Frequent forest fires and agricultural expansion are degrading soil health in the southern Brazilian Amazon. This results in ...

7 Additionally, soil can store more carbon when fires are less frequent. 8 By reducing the size and frequency of savanna wildfires through their grazing, wildebeest support the accumulation of new ...

Typically considered a savanna, the Cerrado has many biomes, allowing a wide array of plants and animals to flourish. The real secret, though, is what you can’t observe. The soil in the Cerrado ...

Introduction: Phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) deficiencies are increasingly being reported in Ghana’s interior savanna soils. Smallholder farmers consider soybeans as a “zero-input” crop resulting in ...

Because of their moderate rainfall and underground biomass, savanna soil tends to be extremely fertile and beneficial for crops. The rich soil of temperate grasslands means grasses are abundant ...

Together with their prey, predators give rise to a ‘microbial savanna’, a complex food web that drives belowground community dynamics. Bacterivorous protists are among the most diverse predators in ...

Similarly, afforestation alters savanna plant community composition ... sugarcane and cotton that require tilling of the soil. Inclusion of sites also depended on their accessibility and on ...

“This underscores the nuanced nature of increasing tree cover on the dynamics of carbon in savanna soils,” said Zhou. “On average, the increase in soil carbon storage resulting from the expansion of ...

The new study, published in Nature Geoscience, found that savanna soils loaded with carbon from grasses had higher carbon contents. According to their findings, grasses accounted for more than half of ...