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Understanding the soil-root interface

Assessing the roles and functions of soils within wider ecosystems

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  • Lehmann, J., & Kleber, M. (2015). "The contentious nature of soil organic matter." Nature, 528(7580), 60-68.
  • Mitsch, W. J., & Gosselink, J. G. (2015). Wetlands. John Wiley & Sons.
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Identifying specific root traits that play key roles in soil systems

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  • Gonzalez, A., et al. (2014). "Root depth and soil moisture dynamics in deep-rooted species." Soil Science Society of America Journal, 78(3), 888-898.
  • Jones, D. L., et al. (2009). "Root exudates: A pathway for nutrient cycling in soils." Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 41(5), 1024-1032.
  • Lal, R. (2003). "Soil erosion and the global carbon budget." Environment International, 29(4), 437-450.
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  • Rillig, M. C. (2004). "Mycorrhizae and soil aggregation." Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 36(6), 783-791.

Studying the role of the rhizosphere in soil-plant systems

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  • Faber, J. H., et al. (2018). "The role of roots in soil carbon storage." Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 127, 247-255.
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  • Mezeli, M.M., Page, S., George, T.S., Neilson, R., Mead, A., Blackwell, M.S. and Haygarth, P.M., 2020. Using a meta-analysis approach to understand complexity in soil biodiversity and phosphorus acquisition in plants. Soil biology and biochemistry, 142, p.107695.
  • Philippot, L., et al. (2013). "Soil bacterial communities and their functions in nutrient cycling." Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 57, 23-39.
  • Rillig, M. C. (2004). "Mycorrhizae and soil aggregation." Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 36(6), 783-791.
  • Smith, S. E., & Read, D. J. (2008). Mycorrhizal Symbiosis. Academic Press.

Understanding how soil systems control the storage and loss of organic carbon

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  • Davidson, E. A., & Janssens, I. A. (2006). "Temperature sensitivity of soil carbon decomposition and feedbacks to climate change." Nature, 440(7081), 165-173.
  • Jobbágy, E. G., & Jackson, R. B. (2000). "The vertical distribution of soil organic carbon and its relation to climate and land use." Ecological Applications, 10(2), 423-436.
  • Lal, R. (2004). "Soil carbon sequestration impacts on global climate change and food security." Science, 304(5677), 1623-1627.
  • Lehmann, J., & Kleber, M. (2015). "The contentious nature of soil organic matter." Nature, 528(7580), 60-68.
  • Powlson, D. S., et al. (2011). "Soil carbon sequestration to mitigate climate change: A critical re-examination to identify the true and the false." European Journal of Soil Science, 62(1), 42-55.
  • Six, J., et al. (2002). "Aggregate and soil organic matter dynamics under conventional and no-tillage systems." Soil Science Society of America Journal, 66(3), 893-899.
  • Snyder, C. S., et al. (2009). "Greenhouse gas emissions from corn-soybean systems." Agronomy Journal, 101(1), 1-10.

Soils and the delivery of ecosystem services

Soils and the ecosystem

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  • Doran, J. W., & Zeiss, M. R. (2000). "Soil health and sustainability: A review." Soil and Tillage Research, 54(1), 75-85.
  • Giller, K. E., et al. (1997). "Sustainable agriculture in the 21st century: A strategic agenda." Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 29(1), 7-16.
  • Graham, W. D., et al. (2005). "Soil filtration for improved water quality." Environmental Science & Technology, 39(12), 4767-4772.
  • Jobbágy, E. G., & Jackson, R. B. (2000). "The vertical distribution of soil organic carbon and its relation to climate and land use." Ecological Applications, 10(2), 423-436.
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  • Meyer, M. R., et al. (2018). "Cultural ecosystem services in soil: A systematic review." Ecological Indicators, 85, 113-126.
  • Powlson, D. S., et al. (2011). "Soil carbon sequestration to mitigate climate change: A critical re-examination to identify the true and the false." European Journal of Soil Science, 62(1), 42-55.

Role of belowground biodiversity in ecosystem services

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  • Davis, M. A., et al. (2011). "Invasion biology: The relationship between invasive species and biodiversity." Biodiversity and Conservation, 20(1), 161-179.
  • Giller, K. E., et al. (1998). "Sustainable agriculture in the 21st century: A strategic agenda." Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 30(1), 7-16.
  • Kardol, P., et al. (2010). "Climate change effects on soil microbial communities: A review." Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 42(10), 1842-1855.
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  • Mazzola, M. (2004). "Soil microbial communities as indicators of soil health." Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 36(4), 549-559.
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  • Smith, P., et al. (2015). "Biogeophysical impacts of land use on soil carbon." Environmental Research Letters, 10(12), 124023.
  • Swift, M. J., et al. (1998). "Decomposition and nutrient cycling." In: Biodiversity in Ecosystems: The Importance of Soil Biodiversity. Springer, 63-96.

Demonstrating the relationship between soil physical properties and ecosystem functioning

  • Baver, L. D., Gardner, W. R., & Gardner, W. H. (1972). Soil Physics. Wiley.
  • Danielson, R. E., & Sutherland, P. L. (1986). "Porosity." In: Methods of Soil Analysis: Part 1—Physical and Mineralogical Methods. Soil Science Society of America.
  • Giller, K. E., et al. (2011). "Reducing the vulnerability of soil biodiversity to climate change." Environmental Science & Policy, 14(1), 54-61.
  • Hillel, D. (2004). Soil in the Environment: Crucible of Terrestrial Life. Academic Press.
  • Keller, T., et al. (2016). "Soil structure and its role in soil and water management." Soil & Tillage Research, 155, 1-7.
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  • Pimentel, D., et al. (1995). "Environmental and economic costs of soil erosion and conservation benefits." Science, 267(5201), 1117-1123.
  • Rayment, G. E., & Higginson, F. R. (1992). Soil Chemical Methods: Australasia. Soil Research Centre, Australia.
  • Rillig, M. C. (2004). "Mycorrhizae and soil aggregation." Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 36(6), 783-791.

Studying the fate of waste stream products in soil

  • Bengtsson-Palme, J., et al. (2018). "Fungal resistance to antibiotics: A hidden threat to human health." Fungal Diversity, 93(1), 135-143.
  • Dahlgren, J., et al. (2015). "Impact of antibiotic use in agriculture on soil health." Environmental Science & Technology, 49(12), 7173-7180.
  • González, A. P., et al. (2019). "The effects of heavy metals on soil properties and the biota." Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 129, 70-79.
  • Ghosh, A., et al. (2018). "Antibiotic resistance in soil bacteria: A review." Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 25(24), 23980-23993.
  • Khan, Y., et al. (2019). "Environmental fate of metal nanoparticles: A review." Environmental Science: Nano, 6(5), 1577-1593.
  • Kumar, A., et al. (2021). "Impact of metal nanoparticles on soil microbial communities." Environmental Science & Technology, 55(1), 96-112.
  • Mohan, S. K., et al. (2018). "Fate of engineered nanomaterials in the soil environment." Nanotechnology Reviews, 7(4), 477-491.
  • Nannipieri, P., et al. (2003). "Soil microbial biomass: A review of its potential as a bioindicator of soil health." Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 35(5), 675-694.
  • Van Boeckel, T. P., et al. (2015). "Global trends in antimicrobial use in food animals." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(18), 5649-5654.

Resilience and response of soil functions and global change

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  • Falkenmark, M., & Rockström, J. (2018). Water Resilience for Human Prosperity. Cambridge University Press.
  • Lal, R. (2019). Soil management for sustainable development. Soil and Tillage Research, 195, 104-118.
  • van der Heijden, M. G. A., et al. (2016). A global perspective on the significance of soil biodiversity for ecosystem functioning. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 102, 1-9.

Examining the short to long-term effects of climate change on soil health

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  • Fierer, N., et al. (2006). Influences of soil microbial communities on the decomposition of soil organic matter. Ecology Letters, 9(5), 545-558.
  • Garnett, T., et al. (2013). Sustainable intensification in agriculture: Premises and policies. Science, 341(6141), 33-34.
  • Lal, R. (2004). Soil carbon sequestration to mitigate climate change. Geoderma, 123(1-2), 1-22.
  • Pimentel, D., et al. (1995). Environmental and economic costs of soil erosion and conservation benefits. Science, 267(5201), 1117-1123.
  • Reganold, J. P., & Wachter, J. M. (2016). Organic farming in the twenty-first century. Nature Plants, 2(2), 15221.
  • Rattan, L., et al. (2019). Climate Change and Agriculture: Impacts and Adaptation. In Climate Change and Soil Interactions (pp. 15-34). Springer.
  • Schmidt, M. W., et al. (2011). Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property. Nature, 478(7367), 49-56.
  • Zhang, Y., et al. (2018). Changes in rainfall patterns from climate change affect soil health and ecosystem services. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 123, 118-127.

Assessing how changes to land management can impact green house gas emissions

  • Gao, Y., et al. (2017). Cover crops and soil health: A review of current practices and future directions. Agronomy, 7(4), 86.
  • Griscom, B. W., et al. (2017). Natural climate solutions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(44), 11645-11650.
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  • Jose, S. (2009). Agroforestry for ecosystem services and environmental benefits: An overview. Agroforestry Systems, 76(1), 1-10.
  • Lal, R. (2015). Sequestering carbon in soils of agro-ecosystems. Food Policy, 55, 1-10.
  • Mitsch, W. J., & Gosselink, J. G. (2015). Wetlands. John Wiley & Sons.
  • Powlson, D. S., et al. (2014). Soils as carbon sinks: A review. Global Change Biology, 20(2),

Establishing the impacts of land-use change on soil system processes

  • Afolagboye, L. O., et al. (2020). Effects of soil compaction on the physical and chemical properties of agricultural soils. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 84(3), 842-855.
  • Bardgett, R. D., & van der Putten, W. H. (2014). Belowground biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Nature, 515(7528), 505-511.
  • Carpenter, S. R., et al. (1998). Nonpoint pollution of surface waters with phosphorus and nitrogen. Ecological Applications, 8(3), 559-568.
  • Fierer, N., et al. (2006). Influence of soil microbial communities on the decomposition of soil organic matter. Ecology Letters, 9(5), 545-558.
  • Guo, L. B., & Gifford, R. M. (2002). Soil carbon stocks and land use change: A meta analysis. Global Change Biology, 8(4), 345-360.
  • Keeney, D. R., & McC

Identifying ways by which to extend the lifespans of soils

  • Altieri, M. A., Nicholls, C. I., Henao, A., & Lana, M. A. (2012). Agroecology and the search for a truly sustainable agriculture. Sustainable Agriculture Reviews, 7, 43-71.
  • FAO. (2015). The State of the World's Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture: Managing Systems at Risk. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
  • Govers, G., van Oost, K., & Desmet, P. (2014). Soil erosion: processes, assessment, and control. In Handbook of Soil Science (pp. 1-25). CRC Press.
  • Lal, R. (2001). Soil degradation by erosion. Land Degradation & Development, 12(6), 519-539.
  • Lal, R. (2020). Soil degradation, land restoration, and climate change. CRC Press.
  • Smith, P., et al. (2016). Soil carbon sequestration and bioenergy: A critical review. Global Change Biology, 22(1), 17-39.
  • Tittonell, P., & Giller, K. E. (2013). When yield gaps are poverty traps: The paradigm of ecological intensification in African smallholder agriculture. Field Crops Research, 143, 76-90.
  • Zhao, L., et al. (2019). Precision agriculture and its role in the future of food security and sustainability. Global Food Security, 22, 19-29

Modelling soil ecosystems at different spatial and temporal scales

  • Arnold, J. G., et al. (1998). SWAT: Soil and Water Assessment Tool. Version 2000. USDA-ARS, Temple, TX.
  • Coleman, K., & Jenkinson, D. S. (1996). RothC-26.3: A model for the turnover of carbon in soil. In Evaluation of Soil Organic Matter Models (pp. 237-246). Springer.
  • Hoogenboom, G., et al. (2019). Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT). Volume 1: Overview of the DSSAT Model. Springer.
  • Jørgensen, S. E., et al. (2017). Ecological Modeling for Sustainable Soil Management. Springer.
  • Müller, M., et al. (2014). The Soil Microbial Ecosystem Model (SMEM) for simulating microbial activity and soil processes. Environmental Modelling & Software, 56, 1-12.
  • Parton, W. J., et al. (1987). A dynamic model of soil organic matter for simulating soil fertility and organic matter turnover in agricultural systems. In Modelling of Agricultural Systems (pp. 105-115). Springer.
  • Schimel, J. P. (2018). Soil carbon in a changing world: From the inside out. Nature Climate Change, 8, 364-371.
    Sverdrup, H., et al. (2002). The SOILN model for simulation of nitrogen dynamics in soil. Ecological Modelling, 154(1-2), 155-171.

Pioneering techniques to study the pathways and transport mechanisms of gases through soils

  • Conrad, R. (1999). The global methane cycle: recent advances in understanding the microbial processes involved. Environmental Microbiology, 1(4), 311-318.
  • Conrad, R. (2009). The global methane cycle: Biogeochemical and ecological aspects. In Soil Microbiology, Ecology, and Biochemistry (pp. 103-120). Elsevier.
  • Cordero, O. X., et al. (2019). Microbial communities and methane dynamics in soils. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 95(5), fiy243.
  • Falge, E., et al. (2002). Measuring and interpreting the carbon and methane exchange of terrestrial ecosystems. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 107(D24), ACH 15-1–ACH 15-23.
  • Flessa, H., et al. (2008). Methane fluxes in soils: Dynamics, controls, and contributions to the greenhouse effect. Global Change Biology, 14(2), 199-216.
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  • Keppler, F., et al. (2006). Methane emissions from terrestrial plants under aerobic conditions. Nature, 439(7073), 187-191.
  • Knox, A. S., et al. (2019). Soil properties and methane dynamics: Advances in understanding the role of soil texture, moisture, and microbial community structure. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 130, 217-226.
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Developing novel imaging capacities to study the movement of fluids through soils

  • De Roo, J., et al. (2019). Synchrotron radiation for soil science: Advances in imaging and quantifying soil fluid dynamics. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 83(3), 809-820.
  • Gao, L., et al. (2018). High-resolution X-ray CT imaging of fluid transport in soils: Implications for pore-scale modeling. Geoderma, 323, 91-103.
  • Knudsen, M. T., et al. (2016). Neutron radiography as a tool for studying soil water dynamics. Journal of Hydrology, 540, 1064-1077.
  • Liu, Y., et al. (2017). Advances in X-ray computed tomography for the study of soil fluid dynamics. Geoderma,

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