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Peer-reviewed

Visual assessment of the impact of agricultural management practices on soil quality

Abdallah Alaoui, Lúcia Barão, Carla Ferreira, Gudrun Schwilch, Gottlieb Basch, Fuensanta García‐Orenes, Alicia Morugán‐Coronado, Jorge Mataix‐Solera, Costas Kosmas, Matjaž Glavan, Brigitta Szabó, Tamás Hermann, Olga Vizitiu, Jerzy Lipiec, Magdalena Frąc, Endla Reintam, Minggang Xu, Jiaying Di, Hongzhu Fan, W. Sukkel, Julie Lemesle, Violette Geissen, Luuk Fleskens

Agronomy Journal · 2020

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Summary

Abstract The intensification of agricultural practices to increase food and feed outputs is a pressing challenge causing deterioration of soil quality and soil functions. Such a challenge demands provision of empirical evidence to provide context‐sensitive guidance on agricultural management practices (AMPs) that may enhance soil quality. The objectives of this study are to identify the most promising AMPs (and their combinations) applied by farmers with the most positive effects on soil quality and to evaluate the sensitivity of the soil quality indicators to the applied AMPs. The effect of selected AMPs on soil quality was assessed using a visual soil assessment tool in a total of 138 pairs of plots spread across 14 study site areas in Europe and China covering representative pedo‐climat

Subject
Soil health assessment & monitoring
Source type
Peer-reviewed study
System type
Other
DOI
10.1002/agj2.20216
Catalogue ID
SNmoy148lc-47pz3m
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