Effects of Different Crop Systems on Soil Enzyme Activities
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil and Plant Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 April 2024) | Viewed by 405
Special Issue Editors
Interests: farmland soil carbon and nitrogen cycle and greenhouse gas emissions; land surface processes and global change; soil N2O production mechanism
Interests: farmland carbon and nitrogen cycle and its environmental effects
Interests: farmland soil carbon and nitrogen cycle and management; intensive farmland system greenhouse gas emission reduction; soil fertility improvement and restoration
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Soil enzyme is a bioactive substance secreted by soil microorganisms, animals and plants. It has strong catalytic ability and can participate in various biochemical processes, such as soil organic carbon decomposition and sequestration, nutrient cycling and transformation. It can respond quickly and accurately to small changes in soil microbial community, organic carbon content and other soil properties. Furthermore, it reflects the direction and intensity of various biochemical processes and can characterize the ability of microbial communities to obtain energy and nutrients, which is closely related to soil fertility and soil quality. Therefore, soil enzyme activity is often used as a basic and sensitive indicator of soil quality and ecosystem function. Changes in farmland land use can easily lead to changes in soil properties, thus affecting soil microbe and enzyme activity. Studying the soil enzyme activity of different crop systems will help us to propose favorable management measures for different crop systems.
This Special Issue will focus on “Effects of Different Crop Systems on Soil Enzyme Activities”. We are open to novel research, reviews and opinion articles covering all aspects of the responses of soil microbe and enzyme activity to crop systems as well as their mechanisms. It includes, but is not limited to, studies on soil enzyme activities, the relationship between soil nutrient cycling and enzyme activity, the relationship between soil microbe and enzyme activity, the response of soil enzyme activity to biotic, and abiotic factors and plant productivity in different crop systems.
Dr. Man Zhang
Dr. Changhua Fan
Dr. Bo Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- crop systems
- soil enzyme activity
- soil microbe
- soil properties
- soil nutrient
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