The use of plant, bacterial and fungal resources in soil food webs of ecto‐ and arbuscular mycorrhiza‐dominated deciduous forests Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

Cool study showing that soil animals' feeding preferences depend more on taxonomic identity than forest type
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#ecology #biodiversity #soil

How can we reduce depopulation-driven desertification? Policy recommendations | TERRASAFE

🎴 Depopulation as a driver of #desertification with the loss of these people, we also lose knowledge of how to sustain vibrant agricultural landscapes.

Read these policy recommendations by @desertificationeu.bsky.social 👇

This is how the biodegradable soil sensors work 🚜
#agritech #soil #sensors

Quite late to respond but I reckon it would be cold up there!

It is a great honour to be part of the Editorial Board @sumjournal.bsky.social and taking on a larger role in the British Soil Science Societies Journal. @pdhallett.bsky.social

Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents

Big tech’s new #datacenters, being built by #Microsoft #Google #Amazon, will take #water from the world’s driest areas. #drought #desertification

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Beyond precision: why smarter agriculture needs systems thinking Kansas State University is moving sustainable and resilient agriculture forward by combining cutting-edge research with farmer-driven insights to connect soil health, water use, and disease control.

Why smarter #agriculture needs systems thinking ...

| #soils | #fertilizers | #microbiology | #carbon | #microbes | Via @nature.com

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March 21 World Forest Day

A soil scientist collecting a soil core using a gas-powered corer that drives a steel tube into the ground.

A shallow well made from PVC with a yellow cap surrounded by a cage with plastic IRIS films sticking out of the ground in a circle around the well. The well and films are in a clearing with trees in the background.

We collected cores, installed shallow groundwater monitoring wells, and installed IRIS films at one wetland site today. The site is mapped as the Osage series (fine, smectitic, thermic Typic Epiaquerts) on land enrolled in the Wetland Reserve Program. #wetlands #hydric #soil #redox

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How did you get purple?

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Deep learning of the particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon fractions using a compositional transform and mid-infrared spectroscopy We need soil organic carbon (SOC) and the SOC fractions, the particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon (POC, MAOC), to understand SOC dynamics…

How to characterise the SOC fractions (the particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon ) compositionally and identify important organic and inorganic functional groups that differed by fraction simultaneously? Here is our solution. 🧪🌏#Soil

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Iowa Learning Farms Webinar: Soil Health and Nematode Linkages AMES, Iowa -- The Iowa Learning Farms (ILF) conservation webinar taking place Feb. 19 at noon CST will feature Christine Sprunger, associate professor of soil health, Michigan State University....

Upcoming Iowa Learning Farms webinar will feature @kbslter.bsky.social scientist, @sprunger.bsky.social and her lab's work on beneficial nematodes and what they can tell us about #soilhealth.

For more details and to register, check out the story here!

www.morningagclips.com/iowa-learnin...

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Environmental change is social change, so social sciences, humanities and the arts (SSHA) should be equal in #soil research. How to achieve that? What are SSHA anyway? See my report written on behalf of the Advisory Board of Horizon Mission Soil mission-soil-platform.ec.europa.eu/resource-lib...

Stay up to date with this week’s #soil news with the latest edition of The Week In Soil. This edition includes news on the Wales’ farming budget 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, the extension of Scotland’s sustainable farming incentive 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, hedgerows and soil carbon 🌳, and more!

Read it here ➡️ bit.ly/42UNiJW

#TheWeekInSoil

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Get excited when I get purple first

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Possum walking on a power line and stationary while a photo taken at night

Living in suburbia doesn't mean you don't host wildlife, Brush-tailed possum leaving the chimney they reside in for the night! #wildlifephotography #possum Magic.

global map showing where research on ants, termites and earthworms and soil modification

Haven't posted for a while. But a recent article in NATURE talking about invertebrates as ecosystem engineers caught my eye, given the small orange square in the SW of Western Australia was where I did my PhD research on ants and bioturbation. rdcu.be/d9NVa #ants #soil

New Cross-Compliance Rules for Peatlands and Wetlands in Scotland - Farming and Water Scotland January 2025 introduced new cross compliance requirements focusing on peatlands and wetlands. So what do you need to know?

From 1 January 2025, new cross-compliance requirements under Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition (GAEC 6 – Maintenance of #Soil Organic Matter) came into effect, focusing on #peatlands and #wetlands. Find out what you need to know.

BIG NEWS!!!!

We're pleased to announce that we've been granted a UK patent (GB 2 623 382) for our Soil Acoustic Meter (SAM), with EU and other world-wide patents pending.

Find out more: bakerconsultants.co.uk/news/patent-...

#soilacoustics #soilhealth #livingsoils #ecoacoustics #savesoil #regenag

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