The extent and causes of chemical, physical and biological degradation of soil, and of soil
loss, vary greatly in different countries in Western Europe. The objective of this review paper …

Rice-based intensive crop** systems require high input levels making them less profitable
and vulnerable to the reduced availability of labor and water in Asia. With continuous …

Human efforts to produce ever-greater amounts of food leave their mark on our environment.
Persistent use of conventional farming practices based on extensive tillage, especially when …

Agriculture is a human activity that receives the most direct benefits from ecosystem services
(ES) while it is one of the most influent on their sustainability and is also directly impacted by …

Agricultural productivity relies on a wide range of ecosystem services provided by the soil
biota. Plowing is a fundamental component of conventional farming, but long-term …

Reduced tillage can improve soil physical quality relative to mouldboard ploughing by
lessening soil disturbance, leaving organic matter at the soil surface, and stimulating soil …

Data from a long-term fertilization trial at the Institute for Crop and Soil Science in
Braunschweig, Germany were used to evaluate the influence of tillage systems and …

Natural resources are the most limiting factors for sustainable agriculture in Iran. Traditional
practices are intensive tillage that leads to a negative impact on crop productivity and soil …

Although there is not a sole satisfactory methodology that applies universally up to now,
aggregate stability has been proposed as an indicator of soil physical quality (SPQ) …

The hypothesis that the optimal nitrogen rate for crop yield and nitrogen use efficiency (NUE)
are affected by tillage treatment, crop type and soil properties (type) was evaluated by an …