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Soil properties under Amazon forest and changes due to pasture installation in Rondônia, Brazil
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In this paper, the consequences of deforestation and pasture establishment for soil chemical and physical properties and for soil organic matter content, in Rondonia, in the southwestern part of the Brazilian Amazon basin, were examined.About:
This article is published in Geoderma.The article was published on 1996-03-01. It has received 330 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Soil organic matter & Soil fertility.read more
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Soil carbon stocks and land use change: a meta analysis
L. B. Guo,R. M. Gifford +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the influence of land use changes on soil carbon stocks was reviewed and a meta-analysis of these data from 74 publications was conducted, which indicated that soil C stocks decline after land use change from pasture to plantation (−10%), native forest to plantations (−13), native forests to crop (−42), and pasture to crop (+59%), while the reverse process usually increased soil carbon and vice versa.
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Soil organic matter, biota and aggregation in temperate and tropical soils - Effects of no-tillage
Johan Six,Johan Six,Christian Feller,Karolien Denef,Stephen M. Ogle,João Carlos de Moraes Sá,Alain Albrecht +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the long-term stabilization of soil organic matter (SOM) in tropical and temperate regions is mediated by soil biota (e.g. fungi, bacte- ria, roots and earthworms), soil structure and their interactions.
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Impact of tropical land-use change on soil organic carbon stocks - a meta-analysis
TL;DR: In this paper, a global meta-analysis of 385 studies on land-use change in the tropics were explored to estimate the organic carbon (SOC) stock changes for all major land use change types.
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Does conversion of forest to agricultural land change soil carbon and nitrogen? a review of the literature
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the literature to assess changes in soil carbon (C) upon conversion of forests to agricultural land and found that conversion of forest to cultivated land led to an average loss of approximately 30% of soil C.
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Conversion of the Amazon rainforest to agriculture results in biotic homogenization of soil bacterial communities.
Jorge L. M. Rodrigues,Vivian Helena Pellizari,Rebecca C. Mueller,Kyung-Hwa Baek,Ederson da Conceição Jesus,Fabiana S. Paula,Babur S. Mirza,George S. Hamaoui,Siu Mui Tsai,Brigitte Josefine Feigl,James M. Tiedje,Brendan J. M. Bohannan,Klaus Nüsslein +12 more
TL;DR: It is reported here that microbial biodiversity also responds strongly to conversion of the Amazon rainforest, but in a manner different from plants and animals, and local taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity of soil bacteria increases after conversion, but communities become more similar across space.
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Analysis of factors controlling soil organic matter levels in Great Plains grasslands
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The Turnover Of Soil Organic Matter In Some Of The Rothamsted Classical Experiments
D. S. Jenkinson,J. H. Rayner +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, data from the Rothamsted classical field experiments on the effects of long-continued cropping and manuring on the amount of organic matter in soil, on the age of this soil organic matter, and on the number of microbial biomass in the soil.
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Changes in the Carbon Content of Terrestrial Biota and Soils between 1860 and 1980: A Net Release of CO"2 to the Atmosphere
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TL;DR: According to this analysis, there has been a net release of carbon from terrestrial ecosystems worldwide since at least 1860 and the global carbon budget appears balanced if the low estimate for the biotic release ofcarbon given above is used with the higher estimates of oceanic uptake.