Soil microbiomes and one health

S Banerjee, MGA Van Der Heijden - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2023 - nature.com
The concept of one health highlights that human health is not isolated but connected to the
health of animals, plants and environments. In this Review, we demonstrate that soils are a …

[HTML][HTML] Digital mapping of GlobalSoilMap soil properties at a broad scale: A review

S Chen, D Arrouays, VL Mulder, L Poggio, B Minasny… - Geoderma, 2022 - Elsevier
Soils are essential for supporting food production and providing ecosystem services but are
under pressure due to population growth, higher food demand, and land use competition …

Risk of pesticide pollution at the global scale

FHM Tang, M Lenzen, A McBratney, F Maggi - Nature geoscience, 2021 - nature.com
Pesticides are widely used to protect food production and meet global food demand but are
also ubiquitous environmental pollutants, causing adverse effects on water quality …

The concept and future prospects of soil health

J Lehmann, DA Bossio, I Kögel-Knabner… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Soil health is the continued capacity of soil to function as a vital living ecosystem that
sustains plants, animals and humans, and connects agricultural and soil science to policy …

How microbes can, and cannot, be used to assess soil health

N Fierer, SA Wood, CPB de Mesquita - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Healthy soils are critical to the health of ecosystems, economies, and human populations.
Thus, it is widely acknowledged that soil health is important to quantify, both for assessment …

[HTML][HTML] Soil and the intensification of agriculture for global food security

PM Kopittke, NW Menzies, P Wang, BA McKenna… - Environment …, 2019 - Elsevier
Soils are the most complex and diverse ecosystem in the world. In addition to providing
humanity with 98.8% of its food, soils provide a broad range of other services, from carbon …

Spatio-temporal changes in habitat quality and linkage with landscape characteristics in the Beressa watershed, Blue Nile basin of Ethiopian highlands

H Yohannes, T Soromessa, M Argaw… - Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
An increase in human population generally exerts pressure on natural habitats and leads to
a decline in biodiversity resources. As a proxy for biodiversity study, an evaluation of habitat …

Effects of cropland reclamation on soil organic carbon in China's black soil region over the past 35 years

X Wang, S Li, L Wang, M Zheng, Z Wang… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The long‐term use of cropland and cropland reclamation from natural ecosystems led to soil
degradation. This study investigated the effect of the long‐term use of cropland and cropland …

Soil and human health: current status and future needs

EC Brevik, L Slaughter, BR Singh… - Air, Soil and Water …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Soil influences human health in a variety of ways, with human health being linked to the
health of the soil. Historically, emphasis has been placed on the negative impacts that soils …

Ensuring planetary survival: the centrality of organic carbon in balancing the multifunctional nature of soils

PM Kopittke, AA Berhe, Y Carrillo… - Critical Reviews in …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Not only do soils provide 98.7% of the calories consumed by humans, they also provide
numerous other functions upon which planetary survivability closely depends. However, our …