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Land use changes together with riverbed regulations to avoid the annual floods affect the ecosystem of floodplain forests. Later subsequent revitalization measures, transboundary controlled river management, wetland restoration, and integrated planning were realized to reduce the negative effect of groundwater dropping and other environmental problems. This study aimed to follow the dynamic of groundwater level, soil properties and forest vitality as affected by climate change. The continuous dataset (2019--2022) of soil physical and hydrophysical parameters and tree radial growth parameters were obtained. Groundwater level was evaluated by z-score and the means, and standard deviation values were considered. The monthly assessment of soil and climatic conditions showed that the uneven distribution of rainfall and the increase in temperatures have significantly affected the soil hydrological regime and forest growth. Continual monitoring is necessary to prepare projection models, which can help better understand both the soil and tree growth parameters in the changing environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Global carbon storage in soils is widely discussed today because of climate uncertainty and maintaining sustainable agricultural production. Human intervention in agricultural or energy production poses many changes in soil management, which highly affects soil quality/health. Permanent grasslands fulfil a wide range of ecosystem functions and have a high potential for increasing arable land. Today, grasslands are becoming more and more intensively used, fertilized and disturbed. Optimizing their management is essential to maintain a resilient and stable ecosystem. The produced biomass is used as a forage or for energy production. We aimed at the impact of long-term grassland liming on the total content of soil organic carbon (SOC), humic substances (CHS), and microbial biomass (Cmic). Furthermore, soil reaction and available nutrient content were evaluated. Soil samples were collected from a split-plot field experiment at Mendel University in Brno (locality Kameničky). The soil was classified as Dystric Planosol Siltic, medium textured, strongly acidic, with high soil organic carbon content. The yearly liming rate was 1.4 t/ha CaO. The linkage between the soil pH, SOC, Cmic, and available nutrient content was evaluated by the multivariate exploratory techniques and regression models. Results showed that long-term liming affects both soil biota and carbon storage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]