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  1. Link Between Soil Organic Carbon and Microbial Soil Health Indicators in Arable Fields: Management and Spatial Drivers
  2. Year-long, multiple-timepoint field studies show the importance of spatiotemporal dynamics and microbial functions in agricultural soil microbiomes
  3. Chemically and biologically activated biochars as potential inoculant carriers, biofertilizers or plant disease suppressors
  4. The bacterial and fungal strawberry root-associated microbiome in reused peat-based substrate
  5. S-enhanced microbial activation of biochars and processed grass fibers for circular horticulture
  6. The repeatability of reusing peat as horticultural substrate and the role of fertigation for optimal reuse
  7. Wood-based biochars produced at low pyrolysis temperatures are good carriers for a Trichoderma-based biopesticide
  8. Linnemannia elongata: A Key Species in Chitin-Based Plant Growth Promotion
  9. Application of biochar to anaerobic digestion versus digestate: Effects on N emissions and C stability
  10. Reuse of coir, peat, and wood fiber in strawberry production
  11. End-of-life stage of renewable growing media with biochar versus spent peat or mineral wool
  12. Exploring the microbial response as a potential bio-indicator for soil health: Insights from a controlled incubator experiment
  13. End-of-life of organic growing media: assessing the residual nutrient concentrations in mineral and organic growbags of tomato
  14. Common Ivy (Hedera Helix L.) as a Novel Green Resource in an Urban Biorefinery Concept
  15. Fast screening of total nutrient contents in strawberry leaves and spent growing media using NIRS
  16. Biochar amendment to cattle slurry reduces NH3 emissions during storage without risk of higher NH3 emissions after soil application of the solid fraction
  17. Oxygen uptake rate versus CO2 based respiration rate for assessment of the biological stability of peat, plant fibers and woody materials with high C:N ratio versus composts
  18. Towards environmentally sustainable growing media for strawberry cultivation: Effect of biochar and fertigation on circular use of nutrients
  19. Screening tests for N sorption allow to select and engineer biochars for N mitigation during biomass processing
  20. Suppression of Phytophthora on Chamaecyparis in Sustainable Horticultural Substrates Depends on Fertilization and Is Linked to the Rhizobiome
  21. The effect of pyrolysis temperature and feedstock on biochar agronomic properties
  22. Elucidating the microbiome of the sustainable peat replacers composts and nature management residues
  23. The Tripartite of Soilless Systems, Growing Media, and Plants through an Intensive Crop Production Scheme
  24. Sustainable Growing Media Blends with Woody Green Composts: Optimizing the N Release with Organic Fertilizers and Interaction with Microbial Biomass
  25. Do maize roots and shoots have different degradability under field conditions? — A field study of 13C resolved CO2 emissions
  26. Biochar-Enhanced Resistance to Botrytis cinerea in Strawberry Fruits (But Not Leaves) Is Associated With Changes in the Rhizosphere Microbiome
  27. Nature conservation management residues as alternative for farm yard manure: effects on nutrients, carbon and disease suppression
  28. Effect of biochar and compost on the bacterial soil community
  29. Chemically versus thermally processed brown shrimp shells or Chinese mitten crab as a source of chitin, nutrients or salts and as microbial stimulant in soilless strawberry cultivation
  30. Understanding the Shift in the Microbiome of Composts That Are Optimized for a Better Fit-for-Purpose in Growing Media
  31. NIRS as a fast screening technique for total nutrients in strawberry leaves and in spent growing media
  32. Circular use of nutrients in soilless strawberry cultivation: spent growing media as key element
  33. Biochar for Circular Horticulture: Feedstock Related Effects in Soilless Cultivation
  34. Chitin in Strawberry Cultivation: Foliar Growth and Defense Response Promotion, but Reduced Fruit Yield and Disease Resistance by Nutrient Imbalances
  35. Dynamics of soil phosphorus measured by ammonium lactate extraction as a function of the soil phosphorus balance and soil properties
  36. Contribution of above- versus belowground C inputs of maize to soil organic carbon: Conclusions from a 13C/12C-resolved resampling campaign of Belgian croplands after two decades
  37. CO2 flux measurements for assessing the stability of spent growing media for reuse for cultivation of ornamentals as part of a circular economy
  38. Identification of microbial life in sustainable and disease suppressive growing media: the role of beneficial microorganisms
  39. Nutrients in circular horticulture: blending peat with biochar alters interaction with fertigation solution
  40. Peat replacement by composts, plant fibers or management residues: a preliminary classification of methods for stability assessment
  41. Acidification of composts versus woody management residues: Optimizing biological and chemical characteristics for a better fit in growing media
  42. Renewable P sources: P use efficiency of digestate, processed animal manure, compost, biochar and struvite
  43. Grow - Store - Steam - Re-peat: Reuse of spent growing media for circular cultivation of Chrysanthemum
  44. Has compost with biochar applied during the process added value over biochar or compost for increasing soil quality in an arable cropping system?
  45. Risk assessment of additional nitrate leaching under catch crops fertilized with pig slurry after harvest of winter cereals
  46. Daring to be differential: metabarcoding analysis of soil and plant-related microbial communities using amplicon sequence variants and operational taxonomical units
  47. Maize root biomass and architecture depend on site but not on variety: Consequences for prediction of C inputs and spread in topsoil based on root-to-shoot ratios
  48. Has compost with biochar added during the process added value over biochar or compost to increase disease suppression?
  49. Peat substrate amended with chitin modulates the N-cycle, siderophore and chitinase responses in the lettuce rhizobiome
  50. Agronomic Evaluation of Biochar, Compost and Biochar-Blended Compost across Different Cropping Systems: Perspective from the European Project FERTIPLUS
  51. Maize root‐derived C in soil and the role of physical protection on its relative stability over shoot‐derived C
  52. Interactions between broiler chickens, soil parameters and short rotation coppice willow in a free-range system
  53. Accounting for the impact of agricultural land use practices on soil organic carbon stock and yield under the area of protection natural resources - Illustrated for Flanders
  54. Plant fibers for renewable growing media: Potential of defibration, acidification or inoculation with biocontrol fungi to reduce the N drawdown and plant pathogens
  55. Compost as a carrier medium for entomopathogenic nematodes – The influence of compost maturity on their virulence and survival
  56. Introduction of a natural resource balance indicator to assess soil organic carbon management: Agricultural Biomass Productivity Benefit
  57. Recycling of P and K in circular horticulture through compost application in sustainable growing media for fertigated strawberry cultivation
  58. Trichoderma-Inoculated Miscanthus Straw Can Replace Peat in Strawberry Cultivation, with Beneficial Effects on Disease Control
  59. Factors influencing the nematode community during composting and nematode-based criteria for compost maturity
  60. Balancing green energy and materials recycling: woody biomass for combustion and green waste composting combined with compost for growing media?
  61. Potential of chopped heath biomass and spent growth media to replace wood chips as bulking agent for composting high N-containing residues
  62. Selecting raw materials for sustainable growing media: a protocol to assess the risk for N immobilization
  63. Sustainable growing media based on green waste compost and other organic recycled materials: indicators for potential biodegradation and N immobilization
  64. Sustainable growing media based on green waste compost and other organic recycled materials: use of elemental sulphur to control pH
  65. The optimal lignin quantification method to breed for an improved cell wall digestibility in perennial ryegrass
  66. Co-ensiling, co-composting and anaerobic co-digestion of vegetable crop residues: Product stability and effect on soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics
  67. Improving the product stability and fertilizer value of cattle slurry solid fraction through co-composting or co-ensiling
  68. Field storage conditions for cattle manure to limit nitrogen losses and optimise fertiliser value
  69. Prediction of P concentrations in soil leachates: Results from 6 long term field trials on soils with a high P load
  70. Dynamics in the Strawberry Rhizosphere Microbiome in Response to Biochar and Botrytis cinerea Leaf Infection
  71. Combining woody biomass for combustion with green waste composting: Effect of removal of woody biomass on compost quality
  72. Feedstock Mixture Composition as Key Factor for C/P Ratio and Phosphorus Availability in Composts: Role of Biodegradation Potential, Biochar Amendment and Calcium Content
  73. Traditional and new soil amendments reduce survival and reproduction of potato cyst nematodes, except for biochar
  74. Biological, physicochemical and plant health responses in lettuce and strawberry in soil or peat amended with biochar
  75. Long-term application of compost versus other organic fertilizers: effects on phosphorus leaching
  76. Potential of biochar in composting: effect on process performance and greenhouse gas emissions
  77. Farm compost amendment and non-inversion tillage improve soil quality without increasing the risk for N and P leaching
  78. Environmental life cycle assessment of grain maize production: An analysis of factors causing variability
  79. Biochar amendment before or after composting affects compost quality and N losses, but not P plant uptake
  80. Opportunities and barriers to on-farm composting and compost application: A case study from northwestern Europe
  81. The long term use of farmyard manure and compost: Effects on P availability, orthophosphate sorption strength and P leaching
  82. Effect of ensilaged vegetable crop residue amendments on soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics
  83. P availability and P leaching after reducing the mineral P fertilization and the use of digestate products as new organic fertilizers in a 4-year field trial with high P status
  84. Effects of first- and second-generation bioenergy crops on soil processes and legacy effects on a subsequent crop
  85. Effect of organic and mineral fertilizers on soil P and C levels, crop yield and P leaching in a long term trial on a silt loam soil
  86. Limited short-term effect of compost and reduced tillage on N dynamics in a vegetable cropping system
  87. Soil quality is positively affected by reduced tillage and compost in an intensive vegetable cropping system
  88. Incorporation of catch crop residues does not increase phosphorus leaching: a soil column experiment in unsaturated conditions
  89. The positive relationship between soil quality and crop production: A case study on the effect of farm compost application
  90. Effect of composting on the Cd, Zn and Mn content and fractionation in feedstock mixtures with wood chips from a short-rotation coppice and bark
  91. Composting for Increasing the Fertilizer Value of Chicken Manure: Effects of Feedstock on P Availability
  92. Organ- and species-specific accumulation of metals in two land snail species (Gastropoda, Pulmonata)
  93. Metal Contaminated Dredged Sediment Derived Soils: A Case Of Diffuse Contamination
  94. Can the Use of Coccidiostats in Poultry Breeding Lead to Residues in Vegetables? An Experimental Study
  95. Fertilizing Soil with Selenium Fertilizers: Impact on Concentration, Speciation, and Bioaccessibility of Selenium in Leek (Allium ampeloprasum)
  96. Nematode communities and macronutrients in composts and compost-amended soils as affected by feedstock composition
  97. Intra- and inter-annual variation of Cd, Zn, Mn and Cu in foliage of poplars on contaminated soil
  98. Influence of flooding and metal immobilising soil amendments on availability of metals for willows and earthworms in calcareous dredged sediment-derived soils
  99. Effects of willow stands on heavy metal concentrations and top soil properties of infrastructure spoil landfills and dredged sediment-derived sites
  100. Phytoremediation as a management option for contaminated sediments in tidal marshes, flood control areas and dredged sediment landfill sites
  101. Trace metal behaviour in estuarine and riverine floodplain soils and sediments: A review
  102. Heavy metal mobility in intertidal sediments of the Scheldt estuary: Field monitoring
  103. Effect of Water Table Level on Metal Mobility at Different Depths in Wetland Soils of the Scheldt Estuary (Belgium)
  104. Effect of decomposing litter on the mobility and availability of metals in the soil of a recently created floodplain
  105. Cycling and ecosystem impact of metals in contaminated calcareous dredged sediment-derived soils (Flanders, Belgium)
  106. Effect of salinity on heavy metal mobility and availability in intertidal sediments of the Scheldt estuary
  107. Effect of tree species choice and mineral capping in a woodland phytostabilisation system: A case-study for calcareous dredged sediment landfills with an oxidised topsoil
  108. Uptake of Cd, Zn and Mn by willow increases during terrestrialisation of initially ponded polluted sediments
  109. Influence of hydrological regime on pore water metal concentrations in a contaminated sediment-derived soil
  110. Field effects of pollutants in dynamic environments. A case study on earthworm populations in river floodplains contaminated with heavy metals
  111. Potential of five willow species (Salix spp.) for phytoextraction of heavy metals
  112. Factors affecting metal concentrations in the upper sediment layer of intertidal reedbeds along the river Scheldt
  113. Effect of submergence–emergence sequence and organic matter or aluminosilicate amendment on metal uptake by woody wetland plant species from contaminated sediments
  114. Genetic variation in two land snails, Cepaea nemoralis and Succinea putris (Gastropoda, Pulmonata), from sites differing in heavy metal content
  115. Associations between shell strength, shell morphology and heavy metals in the land snail Cepaea nemoralis (Gastropoda, Helicidae)
  116. Metal uptake in maize, willows and poplars on impoldered and freshwater tidal marshes in the Scheldt estuary
  117. Capability of Loss‐on‐Ignition as a Predictor of Total Organic Carbon in Non‐Calcareous Forest Soils
  118. The effect of hydrological regime on the metal bioavailability for the wetland plant species Salix cinerea
  119. Differences in Cd and Zn bioaccumulation for the flood-tolerant Salix cinerea rooting in seasonally flooded contaminated sediments
  120. Rates of forest floor decomposition and soil forming processes as indicators of forest ecosystem functioning on a polluted dredged sediment landfill
  121. Growth and trace metal accumulation of two Salix clones on sediment-derived soils with increasing contamination levels
  122. Assessment of the Pollution Status of Alluvial Plains: A Case Study for the Dredged Sediment-Derived Soils Along the Leie River
  123. Earthworm biomass as additional information for risk assessment of heavy metal biomagnification: a case study for dredged sediment-derived soils and polluted floodplain soils
  124. Foliar concentrations of volunteer willows growing on polluted sediment-derived sites versus sites with baseline contamination levelsElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: results for fluctuating asymmetry in the leaves of S. cinerea (ES...
  125. Temporal-spatial trends in heavy metal contents in sediment-derived soils along the Sea Scheldt river (Belgium)
  126. Cadmium and Zinc uptake by volunteer willow species and elder rooting in polluted dredged sediment disposal sites
  127. Heavy metal contents in surface soils along the Upper Scheldt river (Belgium) affected by historical upland disposal of dredged materials
  128. Identification of dredged sediment-derived soils in the alluvial plains of the Leie and the Upper and Sea Scheldt rivers (Belgium) based on physico-chemical soil propertiesElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: summary statistics for phy...