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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
12 Citations
8,036 Views
25 Pages

Characteristics of Andisols Developed from Andesitic and Basaltic Volcanic Ash in Different Agro-Climatic Zones

  • Mahfud Arifin,
  • Rina Devnita,
  • Markus Anda,
  • Didiek H. Goenadi and
  • Adi Nugraha

This study aimed to identify the characteristics of Andisols under tea plantations affected by different Oldeman’s agro-climatic zones, of different ages, and containing different types of volcanic ash material. For this study, three tea planta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,576 Views
17 Pages

Phytoremediating a Wastewater-Irrigated Soil Contaminated with Toxic Metals: Comparing the Efficacies of Different Crops

  • Iftikhar Ahmad,
  • Saeed Ahmad Malik,
  • Shafqat Saeed,
  • Atta-ur Rehman and
  • Tariq Muhammad Munir

A formidable challenge in suburban agriculture is the sustainability of soil health following the use of wastewater for irrigation. The wastewater irrigation likely toxifies the crop plants making them unconsumable. We used a multivariate, completely...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,636 Views
18 Pages

Impact of Aboveground Vegetation on Abundance, Diversity, and Biomass of Earthworms in Selected Land Use Systems as a Model of Synchrony between Aboveground and Belowground Habitats in Mid-Himalaya, India

  • Kasahun Gudeta,
  • Ankeet Bhagat,
  • Jatinder Mohan Julka,
  • Sartaj Ahmad Bhat,
  • Gopal Krishan Sharma,
  • Getachew Bantihun,
  • Ryszard Amarowicz and
  • Merga Belina

The population status and biomass of earthworms were studied in three different land use systems of pasture (Pa), silvopasture (SP), and mixed evergreen forest (MEF) from 2019–2020 in the Solan district of Himachal Pradesh, India. The aim of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,073 Views
21 Pages

Soil Respiration Is Influenced by Seasonality, Forest Succession and Contrasting Biophysical Controls in a Tropical Dry Forest in Northwestern Mexico

  • Martha L. Vargas-Terminel,
  • Dulce Flores-Rentería,
  • Zulia M. Sánchez-Mejía,
  • Nidia E. Rojas-Robles,
  • Maritza Sandoval-Aguilar,
  • Bruno Chávez-Vergara,
  • Agustín Robles-Morua,
  • Jaime Garatuza-Payan and
  • Enrico A. Yépez

26 September 2022

Soil respiration (RS) is an important component of the C cycle because it contributes significant CO2 emissions to the atmosphere that result from metabolism and respiration of its autotrophic and heterotrophic components. However, the relative impor...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,246 Views
13 Pages

Reshaping How We Think about Soil Security

  • Katsutoshi Mizuta and
  • Sabine Grunwald

23 September 2022

The soil security framework has been conceptualized and views soil as a resource that needs to be secured to avoid or minimize adverse environmental/anthropogenic impacts and undesirable consequences for people. Our critical literature review suggest...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
2,665 Views
11 Pages

20 September 2022

With the increasing popularity of biochar as a soil amendment worldwide in recent years, a question of concern arises as to whether the application of biochar would suppress or stimulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In this study, published data e...

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