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 …

Carbon sequestration strategies in soil using biochar: advances, challenges, and opportunities

L Luo, J Wang, J Lv, Z Liu, T Sun, Y Yang… - … Science & Technology, 2023 - ACS Publications
Biochar, a carbon (C)-rich material obtained from the thermochemical conversion of biomass
under oxygen-limited environments, has been proposed as one of the most promising …

Negative emissions technologies and reliable sequestration: A research agenda

National Academies of Sciences, Life Studies… - 2019 - books.google.com
To achieve goals for climate and economic growth," negative emissions
technologies"(NETs) that remove and sequester carbon dioxide from the air will need to play …

Persistent soil carbon enhanced in Mollisols by well-managed grasslands but not annual grain or dairy forage crop** systems

Y Rui, RD Jackson, MF Cotrufo… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Intensive crop production on grassland-derived Mollisols has liberated massive amounts of
carbon (C) to the atmosphere. Whether minimizing soil disturbance, diversifying crop …

[HTML][HTML] Soil C sequestration as a biological negative emission strategy

K Paustian, E Larson, J Kent, E Marx, A Swan - Frontiers in Climate, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Soil carbon (C) sequestration in one of three main approaches to carbon dioxide removal
and storage through management of terrestrial ecosystems. Soil C sequestration relies of …

Climate and soil characteristics determine where no-till management can store carbon in soils and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions

SM Ogle, C Alsaker, J Baldock, M Bernoux, FJ Breidt… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Adoption of no-till management on croplands has become a controversial approach for
storing carbon in soil due to conflicting findings. Yet, no-till is still promoted as a …

Climate drives global soil carbon sequestration and crop yield changes under conservation agriculture

W Sun, JG Canadell, L Yu, L Yu, W Zhang… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Conservation agriculture has been shown to have multiple benefits for soils, crop yield and
the environment, and consequently, no‐till, the central practice of conservation agriculture …

When does no-till yield more? A global meta-analysis

CM Pittelkow, BA Linquist, ME Lundy, X Liang… - Field crops …, 2015 - Elsevier
No-till agriculture represents a relatively widely adopted management system that aims to
reduce soil erosion, decrease input costs, and sustain long-term crop productivity. However …

Limited potential of no-till agriculture for climate change mitigation

DS Powlson, CM Stirling, ML Jat, BG Gerard… - Nature climate …, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract The Emissions Gap Report 2013 from the United Nations Environment Programme
restates the claim that changing to no-till practices in agriculture, as an alternative to …

Conservation agriculture and ecosystem services: An overview

C Palm, H Blanco-Canqui, F DeClerck, L Gatere… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2014 - Elsevier
Conservation agriculture (CA) changes soil properties and processes compared to
conventional agriculture. These changes can, in turn, affect the delivery of ecosystem …