Precision Agriculture (PA) is an all-encompassing term given to the use of a suite of
technologies that promote improved management of agricultural production through …

Soil erosion in agricultural landscapes reduces crop yields, leads to loss of ecosystem
services, and influences the global carbon cycle. Despite decades of soil erosion research …

The threat of climate change is a great challenge to sustainable land management (USDA-
NRCS, 2010a). Several publications have reported that over the last few decades, rainfall …

Soil quality assessment may be one of the most contentious topics ever debated by the soil
science community. Our objective is to examine the history, present status, and potential for …

Soil quality assessment has been recognized as an important step toward understanding
the long-term effects of conservation practices within agricultural watersheds. Our objective …

The black soil region of Northeast China is characterized by flat to gentle undulating
topography; it is ideally suitable for tillage with machines and has become the forefront for …

Topography is one of the key factors affecting soil organic carbon (SOC) distribution and soil
redistribution (erosion or deposition) because it influences the gravity-driven movement of …

Intensive tillage moves large quantities of soil, resulting in a pattern of soil redistribution
where topsoil is depleted from convex slope positions and deposited in concave positions …

Soil movement by tillage redistributes soil within the profile and throughout the landscape,
resulting in soil removal from convex slope positions and soil accumulation in concave slope …

Total soil erosion is the integrated result of all forms of soil erosion—wind, water and tillage.
It has been recognized that in topographically complex landscapes, individual soil erosion …