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Best Publications

  • Digital Soil Map of the World

    Pedro A. Sanchez;Sonya Ahamed;Florence Carré;Alfred E. Hartemink

  • Economics- and policy-driven organic carbon input enhancement dominates soil organic carbon accumulation in Chinese croplands.

    Yongcun Zhao;Meiyan Wang;Shuijin Hu;Xudong Zhang

  • Mapping high resolution National Soil Information Grids of China

    Feng Liu;Huayong Wu;Yuguo Zhao;Decheng Li

  • Comparison of boosted regression tree and random forest models for mapping topsoil organic carbon concentration in an alpine ecosystem

    Ren-Min Yang;Gan-Lin Zhang;Feng Liu;Yuan-Yuan Lu

  • GlobalSoilMap: Toward a Fine-Resolution Global Grid of Soil Properties

    Dominique Arrouays;Michael G. Grundy;Alfred E. Hartemink;Jonathan W. Hempel

  • Nitrogen Loss through Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidation Coupled to Iron Reduction from Paddy Soils in a Chronosequence

    Long-Jun Ding;Xin-Li An;Shun Li;Gan-Lin Zhang

  • Concentrations and chemical speciations of Cu, Zn, Pb and Cr of urban soils in Nanjing, China

    Ying Lu;Ying Lu;Zitong Gong;Ganlin Zhang;Wolfgang Burghardt

  • Organic matter controls of soil water retention in an alpine grassland and its significance for hydrological processes

    Fei Yang;Gan-Lin Zhang;Jin-Ling Yang;De-Cheng Li

  • High-resolution and three-dimensional mapping of soil texture of China

    Feng Liu;Gan-Lin Zhang;Xiaodong Song;Decheng Li

  • Water infiltration in urban soils and its effects on the quantity and quality of runoff

    Jin-Ling Yang;Gan-Lin Zhang

  • Recent progress and future prospect of digital soil mapping: A review

    Gan-lin Zhang;Feng Liu;Xiao-dong Song

  • Status of the World’s Soil Resources Main report

    Luca Montanarella;Mohamed Badraoui;Victor Chude;Isaurinda Dos Santos Baptista Costa

  • Mapping soil organic carbon content by geographically weighted regression: A case study in the Heihe River Basin, China

    Xiao Dong Song;Dick J. Brus;Dick J. Brus;Feng Liu;De Cheng Li

  • Formation, characteristics and eco-environmental implications of urban soils – A review

    Jin-Ling Yang;Gan-Lin Zhang

  • A high-resolution map of soil pH in China made by hybrid modelling of sparse soil data and environmental covariates and its implications for pollution.

    Songchao Chen;Zongzheng Liang;Richard Webster;Ganlin Zhang

  • Modeling spatio-temporal distribution of soil moisture by deep learning-based cellular automata model

    Xiaodong Song;Ganlin Zhang;Feng Liu;Decheng Li

  • Soil legacy data rescue via GlobalSoilMap and other international and national initiatives

    Dominique Arrouays;Johan G. B. Leenaars;Anne C. Richer-de-Forges;Kabindra Adhikari

  • Magnetic properties of the urban soils in Shanghai and their environmental implications

    Xue-Feng Hu;Xue-Feng Hu;Yu Su;Rong Ye;Xiao-Qing Li

  • Mapping soil organic carbon stock by hyperspectral and time-series multispectral remote sensing images in low-relief agricultural areas

    Long Guo;Long Guo;Xiaoru Sun;Peng Fu;Tiezhu Shi

  • Assessment of bioaccessibility and exposure risk of arsenic and lead in urban soils of Guangzhou City, China

    Ying Lu;Wei Yin;Longbin Huang;Longbin Huang;Ganlin Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Luca Montanarella
Luca Montanarella European Commission
Paul D. Hallett
Paul D. Hallett University of Aberdeen
Dominique Arrouays
Dominique Arrouays INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Alexander J. Thompson
Alexander J. Thompson Ascension Health
Xiaoxu Jia
Xiaoxu Jia Chinese Academy of Sciences
Fang Huang
Fang Huang University of Science and Technology of China
Budiman Minasny
Budiman Minasny University of Sydney
Xinhua Peng
Xinhua Peng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ming Hung Wong
Ming Hung Wong Education University of Hong Kong
Jean-Louis Morel
Jean-Louis Morel University of Lorraine

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