News 2015

Virtual Issue in Plant and Soil

Charlotte and Jo published, in collaboration with Klaus Butterbach-bahl and Hans Lambers a virtual issue in Plant and Soil on “Closing knowledge-gaps for quantifying, predicting and mitigating nitrous oxide emissions”. for more information click Downloadhere (PDF, 419 KB).

Johan's keynote in Ireland

Johan presented a keynote at the celebration of the 2015 International Year of Soils by the Soil Science Society of Ireland. Click external pagehere fore more details.

Highly Cited Researcher list

Johan has made it onto the 2015 external pageHighly Cited Researcher list of the Web of Science. The list focuses on contemporary research achievement and includes over 3000 scientists worldwide who have written the greatest number of highly cited papers - ranking among the top 1% most cited for their subject field and year of publication in the Web of Science.

Publication in SOIL

The open access journal SOIL just published our collaborative and interdisciplinary external pagepaper on what actions are needed to mitigate N2O emissions from soils. A nice example of the broader thinking that can be done by the working together of postdocs with different backgrounds.

Publication in Nature

Johan and colleagues Diana Wall and Uffe Nielsen write in Nature about the human health benefits of soil biodiversity and how healthy soil can suppress disease-causing soil organisms while providing clean air, water and food. Click external pagehere to read the publication.

Inpressions from the WFS Summer School 2015

Award for Ariani Wartenberg

“Ariani was awarded the second place for “Downloadbest poster (PDF, 1.8 MB)” at this years Tropentag conference external pagehttp://www.tropentag.de/"

Publication in Nature Geoscience

Johan and colleagues show in their new Nature Geosciences artilce that precipitation and temperature are only secondary predictors for soil carbon storage, but that the geochemistry of the soil is a primary factor. The latter is, however, not considered in current Earth Systems Models. See more details in this Downloadpress release (PDF, 194 KB).

click external pagehere to read the whole article

AgroCO₂ncept project

Johan was interviewed by the AgroCO2ncept project, which organizes Swiss farmers to apply climate-friendly agriculture. for more information click external pagehere.

Tackling World Food System Challanges

Emilia, Gina, Elena, Jonas, and Johan attended the Monte Verita conference on organized by the World Food System Center: Tackling World Food System Challenges.

Check out a blog about it here.

Publication in Nature Plants

Johan and colleagues published a short correspondence in Nature Plants to reiterate that soil fertility decline is at the base of rural poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Click Downloadhere (PDF, 56 KB) to read the whole artice.

Science on your plate

Charlotte and Wilma presented in an event at the Expo in Milano: Science on your plate. click here to out the press on it.

Towards an ecology intensive agriculture

Johan participated in conference "Towards ecology intensive agriculture" in Amsterdam where short video interviews were conducted on the questions: What is the problem? – What did you discover? – What has to be changed? – What step is needed now?

To watch the video click external pagehere

"THINK BEFORE YOU PLOW" Interview with Johan Six by Kennislink in the Netherlands

Read more about the topic external pagehere or Downloadhere (PDF, 1.3 MB) (artice only in Dutch "Even nadenken voor het ploegen"). Kennislink is an online publication of the Dutch National Foundation Center for Science and Technology (Stichting Nationaal Centrum voor Wetenschap en Technologie).

Public Lecture

Johan Six gave a public lecture on "resilience in food systems"

Publication in Science

Johan Six, with Diana Wall, published an invited editorial in Science to highlight the importance of soils for humanity within the framework of the 2015 International Year of Soils: "external pageGive soils their due".