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Volume 2, 2016

Volumes and issues

Volume 2, 2016

15 Jan 2016

Development of a statistical tool for the estimation of riverbank erosion probability

E. A. Varouchakis, G. V. Giannakis, M. A. Lilli, E. Ioannidou, N. P. Nikolaidis, and G. P. Karatzas

SOIL, 2, 1–11, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-1-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-1-2016, 2016

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18 Jan 2016

On the rebound: soil organic carbon stocks can bounce back to near forest levels when agroforests replace agriculture in southern India

H. C. Hombegowda, O. van Straaten, M. Köhler, and D. Hölscher

SOIL, 2, 13–23, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-13-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-13-2016, 2016

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18 Jan 2016

Pedotransfer functions for Irish soils – estimation of bulk density (ρ_b) per horizon type

B. Reidy, I. Simo, P. Sills, and R. E. Creamer

SOIL, 2, 25–39, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-25-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-25-2016, 2016

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21 Jan 2016

Quantification of the inevitable: the influence of soil macrofauna on soil water movement in rehabilitated open-cut mined lands

S. Arnold and E. R. Williams

SOIL, 2, 41–48, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-41-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-41-2016, 2016

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21 Jan 2016

Tree species and functional traits but not species richness affect interrill erosion processes in young subtropical forests

S. Seitz, P. Goebes, Z. Song, H. Bruelheide, W. Härdtle, P. Kühn, Y. Li, and T. Scholten

SOIL, 2, 49–61, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-49-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-49-2016, 2016

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12 Feb 2016

Effects of land use changes on the dynamics of selected soil properties in northeast Wellega, Ethiopia

Alemayehu Adugna and Assefa Abegaz

SOIL, 2, 63–70, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-63-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-63-2016, 2016

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17 Feb 2016

Potential effects of vinasse as a soil amendment to control runoff and soil loss

Z. Hazbavi and S. H. R. Sadeghi

SOIL, 2, 71–78, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-71-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-71-2016, 2016

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29 Feb 2016

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World's soils are under threat

Luca Montanarella, Daniel Jon Pennock, Neil McKenzie, Mohamed Badraoui, Victor Chude, Isaurinda Baptista, Tekalign Mamo, Martin Yemefack, Mikha Singh Aulakh, Kazuyuki Yagi, Suk Young Hong, Pisoot Vijarnsorn, Gan-Lin Zhang, Dominique Arrouays, Helaina Black, Pavel Krasilnikov, Jaroslava Sobocká, Julio Alegre, Carlos Roberto Henriquez, Maria de Lourdes Mendonça-Santos, Miguel Taboada, David Espinosa-Victoria, Abdullah AlShankiti, Sayed Kazem AlaviPanah, Elsiddig Ahmed El Mustafa Elsheikh, Jon Hempel, Marta Camps Arbestain, Freddy Nachtergaele, and Ronald Vargas

SOIL, 2, 79–82, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-79-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-79-2016, 2016

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29 Feb 2016

Soil properties and not inputs control carbon : nitrogen : phosphorus ratios in cropped soils in the long term

Emmanuel Frossard, Nina Buchmann, Else K. Bünemann, Delwende I. Kiba, François Lompo, Astrid Oberson, Federica Tamburini, and Ouakoltio Y. A. Traoré

SOIL, 2, 83–99, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-83-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-83-2016, 2016

09 Mar 2016

Soil microbial communities following bush removal in a Namibian savanna

Jeffrey S. Buyer, Anne Schmidt-Küntzel, Matti Nghikembua, Jude E. Maul, and Laurie Marker

SOIL, 2, 101–110, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-101-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-101-2016, 2016

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07 Apr 2016

The significance of soils and soil science towards realization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Saskia D. Keesstra, Johan Bouma, Jakob Wallinga, Pablo Tittonell, Pete Smith, Artemi Cerdà, Luca Montanarella, John N. Quinton, Yakov Pachepsky, Wim H. van der Putten, Richard D. Bardgett, Simon Moolenaar, Gerben Mol, Boris Jansen, and Louise O. Fresco

SOIL, 2, 111–128, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-111-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-111-2016, 2016

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14 Apr 2016

Zero net livelihood degradation – the quest for a multidimensional protocol to combat desertification

Marcos H. Easdale

SOIL, 2, 129–134, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-129-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-129-2016, 2016

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20 Apr 2016

Facing policy challenges with inter- and transdisciplinary soil research focused on the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Johan Bouma and Luca Montanarella

SOIL, 2, 135–145, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-135-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-135-2016, 2016

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21 Apr 2016

Organic wastes from bioenergy and ecological sanitation as a soil fertility improver: a field experiment in a tropical Andosol

Ariane Krause, Thomas Nehls, Eckhard George, and Martin Kaupenjohann

SOIL, 2, 147–162, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-147-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-147-2016, 2016

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22 Apr 2016

Interactions between organisms and parent materials of a constructed Technosol shape its hydrostructural properties

Maha Deeb, Michel Grimaldi, Thomas Z. Lerch, Anne Pando, Agnès Gigon, and Manuel Blouin

SOIL, 2, 163–174, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-163-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-163-2016, 2016

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25 Apr 2016

Effect of grassland cutting frequency on soil carbon storage – a case study on public lawns in three Swedish cities

C. Poeplau, H. Marstorp, K. Thored, and T. Kätterer

SOIL, 2, 175–184, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-175-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-175-2016, 2016

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10 May 2016

Switchgrass ecotypes alter microbial contribution to deep-soil C

Damaris Roosendaal, Catherine E. Stewart, Karolien Denef, Ronald F. Follett, Elizabeth Pruessner, Louise H. Comas, Gary E. Varvel, Aaron Saathoff, Nathan Palmer, Gautam Sarath, Virginia L. Jin, Marty Schmer, and Madhavan Soundararajan

SOIL, 2, 185–197, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-185-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-185-2016, 2016

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19 May 2016

Fire affects root decomposition, soil food web structure, and carbon flow in tallgrass prairie

E. Ashley Shaw, Karolien Denef, Cecilia Milano de Tomasel, M. Francesca Cotrufo, and Diana H. Wall

SOIL, 2, 199–210, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-199-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-199-2016, 2016

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19 May 2016

Synchrotron microtomographic quantification of geometrical soil pore characteristics affected by compaction

Ranjith P. Udawatta, Clark J. Gantzer, Stephen H. Anderson, and Shmuel Assouline

SOIL, 2, 211–220, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-211-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-211-2016, 2016

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07 Jun 2016

Arctic soil development on a series of marine terraces on central Spitsbergen, Svalbard: a combined geochronology, fieldwork and modelling approach

W. Marijn van der Meij, Arnaud J. A. M. Temme, Christian M. F. J. J. de Kleijn, Tony Reimann, Gerard B. M. Heuvelink, Zbigniew Zwoliński, Grzegorz Rachlewicz, Krzysztof Rymer, and Michael Sommer

SOIL, 2, 221–240, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-221-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-221-2016, 2016

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20 Jun 2016

Nonstationarity of the electrical resistivity and soil moisture relationship in a heterogeneous soil system: a case study

Didier Michot, Zahra Thomas, and Issifou Adam

SOIL, 2, 241–255, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-241-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-241-2016, 2016

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20 Jun 2016

Technological advancements and their importance for nematode identification

Mohammed Ahmed, Melanie Sapp, Thomas Prior, Gerrit Karssen, and Matthew Alan Back

SOIL, 2, 257–270, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-257-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-257-2016, 2016

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20 Jun 2016

Soil archives of a Fluvisol: subsurface analysis and soil history of the medieval city centre of Vlaardingen, the Netherlands – an integral approach

Sjoerd Kluiving, Tim de Ridder, Marcel van Dasselaar, Stan Roozen, and Maarten Prins

SOIL, 2, 271–285, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-271-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-271-2016, 2016

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28 Jun 2016

Climate and soil factors influencing seedling recruitment of plant species used for dryland restoration

Miriam Muñoz-Rojas, Todd E. Erickson, Dylan C. Martini, Kingsley W. Dixon, and David J. Merritt

SOIL, 2, 287–298, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-287-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-287-2016, 2016

04 Jul 2016

The added value of biomarker analysis to the genesis of plaggic Anthrosols; the identification of stable fillings used for the production of plaggic manure

Jan M. van Mourik, Thomas V. Wagner, J. Geert de Boer, and Boris Jansen

SOIL, 2, 299–310, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-299-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-299-2016, 2016

04 Jul 2016

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The impact of ancestral heath management on soils and landscapes: a reconstruction based on paleoecological analyses of soil records in the central and southeastern Netherlands

Marieke Doorenbosch and Jan M. van Mourik

SOIL, 2, 311–324, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-311-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-311-2016, 2016

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12 Jul 2016

Gone or just out of sight? The apparent disappearance of aromatic litter components in soils

Thimo Klotzbücher, Karsten Kalbitz, Chiara Cerli, Peter J. Hernes, and Klaus Kaiser

SOIL, 2, 325–335, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-325-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-325-2016, 2016

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21 Jul 2016

Sediment concentration rating curves for a monsoonal climate: upper Blue Nile

Mamaru A. Moges, Fasikaw A. Zemale, Muluken L. Alemu, Getaneh K. Ayele, Dessalegn C. Dagnew, Seifu A. Tilahun, and Tammo S. Steenhuis

SOIL, 2, 337–349, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-337-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-337-2016, 2016

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22 Jul 2016

Thermal alteration of soil physico-chemical properties: a systematic study to infer response of Sierra Nevada climosequence soils to forest fires

Samuel N. Araya, Mercer Meding, and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe

SOIL, 2, 351–366, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-351-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-351-2016, 2016

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22 Jul 2016

An insight into pre-Columbian raised fields: the case of San Borja, Bolivian lowlands

Leonor Rodrigues, Umberto Lombardo, Mareike Trauerstein, Perrine Huber, Sandra Mohr, and Heinz Veit

SOIL, 2, 367–389, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-367-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-367-2016, 2016

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03 Aug 2016

Quantification of the impact of hydrology on agricultural production as a result of too dry, too wet or too saline conditions

Mirjam J. D. Hack-ten Broeke, Joop G. Kroes, Ruud P. Bartholomeus, Jos C. van Dam, Allard J. W. de Wit, Iwan Supit, Dennis J. J. Walvoort, P. Jan T. van Bakel, and Rob Ruijtenberg

SOIL, 2, 391–402, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-391-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-391-2016, 2016

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12 Aug 2016

Soil CO₂ efflux in an old-growth southern conifer forest (Agathis australis) – magnitude, components and controls

Luitgard Schwendenmann and Cate Macinnis-Ng

SOIL, 2, 403–419, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-403-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-403-2016, 2016

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12 Aug 2016

Characterization of stony soils' hydraulic conductivity using laboratory and numerical experiments

Eléonore Beckers, Mathieu Pichault, Wanwisa Pansak, Aurore Degré, and Sarah Garré

SOIL, 2, 421–431, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-421-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-421-2016, 2016

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06 Sep 2016

Simultaneous quantification of depolymerization and mineralization rates by a novel ¹⁵N tracing model

Louise C. Andresen, Anna-Karin Björsne, Samuel Bodé, Leif Klemedtsson, Pascal Boeckx, and Tobias Rütting

SOIL, 2, 433–442, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-433-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-433-2016, 2016

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07 Sep 2016

Morphological dynamics of gully systems in the subhumid Ethiopian Highlands: the Debre Mawi watershed

Assefa D. Zegeye, Eddy J. Langendoen, Cathelijne R. Stoof, Seifu A. Tilahun, Dessalegn C. Dagnew, Fasikaw A. Zimale, Christian D. Guzman, Birru Yitaferu, and Tammo S. Steenhuis

SOIL, 2, 443–458, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-443-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-443-2016, 2016

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08 Sep 2016

Soil bacterial community and functional shifts in response to altered snowpack in moist acidic tundra of northern Alaska

Michael P. Ricketts, Rachel S. Poretsky, Jeffrey M. Welker, and Miquel A. Gonzalez-Meler

SOIL, 2, 459–474, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-459-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-459-2016, 2016

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15 Sep 2016

Tillage-induced short-term soil organic matter turnover and respiration

Sebastian Rainer Fiedler, Peter Leinweber, Gerald Jurasinski, Kai-Uwe Eckhardt, and Stephan Glatzel

SOIL, 2, 475–486, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-475-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-475-2016, 2016

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21 Sep 2016

Citrate and malonate increase microbial activity and alter microbial community composition in uncontaminated and diesel-contaminated soil microcosms

Belinda C. Martin, Suman J. George, Charles A. Price, Esmaeil Shahsavari, Andrew S. Ball, Mark Tibbett, and Megan H. Ryan

SOIL, 2, 487–498, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-487-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-487-2016, 2016

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04 Oct 2016

Enzymatic biofilm digestion in soil aggregates facilitates the release of particulate organic matter by sonication

Frederick Büks and Martin Kaupenjohann

SOIL, 2, 499–509, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-499-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-499-2016, 2016

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10 Oct 2016

Knowledge needs, available practices, and future challenges in agricultural soils

Georgina Key, Mike G. Whitfield, Julia Cooper, Franciska T. De Vries, Martin Collison, Thanasis Dedousis, Richard Heathcote, Brendan Roth, Shamal Mohammed, Andrew Molyneux, Wim H. Van der Putten, Lynn V. Dicks, William J. Sutherland, and Richard D. Bardgett

SOIL, 2, 511–521, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-511-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-511-2016, 2016

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19 Oct 2016

Soil denitrifier community size changes with land use change to perennial bioenergy cropping systems

Karen A. Thompson, Bill Deen, and Kari E. Dunfield

SOIL, 2, 523–535, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-523-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-523-2016, 2016

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21 Oct 2016

Paleosols can promote root growth of recent vegetation – a case study from the sandy soil–sediment sequence Rakt, the Netherlands

Martina I. Gocke, Fabian Kessler, Jan M. van Mourik, Boris Jansen, and Guido L. B. Wiesenberg

SOIL, 2, 537–549, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-537-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-537-2016, 2016

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25 Oct 2016

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Leaf waxes in litter and topsoils along a European transect

Imke K. Schäfer, Verena Lanny, Jörg Franke, Timothy I. Eglinton, Michael Zech, Barbora Vysloužilová, and Roland Zech

SOIL, 2, 551–564, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-551-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-551-2016, 2016

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01 Nov 2016

Soil fauna: key to new carbon models

Juliane Filser, Jack H. Faber, Alexei V. Tiunov, Lijbert Brussaard, Jan Frouz, Gerlinde De Deyn, Alexei V. Uvarov, Matty P. Berg, Patrick Lavelle, Michel Loreau, Diana H. Wall, Pascal Querner, Herman Eijsackers, and Juan José Jiménez

SOIL, 2, 565–582, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-565-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-565-2016, 2016

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02 Nov 2016

Soil microbial biomass and function are altered by 12 years of crop rotation

Marshall D. McDaniel and A. Stuart Grandy

SOIL, 2, 583–599, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-583-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-583-2016, 2016

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30 Nov 2016

Long-term elevation of temperature affects organic N turnover and associated N₂O emissions in a permanent grassland soil

Anne B. Jansen-Willems, Gary J. Lanigan, Timothy J. Clough, Louise C. Andresen, and Christoph Müller

SOIL, 2, 601–614, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-601-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-601-2016, 2016

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09 Dec 2016

Deriving pedotransfer functions for soil quartz fraction in southern France from reverse modeling

Jean-Christophe Calvet, Noureddine Fritz, Christine Berne, Bruno Piguet, William Maurel, and Catherine Meurey

SOIL, 2, 615–629, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-615-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-615-2016, 2016

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12 Dec 2016

Water in the critical zone: soil, water and life from profile to planet

M. J. Kirkby

SOIL, 2, 631–645, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-631-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-631-2016, 2016

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15 Dec 2016

Sensitivity analysis of point and parametric pedotransfer functions for estimating water retention of soils in Algeria

Sami Touil, Aurore Degre, and Mohamed Nacer Chabaca

SOIL, 2, 647–657, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-647-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-647-2016, 2016

15 Dec 2016

Three-dimensional soil organic matter distribution, accessibility and microbial respiration in macroaggregates using osmium staining and synchrotron X-ray computed tomography

Barry G. Rawlins, Joanna Wragg, Christina Reinhard, Robert C. Atwood, Alasdair Houston, R. Murray Lark, and Sebastian Rudolph

SOIL, 2, 659–671, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-659-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-659-2016, 2016

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21 Dec 2016

The effects of worms, clay and biochar on CO₂ emissions during production and soil application of co-composts

Justine Barthod, Cornélia Rumpel, Remigio Paradelo, and Marie-France Dignac

SOIL, 2, 673–683, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-673-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-673-2016, 2016

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