ABSTRACT. An increase in atmospheric CO2 levels and global climate changes have led to an increased focus on CO2 capture mechanisms. The in situ quantification and spatial patterns of forest carbon stocks can provide a better picture of the carbon cycle and a deeper understanding of the functions and services of forest ecosystems. This study aimed ...
Based on advanced 3D finite element modelling, this paper analyses the stress paths experienced by soil elements in the vicinity of a monopile foundation for offshore wind turbines subjected to cyclic loading with the aim of informing soil laboratory testing in support of monopile foundation design. It is shown that the soil elements in front of th...
Published in Paleontological Journal
AbstractThe concept of the microbial community (MC) current at the time of writing, its structure, and the theories that reflect and generalize the progress in MC research are considered. Contemporary knowledge is used as the basis to discuss the role and functions of microbial communities in the emergence and maintenance of what is traditionally r...
Tla so za človekov obstoj zelo pomembna naravna danost. Predstavljajo geokemični vzorčni medij, s katerim določimo vsebnosti prvin, ki so lahko naravnega oz. geogenega izvora ali so posledica človekove dejavnosti. Sestava tal je zelo podobna sestavi kamnin, zato je matična podlaga najpomembnejši dejavnik pri zastopanosti kemičnih prvin v tleh. Zara...
Worldwide, microplastics (MPs) have been commonly recognized as a threat to soil ecosystems. Terrestrial soils are widely contaminated by MPs due to the application of sewage sludge and wastewater, plastic mulching, littering, the input of tire wear from roads and atmospheric deposition. Within the last decade, an increasing number of individual st...
Published in Huan jing ke xue= Huanjing kexue
Red soil from Guangxi, China was selected as the background soil, and a porous biomorphic genetic composite of α-Fe2O3/Fe3O4/C comprising a bamboo template (PBGC-Fe/C) was used as a passivator to remediate As(Ⅴ) contaminated soils. The performance of PBGC-Fe/C was characterized by Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and Fou...
Published in Huan jing ke xue= Huanjing kexue
To study the condition of urban green space soils in the central parts of a city in North China, the spatial distribution, sources, and pollution levels of heavy metals (Cd, Hg, As, Pb, Cr, Cu, Zn, and Ni) within green space soils in the central urban districts of the city were investigated. The results showed that the soil quality was high overall...
Published in Huan jing ke xue= Huanjing kexue
In order to determine the distribution characteristics of Se in soil-crop systems, we carried out a study on the Se-rich soil threshold by collecting 8789 surface soils and 155 deep soils in the Qianjiang District of Chongqing City, China, and 141 corn seeds and 159 rice seeds (simultaneously collecting 141 and 159 corresponding root soil samples, ...
Seed microbial community constitutes a primary inoculum for plant microbiota assembly. Still, the persistence of seed microbiota when seeds encounter soil during plant emergence and early growth is barely documented. Here, we characterized the interchange event or coalescence of seed and soil microbiota and how it structured seedling bacterial and ...
Published in Frontiers in Microbiology
Soil microorganisms historically have been a rich resource for natural product discovery, yet the majority of these microbes remain uncultivated and their biosynthetic capacity is left underexplored. To identify the biosynthetic potential of soil microorganisms using a culture-independent approach, we constructed a large-insert metagenomic library ...
