Drought stress impacts on plants and different approaches to alleviate its adverse effects

MF Seleiman, N Al-Suhaibani, N Ali, M Akmal… - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Drought stress, being the inevitable factor that exists in various environments without
recognizing borders and no clear warning thereby hampering plant biomass production …

Hidden miners–the roles of cover crops and soil microorganisms in phosphorus cycling through agroecosystems

M Hallama, C Pekrun, H Lambers, E Kandeler - Plant and soil, 2019 - Springer
Background Phosphorus (P) is a limiting nutrient in many agroecosystems and costly
fertilizer inputs can cause negative environmental impacts. Cover crops constitute a …

When does no-till yield more? A global meta-analysis

CM Pittelkow, BA Linquist, ME Lundy, X Liang… - Field crops …, 2015 - Elsevier
No-till agriculture represents a relatively widely adopted management system that aims to
reduce soil erosion, decrease input costs, and sustain long-term crop productivity. However …

No-till and cropping system diversification improve soil health and crop yield

MR Nunes, HM van Es, R Schindelbeck, AJ Ristow… - Geoderma, 2018 - Elsevier
The performance of no-till (NT) in temperate regions may be enhanced through the
integration of additional conservation practices such as cover cropping and crop rotations …

[PDF][PDF] Global soil carbon: understanding and managing the largest terrestrial carbon pool

JPW Scharlemann, EVJ Tanner, R Hiederer… - Carbon …, 2014 - researchgate.net
Carbon stored in soils worldwide exceeds the amount of carbon stored in phytomass and
the atmosphere. Despite the large quantity of carbon stored as soil organic carbon (SOC) …

A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets

DP Tittensor, M Walpole, SLL Hill, DG Boyce… - Science, 2014 - science.org
In 2010, the international community, under the auspices of the Convention on Biological
Diversity, agreed on 20 biodiversity-related “Aichi Targets” to be achieved within a decade …

Cover crops for sustainable cropping systems: a review

V Quintarelli, E Radicetti, E Allevato, SR Stazi… - Agriculture, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cover cropping is a promising and sustainable agronomic practice to ameliorate soil health
and crop performances in agro-ecosystems. Indeed, cover crops (CCs) may regulate several …

Agro-ecological functions of crop residues under conservation agriculture. A review

L Ranaivoson, K Naudin, A Ripoche, F Affholder… - Agronomy for …, 2017 - Springer
Conservation agriculture, which is based on minimum tillage, permanent soil cover and crop
rotations, has widely been promoted as a practice to maintain or improve soil quality and …

Understanding the impact and adoption of conservation agriculture in Africa: A multi-scale analysis

M Corbeels, J De Graaff, TH Ndah, E Penot… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2014 - Elsevier
Conservation agriculture (CA) is increasingly promoted in Africa as an alternative for coping
with the need to increase food production on the basis of more sustainable farming …

Why is the influence of soil macrofauna on soil structure only considered by soil ecologists?

N Bottinelli, P Jouquet, Y Capowiez… - Soil and Tillage …, 2015 - Elsevier
These last twenty years have seen the development of an abundant literature on the
influence of soil macrofauna on soil structure. Amongst these organisms, earthworms …