Conservation agriculture and soil organic carbon: Principles, processes, practices and policy options

R Francaviglia, M Almagro, JL Vicente-Vicente - Soil Systems, 2023 - mdpi.com
Intensive agriculture causes land degradation and other environmental problems, such as
pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, biodiversity decline, and greenhouse gas (GHG) …

Management impact and benefit of cover crops on soil quality: A review

AT Adetunji, B Ncube, R Mulidzi, FB Lewu - Soil and Tillage Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Cover crop (CC) cultivation can improve crop yield, soil and environmental quality. Cover
crops are multifunctional and contribute to soil quality by improving soil physical, chemical …

Minerals in the rhizosphere: overlooked mediators of soil nitrogen availability to plants and microbes

A Jilling, M Keiluweit, AR Contosta, S Frey, J Schimel… - Biogeochemistry, 2018 - Springer
Despite decades of research progress, ecologists are still debating which pools and fluxes
provide nitrogen (N) to plants and soil microbes across different ecosystems …

[图书][B] Handbook of plant nutrition

AV Barker, DJ Pilbeam - 2015 - books.google.com
This new edition provides current information on the nutritional requirements of world crops.
It presents research on the acquisition, accumulation, transport, and functions of chemical …

Comparison of permanganate‐oxidizable carbon and mineralizable carbon for assessment of organic matter stabilization and mineralization

TT Hurisso, SW Culman, WR Horwath… - Soil Science Society …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Core Ideas POXC and mineralizable C were evaluated across diverse agroecosystems. The
two are related but differentially influenced by management practices. POXC better reflected …

Plant litter quality affects the accumulation rate, composition, and stability of mineral-associated soil organic matter

SC Córdova, DC Olk, RN Dietzel, KE Mueller… - Soil Biology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Mineral-associated organic matter (MAOM) is a relatively large and stable fraction of soil
organic matter (SOM). Plant litters with high rates of mineralization (high quality litters) are …

Rigorous, empirical, and quantitative: a proposed pipeline for soil health assessments

J Wade, SW Culman, CK Gasch, C Lazcano… - Soil Biology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Soil health is a promising lens through which to approach land management, having the
potential to serve as a descriptor of biophysical processes and as an effective …

Managing the trade off between nitrogen supply and retention with cover crop mixtures

CM White, ST DuPont, M Hautau, D Hartman… - Agriculture, ecosystems …, 2017 - Elsevier
The ability of cover crop mixtures to provide both nitrogen (N) retention and N supply
services has been extensively studied in research station experiments, especially with grass …

Short‐and long‐term labile soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics reflect management and predict corn agronomic performance

SW Culman, SS Snapp, JM Green… - Agronomy Journal, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Labile soil organic matter plays an extremely important role in crop nutrient acquisition, but
quantifying this pool can be prohibitively expensive to farmers. A better understanding of …

Biochar amendment to soils with contrasting organic matter level: effects on N mineralization and biological soil properties

N Ameloot, S Sleutel, KC Das, J Kanagaratnam… - Gcb …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Four biochar types, produced by slow pyrolysis of poultry litter (PL) and pine chips (P) at 400
or 500° C, were added to two adjacent soils with contrasting soil organic matter (SOM) …