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A chronosequence approach to estimate the regional soil organic carbon stock on moraines of two glacial fore-fields in SE-Iceland

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A standardized soil quality index for diverse field conditions

scientific article published on 24 September 2015

A study of soil erosion rates using 239Pu, in the wet-dry tropics of northern Australia

scientific article published on 13 November 2019

Achieving soil carbon sequestration in the United States: a challenge to the policy makers

Adaptation Strategies for Different Sectors in the WANA Region: Summary of Breakout Group Discussions

Adapting agriculture to drought and extreme events

Addressing our planetary crisis

Aggregate C depletion by plowing and its restoration by diverse biomass-C inputs under no-till in sub-tropical and tropical regions of Brazil

scientific article published on 27 October 2012

Agricultural soils as a sink to mitigate CO2emissions

Agroforestry and biochar to offset climate change: a review

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Agronomic Sustainability of Different Farming Systems on Alfisols in Southwestern Nigeria

Agronomic and Ecological Implications of Biofuels

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Aligning science and policy of regenerative agriculture

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An agent-based model to simulate the cultivation pattern change of farmer households in the North China Plain

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An increase in topsoil SOC stock of China's croplands between 1985 and 2006 revealed by soil monitoring

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Annual Burning Enhances Biomass Production and Nutrient Cycling in DegradedImperataGrasslands

scientific article published on 16 February 2017

Between ice and ocean; soil development along an age chronosequence formed by the retreating Breiðamerkurjökull glacier, SE-Iceland

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Biofuels and the environment

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Biofuels: beware crop residues

scientific article published on 01 December 2009

Biogeochemical C and N cycles in urban soils

scientific article published on 02 July 2008

Can highly weathered soils under conservation agriculture be C saturated?

Carbon Cycling in Global Drylands

scientific article published on 29 May 2019

Carbon Depletion by Plowing and its Restoration by No-Till Cropping Systems in Oxisols of Subtropical and Tropical Agro-Ecoregions in Brazil

scientific article published on 24 March 2013

Carbon sequestration

scientific article (publication date: 27 February 2008)

Carbon sequestration in dryland ecosystems

scientific article published on April 2004

Carbon sequestration in dryland ecosystems of West Asia and North Africa

scientific article published in January 2002

Carbon sequestration in the soils of aquaculture ponds, crop land, and forest land in southern Ohio, USA.

scientific article published on 18 October 2013

Carbon sequestration potential estimates with changes in land use and tillage practice in Ohio, USA

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Changes in soil carbon and nutrient pools along a chronosequence of poplar plantations in the Columbia Plateau, Oregon, USA

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Comparison of soil quality index using three methods

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Conceptual basis of managing soil carbon: Inspired by nature and driven by science

scientific article published in January 2019

Conservation practices to mitigate and adapt to climate change

scholarly article by J. A. Delgado et al published 1 July 2011 in Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

Conservation tillage and nutrient management practices in summer rice ( L.) favoured root growth and phenotypic plasticity of succeeding winter pea (L.) under eastern Himalayas, India

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Contrasting approaches for estimating soil carbon changes in Amazon and Cerrado biomes

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Crop Response in Salt-Affected Soils

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Crop residues: the rest of the story

scientific article published on 01 November 2009

Cropping System and Biomass Burning Effects on Yield Variability Six and Seven Years After Deforestation on an Alfisol in Southwestern Nigeria

article published in 1994

Cropping Systems Effects on Soil Quality in Semi-Arid Tropics

Digging Deeper: A Holistic Perspective of Factors Affecting Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration in Agroecosystems

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Eco-Intensification of agroecosystems to realize the sustainable development goals of the United Nations

scientific article published on 22 July 2021

Ecology. Managing soil carbon

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Ecosystem carbon budgeting and soil carbon sequestration in reclaimed mine soil

scientific article published on 21 June 2006

Ecosystem carbon sequestration through restoration of degraded lands in Northeast India

scientific article published on 14 September 2017

Effect of Slope, Rainfall Intensity and Mulch on Erosion and Infiltration under Simulated Rain on Purple Soil of South-Western Sichuan Province, China

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Effects of 15 years of manure and inorganic fertilizers on soil organic carbon fractions in a wheat-maize system in the North China Plain

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Effects of Climate and Soil Properties on U.S. Home Lawn Soil Organic Carbon Concentration and Pool

scientific article published on September 30, 2012

Effects of Soil Degradation on Crop Productivity in East Africa

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Effects of cattle grazing during the dormant season on soil surface hydrology and physical quality in a moist-temperate region

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Effects of long-term tillage and drainage treatments on greenhouse gas fluxes from a corn field during the fallow period

Effects ofeucalyptusand coniferous plantations on soil properties in Gambo District, southern Ethiopia

scholarly article by Ambachew Demessie et al published December 2011 in Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Section B

Emergy analysis for maize fields under different amendment applications in Guyana

Emission of greenhouse gases and soil carbon sequestration in a riparian marsh wetland in central Ohio

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

Environmental Indicator Principium with Case References to Agricultural Soil, Water, and Air Quality and Model-Derived Indicators

scientific article published on 01 March 2018

Erosional Effects on Soil Properties and Maize Yield on a Volcanic Ash Soil in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania

scholarly article by Per Ivar Våje et al published 24 November 1998 in Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

Estimating net primary production of natural grassland and its spatio-temporal distribution in China

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Ethnopedology and soil quality of bamboo (Bambusa sp.) based agroforestry system

scientific article published on 6 April 2015

Extreme stress threatened double rice production in Southern China during 1981–2010

scientific article published on 28 November 2018

Factors affecting distribution patterns of organic carbon in sediments at regional and national scales in China

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Fate of Soil Carbon Transported by Erosional Processes

Fired Bricks: CO2 Emission and Food Insecurity

scientific article published on 14 April 2018

Food insecurity's dirty secret

scientific article published on 01 October 2008

Food security in a changing climate

Global Potential of Soil Carbon Sequestration to Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect

scientific article published in March 2003

Global Soil Nutrient Depletion and Yield Reduction

Greenhouse gas emissions and global warming potential of reclaimed forest and grassland soils

scientific article published on 6 February 2009

Greenhouse gas fluxes in a no-tillage chronosequence in Central Ohio

Home gardening and urban agriculture for advancing food and nutritional security in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

scientific article published on 23 June 2020

How does no-till deliver carbon stabilization and saturation in highly weathered soils?

Impact of soil erosion on crop yields in North America

Impact of vegetation restoration on plants and soil C:N:P stoichiometry on the Yunwu Mountain Reserve of China

scientific article published on 12 October 2017

Impacts of 1.5-Year Field Aging on Biochar, Humic Acid, and Water Treatment Residual Amended Soil

article published in 2014

Impacts of Biochar and Other Amendments on Soil-Carbon and Nitrogen Stability: A Laboratory Column Study

Impacts of simulated erosion and soil amendments on greenhouse gas fluxes and maize yield in Miamian soil of central Ohio

scientific article published on 11 January 2018

Increase in soil organic carbon by agricultural intensification in northern China

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Lampropedia cohaerens sp. nov., a biofilm forming bacterium isolated from the microbial mats of a hot water spring, located atop the Himalayan ranges at Manikaran, India.

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Land Use and Erosional Effects on Two Ohio Alfisols:

Land Use and Erosional Effects on Two Ohio Alfisols:

Land and Water: Linkages to Bioenergy

Leaching and Plant Uptake of Nitrogen from a Volcanic Ash Soil in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania

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Letter to the Editor: Answer to the Viewpoint "Sequestering Soil Organic Carbon: A Nitrogen Dilemma".

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Life Cycle Assessment of China’s agroecosystems

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Long-Term Effects of Cropping Systems and Fertilizers on Soil Physical Properties

Low-carbon agriculture in South America to mitigate global climate change and advance food security

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Macroaggregation and soil organic carbon restoration in a highly weathered Brazilian Oxisol after two decades under no-till.

scientific article published on 6 November 2017

Management-induced greenhouse gases emission mitigation in global rice production

scientific article published on 29 August 2018

Managing India's small landholder farms for food security and achieving the "4 per Thousand" target

scientific article published on 11 April 2018

Managing Soil Water to Improve Rainfed Agriculture in India

article by Rattan Lal published 11 June 2008 in Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

Managing Soils and Ecosystems for Mitigating Anthropogenic Carbon Emissions and Advancing Global Food Security

scientific article published on 02 October 2010

Mapping the organic carbon stocks of surface soils using local spatial interpolator

scientific article published on October 19, 2011

Matching policy and science: Rationale for the ‘4 per 1000 - soils for food security and climate’ initiative

scholarly article by Jean-Francois Soussana et al published December 2017 in Soil and Tillage Research

Measurement and prediction of enteric methane emission

scientific article published on 01 September 2010

Methane and nitrous oxide emissions under no-till farming in China: a meta-analysis

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Multi-indicator assessment of a water-saving agricultural engineering project in North Beijing, China

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Nanoenhanced Materials for Reclamation of Mine Lands and Other Degraded Soils: A Review

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Natural infrastructure in dryland streams (NIDS) can establish regenerative wetland sinks that reverse desertification and strengthen climate resilience

scientific article published in November 2022

Net carbon sequestration potential and emissions in home lawn turfgrasses of the United States

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No-Till Farming and Conservation Agriculture in South Asia – Issues, Challenges, Prospects and Benefits

scientific article published on 14 July 2020

Organic Carbon Influences on Soil Particle Density and Rheological Properties

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Organic Matter Dynamics and Carbon Sequestration Rates for a Tillage Chronosequence in a Brazilian Oxisol

article published in 2001

Pay dirt! human health depends on soil health

scientific article published on 24 April 2017

Permanganate Oxidizable Carbon Reflects a Processed Soil Fraction that is Sensitive to Management

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Plant-based assessment of inherent soil productivity and contributions to China's cereal crop yield increase since 1980.

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Polyphasic approach of bacterial classification — An overview of recent advances

scientific article (publication date: June 2007)

Pontibacter ummariensis sp. nov., isolated from a hexachlorocyclohexane contaminated soil.

scientific article published in 2015

Potential of Desertification Control to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect

scientific article published in January 2001

Potentials of engineered nanoparticles as fertilizers for increasing agronomic productions

scientific article published on 05 February 2015

Proposal of biostimulation for hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH)-decontamination and characterization of culturable bacterial community from high-dose point HCH-contaminated soils

scientific article published in February 2009

Put soil security on the global agenda

journal article; published in Nature on 2012-12-12

Reducing Amazon Deforestation through Agricultural Intensification in the Cerrado for Advancing Food Security and Mitigating Climate Change

scientific article published on 27 March 2018

Regenerative agriculture for food and climate

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Restoring Soil Quality to Mitigate Soil Degradation

scientific article published on 13 May 2015

Restoring Soil and Water Resources and Mitigating Climate Change in India by Judicious Management of Agricultural and Urban Wastes

scientific article published on 24 August 2017

Salt-Affected Soils

Slope Position and Erosional Effects on Soil Properties and Corn Production on a Miamian Soil in Central Ohio

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Soil Carbon Sequestration for Sustaining Agricultural Production and Improving the Environment with Particular Reference to Brazil

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Soil Erosion and Nutrient Losses from a Volcanic Ash Soil in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania

scholarly article by Per Ivar Våje et al published 5 October 2005 in Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

Soil Management and Topsoil Thickness Effects on Maize for Two Tanzanian Soils

scholarly article by A. H. Sæther et al published 4 April 1997 in Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

Soil Security: Solving the Global Soil Crisis

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Soil Structure and Sustainability

Soil as a Basic Nexus Tool: Soils at the Center of the Food–Energy–Water Nexus

Soil carbon accretion along an age chronosequence formed by the retreat of the Skaftafellsjökull glacier, SE-Iceland

Soil carbon and nitrogen in 28-year-old land uses in reclaimed coal mine soils of Ohio

scientific article published on 24 October 2007

Soil carbon and nitrogen stocks under chronosequence of farm and traditional agroforestry land uses in Gambo District, Southern Ethiopia

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Soil carbon sequestration impacts on global climate change and food security

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Soil carbon sequestration in rainfed production systems in the semiarid tropics of India

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Soil chemical properties in glacial moraines across a chronosequence influenced by avifauna and volcanic materials: Breiðamerkurjökull, Iceland

Soil conservation and ecosystem services

scholarly article by Rattan Lal published in September 2014

Soil erosion: a carbon sink or source?

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Soil organic carbon and fertility interactions affected by a tillage chronosequence in a Brazilian Oxisol

Soil organic carbon fraction losses upon continuous plow-based tillage and its restoration by diverse biomass-C inputs under no-till in sub-tropical and tropical regions of Brazil

scientific article published on 16 July 2013

Soil physical and hydrological properties under three biofuel crops in Ohio

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Soil structure and management: a review

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Soil, Leaf and Root Ecological Stoichiometry of Caragana korshinskii on the Loess Plateau of China in Relation to Plantation Age

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Soil-Specific Inventories of Landscape Carbon and Nitrogen Stocks under No-till and Native Vegetation to Estimate Carbon Offset in a Subtropical Ecosystem

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Soils and sustainable development goals of the United Nations: An International Union of Soil Sciences perspective

scientific article published in June 2021

Spatial and temporal variability in the net primary production of grassland in China and its relation to climate factors

scientific article published on 24 July 2017

Stratification and Storage of Soil Organic Carbon and Nitrogen as Affected by Tillage Practices in the North China Plain

scientific article published on 15 June 2015

Stratification ratio of soil organic matter pools as an indicator of carbon sequestration in a tillage chronosequence on a Brazilian Oxisol

Strengthening the soil organic carbon pool by increasing contributions from recalcitrant aliphatic bio(macro)molecules

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Supporting Evidence for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in Agriculture

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Synthetic apatite nanoparticles as a phosphorus fertilizer for soybean (Glycine max).

scientific article published on 14 July 2014

Taxonomic and Geographic Distribution of Soil Organic Carbon Pools in Ohio

The Global Impact Of Soil Erosion On Productivity

The Global Impact Of Soil Erosion On Productivity∗

The Potential of Agricultural Soils of the Upper St. Joseph River Watershed to Sequester Carbon

The knowns, known unknowns and unknowns of sequestration of soil organic carbon

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The state of food systems worldwide in the countdown to 2030

scientific article published in 2023

The top 100 questions of importance to the future of global agriculture

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The water footprint and validity analysis of ecological engineering in North Beijing, China

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Tillage effects on carbon footprint and ecosystem services of climate regulation in a winter wheat–summer maize cropping system of the North China Plain

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Topsoil Thichkness Effects on Soil Properties and Maize (Zea mays) Yield in Three Ecoregions of Tanzania

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Towards a global-scale soil climate mitigation strategy

scientific article published on 27 October 2020

Tree diversity, soil organic carbon lability and ecosystem carbon storage under a fallow age chronosequence in North East India

Twenty two years of tillage and mulching impacts on soil physical characteristics and carbon sequestration in Central Ohio

scholarly article by Meharban Singh Kahlon et al published January 2013 in Soil and Tillage Research

USING EXPERIMENTAL AND GEOSPATIAL DATA TO ESTIMATE REGIONAL CARBON SEQUESTRATION POTENTIAL UNDER NO-TILL MANAGEMENT

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Viewpoint: Rigorous monitoring is necessary to guide food system transformation in the countdown to the 2030 global goals

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Vulnerability of women to climate change in arid and semi-arid regions: The case of India and South Asia

scientific article published on 10 August 2017

Water Repellent Soils

Water stable aggregates and the associated active and recalcitrant carbon in soil under rubber plantation

scientific article published on 14 November 2019

Yields and yield stability of no-till and chisel-plow fields in the Midwestern US Corn Belt