Soil pore structure is key to carbon storage Date: July 26, 2019 Source: Michigan State University Summary: Scientists have recently discovered a new mechanism determining how carbon is stored in ...

Healthy, well-functioning soil should contain 50% pore space by volume in order to hold moisture, oxygen and other gases. The other 50% of soil is made up of mineral particles (45%) and organic ...

Pore space is directly related to texture and structure. Pore space is important to the plant for three reasons: area available for roots to grow into, ability for soil to hold air and ability of ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Alexandra Kravchenko, Michigan State University professor in the Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, and several of her colleagues recently discovered a new ...

These soils act the way they do mostly because of the size of the particles that make them up. Sand particles are relatively large (by definition from 2- to 5-hundredths of a millimeter across).

A recent study has found that soil is home to 59% of all life on Earth, from an insect feeding on the soil surface to a tiny microbe nestled in a soil pore. This discovery crowns soil as the most ...

These soils act the way they do mostly because of the size of the particles that make them up. Sand particles are relatively large (by definition from 2- to 5-hundredths of a millimeter across).

In tropical rainforests the pattern and quantity of rainfall influence various ecosystem functions, as well as forest stand structure by controlling soil water status. In the present study, spatial ...