An image (video still) showing the water-holding capacity of soils that have been amended with different amounts of organic matter. From Soil Quality: 3 Soil Organic Matter (Hoyle and Murphy 2018)

Active roots, living organisms, root exudates, decomposing plant & animal material, humus, charcoal. You find these in #soil organic matter. Here's how #SOM benefits #soilfunction & fertility: soilqualityknowledgebase.org.au/soil-organic... #NationalScienceWeek #soilscience #SQKB @murdoch.edu.au

🦔🪲Limited impacts of simulated soil disturbance by rewilded vertebrates on above- and below-ground biodiversity

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Figure 1 in Bin et al. (2025): "Schematic representation of the plant–soil feedback experimental setup used to assess the individual soil functions. Briefly, soil was conditioned first by 12 species for 8 weeks (conditioning phase) to create crop-specific soils. In the feedback phase, all crops were grown in all conditioned soils to measure biomass function. The nutrient cycling function was assessed by measuring the potential N mineralization rate, mineral N availability and plant-available P. The disease suppressiveness function was measured by using a pathosystem of Rhizoctonia solani-cress on crop-specific soils. The carbon storage function was assessed by measuring permanganate-oxidizable carbon (POX-C), basal carbon respiration rate, soil organic matter content and total carbon content."

New publication: Effects of #crop species on #soil functions and #soilmultifunctionality are species-specific, by @ciskaveen.bsky.social and others. #agriculture #croprotation #soilfunction
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