Summary
Soil quality is essential for maintaining environmental sustainability and supporting ecosystem services. However agricultural practices, including excessive tillage, unbalanced fertilizer application, and monocropping, have significantly degraded soil quality. This review analyzes existing studies on how land use and management practices impact soil quality indicators and assesses sensitive indicators under rainfed conditions. We conducted a systematic literature review using the Web of Science and ScienceDirect databases to identify relevant research on land use, management practices, and soil quality indicators. We included 16 research articles from 954 publications using the PRISMA guidelines. The analysis revealed that the most sensitive soil quality indicators were soil organic carbo
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