Globally, the agricultural production system is threatened by the adversities of climate
change, land degradation, low energy productivity, and poor environmental outcomes. Thus …

A quantitative research on the effect of coal mining on the soil organic carbon (SOC) pool at
regional scale is beneficial to the scientific management of SOC pools in coal mining areas …

This paper explores the application and advantages of remote sensing, machine learning,
and mid-infrared spectroscopy (MIR) as a popular proximal sensing spectroscopy tool in the …

The agrarian communities of South Asia are dominated by small and marginal farmers (< 2.0
ha operational holdings) and are confronted with manifold challenges of lower productivity …

A model incorporating geo-detector analysis and geographically weighted principal
component analysis into Multi-scale Geographically Weighted regression (GWPCA-MGWR) …

Introduction: Soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration is one of the main ecosystem services
provided by well-managed grasslands. In the Mediterranean region, sown biodiverse …

Visible and near-infrared (VIS-NIR) spectroscopy is extensively used in the field of soil
science to predict several soil properties, mostly in laboratory conditions. When measured in …

The relationship between plant functional traits and ecosystem function is a hot topic in
current ecological research, and community-level traits based on individual plant functional …

Better soil structure promotes extension of plant roots thereby improving plant growth and
yield. Differences in soil structure can be determined by changes in the three phases of soil …

Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) is an emerging soil testing approach. Although
several studies have validated the DRS approach, limited efforts are made to assess the …