Choosing a suitable soil mix can influence drainage, moisture retention, and root development. Different plants benefit from ...

Though a founding concept of ecology suggests that the physical environment determines where organisms can survive, modern scientists have suspected there is more to the story of how microbial ...

A two-year field experiment in China's Yellow River Delta shows that straw and biochar both raise soil organic carbon in ...

A field experiment in a subtropical Chinese plantation shows that inorganic and organic nitrogen additions alike reduce soil ...

The soil microbiome has far-reaching significance, particularly for rice production, which can be better explained with a Japanese proverb: "Rice grows with soil fertility, while upland crops depend ...

Agriculture as thebackbone of our economy is a common refrain that continues to shape thelivelihoods of millions of small-scale farmers. For generations,farming, which is largely subsistence, has ...

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Coastal forests are increasingly exposed to the effects of climate change and sea level rise. New experimental research examined how soils change when transplanted between parts of a tidal creek that ...

What is needed for plants to grow? How might you select which plants would be best to reforest a desert? How long do you think it might take to go from a desert to a forest? What positive and negative ...