The Soil & Landscape Science Lab
@slsl-curtinuni.bsky.social
You can find out more about us and our research here: https://research.curtin.edu.au/scieng/research/soil-and-landscape-science-lab/
Congratulations to PhD student Sadichhya Adhikari on her final milestone 3 presentation! 🍾 Her research asks whether kaolin mining by-products can lock carbon into WA's sandy soils — from mineral surfaces to field trials. Organo-mineral bonds form at the micro-scale; scaling up takes time. 🌱🧪🔬🌏
📣 New paper from the lab in @commsearth.nature.com: A bacterial-to-fungal richness ratio as a scalable indicator of soil health across Australia — built with autoencoders, explainable AI & structural equation modelling. 🌏🌐🧪🔬 #SoilHealth #SoilScience #Microbiome 📄 doi.org/10.1038/s43247-026-03398-y
Decoding bacterial and fungal richness with autoencoders yields a unified ratio indicating soil health and ecological susceptibility - Communications Earth & Environment
The bacterial-to-fungal richness ratio serves as a unified, scalable indicator of microbial balance, soil health and ecological susceptibility, derived from spatial analysis, deep autoencoders, and st...
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⚒️ May issue out now: including content on ice core temperature proxies, post-collisional magmatism, changes in river connectivity, and more! www.nature.com/ngeo/volumes...
📣 Congrats to Teresa Hu from our lab on her 3rd PhD paper published in the @egu.eu journal SOIL: 👏 Estimating soil C sequestration potential with mid-IR spectroscopy and explainable ML 🌏🧪🔬 @egu-sss.bsky.social 🌐 #SoilScience #SoilCarbon #Spectroscopy #SOIL#MachineLearning doi.org/10.5194/soil...
Estimating soil carbon sequestration potential with mid-IR spectroscopy and explainable machine learning
Abstract. Soil carbon sequestration refers to the process of capturing atmospheric carbon through plant photosynthesis and storing it in soil as organic carbon. The primary mechanism for carbon seques...
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There is growing evidence that extreme events linked to anthropogenic climate change can have important effects on biodiversity. A paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution assesses the exposure of terrestrial vertebrates to multiple types of extreme climate events globally. go.nature.com/4e7pMiC 🌍🧪
Happy birthday to Sir David Attenborough, whose life & voice have inspired generations to care for the living world. 🌍 On his 100th birthday, we celebrate his extraordinary legacy as he join the Natural Centenarians’ Club, alongside some of nature’s most remarkable wonders. Swipe to see more 👇
🌍 Highlights of the program EGU Day 5 and last one ! Discover a few highlights of the program for Friday May 8th here 👇 linktr.ee/EGU_SSS For more details on the SSS division presentations/posters, follow this link: www.egu26.eu/pg/SSS_080526 #EGU26 #EGUSSS #ECS #SoilScience #TodayProgram
🌱Postdoc opportunity in our SLSL at Curtin Uni, Perth 🗓️ 4 years, $105–112k + 17% super Lead field & lab research on native plants and soil carbon restoration in semi-arid Australia 🌏 ARC project, strong publication pipeline, collaborations 🧪 Apply by 27/5/26: staff.curtin.edu.au/job-vacancie...
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📣 New paper form the lab by @williamzhope.bsky.social and @ravr19.bsky.social - improving predictions of soil C across the Australian rangelands using the Millennial v2 model, measured C fractions & optimised calibrations 🌏🌐🧪🔬 #soil #soilscience #rangelands #ecology See here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
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Scientists are exposing the biological information hidden in ancient parchments without leaving a mark go.nature.com/4dRnNir
How DNA forensics is transforming studies of ancient manuscripts
Scientists are exposing the biological information hidden in ancient parchments without leaving a mark.
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A study in Communications Medicine finds that Long COVID’s disability burden rivals that of Alzheimer’s and asthma in the US, but Long COVID receives 14% of its years lived with disability-proportionate funding from the National Institutes of Health. go.nature.com/4v23Nzv #medsky 🧪
📣 What lives in your soil tells you how healthy your ecosystem is. Our new paper proposes a bacterial-to-fungal richness ratio as a scalable soil health indicator—we explain ~60% of microbial diversity variance across Australia 🌏🌱🌐🧪🔬 #soil #science #Microbiome nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03398-y
Decoding bacterial and fungal richness with autoencoders yields a unified ratio indicating soil health and ecological susceptibility - Communications Earth & Environment
The bacterial-to-fungal richness ratio serves as a unified, scalable indicator of microbial balance, soil health and ecological susceptibility, derived from spatial analysis, deep autoencoders, and st...
nature.com
New from Applied Spectroscopy! Advanced #Hyperspectral Signature Processing for Chemical Stress Detection in Vegetable Leaves Using Hierarchical Feature Extraction and Enhanced Ensemble Model More: https://doi.org/10.1177/00037028251411953 #SAS #Spectroscopy #pesticides #classification #monitoring
The Fitzroy River catchment is one of the few unregulated rivers with natural dynamic flows. Some years it floods but many years it does not. Water extraction benefits few individuals - it should be protected www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
Does a 'historic' plan to protect WA's largest river go far enough?
A long-awaited draft plan aimed at protecting one of Western Australia's largest rivers has been released for public consultation, but traditional owners, environmental groups and pastoralists say key...
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On the occasion of the new paper on LIBS by PhD student Teresa Hu in the @ejsoilscience.bsky.social, I wrote about why soil sensing needs more than just spectroscopy. 📝 research.curtin.edu.au/scieng/resea... 📑 doi.org/10.1111/ejss.70305 🧪🔬🌏 #soil #soilscience @slsl-curtinuni.bsky.social
You wanna know if deeply rooted grasses put more carbon in the ground? "Sometimes you've gotta rent a van and drive around the country..." So said @ericslessarev.bsky.social & team in this wonderful study. 12 sites in central/eastern USA... dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...
Assessing the Effect of a Deep‐Rooted Grass on Belowground Carbon Storage in Cultivated Land: Insights From a Multi‐Site US Study
Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum, L.) stored significantly more carbon in root biomass than shallow-rooted crops at 12 sites across the USA Switchgrass had no detectable effect on soil organic carbo...
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Microbes play a key role in phosphorus cycling in all soils. Here are some key pathways.
📣 New paper from one of our PhD students, Teresa Hu, out in the @ejsoilscience.bsky.social! 🍾 Hu et al. (2026) investigate what it takes to get reliable measurements from handheld LIBS for soil analysis. Read: doi.org/10.1111/ejss.70305 🧪🔬🌏 #soil #soilscience #SLSL @curtinuniversity.bsky.social
Soil Sensing With a Handheld LIBS: Effect of Sample Preparation and Instrument Precision
Rapid and scalable methods for characterising soil elements are needed to understand soil conditions. Handheld Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) enables simultaneous multi-element analysis,...
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Soil health is everywhere, from national strategies to ‘healthy soils by 2030’, but we still lack a clear, operational way to define and measure it beyond agriculture. 🧪🌏🔬 #soilscience #soil New paper in SOIL by PhD graduand Teresa Hu et al. offers a way forward: soil.copernicus.org/articles/12/...
On soil health and the pivotal role of sensing
Abstract. Soil underpins the functioning of all terrestrial ecosystems and human societies, yet its accelerating degradation demands urgent action. Sustainable soil management is essential to prevent ...
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Calling all budding science writers! Applications for our paid London-based internship, starting in June, are now open. Deadline: 9 March 2026 Full info here: springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Spring... #PaidInternship #Internship #Journalism
A global analysis of marine fish populations involving 243 recruitment and 266 spawner time series across 143 species finds that nonlinear dynamics are widespread and that the degree of nonlinearity is amplified by temperature variation and in fast-lived species 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Temperature variation and life history mediate nonlinearity in fluctuations of marine fish populations worldwide - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A global analysis of marine fish populations involving 243 recruitment and 266 spawner time series across 143 species finds that nonlinear dynamics are widespread and that the degree of nonlinearity i...
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New unit at Curtin: ENST2007 Landscapes, Soils and Surface Environments! Teaches soil formation, hydrology, biogeochemical cycles, Indigenous knowledge, two-way science for sustainable land mgt. Read more: research.curtin.edu.au/scieng/resea... #SoilScience #LandscapeScience #CurtinUni #SDGs 🧪🔬🌏
Landscapes, soils, and the stories they tell – Soil & Landscape Science Lab
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Want to bring #geoscience #education to the next level⬆️? The EGU 2026 Education Fellowship offers €2500 for Early Career Scientists to develop innovative #teaching projects. 📆 Apply by 23 February 2026! 👉Learn more here: https://www.egu.eu/2D84CM 📸 Vladimir Shipilin on https://imaggeo.egu.eu
The brain and vagus nerve play a key role in exacerbating tissue damage after a heart attack, but there are ways to block it go.nature.com/3ZG17Jr
Damage from a heart attack comes from brain signals, mouse study suggests
Nature - The brain and vagus nerve play a key role in exacerbating tissue damage after a heart attack, but there are ways to block it.
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New in Geoderma: "Enhanced weathering and biochar co-deployment boosts CO2 sequestration through changing soil properties" by Emily E.E.M. te Pas, Rob N.J. Comans, Sarai Bisseling & Mathilde Hagens. doi.org/10.1016/j.ge... @WUR
📣Did you miss today's GSBI Speaks webinar? No worries! You can find it here, along with all of our previous webinars on our Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zuer...
The Ecology of Soil: From Communities to Ecosystems
YouTube video by Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative
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Our PhD student Nathan Wells presenting his final Milestone 3 thesis presentation: ‘Plant diversity as a driver of soil carbon stabilisation in mineral soils’ 🌱🧪🌏 …compressing 3.5 years of research into 30 minutes! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #soilscience #soilcarbon #restoration #soilecology
⏰Tomorrow!! Do not miss this opportunity hear from Dr. Lindo & Dr. Bardgett about this new book. If you would like to check out the book, please find the link below: academic.oup.com/book/61607?l... You can also check out the webinar on the GSBI Youtube page: www.youtube.com/@globalsoilb...
The Ecology of Soil: From communities to ecosystems
Abstract. Soil is the most biodiverse and complex habitat on Earth. This book explores what is known about the diversity of life in soil, how it is distrib
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The Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative@thegsbi.bsky.social · 8mo ago🔔Only two weeks until December's GSBI Speaks!🔔 Don't miss Dr. Zoë Lindo chat with Dr. Richard Bardgett about his new book, "The Ecology of Soil: From Communities to Ecosystems", followed by a Q&A. December 9, 2025 at 6:00 MST, 8:00 EST, 12:00 GMT, 13:00 CET Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Published!📖 Forest structural and functional diversity can attenuate forest productivity losses after harvesting and fires. In undisturbed forests, dominance boosts productivity via selection effects, but not after harvesting🌳🌲🌍 Read here:https://buff.ly/Gw5Hq6X
