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Soils at Imaggeo: Gypsum concretions in a soil horizon
Antonio Jordán, University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain Click on the image to see the original picture and details at Imaggeo. Most Gypsisols are formed when gypsum (calcium sulfate) from gypsiferous...
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Monday paper: Impacts of climate variability on wetland salinization in the...
Nachshon U, Ireson A, van der Kamp G, Davies SR, Wheater HS. 2014. Impacts of climate variability on wetland salinization in the North American prairies. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 18,...
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Monday paper: Bayesian calibration of a soil organic carbon model using Δ14C...
Ahrens, B., Reichstein, M., Borken, W., Muhr, J., Trumbore, S. E., and Wutzler, T.: Bayesian calibration of a soil organic carbon model using Δ14C measurements of soil organic carbon and heterotrophic...
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Sure can smell the rain
Fly, thought, on golden wings, go alight on the cliffs, on the hills, where the sweet airs of our native soil smell soft and mild! Chorus of the Hebrew slaves, Nabucco Giuseppe Verdi Have you ever...
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Soils at Imaggeo: Fly ash dyke or landfill or pond
Kripal Singh, CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Lucknow, India Fly ash dyke or landfill or pond. Click on the image to see the original picture and details at Imaggeo....
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Monday paper: Simulating microbial degradation of organic matter in a simple...
Monga, O., Garnier, P., Pot, V., Coucheney, E., Nunan, N., Otten, W., and Chenu, C.: Simulating microbial degradation of organic matter in a simple porous system using the 3-D diffusion-based model...
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Wildfires and soil: Where are we now?
Lorena M. Zavala. University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain Antonio Jordán. University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain Jorge Mataix-Solera. University Miguel Hernández, Elche, Spain Artemi Cerdà. University of...
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Soils at Imaggeo: Badlands in central Spain
Saskia Keesstra, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands Badland in central Spain. Click on the image to see the original picture and details at Imaggeo. Badland in central Spain. In the...
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Soil science, food production and hunger in Africa
A child dies from malnutrition or related causes every five seconds. Every child who dies from hunger is assassinated. And we have a herd of market traders, speculators and financial bandits who have...
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Fire and soil microorganisms: where should we focus on?
Gema Bárcenas-Moreno University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain Currently, the complexity of soil microbial ecology on soil systems is a hot topic in the environmental sciences, since the scientific...
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Turning unproductive soil into profits
Preeti Roychand La Trobe University AgriBio Centre for AgriBioscience Melbourne, VIC, Australia Sandy soils in Western Australia are bad soils for growing plants due to their poor nutrients and water...
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Eric Brevik’s work awarded by Geoderma
The review paper The use of electromagnetic induction techniques in soils studies, by James A. Doolittle and Eric Brevik, has been awarded as the Geoderma’s Best Review of 2014. The Geoderma Best Paper...
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Soil facts
As part of the activities of the International Year of Soils, FAO has published the following Soil Facts. Contribute with your comments! The current rate of soil degradation threatens the capacity to...
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Ingrid Kögel-Knabner, a multidisciplinary soil scientist
Ingrid Kögel-Knabner Chair of Soil Science Technical University of Munich The 2015 Philippe Duchaufour Medal is awarded to Ingrid Kögel-Knabner for her fundamental and ground-breaking work on the...
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Soil science and policy challenges
Sarah Connors, EGU Science Policy Fellow Antonio Jordán, University of Seville Discussions during the 5th International Conference of Fire Effects on Soil Properties in the O’Brien Centre for...
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Science results: special issues derived from EGU-Soil System Science sessions
Sunny day at EGU2014, by Antonio Jordán. Distributed by Imaggeo. The impact of the oral, poster and PICO presentations of the Soil System Sciences Division of the EGU is greater and greater. Because of...
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The long, long travel from rock to soil (I)
There is hardly a subject in all nature, of which the majority of people has so unclear terms and which has hitherto been so completely misunderstood, as the soil on which they walk. F.A. Fallou Soil...
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Go ask a statistician!
Caroline Spann University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna Austria Center Vienna during EGU General Assembly 2016, by Kai Boggild. During the EGU2016 Assembly, the chair of the statistics...
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New and traditional soil amendments – not so new after all?
Caroline Spann University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna As of increasing demands for 4F (food, feed, fiber and fuel production) from agricultural sites there are many researches being...
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Why your scientific paper was accepted?
As one of the executive editors of Solid Earth, one of my main duties is to keep up the journal’s reputation and a high quality of published articles. For a manuscript to be considered as a candidate...
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