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New Anniversary Editorial Celebrating 40 years of Soil Use and Management! From practical roots to global impact, @sumjournal.bsky.social continues to shape soil science. Explore the journey.

Celebrating 40 years of Soil Use and Management! From practical roots to global impact, Soil Use and Management continues to shape soil science.

Explore the journey: https://ow.ly/600550XAMQ8

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New Anniversary Editorial

40 years of Soil Use and Management 40 landmark papers. The “40@40” collection showcases the evolution of applied soil research. Discover the highlights.
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📢📢We are delighted that our Special Issue '40@40' celebrating our 40th anniversary is now available. The 40 selected papers and accompanying editorial reflect the changes in applied soil science across our 4 decades of publication📢📢

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The Effect of Long-Term Underlying Management on Soil Faunal Communities of a Newly Established Herbal Ley.

Cannon, Booyse, Murray & Crotty.

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Schematic representation of the relationship between post-normal science with professional consultancy and applied science (adapted from Funtowicz and Ravetz 2003).

***NEW COMMENTARY***
Transdisciplinary Research May Be Hindering Rather Than Fostering Progress and Policy-Making: Discussion With Examples in Soil Research.
Philippe C. Baveye
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How a Decade of Different Tillage Intensity Influences Yield Response to Seasonal Weather Variations.
Cannon & Rial-Lovera
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Heat map illustrating the effectiveness of various soil management practices in terms of soil organic carbon (SOC) enhancement, greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction and their aggregated practice impact coefficient (PIC). Pale yellow cells indicate ‘no data available for scoring’.

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A Critical Review of Regenerative Soil Management: A Novel Scoring System for SOC and GHG Emissions in Southeast Asia
Udomkun, Rupngam, Müller, Masso, Boonupara & Kaewlom
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Schematic of temporal dynamics of topsoil structure and hydrology: (a) post-tillage, (b) post-flood, and (c) vegetated. The middle circle represents the soil water retention potential.

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Spatial and Temporal Variations in Arable Soil Structure and Hydrology Affect the Functioning of Nature-Based Solutions for Flood Mitigation
Roberts, Wilkinson, Geris & Hallett
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(Left) Unsegmented image and (right) the corresponding segmented image.

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3D Image-Based Pore-Network Simulations to Analyse Soil Pore Architecture Variations due to Wetting and Drying Cycles
Pires, Lin & Ghanbarian
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📢New paper: Innovative field macropore test can accurately track soil health. Infiltration matched with X-ray scans and measurements of soil respiration reliably captures differences in soil structure and function.
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Change in Soil Macroporosity With Land Use and Its Effect on Soil Respiration Soil macropores were intensively studied in the 1990s for their role in preferential flow. The renewed interest in macropores is their influence on soil organic carbon dynamics. A common method for m...

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Predictions of changes in total soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks in mineral soil (thick lines, coefficients and p values from Figure 4c) and peat soil (thin lines, coefficients and p-values from Figure 4b) along the chronosequence, at sites with low (orange lines) or high (solid blue lines) topographic wetness index (TWI). Total SOC was calculated at: (a) fixed depth of 60 cm, (b) fixed soil mass of 200 kg m−2, and (c) fixed ash mass of 200 kg m−2. Low and high TWI correspond to the first and third quartile of all the TWI values (5.23 and 11.73, respectively). Dotted, dashed and solid lines respectively indicate that the TSC effect was not significant (p > 0.1), marginally significant (0.05 < p < 0.1), or significant (p < 0.05).

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Long-term #soil organic carbon changes after cropland conversion to grazed grassland in Southern Sweden.
Johansson, Livsey, Guasconi et al.
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Change in Soil Macroporosity With Land Use and Its Effect on Soil Respiration
Rickard, Zhang, Hossain, Mooney, Crawford, Neal & Whalley
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What happens to a soil organism, Springtails, when different types of #microplastics are combined with common farm chemicals? The results show that biodegradable plastics are not as harmless as they seem.

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Positive Effects of Inter-Row Vegetation on Soil Fauna and Organic Matter Decomposition in Mediterranean Vineyards.
Rocher, Younes, Melloul, Bischoff, Gros & Blight
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Plot configurations showing crop row position (e.g. maize ears, 1–8), tractors and combine harvester wheel positions (solid rectangles) and tillage tine positions (chevrons). Adapted from Shaheb (2020). The DT plots received DT, ST, levelling and planting tractor's wheel traffic sequentially; ST plots received ST, levelling and planting tractor's wheel traffic sequentially and NT plots only received planting tractor's wheel traffic.

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The effect of tire inflation pressure and tillage systems on soil properties, growth and yield of maize and soybean in a silty clay loam soil
Shaheb, Misiewicz, Godwin, Dickin et al.
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Transforming Biomass Power Wastes to Innovative Fertiliser: Effect of Poultry Manure Ash-Based Fertilisers on the Growth and Mineral Nutrition of Lettuce and Maize Plants
Taskin, Kan, Yilmaz et al.
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Absolute changes (Δ) of microbial biomass C (MBC) over decomposition degree-days (DDD), with means (± SE) by preceding crops (PC). Significance of PC and initial soil mineral N (SMNi) as covariate is represented by * at p < 0.05 and ** at p < 0.01.

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Benefits of a Preceding Legume Crop for Soil Organic Matter and Microbial Dynamics During Wheat Residue Decomposition
Nascimento, Cantero-Martínez, Álvaro-Fuentes, Lafuente & Villegas
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Soil organic carbon theoretical evolutions under business-as-usual (BAU) practices as compared to the adoption of sustainable soil management (SSM) practices. The x-axes represent time, expressed in years. The y-axes represent SOC stock, expressed as Mg C ha−1. ΔSOC represents the variation in SOC stock content of a land unit induced by SSM after 20 years with respect to the baseline SOC stock content (according to the stock difference method) or the difference in SOC stock content at one point in time (year 20) between a treatment plot where SSM is applied and a control plot (according to the paired comparison method). Every graph represents a different scenario: (a) lands where SOC levels have reached equilibrium and it is possible to increase levels through SSM; (b) lands where SOC is increasing but can be further increased through SSM; (c) lands where SOC is decreasing and it is possible to stop or mitigate losses in SOC levels; or (d) even reverse such fall through SSM.

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The misconception of soil organic carbon sequestration notion: when do we achieve climate benefit?
Petersson, Antoniella, Chiriacò, Perugini & Chiti
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📢📢Our blog celebrating 40 years of Soil Use and Management identifies the key #soil trends to watch out for this year.⬇️
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📢📢 GREAT NEWS📢📢
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Heat map illustrating the effectiveness of various soil management practices in terms of soil organic carbon (SOC) enhancement, greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction and their aggregated practice impact coefficient (PIC). Pale yellow cells indicate ‘no data available for scoring’.

***NEW***
A Critical Review of Regenerative Soil Management: A Novel Scoring System for SOC and GHG Emissions in Southeast Asia.
Udomkun, Rupngam, Müller et al.
doi.org/10.1111/sum....
#SoilHealth #soil #soilscience
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(a) Illustration of the employed fractionation procedure that combines electrostatic attraction, water extraction, sonication, and wet sieving (Remus et al., 2018). (b) Separated OM fractions and their soil ecological meaning. Artwork by Lana Koepke Johnson.

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Potential gains in soil carbon and nitrogen as a result of systems perenniality: Insights from on-farm experiments and soil organic matter fractions.
Souza Krupek, Kaiser, Redfearn & Basche🇺🇸
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HoliSoils Webinar Series - Challenges in modelling microbial interaction in SOC decomposition - HoliSoils Join us on 17 September 2025 (14:00–15:30 CEST) for the first session of the HoliSoils webinar series, organised in collaboration with the IUFRO Task Force T58.

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📢📢Read our new blog celebrating 40 years of Soil Use and Management and Welcoming Our New Editor-in-Chief, Professor Leo Condron.⬇️
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