Although spatial variability in distributions of soil organisms is generally regarded as random
noise, this variability often has a predictable spatial structure. Recent studies have provided …

Nitrogen (N) is central to living systems, and its addition to agricultural crop** systems is
an essential facet of modern crop management and one of the major reasons that crop …

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Belowground competition occurs when plants decrease the growth, survival, or fecundity of
neighbors by reducing available soil resources. Competition belowground can be stronger …

Spatial continuous data (spatial continuous surfaces) play a significant role in planning, risk
assessment and decision making in environmental management. They are, however …

The importance of building/maintaining soil carbon, for soil health and CO2 mitigation, is of
increasing interest to a wide audience, including policymakers, NGOs and land managers …

A realistic yet encouraging look at how society can change in ways that will allow us to feed
an expanding global population. This book addresses the question of how we can best feed …

Denitrification, the anaerobic reduction of nitrogen oxides to nitrogenous gases, is an
extremely challenging process to measure and model. Much of this challenge arises from …

This experiment was designed to study three determinant factors in decomposition patterns
of soil organic matter (SOM): temperature, water and carbon (C) inputs. The study combined …

The response of soil microbial communities following changes in land-use is governed by
multiple factors. The objectives of this study were to investigate (i) whether soil microbial …