The application of organic amendments in upland soils may influence soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) mineralization, which are very important for understanding plant nutrition. However, the kinetics ...

According to a University of Illinois crop sciences researcher, there has been a great deal of interest recently in the idea of using nitrogen fertilizer during the growing season to increase ...

“Past studies on rock weathering have measured how the weathering process affects carbon capture, but they’ve overlooked the ...

Decades-old policies aimed at improving air quality may also be accelerating global climate change, warns a recent study published in the journal Ecology. For generations, nitrogen pollution in ...

Keywords: Carbon Sequestration, Soil Health, Microbial Diversity, Organic Carbon Dynamics, Soil Fertility, Climate Change Mitigation, Carbon Stabilization, Decomposition Processes, Nutrient Cycling, ...

Sep. 13, 2024 — In a new study, researchers have determined through both statistical analysis and in experiments that soil pH is a driver of microbial community composition -- but that the need ...

Let us use nitrogen as an example by examining the plant nitrogen-use efficiency ... It is generally accepted that improvement in the accuracy of N recommendations requires a reliable estimate of soil ...

The mechanism of soil microbial consortia ... Ocean shaped the mineralization of manganese and the oceanic molybdenum cycle, according to iron, molybdenum and nitrogen geochemical data from ...

Planting on wet soil and over-tilling can cause soil compaction, but so do foot traffic, heavy equipment and a clay soil you’re trying to amend with sand. We discuss the main causes of compacted soil ...

The soil nitrate test should be used for nitrogen guidelines in the counties that are shaded ... with organic matter levels less than 3.0% may have limited S mineralization and may need small rates of ...