K Ivashchenko, O Gavrichkova, M Korneykova, V Vasenev, N Salnik, N Saltan, D Sarzhanov, E Babenko, S Urabova, M Slukovskaya, M Zavodskikh, S Gorbov, D Petrov, A Dolgikh, Sotnikova Yu, M Vasileva, P Skripnikov, O Ryzhkov, K Nikerova, S Sushko, N D Ananyeva, T Bochko, Y Kuzyakov
The increasing popularity and recognition of citizen science approaches to monitoring soil health have promoted the idea of assessing soil microbial decomposition based on a standard litter sample-tea bags. Although tea bag initiatives are expanding across the world, the global datasets remain biased in regard to investigating regions and biomes. This study aimed to expand the tea bag initiative to European Russia, which remains a "white spot" on the tea bag index map. We also added urban soils into the analysis, which were underestimated in previous research...
March 24, 2024: Science of the Total Environment