Soils store carbon, sustain ecosystems, and underpin global food and water systems. A new Frontiers in Science paper details how AI tools can help us adapt soils—and the systems they nurture—to a ...

The cause-effect sequence or "feedback" between plants and their soil microbial communities plays an important role in structuring plant communities. To predict this synergistic coexistence, ...

Be part of answering today’s biggest environmental questions with a soil science graduate degree from UW. UW’s soil science program is small enough to provide students with individual attention and ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Fig. 2: Modeling performance of the Gradient Boosting Machine (GBM), the Random Forest (RF), and the Multiple Linear Regression ...

The ‘2018 Marganai Forest Soil Erosion Experiment Database’ is a comprehensive collection of measures taken during scientific experiment trials designed to investigate the effects of forest canopy ...

It's easy to overlook the soil beneath our feet, or to think of it as just dirt to be cleaned up. But soil wraps the world in an envelope of life: It grows food, regulates the climate and makes the ...

High school earth science student, Victoria Feria-Ortiz, observes soil properties in preparation for developing a research question. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

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 ...

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Malawi’s increasingly unpredictable rainfall and higher than usual temperatures are causing problems for smallholder farmers. Soil erosion has increased, causing soil fertility and water availability ...

Ecologists have measured plant-soil feedbacks for six perennial prairie grass species in a short-term greenhouse study, and say their findings do not match outcomes observed in long-term experiment ...