A new study has shed light on how soil microorganisms, which are crucial to the carbon cycle, adapt to different levels of temperature and organic matter availability. In this study, researchers ...

In soil science and biogeochemistry mineralization ... Terrestrial sedimentation and the carbon cycle: Coupling weathering and erosion to carbon burial. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 12, 231 ...

These findings help disentangle the role of microbes in soil carbon cycling—information that could help improve predictions of how carbon in soil will affect climate change. In a separate study, she ...

A Chinese-foreign research team has discovered that soil invertebrates — such as termites, ants, and earthworms — play a ...

Soil carbon storage is a vital ecosystem service, resulting from interactions of ecological processes. Human activities affecting these processes can lead to carbon loss or improved storage.

soil and sediment, as part of what is called ‘the global carbon cycle.’ A change in any of these fluxes could have wide-ranging impacts on ecosystems and our climate. The IAEA Environment Laboratories ...

In an article featured in Science China Earth Sciences, researchers from Tianjin University elucidate the coupling relationship between soil fungi and reactive minerals in ecosystems by utilizing ...

Scientists have established that in addition to carbon storage, hedge rows planting along farmlands offer many environmental ...

They found minimal effect on the plants’ carbon-water cycling, which they attributed ... and a well-established plant hydraulic and soil hydrology model to simulate grassland physiology and ...

Soil invertebrates provide essential ecosystem benefits like cycling nutrients that plants need to grow ... The idea of regenerative agriculture and using soil as a carbon sponge to help fight climate ...

More information: Xin Sui et al, Contrasting seasonal effects of legume and grass cover crops as living mulch on the soil microbial community and nutrient metabolic limitations, Agriculture ...