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View article: The Use of Ecoacoustics to Monitor Soil Ecology: A Critical Review With Reference to Earthworms
The Use of Ecoacoustics to Monitor Soil Ecology: A Critical Review With Reference to Earthworms Open
The use of ecoacoustics to monitor soil ecology was identified as a priority in the 2024 horizon scan of global biological conservation issues. Proponents suggest it will have societal impacts by improving soil health assessments, enhance …
View article: Putting numbers to a metaphor: A Bayesian Belief Network with which to infer Soil Quality and Health
Putting numbers to a metaphor: A Bayesian Belief Network with which to infer Soil Quality and Health Open
Soil Quality or Soil Health are terms adopted by the scientific community as metaphors for the effects of differing land management practices on the properties and functions of soil. Because they are metaphors, consistent quantitative defi…
View article: Temperate Soils Exposed to Drought—Key Processes, Impacts, Indicators, and Unknowns
Temperate Soils Exposed to Drought—Key Processes, Impacts, Indicators, and Unknowns Open
The summer drought in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2022 produced significant speculation concerning how its termination may impact and interact with the soil resource. Whilst knowledge regarding soils and droughts exists in the scientific li…
View article: The effects of land use on soil carbon stocks in the UK
The effects of land use on soil carbon stocks in the UK Open
Greenhouse gas stabilisation in the atmosphere is one of the most pressing challenges of this century. Sequestering carbon in the soil by changing land use and management is increasingly proposed as part of climate mitigation strategies, b…
View article: Five decades' experience of long‐term soil monitoring, and key design principles, to assist the <scp>EU</scp> soil health mission
Five decades' experience of long‐term soil monitoring, and key design principles, to assist the <span>EU</span> soil health mission Open
The European Union has a long‐term objective to achieve healthy soils by 2050. The European Commission has proposed a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Soil Monitoring and Resilience (Soil Monitoring Law, SML), the…
View article: Earthworm records and habitat associations in the British Isles
Earthworm records and habitat associations in the British Isles Open
The National Earthworm Recording Scheme (NERS) is the most comprehensive national database of earthworm species occurrence records for the British Isles, and possibly for any individual country in the world. Utilising the NERS database, we…
View article: Co-located ecological data for exploring top- and subsoil carbon dynamics across grassland-woodland contrasts
Co-located ecological data for exploring top- and subsoil carbon dynamics across grassland-woodland contrasts Open
Soil organic carbon (SOC) is a soil health indicator and understanding dynamics changing SOC stocks will help achieving net zero goals. Here we present four datasets featuring 11,750 data points covering co-located aboveground and below-gr…
View article: Can in-field NIR spectroscopy provide an option for soil carbon monitoring?
Can in-field NIR spectroscopy provide an option for soil carbon monitoring? Open
Current soil sampling methods are expensive, time consuming and destructive. These constraints result in a standard practice that combines samples from a W transect across a field, into one composite sample for laboratory analysis. This pr…
View article: Low risk management intervention: Limited impact of remedial tillage on net ecosystem carbon balance at a commercial Miscanthus plantation
Low risk management intervention: Limited impact of remedial tillage on net ecosystem carbon balance at a commercial Miscanthus plantation Open
Perennial bioenergy crops are a key tool in decarbonizing global energy systems, but to ensure the efficient use of land resources, it is essential that yields and crop longevity are maximized. Remedial shallow surface tillage is being exp…
View article: The Effects of Land Use on Soil Carbon Stocks in the UK
The Effects of Land Use on Soil Carbon Stocks in the UK Open
Greenhouse gas stabilisation in the atmosphere is one of the most pressing challenges of this century. Sequestering carbon in the soil by changing land use and management is increasingly proposed as part of climate mitigation strategies, b…
View article: Make like a tree and leave: How will tree species loss and climate change alter future temperate broadleaved forests?
Make like a tree and leave: How will tree species loss and climate change alter future temperate broadleaved forests? Open
Forest creation has the potential to reduce biodiversity loss and mitigate climate change but, tree disease emergence may counteract this. Further, given decadal timescales required for forest establishment, climate change is increasingly …
View article: Development of soil health benchmarks for managed and semi-natural landscapes
Development of soil health benchmarks for managed and semi-natural landscapes Open
Efforts to improve soil health require that target values of key soil properties are established. No agreed targets exist but providing population data as benchmarks is a useful step to standardise soil health comparison between landscapes…
View article: Towards a standardized protocol to assess natural capital and ecosystem services in solar parks
Towards a standardized protocol to assess natural capital and ecosystem services in solar parks Open
Natural capital and ecosystem services have emerged as fundamental concepts of ecosystem management strategies in the past two decades, particularly within major international land assessment frameworks, including the UN's Millennium Ecosy…
View article: Global meta-analysis of soil hydraulic properties on the same soils with differing land use
Global meta-analysis of soil hydraulic properties on the same soils with differing land use Open
Global land use change has resulted in more pasture and cropland, largely at the expense of woodlands, over the last 300 years. How this change affects soil hydraulic function with regard to feedbacks to the hydrological cycle is unclear f…
View article: Long‐term cattle grazing shifts the ecological state of forest soils
Long‐term cattle grazing shifts the ecological state of forest soils Open
Cattle grazing profoundly affects abiotic and biotic characteristics of ecosystems. While most research has been performed on grasslands, the effect of large managed ungulates on forest ecosystems has largely been neglected. Compared to a …
View article: Long-term cattle grazing shifts the ecological state of forest soils
Long-term cattle grazing shifts the ecological state of forest soils Open
1. Cattle grazing profoundly affects abiotic and biotic characteristics of ecosystems. While most research has been performed on grasslands, the effect of large managed ungulates on forest ecosystems has largely been neglected. 2. Compared…
View article: Molecular data confirms the existence of distinct lineages within Lumbricus friendi (Cognetti 1904) and related “friends”
Molecular data confirms the existence of distinct lineages within Lumbricus friendi (Cognetti 1904) and related “friends” Open
Lumbricus friendi is a lumbricid earthworm mainly found in western Europe, considerably less well studied than its close relative L. terrestris and until now, has not been a subject of taxonomical debate. However, its disjointed geographic…
View article: Integrated ecological monitoring in Wales: the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme field survey
Integrated ecological monitoring in Wales: the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme field survey Open
The Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (GMEP) ran from 2013 until 2016 and was probably the most comprehensive programme of ecological study ever undertaken at a national scale in Wales. The programme aimed to (1) set up an evalua…
View article: Comment on essd-2021-65
Comment on essd-2021-65 Open
Abstract. The Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (GMEP) ran from 2013 until 2016 and was probably the most comprehensive programme of ecological study ever undertaken at a national scale in Wales. The programme aimed to (1)Â set u…
View article: Comment on essd-2021-65
Comment on essd-2021-65 Open
Abstract. The Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (GMEP) ran from 2013 until 2016 and was probably the most comprehensive programme of ecological study ever undertaken at a national scale in Wales. The programme aimed to (1)Â set u…
View article: Putting numbers to a metaphor: Soil Quality, Health or Fitness?
Putting numbers to a metaphor: Soil Quality, Health or Fitness? Open
Soil Quality or Soil Health are terms adopted by the scientific community as a metaphor for the effects of differing land management practices on the properties and functions of soil. Many other terms and metaphors are in use that defy nea…
View article: Integrated ecological monitoring in Wales: the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme field survey
Integrated ecological monitoring in Wales: the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme field survey Open
The Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (GMEP) ran from 2013 until 2016, and was probably the most comprehensive programme of ecological study ever undertaken at a national scale in Wales. The programme aimed to (1) set up an evalu…
View article: Soil carbon stock impacts following reversion of <i>Miscanthus × giganteus</i> and short rotation coppice willow commercial plantations into arable cropping
Soil carbon stock impacts following reversion of <i>Miscanthus × giganteus</i> and short rotation coppice willow commercial plantations into arable cropping Open
There are posited links between the establishment of perennial bioenergy, such as short rotation coppice (SRC) willow and Miscanthus × giganteus , on low carbon soils and enhanced soil C sequestration. Sequestration provides additional cli…
View article: Soil health cluster analysis based on national monitoring of soil indicators
Soil health cluster analysis based on national monitoring of soil indicators Open
A major challenge in soil science is to monitor and understand the state and change of soils at a national scale to inform decision making and policy. To address this, there is a need to identify key parameters for soil health and function…