Soil is an important natural resource providing water, nutrient, and mechanical support for
plant growth. In agroecosystem, continuous manipulation of soil is going on due to addition …

Wetlands cover a small portion of the world, but have disproportionate influence on global
carbon (C) sequestration, carbon dioxide and methane emissions, and aquatic C fluxes …

Abstract The topsoil Land Use and Cover Area frame Statistical survey (LUCAS) aims at
collecting harmonised data about the state of soil health over the extent of European Union …

The World Soil Information Service (WoSIS) provides quality-assessed and standardised
soil profile data to support digital soil map** and environmental applications at broadscale …

Cover crops are widely advocated for increasing soil organic carbon (SOC) levels, thereby
benefiting soil health improvement and climate change mitigation. Few regional-scale …

Soil quality is the competence of soil to perform necessary functions that are able to maintain
animal and plant productivity of the soil. Soil consists of various physical, chemical, and …

Snapshots derived from the World Soil Information Service (WoSIS) are served freely to the
international community. These static datasets provide quality-assessed and standardised …

Saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ks) is an important soil characteristic that controls water
moves through the soil. On the other hand, its measurement is difficult, time-consuming, and …

Crop rotation is a production practice to promote a more diversified plant community in rice
field, thereby enhancing agroecosystem sustainability and production efficiency under an …

There is an urgent need to conserve and improve the quality of agricultural soils in the
coming decades. Decision tools capable of providing reliable information about soil quality …