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Soil Systems, Volume 6, Issue 4

December 2022 - 26 articles

Cover Story: The view that soil is a natural resource to be secured has become more widespread, yet one important question has remained unresolved: how can we claim the soil itself as ‘secured’ or ‘not secured’? The United Nations suggests increasing organic matter (OM) content as an example of a practical approach toward soil security. However, such an approach devalues soils with native low OM. We propose changing the way we think about soil security, emphasizing how management can optimize soil functionality and health constraint by site-specific environmental conditions. Here, we adopt an econometric method that can quantify various purposes of soil use and identify the best site-specific management practice with efficiency scores. The novel pedo-econometric approach holds great potential to lead to efficient, practical, and sustainable use and protection of soil. View this paper
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Articles (26)

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,623 Views
19 Pages

Soil Structure under Forest and Pasture Land-Uses Affecting Compressive Behavior and Air Permeability in a Subtropical Soil

  • Luis Eduardo Akiyoshi Sanches Suzuki,
  • Dalvan José Reinert,
  • Deonir Secco,
  • Paulo Torres Fenner and
  • José Miguel Reichert

Machinery traffic and animal trampling can deform the soil and, consequently, impair soil pore functioning. This study aimed to evaluate how soil structure affects the compressibility, physical properties and air permeability of a Typic Paleudalf und...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,644 Views
16 Pages

Modelling Potential Soil Erosion and Sediment Delivery Risk in Plantations of Sri Lanka

  • Asha S. Karunaratne,
  • Eranga M. Wimalasiri,
  • Udara Piyathilake,
  • Sunethra Kanthi Gunatilake,
  • Nitin Muttil and
  • Upaka Rathnayake

The current trend in agricultural practices is expected to have a detrimental impact in terms of accelerating soil erosion. Assessment of the cumulative impact of various management strategies in a major plantation is a measure of the sustainably of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,488 Views
18 Pages

Microbial Community Investigation of Wild Brambles with Root Nodulation from a Calcareous Nitrogen-Deficient Soil

  • Beatrice Farda,
  • Alessandro Mattedi,
  • Rihab Djebaili,
  • Loretta Pace,
  • Maddalena Del Gallo and
  • Marika Pellegrini

This study examines culturable diazotrophs and non-culturable bacteria found in the rhizospheres and root pseudonodules of wild blackberry plants (Rubus ulmifolius) that dwell on an unmanaged calcareous nitrogen-deficient soil. The DNA was extracted...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
11,345 Views
27 Pages

Problems, Management, and Prospects of Acid Sulphate Soils in the Ganges Delta

  • Sukanta Kumar Sarangi,
  • Mohammed Mainuddin and
  • Buddheswar Maji

Soil is a finite natural resource and is indispensable for human civilization because it is the medium for food production for the biosphere. Continued soil degradation is a forerunner of catastrophe for the living world. The protection of healthy so...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,615 Views
16 Pages

Pesticides are extensively used in agriculture to prevent infestation of crops, control plant-associated diseases and pests, and increase crop productivity. With regards to typical agricultural practice, tank mixing of two or more plant protection pr...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,913 Views
18 Pages

Physico-Chemical Soil Properties Affected by Invasive Plants in Southwest Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate)—A Case Study

  • Jellian Jamin,
  • Dörte Diehl,
  • Michele Meyer,
  • Jan David,
  • Gabriele Ellen Schaumann and
  • Christian Buchmann

The invasive plant species Impatiens glandulifera native to Asia mainly occupies European riparian ecosystems. It is still unclear to which extent this invasive plant can alter physico-chemical soil properties in terms of carbon turnover, microstruct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,356 Views
11 Pages

Evaluation of Soil Organic Carbon Storage of Atillo in the Ecuadorian Andean Wetlands

  • Andrés A. Beltrán-Dávalos,
  • Johanna Elizabeth Ayala Izurieta,
  • Magdy Mileni Echeverria Guadalupe,
  • Shari Van Wittenberghe,
  • Jesús Delegido,
  • Xosé Luis Otero Pérez and
  • Agustín Merino

Identifying the SOC levels and revealing the potential of SOC storage of ecosystems difficult to sample and study are necessary contributions to the understanding of the global reserves of SOC. Wetlands store large amounts of SOC within their soils....

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
11,850 Views
16 Pages

Impacts of Landfill Leachate on the Surrounding Environment: A Case Study on Amin Bazar Landfill, Dhaka (Bangladesh)

  • Rysul Hasan Hredoy,
  • Md. Abu Bakar Siddique,
  • Md. Ahedul Akbor,
  • Md. Aftab Ali Shaikh and
  • Md. Mostafizur Rahman

Currently, a total of about 15,000 tons/day of waste is generated in the entire Dhaka city with an average per capita waste generation of 0.641 kg/day. Only 37% of this waste is collected and dumped into the two sanitary landfill sites, which is the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,175 Views
28 Pages

Proximal and Remote Sensing Data Integration to Assess Spatial Soil Heterogeneity in Wild Blueberry Fields

  • Allegra Johnston,
  • Viacheslav Adamchuk,
  • Athyna N. Cambouris,
  • Jean Lafond,
  • Isabelle Perron,
  • Julie Lajeunesse,
  • Marc Duchemin and
  • Asim Biswas

Wild blueberries (Vaccinium angustifolium Ait.) are often cultivated uniformly despite significant within-field variations in topography and crop density. This study was conducted to relate apparent soil electrical conductivity (ECa), topographic att...

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