The concept and future prospects of soil health

J Lehmann, DA Bossio, I Kögel-Knabner… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Soil health is the continued capacity of soil to function as a vital living ecosystem that
sustains plants, animals and humans, and connects agricultural and soil science to policy …

Soil health and microplastics: a review of the impacts of microplastic contamination on soil properties

RW Chia, JY Lee, J Jang, H Kim, KD Kwon - Journal of Soils and …, 2022 - Springer
Purpose Soil is a thin coating of matter that covers the earth's surface, formed through the
process of rock weathering. It is a natural filter for impurities in groundwater and is very …

[HTML][HTML] The relevance of sustainable soil management within the European Green Deal

L Montanarella, P Panagos - Land use policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The new European Green Deal has the ambition to make the European Union the
first climate-neutral continent by 2050. The European Commission presented an ambitious …

Biological soil health indicators respond to tillage intensity: A US meta-analysis

MR Nunes, DL Karlen, KS Veum, TB Moorman… - Geoderma, 2020 - Elsevier
Tillage intensity affects soil microbiological activity in many ways, often driven by changes in
soil organic C (SOC) content. The magnitude and direction of those changes, however …

The 'soil health'metaphor: Illuminating or illusory?

HH Janzen, DW Janzen, EG Gregorich - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract 'Soil health'has become a dominant, pervasive phrase in soil and environmental
sciences. But despite its ubiquity, the concept remains elusively ambiguous, largely because …

The soil health assessment protocol and evaluation applied to soil organic carbon

MR Nunes, KS Veum, PA Parker… - Soil Science Society …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The concept of soil health has evolved over the past several decades, recognizing that
dynamic soil property response to management and land use is highly dependent on site …

[HTML][HTML] A deep learning multi-layer perceptron and remote sensing approach for soil health based crop yield estimation

A Tripathi, RK Tiwari, SP Tiwari - … Journal of Applied Earth Observation and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract In recent years, Deep Learning Multi-Layer Perceptron (DLMLP) neural networks
have shown remarkable success in addressing crop yield forecast related problems. The …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term effects of tillage systems on soil health of a silt loam in Lower Austria

M Toth, C Stumpp, A Klik, P Strauss… - Soil and Tillage …, 2024 - Elsevier
Tillage is an essential practice for soil preparation in agriculture that influences a broad
variety of soil parameters. However, the long-term implications of tillage on soil health are …

[HTML][HTML] Improvement of soil microbial diversity through sustainable agricultural practices and its evaluation by-omics approaches: A perspective for the environment …

M Bertola, A Ferrarini, G Visioli - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
Soil is one of the key elements for supporting life on Earth. It delivers multiple ecosystem
services, which are provided by soil processes and functions performed by soil biodiversity …

Measuring the immeasurable: A structural equation modeling approach to assessing soil health

TMC Maaz, RH Heck, CT Glazer, MK Loo… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Soil health is recognized as an important ecosystem property sensitive to human impact. As
a concept, soil health cannot be directly measured, and so assessment and modeling efforts …