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<scp>SoilManageR</scp> —An R Package for Deriving Soil Management Indicators to Harmonise Agricultural Practice Assessments

Olivier Heller, Andreas Chervet, Fabien Durand‐Maniclas, Thomas Guillaume, Franziska Häfner, Michael Müller, Raphaël Wittwer, Thomas Keller

European Journal of Soil Science · 2025

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Summary

ABSTRACT Understanding the effects of agricultural soil management on the soil system and its functions is crucial to ensure the sustainable use of soil. Due to the countless ways in which soil can be managed, it is not an easy task to compare soil management practices across different locations and over time. One approach to making soil management comparable is the use of numerical soil management indicators. However, due to the lack of standardisation of soil management data and indicators, the comparability of results across studies remains limited. To address these shortcomings, we developed SoilManageR, an accessible R package. The first version of SoilManageR calculates numerical soil management indicators for carbon (C) input, tillage intensity, soil cover duration, nitrogen (N) fer

Subject
Soil health assessment & monitoring
Source type
Peer-reviewed study
System type
Other
DOI
10.1111/ejss.70102
Catalogue ID
SNmp4zkjo1-4bjmk9
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