Municipal solid waste (MSW): Strategies to improve salt affected soil sustainability: A review

MD Meena, RK Yadav, B Narjary, G Yadav, HS Jat… - Waste management, 2019 - Elsevier
Salt-induced soil degradation is a serious threat to global agriculture which is responsible
for diminished productivity of agro-ecosystems. Irrigation with poor quality water and …

Effectiveness of compost use in salt-affected soil

A Lakhdar, M Rabhi, T Ghnaya, F Montemurro… - Journal of hazardous …, 2009 - Elsevier
Soil degradation and salinization are two of the utmost threat affecting agricultural areas,
derived from the increasing use of low quality water and inappropriate cultural practices. The …

Patterns and drivers of global gross nitrogen mineralization in soils

AS Elrys, A Ali, H Zhang, Y Cheng… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Soil gross nitrogen (N) mineralization (GNM), a key microbial process in the global N cycle,
is mainly controlled by climate and soil properties. This study provides for the first time a …

Global gross nitrification rates are dominantly driven by soil carbon‐to‐nitrogen stoichiometry and total nitrogen

AS Elrys, J Wang, MAS Metwally, Y Cheng… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Soil gross nitrification (GN) is a critical process in the global nitrogen (N) cycle that results in
the formation of nitrate through microbial oxidation of ammonium or organic N, and can both …

Microbes drive global soil nitrogen mineralization and availability

Z Li, D Tian, B Wang, J Wang, S Wang… - Global change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Soil net nitrogen mineralization rate (Nmin), which is critical for soil nitrogen availability and
plant growth, is thought to be primarily controlled by climate and soil physical and/or …

Organic amendments increase crop yields by improving microbe-mediated soil functioning of agroecosystems: A meta-analysis

G Luo, L Li, VP Friman, J Guo, S Guo, Q Shen… - Soil Biology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Although numerous studies suggest that organic amendments are better at maintaining soil
fertility and crop production than mineral-only fertilization, it is unclear if this occurs in …

Field management effects on soil enzyme activities

AK Bandick, RP Dick - Soil biology and biochemistry, 1999 - Elsevier
There is growing recognition for the need to develop sensitive indicators of soil quality that
reflect the effects of land management on soil and assist land managers in promoting long …

Soil enzyme activities as integrative indicators of soil health.

RP Dick - 1997 - cabidigitallibrary.org
The use of soil enzyme activity as a biological, process-level indicator for soil health is
reviewed. Major groups of commonly assayed soil enzymes and their ecological function are …

Potential use of dehydrogenase activity as an index of microbial activity in degraded soils

C Garcia, T Hernandez, F Costa - … in soil science and plant analysis, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
Soils from many portions of the Mediterranean region are subjected to progressive
degradation as a result of erosion by wind and water. As a consequence, the fertility level of …

Influence of inorganic fertilizers and organic amendments on soil organic matter and soil microbial properties under tropical conditions

S Goyal, K Chander, MC Mundra… - Biology and Fertility of Soils, 1999 - Springer
Soil organic matter level, mineralizable C and N, microbial biomass C and dehydrogenase,
urease and alkaline phosphatase activities were studied in soils from a field experiment …