Biochar as a sustainable tool for improving the health of salt-affected soil

Y Yuan, Q Liu, H Zheng, M Li, Y Liu, X Wang… - Soil & Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Salt-affected soil has become one of the major threats to soil health. However, the
evaluation of biochar amendment effects and the underlying mechanisms on physical …

[HTML][HTML] The electrochemical properties of biochars and how they affect soil redox properties and processes

S Joseph, O Husson, ER Graber, L Van Zwieten… - Agronomy, 2015 - mdpi.com
Biochars are complex heterogeneous materials that consist of mineral phases, amorphous
C, graphitic C, and labile organic molecules, many of which can be either electron donors or …

Spatial patterns and environmental functions of dissolved organic matter in grassland soils of China

P Zhou, L Tian, N Graham, S Song, R Zhao… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Soil dissolved organic matter (DOM) is crucial to atmospheric, terrestrial and aquatic
environments as well as human life. Here, by characterizing DOM from 89 grassland soils …

Fiber supplementation protects from antibiotic-induced gut microbiome dysbiosis by modulating gut redox potential

S Penumutchu, BJ Korry, K Hewlett… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Antibiotic-induced gut dysbiosis (AID) is a frequent and serious side effect of antibiotic use
and mitigating this dysbiosis is a critical therapeutic target. We propose that the host diet can …

Conservation agriculture as a promising trade-off between conventional and organic agriculture in bundling ecosystem services

A Chabert, JP Sarthou - Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Agriculture is a human activity that receives the most direct benefits from ecosystem services
(ES) while it is one of the most influent on their sustainability and is also directly impacted by …

Real-time monitoring and prediction of water quality parameters and algae concentrations using microbial potentiometric sensor signals and machine learning tools

D Saboe, H Ghasemi, MM Gao, M Samardzic… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The overarching hypothesis of this study was that temporal microbial potentiometric sensor
(MPS) signal patterns could be used to predict changes in commonly monitored water …

Understanding, measuring and tuning the electrochemical properties of biochar for environmental applications

FJ Chacón, ML Cayuela, A Roig… - … Science and Bio …, 2017 - Springer
Biochar, the solid carbon product from the pyrolysis of biomass, has been gaining attention
due to its many possible applications such as soil amendment and water or air purification …

Soil quality and heavy metal pollution assessment of iron ore mines in Nizna Slana (Slovakia)

D Fazekašová, J Fazekaš - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Mining activities have resulted in the existence of dumps, which generally present a
perpetual danger of moving and transforming toxic elements. The experimental study was …

Nature-based one health approaches to urban agriculture can deliver food and nutrition security

B Ebenso, A Otu, A Giusti, P Cousin, V Adetimirin… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The increasing global human population is projected to reach 9.7 billion people by 2050.
This population growth is currently linked to the trends of world-wide urbanization, growth of …

Vertical distribution characteristics and interactions of polycyclic aromatic compounds and bacterial communities in contaminated soil in oil storage tank areas

G Xu, S Geng, W Cao, R Zuo, Y Teng, A Ding, F Fan… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Polycyclic aromatic compound (PAC) contamination in soil as a result of oil spills is a serious
issue because of the huge global demand for fossil energy. This study assessed the vertical …