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{"title":"The Interplay Between Forest Succession and Soil Properties Shapes Microbial Community Dynamics After Land Abandonment","authors":"S. C. Panico, G. L. Sciabbarrasi, A. Foscari, A. Tomao, L. Orzan, G. Alberti, G. Incerti","doi":"10.1111/ejss.70365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.70365","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the response of soil microbial community to spontaneous afforestation—a natural rewilding process that has been progressing for decades across national and European landscapes following land abandonment. The research was conducted at two Italian sites: the Foreste Casentinesi National Park (CF) and Julian Prealps (JP). In both areas, five successional stages (I–V) of afforestation were identified based on historical orthophotos (1954–2020) and replicated across four chronosequences. Topsoil samples (0–10 cm) were analyzed for soil properties, including pH, bulk density, organic carbon, total nitrogen, and water content. Soil microbial communities were characterized through environmental DNA extracted from fine soil fractions, followed by DNA metabarcoding using ITS and 16S rRNA gene markers to target fungi and bacteria, respectively. We hypothesized that: (i) topsoil properties change along the afforestation dynamics, thereby controlling the pattern of soil microbiota α‐diversity; (ii) microbial β‐diversity differs between the two study areas as a result of the interplay between afforestation dynamics and soil properties. Results showed that topsoil became increasingly acidic and less compact (i.e., lower bulk density), accompanied by a rise in organic matter content. However, these trends were modulated by site‐specific variability. Microbial α‐diversity generally peaked at intermediate successional stages and declined in late forests. Bacterial communities were dominated by <jats:italic>Verrucomicrobiota</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Pseudomonadota</jats:italic> , while fungal communities were dominated by <jats:italic>Ascomycota</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Basidiomycota</jats:italic> , the latter increasing as afforestation progressed. β‐diversity differed markedly between the two areas. In CF, but not in JP, a significant successional trajectory was evident, particularly for fungi. Bacterial community composition in CF was most associated with soil pH, and fungal composition with soil water content, while in JP multiple soil properties explained community variation. In conclusion, successional effects on soil microbiota were most evident in the more homogeneous environment of CF, whereas in the heterogeneous JP area, site‐specific filtering driven by high variability in soil properties predominated.","PeriodicalId":12043,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Soil Science","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148288423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Two Decades of Climate and Land Use Change Reshape Water Erosion Patterns Across India","authors":"Subhankar Das, Manoj Kumar Jain, Sumit Das, Vivek Gupta, Aniruddha Saha, Mariana Dobre","doi":"10.1111/ejss.70366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.70366","url":null,"abstract":"Water‐induced soil erosion poses significant threats to land productivity, ecosystem health, and environmental sustainability in India. This study quantifies annual water erosion across India from 2001 to 2020 using a regionally enhanced Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) framework. High‐resolution remote sensing datasets and machine learning techniques were integrated to derive key RUSLE factors at the national scale. Model estimates were validated against observed sediment load data from 134 stations across major Indian river basins. Results indicate a long‐term mean annual erosion rate of 12 t ha <jats:sup>−1</jats:sup> year <jats:sup>−1</jats:sup> , substantially exceeding the global average. The erosion‐affected area (&gt; 10 t ha <jats:sup>−1</jats:sup> year <jats:sup>−1</jats:sup> ) decreased slightly from 52 Mha in 2001 to 50 Mha in 2020, with Sen's slope indicating a small and statistically non‐significant decline of −0.03 Mha year <jats:sup>−1</jats:sup> . Erosion hotspots were identified in the Himalayan and northeastern mountain regions and the coastal plains of southern India. Increasing erosion trends were observed across the western plains, central highlands, and parts of the Deccan Plateau, while declining trends were mainly concentrated in the Indo‐Gangetic Plains and parts of northeastern India. Basin‐scale validation showed a strong long‐term correlation between modeled and observed gross erosion ( <jats:italic>R</jats:italic> <jats:sup>2</jats:sup> = 0.56), although model performance exhibited substantial interannual variability. This study demonstrates the effectiveness of combining empirical erosion modeling with dynamic, data‐driven approaches to assess fine‐scale erosion risks. The findings provide valuable guidance for prioritizing soil conservation strategies and highlight the urgent need for sustainable land management in erosion‐prone regions across India.","PeriodicalId":12043,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Soil Science","volume":"269 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148288424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Drainage Conditions Complicate the “More Is Better” Paradigm in Soil Health Assessment","authors":"Swarnali Mahmood, Jose C. B. Dubeux, Yang Lin","doi":"10.1111/ejss.70364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.70364","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of soil health is widely adopted to promote sustainable agricultural practices. A common paradigm in soil health assessment, known as the “more is better,” assumes that higher values of soil health indicators are interpreted as improved soil functions and ecosystem services, such as higher yield and greater drought resilience. However, few studies have directly validated this assumption. In addition, it remains unclear whether laboratory‐based indicators align with farmers' perception of productivity. Using bahiagrass pastures as a model system, we evaluated the relationship between soil health indicators and biomass productivity under normal and drought‐stressed conditions in a greenhouse experiment. Soils were collected from paired pastures identified by farmers as the most productive (MP) and least productive (LP) fields ( <jats:italic>n</jats:italic> = 40). Under normal soil moisture, aboveground biomass was positively correlated with several indicators, including Mehlich‐3 extractable potassium (K), mineralizable carbon (Cmin), and water extractable organic carbon (WEOC), with K being the strongest predictor ( <jats:italic>r</jats:italic> = 0.64, <jats:italic>p</jats:italic> &lt; 0.001). However, under simulated drought, no indicators were significantly associated with yield retention. Drainage conditions further complicated the “more is better” assumption: soil organic matter (SOM), K, and WEOC tended to be higher in MP than in LP fields ( <jats:italic>p</jats:italic> &lt; 0.1) when both shared the same drainage condition; however, LP fields with poor drainage showed higher SOM and WEOC values than their better‐drained MP counterparts. A decision tree analysis further showed that high SOM (&gt; 2.7%) was associated with low productivity in poorly drained soils. Our results demonstrate that drainage conditions confound the monotonic interpretation of soil health indicators for predicting yield and biomass production. Incorporating drainage conditions and farms' insights should be considered for the development of soil health assessment frameworks.","PeriodicalId":12043,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Soil Science","volume":"185 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148290478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Linking Soil Threats and Mitigating Management Practices Across Climates: Insights From a Global Soil-Expert Survey","authors":"Ulises Ramon Esparza-Robles,&nbsp;Rajasekaran Murugan,&nbsp;Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern","doi":"10.1111/ejss.70356","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ejss.70356","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Climate change, population growth, and intensifying land use are exerting increasing pressure on soil resources worldwide. Despite growing knowledge of soil degradation processes, the relationship between soil threats and the effectiveness of management practices remains poorly synthesized. Here we present a comparative assessment of soil expert perspectives on soil threats and mitigation practices based on a survey of 162 soil experts from 38 countries. Across tropical, arid, and temperate climates, soil experts evaluated the importance of soil threats and the perceived effectiveness and use of key soil management practices, whereas also highlighting examples of locally adapted innovations. Across all responses, the most important soil threats were organic matter decline (overall rating of 4.2 on a five-point scale), soil erosion (4.1), and biodiversity loss (3.9), indicating broad agreement on the primary drivers of soil degradation. Mitigating management strategies (crop diversification, reduced tillage, organic inputs, and agroforestry) were consistently perceived as effective across climates (scores from 3.7 to 4.0); however, their implementation was not as widespread (2.6 to 3.2). Differences among climate groups were detectable for some soil threats, such as the higher perceived importance of organic matter decline in tropical climates and the greater relevance of salinization in arid climates. Soil experts also highlighted locally developed climate-smart farming systems, including Milpa intercropped with fruit trees in alternating strips (MIAF), Zero-budget natural farming, and agrivoltaic systems, with potential for upscaling and wider application across contexts. Overall, this global soil expert survey identifies common priorities in soil threats and management practices across three major climate groups, while illustrating how local environmental and socio-economic conditions shape the selection of sustainable soil management practices. These findings provide a comparative perspective to inform future research, monitoring, and soil management strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":12043,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Soil Science","volume":"77 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ejss.70356","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148289950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Printed PHBV ‐Based Sensors as a Real‐Time Proxy for Soil Microbial Decomposer Activity During Drought and Flood Recovery","authors":"Ellen L. Fry, Taylor J. Sharpe, Madhur Atreya, Gregory L. Whiting, John N. Quinton","doi":"10.1111/ejss.70358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.70358","url":null,"abstract":"Improving accuracy of soil decomposition measurements for assessing carbon storage requires high spatial and temporal resolution. To advance the field, continuous, in situ, non‐destructive methods of assessing microbial activity are essential. Here we demonstrate a method to track soil biological activity in real time, by monitoring the change in resistance of sensors based on a biodegradable composite material as it is decomposed by soil microbial activity. These sensors are fabricated using printing techniques and provide a straightforward resistive readout, enabling their interrogation with simple low‐cost electronic systems, thereby providing a path to wide‐scale deployment to provide spatial and temporal characterization of soil biological activity. Using these sensors, microbially derived decomposition of the sensors was monitored in mesocosms comparing species rich grassland soil and a monoculture wheat soil, subjected to either a drought or flooding treatment with a subsequent recovery period. The sensors tracked their decomposition every 30 min for 7 weeks, with decomposition activity subdued by the drought and demonstrate recovery following its cessation. Flooding produced a similar response in the species rich grassland, albeit the recovery was slower. However, in wheat soil, flooding did not reduce decomposition of the sensor which we attribute to wheat maintaining an oxygenated rhizosphere. The developed sensors can shed light on the dynamic nature of soil microbial processes that would otherwise go unobserved.","PeriodicalId":12043,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Soil Science","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148290517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effects of Grazing Exclusion on Soil Microbial Necromass Carbon in a Tibetan Alpine Grassland","authors":"Xiang Liu, Zhiwen Ma, Mingyang Sun, Hui Yuan, Zhifang An, Hongxiao Shi, Bagen Hasi, Lihui Tian","doi":"10.1111/ejss.70361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.70361","url":null,"abstract":"Grazing exclusion via fencing is widely acknowledged as an effective strategy for restoring soil organic carbon (SOC) levels in degraded grasslands worldwide. However, the contribution of microbial necromass to SOC dynamics following grazing exclusion remains inadequately addressed, particularly in alpine grasslands. In this study, we quantified soil microbial necromass C (MNC) and its proportional contribution to SOC across three alpine grasslands subjected to 0, 4, and 12 years of grazing exclusion on the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Four amino sugars, including glucosamine (GluN), galactosamine (GalN), muramic acid (MurA), and mannosamine (ManN) were employed as biomarkers to estimate MNC. The results showed that soil total organic C (TOC) increased by 58%–82% following grazing exclusion, with significantly higher TOC content in grassland restored for 12 years (GE12) than in unrestored grassland (GE0). Grazing exclusion did not alter the contents of GluN, GalN, or ManN. In contrast, MurA content in GE12 was significantly higher than that in grassland restored for 4 years (GE4). Across all three grasslands, fungal necromass C (FNC) represented an average of 84% of MNC, indicating that fungi represent the dominant source of microbially derived C. Although grazing exclusion induced increases of 21%–51% in MNC and 25%–49% in FNC, these shifts were not statistically significant. Bacterial necromass C (BNC) remained unchanged during the first 4 years of exclusion but increased significantly with continued exclusion. Soil physical properties and microbial biomass C were identified as key factors modulating MNC dynamics during grazing exclusion. The proportions of MNC, FNC, and BNC relative to TOC in GE4 and GE12 were generally lower compared to those in GE0, suggesting that grazing exclusion diminished the role of microbial necromass in SOC sequestration. The negative correlation between MNC/TOC and plant biomass further implied that plant‐derived C may be more crucial for SOC accumulation than microbially derived C during grazing exclusion. In conclusion, our findings demonstrate a limited role of microbial necromass in SOC sequestration over the 12‐year grazing exclusion period in Tibetan alpine grasslands.","PeriodicalId":12043,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Soil Science","volume":"147 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148290538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Efficiency of Bradford‐Reactive Protein Extraction From Agriculture Soil in Relation to Soil Parameters","authors":"Vojtěch Štulc, Vítězslav Vlček, Gabriela Franke, Petr Kalousek","doi":"10.1111/ejss.70359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.70359","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the study was to investigate the hypothesis that by altering extraction time, temperature in the autoclave, and type of extractant during extraction, the maximum possible Bradford‐reactive soil protein yield could be significantly increased, and to determine the effect of so‐called color correction in such altered conditions. Another objective was to review the relation between the alternative protein pools and selected quantitative soil parameters, such as the content of soil organic carbon or total soil nitrogen. Bradford‐reactive soil protein is operationally defined by the Bradford assay to measure its concentration in a water solution, extracted under specific conditions such as high temperature in an autoclave and high ionic strength of the extractant solution. The study examined the possibility of maximum extractability by altering the temperature and the type of extractant and the relation to the color correction. We also tried to test the hypothesis whether the loads of repeated cycles could be minimized by color correction, but without prove at tested 9 cycles of extraction. The results showed that the proposed one cycle method with pyrophosphate solution and 135°C extracted 2–3 times the protein extracted by one cycle of autoclaving under the conventional condition of 121°C with a 0.05‐M sodium citrate solution. Unlike other conditions, the values from the proposed one cycle method significantly correlated with soil organic carbon content ( <jats:italic>p</jats:italic> &lt; 0.05, <jats:italic>r</jats:italic> <jats:sup>2</jats:sup> = 0.9) and while a statistically significant correlation with the content of water stable aggregates with <jats:italic>p</jats:italic> &lt; 0.05 was not found, the values of the correlation coefficient were regularly higher in combination of higher temperatures (121°C–135°C) with the strongest type of extractant (0.1‐M sodium pyrophosphate) than the rest of the combinations. The color correction factor changed the measured value of Bradford‐reactive soil protein from the proposed maximal yield variant by 11%–13% in comparison to 14%–17% under one cycle conventional condition. These findings support the possibility of reducing the number of extraction cycles in the autoclave to lower units and thus increasing practicality and efficiency of measurement. On the other hand, it may be still recommended to include color correction during measurement protocol, especially in case of datasets with substantially different soil type for example, grassland versus arable land, cambisol versus chernozem, since the influence of color correction on measured Bradford‐reactive soil protein between soils greatly differs.","PeriodicalId":12043,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Soil Science","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148291368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Soil Physical Resilience to Compaction as Influenced by a Legacy of Different Organic Amendments in the Field","authors":"Utibe E. Utin, Josie Geris, Jo Smith, Kenneth Loades, David Boldrin, Paul D. Hallett","doi":"10.1111/ejss.70362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.70362","url":null,"abstract":"Soil organic carbon affects the response of agricultural soils to compaction, yet few studies assess the impact of contrasting organic amendments applied at different rates. A long‐term field experiment with different rates of slurry (0, 10, 20 and 40 Mg ha <jats:sup>−1</jats:sup> ) and compost (0, 35, 100 and 200 Mg ha <jats:sup>−1</jats:sup> ) was used to create a soil organic carbon gradient. Loose soils were sieved, equilibrated to −5 kPa and subjected to rapid uniaxial compression followed by wetting/drying cycles to assess soil resistance and resilience. Soil organic carbon increased with the amendment rate across slurry and compost‐amended soils. At equivalent organic carbon levels, slurry and compost‐amended soils showed similar responses, showing the benefits of carbon amendments to decreasing compaction risks in the field. All compost treatments and the 40 Mg ha <jats:sup>−1</jats:sup> slurry were more compressible than the control and lower slurry rates, with compression indices &gt; 0.38 for soils of 100–200 Mg ha <jats:sup>−1</jats:sup> compost (carbon content 55–69 g kg <jats:sup>−1</jats:sup> ) and 0.35 for those receiving 40 Mg ha <jats:sup>−1</jats:sup> slurry, compared with 0.30 in the control, 10 and 20 Mg ha <jats:sup>−1</jats:sup> slurry (organic carbon content 35–45 g kg <jats:sup>−1</jats:sup> ). Structural recovery, measured as recompression index, was greater for 100–200 Mg ha <jats:sup>−1</jats:sup> compost (0.15) and 40 Mg ha <jats:sup>−1</jats:sup> slurry (0.12) treatments than those with lower soil organic carbon contents. In these soils, the recovery of porosity after the second 200 kPa stress was only 3%–6% lower than after the first, indicating sustained resilience aided by wetting–drying cycles. Microporosity and saturated hydraulic conductivity increased with soil organic carbon. Soils with higher organic carbon content were more resistant to the initial 50 kPa stress, less resistant to a higher stress of 200 kPa, showed greater rebound and exhibited greater resistance to aggregate collapse than those with lower organic carbon contents.","PeriodicalId":12043,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Soil Science","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148290352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unraveling Soil Organic Matter Dynamics in Tropical Wetlands Through Advanced Thermal and Pyrolytic Approaches","authors":"Karen Luko-Sulato,&nbsp;Everton Tiago Sulato,&nbsp;Nicasio T. Jiménez-Morillo,&nbsp;José Maria de la Rosa,&nbsp;José A. González-Pérez,&nbsp;Vania Rosolen","doi":"10.1111/ejss.70342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.70342","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The dynamics of soil organic matter (SOM) and humic acids (HA) in a permanent and seasonal wetland located in southeastern Brazil (hydromorphic soils and gramineous vegetation) were assessed through thermogravimetry, evolved gas analysis, and analytical pyrolysis. The <i>n</i>-alkane series in all samples spanned from C₁₃ to C₃₅, regardless of season, wetland type, or matrix, being C₁₃ the most abundant in HA and C₁₅, in soils. The <i>n</i>-alkane homologous series exhibited a unimodal distribution in soils, whereas it showed a bimodal pattern in HA, especially in the seasonal wetland. Average chain length values ranged from 17.89 to 24.14 in soil and 17.85 to 27.26 in HA. The short/long <i>n</i>-alkane ratio was greater in seasonal wetland soils (5.3 ± 1.8) than in the permanent wetland (2.1 ± 0.7, <i>p</i> &lt; 0.01) and in permanent wetland HA (3.8 ± 1.4) than in the seasonal wetland (1.3 ± 0.8, <i>p</i> &lt; 0.01). Carbon preference index values were slightly above 1 in all cases with a subtle odd-over-even predominance. Based on thermogravimetric analysis, labile fractions were similar between the two hydrological regimes, whereas the seasonal wetland was characterized by a higher proportion of recalcitrant organic matter, particularly during the rainy season. In contrast, the permanent wetland exhibited more pronounced seasonal shifts, with a decrease in labile fractions during the dry season and an increase in thermally stable compounds. Thus, the permanent wetland exhibited a greater sensitivity to environmental variability than the seasonal wetland, which suggests that permanently flooded systems may respond more rapidly to climatic and hydrological perturbations. These results emphasize the influence of hydrological conditions on carbon turnover in tropical wetlands.</p>","PeriodicalId":12043,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Soil Science","volume":"77 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ejss.70342","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148167126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Opportunities and Challenges for Sustainable Agricultural Soil Management in Switzerland","authors":"Klaus A. Jarosch,&nbsp;Nicole Bütikofer,&nbsp;Olivier Heller,&nbsp;Juliane Hirte,&nbsp;Luca Bragazza,&nbsp;Thomas D. Bucheli,&nbsp;Nikolas Hagemann,&nbsp;Isabel Hilber,&nbsp;Annelie Holzkämper,&nbsp;Shiva Ghiasi,&nbsp;Sonja G. Keel,&nbsp;Thomas Keller,&nbsp;John Koestel,&nbsp;Jens Leifeld,&nbsp;Frank Liebisch,&nbsp;Jochen Mayer,&nbsp;Muhammad Mehran Anjum,&nbsp;Konrad Metzger,&nbsp;Ferran Romero,&nbsp;Alejandro Romero-Ruiz,&nbsp;Gudrun Schwilch,&nbsp;Michael Simmler,&nbsp;Marcel van der Heijden,&nbsp;Florian Walder,&nbsp;Michael Zimmermann,&nbsp;Lutz Merbold","doi":"10.1111/ejss.70355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.70355","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Switzerland has a wide diversity of soil types that are subject to pressures of varying intensity and scale. Localised pressures such as compaction, sealing or heavy metal accumulation threaten both short- and long-term soil fertility and food production. Large-scale trends such as the intensive use of fertilisers or continued cultivation of organic soils can have effects on the ecosystem functioning of an entire region. Many of these pressures are concentrated on the Swiss plateau, which covers only about one third of the country and contains both the densest population and the most productive soils. We here review the main soil challenges of Switzerland and examine to which extent these challenges are addressed by different legal frameworks. Soil erosion, contamination as well as nutrient availability and use efficiency are all best described in the scientific literature and regulated by policies. In contrast, for several pressing soil challenges such as soil organic carbon loss, biodiversity loss or soil compaction only limited policy instruments are in place. We also report on the key findings of the 5-year EJP SOIL project that aimed to address several of these soil challenges in research projects of different scale. We discuss the key findings relevant for Switzerland, and outline their implications for various stakeholder groups, including researchers, policy makers, farmers, land managers and advisors. This not only enhances the value of the research outputs for stakeholders but also demonstrates how a research programme of this scale can directly benefit different national stakeholder groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":12043,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Soil Science","volume":"77 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ejss.70355","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148174679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}