Agroforestry is an agricultural diversification practice that purposefully grows trees together
with crops and/or animals. Nitrogen (N) plays a pivotal role in the sustainability and …

Forest soils are a pressing subject of worldwide research owing to the several roles of
forests such as carbon sinks. Currently, the living soil ecosystem has become dreadful as a …

The shift towards a biobased economy will probably trigger the application of bioenergy by-
products to the soil as either amendments or fertilizers. However, limited research has been …

The effects of plant litter characteristics on its decomposition in soil or at the soil surface is of
primary importance for adequate management of nutrients and carbon (C) in agro …

In this paper, biochar derived from poplar catkins was used as an economical and
renewable adsorbent for adsorption organic and inorganic pollutants such as, dyes, organic …

Integrated systems of agriculture lead to better food and environmental quality, but these
systems are complex and should be evaluated in long-term experiments. The objective of …

Predicting carbon (C) mineralization of crop residues returned to soils is important for
forecasting carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into the atmosphere and soil nitrogen (N) …

Background Revealing the variations in soil aggregate-related organic carbon (OC) and
labile organic carbon (LOC) fractions in a chronosequence of Chinese fir plantations plays …

Cover crops (CCs) are herbaceous plants established in the inter-rows of woody crops. CCs
have multiple purposes, including improving soil organic matter and soil nutrients. In the …

Afforestation on croplands has been proposed as a means to mitigate the increasing
emission of anthropogenic CO 2. However, the relative contribution of above-and …