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Soil Amendment and Pollution Remediation: Creating a Better Soil Environment for Future Sustainable Agricultural Production

A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Soils".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 December 2025) | Viewed by 2024

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Paula Pérez-Rodríguez

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1. Department of Plant Biology and Soil Science, Area of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain
2. Agroecology and Food Institute (IAA), University of Vigo—Campus Auga, 32004 Ourense, Spain
Interests: sustainable agriculture; soil ecosystem services; sustainable agricultural management; soil carbon sequestration; carbon farming
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Dr. Vanesa Santás-Miguel

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Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain
Interests: antibiotics; heavy metals; leucine incorporation technique; PICT; resistance; soil microbial communities; toxicity
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Soil health has long been crucial for sustainable agriculture, with soil degradation and pollution posing major challenges over time. The history of soil amendment and pollution remediation dates back centuries, with early practices focusing on improving soil fertility. However, recent years have seen increased urgency due to industrial pollution, over-fertilization, and climate change-induced degradation, requiring innovative solutions.

This Special Issue aims to explore the role of soil amendment and pollution remediation in enhancing soil quality for sustainable agriculture, providing the related ecosystem services. It covers a wide range of topics, including the development of new amendment technologies, strategies for detoxifying polluted soils, and innovative methods to improve soil structure, biology, and fertility. This issue seeks to examine how these solutions can contribute to long-term agricultural productivity while minimizing environmental harm and enhance soil health.

Dr. Paula Pérez-Rodríguez
Dr. Vanesa Santás-Miguel
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Keywords

  • soil remediation
  • emerging pollutants
  • by-products
  • green fertilizers
  • soil health
  • soil productivity
  • sustainable management
  • soil biology

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Effects of the Rice–Red Claw Crayfish (Cherax quadricarinatus) Co-Culture System on the Soil Quality in Paddy Fields
by Chengming Zhang, Bing Li, Rui Jia, Linjun Zhou, Jian Zhu and Yiran Hou
Agriculture 2026, 16(4), 403; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture16040403 - 9 Feb 2026
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Soil degradation is closely related to the core issue of food security, making the assessment and monitoring of paddy soil quality particularly important. To clarify the impact of a rice–red claw crayfish co-culture on paddy soil quality, this research established two experimental groups: [...] Read more.
Soil degradation is closely related to the core issue of food security, making the assessment and monitoring of paddy soil quality particularly important. To clarify the impact of a rice–red claw crayfish co-culture on paddy soil quality, this research established two experimental groups: a rice monoculture and a rice–red claw crayfish co-culture. Using 16S rRNA and 18S rRNA sequencing technologies, we systematically compared soil characteristics, microbial diversity, and community composition under the two modes. Principal component analysis based on a minimum data set was employed to integrate soil property parameters with bacterial and eukaryotic microbial community indicators for a comprehensive assessment of the paddy soil quality index. The results showed that the rice–red claw crayfish co-culture substantially increased soil total nitrogen, available nitrogen, total phosphorus, available potassium, and cation exchange capacity. Simultaneously, the rice–red claw crayfish co-culture significantly influenced the beta diversity and composition of bacterial and eukaryotic microbial communities, significantly increasing the relative abundances of Bacteroidota, Cyanobacteria, Verrucomicrobiota, Arthropoda, Cryptomycota, and Nematoda. The soil quality index under the rice–red claw crayfish co-culture was markedly higher than that under the rice monoculture. In summary, a rice–red claw crayfish co-culture can enhance soil fertility and improve overall soil quality. By incorporating microbial community parameters into the evaluation index system, this study confirms that the rice–red claw crayfish co-culture system is indeed a sustainable agricultural practice, providing a theoretical basis for refining the soil quality assessment framework for rice–aquatic animal-integrated farming systems. Full article
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