A5004115778- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Agriculture, Soil, Plant Science
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Heavy metals in environment
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
- Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Nematode management and characterization studies
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
- Climate change and permafrost
- Soil and Land Suitability Analysis
- Phytase and its Applications
Netherlands Institute of Ecology
2017-2025
Wageningen University & Research
2017-2024
There is consensus that plant species richness enhances productivity within natural grasslands, but the underlying drivers remain debated. Recently, differential accumulation of soil-borne fungal pathogens across diversity gradient has been proposed as a cause this pattern. However, below-ground environment generally treated 'black box' in biodiversity experiments, leaving these fungi unidentified. Using next generation sequencing and pathogenicity assays, we analysed community composition...
Abstract Aims Saprophytic fungi are important agents of soil mineralization and carbon cycling. Their community structure is known to be affected by conditions such as organic matter pH. However, the effect plant species, whose roots provide litter input into soil, on saprophytic fungal largely unknown. Methods We examined in a grassland biodiversity experiment with eight species belonging two functional groups (grasses forbs), combining DNA extraction from roots, next-generation sequencing...
Soil organic carbon (SOC) content is the most widely used soil health indicator, but many functions are also influenced by quality of SOC. Yet, standardized SOC parameters that can be in assessments addition to still development. Here, we investigated relationships between various (both quantity and quality) functions. We collected 223 samples from arable fields two contrasting Dutch types i.e., marine clay sand. For each sample, assessed three (i.e., biological population regulation,...
It is generally assumed that the dependence of conventional agriculture on artificial fertilizers and pesticides strongly impacts environment, while organic relying more microbial functioning may mitigate these impacts. However, it not well known how diversity community composition change in conventionally managed farmers' fields are converted to management. Here, we sequenced bacterial fungal communities 34 sand marine clay soils a time series (chronosequence) covering 25 years conversion....
There is an increasing interest in developing agricultural management practices that support a more nature-based, sustainable food production system. In organic systems, extracellular enzymes released by soil microorganisms are important regulators of the cycling and bioavailability plant nutrients due to lack synthetical inputs. We used chronosequence coupled with paired field approach evaluate how potential activity hydrolytic changed over time (0–69 years) during transition from...
Organic farming aims at producing high quality, nutritious food while sustaining the health of soils and ecosystems, for which it relies on ecological processes. The amount quality soil organic carbon (SOC) influence many processes that underlie ecosystem services. However, effect especially SOC is not yet clear. We therefore investigated long-term arable in topsoil.On two contrasting types (i.e., clay vs. sand), we sampled a chronosequence certified organically managed commercial farms (0...
Organic farming is often considered to be more sustainable than conventional farming. However, both systems comprise highly variable management practices. In this study, we show that in organic and arable fields, the multifunctionality of soils decreases with increasing agricultural intensity. Soil carbon content bacterial biomass, respectively, were strongest abiotic biotic predictors soil multifunctionality. Greater was associated less-frequent inversion tillage higher frequency...
Abstract Questions The rapid climate warming in tundra ecosystems can increase nutrient availability the soil, which may initiate shifts vegetation composition. direction will co‐determine whether Arctic is mitigated or accelerated, making understanding of successional trajectories urgent. One key factors influencing competitive relationships between plant species their access to nutrients, depending on depth where they take up most nutrients. However, uptake at different soil depths by that...
Monitoring agriculture by remote sensing enables large-scale evaluation of biomass production across space and time. The normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) is used as a proxy for green biomass. Here, we satellite-derived NDVI arable farms in the Netherlands to evaluate changes following conversion from conventional organic farming. We compared stability 72 fields on sand marine clay soils. Thirty-six these had been converted into between 0 50 years ago (with 2017 reference year),...
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