The capacity of soil to regulate the terrestrial freshwater supply is a fundamental ecosystem service. Water percolating through soil is filtered, stored for plant utilization, and redistributed ...

The Earth's land surface is dominated by sloping landscapes. Every year, soil erosion laterally distributes on the order of 75 Gt of topsoil (Berhe et al. 2007). The coupled biogeochemical cycles ...

Water conservation: A well-designed plant matrix shades the soil, reducing evaporation and retaining moisture—crucial in India's varied climates. Biodiversity enhancement: Incorporating a variety of ...

University of Wisconsin professor of soil science Jingyi Huang and data scientist Maria Oros worked over the summer on a new modeling tool for soil scientists. The pair used machine learning and ...

Environmental laboratories face increasing challenges when analyzing complex samples such as soil, sludge and sediment. Modern single quadrupole inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) ...

Aside from the measurement induced bias and even within assumed homogeneous soil strata, natural soils are variable in their properties. The scarcity in field test results, characteristic to ...