Soil is a hierarchical, self-organizing, and emergent system that supports plant and microbial
growth, enables carbon sequestration, facilitates water fluxes, and provide habitat for …

Over the last decade, the fact that novel perspectives on various aspects of soils have
remained strongly controversial long after they emerged, without any kind of consensus …

Mounting evidence of recent spectromicroscopic insights have revealed that the distribution
of mineral‐associated organic matter (OM) at the microscale and nanoscale is organized …

Hydro-pedotransfer functions (PTFs) relate easy-to-measure and readily available soil
information to soil hydraulic properties (SHPs) for applications in a wide range of process …

Soil aggregation is an important process in nearly all soils across the globe. Aggregates
develop over time through a series of abiotic and biotic processes and interactions …

Nowadays there are many papers dealing with the analysis of the soil porous system
through X-ray computed tomography (XCT). However, a reduced number of studies focus on …

Disintegrated carbonaceous mudstone (DCM), derived from pre-disintegration treatments of
waste carbonaceous mudstone, is utilized as filler for highway embankments with the aim of …

We evaluated the performance of a new, simple test to evaluate soil structural stability. The
QuantiSlakeTest (QST) consists in a quantitative approach of the slake test, a dynamic …

Purpose Cover crops have been used as an effective soil management practice to enhance
soil health. However, this practice may create connected soil pore networks that can cause …

Soils are dynamic and complex systems in their natural state, which are subjected to
profound changes due to management. Additionally, agricultural soils are continuously …