In modern agriculture, seeking eco-friendly ways to promote plant growth and enhance crop
productivity is of priority. Biostimulants are a group of substances from natural origin that …

This review mainly aims to present the current issue of eco-agricultural wastes tremendously
increasing day by day, thereby causing threats to the environment and agricultural systems …

Intensive agriculture is often criticized for negative impacts on environment and human
health. This issue may be solved by a better management of organisms living in crop fields …

Biodiversity is responsible for the provision of many ecosystem services; human well‐being
is based on these services, and consequently on biodiversity. In soil, earthworms represent …

It has long been established that earthworms beneficially affect plant growth. This is to a
large extent due to the high fertility of their casts. However, it is not clear how fertile casts are …

Contamination of soils in agroecosystems with microplastics (MPs) is of increasing concern.
The contamination of the environment/farmland soils with MPs (1 µm to 5 mm sized …

In arable farming systems, the term 'subsoil'refers to the soil beneath the tilled or formerly
tilled soil horizon whereas the latter one is denoted as 'topsoil'. To date, most agronomic and …

Earthworms have a prominent role in supporting soil functioning and thus in providing key
services to humanity. Their beneficial role relates to effects on soil structure, carbon and …

Soil organic matter (SOM) is key to maintaining soil fertility, mitigating climate change,
combatting land degradation, and conserving above-and below-ground biodiversity and …

Earthworms have been perceived as benevolent soil engineers since the time of Charles
Darwin, but several recent syntheses link earthworm activities to higher greenhouse gas …