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Soil ecology

DNA source and primer choice affect the reliability of metabarcoding for nematode community profiling in agricultural soils

Jerry Akanwari, Md Rashedul Islam, Ping Liang, Tahera Sultana

published 10 Apr 2026

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Urbanization alters soil trace metal enrichment and health risks in the black soil Region of Northeast China

Guanxin Du, Yu Sun, Hongyan Lu, Baiquan Yan, Huimin Dai, Kai Liu, Keke Xu

published 06 Apr 2026

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Feeding activity of Eisenia andrei and Enchytraeus albidus under different soil moisture regimes assessed by the bait-lamina test

Gilda Dell’Ambrogio, Sophie Campiche, Janine W. Y. Wong, Mathieu Renaud, Christina Lüthi, Inge Werner, Benoit J. D. Ferrari

published 02 Apr 2026

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Factors affecting log-transformed muscle ¹³⁷Cs concentrations in wild boars in Fukushima Prefecture over 14 years

Hisashi Komatsu, Shiori Ikushima

published 25 Mar 2026

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Impact of the duration of farmland restoration on plant communities and soil carbon-nitrogen-phosphorus stoichiometry in the Southern Foothills of the Greater Khingan Mountains, Inner Mongolia

Yan Sheng, Fucang Qin, Yongjie Yue, Long Hai, Long Li, Xiaoyu Dong, Danlu Tao, Rong He, Kai Zhao

published 20 Mar 2026

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Designing a flipped AI-chatbot learning module to support students’ environmental literacy development: A Fuzzy Delphi Method

Xiaoyu Wang, Xiang Li

published 18 Mar 2026

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Urban land use impact on soil heavy metal levels in Lafayette, Louisiana (USA)

Holly L. Heafner, Anna A. Paltseva

published 18 Mar 2026

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Spatiotemporal characteristics and driving factors of soil erosion in the Kangding River Basin (Southwest China) based on the RUSLE model

Yuqi Guan, Xiong Duan, Qinglian Deng, Bin Chen, Bingrui Su, Kun Zeng

published 16 Mar 2026

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Quantitative evaluation of soil anti-erodibility in the fluctuation zones of rooted soil in a large reservoir, southwest of China

Pengcheng Wang, Xinghan Niu, Henglin Xiao, Gaoliang Tao, Zexi Song

published 10 Mar 2026

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Shotgun metagenomic profiling reveals Bacillus-dominated bacterial communities in urban rooftop and surface garden soils of Bangladesh

M. Nazmul Hoque, Md. Liton Rana, Md Abu Ahsan Gilman, Pritom Kumar Pramanik, Md. Saiful Islam, Sadia Afrin Punom, Rabith Rahman, Jayedul Hassan, Tofazzal Islam, Srinivasan Ramasamy, Pepijn Schreinemachers, Ricardo Oliva, Md. Tanvir Rahman

published 06 Mar 2026

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Assessing spatial variability and source identification of heavy metals in agricultural soils: A geostatistical and multivariate analysis of coastal eastern Zhejiang, China

Jingwen Ji, Xiangyuan Wu

published 05 Mar 2026

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Environmental drivers of wild orchid distribution: Soil properties shape habitat preferences in the Po Delta Regional Park (Italy)

Lisa Scramoncin, Renato Gerdol, Anna Cazzavillan, Fabio Vincenzi, Lisa Brancaleoni

published 18 Feb 2026

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Neighbourhood composition dictates expression of soil legacy effects on plant growth

Kenneth J. Oppon, Charlotte Brown, Isaac Peetoom Heida, James F. Cahill Jr

published 17 Feb 2026

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