The abandonment of agricultural land has strong implications for the environment and societal wellbeing. Combining field monitoring data with a detailed analysis existing literature, we explored potential factors impacting variability annual/biennial perennial plant species. We identified plants covering sandy Arenosols under use at least 50 years as 1995 in order to define strategy their resto...

The landscape of the study area (fig. 1,2) is underlain by coversand, deposited during the Late Glacial of the Weichselian. In the Preboreal, aeolian processes reduced soil formation (Stichting voor Bodemkaratering, 1972) and from the Preboreal to the Atlantic a deciduous climax forest developed (Janssen, 1974). The geomorphology was a coversand landscape, composed of ridges (umbric podzols), c...

Soil organic carbon (SOC) contributes to agrosystem productivity. Understanding how farming practices implemented by smallholders affect the levels and distribution of SOC in (C) pools with different stabilities is essential sub-Saharan Arenosols where mineralization intense. The stability was studied thermal (Therm-C), physical (particulate matter >50 μm, POM-C fine soil fractions <50 FF-C), c...

The soils of Gadas, object the present study, are identified on macromorphological, physico-chemical level and indices erodibility related to their properties. analyzes were carried out by standard methods. macromorphological analysis a toposequence made it possible identify five types soils: lithosols which occupy high zones landscape, colluvial (arenosols, regosols) located piedmont, alluvial...

Abstract To understand the role of microorganisms in functioning forest ecosystems, structure bacterial communities and enzymatic activity were determined soils representing following soil subtypes: Eutric/Dystric Brunic Arenosols (A), Eutric/Endocalcaric Cambisols (C), Haplic/Albic Luvisols (L). Their microbiological biochemical properties compared based on counts diversity, activities seven e...

Soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks at national level were estimated to provide more accurate estimates on SOC for the Lithuanian GHG inventory. The in forest floor, grassland litter, and mineral or topsoil (0–30 cm) of land, grasslands, croplands estimated. assessment was based floor peat mass, bulk density, concentration 754 permanent observation plots 9 × km grid National Forest Inventory Lithu...