The World Beneath Our Feet — Frank Ashwood
A vivid tour into the subterranean that encourages us to look downwards, revealing how the earth’s most biodiverse frontier sustains all life above the soil surfaceFrank Ashwood
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These are the beautiful spore-producing structures of plasmodial slime molds. Which is your favourite colour?
Originally considered Fungi, these Myxomycetes are now classed as Amoebozoans - single celled organisms with thousands of nuclei... not animals or fungi but something else entirely!
#SoilBiodiversity #SoilEcology #Fungi #MacroPhotography #Nature #MoldMonday #Soil
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🌳🌱 Did you know woody plants can reshape soil health in #drylands? A study by Martha Mary Farella, David D. Breshears and Rachel Gallery shows that woody plant cover alone can predict nearly 50% of #soil function changes, including nutrient levels and microbial activity. Learn more from their dataset and article at doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.1227… and doi.org/10.1029/2020JG005838. Image: Stockcake
#OpenData #OpenScience #Drylands #Soilhealth #UniversityofArizona
Data for "Predicting drivers of collective soil function with woody plant encroachment in complex landscapes"
Dataset used for analysis in manuscript titled, "Predicting drivers of collective soil function with woody plant encroachment in complex landscapes" (manuscript in preparation). See README.txt for a detailed description of the dataset.figshare
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Seeds and Soil Farm is focused on regenerative agriculture, ecological gardening and bio intensive farming practices. Building healthy soil, creating nutritious local food and saving viable seed is where we place our energy.
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#agroecology #agroecologia #agroécologie #permaculture #permacultura #agroforestry #agrofloresta #agroforesterie #notill #ecological #gardening #biointensive #organic #foodsecurity #organicfood #soil #healthysoil #regenerative #seed #alaska
🚨 New collaborative results from the lab:
Only a minority of bacteria grow after wetting in both natural and post-mining biocrusts in a hyperarid phosphate mine
#soil #stable_isotopes #post_mining #drylands
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Only a minority of bacteria grow after wetting in both natural and post-mining biocrusts in a hyperarid phosphate mine
#soil #stable_isotopes #post_mining #drylands
soil.copernicus.org/articles/9…
Only a minority of bacteria grow after wetting in both natural and post-mining biocrusts in a hyperarid phosphate mine
Abstract. Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) are key contributors to desert ecosystem functions, therefore, biocrust restoration following mechanical disturbances is imperative.soil.copernicus.org
Evaluating the role of bacterial diversity in supporting soil ecosystem functions under anthropogenic stress
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Evaluating the role of bacterial diversity in supporting soil ecosystem functions under anthropogenic stress - ISME Communications
ISME Communications - Evaluating the role of bacterial diversity in supporting soil ecosystem functions under anthropogenic stressNature
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Hi Mastodon #garden lovers or #soil knowers or #fungus experts, I have no idea what I've come home to in part of my newly planted garden, #help? looks like some sort of #seed? I recently added a heavy dose of #compost to this garden and planted lupin seeds underneath this particular area, but this looks odd!
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This week, 24 new Winogradsky columns came into being, with help from the KS2 classes at my local school 🦠💚
As they all needed egg yolks, back at home I'm now making meringues! Lots and lots of meringues!!!
I have no idea how the students mud jars will end up, but here's a pic of one of my winter experiments a couple of years ago with soil/water from the same river...
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In the background, the #beach opposite #stornoway #harbour where we deployed our new equipment to capture #rope and #net mending #cuttings (#ELFG). The situation is pretty bad with #soil mostly composed of
#plastic fibre once the #seaweed has decomposed. Hopefully we will stop this from occurring in our #environment.