Loss of agroecosystem soil functions due to soil quality (SQ) degradation impacts Africa's agricultural viability and food security. Primary forest and farm fields deforested between 1930 and 2000 were sampled along a chronosequence on two parent materials in western Kenya. Two traditional long-t...
Moebius-Clunee, B.N.
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Es, H.M. van
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Idowu, O.J.
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Schindelbeck, R.R.
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Kimetu, J.M.
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Ngoze, S.
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Lehmann, Johannes
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Kinyangi, James
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[Long-term soil quality degradation along a cultivation chronosequence in western Kenya]
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Long-term soil quality degradation along a cultivation chronosequence in western Kenya
Black carbon (BC) is a quantitatively important C pool in the global C cycle due to its relative recalcitrance compared with other C pools. However, mechanisms of BC oxidation and accompanying molecular changes are largely unknown. In this study, the long-term dynamics in quality and quantity of ...
Nguyen, B.T.
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Lehmann, Johannes
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Kinyangi, James
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Smernik, R.
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Riha, S.J.
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Engelhard, M.H.
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[Long-term black carbon dynamics in cultivated soil]
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Long-term black carbon dynamics in cultivated soil
We describe for the first time a current indigenous soil management system in West Africa, in which targeted waste deposition transforms highly weathered, nutrient‐ and carbon‐poor tropical soils into enduringly fertile, carbon‐rich black soils, hereafter “African Dark Earths” (AfDE). In comparis...
Solomon, Dawit
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Lehmann, Johannes
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Fraser, James A
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Leach, Melissa
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Amanor, Kojo
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Frausin, Victoria
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Kristiansen, Søren M
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Millimouno, Dominique
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Fairhead, James
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[Indigenous African soil enrichment as a climate‐smart sustainable agriculture alternative]
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Indigenous African soil enrichment as a climate‐smart sustainable agriculture alternative
Natural organic matter (NOM) is a highly active component of soils and sediments, and plays an important role in global C cycling. However, NOM has defied molecular-level structural characterization, owing to variations along the decomposition continuum and its existence as highly functionalized ...
Solomon, D.
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Lehmann, Johannes
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Kinyangi, James
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Biqing, L.
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Heymann, K.
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Dathe, L.
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Hanley, K.
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Wirick, S.
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Jacobsen, C.
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[Carbon (1s) NEXAFS spectroscopy of biogeochemically relevant reference organic compounds]
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Carbon (1s) NEXAFS spectroscopy of biogeochemically relevant reference organic compounds