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Soil Quality

Agronomy Journal, 2002
The term soil quality (SQ) encompasses both a soil's productive and environmental capabilities. Strategies or frameworks that help farmers manage SQ are vital as sole emphasis on production can have negative environmental consequences and exclusive focus on environmental considerations could endanger supplies of food or fiber. Recent efforts in the USA
Michelle M. Wander   +5 more
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Soil Health and Soil Quality

2011
The unprecedented crop yields achieved by the green revolution depended on heavy usage of fertilizers and agrochemicals, the introduction of responsive crop varieties and application of mechanical power. The non-renewable resources from outside the farming system are no longer cheap, unlooked-for ecological imbalances have arisen as the soil has become
Igori Arcadie Krupenikov   +2 more
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Soil properties indicative for quality

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 1983
Even within the small territory of The Netherlands, soil properties show a considerable diversity. A number of soil types, such as clay soil, peat soil, and sandy soil can be distinguished with several transitions and mixtures in between. All these soil types can be characterized by their physical and chemical properties. As such features as structure,
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Soil Quality and Soil Sustainability

2019
Soil is an important and complex part of our environment. The agro-ecosystem is made up of many interacting components with multiple goals. Soil quality is one important part of sustainable agro-ecosystem management, analogous to water and air quality.
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Defining soil quality.

2005
Environmental quality is a complex concept. Defining one component of it, soil quality, is therefore usually attempted using indicators that represent, with differing levels of approximation, particular constituents, processes or conditions. In this chapter, we review briefly the ideal characteristics of a soil quality indicator and then outline some ...
Burns, Richard G.   +3 more
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Improving Soil Quality:

Journal of Crop Production, 1999
Future advancements in crop production will rely on increased understanding of ecological principles that control interactions among cropping system components. Our interest in linking soil quality and weed management derives from the belief that greater understanding of key processes and properties that define soil-weed relationships will lead to the ...
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Quality compost and soil quality

2008
The aim of this work was to evaluate the effects of quality compost on soil Carbon dynamics and structure of different soils, typical of cultivated areas of Tuscany. The possible arrangement of OM into the soil aggregates architecture was evaluated by means of a low-temperature ashing procedure under oxygen plasma.
Sparvoli E, Pini R, D'Acqui I, Scatena M
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Effects of Soil Tillage Methods on Soil Quality Indicators and Soil Quality

2015
Bu çalışmanın amacı, üç yıllık bir arazi çalışmasında buğday-silajlık mısır rotasyonunda geleneksel ve korumalı toprak işleme yöntemlerinin toprakkalitesi indikatörleri ve toprak kalitesine etkilerini araştırmaktır. Denemde, 3 geleneksel, bir azaltılmış ve sıfır toprak işleme olmak üzere 5 farklı toprak işleme yöntemi kullanılmıştır.
GÖKMEN, Fatih, GÜNAL, Hikmet
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