Journal Paper Digests 2026 #19

  • Microbial construction of soil structure: Modeling soil aggregation dynamics under periodic disturbances
  • Predicting Soil Nitrogen Mineralization Rate in Agricultural Soils Using Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy (NIRS): A Laboratory Incubation Study
  • Soil spatial scaling: Local measurements to global policy
  • Spatiotemporal modelling of soil organic carbon: integrating process-based and machine learning approaches

Journal Paper Digests 2026 #18

  • Lower carbon fractions and microbial carbon use efficiency in ant-mound surface soils than in adjacent biocrusted soils of a revegetated desert
  • Visualizing soil chemical heterogeneity in time and space using optical sensors: advances, challenges, and prospects
  • A robust rank aggregation based interpretable minimum predictor set for scalable soil organic carbon mapping
  • Defining Soil as a Surface-Coupled Planetary System: Separating Pedogenesis From Habitability
  • Global Pattern of Flash Drought and Impact-Relevant Early Warning
  • Soil carbon stocks: Overlooked contributions from coarse fragments and subsoil across a climatic gradient
  • Introducing a new methodology for applying field experiments to evaluate gully evolution processes

Journal Paper Digests 2026 #17

  • Assessing Precipitation Effectiveness in the Context of Drought
  • From Light Scan to Flow: Estimating Soil Hydraulic Properties Through VNIR-SWIR Spectroscopy and Calibration-Free PTFs
  • Trends in Soil Health in the European Union
  • Clay content, not microbial community composition, regulates carbon stabilisation along a soil carbon and texture gradient impacted by reduced precipitation

Journal Paper Digests 2026 #16

  • ‘A flash in the pan’ or a more enduring contribution? A retrospective on Micha Klein’s (1976) ‘Hydrograph peakedness and basin area’
  • High resolution 4D soil organic carbon stock mapping at farm scale
  • How the landscape influences soil respiration: Explaining spatio-temporal patterns with interpretable machine learning
  • Capturing Field-Scale Soil Moisture Dynamics in Ireland Using Cosmic-Ray Neutron Sensing
  • Combined Effect of Biochar and Microplastics on Soil Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Meta-Analysis
  • A Simple Stomatal Model That Unifies the Metabolic and Hydraulic Control of Carbon and Water Flux

Journal Paper Digests 2026 #15

  • NASA’s EMIT hyperspectral observations of phytoplankton ecology in estuarine waters
  • Bayesian uncertainty analysis of soil organic carbon stocks and stock changes from croplands in the U.S. Midwest
  • The role of soil structure for the response of CO2 emissions to soil moisture and its relevance for modelling soil carbon dynamics
  • SMART-Soil: Satellite-based machine learning approach for reliable tracking of soil moisture across CONUS
  • Coupling near infrared spectroscopy with machine learning algorithms for simultaneously detecting multiple microplastics in soil
  • Causal Discovery Methods for Functional Performance of Evapotranspiration Models
  • An independent evaluation of global 1 km soil moisture products using in-situ and airborne observations
  • Interpolation of large-scale airborne geophysical data with uncertainty quantification