Agricultural Soil Health, Erosion and Remediation
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Soils".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 February 2024) | Viewed by 1297
Special Issue Editor
Interests: soil health; soil erosion; soil conservation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Healthy soils are vital for food production as 95% of global food production depends on our soils either directly or indirectly. With the increase of environmental stresses from both nature and human society, soil health (SH) is being increasingly threatened. However, soil scientists and ecologists have not reached an agreement on the concept of soil health. Different researchers have different definitions of SH depending on their fields, as SH research is a long-term and dynamic process, which also shows its complexity and importance. On the other hand, in many circumstances both SH and soil quality are considered synonymous with each other.
This Special Issue focuses on the connotation or definition, assessment methods, and improvement measures or practices of SH; the difference between SH and soil quality; and the impacts and tendencies of SH change. Research articles will cover a broad range of crop-land, frost-land and grass-land soil. All types of articles, such as original research, opinions, and reviews are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Gangcai Liu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- soil health
- soil functions
- soil quality
- soil disease
- soil degradation
- soil conservation
- soil improvement
- soil biodiversity
