The amplification of global warming in the Northern regions results a higher probability wildfires boreal forests. On forest floor, have long-term effects on vegetation composition as well soil and its microbial communities. A large variety biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) such isoprene, monoterpenes, sesquiterpenes been observed to be emitted from understory floor. Ultimately, fire-...

Abstract The behavior of trace metals may vary strongly in the course volcanic soil development. Cadmium retention soils is specifically important for some Galápagos islands where agriculture leading to anthropogenic Cd contamination. To assess influence development factors on and toxicity, we performed sorption–desorption experiments with topsoils from Islands sampled along gradients (a) subst...

Following the creation of a new organic layer after forest fire, there is an initial build-up phase overall biota. We studied soil nematode community development in chronosequence post-fire coniferous sites relation to different fire severity. The taxonomic and functional composition was analyzed detect immediate changes levels recovery food web structures, i.e., 0, 1, 4, 8, 14, 20, 45, 110 yea...

We report lead isotopic ratios and concentrations from a basaltic soil chronosequence in Hawaii. Substrate ages at the sites range from 300 years to 4.1 million years. All soils show a net addition of Pb above the contributions made by basaltic weathering, indicating that atmospheric deposition of natural or pollutant sources is important across the sequence. Isotopic ratios from the chronoseqe...