Bo Stenberg

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed and analyzed a global soil visible-near infrared (vis-NIR) spectral library, which is currently the largest and most diverse database of its kind, and showed that the information encoded in the spectra can describe soil composition and be associated to land cover and its global geographic distribution, which acts as a surrogate for global climate variability.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the state of the art of soil spectroscopy as well as its potential to facilitate soil monitoring, and highlight that the widespread use of spectroscopes to monitor the status of the soil should be encouraged by the creation of a standard for the collection of laboratory soil spectra, to promote the sharing of spectral libraries, and to scan existing soil archives.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied C and N mineralisation patterns from a large number of plant materials (76 samples, covering 37 species and several plant parts), and quantified how these patterns related to biological origin and selected indicators of chemical composition.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the microbial biomass and activities in 12 different, annually frozen, agricultural mineral soils when fresh and when stored at +2±2°C and at −20 ± 2°C for 1, 3, 6 and 13 months.