Strategies to improve soil health by optimizing the plant–soil–microbe–anthropogenic activity nexus

L Wang, P Lu, S Feng, C Hamel, D Sun… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Since the Green Revolution, world agriculture has relied heavily on agrochemical
inputs (synthetic fertilizers and pesticides) in cereal-and oilseed-dominated monoculture …

The state of the world's arable land

L Olsson, F Cotrufo, T Crews, J Franklin… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
For millennia, agriculture has been sha** landscapes on Earth. Technological change
has increased agricultural productivity dramatically, especially in the past six decades, but …

[HTML][HTML] A minimum suite of soil health indicators for North American agriculture

DK Bagnall, EL Rieke, CLS Morgan, DL Liptzin… - Soil Security, 2023 - Elsevier
The concept of soil health is appropriately receiving increased attention from governments,
producers, corporations, and other stakeholders because of the many functions of soil that …

Evaluation of aggregate stability methods for soil health

EL Rieke, DK Bagnall, CLS Morgan, KD Flynn… - Geoderma, 2022 - Elsevier
Aggregate stability is a commonly used indicator of soil health because improvements in
aggregate stability are related to reduced erodibility and improved soil–water dynamics …

Selecting soil hydraulic properties as indicators of soil health: Measurement response to management and site characteristics

DK Bagnall, CLS Morgan, GM Bean… - Soil Science Society …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Farmers, scientists, and other soil health stakeholders require interpretable indicators of soil
hydraulic function. Determining which indicators to use has been difficult because of …

[HTML][HTML] Soil Science-Informed Machine Learning

B Minasny, T Bandai, TA Ghezzehei, YC Huang, Y Ma… - Geoderma, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Machine learning (ML) applications in soil science have significantly increased over
the past two decades, reflecting a growing trend towards data-driven research addressing …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of soil health and identification of key soil health indicators for five long-term crop rotations with varying fertility management

J Zhang, M Dyck, SA Quideau, CE Norris - Geoderma, 2024 - Elsevier
Long-term agricultural management practices affect soil health, but identifying measurable
soil properties that reflect soil health (soil health indicators–SHIs) is a challenge. Five long …

Do organic farming practices improve soil physical properties?

H Blanco‐Canqui, SJ Ruis… - Soil Use and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Organic farming (OF) is a reemerging system that could address food security and adverse
environmental footprints of conventional farming (CF). However, how OF affects the soil …

Pedotransfer functions for field capacity, permanent wilting point, and available water capacity based on random forest models for routine soil health analysis

JP Amsili, HM van Es… - Communications in Soil …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Available water capacity (AWC), field capacity (θFC), and permanent wilting point (θPWP)
are regarded as key physical soil health indicators that directly capture the soil's capacity to …

Effects of agroforestry on grain yield of maize (Zea mays L.)—A global meta-analysis

C Baier, A Gross, N Thevs, B Glaser - Frontiers in Sustainable Food …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Maize crop** systems, the world's most important crop** systems in terms of production
volume, are responsible for many environmental problems, such as soil degradation and …