon balance of the stands after clear-cut harvesting in Estonia. The carbon status was estimated through the net ecosystem exchange of CO2. |
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Short-term effects of biochar on soil CO2 efflux in boreal Scots pine forests |
An investigation on how biochar amendment influences soil CO2, microbial biomass and physiochemical properties of boreal Scots pine forests in Finland. |
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High-temperature hay biochar application into soil increases N2O fluxes |
Research about the influence of pelletized hay biochar amendment and three different organic fertilizers on soil N2O emissions. |
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Soil |
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A review that is based on peer-reviewed publications that present CO2, CH4 and N2O flux data. |
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Impact of deadwood decomposition on soil organic carbon sequestration in Estonian and Polish forests |
This article investigates how deadwood of different tree species affect soil organic carbon sequestration in Estonia and Poland. Also, the influence of temperature, length of the growing season and deadwood decomposition rate were assessed. |
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Global mycorrhizal plant distribution linked to terrestrial carbon stocks |
This article presents high-resolution digital maps of the biomass fractions of arbuscular mycorrhizal, ectomycorrhizal, ericoid mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal plants to assess the amount of carbon stored in different types of mycorrhizal vegetation. Moreover, it describes the impact of conversion from natural ecosystems to croplands and the relationships of the abundance of arbuscular mycorrhizal and ectomycorrhizal plants with soil carbon content in different soil layers. |
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Plant soil interactions alter carbon cycling in an upland grassland soil |
This article investigates the role of vegetation and bacterial biodiversity on the cycling of different pools of soil organic carbon. |
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Plant diversity increases soil microbial activity and soil carbon storage |
An article that explains the influence of plant diversity on soil microbial activity and carbon storage. |
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Soil |
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Temperature sensitivity of soil carbon decomposition and feedbacks to climate change |
A review describing the temperature sensitivity of soil carbon decomposition and its relation to climate change. |
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Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming |
This article presents an analysis of how anthropogenic warming influences soil carbon loss and its contribution to climate change. |
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Global negative effects of nitrogen deposition on soil microbes |
The addition of nitrogen reduces total microbial biomass, bacterial biomass, fungal biomass, biomass carbon and microbial respiration. The effects of nitrogen fertilization were persistent in different global terrestrial ecosystems. |
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Increasing soil carbon storage: mechanisms, effects of agricultural practices and proxies. A review |
A review of what influences and how to manage soil organic carbon stocks. |
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Soil |
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This article investigates whether different nutrient availability is related to microbial metabolism and different soil properties. The role of nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur availability on carbon mineralization was assessed. |
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Large influence of soil moisture on long-term terrestrial carbon uptake |
Establishment of four global land–atmosphere models showed that soil moisture variability causes large CO2 sources. |
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Soil |
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Toward more realistic projections of soil carbon dynamics by Earth System Models |
An article that gives an overview of how to improve the accuracy of soil carbon projections and gives recommendations for future research. |
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Soil networks become more connected and take up more carbon as nature restoration progresses |
An article that investigates the relationship of soil food web structure and carbon cycling during nature restoration. |
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Soil |
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A discussion about soil-related emissions of greenhouse gases and the processes and factors related to it. |
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Plant |
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A review that describes the importance of nonstructural carbohydrates in plant function as well as the approaches for quantifying its dynamics and the spatial and temporal distribution in trees. It provides an insight into studies related to nonstructural carbohydrates, making progress to answer some important questions. |
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A review about plants’ ability to store additional carbon under elevated CO2 conditions and the factors influencing it. |
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Wetland |
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Mature wetland ecosystems remove nitrogen equally well regardless of initial planting |
This experiment was conducted to investigate how planting of constructed wetlands affect nitrogen removal. The three treatments included planted with emergent vegetation, submerged vegetation and free development. |
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Wetland |
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There are knowledge gaps regarding the factors that influence wetlandscape functions. Functions of individual wetlands can be quite different from wetlandscapes, which might be due to flow-path characteristics. |
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Wetland |
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Wetland ecosystems store the largest amount of carbon per unit area. This review covers topics like the fate of carbon in wetlands, the role of microbial community composition in predicting wetland functions and wetland microbial soil organic matter research. |
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An extensive forest sporocarp collection was held to investigate δ13C and δ15N as potential carbon and nitrogen sources for fungi, to give an insight into the role of litter, wood and soil. |
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Plant |
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This article is about fine root turnover of Norway spruce and understorey in Finland forests. |
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The lack of spatial canopy input is a limitation for predicting carbon assimilation. This research was conducted to predict spatial patterns of canopy nitrogen. Furthermore, the prediction accuracy of using the environmental variables and remote sensing was compared. |
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Mapping hotspots and bundles of forest ecosystem services across the European Union |
This article presents an approach to map forest ecosystem services, elucidating the spatial distribution of forest ecosystem services and correlations among them. |
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A climate-sensitive forest model for assessing impacts of forest management in Europe |
Example simulations to compare different forest management scenarios under climate change. |
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The impact of tree canopy structure on understory variation in a boreal forest |
This article investigates how understory composition and the fractional cover of different species vary and its linkage to structural forest canopy measures such as tree canopy leaf area index, canopy cover and canopy openness. |
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This review elucidates the impact of elevated CO2 content on photosynthesis and how it influences carbon turnover rates and other related aspects. |
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Bringing carbon dioxide emissions on balance with removals is important to limit global warming. The aim of this empirical assessment is to estimate the terrestrial carbon dioxide removal potential of spruce planting in Norway. |
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Contribution of land use to the interannual variability of the land carbon cycle |
This paper describes the role of land use in driving the interannual variability of the net land carbon balance, contributing to improve the predictions of future climate-carbon cycle feedbacks. |
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The long-term fate of deposited nitrogen in temperate forest soils |
Forest ecosystem functions may be affected by increased anthropogenic nitrogen inputs. The the research aimed to investigate the turnover and stabilization of 15N in forest ecosystems. |
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The changes in gross primary productivity was dominated by anthropogenic activity from 1901 to 2010. This research elucidates the spatiotemporal patterns of gross primary productivity changes. |
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This article analyses the affect of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on carbon sequestration in forest ecosystems using a mechanistic forest growth model combined with eddy covariance carbon dioxide exchange flux data from 22 forest flux towers. |
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Higher than expected CO2 fertilization inferred from leaf to global observations |
An article about global carbon dioxide fertilization effect on photosynthesis. |
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Soil |
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This review gives insight into the importance of soil management regarding climate change. |
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Wetland |
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The assessment of exo-enzyme activities and microbial abundance along a coastal ecotone at varying flooding gradient. |
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Earthworms influence the fate of soil carbon. This research demonstrates that earthworms convert labile plant compounds into microbial necromass in stabilized carbon pools improving the resilience of soil carbon to different disturbances. |
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This review article evaluates the role of the drivers of the land carbon uptake such as carbon dioxide fertilization, nitrogen deposition, climate change and land use or cover changes. |
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Boreal forest soil carbon: distribution, function and modelling |
A discussion about the size and character of boreal forest soil carbon pool. |
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Plant |
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This article reveals novel mechanisms of how the drought affects ecosystem carbon cycling elucidating how plants and ecosystems respond to drought. |
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This research article investigates a wide range of ecosystem types across the globe to estimate root response to elevated carbon dioxide content. |
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An article about the relationships of above- and belowground plant traits and whether these traits can be used to predict soil properties and ecosystem functions. |
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Unravelling the age of fine roots of temperate and boreal forests |
This research article reveals that there is a time lag between plant carbon assimilation and production of fine roots. The turnover time of roots is important for modelling soil organic matter dynamics and quantifying ecosystem carbon. |
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Large datasets of soil respiration and its temperature sensitivity are necessary for climate change research. Mid-infrared spectroscopy was tested for the use of predicting soil respiration and its temperature sensitivity. It was suggested that MIRS with statistical prediction tools provide rapid acquisition of these parameters. |
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The soil microbial community is affected by various compounds of plant exudates. The results suggested that it may be possible to give cover crop recommendations based on microbial response results. |
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Improving carbon sequestration estimation through accounting carbon stored in grassland soil |
A theoretical method to estimate carbon sequestration. It is different from other landscape greenhouse gas calculation methods because it improves the estimation of the carbon sequestration capacity of grazing-land and takes into account that grazing lands are managed at low livestock densities counting in the carbon gains. |
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A review of the methods and challenges of measuring soil organic carbon change directly in soils and new possibilities for quantifying soil organic carbon. |
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A field system for measuring plant and soil carbon fluxes using stable isotope methods |
This article describes a system for measuring plant and soil carbon fluxes under field conditions using stable isotope methods. |
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Soil |
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This review paper elucidates the role of microbial decomposers in relation to soil carbon cycle and names methodologies for determining carbon flow below ground. |
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This review article covers the importance of soil organic carbon regarding soil health and options for maintaining it on a local and global scale. Furthermore, it describes soil health and its disease-suppressive attributes. |
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A description of a tool that can be used to estimate ecosystem carbon in landscapes. It is suitable for participatory planning and educational use. |
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Carbon cycling in temperate grassland under elevated temperature |
This is a study about the effect of increased temperature on carbon fluxes in a permanent temperate grassland by measuring ecosystem respiration and net ecosystem exchange of carbon. |
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Combination of herbivore removal and nitrogen deposition increases upland carbon storage |
Land use management can influence carbon storage significantly. This study was conducted to investigate the effect of the removal of large herbivores and nitrogen deposition on plant and carbon stocks and soil carbon storage at upland grazing exclosures. |
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This review article elucidates how climate extremes influence the terrestrial carbon cycle and different ecosystem types. It also gives insight on how to improve the detection and prediction of carbon cycle extremes. |
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This study investigates how soil texture and organic matter influence nitrogen mineralization and cereal yield levels. |
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This research evaluates soil organic carbon dynamics under perennial crops across the globe by quantifying the effect of the change from annual to perennial crops and the temporal changes in soil organic carbon stocks during the crop cycle. |
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This research is about how perennial energy crop cultivation influences soil organic matter pools of different density fractions and the persistence of the soil organic matter after recultivation of the stands. Moreover, it gives insight into how growing different perennial energy crops influence microbial activity and other soil properties. |
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What is a good level of soil organic matter? An index based on organic carbon to clay ratio |
Soil organic matter, thus soil organic carbon is one of the most important indicators of soil quality. Here is the assessment of the use of soil organic carbon to clay ratios as guidelines for soil management. This method can be used to monitor soil organic matter on different spatial scales. The threshold values indicate the structural condition of the soils and the effect of land use. |
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Soil inorganic carbon represents a significant portion of the terrestrial carbon pool. This research was conducted to investigate whether the increased soil water storage and transport may enhance dissolution of soil inorganic carbon. |
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An article about the effects of agricultural systems on soil quality. Measured quality parameters included pH, available phosphorus, potassium, bulk density, aggregate stability, total carbon and microbial biomass carbon. |
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Visual assessment of the impact of agricultural management practices on soil quality |
The influence of different agricultural management practices was assessed in Europe and China using soil visual assessment. Evaluated parameters included surface ponding, susceptibility to wind and water erosion, presence of a cultivation pan, soil colour, soil porosity, soil structure and consistency, soil stability (slaking test), earthworm count, infiltration and/or penetration resistance, pH and labile organic carbon. The manual of the assessment is found under supporting information. |
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Enhancing eco-efficiency in agro-ecosystems through soil carbon sequestration |
Eco-efficiency of food production is important to maintain the sustainability and the quality of soils. This article elucidates the importance of soil organic carbon in relation to soil quality and the effect of increasing soil organic carbon pool in the root zone might have on crop yields. Most of the degraded and low-quality soils have lower soil organic carbon pools. Thus, it is important to restore soil organic carbon pool by using management practices like no-till farming, crop residue mulch, manuring, legume-based complex rotations and integrated nutrient management. |
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This article aimed to estimate how Silver fir and Scots pine deadwood affect soil carbon storage and biological activity. The influence of the distance and decay stage of the deadwood were measured. |
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Large mammalian herbivores might affect carbon and nitrogen pools and microbial activity in grasslands. The response of soil carbon and nitrogen pools to the exclusion of mammalian herbivores was measured across the globe. The response was measured under ambient and elevated nutrient supply to investigate whether the fertilization affect the carbon and nitrogen pools. |
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Determining soil bulk density for carbon stock calculations: a systematic method comparison |
Bulk density estimation is necessary for calculating carbon stocks. This research article assesses the accuracy and precision of different methods for estimating bulk density. |
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New sensor technology for field-scale quantification of carbon dioxide in soil |
A description of a technology to measure carbon dioxide in the soil at field-scale. |
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A study about the amount of pyrogenic carbon in different European peatlands and its relationship with peat degradation state and age. Also, the overall amount of pyrogenic carbon in northern peatlands during Holocene was estimated. |
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A study about how repeated organic and inorganic fertilization affects root mass decomposition and nitrogen dynamics in intensively managed agricultural grasslands. |
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Soil fauna diversity increases CO2 but suppresses N2O emissions from soil |
Soil fauna affects microbial processes in soils and their activity may control greenhouse gas emissions. This research is about how soil fauna diversity influences carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide emissions. The effect of species and species mixtures from different taxonomic groups like earthworms, potworms, mites and springtails were assessed using a microcosm set-up. |
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The aim of this research was to assess the influence of whole-tree harvest at thinning on biomass growth, soil carbon stock and soil chemical parameters. The treatments included stem-only thinning, whole-tree thinning, whole-tree thinning with one time nitrogen fertilization and whole-tree thinning with repeated nitrogen fertilization. |
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A proposal to rethink agriculture in the climate calculations |
A viewpoint on how agriculture contributes to climate change. |
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A research paper about how agricultural systems, grazing regime and different portions of temporary grass-clover leys in crop rotations affect soil quality in the UK. The measured indicators included pH, available phosphorus, potassium, bulk density, aggregate stability, total carbon and microbial biomass carbon. |
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Biochar amendment boosts photosynthesis and biomass in C3 but not C4 plants: A global synthesis |
This synthesis aimed to investigate the influence of biochar amendment on plant photosynthesis and growth on a global scale. The results showed that C3 and C4 plants responded differently to the biochar amendment. |
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Dry-wet and freeze-thaw events might be quite frequent in temperate agricultural soils. This study aimed to measure how previously mentioned events influence the activity of extracellular enzymes and soil organic matter turnover. |
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A study about how agriculture influences nutrient cycling. They use a plant-soil model that mimics soil carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling across natural and agricultural conditions. |
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Analysis of the 21-years long carbon dioxide flux dataset from a Central European tall tower site |
Here is a report of dynamics of the 21-year-long net ecosystem exchange, gross primary production and total ecosystem respiration measured at a Hungarian tall tower site. |
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Root distribution patterns are important for estimating carbon and water cycling in agroecosystems. The aim of this research was to develop root distribution patterns for a range of agricultural crops. |
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Enhancing soil carbon sequestration in agricultural lands helps mitigate climate change. This review presents different agricultural practices that improve soil carbon sequestration. |
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Here is a study that identifies agricultural management practices that have the most negative or positive influence on soil bacterial and fungal diversity. |
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Seasonal net carbon exchange in rotation crops in the temperate climate of Central Lithuania |
This study compares the seasonal carbon exchange rates of different agricultural crops and identifies which agroecosystems sank the most carbon from the atmosphere. |
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Here is a data analysis to estimate the impact of different agricultural management practices on soil organic carbon content in four different European regions. The influence of tillage management, crop diversification and fertilization management were assessed. |
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A review about the nature of nitrogen limitation with a focus on boreal forests on mineral soils in Fennoscandia. |
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This study uses ORCHIDEE-GM v2.2 model over European grasslands to assess the impact of future global change. |
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Carbon balance of rewetted and drained peat soils used for biomass production: a mesocosm study |
This research quantifies the carbon balance of rewetted and drained peatland cropping systems under reed canary grass cultivation providing insight into whether rewetting and paludiculture could reduce carbon loss from peatlands. |
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Long-term carbon balance was modelled and simulated to compare unmanaged to managed forests (with cuttings). Total carbon balance was calculated from the carbon balances of living above- and belowground biomass, above- and belowground dead organic matter and wood-based products. |
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This video talk about soil resources around the world, issues of degradation.
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This video quickly explains some basics in soil ecology. Starting from what is a soil (according to the percentage of clay, sand and silt), the properties of soils according to their composition, the main horizons, the main types of soil ... It gives some examples of several soils around the globe (gelisol, spodosol) and explains how a soil is formed (climate, organisms, relief, parent material and time). This video is based on the USDA soil taxonomy. |
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This is a database of bio-pesticides that can be used as crop protection derived from natural sources : chemicals, pheromones, bacteria, fungi and insect predators. It has been developed by the University of Hertfordshire. |
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Pesticide Properties Database (PPDB)
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This is a database of pesticide chemical identity and ecotoxicological data for insecticides, herbicides and fungicides. It has been developed by the Agriculture & Environment Research Unit (AERU). |
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