Soil Health research tends to bias a biology/microbiology emphasis. We believe this neglects important physical and chemical interactions in soil that are crucial function. offer several examples illustrating bias, how it may misrepresent management practices have the greatest influence on Health. Four suggestions given as approaches mitigate bias. By appreciating structure foundation for its m...

Fire is one of the incorporate vegetation management practices for grasslands and semi-arid rangelands. It may affect symbiotic relationship between range plants and mycorrhiza. Accordingly, this research was aimed to investigate the effects of a spring prescribed fire on the symbiotic relationships between mycorrhiza and 6 plant species. The study was conducted in a semi-arid steppe rangeland ...

Soil science is a relatively new discipline which has mainly developed since the 1880s. It uses terms, methods and processes borrowed from other basic disciplines like climatology, geology, chemistry, physics and biology, but with a direct application to soils. At present, it is difficult to speak about one single science but as soil sciences, as they cover several fields including: pedology (o...

Neary, Daniel G. ; Ryan, Kevin C. ; DeBano, Leonard F., eds. 2005. Wildland fire in ecosystems: effects of fire on soi ls and water. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-42-vol.4. Ogden , UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 250 p. This state-of-knowledge review about the effects of fire on soils and water can assist land and fire managers with information on...

Besides forests’ ecosystem services related to biomass production, water cycling, air quality, as well as their cultural and recreational uses, forests also play a key role in term of biodiversity. However, a full understanding of this forest biodiversity is not so easy, even for the forest managers and hikers. Indeed, most visible biodiversity related to forest cover and its associated fauna i...

The resistance encountered by a seedling as it pushes through the soil causes inhibition of stem elongation and stimulates stem thickening, facilitating soil penetration. A new study demonstrates that two proteolytic pathways work in double-negative fashion - one targeting the other - to protect transcription factors central to this response.

O. ANDRÉN , H. KIRCHMANN , T. KÄTTERER , J. MAGID , E. A. PAUL & D. C. COLEMAN TSBF-CIAT, PO Box 30677-00100, Nairobi, Kenya, Department of Soil Sciences, PO Box 7014, SLU, S-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Bülowsvej 17, DK-1870 Frederiksberg C, Denmark, NREL, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1499, USA, and Institute of Ecology, Ecology...