Intercropping is a farming practice involving two or more crop species, or genotypes,
growing together and coexisting for a time. On the fringes of modern intensive agriculture …

Soil is increasingly under environmental pressures that alter its capacity to fulfil essential
ecosystem services. To maintain these crucial soil functions, it is important to know how soil …

Healthy soils are important to growing healthy crops, raising healthy animals, and
supporting a healthy human population through nutritionally balanced diets and …

In the pursuit of higher food production and economic growth and increasing population, we
have often jeopardized natural resources such as soil, water, vegetation, and biodiversity at …

Soil degradation is a worsening global phenomenon driven by socio‐economic pressures,
poor land management practices and climate change. A deterioration of soil structure at …

Phosphorus cycling exerts significant influence upon soil fertility and productivity–processes
largely controlled by microbial activity. We adopted phenotypic and metagenomic …

India's agricultural sector ensures food and livelihood security for millions of rural
households. However, the adverse effects of climate change pose a severe threat to …

While soil microbial ecology, soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil physical quality are widely
understood to be interrelated—the underlying drivers of emergent properties, from land …

The ability of soil to recover from disturbances is important for the proper functioning of
agroecosystems. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of the physical …

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