Lubos Boruvka

Lubos Boruvka
Czech University of Life Sciences Prague | CULS · Department of Soil Science and Soil Protection

Professor, Ph.D.

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Multispectral imaging satellites such as Sentinel-2 are considered a possible tool to assist in the mapping of soil organic carbon (SOC) using images of bare soil. However, the reported results are variable. The measured reflectance of the soil surface is not only related to SOC but also to several other environmental and edaphic factors. Soil text...
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Scenario analysis plays a central role in estimating how global changes affect the relationships linking ecosystem conditions and functioning to human needs. This is particularly true for agroecosystems, which are pivotal to ensure sustainable land planning, ecological management and food security strategies. Soils are key providers of multiple eco...
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Soil organic carbon (SOC) distribution and interaction with light is influenced by soil texture parameters (clay, silt and sand), which makes SOC prediction complicated, especially in samples with considerable pedological variability. Hence, understanding the relationship between SOC and soil texture is important within the context of SOC predictio...
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This study introduces an innovative standard and protocol approach for accurate assessment and harmonization of undisturbed soil surface spectra under field conditions, achieving laboratory-grade precision, while minimizing systematic discrepancies. The SoilPRO® assembly was employed for its efficacy in precisely measuring seven different soil samp...
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In-field soil spectroscopy represents a promising opportunity for fast soil analysis, allowing the prediction of several soil properties from one spectral reading representing one soil sample. This facilitates data acquisition from large amounts of samples through its rapidity and the absence of required chemical processing. This is of particular i...
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The article summarizes and discusses studies focused on the carbon stock in forest soils and the way it is affected by forestry operations with a focus on the Central European (Czech) region. In general, the methods enhancing forests´ vitality and stability are more important than the procedures aimed at carbon sequestration only, as the major risk...
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Forestry reclamation practices have been very popular in the second half of the last century, and many spoil heaps have been converted into forests since. In our experiment, three forest reclamations of different ages (~90, ~50, and ~30 years) and three soil vegetation covers (I—maple and cherry, II—maple, and III—alder) from Sokolov, Czech Republi...
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European soils are under increasing pressure, making it difficult to maintain the provision of soil ecosystem services (SESs). A better understanding of soil processes is needed to counteract soil threats (STs) and to promote sustainable soil management. The EJP SOIL programme of the EU provides a framework for the necessary research. However, diff...
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The methodology described here presents the procedures for determining physical soil properties of undisturbed soil samples. Besides describing the methods for determining bulk and particle density, moisture content and porosity of the soil in detail, it also offers a way of determining soil’s water holding properties when there is no pressure memb...
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Forest reclamations have been very commonly used on post-mining sites in central Europe and offer great opportunities for research of soil formation process. Antonín forest arboretum near Sokolov, Czech Republic, reclaimed and afforested between 1972 and 1974 was the opportunity to compare the influence of only the vegetation variable. In this rese...
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The study aimed at investigating the possibility of predicting lead (Pb) in forest soils by combining terrain attributes and soil nutrients using geostatistics and machine learning algorithms (MLAs). The study was partitioned into three categories: predicting Pb in forest soil using terrain attributes and RK (Context 1); predicting Pb in forest soi...
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Soil organic carbon (SOC) has attracted a lot of attention in the soil science community. Freely available remote sensing data combined with advanced digital soil mapping (DSM) techniques has led to a better understanding and management of SOC. This paper has considered the published literature with a focus on digital mapping of SOC using remote se...
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Soil organic carbon (SOC) and clay, as indicators of soil fertility, are mainly used to determine the ability of soil to retain water and store the nutrients that are necessary for plant growth. However, the distribution of SOC and clay is influenced by topography and land-use. In the present study, the relationships between SOC, clay, altitude, an...
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Open-cast coal mining is one of the most often-debated industries in the world. Due to the significant environmental and health issues it causes, many of these sites have been reclaimed over the years, and many scientific publications and research has followed. In this paper, we have tried to assess the trends in recent research performed on reclai...
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This review focuses on the behaviour of four psychoactive compounds (carbamazepine, tramadol, sertraline and citalopram) in the environment. The review presents how they may directly affect freshwater systems, soils and living organisms and to which extent. The transformation of these very stable compounds in soils were controlled by oxidation, dem...
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Carbon dioxide, the most produced anthropogenic greenhouse gas, could be moderated by sequestering carbon in forest soils. Forest soils store more carbon than there is in the atmosphere. Thus, the smallest variation in soil carbon levels could trigger a significant change in atmospheric carbon. This study focused on predicting the spatial distribut...
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The methodology described here presents the procedures for determining physical soil properties of undisturbed soil samples. Besides describing the methods for determining bulk and particle density, moisture content and porosity of the soil in detail, it also offers a way of determining soil's water holding properties when there is no pressure memb...
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Zinc (Zn) is a vital element required by all living creatures for optimal health and ecosystem functioning. Therefore, several researchers have modeled and mapped its occurrence and distribution in soils. Nonetheless, leveraging model predictive performances while coupling information derived from visible near-infrared (Vis-NIR) and soils (i.e. che...
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The current study assesses and predicts cadmium (Cd) concentration in agricultural soil using two Cd datasets, namely legacy data (LD) and preferential sampling-legacy data (PS-LD), along with four streams of auxiliary datasets extracted from Sentinel-2 (S2) and Landsat-8 (L8) bands. The study was divided into two contexts: Cd prediction in agricul...
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PurposeHealthy soil and the environment rely on practical risk assessment, controls to improve environmental performance, and the efficient application of receptor models. The primary focus of the study is to evaluate multiple receptor models used to estimate source distribution.Methods This study collected 115 soil samples from the Frydek Mistek d...
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Potentially toxic elements in agricultural soils are primarily derived from anthropogenic and geogenic sources. This study aims to predict and map antimony (Sb) concentrations in soil using multiple regression kriging in two distinct modeling approaches, namely Sb prediction using data fusion coupled with regression kriging (scenario 1) and Sb pred...
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In situ visible and near-infrared (Vis-NIR) spectroscopy has proven to be a reliable tool for determining soil organic carbon (SOC) content with a small loss of precision as compared to laboratory measurements. The loss of precision is a result of disturbing external environmental factors that disrupt spectral measurements. For example, roughness,...
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The study intended to assess the level of pollution of potential toxic elements (PTEs) at different soil depths and to evaluate the source contribution in agricultural soil. One hundred and two soil samples were collected for both topsoil (51), and the subsoil (51) and the content of PTEs (Cr, Cu, Cd, Mn, Ni, Pb, As and Zn) were determined using in...
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Mining and smelting activities can contaminate soils and affect farming due to high emissions and input of potentially toxic elements (PTE) into the environment. Soils (sampled from two depths) and market vegetables from vegetable gardens located within the vicinity of unconfined slag deposits from decades of mining and smelting activities in Kutná...
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The continuous demand placed on farmland to yield optimal harvest is dependent on the continuous application of agrochemicals and fertilizers to increase soil fertility and manage diseases. Successive application of fertilizers and use of agrochemicals coupled with metal and steel industries introduce potentially toxic elements into the soil. Activ...
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Citation: Vaudour, E.; Gholizadeh, A.; Castaldi, F.; Saberioon, M.; Borůvka, L.; Urbina-Salazar, D.; Fouad, Y.; Arrouays, D.; Richer-de-Forges, A.C.; Biney, J.; et al. Satellite
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Estimating soil organic carbon (SOC) using visible near infrared (Vis-NIR) spectroscopy has proven to be a rapid and reliable approach. However, when working across large geographical scales, remote sensing may be more suitable. Acquiring these spectra data normally under different measurement conditions could introduce artefacts that reduce SOC pr...
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A resilient environment is essential for society’s long-term viability. Receptor models have evolved into an excellent tool for detecting pollution sources and evaluating each source’s empirical contributions based on ecological datasets. One hundred and fifteen soil sample were collected from the district of Frydek Mistek in the Czech Republic and...
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Soil pollution is a big issue caused by anthropogenic activities. The spatial distribution of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) varies in most urban and peri-urban areas. As a result, spatially predicting the PTEs content in such soil is difficult. A total number of 115 samples were obtained from Frydek Mistek in the Czech Republic. Calcium (Ca), m...
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This study aims to compare the chromium (Cr) mobility in two soils with different Cr sources. The first one is an anthropogenically contaminated soil from an area of a piston ring production factory, and the second one is a serpentine soil with a naturally increased Cr level from the National Nature Reserve Mohelno serpentine steppe in the Czech Re...
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Forest soils have a high potential to store carbon and thus mitigate climate change. The information on spatial distribution of soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks is thus very important. This study aims to analyse the importance of environmental predictors for forest SOC stock prediction at the regional and national scale in the Czech Republic. A big...
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Forest soils play an important role in the global ecosystem, providing many beneficial services. Protection of forests and their soils from anthropogenic impacts is therefore of utter importance to conservation efforts. Lead (Pb) is one of the most widespread anthropogenic pollutants and has been introduced into forests of the Czech Republic since...
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A resilient environment is essential for society's long-term viability. Receptor models have evolved into an excellent tool for detecting pollution sources and evaluating each source's empirical contributions based on ecological datasets. One hundred and fifteen soil sample were collected from the district of Frydek Mistek in the Czech Republic and...
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Unhealthy soils in peri-urban and urban areas expose individuals to potentially toxic elements (PTEs), which have a significant influence on the health of children and adults. Hundred and fifteen (n = 115) soil samples were collected from the district of Frydek Mistek at a depth of 0-20 cm and measured for PTEs content using Inductively coupled pla...
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Background Human activities considerably contribute to polluting potentially toxic element (PTEs) levels in soils, especially agricultural soils. The consistent introduction of PTEs in the environment and the soil pose health-related risks to humans, flora and fauna. One hundred and fifteen samples were collected in the district of Frydek Mistek (C...
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Increasing concentrations of potentially toxic elements (PTE) in agricultural soils remain a major source of public concern. Monitoring PTEs in an agricultural field with no history of contaminants necessitate adequate analysis utilizing a robust model to accurately uncover hidden PTEs. Detecting and mapping the distribution of soil properties usin...
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Identifying a suitable geochemical background level (GBL) and an appropriate normalizer is imperative for ensuring soil quality, health, and security. The objective of this study was to identify the appropriate normalizer and suitable GBL for determining PTE enrichment levels in agricultural soils and investigate if there are any statistical differ...
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This study focuses on the assessment of herbicide adsorption and degradation in three soils (Haplic Chernozem, Haplic Fluvisol, and Arenic Regozem) from different agricultural regions of the Czech Republic where sunflower is cultivated. Soil samples were used in laboratory batch adsorption and degradation experiments for six herbicides commonly use...
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PurposeThis study was carried out to assess human health risk exposure, to apply a novel pollution assessment–based receptor model CF-PMF (contamination factor-positive matrix factorization), and to estimate the extent of contamination across seven cities in the Frydek-Mistek district. Nevertheless, the impact of agricultural production and industr...
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Forest soil organic horizon is the most dynamic part of the forest environment, which is significantly affected by airborne supply of heavy metals or by their uptake from deeper soil horizons. In order to monitor heavy metals in soils, a large number of samples as well as time-consuming laboratory measurements are required. Due to its rapidity, con...
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Visible–near infrared–shortwave infrared (VNIR–SWIR) spectroscopy is being increasingly used for soil organic carbon (SOC) assessment. Common practice consists of scanning soil samples using a single spectrometer. Considerations have rarely been documented of the effects of using multiple instruments and scanning conditions on SOC model calibration...
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A healthy soil is a healthy ecosystem because humans, animals, plants, and water highly depend upon it. Soil pollution by potentially toxic elements (PTEs) is a serious concern for humankind. The study is aimed at (i) assessing the concentrations of PTEs in soils under a long-term heavily industrialized region for coal and textiles, (ii) modeling a...
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This study focuses on the assessment of herbicide adsorption and degradation in three soils (Haplic Chernozem, Haplic Fluvisol, and Arenic Regozem) from different agricultural regions of the Czech Republic where sunflower is cultivated. Soil samples were used in laboratory batch sorption and degradation experiments for six herbicides commonly used...
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Open-cast coal mining presents a big global issue because of the large areas the mines occupy, which get entirely changed. Their ecosystems lose most of their functions, and a huge amount of fertile soil gets utterly destroyed. Reclamation is a process of returning the functions of the soil after the excavation is finished, most commonly achieved b...
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The rising and continuous pollution of the soil from anthropogenic activities is of great concern. Owing to this concern, the advent of digital soil mapping (DSM) has been a tool that soil scientists use in this era to predict the potentially toxic element (PTE) content in the soil. The purpose of this paper was to conduct a review of articles, sum...
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Soils on riverine floodplains in temperate climate may be characterized by a mollic epipedon, i.e. by dark colour, enhanced content of soil organic matter (SOM), high ‘base’ saturation and developed structure in the topsoil. We studied 124 soil samples from ten central/east European countries to investigate whether SOM in mollic horizons has simila...
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The study aimed to estimate and characterise soil organic matter under different land uses (cropland, grassland, and forest) and soil depths. The soil organic matter composition of the soil was assessed by diffuse reflectance infrared spectroscopy (DRIFT). Humic and fulvic acids (HAs, FAs) were extracted from soils and their compositions were evalu...
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Visible-Near-infrared (Vis-NIR) spectroscopy is a relatively modern method that can be used to predict soil properties such as soil organic carbon (SOC). Predictions of soil properties with Vis-NIR requires pre-processing algorithms. Applying a wrong type or applying too extreme pre-processing algorithms may result in the removal of valuable inform...
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Soil contamination by potentially toxic elements (PTEs) is intensifying under increasing industrialization. Thus, the ability to efficiently delineate contaminated sites is crucial. Visible–near infrared (vis–NIR: 350–2500 nm) and X-ray fluorescence (XRF: 0.02–41.08 keV) spectroscopic techniques have attracted tremendous attention for the assessmen...
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Environmental pollution by potentially toxic element (PTE) and the associated health risks in humans are increasingly becoming a global challenge. The current study is an in-depth assessment of PTEs including the often studied lead (Pb), manganese (Mn), zinc (Zn), arsenic (As) and the less-studied titanium (Ti), rubidium (Rb), strontium (Sr), zirco...
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Environmental pollution by potentially toxic element (PTE) and the associated health risks in humans are increasingly becoming a global challenge. The current study is an in-depth assessment of PTEs including the often studied lead (Pb), manganese (Mn), zinc (Zn), arsenic (As) and the less-studied titanium (Ti), rubidium (Rb), strontium (Sr), zirco...
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Soil Carbon (C) is central to the functioning of ecosystems and climate change mitigation. It represents the largest terrestrial pool and much of it, is stored in forest soils. Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) in a forest varies not only laterally, but also vertically (i.e., with depth). However, the SOC content of forest soil horizons has not been invest...
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The application of multivariate geostatistical and statistical methods remain valuable tools for environmental pollution assessment. In particular, stochastic simulation techniques like sequential Gaussian simulation (SGS) and the self-organizing map artificial neural networks (SeOM-ANNs) have facilitated the understanding of the spatial distributi...