[HTML][HTML] Innovative Soil Management Strategies for Sustainable Agriculture

B Futa, J Gmitrowicz-Iwan, A Skersienė, A Šlepetienė… - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
Agriculture has always resulted from available technology and the necessity to secure
humanity's food needs. In recent decades, a third factor has been recognized in this system …

Assessing long-term trends in vegetation cover change in the **lin River Basin: Potential for monitoring grassland degradation and restoration

Y Zhou, O Batelaan, H Guan, T Liu, L Duan… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Under the influence of climate change and human activities, the problem of grassland
degradation is becoming increasingly severe. Detection of changes in vegetation cover is …

Visualizing preferential flow paths using dye tracer and species diversity theory methods to explore their correlation to soil properties with random forest algorithm

Y Zhang, Z Tang, J Zhang, Z Zhang, M Zhang - Journal of Hydrology, 2024 - Elsevier
The preferential flow path development is potentially the result of spatial variations in soil
properties with soil depth. However, visualizing the evolution of the preferential flow path …

Global Land Use Change and Its Impact on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

L Li, T Awada, Y Zhang, K Paustian - Global Change Biology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic activities have altered approximately two‐thirds of the Earth's land surface.
Urbanization, industrialization, agricultural expansion, and deforestation are increasingly …

Determinants of Field‐Saturated Soil Hydraulic Conductivity Across Sub‐Saharan Africa: Texture and Beyond

A Bargués‐Tobella, LA Winowiecki… - Water Resources …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Soil infiltration is critical for water security and related ecosystem services. This infiltration,
the ability of soils to absorb water at their surface, is controlled by the soil hydraulic …

Carbon surplus or carbon deficit under land use transformation in China?

S Li, Y Liu, G Wei, M Bi, BJ He - Land Use Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
With the progression of industrialization and urbanization, terrestrial ecosystems have
experienced varying degrees of degradation in their carbon sequestration capabilities …

Impact on local sustainability of the northward expansion of human activities into protected areas in northern Tibet

J Fan, B Liang, H Liu, Y Wang, Y Zhao… - Land Degradation & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The negative marginal effect of spatial expansion of human activities on the ecology is
increasing, which could easily lead to unsustainable development. However, the reasons for …

[HTML][HTML] The size of clearings for charcoal production in miombo woodlands affects soil hydrological properties and soil organic carbon

L Lulandala, A Bargués-Tobella, CA Masao… - Forest Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Charcoal production is a major driver of forest degradation in miombo woodlands. Forests
play a crucial role in regulating the hydrological cycle, so it is critical to understand how …

Restoring deforested drylands for a wetter future–harnessing trees for credits, climate and water

K Kramer, D Sheil - Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Drylands covered two-fifths of the Earth's land surface in 2015 (Bastin et al., 2017), with trees
growing in one-third of these areas (FAO, 2019). This area of drylands has expanded by …

[HTML][HTML] Drivers of field-saturated soil hydraulic conductivity: Implications for restoring degraded tropical landscapes

D Falk, LA Winowiecki, TG Vågen, M Lohbeck… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Water security represents a major challenge in East Africa, affecting the livelihoods of
millions of people and hindering sustainable development. Predicted increases in rainfall …