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Nitrogen, 2021 Catch crops are an effective method for reducing nitrogen (N) leaching in agriculture, but the mineralization of incorporated catch crop residue N is difficult to predict and model. We conducted a five-month incubation experiment using fresh residue from
Jorge Federico Miranda-Vélez +1 more
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Plant biodiversity and the regeneration of soil fertility
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021 Significance Both plant biodiversity and soil fertility are in decline. We find that restoration of plant biodiversity on a nutrient-poor, unfertilized soil led to greater increases in soil fertility than occurred when these same plant species grew in ...
G. Furey, D. Tilman
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Agriculture & Food Security, 2021 Background Understanding the spatial variability of soil properties is useful to tailor site-specific agricultural inputs to enhance crop production on a sustainable basis.
Gedefa Sori +2 more
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Sustainability, 2022 Earthworms mix soil layers and bind the soil with organic matter. This combination allows organic matter to disperse through the soil and also allows plants to access the nutrients they retains and enhance the soil’s fertility.
Nazeer Ahmed, K. Al-Mutairi
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Assessment of Soil Fertility Status under Soil Degradation Rate Using Geomatics in West Nile Delta
Land, 2022 The presence of a noticeable rate of degradation in the land of the Nile Delta reduces the efficiency of crop production and hinders supply of the increasing demand of its growing population.
Mohamed Abdelrahman +4 more
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A Contribution to Soil Fertility Assessment for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands
Soil Systems, 2021 Soil fertility must be viewed as a dynamic concept that involves the constant cycling of nutrients between organic and inorganic forms. In this context, it refers also to supply adequate amounts of water and aeration for plant growth.
Hussam Hag Husein +3 more
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023 The practice of crop rotation is known to significantly influence soil nutrient dynamics, depending on the type of rotation and the crops involved. As such, a field study was conducted to find out the effect of continuous cassava-maize rotation, where ...
Eric Owusu Adjei +5 more
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Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 2021 Rainfall variability poses a great challenge to rainfed cropping in sub-Saharan Africa. We evaluated, over three cropping seasons, conservation agriculture (reduced tillage and mulching) and farmer prioritized conventional tillage- and mulching-based ...
Vengai Mbanyele +4 more
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How withdrawing arable land affected the productive capacity of Haplic Kastanozems after 19 years of fallowing in dry steppes of the Ural piedmont [PDF]
Zemljište i biljka, 2021 The fertile arable lands in the dry steppe zone of the Ural piedmont, which were intensively used for cereal production for 30 years of the last century, have been withdrawn from cultivation and abandoned for the last 20 years. The Republic of Kazakhstan'
Rakhimgaliyeva Saule +4 more
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New Phytologist, 2021 Summary Fungi are known to exert a significant influence over soil organic matter (SOM) turnover, however understanding of the effects of fungal community structure on SOM dynamics and its consequences for ecosystem fertility is fragmentary.
Mathias Mayer +10 more
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