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A portable X-Ray device for rapid organic waste analysis
Rafael López-Núñez
Is there a simple way to analyze organic waste?
A portable X-ray device is the answer! This device enables precise testing in the field within minutes at low cost for a large range of elements.
Barriers and opportunities of soil knowledge to address soil challenges.
Silvia Vanino, Tiziana Pirelli,….
Roberta Farina
Aim to identify important barriers and challenges currently affecting soil knowledge but also assess opportunities to overcome these obstacles.
Soil Organic Carbon under Conservation Agriculture.
Tommaso Tadiello, Marco Acutis,
Alessia Perego, Calogero Schillaci,
Elena Valkama
Evaluating trade-offs and synergies between soil C sequestration, nitrous oxide, methane and nitrate losses as affected by soil management options aimed at increasing soil C storage.
Adoption of climate-smart soil management practices and water regulation functions in Europe.
Guillaume Blanchy, Gilberto Bragato,…
Sarah Garré
Keeping the soil continuously covered with living plants stimulates soil life and carbon storage. Essential in developing a good soil structure.
Carbon farming schemes - Analysis and online Map.
Martin Hvarregaard Thorsøe
The Road4Schemes project has gathered an inventory containing 160 European carbon farming schemes. Some focus exclusively on carbon sequestration while others support a wider number of ecosystem services.
Carbon turnover in soil is not a one-way street.
Angers Denis, Dominique Arrouays, …
Johan Six
When organic matter is introduced to soils, a part of its carbon is stored whereas another part is respirated by microbes and lost to the athmosphere.
Does soil health improve under multi-cropping system?
Aušra Rudinskienė, Aušra
Marcinkevičienė, …. Rimantas
Vaisvalavičius
Multi-cropping systems play an important role in improving the quality of soil properties. Multi-cropping reduces nutrient leaching into deeper layers of the soil, as well as the abundance of pathogens and weeds.
Empowering environmental research: NLP for metadata extraction
Guillaume Blanchy, Lukas Albrecht,
John Koestel, Sarah Garré
NLP can help categorize documents by their subjects, find gaps in knowledge, create databases, and identify connections between ideas
Equilibrium in Soil Carbon Storage - the path is short.
Johannes L. Jensen, Jørgen Eriksen,….
Bent T. Christensen
Straw incorporation and cover crops promotes SOC. Effect of straw addition and rye grass cover crop on SOC sequestration peaks after 10-15 years when a new equilibrium between input and output of C is reached.
How to evaluate a land? - In the context of ecosystem services.
Jaroslava Janků, Jan Jehlička,…
Tomáš Herza
Soil needs to be evaluated in the whole context of its quality and value it provides – concept of ecosystem services offers this holistic view.
An inventory of main soil practices for managing european agroecosystems.
Guillaume Blanchy, Lukas Albrecht,
John Koestel, Sarah Garré
An overview of innovative soil management practices at European scale is needed. The i-SoMPE project provided a complete inventory of innovative soil management practices (SMPs).
Land use and soil types affect pore network, SOC retention.
Mykola Kochiieru, Dalia Feiziene…
Jonas Volungevicius
Land use and soil types affect macropore network, organic carbon and nutrients retention. Highest macroporosity along the soil profile in grassland, followed by arable land and forests.
Liming's impact on soil greenhouse gas fluxes.
Hui-Min Zhang, Zhi Liang, …
Diego Abalos
Liming exerts a strong impact on microbial communities involved in the production and consumption of GHG emissions. This strong relationship processes can be used to identify strategies to reduce the emissions.
The legacy of microbial inoculants in agroecosystems.
Xipeng Liu, Xavier Le Roux, Joana
Falcao Salles
Microbial inoculations can influence agroecosystem functions in multiple ways and show great opportunities to increase services such as climate change mitigation and adaptation.
A comprehensive european dataset of agricultural experiments.
Cenk Donmez, Guillaume Blanchyet…
Katja Klumpp
Agricultural Longterm Experiments (LTES) are crucial for research. They monitor long-term effects of land management and pedo- climatic conditions on crop production and soil resources.
Plant-soil synchrony in nutrient cycles.
Sébastien Fontaine, Luc Abbadie,
Michäel Aubert,…, Gaël Alvarez
An integrated framework to design sustainable agrosystems.
The proposed framework is using the knowledge on how natural ecosystems have a synchronized biochemical functioning, in order to create more sustainable agrosystems.
Policy challenges for soil erosion control.
Elmar M. Schmaltz, Lisbet L.
Johannsen…, Peter Strauss
The survey found that the used models for soil erosion, require changes that include sediment connectivity and soil erosion measures. These changes would improve the erosion risk assessment and implementation of targeted mitigation measures.
The power of pyrolysis
Leonor Rodrigues, Alice Budai,….
Jens Leifeld
Biochar quality and yield for soil carbon sequestration in practice.
Quality assessment of meta-analyses on soil organic carbon.
Julia Fohrafellner, Sophie Zechmeister-
Boltenstern, Rajasekaran Murugan,
Elena Valkama
Urgent need for improved meta-analysis on the effects of organic agriculture, biochar, fertilization, or crop diversification on SOC.
A review of existing soil monitoring systems.
Antonio Bispo, Maria Fantappiè,…
Arwyn T. Jones
This study addresses main questions when developing a soil monitoring programme and underlines possible ways to harmonize national programmes with EU Soil Observatory
Increasing root carbon input to agricultural soils by variety selection.
Henrike Heinemann, Juliane Hirte,
Felix Seidel, Axel Don
Choosing varieties that produce more root biomass can lead to additional carbon input in soils. This might help carbon accrual but could also reduce yields
Soil Organic Carbon models need independent time-series validation for reliable prediction.
Henrike Heinemann, Juliane Hirte,
Felix Seidel, Axel Don
Efforts to maintain datasets are imperative for accurate SOC projections and predictions.
Soil Carbon - the blind spot of European national GHG Inventories.
Valentin Bellassen, Denis Angers,
Tomasz Kowalczewski, Asger Olesen
As long as soil carbon is not properly monitored, it will not be possible to identify the priority areas where new removals can be targeted and incentivized.
Soil compaction boosts greenhouse gas N2O.
Mansonia Pulido-Moncada, Søren O.
Petersen, Lars J. Munkholm
Traffic and animal-induced compaction can lead to an increased N2O emissions by decreasing soil oxygen supply. How this happens is discussed in this review.
No "One-technique-fits-all": multiple techniques should be used for sound data analysis.
Maria Knadel, Fabio Castaldi, Roberto
Barbetti, Eyal Ben Dor, Asa Gholizadeh,
Romina Lorenzetti
Soil moisture is causing problems for soil analysis.
The current ProbeField project is working on these issues, including testing methods to remove moisture from soil data and developing better calibration models for field measurements.
Soil science in higher education across Europe.
Ana Villa Solis, Erik Fahlbeck, Jennie
Barron
More active teaching and learning approaches and digitalisation are needed To solve complex sustainability problems, the demand for soil science and land management expertise will increase.
Spatial structure of pedodiversity.
Radim Vašát, Oldřich Vacek,
Luboš Borůvka
Pedodiversity (PD) is the variation of soil properties within an area. Deeper knowledge of PD is important for understanding the functioning of soil properties and their relationships in the changing environment.
The elephant in the room? Improved descriptions of soil hydrology in crop models.
Nicholas Jarvis, Mats Larsbo, Elisabet
Lewan, Sarah Garré
Models are powerful tools to assess impacts of management and climate on water balance, solute transport and crop yields. It is important that hydrological processes in the soil-crop system are accurately modelled.
Different tillage treatments.
Ana Villa Solis, Erik Fahlbeck, Jennie
Barron
In which way are they influencing soil inhabitants and soil properties?
Unmasking adaption of tree root structure.
Radim Vašát, Oldřich Vacek,
Luboš Borůvka
Agroforestry trees root deeper: The potential volume of water and nutrient intake was enlarged, which might enhance the resilience of the combined production systems.
Ways to increase maize grain yield.
Povilas Drulis, Zita Kriaučiūnienė,
Vytautas Liakas
Does urease inhibitors and biological preparations reduce reliance on nitrogen fertilisers and improve maize grain yield?
A participatory meta data catalogue for sharing data.
EJP SOIL Workpackage 6
The catalogue provides an overview and allows better findability of relevant authoritative and research soil datasets that can be used by the different soil research projects.
Weeds
Alessandra Trinchera and Dylan Warren
Raffa
An insidious enemy or a tool to boost mycorrhization in cropping systems?
When does soil carbon help climate?
Axel Don, Felix Seidel, Jens Leifeld,
Thomas Kätterer, Manuel Martin, Sylvain
Pellerin, David Emde, Daria Seitz, Claire
Chenu
Carbon stock, carbon sink, carbon storage – are they the same thing? And does fixing carbon in the soil, for example, by building up soil organic carbon, automatically lead to climate change mitigation?