Soil organic matter formation, persistence, and functioning: A synthesis of current understanding to inform its conservation and regeneration

MF Cotrufo, JM Lavallee - Advances in agronomy, 2022 - Elsevier
Soil organic matter (SOM) provides vital services to humanity. Its preservation and further
accrual are key to sustain food production and avoid an irreversible climate crisis. Here we …

[HTML][HTML] Manure management and soil biodiversity: Towards more sustainable food systems in the EU

J Köninger, E Lugato, P Panagos, M Kochupillai… - Agricultural …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract CONTEXT In the European Union (EU-27) and UK, animal farming generated
annually more than 1.4 billion tonnes of manure during the period 2016–2019. Of this, more …

Conceptualizing soil organic matter into particulate and mineral‐associated forms to address global change in the 21st century

JM Lavallee, JL Soong, MF Cotrufo - Global change biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Managing soil organic matter (SOM) stocks to address global change challenges requires
well‐substantiated knowledge of SOM behavior that can be clearly communicated between …

The role of plant input physical-chemical properties, and microbial and soil chemical diversity on the formation of particulate and mineral-associated organic matter

MF Cotrufo, ML Haddix, ME Kroeger… - Soil Biology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Soil organic matter (SOM) is a fundamental resource to humanity for the many ecosystem
services it provides. Increasing its stocks can significantly contribute to climate change …

Soil and human health: current status and future needs

EC Brevik, L Slaughter, BR Singh… - Air, Soil and Water …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Soil influences human health in a variety of ways, with human health being linked to the
health of the soil. Historically, emphasis has been placed on the negative impacts that soils …

Soil health and carbon management

R Lal - Food and energy security, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Soil, a natural four‐dimensional body at the atmosphere–lithosphere interface, is organic‐
carbon‐mediated realm in which solid, liquid, and gaseous phases interact at a range of …

The threat of soil salinity: A European scale review

IN Daliakopoulos, IK Tsanis, A Koutroulis… - Science of the total …, 2016 - Elsevier
Soil salinisation is one of the major soil degradation threats occurring in Europe. The effects
of salinisation can be observed in numerous vital ecological and non-ecological soil …

Global change pressures on soils from land use and management

P Smith, JI House, M Bustamante… - Global change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Soils are subject to varying degrees of direct or indirect human disturbance, constituting a
major global change driver. Factoring out natural from direct and indirect human influence is …

Land-management options for greenhouse gas removal and their impacts on ecosystem services and the sustainable development goals

P Smith, J Adams, DJ Beerling… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Land-management options for greenhouse gas removal (GGR) include afforestation or
reforestation (AR), wetland restoration, soil carbon sequestration (SCS), biochar, terrestrial …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of land use and land cover changes on flood occurrence in Teunom Watershed, Aceh Jaya

S Sugianto, A Deli, E Miswar, M Rusdi, M Irham - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
The change in land use and land cover in upstream watersheds will change the features of
drainage systems such that they will impact surface overflow and affect the infiltration …