[HTML][HTML] Conservation agriculture as a sustainable system for soil health: A review

B Cárceles Rodríguez, VH Durán-Zuazo… - Soil Systems, 2022 - mdpi.com
Soil health is a term used to describe the general state or quality of soil, and in an
agroecosystem, soil health can be defined as the ability of the soil to respond to agricultural …

Organic amendment–mediated reclamation and build-up of soil microbial diversity in salt-affected soils: fostering soil biota for sha** rhizosphere to enhance soil …

ZUR Farooqi, AA Qadir, H Alserae, A Raza… - … Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
Soil salinization is a serious environmental problem that affects agricultural productivity and
sustainability worldwide. Organic amendments have been considered a practical approach …

Soil water retention as affected by management induced changes of soil organic carbon: analysis of long-term experiments in Europe

IS Panagea, A Berti, P Čermak, J Diels, A Elsen… - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
Soil water retention (SWR) is an important soil property related to soil structure, texture, and
organic matter (SOM), among other properties. Agricultural management practices affect …

Optimizing carbon sequestration through cover crop** in Mediterranean agroecosystems: synthesis of mechanisms and implications for management

N Moukanni, KM Brewer, ACM Gaudin… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Hot and dry Mediterranean ecoregions are characterized by low soil organic carbon content
and large potential to become carbon sink when appropriately managed. Soil carbon …

Organic carbon storage potential in deep agricultural soil layers: Evidence from long-term experiments in northeast Italy

N Dal Ferro, I Piccoli, A Berti, R Polese… - Agriculture, Ecosystems & …, 2020 - Elsevier
The significant contribution to the global carbon budget made by soil organic carbon (SOC)
inspired the “4 per 1000” initiative. It promotes agricultural practices aimed at raising SOC …

Modelling the soil C impacts of cover crops in temperate regions

HM Hughes, SC McClelland, ME Schipanski… - Agricultural Systems, 2023 - Elsevier
CONTEXT Agricultural land management decisions are based on numerous considerations.
Belowground carbon (C) storage for both ecosystem health and greenhouse gas (GHG) …

Agronomic management strategies to increase soil organic carbon in the short-term: evidence from on-farm experimentation in the Veneto region

V Giannini, G Raimondi, A Toffanin, C Maucieri… - Plant and Soil, 2023 - Springer
Background and aims Organic fertilizers and cover crops (CC) are considered crucial
strategies to pursue the objective of increasing soil organic carbon (SOC). The present …

Influence of tillage and crop rotations in organic and conventional farming systems on soil organic matter, bulk density and enzymatic activities in a short-term field …

M Pittarello, N Dal Ferro, F Chiarini, F Morari, P Carletti - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Intensive agricultural practices are leading to loss of soil fertility and overexploitation of
natural resources which cause nutrients imbalance and further impair ecosystem services …

Trade-offs among ecosystem services advance the case for improved spatial targeting of agri-environmental measures

M Longo, N Dal Ferro, B Lazzaro, F Morari - Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Agri-environmental measures (AEMs) are meant to foster environmentally-friendly farming
techniques. The use of AEMs to enhance agroecosystem quality is still under debate due to …

Study on spatio-temporal pattern of conservation tillage on net carbon sink in China

C XUE, Y LI, C HU, S YAO - Journal of Natural Resources, 2022 - jnr.ac.cn
Studying the spatio-temporal patterns of net carbon sinks under conservation tillage is of
great significance to the formulation of policies. Based on the analysis of the mechanism of …