This review reveals that crop residues of common cultivated crops are an important resource
not only as a source of significant quantities of nutrients for crop production but also affecting …

Advantages and disadvantages of crop rotation have undoubtedly been debated for
thousands of years, as documented by historians (White, 1970b) who have stated that …

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 …

This chapter focuses on physical and chemical indicators of soil quality as related to soil
erosion by water. It illustrates a procedure that can be tailored to site‐specific situations and …

Numerous biological, chemical, and physical indicators of soil quality have been suggested,
but few have been evaluated using data from long-term field studies. Our objective was to …

Soil scientists have developed the concept of soil quality (SQ) to describe the fitness of soils
to perform particular ecosystem functions (Karlen et al., 2001). SQ is usually defined as the …

A long-term experiment was conducted with the objective of selecting the appropriate land
management treatments and to identify the key indicators of soil quality for dryland semi-arid …

Recognition of the importance of soil organic matter (SOM) in soil health and quality is a
major part of fostering a holistic, preventive approach to agricultural management. Students …

No início da década de1990, a comunidade científica, consciente da importância do solo
para a qualidade ambiental e para a sustentabilidade agrícola, iniciou a abordagem sobre …

Soil organic carbon (SOC), microbial biomass carbon (MBC), their ratio (MBC/SOC) which is
also known as microbial quotient, soil respiration, dehydrogenase and phosphatase …