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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

Unraveling #isopods' culinary secrets and why it matters for ecosystems phys.org/news/2024-05-unraveli

‘Dust you shall eat’: The complex nutritional and functional considerations underlying a simple diet onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10

"By understanding how desert isopods meticulously regulate their nutrient intake and prefer biological #soil crusts over plant litter, the study highlights the intricate dynamics of trophic interactions."

photo of a small invertebrate animal in a desert landscape
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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

The secret world of earthworms theconversation.com/the-secret

'"they can be divided into 3 groups. The 1st live in organic-rich material, like a #compost bin. These include the #TigerWorm or #brandling and are great at breaking down vegetable peelings. Unpigmented #earthworms eat #soil and make horizontal burrows close to the surface. The 3rd group are larger, deep burrowers (~1m below) such as the #DewWorm or #Nightcrawler. They use their mouth to pull leaves into their permanent, vertical burrows."

photo of a red earthworm
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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

Genes identified that allow bacteria to thrive despite toxic heavy metal in soil phys.org/news/2024-03-genes-ba

The evolutionary #genomics of adaptation to stress in wild #rhizobium #bacteria: Hanna Kehlet-Delgado et al. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2311

"Some #soil bacteria can acquire sets of genes that enable them to pump the heavy metal #nickel out of their systems. This enables the bacteria to not only thrive in otherwise toxic #soils but help #plants grow there as well."

tiny plant growing in rocky soil
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Kathe Todd-Brown

This next bit in the abstract is interesting. You can break down those 6700 #soil profiles into different use cases including soil stock assessment (n=4815), #carbon burial rates (533) and dynamic soil formulation models (326). This is a slightly more nuanced "garbage in, garbage out" argument.

It's not that the data isn't valuable, it's that data is fit-for-purpose. 7/n

Kathe Todd-Brown

Talking about the soil #carbon database here, it's big. There are over 6700 #soil profiles across marshes, mangroves, tidal freshwater forests, and seagrasses. That might not sound like a lot if you are from data science but those are over 6700 holes that had to be dug and cores sliced up for analysis in the lab. This represents an insane amount of labor across many different groups. 6/n

CelloMom On Cars

Soils are warming fast, contributing to crop failures.

"The Earth is heating up, and not just its atmosphere and oceans. The #soil itself is getting warmer, too, leading to more #ExtremeSoilHeat around the planet – along with unclear but ominous consequences for surface dwellers like us.

They found the number of days with heat extremes is increasing twice as quickly in the soil as it is in the air."

sciencealert.com/weve-been-ove

ScienceAlert · We've Been Overlooking a Major Part of Climate Change, And It's Sending Warning SignsThe Earth is heating up, and not just its atmosphere and oceans.
CelloMom On Cars

"#ClimateChange is already having an impact on #food supplies, particularly in #Canada."

"Preston said many Canadian farmers are eager to adopt more sustainable means of production, but they need government support. Improving #soil health to make it more resilient to extreme rainfall, and increasing #biodiversity on farms, he said, will go a long way in adapting to a warming planet."

globalnews.ca/news/9863235/cli

Global News · Climate change is already affecting food security. How can Canadians prepare?By Uday Rana
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Susan Ramirez

I'm @boxofdelights, and this is my #introduction.
I love reading, especially #sff. I struggle with #SocialAnxiety, but I belong to three #BookGroup s and #WisCon. I #garden in Fort Collins, Colorado. I have two #dogs and two grown children. I attended the Roeper School. I am deaf in one ear.

I'm interested in #gardening, #NativePlants, #permaculture, #rewilding, #HomeGrownNationalPark, #GrowYourOwn food, #compost, #soil, #CarbonFarming, #Bookstodon, #StoryTelling, and #unschooling

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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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...without rainfall for some time.

I am not an engineer, but it seems quite logic that the reflective capabilities of the
#SolarPanels will also protect the organic #soil from #erosión by rain, sun, and to some degree, wind.

After some interest in the 1960’s through 1980s and early 2000’s, a 2019 Master thesis from #Italy with the chief aim of #WaterConservation and management takes aim to solve South American cities’ recurring #flood problems using #WaruWaru:

politesi.polimi.it/handle/1058.

Schematic cut through a Waru Waru irrigation system of agriculature:
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Skye & Soil

Hello World!

#introduction for #spore

I'm a #soil scientist (really manager now) interested in all things soil, climate and society - so everything. Specifically thinking about soil change through space and time (including, but not limited to soil health) and all the #Rstats and data viz that go into that. Committed on doing my best to further DEI in everything I do.

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