Indicators for assessment of soil quality: a mini-review

S Maurya, JS Abraham, S Somasundaram… - … and Assessment, 2020 - Springer
… Natural disturbances and agricultural practices such as tillage, … In this review, a brief overview
of the potential physical, … the soil causes reduction in growth and activity of soil microbes

[HTML][HTML] Identification of new microbial functional standards for soil quality assessment

S Thiele-Bruhn, M Schloter, BM Wilke, LA Beaudette… - Soil, 2020 - soil.copernicus.org
… which took place over the past several years within ISO TC 190/… test methods for the future
analysis of microbial functions in soil, … potential microbial biomass and activities for soil quality. …

Soil quality and fertility in sustainable agriculture, with a contribution to the biological classification of agricultural soils

A Sofo, A Zanella, JF Ponge - Soil Use and Management, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… biological indicators closely related to soil microbial dynamics … An exciting summary of the
history of soil classification can … approach that combines traditional soil health assessment with …

The concept and future prospects of soil health

J Lehmann, DA Bossio, I Kögel-Knabner… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Soil quality is the historic origin of the term soil health and … that soil health is distinct
from soil quality, as the scope of soil … new indicators that are mainly geared towards non-agricultural

[HTML][HTML] An evaluation of carbon indicators of soil health in long-term agricultural experiments

D Liptzin, CE Norris, SB Cappellazzi… - Soil Biology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
soil condition in agricultural systems, eg, soil tilth, soil quality, and … Historically, predicting
soil C has been based on the … for other microbial community indicators not included in this study…

Agricultural land‐use history and restoration impact soil microbial biodiversity

NE Turley, L Bell‐Dereske, SE Evans… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… We then evaluated soil bacterial and fungal communities … Agricultural history increased
bacterial diversity but decreased … the potential for restoration to benefit soil microbes across sites …

… of soil microbial diversity through sustainable agricultural practices and its evaluation by-omics approaches: A perspective for the environment, food quality and …

M Bertola, A Ferrarini, G Visioli - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
… , soil quality should be expressed in terms of the soil’s … In this regard, microbial communities
offer a great potential to … gut microbiome diversity in the past decades, overall lessening its …

Quantification of soil quality under semi-arid agriculture in the northwest of Iran

SH Nehrani, MS Askari, S Saadat, MA Delavar… - … indicators, 2020 - Elsevier
… using PCA, and GMD, Zn and soil microbial respiration (SMR) were identified using DA. Six
… This research evaluated the potential to deploy the framework to find the best SQI for rain-…

[HTML][HTML] Cropping systems in agriculture and their impact on soil health-A review

T Yang, KHM Siddique, K Liu - Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020 - Elsevier
… health, 3) changes in the concept of soil quality and health … In the past, researchers and
farmers were mostly concerned … on soil health, microbiological indicators, and other indicators

Using soil bacterial communities to predict physico-chemical variables and soil quality

SM Hermans, HL Buckley, BS Case… - Microbiome, 2020 - Springer
… monitoring whether agricultural and pastoral practices are … NPG sites based only on
assessment of the bacterial community data. … This work reveals the exciting potential of soil