• Exploring the mechanisms of diverging mechanical and water stability in macro- and microaggregates 

  Roosch, Svenja; Felde, Vincent J. M. N. L.; Uteau, Daniel; Peth, Stephan (Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, 2024)

  Background: Soil stability is often evaluated using either mechanical or hydraulic stress. The few studies that use both approaches suggest that these two types of stability behave differently. Aims: Our aim was to explore ...
• Complementary effects of sorption and biochemical processing of dissolved organic matter for emerging structure formation controlled by soil texture 

  Bucka, Franziska B.; Felde, Vincent J. M. N. L.; Peth, Stephan; Kögel‐Knabner, Ingrid (Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, 2024)

  Background: Percolating dissolved organic matter (DOM) from the topsoil is considered the main source of subsoil organic carbon (OC) in temperate soils, but knowledge about its influence on OC storage and structure-forming ...
• Volume-related quantification of organic carbon content and cation exchange capacity of macropore surfaces in Bt horizons 

  Leue, Martin; Uteau, Daniel; Peth, Stephan; Beck‐Broichsitter, Steffen; Gerke, Horst H. (Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2020)

  In structured soils, earthworm burrows, root channels, shrinkage cracks, and interaggregate spaces form complex macropore networks relevant for preferential transport, turnover processes, and root growth. Macropore walls ...
• Can we use X-ray CT to generate 3D penetration resistance data? 

  Phalempin, Maxime; Rosskopf, Ulla; Schlüter, Steffen; Vetterlein, Doris; Peth, Stephan (Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier Science, 2023)

  Noninvasive imaging of soils with X-ray CT has proven to be a useful method to assess soil structure from a pore space perspective. In contrast, methods like cone penetration tests reflect soil structure from the perspective ...
• Investigation of Time Dependent Development of Soil Structure and Formation of Macropore Networks as Affected by Various Precrop Species 

  Pagenkemper, Sebastian K.; Puschmann, Daniel Uteau; Peth, Stephan; Horn, Rainer (Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier, 2014)

  A well developed macropore network is advantageous in terms of transport processes regarding gas and water, as well as nutrient acquisition and root growth of crops. X-ray computed tomography provides a non-destructive ...
• Separation of soil macropore types in three-dimensional X-ray computed tomography images based on pore geometry characteristics 

  Leue, Martin; Uteau-Puschmann, Daniel; Peth, Stephan; Nellesen, Jens; Kodešová, Radka; Gerke, Horst H. (Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2019)

  In structured soils, earthworm burrows, root channels, shrinkage cracks, and interaggregate spaces form complex macropore networks. Depending on the type and morphological properties, each macropore surface type is coated ...
• Characterizing uncertainty in process-based hydraulic modeling, exemplified in a semiarid Inner Mongolia steppe 

  Zhao, Ying; Wang, Haixia; Song, Bing; Xue, Pengfei; Zhang, Wangchen; Peth, Stephan; Lee Hill, Robert; Horn, Rainer (Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier Science, 2023)

  Assessing root sources of three uncertainties – parameterization of soil hydraulic characteristics, boundary conditions, and estimation of source/sink terms – is a significant challenge in soil water transport modeling. ...
• In Situ X-Ray Tomography Imaging of Soil Water and Cyanobacteria From Biological Soil Crusts Undergoing Desiccation 

  Couradeau, Estelle; Felde, Vincent J. M. N. L.; Parkinson, Dilworth; Uteau, Daniel; Rochet, Alexis; Cuellar, Charlene; Winegar, Geoffrey; Peth, Stephan; Northen, Trent R.; Garcia-Pichel, Ferran (Lausanne : Frontiers Media, 2018)

  Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) are millimeter-sized microbial communities developing on the topsoils of arid lands that cover some 12% of Earth's continental area. Biocrusts consist of an assemblage of mineral soil ...
• Millimetre scale aeration of the rhizosphere and drilosphere 

  Uteau, Daniel; Horn, Rainer; Peth, Stephan (Oxford [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell, 2022)

  Soil aeration is a critical factor for oxygen-limited subsoil processes, as transport by diffusion and advection is restricted by the long distance to the free atmosphere. Oxygen transport into the soil matrix is highly ...
• Modeling the impact of biopores on root growth and root water uptake 

  Landl, Magdalena; Schnepf, Andrea; Uteau, Daniel; Peth, Stephan; Athmann, Miriam; Kautz, Timo; Perkons, Ute; Vereecken, Harry; Vanderborght, Jan (Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2019)

  Roots are known to use biopores as preferential growth pathways to overcome hard soil layers and access subsoil water resources. This study evaluates root- biopore interactions at the root-system scale under different soil ...
• Wet sieving versus dry crushing: Soil microaggregates reveal different physical structure, bacterial diversity and organic matter composition in a clay gradient 

  Felde, Vincent J.M.N.L.; Schweizer, Steffen A.; Biesgen, Danh; Ulbrich, Angela; Uteau, Daniel; Knief, Claudia; Graf‐Rosenfellner, Markus; Kögel‐Knabner, Ingrid; Peth, Stephan (Oxford [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell, 2021)

  Soil microaggregates contain particles of different sizes, which may affect their potential to store organic carbon (OC). A variety of methods can be used to isolate microaggregates from the larger soil structures, among ...
• Effects of mucilage concentration at different water contents on mechanical stability and elasticity in a loamy and a sandy soil 

  Rosskopf, Ulla; Uteau, Daniel; Peth, Stephan (Oxford [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell, 2022)

  Mucilage released by plant roots affects hydrological and mechanical properties of the rhizosphere. The aim of this study was to disentangle the effects of the factors mucilage and soil moisture on a range of soil mechanical ...
• Study of milling time impact on hydrogen desorption from LiAlH4-Fe2O3 composites 

  Milanovic, Igor; Milosevic-Govedarovic, Sanja; Lukic, Miodrag; Jovanovic, Zoran; Rmus, Jelena; Mitrovic-Rajic, Andjela; Grbovic-Novakovic, Jasmina; Kurko, Sandra (Novi Sad : Faculty of Technology, University of Novi Sad, 2022)

  LiAlH4 was modified by mechanical milling and with the addition of 5 wt.% Fe2O3 in order to improve its hydrogen desorption properties. The composite was milled for 1, 3, 5, 7 or 15 min, and depending on the milling time, ...
• Land use change impacts on floods at the catchment scale: Challenges and opportunities for future research 

  Rogger, M.; Agnoletti, M.; Alaoui, A.; Bathurst, J.C.; Bodner, G.; Borga, M.; Chaplot, V.; Gallart, F.; Glatzel, G.; Hall, J.; Holden, J.; Holko, L.; Horn, R.; Kiss, A.; Kohnová, S.; Leitinger, G.; Lennartz, B.; Parajka, J.; Perdigão, R.; Peth, S.; Plavcová, L.; Quinton, J.N.; Robinson, M.; Salinas, J.L.; Santoro, A.; Szolgay, J.; Tron, S.; van den Akker, J. J. H.; Viglione, A.; Blöschl, G. ([New York] : Wiley, 2017)

  Research gaps in understanding flood changes at the catchment scale caused by changes in forest management, agricultural practices, artificial drainage, and terracing are identified. Potential strategies in addressing these ...
• Challenges in imaging and predictive modeling of rhizosphere processes 

  Roose, T.; Keyes, S.D.; Daly, K.R.; Carminati, A.; Otten, W.; Vetterlein, D.; Peth, S. (Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2016)

  Background: Plant-soil interaction is central to human food production and ecosystem function. Thus, it is essential to not only understand, but also to develop predictive mathematical models which can be used to assess ...
• Modeling of coupled water and heat transfer in freezing and thawing soils, Inner Mongolia 

  Zhao, Ying; Si, Bingcheng; He, Hailong; Xu, Jinghui; Peth, Stephan; Horn, Rainer (Basel : MDPI, 2016)

  Accurate simulation of soil water and heat transfer is critical to understand surface hydrology under cold conditions. Using an extended freezing code in HYDRUS-1D (freezing module), this study was conducted: (1) to evaluate ...
• Comment on ‘Kidron, G. J. (2018). Biocrust research: A critical view on eight common hydrological-related paradigms and dubious theses. Ecohydrology, e2061’ 

  Felde, Vincent John Martin Noah Linus; Rodriguez‐Caballero, Emilio; Chamizo, Sonia; Rossi, Federico; Uteau, Daniel; Peth, Stephan; Keck, Hannes; De Philippis, Roberto; Belnap, Jayne; Eldridge, David J. (Chichester : Wiley, 2020)

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• Development and analysis of the Soil Water Infiltration Global database 

  Rahmati, Mehdi; Weihermüller, Lutz; Vanderborght, Jan; Pachepsky, Yakov A.; Mao, Lili; Sadeghi, Seyed Hamidreza; Moosavi, Niloofar; Kheirfam, Hossein; Montzka, Carsten; Van Looy, Kris; Toth, Brigitta; Hazbavi, Zeinab; Al Yamani, Wafa; Albalasmeh, Ammar A.; Alghzawi, Ma'in Z.; Angulo-Jaramillo, Rafael; Antonino, Antônio Celso Dantas; Arampatzis, George; Armindo, Robson André; Asadi, Hossein; Bamutaze, Yazidhi; Batlle-Aguilar, Jordi; Béchet, Béatrice; Becker, Fabian; Blöschl, Günter; Bohne, Klaus; Braud, Isabelle; Castellano, Clara; Cerdà, Artemi; Chalhoub, Maha; Cichota, Rogerio; Císlerová, Milena; Clothier, Brent; Coquet, Yves; Cornelis, Wim; Corradini, Corrado; Coutinho, Artur Paiva; de Oliveira, Muriel Bastista; de Macedo, José Ronaldo; Durães, Matheus Fonseca; Emami, Hojat; Eskandari, Iraj; Farajnia, Asghar; Flammini, Alessia; Fodor, Nándor; Gharaibeh, Mamoun; Ghavimipanah, Mohamad Hossein; Ghezzehei, Teamrat A.; Giertz, Simone; Hatzigiannakis, Evangelos G.; Horn, Rainer; Jiménez, Juan José; Jacques, Diederik; Keesstra, Saskia Deborah; Kelishadi, Hamid; Kiani-Harchegani, Mahboobeh; Kouselou, Mehdi; Kumar Jha, Madan; Lassabatere, Laurent; Li, Xiaoyan; Liebig, Mark A.; Lichner, Lubomír; López, María Victoria; Machiwal, Deepesh; Mallants, Dirk; Mallmann, Micael Stolben; de Oliveira Marques, Jean Dalmo; Marshall, Miles R.; Mertens, Jan; Meunier, Félicien; Mohammadi, Mohammad Hossein; Mohanty, Binayak P.; Pulido-Moncada, Mansonia; Montenegro, Suzana; Morbidelli, Renato; Moret-Fernández, David; Moosavi, Ali Akbar; Mosaddeghi, Mohammad Reza; Mousavi, Seyed Bahman; Mozaffari, Hasan; Nabiollahi, Kamal; Neyshabouri, Mohammad Reza; Ottoni, Marta Vasconcelos; Ottoni Filho, Theophilo Benedicto; Pahlavan-Rad, Mohammad Reza; Panagopoulos, Andreas; Peth, Stephan; Peyneau, Pierre-Emmanuel; Picciafuoco, Tommaso; Poesen, Jean; Pulido, Manuel; Reinert, Dalvan José; Reinsch, Sabine; Rezaei, Meisam; Roberts, Francis Parry; Robinson, David; Rodrigo-Comino, Jesús; Rotunno Filho, Otto Corrêa; Saito, Tadaomi; Suganuma, Hideki; Saltalippi, Carla; Sándor, Renáta; Schütt, Brigitta; Seeger, Manuel; Sepehrnia, Nasrollah; Sharifi Moghaddam, Ehsan; Shukla, Manoj; Shutaro, Shiraki; Sorando, Ricardo; Stanley, Ajayi Asishana; Strauss, Peter; Su, Zhongbo; Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi, Ruhollah; Taguas, Encarnación; Teixeira, Wenceslau Geraldes; Vaezi, Ali Reza; Vafakhah, Mehdi; Vogel, Tomas; Vogeler, Iris; Votrubova, Jana; Werner, Steffen; Winarski, Thierry; Yilmaz, Deniz; Young, Michael H.; Zacharias, Steffen; Zeng, Yijian; Zhao, Ying; Zhao, Hong; Vereecken, Harry (Katlenburg-Lindau : Copernics Publications, 2018)

  In this paper, we present and analyze a novel global database of soil infiltration measurements, the Soil Water Infiltration Global (SWIG) database. In total, 5023 infiltration curves were collected across all continents ...
• Distinct Microbial Taxa Are Associated with LDL-Cholesterol Reduction after 12 Weeks of Lactobacillus plantarum Intake in Mild Hypercholesterolemia: Results of a Randomized Controlled Study 

  Kerlikowsky, Felix; Müller, Mattea; Greupner, Theresa; Amend, Lena; Strowig, Till; Hahn, Andreas (New York, NY [u.a.] : Springer, 2023)

  Probiotic microbes such as Lactobacillus may reduce serum total cholesterol (TC) and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol. The objective of this study was to assess the effect of Lactobacillus plantarum strains CECT7527, ...
• Evidence for high-frequency oxygenation of Ediacaran shelf seafloor during early evolution of complex life 

  Jiao, Liangxuan; She, Zhenbing; Papineau, Dominic; Zhang, Chao; Algeo, Thomas J.; Dodd, Matthew S.; Luo, Genming; Cao, Kenan; Li, Chao (London : Springer Nature, 2023)

  Increasing oxygenation of the early Ediacaran Ocean is thought to have been responsible for the emergence of early animals. Although geochemical studies have suggested periods of oceanic oxygenation in the Ediacaran, direct ...

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