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Assessing spatial variations in soil organic carbon and C:N ratio in Northeast China's black soil region: Insights from Landsat-9 satellite and crop growth information Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Jing Geng, Qiuyuan Tan, Junwei Lv, Huajun Fang
Monitoring soil properties, especially soil organic carbon (SOC) and Carbon-to-Nitrogen (C:N) ratios, is vital for understanding degradation and developing black soil conservation strategies. Most soil mapping research has leveraged satellite imagery from limited bare-soil periods. The predictive accuracy using time-series images capturing crop growth is underexplored. Moreover, while the new Landsat-9
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Estimating the permeability of soils under different tillage practices and cropping systems: Roles of the three percolating pore radii derived from X-ray CT Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Yongqi Qian, Xiaofan Yang, Zhongbin Zhang, Xueying Li, Jinyu Zheng, Xinhua Peng
Soil permeability associated with pore characteristics is a critical factor affecting water and nutrient transport in agricultural fields. However, which soil pore characteristics determine soil permeability remains inconclusive due to high heterogeneity of soil pore structure affected by soil and crop management practices. The objective of this study was to compare the pore characteristics of soils
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A system for concurrent on-the-go soil apparent electrical conductivity and gamma-ray sensing in micro-irrigated orchards Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Elia Scudiero, Dennis L. Corwin, Paul T. Markley, Alireza Pourreza, Tait Rounsaville, Theodor Bughici, Todd H. Skaggs
On-the-go soil apparent electrical conductivity (ECa) sensors are great tools for mapping and monitoring soil properties such as water content, texture, and salinity. ECa maps and surveys are most useful and reliable when obtained in uniformly wet fields. However, soil moisture in micro-irrigated (e.g., drip or micro-sprinklers) orchards is typically non-uniform, with moist soil along tree and irrigation
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Spatial-temporal variation of soil organic matter decomposition potential in China Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Qi Chen, Zeyan Zhou, Sulin Cai, Meiqi Lv, Yinghui Yang, Yunchao Luo, Han Jiang, Run Liu, Tingting Cao, Bei Yao, Yunru Chen, Qiang Li, Xiaoyi Zeng, Rumeng Ye, You Fang, Yueting Pan, Weihua He, Lu Pang, Hualong He, Pengwei Wan, Xingjun Tian
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Land management affects soil structural stability: Multi-index principal component analyses of treatment interactions Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Maysoon M. Mikha, Timothy R. Green, Tyler J. Untiedt, Gary W. Hergret
Soil structure mediates soil functioning and can be influenced by agricultural management practices (cropping intensity, tillage, and nitrogen source). This study evaluated the effectiveness of multiple soil aggregate indices to quantify soil structural development using long-term data from three locations within the central Great Plains: Alternative Crop Rotation (ACR) and Long-Term Tillage (LTT)
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Splash erosion-induced soil aggregate turnover and associated organic carbon dynamics Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Ling Wang, Chenyang Zhang, Jue Peng, Ling Xu, Junguang Wang, Chongfa Cai
The splash erosion-induced soil aggregate turnover is important to understand the mechanisms of soil degradation and soil organic carbon (SOC) cycling. However, the relationship between aggregate turnover and rainfall impact has not been explored directly because of methodological difficulties. The soil samples, developed from Quaternary red clay, were adopted from three land use types: natural forest
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On-farm assessment of agronomic performance of rainfed wheat cultivars under different tillage systems Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Reza Mohammadi, Rahman Rajabi, Reza Haghparast
Evaluation of new cultivars for the agronomic performance under actual on-farm conditions is a highly recommended method for assessing the performance and stability of new cultivars in variable environments and under different management practices. The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the performance and agronomic characteristics of new wheat cultivars in on-farm conditions using different
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Higher microbial C use efficiency in paddy than in adjacent upland soils: evidence from continental scale Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Xun Duan, Yichao Rui, Yinhang Xia, Yajun Hu, Chong Ma, Hang Qiao, Guanjun Zeng, Yirong Su, Jinshui Wu, Xiangbi Chen
Regularly flooded rice paddies usually show greater soil organic C and microbial-derived C contents than adjacent upland counterparts, but the soil microbial physiological traits under these two different land uses spanning regions remain unclear. Here, we collected 40 pairs of adjacent paddy and upland soils from four different climates (mid temperate, warm temperate, subtropics, and tropics) across
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Optimizing biochar application rates for improved soil chemical environments in cotton and sugarbeet fields under trickle irrigation with plastic mulch Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-16 Xingyun Qi, Guang Yang, Yi Li, Zhenan Hou, Penghui Shi, Shibin Wang, Xiaofang Wang, Jiaping Liang, Benhua Sun, Kadambot H.M. Siddique, Shufang Wu, Hao Feng, Xiaohong Tian, Qiang Yu, Xiangwen Xie
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Warming effects on C:N:P stoichiometry and nutrient limitation in terrestrial ecosystems Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Hongwei Xu, Minggang Wang, Chengming You, Bo Tan, Lin Xu, Han Li, Li Zhang, Lixia Wang, Sining Liu, Guirong Hou, Yang Liu, Zhenfeng Xu, Jordi Sardans, Josep Peñuelas
Carbon (C): nitrogen (N): phosphorus (P) stoichiometry in terrestrial ecosystems largely determines nutrient cycling in plant-soil-microorganism systems. However, a comprehensive evaluation of the effects of warming on plant-soil-enzyme C-N-P stoichiometry has not been well documented. Here, a global meta-analysis of 603 pairwise observations was conducted to reveal the impacts of experimental warming
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Microbial attributes as structural quality index for physical health of an Oxisol under compaction levels Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Brenda Cristye Tonon-Debiasi, Henrique Debiasi, Artur Berbel Lirio Rondina, Moacir Tuzzin de Moraes, Julio Cezar Franchini, Alvadi Antônio Balbinot Junior, Mariangela Hungria, Marco Antonio Nogueira
Microbial activity is a sensitive indicator of soil structure improvement provided by plant species in the physical recovery of compacted soils. This study aimed to assess the impacts of crop species on soil aggregate classes for soil recovery after compaction and identify which microbial attributes best describe the structural quality index for soil physical health in an Oxisol under no-tillage. The
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Ammonia volatilization measured with the IHF method in a rainfed arable crop: Evaluation of tillage intensity and the number of experimental replicates Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Guillermo Guardia, Alberto Sanz-Cobena, Miguel Ángel Ibáñez, Jaime Recio, Antonio Vallejo
Ammonia (NH3) volatilization losses have severe impacts on human health, climate change and natural environments, but the effect of tillage intensity on these emissions has been barely evaluated in field conditions, particularly using micrometeorological methods, which require large surfaces. In this context, a field experiment in a barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) crop was set up in central Spain, in which
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Effect of filling materials on reconstructed soil phosphorus adsorption and desorption in mining area Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Kexin Jing, Xiangyu Min, Wen Song, Dongyun Xu, Xinju Li
Utilization of alternative soil substrates for minesoil reconstruction can affect the nutrient status of reclaimed minesoil (RMS), particularly the availability of phosphorus. This study investigated the adsorption and desorption capacities of phosphorus in three typical reclamation lands using coal gangue (CGR), lake mud (LMR), and Yellow River sand (YSR) as filling materials. The results showed that
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Temporal and spatial characteristics of paddy soil potassium in China and its response to organic amendments: A systematic analysis Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Tianfu Han, Kailou Liu, Jing Huang, Muhammad Numan Khan, Zhe Shen, Jiwen Li, Huimin Zhang
Understanding the role of organic amendments on soil potassium (K) distribution characteristics in Chinese paddy fields, we conduct a meta-analysis to explore the effect of organic amendment under different climatic and management practices. The meta-analysis consisted of 376 published papers from which 1294 paired observations were collected to evaluate the response of exchangeable K (EK) to different
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Mitigation of reactive nitrogen loss from arable soils through microbial inoculant application: A meta-analysis Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Jiyang Lv, Xiayan Zhang, Zhipeng Sha, Shouguo Li, Xian Chen, Yongliang Chen, Xuejun Liu
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Root but not shoot litter fostered the formation of mineral-associated organic matter in eroded arable soils Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Eva Kaštovská, Michal Choma, Gerrit Angst, Rainer Remus, Jürgen Augustin, Steffen Kolb, Stephan Wirth
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Effects of long-term rice-crayfish farming on soil CNP storage and stoichiometry Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Linsen Du, Hua Wang, Zhen Zhang, Yaoyu Zhou, Zhiyu Xiao, Muhammad Shaaban, Avelino Núñez-Delgado, Geng Sun, Yelan Yu, Zhihua Xiao, Teng Hu
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Silicon uptake and utilization on Panicum maximum grass modifies C:N:P stoichiometry under warming and soil water deficit Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Dilier Olivera-Viciedo, Kamilla Silva Oliveira, Renato de Mello Prado, Eduardo Habermann, Carlos Alberto Martínez, Anderson de Moura Zanine
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Comparative effect of conventional and adaptive management approaches on watershed health Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Zahra Ebrahimi Gatgash, Seyed Hamidreza Sadeghi
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Liming reduces nitrogen uptake from chemical fertilizer but increases that from straw in a double rice cropping system Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Ping Liao, Lei Liu, Jin Chen, Yanni Sun, Shan Huang, Yongjun Zeng, Kees Jan van Groenigen
Liming materials are widely applied to alleviate soil acidification and increase rice yield in acidic soils, but their effects on nitrogen (N) use efficiency are still unclear. Here, we conducted a field-, pot-, and micro-plot experiment to investigate how the application of slaked lime (i.e., Ca(OH)2) affects the fate of chemical fertilizer-N and straw-N in a double rice cropping system. In the field
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Subsoiling tillage increased core microbiome associated with nitrogen fixation in the fallow season under rainfed maize monoculture Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Zhijun Chen, Zhenchuang Zhu, Wangwang Zhang, Shijun Sun
Subsoiling tillage (ST) is a promising agronomy practice to improve soil physicochemical properties, soil microbial diversity during the crop growing season, and ultimately crop yield, but little is known about whether and how the ST practice will impact soil physicochemical properties and microbial communities in fallow season and their impacts on crop growth in next season. Here, a four-year continuous
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Crop diversification increases soil extracellular enzyme activities under no tillage: A global meta-analysis Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Tong Li, Guorui Li, Zhiqiang Lu, Deqiang Zhao, Yuze Li, Ziting Wang, Xiaoxia Wen, Yuncheng Liao
Conservation agriculture with three management principles has been widely adopted to alleviate the current global agricultural soils facing threats such as soil erosion and nutrient loss. However, unclear understanding of rational crop rotation and the lack of global quantitative assessment limit our deeper insight into soil nutrient cycling under conservation agriculture. Considering the important
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Interpretation of uniaxial, confined compression test data for agricultural topsoils Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Per Schjønning
Traditionally, soil strength is estimated from uniaxial, confined compression tests by procedures adopted from classical soil mechanics. The heterogeneity of agricultural topsoil calls for an alternative approach. Undisturbed soil cores were collected in the plough layer of 14 soils in arable agriculture. Soil texture ranged from coarse sandy to silty loam soils with a maximum of 20% clay. The samples
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Relative role of soil nutrients vs. carbon availability on soil carbon mineralization in grassland receiving long-term N addition Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Liangchao Jiang, Huanhuan Cheng, Yang Peng, Tianran Sun, Yingzhi Gao, Ruzhen Wang, Yanxia Ma, Junjie Yang, Qiang Yu, Haiyang Zhang, Xingguo Han, Qiushi Ning
High nitrogen (N) input often induces soil carbon (C) limitation, eutrophication of macronutrients, deficiency of base cations, and accumulation of toxic micronutrients. These changes are perceived to be critical factors in regulating soil C mineralization. Previous studies primarily focused on the individual effects of C, macronutrients, exchangeable base cations, and micronutrients on soil C mineralization
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Enhancing crop productivity for recarbonizing soil Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Kadambot H.M. Siddique, Nanthi Bolan, Abdul Rehman, Muhammad Farooq
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Rill formation and evolution caused by upslope inflow and sediment deposition on freshly tilled loose surfaces Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Xiaohe Qian, Longshan Zhao, Qian Fang, Chunhua Fan, Ruyi Zi, Fayong Fang
Rill erosion easily occurs on tilled surfaces because the soil shear resistance is less than the runoff shear stress. However, rill erosion formation and evolution on tilled surfaces under upslope inflow conditions remain unclear. The objective of this study was to investigate the rill formation process and rill erosion amount on tilled surfaces via flow scouring under different inflow rates (4, 6
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Soil phosphorus availability mediates facilitation dynamic in maize-grass pea intercropping system Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Shuang-Guo Zhu, Wesly Kiprotich, Zheng-Guo Cheng, Rui Zhou, Jing-Wei Fan, Hao Zhu, Wen-Ying Wang, Wei Wang, Ren-Qing Wang, Hong-Yan Tao, You-Cai Xiong
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Managing the pore system: Regenerating the functional pore spaces of natural soils by soil-health oriented farming systems Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-26 Gernot Bodner, Anna Zeiser, Katharina Keiblinger, Christoph Rosinger, Samuel Konrad Winkler, Christine Stumpp, Thomas Weninger
Transition towards soil-health sustaining crop production is at the core of climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts in agriculture. Improving soil conditions for resilience to variable and extreme weather conditions are among the main expectations of farmers implementing sustainable management practices. In this study, we evaluate whether the transition from conventional arable towards soil-health
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Legume cover crops enhance soil organic carbon via microbial necromass in orchard alleyways Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-27 Qijuan Hu, Tao Jiang, Ben W. Thomas, Ji Chen, Jun Xie, Yingxiao Hu, Faming Kong, Yuanyu Yang, Xinping Chen, Yuting Zhang, Xiaojun Shi
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Soil pitting mitigates runoff, erosion and pesticide surface losses in maize crops in the Belgian loess belt Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Timothée Clement, Charles L. Bielders, Aurore Degré, Gilles Manssens, Guy Foucart
Soils of the loess belt of Western Europe are intensively cropped and particularly prone to runoff and soil erosion, especially when planted with row crops such as maize or potatoes, characterized by a low soil cover during erosive spring storms. In this context, micro-basin tillage techniques could help mitigate these risks while being fairly easy to integrate into conventional cropping systems, yet
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Spatial relationships between the van Genuchten soil-water retention curve parameters and photosynthetic gas exchange variables in a wheat field Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Ladan Heydari, Hossein Bayat, Fereydoon Sarmadian
Photosynthetic gas exchange indices can be used to assess spatial variation of crop growth and yield on the field. Spatial variation of soil parameters can be an important tool to assess and manage crop growth status and product quality in the field, given the impact of soil on photosynthetic function. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the spatial relationships between the van Genuchten (vG)
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No-tillage and rye cover crop systems improve soil water retention by increasing soil organic carbon in Andosols under humid subtropical climate Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Rahmatullah Hashimi, Qiliang Huang, Ratih Kemala Dewi, Junko Nishiwaki, Masakazu Komatsuzaki
No-tillage (NT) combined with a cover crop is a climate-smart agricultural practice that eliminates nearly all physical disturbance of the soil surface and increases soil aggregation and soil organic carbon (SOC); however, the response of SOC and soil water retention (SWR) to long-term NT and cover crops systems in the volcanic ash Andosol soil of Japan has not been well addressed. This study aimed
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Effect of soil hydrophobicity on soil-water retention curve of a silt loam soil Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Qiyong Zhang, Wenwu Chen, Jian Chu
Soil wettability is an important property that affects the behaviour of fine-grained soils. Previous studies have shown that hydrophobicity induced by organic or silane additives may affect the soil-water retention curve (SWRC). However, current findings regarding the effect of hydrophobicity on the SWRC are controversial. Previously, organic or silane additives were assumed to change only the soil
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Soil biotic associations play a key role in subsoil C mineralization: Evidence from long-term tillage trial in the black soil of Northeast China Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Qian Wang, Shixiu Zhang, Mengting Zhang, Ping Liu, Neil B. McLaughlin, Shuxia Jia, Xuewen Chen, Yan Zhang, Aizhen Liang
Quantifying the potential of soil carbon (C) mineralization improves our understanding of changes in soil health in agricultural ecosystems. Previous studies rarely linked the trait of interactions inherent in soil communities to soil C mineralization rate (Cmin). This study provides field-based evidence of tillage-driven changes in biological associations and their impacts on soil Cmin. Data obtained
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Effects of interspecific interactions on soil carbon emission and efficiency in the semiarid intercropping systems Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Wei Wang, Meng-Ying Li, Rui Zhou, Shuang-Guo Zhu, Hong-Yan Tao, Aziz Khan, Aimee Grace Uzamurera, Bao-Zhong Wang, Jun-Ming Jin, Yue Ma, Wen-Bo Li, Xiu-Ping Tao, You-Cai Xiong
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Mixture of winter cover crops improves soil physical properties under no-tillage system in a subtropical environment Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Cristiano Andre Pott, Perivaldo Mateus Conrado, Leandro Rampim, Renan Caldas Umburanas, Aline Marieli Czekalski Conrado, Vitor Hugo Outeiro, Marcelo Marques Lopes Müller
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Soil mechanical reinforcement by the fibrous roots of selected rangeland plants using a large soil-root shear apparatus Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-12 Nasrin Saadati, Mohammad R. Mosaddeghi, Mohammad R. Sabzalian, Mehrnoosh Jafari
Soil reinforcement by fibrous roots of rangeland plants is essential for soil conservation. This study was done to: i) determine the effect of two genotypes 75B and 75C of Festuca arundinacea, Bromus inermis, and Bromus tomentellus on soil reinforcement at saturated/unsaturated conditions, and ii) explore the relationships between soil shear strength, and root area ratio (RAR) determined by image analysis
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Legume-based crop diversification reinforces soil health and carbon storage driven by microbial biomass and aggregates Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-05 Zhengjun Yan, Jie Zhou, Chunyan Liu, Rong Jia, Kevin Z. Mganga, Lei Yang, Yadong Yang, Leanne Peixoto, Huadong Zang, Zhaohai Zeng
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Hydrosedimentary behavior of a field combining surface drains and tile drains Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Arthur Gaillot, Sébastien Salvador-Blanes, Olivier Cerdan, Pierre Vanhooydonck, Thomas Grangeon, Marc Desmet, Célestine Delbart
In agricultural fields, soil erosion is usually associated to surface runoff. However, in drained fields, tile drains are additional pathways for soil particles. Few studies have quantified erosion in drained fields and they mainly focused on tile drained fields, without considering fields combining surface and tile drainage. These studies show high inter-site and inter-annual variabilities that highlight
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Evaluating soil water dynamics under a no-tillage system with residual plastic film mulching in an arid region of western China using HYDRUS-2D Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Qi Hu, Xianyue Li, Jirí Šimůnek, Haibin Shi, Ning Chen, Yuehong Zhang, Maoxin Xin, Fanfan Song
No-tillage (NT) with residual plastic film mulching from an earlier year (NTR) is considered an excellent agricultural strategy in arid regions, recommended to reduce not only soil disturbance but also plastic film residues. However, the soil water dynamic in the root zone under this management is more complex due to variations in soil properties and upper boundary conditions. Soil compaction and a
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Agricultural practices to improve near-surface soil health and crop yield in subtropical soils Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 João de Andrade Bonetti, Márcio Renato Nunes, Jessé Rodrigo Fink, Tailany Tretto, Cássio Antonio Tormena
Integrated crop and livestock systems (ICLS) have the potential to minimize soil degradation, improve soil health, and maximize food production. Our goal was to evaluate the impact of no-till (NT) in association with ICLS on soil health and soybean yield in Inceptisol and Oxisol soils in Southern Brazil. The response of physical, chemical, and biological soil health indicators to soil and crop management
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Remediation and mitigation measures to counteract orchard soil degradation by treated wastewater irrigation Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Diriba Bane Nemera, David Yalin, Guy J. Levy, Shabtai Cohen, Moshe Shenker, Roee Gothelf, Jorge Tarchitzky, Asher Bar-Tal
Recent studies have shown that long-term irrigation with treated wastewater (TWW1) can lead to land degradation and reduction of crop performance in clayey soils due to additions of salts and organic compounds. This study investigated the effects of two remediation and two mitigation methods intended to alleviate the damage to soil properties following long-term irrigation with TWW. The experiment
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Prediction of the distribution of soil properties in deep Colluvisols in different pedogeographic regions (Czech Republic) using diffuse reflectance infrared spectroscopy Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Lenka Pavlů, Tereza Zádorová, Jiří Pavlů, Václav Tejnecký, Ondřej Drábek, Jessica Reyes Rojas, Saven Thai, Vít Penížek
Colluvisols form a significant part of the erosion–deposition soil catena mainly in undulating, agriculturally managed landscapes. Due to their sedimentary origin, they are soils with highly variable properties. For such diverse and often extremely deep soils, it is essential to capture the vertical distribution of properties in as much detail as possible. This study demonstrates the potential of the
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Different soil textures can interfere with phosphorus availability and acid phosphatase activity in soybean Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Fernanda Rosa Veloso, Douglas José Marques, Edmar Isaias de Melo, Hudson Carvalho Bianchini, Gabriel Mascarenhas Maciel, Abner Carneiro de Melo
To achieve sustainable agricultural activity, phosphatase determination is an important practice for improving the efficiency of phosphorus (P) management in tropical agriculture. The objective of this study was to evaluate acid phosphatase activity in different soil textures and P stress levels affecting the nutritional, chemical, biochemical, and agronomic aspects of soybean. Treatments resulted
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Charcoal and biological activity in formiguer soils of Catalonia (Spain): Application of a micromorphological approach Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 María Fernanda Alvarez, Rosa Maria Poch, José Ramón Olarieta, Katja Wiedner
The "formiguers" (earth mounds to burn woody plant residues) constituted a common practice of fertilization of soils in many regions of Spain in the past. The result of combustion is the formation of char, charcoal, soot, graphitic carbon and black carbon, which increased soil fertility. We applied a micromorphological approach to study the relationship between charcoal and features due to biological
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Evaluating the hydrological function of vegetation restoration in fragile karst area: Insights from the continuous surface and subsurface runoff monitoring Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Jun Zhang, Zhongyun Wang, Daoheng Zhuang, Zhiyong Fu, Kelin Wang, Hongsong Chen
Satellite remote sensing of vegetation has indicated that vegetation greenness has increased globally. However, the feedback mechanisms of vegetation restoration on eco-hydrological functions remain unclear, especially in fragile ecosystems. In this study, twelve three-dimensional hillslope plots with different vegetation restoration strategies were selected and their surface and subsurface runoff
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Contributions of climate and soil properties to geographic variations of soil organic matter across the East Asian monsoon region Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Xinliang Wu, Chongfa Cai, Zaijian Yuan, Dingqiang Li, Jinxing Zhou, Chao Huang
Soil organic matter (SOM) plays a crucial role in soil functions and the global carbon cycle. Considering the disconnection of research emphasis between soil and ecology, little is known about the large-scale edaphic controls and their interaction with climate in SOM dynamics. This study aimed to explore the geographic evolution mechanisms of SOM from the perspective of soil intrinsic properties. A
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A bionic profiling-energy storage device based on MBD-DEM coupled simulation optimization reducing the energy consumption of deep loosening Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-22 Jiale Zhao, Yun Lu, Xiaogeng Wang, Jian Zhuang, Zhiwu Han
A novel bionic profiling energy storage device was designed in this research to reduce the energy consumption of deep loosening operations. As the core technology of conservation tillage, deep loosening has always been difficult to promote on a large scale in the Phaeozem region of Northeast China due to its high energy consumption. The deep loosening mechanism is mainly composed of deep loosening
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Investigating the stability of contour ridge system using rare earth element tracers under natural rainfall in the rocky mountain areas of Northern China Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-22 Juan An, Yuanzhi Wu, Hongli Song, Lizhi Wang, Xiyuan Wu, Jiaxin Han, Hongbo Zhao
Erratic and intensively erosive natural rainfall is becoming more frequent with the intensification of global climate warming, increasing uncertainty and unpredictable risks of the stability of contour ridge system. However, little attention has been paid to the in situ quantitative evaluation of contour ridge stability under natural rainfall. When water ponds in furrows, contour ridges tend to breach
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Improving acidic sandy soil properties for plant growth with dam reservoir sediments in the face of soaring fertiliser prices Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-22 Joanna Gmitrowicz-Iwan, Sławomir Ligęza, Jacek Pranagal, Halina Smal, Anna Wójcikowska-Kapusta
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Biochar application promotes crops yield through regulating root development and the community structure of root endophytic fungi in wheat-maize rotation Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Shuo Han, Hongbo Li, Zed Rengel, Zhangliu Du, Ning Hu, Yanan Wang, Aiping Zhang
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Consequences of elevated CO2 on soil acidification, cation depletion, and inorganic carbon: A column-based experimental investigation Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Jannatul Ferdush, Varun Paul, Jac Varco, Keri Jones, Sankar Manalilkada Sasidharan
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Effects of soil physical and chemical properties on phosphorus adsorption-desorption in fluvo-aquic soil under conservation tillage Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Jiao Yang, Xiuli Xin, Xianfeng Zhang, Xinyue Zhong, Wenliang Yang, Guocui Ren, Anning Zhu
Conservation tillage has been widely used in the North China Plain to improve the aggregate structure and promote soil organic matter (SOM) retention, which is closely associated with phosphorus (P) turnover. However, a quantitative description of how conservation tillage alters P adsorption and desorption characteristics via affecting soil physical and chemical properties remains lacking. Thus, we
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Short-term impacts of different intercropping times of maize and ruzigrass on soil physical properties in subtropical Brazil Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-19
Intercropping maize (Zea mays L.) with ruzigrass (Urochloa ruziziensis) is a strategy for improving soil physical quality. However, effects of ruzigrass sowing time on soil physical properties with maize intercropping are unknown. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the short-term effects of intercropping times of maize and ruzigrass over three years (2019/2020–2021/2022) on the soil physical properties
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A conceptual evaluation of a weed control method with post-damage application of herbicides: A composite intelligent intra-row weeding robot Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-19
Weed management is an important part of crop production. Efficient weeding can help increase the yield and quality of crops. However, traditional weeding methods often fail to consider weeding quality and environmental protection. To address these shortcomings, a weeding method in which herbicides are applied after injury to weed tissue was developed, and an intelligent intra-row weeding robot was
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3D printing of a fiber optic pressure sensor Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-20
Soil pressure is an important parameter for soil tillage. This study provides an alternative method for the fabrication of novel fiber optic pressure sensors which can be used for the measurement of soil pressure in the field. Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometry (OFDR) based distributed fiber optic sensor was adopted as a sensing element and embedded inside 3D printed prototypes to fabricate pressure
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Irrigation schedule impact on greenhouse gas mitigation, carbon sequestration, and yield improvement of double rice-cropping systems in southern China Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-20
The development of water-saving irrigation in paddy soils is crucial because of the increasing demand for water resources. There is a need to improve the understanding of water use strategies that save water and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions without causing yield losses in double rice-cropping systems. The current study was conducted to examine the net global warming potential (NGWP) and net
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Subsoiling depth affects the morphological and physiological traits of roots in film-mulched and drip-irrigated cotton Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-19
Subsoil compaction is increasingly a problem. Subsoiling breaks up the soil, removes compaction, and improves root growth. However, it is unclear whether subsoiling depth affects root growth and physiological functioning of film-mulched and drip-irrigated cotton, which has a shallow root system (< 60 cm). A 2-year experiment (2019–2020) was performed under field conditions (soil texture was sandy loam
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Empirical equations for estimating field capacity in dryland cropping soils of southeastern Australia Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-19
The root zone soil water content at field capacity, θFC, is often crucial for irrigation scheduling and soil-plant-atmosphere modelling. Although θFC is traditionally determined using methodologies based on matric head or when water flux at the bottom of the root-zone equal to a prescribed negligible flux, these approaches can be problematic for some soils and applications. In this study, a novel water
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Conservation strip-till modifies rhizosphere ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria, increases nitrate accumulation and promotes maize growth at grain filling stage Soil Tillage Res. (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-19
Strip-till (ST) is a conservation tillage wherein the “inter-row” is not tilled and remains covered with protective residues, while the “row zone” is strip tilled. In comparison to conventional ridge tillage (CT), maize yield under ST is maintained due to its growth recovery at grain filling stage (GFS), though its growth lag at early growth stage in cold regions. To explore microbial mechanisms underlying