Frederick Asankom Dadzie

• Master of Science
• Master's Student at University of Göttingen

Background and aims Agricultural activities can degrade soils and promote weeds, posing challenges to native species restoration. In agricultural restoration, removing contaminated topsoil is a method designed to reduce elevated soil nutrients caused by fertilisation. This strategy targets weed control by eliminating both aboveground weeds and thei...

Restoration managers inoculate microorganisms to enhance soil function and improve restoration success, but the efficacy of these inoculations in real‐world conditions is still unclear. We conducted a field experiment to test whether applying extruded seed pellets inoculated with native microbes affected soil properties related to ecosystem functio...

Background Benin ranks as one of the countries in the world with an alarmingly high prevalence of stunting, wasting, and underweight in children under five years. However, limited studies have examined the factors associated with the prevalence of these undernutrition indicators among children under five years in the country. This study aimed to fi...

Background and aims Agricultural activities can degrade soils and promote weeds, posing challenges in restoring native plant species. Removing contaminated topsoil, a restoration method used in some agricultural systems, reduces soil nutrients, and eliminates weeds both aboveground and in soil seed bank before direct seeding. However, it also dimin...

Australia is the fifth largest country by size, and one of the most arid in the world. Agriculture is one of the key sectors in terms of spatial extent and economic relevance. However, because of their ancient and weathered nature, Australian agricultural soils are particularly susceptible to degradation processes such as erosion, compaction, salin...

There are a wide variety of microbial inoculant types available to restoration practitioners, but little information as to which performs best under field conditions in dryland ecosystems. We used a meta-analysis of 62 dryland studies to provide the first quantitative comparison of native vs commercial, diverse vs single species, and fungal vs bact...

Seed‐based ecosystem restoration has huge potential to restore degraded drylands. However, fewer than 10% of directly sown seeds transition to established seedlings. One of the potential factors restricting plant establishment in degraded soils is the low abundance and diversity of native soil micro‐organisms. In this study, we investigated whether...

Background As vaccine roll-out continues across the globe as part of the efforts to protect humanity against SARS-CoV-2, concerns are increasingly shifting to the duration of vaccine-induced immunity. Responses to these concerns are critical in determining if, when, and who will need booster doses following full vaccination against SARS-CoV-2. Howe...

Aim Eucalypts have a widespread global distribution owing to their popularity for agroforestry and as environmental plantings. Despite an abundance of site‐specific evidence that eucalypts modify soils and soil processes, we lack a quantitative synthesis of their overall effects at the global scale. This limits our capacity to assess the likely imp...

This study, based on vegetable production fields, combined soil quality assessed by three approaches (qualitatively by farmers, semi-quantitatively by a researcher and quantitatively by laboratory analyses) with the aim of improving the integration of the different approaches. We interviewed 79 peri-urban vegetable growers in two communities within...