Soil needs to be dried in order to determine water content, soil organic carbon content (SOC) and total nitrogen content (N). Water content is commonly measured using standard methods that involve drying temperatures of ...

Agricultural soils are important C reservoirs that influence global climate change. Plants modulate the soil environment by reduced C release from their roots or through rapid nutrient uptake from the soil by their related ...

Turbic Cryosols (permafrost soils characterized by cryoturbation, i.e., by mixing of soil layers due to freezing and thawing) are widespread across the Arctic, and contain large amounts of poorly decomposed organic material ...

Soils represent a major terrestrial carbon (C) reservoir and are herewith an important constituent of global climate change. They can act either as C sinks or as C sources, depending on the respective environmental conditions ...