Soils deliver multiple ecosystem services and their long-term sustainability is fundamentally controlled by the rates at which they form erode. Our knowledge understanding of soil formation not commensurate with that erosion, in part due to difficulty measuring former. However, developments cosmogenic radionuclide accumulation models have enabled scientists more accurately constrain soils from ...

The environmental factors controlling soil biodiversity along resource gradients remain poorly understood in wet tropical ecosystems. Aboveground is expected to be driven by changes nutrient availability these ecosystems, however, much less known about the importance of driving biodiversity. Here, we combined a cross-continental survey across regions with three decades' field experiment adding ...

In Central and Eastern Europe, research has been focused on loess associated with a plateau-setting, which preserves distinct well-developed palaeosol units linked to orbital scale changes. This led the view that during last glacial period Middle Lower Danube predominantly experienced dry continental climates supported steppic environments. However outside of typical plateau setting, some autho...

macro and micromorphological investigations were conducted on selected xerepts soils from southern iran to identify changes in soil characteristics with time. soil samples from similar pedons of four irrigated orchards ranging in age from 20 to 100 years were studied and compared with soil samples of a pedon of non-irrigated land. in addition to routine analyses, undisturbed blocks of soils...

The westerlies play an important role in driving climate change the Tibetan Plateau (TP). However, little is known about history of TP owing to limited observations and a lack robust reconstructions. widely distributed eolian loess eastern one ideal materials retrieve intensity for westerlies. A detailed grain-size endmember model analysis (EMMA) on Ganzi sequence located revealed that EMMA dec...

This work aims to characterize serpentine soils in Bulgaria and examine the biogeochemistry of pedogenic Ni its relation available forms. Soils were collected from Eastern Southern Rhodopes (Bulgaria). The chemical composition is similar Balkan Peninsula characterized by high contents (919.9–2397.2 mg.kg–1). had a neutral slightly alkaline reaction (pH 6.4 7.6) medium organic matter content. Of...

Pedogenesis and clay mineralogy of soils and rock samples were studied in a transect of calcareous, gypsiferous, saline soils and sediments of Bakhtegan lake bank in southern Iran. The main objectives of study were to determine the occurrence of clay minerals and factors controlling their distribution pattern and relative abundance in soils and parent materials. The soil parent material is high...