Grasses as well as leguminous and non-leguminous broadleaves are the major categories
of commonly grown cover crops worldwide. This review focuses on the contribution of cover …

Cover crop (CC) impacts on soil ecosystem services including erosion control, C
sequestration, soil productivity, and others have been reviewed. However, CC impacts on …

Improving soil physical properties is important to soil conservation. Cover cropping can
improve soil physical properties and organic matter content which can reduce soil loss, and …

Soil biological properties are important for the stabilization and preservation of a good soil
structure. Management practices can affect the diversity and population of microorganisms …

In the traditional farming systems, the excessive application of chemical fertilizers to boost
crop yields has resulted in a range of issues, such as soil quality degradation, soil structure …

Proper crop rotation determines soil fecundity, which is pertinent for successor crops. With
this problem in mind, a study was performed to evaluate the interference of spring wheat …

Green manure intercropping is an agronomic management practice that effectively
increases soil nutrients in understory and reduces weed population. However, the influence …

Soil thermal conductivity, λ, is decisive for a range of soil ecosystem services related to soil
temperature. Soil functions affected by temperature comprise microbial as well as abiotic …

The use of cover crops in conventional agriculture is not fully accepted. This is probably due
to the substantial variability in outcomes reported and is complicated by the conflation of a …

Presently, the effects of crop roots on crop root zone thermal characteristics are poorly
understood, and new fertilizers are rarely considered from the perspective of changing crop …