Natasja van Gestel

TL;DR: A global meta-analysis using 5,463 paired yield observations from 610 studies to compare no-till, the original and central concept of conservation agriculture, with conventional tillage practices across 48 crops and 63 countries indicates that the potential contribution of no-Till to the sustainable intensification of agriculture is more limited than often assumed.

TL;DR: The authors conducted a meta-analysis to evaluate the influence of various crop and environmental variables on no-till relative to conventional tillage yields using data obtained from peer-reviewed publications (678 studies with 6005 paired observations, representing 50 crops and 63 countries).

TL;DR: qSIP is demonstrated using soil incubations, in which soil bacteria exhibited strong taxonomic variations in 18O and 13C composition after exposure to [18O]water or [13C]glucose, demonstrating the benefit of a quantitative approach to stable isotope probing.

TL;DR: Only 5 of the 49 sites analysed by Crowther et al.1 are in the upper half of the carbon stock range, which raises the possibility that the relationship they observed could be substantially altered by introducing data from sites with relatively high surface soil carbon stocks.

TL;DR: Advanced stable isotope probing with 13C and 18O is used to show that evolutionary history has ecological significance for in situ bacterial activity and sets the stage for characterizing the functional attributes of bacterial taxonomic groups.