Soil salinity and its associated effects on soil microorganisms, greenhouse gas emissions, crop yield, biodiversity and desertification: A review

Z Haj-Amor, T Araya, DG Kim, S Bouri, J Lee… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Significant research has been conducted on the effects of soil salinity issue on agricultural
productivity. However, limited consideration has been given to its critical effects on soil …

Conservation agriculture and ecosystem services: An overview

C Palm, H Blanco-Canqui, F DeClerck, L Gatere… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2014 - Elsevier
Conservation agriculture (CA) changes soil properties and processes compared to
conventional agriculture. These changes can, in turn, affect the delivery of ecosystem …

A global perspective on wetland salinization: ecological consequences of a growing threat to freshwater wetlands

ER Herbert, P Boon, AJ Burgin, SC Neubauer… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Salinization, a widespread threat to the structure and ecological functioning of inland and
coastal wetlands, is currently occurring at an unprecedented rate and geographic scale. The …

Methane production and emissions in trees and forests

KR Covey, JP Megonigal - New Phytologist, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Contents Summary 35 I. Introduction 36 II. Tree CH4 fluxes 36 III. Tree emissions of soil‐
produced CH4 40 IV. Tree‐produced CH4 42 V. Trees in forest CH4 budgets 44 VI …

Biochar as a tool to reduce the agricultural greenhouse-gas burden–knowns, unknowns and future research needs

C Kammann, J Ippolito, N Hagemann… - Journal of …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Agriculture and land use change has significantly increased atmospheric emissions of the
non-CO2 green-house gases (GHG) nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4). Since human …

Methane, microbes and models: fundamental understanding of the soil methane cycle for future predictions

L Nazaries, JC Murrell, P Millard… - Environmental …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Methane is an important greenhouse gas and microbes in the environment play major roles
in both global methane emissions and terrestrial sinks. However, a full mechanistic …

Effects of straw and plastic film mulching on greenhouse gas emissions in Loess Plateau, China: A field study of 2 consecutive wheat-maize rotation cycles

H Chen, J Liu, A Zhang, J Chen, G Cheng… - Science of the Total …, 2017 - Elsevier
Mulching practices have long been used to modify the soil temperature and moisture
conditions and thus potentially improve crop production in dryland agriculture, but few …

Biochar and emissions of non-CO2 greenhouse gases from soil

L Van Zwieten, B Singh, S Joseph… - Biochar for …, 2012 - taylorfrancis.com
Climate change caused by an increase in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases
(GHGs) is predicted to cause catastrophic impacts on our planet (IPCC, 2006). This provides …

Methanogenesis and methanotrophy in soil: a review

N Serrano-Silva, Y Sarria-Guzmán, L Dendooven… - Pedosphere, 2014 - Elsevier
Global warming, as a result of an increase in the mean temperature of the planet, might lead
to catastrophic events for humanity. This temperature increase is mainly the result of an …

Soil health indicators under climate change: a review of current knowledge

DE Allen, BP Singh, RC Dalal - Soil health and climate change, 2011 - Springer
Soil health indicators are a composite set of measurable physical, chemical and biological
attributes which relate to functional soil processes and can be used to evaluate soil health …