{"type": "FeatureCollection", "features": [{"id": "10.1016/j.catena.2019.104352", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:15:59Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-12-02", "title": "Long-term effectiveness of sustainable land management practices to control runoff, soil erosion, and nutrient loss and the role of rainfall intensity in Mediterranean rainfed agroecosystems", "description": "Mediterranean environments are especially susceptible to soil erosion and to inappropriate soil management, leading to accelerated soil loss. Sustainable Land Management (SLM) practices (such as reduced tillage, no-tillage, cover crops, etc.,) have the potential to reduce soil, organic carbon (OC), and nutrient losses by erosion. However, the effectivity of these practices is site-dependent and varies under different rainfall conditions. The objective of this paper was to evaluate the effects of SLM practices   in two rainfed systems (a wheat field and an almond orchard) representative of a large area of the driest Mediterranean regions - on runoff, soil erosion, particle size distribution, and OC and nutrient (N and P) contents in sediments. The influence of the rainfall characteristics on the effectiveness of the SLM practices was also evaluated. The SLM implemented were: reduced tillage (RT) in the wheat field and almond orchard and reduced tillage combined with green manure (RTG) in the almond orchard; these were compared to conventional tillage, the usual practice in the area. Open erosion plots were set up to monitor the effects of SLM on soil carbon and nutrients and on soil erosion after each rainfall event over six years (2010 2016). The results show that the SLM practices evaluated resulted in increased organic carbon (OC) and nutrients (N and P) contents in the soil, and reduced runoff, erosion, and mobilization of organic carbon and nutrients in sediments. Reductions in runoff of 30% and 65% and decreases in erosion of 65 and 85% were found in the wheat field and almond orchards, respectively. In addition, the total OC, N, and P losses in the wheat field were reduced by 56%, 45%, and 64%, respectively, while in the almond field the OC, N, and P losses were reduced by 90% under RT and by 85% under RTG. The beneficial effect of the SLM practices on soil erosion was observed within 18 months of their implementation and continued throughout the six years of the study. Furthermore, the effectiveness of tillage reduction with respect to erosion control and carbon and nutrients mobilization was highest during the most intense rainfall events, which are responsible for the highest erosion rates in Mediterranean areas. Our results support the key role of SLM practices under semiarid conditions as useful tools for climate change mitigation and adaptation, given the expected increase in high-intensity rainfall events in semiarid areas. \u00a9 2019 The Authors This study site has been funded by several national (CYCIT AGL201125069//CICYT AGL2010-20941//CGL2013-42009-R//CGL2014-55-405-R), Regional (S\u00e9neca Foundation: 08757/PI/08//19350/PI/14), and European Commission H2020 (F6 DG RTD 037046 and Grant 728003, DIVERFARMING projects). Joris de Vente acknowledges support from a Ram\u00f3n y Cajal research grant (RYC-2012-10375) and Mar\u00eda Almagro was supported by the Juan de la Cierva Program (IJCI-2015-23500).", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Rainfed agroecosystems", "Green manure", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Soil fertility", "6. Clean water", "ddc:", "Tillage", "12. Responsible consumption", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Green manure | Organic carbon | Rainfed agroecosystems | Soil fertility | Tillage", "Organic carbon"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2019.104352"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/CATENA", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.catena.2019.104352", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.catena.2019.104352", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.catena.2019.104352"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-04-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1002/jpln.202000487", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:14:26Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-03-04", "title": "Oat, corncockle, and lupine growth affects resin\u2010extractable soil phosphorus and soil microbial properties differently#", "description": "AbstractBackground<p>Improved use of legacy phosphorus (P) in agricultural soils is requested to reduce the need for P fertilizers. Adapted use of cover crops (CCs) may be a promising tool to support this.</p>Aim<p>We estimated the P allocation to roots and shoots of oat (Avena sativa, cv Posedion), corncockle (Agrostemma githago), and lupine (Lupinus angustifolius, cv Iris) and their effect on soil enzyme activity, microbial community structure, and indices of plant\uffe2\uff80\uff90available soil\uffc2\uffa0P.</p>Methods<p>We grew the CCs in pots on soils with low\uffe2\uff80\uff90 and medium\uffe2\uff80\uff90P status. After 40\uffc2\uffa0days, we measured P, N, and C uptake in shoots and roots; soil microbial C, N, and P; and pH and inorganic P extracted with water (PH2O) and anion\uffe2\uff80\uff90exchange resins (Presin). Soil microbial activity and community structure were assessed by determining phosphomono\uffe2\uff80\uff90 and phosphodiesterase, \uffce\uffb2\uffe2\uff80\uff90glucosidase, and N\uffe2\uff80\uff90acetyl\uffe2\uff80\uff90glucosaminidase activity and by extraction of phospholipid and neutral lipid fatty acids (PLFAs and NFLAs).</p>Results<p>Corncockle and lupine took up similar amounts of P, but corncockle had an almost fourfold higher concentration of P. In the low\uffe2\uff80\uff90P soil, the activity of phosphomonoesterase and soil microbial biomass (total microbial PLFA) were higher after lupine. CCs did not affect PH2O, but after corncockle, Presin was reduced in the medium\uffe2\uff80\uff90P soil. Oat enhanced the presence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in soil.</p>Conclusions<p>Our results thus suggest that CC species with different P uptake and P uptake strategies can modify aspects in soil of potential importance for the P supply of the following main crop.</p", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "green manure", "PLFA", "mycorrhiza", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "nutrient cycling", "cover crops", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1002/jpln.202000487"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Plant%20Nutrition%20and%20Soil%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1002/jpln.202000487", "name": "item", "description": "10.1002/jpln.202000487", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1002/jpln.202000487"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-03-04T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1002/jpln.202100046", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:14:26Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-10-04", "title": "Effect of soil P status on barley growth, P uptake, and soil microbial properties after incorporation of cover crop shoot and root residues", "description": "AbstractBackground<p>Cover crops (CC) introduced to reduce leaching of nitrate may also improve soil microbial properties and phosphorus (P) uptake in crops that follow. These effects may depend on soil P status and the quality of the CC residues.</p>Aim<p>Our aim was to quantify the more persistent effects of incorporation of residues of three different CC species on barley growth and P uptake and whether any response in growth and P uptake was related to soil P status and changes in soil microbial properties.</p>Methods<p>We examined the impact of soil P status, CC species, and residue fraction (shoots and/or roots) on the growth of winter barley (Hordeum vulgare) and soil microbial properties. Shoot and root residues from three contrasting CC (oats, Avena sativa; corncockle, Agrostemma githago; lupine, Lupinus angustifolius) were incubated for 2 months in soil with low and medium P status. Dry matter yield and P offtake characterized effects of CC residues on barley while phospholipid fatty acids (PLFAs), neutral lipid fatty acids (NLFAs), and enzyme activity characterized soil microbial properties after barley harvest.</p>Results<p>Effects of shoot residues on barley yield and P offtake appeared neutral or positive and not affected by soil P status, while the effect of root residues appeared negative for medium P soil and neutral for low P soil. With lupine shoot biomass, however, barley yield and P offtake increased in both soils. Neither CC treatments nor soil P status affected the microbial community composition (bacterial and fungal specific PLFAs). Lupine roots increased phosphomonoesterase, and lupine residues generally stimulated microbial abundance (total microbial PLFAs) compared to other CC treatments.</p>Conclusion<p>We conclude that the effect of CC residues on the following crop and soil microorganisms depends on soil P status and that lupine had the largest positive impact on barley growth.</p", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "corncockle", "green manure", "13. Climate action", "lupine", "neutral lipid fatty acid", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "phospholipid fatty acid", "15. Life on land", "oat"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/jpln.202100046"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1002/jpln.202100046"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Plant%20Nutrition%20and%20Soil%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1002/jpln.202100046", "name": "item", "description": "10.1002/jpln.202100046", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1002/jpln.202100046"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-10-03T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.apsoil.2006.05.001", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:15:47Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2006-06-19", "title": "Influence Of Organic And Mineral Amendments On Microbial Soil Properties And Processes", "description": "Abstract   Microbial diversity in soils is considered important for maintaining sustainability of agricultural production systems. However, the links between microbial diversity and ecosystem processes are not well understood. This study was designed to gain better understanding of the effects of short-term management practices on the microbial community and how changes in the microbial community affect key soil processes. The effects of different forms of nitrogen (N) on soil biology and N dynamics was determined in two soils with organic and conventional management histories that varied in soil microbial properties but had the same fertility. The soils were amended with equal amounts of N (100\u00a0kg\u00a0ha\u22121) in organic (lupin, Lupinus angustifolius L.) and mineral form (urea), respectively. Over a 91-day period, microbial biomass C and N, dehydrogenase enzyme activity, community structure of pseudomondas (sensu stricto), actinomycetes and \u03b1 proteobacteria (by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) following PCR amplification of 16S rDNA fragments) and N mineralisation were measured. Lupin amendment resulted in a two- to five-fold increase in microbial biomass and enzyme activity, while these parameters did not differ significantly between the urea and control treatments. The PCR\u2013DGGE analysis showed that the addition of mineral and organic compounds had an influence on the microbial community composition in the short term (up to 10 days) but the effects were not sustained over the 91-day incubation period. Microbial community structure was strongly influenced by the presence or lack of substrate, while the type of amendment (organic or mineral) had an effect on microbial biomass size and activity. These findings show that the addition of green manures improved soil biology by increasing microbial biomass and activity irrespective of management history, that no direct relationship existed among microbial structure, enzyme activity and N mineralisation, and that microbial community structure (by PCR\u2013DGGE) was more strongly influenced by inherent soil and environmental factors than by short-term management practices.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "570", "ANZSRC::31 Biological sciences", "nitrogen mineralisation", "urea", "ANZSRC::30 Agricultural", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "630", "6. Clean water", "lupin (Lupinus angustifolius L.) green manure", "Marsden::300102 Soil biology", "veterinary and food sciences", "microbial community structure", "13. Climate action", "ANZSRC::41 Environmental sciences", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "DGGE", "organic and conventional farming practices"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2006.05.001"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Applied%20Soil%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.apsoil.2006.05.001", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.apsoil.2006.05.001", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.apsoil.2006.05.001"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2007-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s10021-008-9154-z", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:14:53Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2008-05-27", "title": "Reversibility Of Soil Productivity Decline With Organic Matter Of Differing Quality Along A Degradation Gradient", "description": "In the highlands of Western Kenya, we investigated the reversibility of soil productivity decline with increasing length of continuous maize cultivation over 100\u00a0years (corresponding to decreasing soil organic carbon (SOC) and nutrient contents) using organic matter additions of differing quality and stability as a function of soil texture and inorganic nitrogen (N) additions. The ability of additions of labile organic matter (green and animal manure) to improve productivity primarily by enhanced nutrient availability was contrasted with the ability of stable organic matter (biochar and sawdust) to improve productivity by enhancing SOC. Maize productivity declined by 66% during the first 35\u00a0years of continuous cropping after forest clearing. Productivity remained at a low level of 3.0\u00a0t\u00a0grain\u00a0ha-1 across the chronosequence stretching up to 105\u00a0years of continuous cultivation despite full N\u2013phosphorus (P)\u2013potassium (K) fertilization (120\u2013100\u2013100\u00a0kg ha\u22121). Application of organic resources reversed the productivity decline by increasing yields by 57\u2013167%, whereby responses to nutrient-rich green manure were 110% greater than those from nutrient-poor sawdust. Productivity at the most degraded sites (80\u2013105\u00a0years since forest clearing) increased in response to green manure to a greater extent than the yields at the least degraded sites (5\u00a0years since forest clearing), both with full N\u2013P\u2013K fertilization. Biochar additions at the most degraded sites doubled maize yield (equaling responses to green manure additions in some instances) that were not fully explained by nutrient availability, suggesting improvement of factors other than plant nutrition. There was no detectable influence of texture (soils with either 11\u201314 or 45\u201349% clay) when low quality organic matter was applied (sawdust, biochar), whereas productivity was 8, 15, and 39% greater (P\u00a0<\u00a00.05) on sandier than heavier textured soils with high quality organic matter (green and animal manure) or only inorganic nutrient additions, respectively. Across the entire degradation range, organic matter additions decreased the need for additional inorganic fertilizer N irrespective of the quality of the organic matter. For low quality organic resources (biochar and sawdust), crop yields were increasingly responsive to inorganic N fertilization with increasing soil degradation. On the other hand, fertilizer N additions did not improve soil productivity when high quality organic inputs were applied. Even with the tested full N\u2013P\u2013K fertilization, adding organic matter to soil was required for restoring soil productivity and most effective in the most degraded sites through both nutrient delivery (with green manure) and improvement of SOC (with biochar).", "keywords": ["Soil nutrients", "2. Zero hunger", "Soil management", "Soil organic matter", "Chronosequence", "Sustainable agriculture", "Green manure crops", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Soil fertility", "Soil degradation", "Soil productivity", "Soil erosion", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Biochar addition", "Clay concentration", "Agroecosystems", "Field Scale"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-008-9154-z"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecosystems", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s10021-008-9154-z", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s10021-008-9154-z", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s10021-008-9154-z"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2008-05-28T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1007/s11104-011-0940-6", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:15:15Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2011-08-09", "title": "The Effect Of Catch Crop Species On Selenium Availability For Succeeding Crops", "description": "Selenium (Se) is an essential nutrient for humans and animals. In order to ensure an optimal concentration of Se in crops, Se fertilisers are applied. Catch crops may be an alternative way to increase Se concentrations in vegetables. Three experiments in Denmark between 2007\u201310 investigated the ability of catch crops (Italian ryegrass, fodder radish and hairy vetch) under different fertiliser regimes to reduce soil Se content in the autumn and to increase its availability in spring to the succeeding crop. The catch crops (Italian ryegrass and fodder radish) increased water-extractable Se content in the 0.25\u20130.75\u00a0m soil layer in only one of the experiments. Selenium uptake by the catch crops varied between 65 and 3263\u00a0mg\u00a0ha\u22121, depending on species, year and fertilisation treatment; this corresponded to 0.1\u20133.0% of the water-extractable soil Se content. The influence of catch crops on Se concentrations and uptake in onions and cabbage was low. There was a decrease in Se uptake and recovery of applied Se by onions following catch crops, which might indicate Se immobilisation during catch crop decomposition.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "onions (Allium cepa L.)", "Green manure", "Soil Science", "Plant Science", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Cabbage", "Leaching", "Farm nutrient management", "Cover crop", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "mineralization"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-011-0940-6"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1007/s11104-011-0940-6", "name": "item", "description": "10.1007/s11104-011-0940-6", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1007/s11104-011-0940-6"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2011-08-10T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.apsoil.2017.09.041", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:15:51Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-11-20", "title": "Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea Are More Sensitive Than Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria To Long-Term Application Of Green Manure In Red Paddy Soil", "description": "Abstract   Growing winter green manure is an effective method for improving nitrogen (N) management in paddy fields to enhance rice production. Ammonia oxidization is a key process in N cycling in these soils, but effects of green manuring on ammonia oxidizers have not been fully addressed for red paddy soils. The objective of this study was to investigate long-term impacts of winter green manure on abundance and diversity of ammonia oxidizers in rice paddy soils of Southern China. The field experiment established in 1982 included four treatments: rice-rice-winter fallow (RRF), rice-rice-ryegrass (RRG), rice\u2013rice\u2013rape (RRP) and rice\u2013rice\u2013milk vetch (RRV). The abundance and diversity of amoA genes from ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) and bacteria (AOB) were quantified using quantitative PCR and 454 pyrosequencing, respectively. The AOA were more abundant than AOB in red paddy soils, with ratios of AOA to AOB from 36 to 1686. Long-term application of milk vetch increased the abundance of both AOA and AOB after green manures were incorporated. Some of the relative abundances of most abundant operational taxonomic units (OTUs) of AOA increased and others decreased after application of green manures, while most abundant OTUs of AOB remained unaffected. Redundancy analysis (RDA) found a clear separation between milk vetch and winter fallow, indicating that the community structure of AOA was influenced by application of milk vetch. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the most dominant OTUs of AOA and AOB were affiliated with Nitrososphaera and Nitrosospira, respectively. In conclusion, in red paddy soil, long-term application of milk vetch increased the abundances of AOA and AOB after incorporated. Moreover, long-term application of green manures had more profound influences on AOA community than on AOB in red paddy soils.", "keywords": ["Ammonia-oxidizing bacteria", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "03 medical and health sciences", "Paddy soil", "Green manure", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "Ammonia-oxidizing archaea"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Key Laboratory of Plant Nutrition and Fertilizer, Ministry of Agriculture/Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China ( host institution ), Gao, Songjuan ( author ), Cao, Weidong ( author ), Zou, Chunqin ( author ), Gao, Jusheng ( author ), Huang, Jing ( author ), Bai, Jinshun ( author ), Zeng, Naohua ( author ), Shimizu, Katsu-yoshi ( author ), Wright, Alan ( UF author ), Dou, Fugen ( author ),", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2017.09.041"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Applied%20Soil%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.apsoil.2017.09.041", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.apsoil.2017.09.041", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.apsoil.2017.09.041"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.agsy.2004.09.005", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:15:43Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2004-12-13", "title": "On Farm Testing Of Integrated Nutrient Management Strategies In Eastern Uganda", "description": "Abstract   This paper reports on a Participatory Learning and Action Research (PLAR) process that was initiated in three villages in eastern Uganda in September 1999 to enable small-scale farmers to reverse nutrient depletion of their soils profitably by increasing their capacity to develop, adapt and use integrated natural resource management strategies. The PLAR process was also used to improve the participatory skills and tools of research and extension personnel to support this process. The farming systems of the area were characterised for socio-economic and biophysical conditions that included social organisations, wealth categories, gender, crop, soil, agro forestry and livestock production. Farmers identified soil fertility constraints, their indicators, and causes of soil fertility decline, and suggested strategies to address the problem of soil fertility decline. Soil fertility management diversity among households indicated that most farmers were not carrying out any improved soil fertility management practices, despite previous research and dissemination in the area. Following the diagnosis stage and exposure visits to other farmer groups working on integrated soil fertility projects, the farmers designed 11 experiments for on-farm testing. One hundred and twenty farmers then chose, for participatory technology development, sub-sets of these 11 experiments, based on the major agricultural constraints and the potential solutions identified and prioritised by the farmers. Quantitative and qualitative results from the testing, farmer evaluation and adaptation, training, dissemination strategies and socio-economic implications of these technologies are discussed.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "soil chemicophysical properties", "soil fertility", "yields", "1. No poverty", "fertilizer application", "esti\u00e9rcol", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "fertilidad del suelo", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "tillage", "propiedades f\u00edsico - qu\u00edmicas suelo", "gender", "manejo del suelo", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "farmyard manure", "green manures", "abonos verdes", "soil management", "aplicaci\u00f3n de abonos", "rendimiento", "on-farm research", "investigaci\u00f3n en la finca", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Esilaba, Anthony O., Byalebeka, J.B., Delve, Robert J., Okalebo, JR, Ssenyange, D, Mbalule, M, Ssali, H.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2004.09.005"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agricultural%20Systems", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.agsy.2004.09.005", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.agsy.2004.09.005", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.agsy.2004.09.005"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2005-11-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.ejsobi.2018.05.008", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:16:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-06-11", "title": "Archaea Are The Predominant And Responsive Ammonia Oxidizing Prokaryotes In A Red Paddy Soil Receiving Green Manures", "description": "Abstract   Application of green manures is an effective approach to optimizing N management in paddy soils. Nitrification is a key process in the N cycle and ammonia oxidization is the first and typically limiting step in nitrification. In this study, we investigated the changes of ammonium oxidizing prokaryotes after the application of green manure in a red paddy soil using pot experiments. The experiment included four treatments; milk vetch-rice, radish-rice, ryegrass-rice and winter fallow-rice. The nitrification potential was measured, and the abundance and community of amoA genes from ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) and bacteria (AOB) were quantified. The results showed that the AOA to AOB ratios ranged from 7 to 80, and that the milk vetch treatment increased the abundances of AOA and AOB. The abundance of AOA showed negative correlations with nitrification potential and NH4+-N, and positive correlation with soil pH in the acidic red paddy soil. DNA sequence analyses revealed that the Nitrososphaera and Nitrosospira were the dominant clusters of AOA and AOB, respectively. The dominant clusters of AOA were significantly changed by utilization of green manures, especially radish. Partial least squares path modeling analysis showed that green manures exerted larger effects on the abundances of AOA than on AOB, and the community structure of AOA had the strongest effect on nitrification potential. The high abundance of AOA found in this study and their responsiveness to green manuring suggests that AOA are critically important for soil ammonia oxidation in these soils and more sensitive to green manuring than AOB.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Driving factors", "Green manure", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Nitrification potential", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "Ammonia-oxidizing archaea", "Red paddy soil"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2018.05.008"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/European%20Journal%20of%20Soil%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.ejsobi.2018.05.008", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.ejsobi.2018.05.008", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2018.05.008"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-07-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.fcr.2011.11.011", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:16:17Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2011-12-14", "title": "Long-Term Effect Of Different Integrated Nutrient Management On Soil Organic Carbon And Its Fractions And Sustainability Of Rice\u2013Wheat System In Indo Gangetic Plains Of India", "description": "Abstract   Rice\u2013wheat rotation is the most important cropping system of the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) and is responsible for the food security of the region. The effect of different integrated nutrient management practices on soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks and its fractions, SOC sequestration potential as well as the sustainability of the rice\u2013wheat system were evaluated in long term experiments at different agro-climatic zones of IGP. Application of NPK either through inorganic fertilizers or through combination of inorganic fertilizer and organics such as farm yard manure (FYM) or crop residue or green manure improved the SOC, particulate organic carbon (POC), microbial biomass carbon (MBC) concentration and their sequestration rate. Application of 50% NPK\u00a0+\u00a050%\u00a0N through FYM in rice and 100% NPK in wheat, sequestered 0.39, 0.50, 0.51 and 0.62\u00a0Mg\u00a0C\u00a0ha\u22121\u00a0yr\u22121 over control (no N\u2013P\u2013K fertilizers or organics), respectively at Ludhiana, Kanpur, Sabour and Kalyani using the mass of SOC in the control treatment as reference point. Soil carbon sequestration with response to application of fertilizer partially substituted (50% on N basis) with organics were higher in Kalyani and Sabour lying in humid climate than Ludhiana and Kanpur lying in semiarid climate. The rice yield recorded a significant declining trend in Ludhiana and Kanpur where as the yield trend was stable at Sabour and Kalyani under unfertilized control. The system productivity in N\u2013P\u2013K fertilized plots and NPK along with organics showed either an increasing trend or remained stable at all locations during last two and half decades of the experiment.", "keywords": ["Carbon sequestration", "2. Zero hunger", "Kanpur", "Soil organic carbon", "Indo-Gangetic Plains", "Kalyani", "Nutrient management", "India", "Green manure", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "12. 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Intensive use of machinery and tillage creates heavy pressure on agroecosystems by altering the soil physicochemical and biological characteristics. In this study we aimed to assess the changes in soil physicochemical properties and the soil bacterial community structure, as well as the main drivers involved in shifts in the microbial community following 10 years implementing reduced tillage and reduced tillage plus green manure in a rainfed Mediterranean almond orchard. The treatments were: i) conventional tillage (CT); ii) reduced tillage (RT); and iii) reduced tillage and diversification with Avena sativa and Vicia sativa (RTD). After ten years, the results showed that the different managements had no significant effect on almond yields. RTD significantly increased total organic carbon (TOC), with an average content of 19.5 g kg\u22121 compared to 17.1 g kg\u22121 in CT. RTD also contributed to an increase in the fraction of soil macro-aggregates. Both RT and RTD significantly increased soil total nitrogen (NT) and particulate organic carbon (POC). However, other physical and chemical variables such as exchangeable Ca, Mg and K, bioavailable Fe, Cu, Zn and Mn, cation exchange capacity, bulk density, wilting point and field capacity were not significantly affected by the management. The bacterial community significantly changed with management: RTD showed a higher relative abundance of the family Solirubrobacteraceae and the genera Streptomyces and Solirubrobacter. The bacterial community structure was explained by changes in TOC, POC, pH, and NT values. Thus, a combination of reduced tillage and green manure could represent an appropriate sustainable management for rainfed almond orchards in very fragile environmental conditions, due to an increase in soil organic matter, total nitrogen, and the higher presence of beneficial bacteria related to soil productivity.", "keywords": ["2. 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Responsible consumption"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2022.116218"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Geoderma", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.geoderma.2022.116218", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.geoderma.2022.116218", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.geoderma.2022.116218"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.03.059", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:16:41Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-04-19", "title": "The value of manure - Manure as co-product in life cycle assessment", "description": "Livestock production is important for food security, nutrition, and landscape maintenance, but it is associated with several environmental impacts. To assess the risk and benefits arising from livestock production, transparent and robust indicators are required, such as those offered by life cycle assessment. A central question in such approaches is how environmental burden is allocated to livestock products and to manure that is re-used for agricultural production. To incentivize sustainable use of manure, it should be considered as a co-product as long as it is not disposed of, or wasted, or applied in excess of crop nutrient needs, in which case it should be treated as a waste. This paper proposes a theoretical approach to define nutrient requirements based on nutrient response curves to economic and physical optima and a pragmatic approach based on crop nutrient yield adjusted for nutrient losses to atmosphere and water. Allocation of environmental burden to manure and other livestock products is then based on the nutrient value from manure for crop production using the price of fertilizer nutrients. We illustrate and discuss the proposed method with two case studies.", "keywords": ["[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]", "assessment", "resource", "01 natural sciences", "630", "nitrogen", "Fertilizer", "allocation", "life cycle", "manures", "Feeds and feeding. Animal nutrition", "farmyard manure", "Housing and environmental control", "2. Zero hunger", "ta412", "Agriculture and the environment", "Agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "fertilizer", "Crop Production", "[SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio]", "Livestock supply chains", "green manures", "Fertilisers", "performance", "energy", "Livestock", "330", "fertilizers", "Allocation", "ta1172", "Environmental Sciences & Ecology", "333", "Article", "soil", "12. Responsible consumption", "nutrient use", "Life cycle assessment", "life cycle assessment", "livestock supply chains", "nutrients", "Animals", "livestock production", "alocation", "Fertilizers", "Rangelands. Range management. 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Climate action", "manure", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "protein"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.03.059"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Environmental%20Management", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.03.059", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.03.059", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.03.059"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-07-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.scienta.2019.108978", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:16:52Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-11-19", "title": "Carbon emissions and economic assessment of farm operations under different tillage practices in organic rainfed almond orchards in semiarid Mediterranean conditions", "description": "Open AccessThis study was supported by the European Commission H2020 (Grant 728003, DIVERFARMING Project), Fundaci\u00f3n S\u00e9neca-Agencia de Ciencia y Tecnolog\u00eda de la Regi\u00f3n de Murcia (Grant 08757/PI/08/19350/PI/14; DECADE Project Grant 20917/PI/18) and by the Agencia Estatal de Investigaci\u00f3n (Grant CGL2014-55-405-R)", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts", "Green manure", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Carbon footprint", "7. Clean energy", "12. Responsible consumption", "Climate change mitigation", "13. Climate action", "11. Sustainability", "Reduced tillage", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Farm profitability", "http://metadata.un.org/sdg/13", "Rainfed agriculture"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scienta.2019.108978"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Scientia%20Horticulturae", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.scienta.2019.108978", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.scienta.2019.108978", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.scienta.2019.108978"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-02-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.still.2003.08.007", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:17:11Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2004-01-27", "title": "Change In Carbon And Nitrogen Stocks In Soil Under 13 Years Of Conventional Or Zero Tillage In Southern Brazil", "description": "The objective of this study was to determine in a long-term experiment (13 years) the effect of three different crop rotations (R1: wheat (Triticum aestivum)\u2013soybean (Glycine max), R2: wheat\u2013soybean\u2013vetch (Vicia villosa)\u2013maize (Zea mays), and R3: wheat\u2013soybean\u2013oat (Avena sativa)\u2013soybean\u2013vetch\u2013maize) under zero tillage (ZT) and conventional tillage (CT) on the stocks of soil organic matter (SOM) in a clayey Oxisol soil of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul. At the end of 13 years, soil samples were taken to a depth of 100 cm, and analysed for bulk density, chemical composition and 13 C natural abundance. Under a continuous sequence of wheat (winter) and soybean (summer) the stock of soil organic C to 100 cm depth under ZT (168 Mg ha \u22121 ) was not significantly different (LSD at P = 0.05 of 11 Mg ha \u22121 ) to that under CT (168 Mg ha \u22121 ). However, in the rotations with vetch planted as a winter green-manure crop (R2 and R3), soil C stocks were approximately 17 Mg ha \u22121 higher under ZT than under CT. Between 46 and 68% of this difference occurred at 30\u201385 cm depth. The 13 C abundance data indicated that under ZT the decomposition of the original native SOM was not affected by the different composition of crops in the different rotations, but under CT the rotations R2 and R3, which included vetch and maize, stimulated the decay of the original native SOM compared to the continuous wheat/soybean sequence (R1). It appears that the contribution of N2 fixation by the leguminous green manure (vetch) in the cropping system was the principal factor responsible for the observed C accumulation in the soil under ZT, and that most accumulated C was derived from crop roots. \u00a9 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.", "keywords": ["Carbon sequestration", "Soil nutrients", "2. Zero hunger", "Soil management", "Soil organic matter", "Carbon-13", "Green manure crops", "Agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Crop rotations", "01 natural sciences", "Soil quality", "Zero tillage", "Soil", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Field Scale", "Conservation tillage", "Tillage methods", "Brazil", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Sisti, C. P. J., dos Santos, H. P., Kohhann, R., Alves, B. J. R., Urquiaga, S., Boddey, R. M.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.still.2003.08.007"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Soil%20and%20Tillage%20Research", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.still.2003.08.007", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.still.2003.08.007", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.still.2003.08.007"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2004-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1017/s001447970400211x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-07-25T16:17:26Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2004-10-14", "title": "Incorporating Short-Season Legumes And Green Manure Crops Into Maize-Based Systems In The Moist Guinea Savanna Of West Africa", "description": "<p>A three-year trial was conducted on a degraded soil in the moist Guinea savanna of northern Nigeria to assess the possibility of improving productivity and economic viability of maize-based systems by incorporating short-season legumes and green manure crops into the cropping pattern. Treatments included double cropping legume-maize systems, full-season sole maize receiving various amounts of nitrogen, green manure crop mucuna (Mucuna pruriens var. utilis) followed by sole maize and a legume-maize system receiving additional rice mill waste. In comparison with full-season maize, the use of early-season cowpea followed by maize improved productivity as well as economic returns of the cropping system, while the use of mucuna, grown as an early-season crop or full-season crop, resulted in poor overall productivity of the system. The addition of rice mill waste as a soil amendment in cowpea\uffe2\uff80\uff93maize systems stimulated maize yields and rice mill waste can form a cheap source of organic inputs for farmers living nearby rice mills. Given the limited growing season of the northern Guinea savanna, it is concluded that timing of field operations is crucial for the successful application of double cropping systems. In addition, high labour requirements are a serious constraint for wide-scale adoption of double cropping systems by small-scale farmers, stressing the need to reduce soil cultivation operations, for example by maintaining a uniform ridge distance for all crops in the rotation.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "green manures", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "cropping patterns", "15. Life on land", "maize", "cowpeas", "nigeria"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Franke, A., Schulz, S., Oyewole, B., Bako, S.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1017/s001447970400211x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Experimental%20Agriculture", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1017/s001447970400211x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1017/s001447970400211x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1017/s001447970400211x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2004-10-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1023/a:1004873206350", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:17:34Z", "type": "Journal Article", "description": "Open AccessUsing a three year trial in Nigeria, this article examines the effectiveness of leguminous cover crops on maize yield in West Africa. Testing multiple types of cover crops, the study universally demonstrates the cover crops conserve nitrogen and result in improvements for maize yield in both drier and wetter years. While the cover crop was more effective in improving nitrogen in wetter conditions, yields still improved during the drier year with the cover crop.", "keywords": ["Soil nutrients", "Soil management", "fertilizers", "Conservation agriculture", "Nitrogen concentration", "legumes", "trials", "Green manure crops", "crops", "Soil fertility", "Soil quality", "Biomass production", "Legume cover crops", "Soil conservation", "Nitrogen fertilizer replacement index", "West Africa", "Maize yield", "Field Scale"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Tian, G., Kolawole, G.O., Kang, B.T., Kirchhof, G.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1004873206350"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plant%20and%20Soil", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1023/a:1004873206350", "name": "item", "description": "10.1023/a:1004873206350", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1023/a:1004873206350"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2000-09-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1023/a:1006234523163", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:17:34Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2002-12-22", "description": "Researchers worked with farmers in eastern Uganda to develop alternatives for soil management using crotalaria (Crotalaria ochroleuca), mucuna (Mucuna pruriens var. utilis), lablab (Dolichos lablab), and canavalia (Canavalia ensiformis) as green manures in short-term fallows. The participatory research was part of a community-based approach for systems improvement. Grain yields of maize (Zea mays) and bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) following one season of crotalaria fallow were 41% and 43%, respectively, more than following a two-season weedy fallow. Grain yields of maize following a one-season fallow with mucuna and lablab were 60% and 50% higher, respectively, as compared with maize following maize. Maize and bean yield were more, although effects were small, during the second and third subsequent seasons, indicating probable residual effects of the green manures. Mucuna and lablab were successfully produced by intersowing into maize at three weeks after sowing maize, although the yields of the associated maize crop were reduced by 24% to 28%. Farmers estimated the labor requirements for mucuna and lablab to be less than for crotalaria. Farmers independently experimented on how these species can be integrated into banana (Musa spp.), coffee (Coffea robusta), sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas), and cassava (Manihot esculenta) production systems. Farmers reported that the beneficial effects of the green manures included higher food-crop yields; weed suppression; improved soil fertility, soil moisture, and soil tilth; and erosion control. Mucuna and lablab were preferred because of reduced labor requirements and increased net benefits compared with continuous cropping. Farmer participation in the green manure research resulted in efficient generation and adaptation of green manure technology now being promoted in eastern and central Uganda.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "soil fertility", "manihot esculenta", "lablad purpureus", "yields", "phaseolus vulgaris", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "fertilidad del suelo", "15. Life on land", "feed crops", "mucuna pruriens", "zea mays", "canavalia ensiformis", "manejo del suelo", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "green manures", "abonos verdes", "soil management", "rendimiento"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Fischler, MA, Wortmann, Charles S.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1006234523163"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agroforestry%20Systems", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1023/a:1006234523163", "name": "item", "description": "10.1023/a:1006234523163", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1023/a:1006234523163"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "1999-12-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1023/b:fres.0000019457.43677.08", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:17:39Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2004-03-15", "title": "Using Mucuna And P Fertilizer To Increase Maize Grain Yield And N Fertilizer Use Efficiency In The Coastal Savanna Of Togo", "description": "To reduce severe soil degradation associated with agriculture an intensified land-use system is being promoted in West African countries. Most soils of the West African savanna zones are so poor that the efficiency of mineral fertilizers, if applied, is very low. For this reason and because of their high cost and unavailability, many small-scale farmers are reluctant to apply fertilizer. This work investigates a fertilizer management strategy using integrated soil fertility management with a leguminous cover crop (mucuna) so as to improve the soil fertility and increase the use efficiency of fertilizer. The experiment was conducted in the coastal savanna of Togo at Djaka Kope. The aim was to evaluate the effectiveness of mucuna short fallow (MSF) in increasing maize grain yield through an improved use efficiency of mineral fertilizer. A 2-year maize\u2013mucuna relay intercropping system was compared with continuous sole maize cropping. Fertilizer treatments were factorial combinations of 0, 50 and 100 kg nitrogen (N) ha\u20131 and 0, 20 and 40 kg phosphorus (P) ha\u20131. While maize grain yield was significantly increased by N fertilization, P did not show any important effect on grain yield. With no N and P applied, grain yield after MSF was on average 40% (572 kg ha\u20131) higher than without. The response to N was much greater than the response to MSF, indicating that N was undoubtedly the key element for maize yield building. P fertilization and MSF together positively influenced the apparent N recovery fraction (NRF). N uptake alone did not reflect on its own the yield obtained, and the relationship between grain yield and N uptake is shifted by MSF, with the grain yield increase per unit of N uptake being higher with than without MSF. Combining MSF and P fertilization may therefore lead to improved N use efficiency, making the application of fertilizer N (lower rates) more attractive to small-scale farmers.", "keywords": ["Soil nutrients", "0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Soil management", "Cover cropping", "Small-scale farming", "Green manure crops", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Soil fertility", "Mucuna", "01 natural sciences", "Coastal savanna", "Farm/Enterprise Scale", "Togo", "Fallow", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Mineral fertilizers"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Fofana, B., Breman, H., Carsky, R. J., Van Reuler, H., Tamelokpo, A., Gnakpenou, K.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1023/b:fres.0000019457.43677.08"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Nutrient%20Cycling%20in%20Agroecosystems", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1023/b:fres.0000019457.43677.08", "name": "item", "description": "10.1023/b:fres.0000019457.43677.08", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1023/b:fres.0000019457.43677.08"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2004-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/gcb.14644", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:18:45Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-04-07", "title": "A critical review of the impacts of cover crops on nitrogen leaching, net greenhouse gas balance and crop productivity", "description": "Abstract<p>Cover crops play an increasingly important role in improving soil quality, reducing agricultural inputs and improving environmental sustainability. The main objectives of this critical global review and systematic analysis were to assess cover crop practices in the context of their impacts on nitrogen leaching, net greenhouse gas balances (NGHGB) and crop productivity. Only studies that investigated the impacts of cover crops and measured one or a combination of nitrogen leaching, soil organic carbon (SOC), nitrous oxide (N2O), grain yield and nitrogen in grain of primary crop, and had a control treatment were included in the analysis. Long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term studies were uncommon, with most data coming from studies lasting 2\uffe2\uff80\uff933\uffc2\uffa0years. The literature search resulted in 106 studies carried out at 372 sites and covering different countries, climatic zones and management. Our analysis demonstrates that cover crops significantly (p\uffc2\uffa0&lt;\uffc2\uffa00.001) decreased N leaching and significantly (p\uffc2\uffa0&lt;\uffc2\uffa00.001) increased SOC sequestration without having significant (p\uffc2\uffa0&gt;\uffc2\uffa00.05) effects on direct N2O emissions. Cover crops could mitigate the NGHGB by 2.06\uffc2\uffa0\uffc2\uffb1\uffc2\uffa02.10\uffc2\uffa0Mg CO2\uffe2\uff80\uff90eq\uffc2\uffa0ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921\uffc2\uffa0year\uffe2\uff88\uff921. One of the potential disadvantages of cover crops identified was the reduction in grain yield of the primary crop by \uffe2\uff89\uff884%, compared to the control treatment. This drawback could be avoided by selecting mixed cover crops with a range of legumes and non\uffe2\uff80\uff90legumes, which increased the yield by \uffe2\uff89\uff8813%. These advantages of cover crops justify their widespread adoption. However, management practices in relation to cover crops will need to be adapted to specific soil, management and regional climatic conditions.</p>", "keywords": ["Crops", " Agricultural", "net greenhouse gas balance", "330", "Supplementary Data", "Nitrogen", "QH301 Biology", "Supplementary data available", "12. Responsible consumption", "Nitrous oxide emissions", "QH301", "Greenhouse Gases", "Soil", "N content", "nitrate", "C sequestration", "N leaching", "Environmental Chemistry", "General Environmental Science", "NE/M019691/1", "2. Zero hunger", "Global and Planetary Change", "Catch crop", "Ecology", "Soil organic carbon", "green manure", "Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)", "Research Review", "Agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "yield", "Crop Production", "13. Climate action", "N in grain", "Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)", "Cover crop", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "BB/N013484/1", "BB/N013468/1"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14644"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Global%20Change%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/gcb.14644", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/gcb.14644", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/gcb.14644"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-05-13T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1080/09064710.2014.919347", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:18:18Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-06-05", "title": "Summer Fallow Soil Management - Impact On Rainfed Winter Wheat", "description": "Summer fallow soil management is an important approach to improve soil and crop management in dryland areas. In the Loess Plateau regions, the annual precipitation is low and varies annually and seasonally, with more than 60% concentrated in the summer months from July to September, which is the summer fallow period in the winter wheat-summer fallow cropping system. With bare fallow in summer as a control, a 3-year location-fixed field experiment was conducted in the Loess Plateau to investigate the effects of wheat straw retention (SR), green manure (GM) planting, and their combination on soil water retention (WR) during summer fallow, winter wheat yield, and crop water use and nitrogen (N) uptake. The results showed that SR increased soil WR during summer fallow by 20 mm on average compared with the control over 3 experimental years but reduced the grain yield by 8% in the third year and the grain N content by 6\u201315% in all 3 years. In contrast, GM planting markedly reduced soil WR by 16 mm and 33 mm in ...", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "dryland soil", "green manure", "nitrate nitrogen", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "straw retention", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "water retention"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1080/09064710.2014.919347"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Acta%20Agriculturae%20Scandinavica%2C%20Section%20B%20%E2%80%94%20Soil%20%26amp%3B%20Plant%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1080/09064710.2014.919347", "name": "item", "description": "10.1080/09064710.2014.919347", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1080/09064710.2014.919347"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-06-05T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/j.1475-2743.2004.tb00363.x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:19:00Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-08-05", "title": "Effect Of A Legume Cover Crop (Mucuna Pruriens Var. Utilis) On Soil Carbon In An Ultisol Under Maize Cultivation In Southern Benin", "description": "<p>Abstract.  Long term fallow is no longer possible in densely populated tropical areas, but legume cover crops can help maintain soil fertility. Our work aimed to study changes in soil carbon in a sandy loam Ultisol in Benin, which involved a 12\uffe2\uff80\uff90year experiment on three maize cropping systems under manual tillage: traditional no\uffe2\uff80\uff90input cultivation (T), mineral fertilized cultivation (NPK), and association with Mucuna pruriens (M). The origin of soil carbon was also determined through the natural abundance of soil and biomass 13C. In T, NPK and M changes in soil carbon at 0\uffe2\uff80\uff9340 cm were \uffe2\uff88\uff920.2, +0.2 and +1.3 t C ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921, with residue carbon amounting to 3.5, 6.4 and 10.0 t C ha\uffe2\uff88\uff921 yr\uffe2\uff88\uff921, respectively. After 12 years of experimentation, carbon originating from maize in litter\uffe2\uff80\uff90plus\uffe2\uff80\uff90soil (0\uffe2\uff80\uff9340 cm) represented less than 4% of both total carbon and overall maize residue carbon. In contrast, carbon originating from mucuna in litter\uffe2\uff80\uff90plus\uffe2\uff80\uff90soil represented more than 50% of both total carbon and overall mucuna residue carbon in M, possibly due to accelerated mineralization of native soil carbon (priming effect) and slow mulch decomposition. Carbon originating from weeds in litter\uffe2\uff80\uff90plus\uffe2\uff80\uff90soil represented c. 10% of both total carbon and overall weed residue carbon in T and NPK. Thus mucuna mulch was very effective in promoting carbon sequestration in the soil studied.</p>", "keywords": ["Soil nutrients", "Carbon sequestration", "13C natural abundance", "[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "Soil management", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7170", "Npk", "SOL CULTIVE", "F08 - Syst\u00e8mes et modes de culture", "Soil fertility", "Zea mays", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_875", "630", "plante de couverture", "Legume cover crops", "Benin", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1301", "legume cover crop", "Mucuna pruriens", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_4971", "ANALYSE STATISTIQUE", "580", "LEGUMINEUSE TROPICALE", "Acrisol", "2. Zero hunger", "Tropical zones", "mucuna", "BIOMASSE", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1936", "P35 - Fertilit\u00e9 du sol", "Green manure crops", "RESIDU VEGETAL", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_101", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Mucuna", "Soil carbon", "CARBONE ORGANIQUE", "soil organic carbon", "STOCK ORGANIQUE", "fertilit\u00e9 du sol", "MAIS", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_8504", "Farm/Enterprise Scale", "[SDE]Environmental Sciences", "FERTILISATION DU SOL", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "carbone"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-2743.2004.tb00363.x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Soil%20Use%20and%20Management", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/j.1475-2743.2004.tb00363.x", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/j.1475-2743.2004.tb00363.x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/j.1475-2743.2004.tb00363.x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2004-06-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/jam.13606", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:19:05Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-10-09", "title": "Soil Microbiota Respond To Green Manure In Organic Vineyards", "description": "The aim of this work was to investigate the effects of biodynamic management with and without the addition of green manure, in comparison with organic management, on the microbiota in vineyards soil.High throughput sequencing was used to compare the taxonomic structure of the soil bacterial and fungal communities from vineyards managed with different methods (organic, biodynamic or biodynamic with green manure). Our results showed that microbial communities associated with biodynamic and organic farming systems were very similar, while green manure was the greatest source of soil microbial biodiversity and significantly changed microbial richness and community composition compared with other soils. Green manure also significantly enriched bacterial taxa involved in the soil nitrogen cycle (e.g. Microvirga sp., Pontibacter sp. and Nitrospira sp.).Our results showed that the diversity and composition of the microbial communities associated with biodynamic and organic farming systems were similar, indicating that the use of biodynamic preparations 500 and 501 did not cause any significant detectable changes to the soil microbial community in the short term, while the effects of green manure were significant in soil microbiota.The microbiological richness and structure of soil are used as a sensitive indicator of soil quality. The extension of organic/biodynamic farming, associated with green manure application, could contribute to increase the abundance of functional groups of biological and agronomical relevance and maintaining microbial biodiversity in vineyard soils.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "570", "Microbial diversity", "Organic Agriculture", "0303 health sciences", "bacteria; biodynamic vineyard; fungi; green manure; microbial community structure; microbial diversity; organic vineyard; soil microbiology; soil vineyard", "Microbiota", "Green manure", "Microbial community structure", "Biodiversity", "15. Life on land", "630", "Manure", "Soil vineyard", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "Soil microbiology", "13. Climate action", "Settore AGR/16 - MICROBIOLOGIA AGRARIA", "Vitis", "Soil Microbiology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://iris.unitn.it/bitstream/11572/283669/1/jam.13606.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/jam.13606"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Applied%20Microbiology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/jam.13606", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/jam.13606", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/jam.13606"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-11-03T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1590/s0100-06832006000200006", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:19:49Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2006-08-02", "title": "Biomassa Microbiana E Mat\u00e9ria Org\u00e2nica Leve Em Solos Sob Sistemas Agr\u00edcolas Org\u00e2nico E Convencional Na Chapada Da Ibiapaba - Ce", "description": "<p>Em muitos casos, a substitui\uffc3\uffa7\uffc3\uffa3o da vegeta\uffc3\uffa7\uffc3\uffa3o nativa por sistemas agr\uffc3\uffadcolas resulta em decr\uffc3\uffa9scimo nos conte\uffc3\uffbados de C e N nos diferentes compartimentos da mat\uffc3\uffa9ria org\uffc3\uffa2nica do solo. Para testar se as pr\uffc3\uffa1ticas de manejo que priorizam o aporte de res\uffc3\uffadduos org\uffc3\uffa2nicos promovem aumento dos compartimentos da mat\uffc3\uffa9ria org\uffc3\uffa2nica mais sens\uffc3\uffadveis ao manejo, este estudo se prop\uffc3\uffb4s estudar \uffc3\uffa1reas de uma propriedade que utiliza um sistema de produ\uffc3\uffa7\uffc3\uffa3o de acerola em larga escala, sob manejo org\uffc3\uffa2nico, e uma \uffc3\uffa1rea sob cultivo convencional de cenoura e beterraba em rota\uffc3\uffa7\uffc3\uffa3o com milho, pertencentes \uffc3\uffa0 Fazenda Amway Nutrilite do Brasil e \uffc3\uffa0 Associa\uffc3\uffa7\uffc3\uffa3o de Horticultores do Pivot Central, respectivamente, ambas localizadas na regi\uffc3\uffa3o da Chapada da Ibiapaba, Cear\uffc3\uffa1. Selecionou-se, tamb\uffc3\uffa9m, uma \uffc3\uffa1rea de pastagem localizada no interior da primeira propriedade amostrada, bem como \uffc3\uffa1reas sob mata nativa, pr\uffc3\uffb3ximas \uffc3\uffa0s \uffc3\uffa1reas de cultivo. Amostras de um Neossolo Quartzar\uffc3\uffaanico foram coletadas nas profundidades de 0-5 e 5-15 cm e foram determinados os teores de C org\uffc3\uffa2nico total, de C e N microbiano (Cmic e Nmic) e da mat\uffc3\uffa9ria org\uffc3\uffa2nica leve (Cmol e Nmol), al\uffc3\uffa9m do C mineraliz\uffc3\uffa1vel obtido por respirometria. O ac\uffc3\uffbamulo m\uffc3\uffa9dio nos estoques de Nmic nas \uffc3\uffa1reas sob manejo org\uffc3\uffa2nico em rela\uffc3\uffa7\uffc3\uffa3o \uffc3\uffa0 mata nativa foi de 11,7 kg ha-1, o que representou um incremento de 585 % de Nmic nas \uffc3\uffa1reas de cultivo. J\uffc3\uffa1 na pastagem, ocorreu ac\uffc3\uffbamulo de 211 kg ha-1 no estoque de Cmic em rela\uffc3\uffa7\uffc3\uffa3o \uffc3\uffa0 mata nativa em subsuperf\uffc3\uffadcie, representando um incremento de 514,6 %. Por outro lado, os estoques de Cmic no cultivo convencional sofreram redu\uffc3\uffa7\uffc3\uffb5es de 59 e 53 %, nas camadas de 0-5 e de 5-15 cm, respectivamente, em rela\uffc3\uffa7\uffc3\uffa3o \uffc3\uffa0 mata nativa. Os estoques de Cmol obtidos nas linhas de cultivo nos sistemas org\uffc3\uffa2nicos apresentaram incremento de 106 %, na camada de 0-5 cm, em rela\uffc3\uffa7\uffc3\uffa3o \uffc3\uffa0 mata; no sistema convencional, por\uffc3\uffa9m, constatou-se uma redu\uffc3\uffa7\uffc3\uffa3o em 31 % no estoque de Cmol na camada superficial. Os resultados indicaram que o manejo realizado nas \uffc3\uffa1reas sob cultivo org\uffc3\uffa2nico com acerola e pastagem contribuiu para a manuten\uffc3\uffa7\uffc3\uffa3o e recupera\uffc3\uffa7\uffc3\uffa3o dos conte\uffc3\uffbados de C e N da biomassa microbiana (BMS) e da mat\uffc3\uffa9ria org\uffc3\uffa2nica leve (MOL) do solo. Os incrementos e, ou, redu\uffc3\uffa7\uffc3\uffb5es de C e N nos compartimentos BMS e MOL, comparativamente \uffc3\uffa0 \uffc3\uffa1rea nativa de refer\uffc3\uffaancia, foram proporcionalmente maiores que os valores obtidos, quando considerados somente os estoques de C org\uffc3\uffa2nico e N totais, principalmente na \uffc3\uffa1rea sob sistema de cultivo convencional. Isto indica serem tais compartimentos sens\uffc3\uffadveis \uffc3\uffa0s mudan\uffc3\uffa7as no estado da mat\uffc3\uffa9ria org\uffc3\uffa2nica de acordo com o manejo. Os sistemas de manejo org\uffc3\uffa2nico e pastagem constituem estrat\uffc3\uffa9gias de manejo importantes que devem ser consideradas para a conserva\uffc3\uffa7\uffc3\uffa3o e, ou, aumento da mat\uffc3\uffa9ria org\uffc3\uffa2nica e, conseq\uffc3\uffbcentemente, para a melhoria da qualidade do solo e implementa\uffc3\uffa7\uffc3\uffa3o do seq\uffc3\uffbcestro de C na regi\uffc3\uffa3o da Chapada da Ibiapaba, Cear\uffc3\uffa1.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "C mineraliz\u00e1vel", "green manure", "biodynamic agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "sustainability", "aduba\u00e7\u00e3o verde", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "pasture", "agricultura biodin\u00e2mica", "pastagem", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "qualidade do solo", "soil quality", "sustentabilidade", "mineralizable C", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1590/s0100-06832006000200006"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Revista%20Brasileira%20de%20Ci%C3%AAncia%20do%20Solo", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1590/s0100-06832006000200006", "name": "item", "description": "10.1590/s0100-06832006000200006", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1590/s0100-06832006000200006"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2006-04-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.2136/sssaj1983.03615995004700060020x", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:20:16Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-07-27", "title": "Effect Of Tillage, Cropping, And Fertilizer Management On Soil-Nitrogen Mineralization Potential", "description": "Abstract<p>Nitrogen mineralization potentials (No) were determined on soil from a long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term crop rotation tillage experiment on a Palouse silt loam (fine\uffe2\uff80\uff90silty, mixed, mesic Pachic Ultic Haploxerolls). Crop rotations included continuous winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), alternate winter wheat and (pea Pisum sativum L.), alternate winter wheat and spring wheat, and pea\uffe2\uff80\uff90alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.)\uffe2\uff80\uff90green manure, followed by 5 y of alternate spring wheat and winter wheat. Tillage variables were moldboard plowing, chisel plowing, or no\uffe2\uff80\uff90till. Long\uffe2\uff80\uff90term N fertilizer rate plots were also studied on a Ritzville silt loam (coarse\uffe2\uff80\uff90silty, mixed, mesic Calciorthidic Haploxerolls). The tillage plots were cropped annually, whereas the fertilization rate plots were alternately fallowed and cropped to winter wheat with and without spring supplemental irrigation. Moldboard plowing resulted in uniform No values throughout the top 15 cm of soil, but N mineralization potential (No) was greater for chisel plowing and no\uffe2\uff80\uff90till than for moldboard plowing at the 0\uffe2\uff80\uff90 to 5\uffe2\uff80\uff90cm depth and less at the 5\uffe2\uff80\uff90 to 10\uffe2\uff80\uff90 and 10\uffe2\uff80\uff90 to 15\uffe2\uff80\uff90cm soil depths. The net result was that average No for 0 to 15 cm was unaffected by tillage or crop rotation in the fall sampling. In the spring sampling, average No for either chisel plowing or no\uffe2\uff80\uff90till was significantly higher than for moldboard plowing. Also, peas\uffe2\uff80\uff90alfalfa\uffe2\uff80\uff90green manure followed by alternate spring wheat\uffe2\uff80\uff90winter wheat had a significantly higher No averge than both continuous winter wheat and winter wheat\uffe2\uff80\uff90pea but was not different from winter wheat\uffe2\uff80\uff90spring wheat. The No of the tillage and the crop rotation management treatments were significantly greater with samples obtained in the fall than from those obtained in the spring. Nitrogen mineralization potentials increased linearly with increased N rate on both the dryland and supplemental irrigated treatments. However, supplemental irrigation uniformly increased No compared with the corresponding nonirrigated treatments.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Soil nutrients", "0106 biological sciences", "Conservation agriculture", "Green manure crops", "No-till", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Crop rotations", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "Soil", "Chisel plow", "Fertilization", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Moldboard plow", "Field Scale", "Conservation tillage"], "contacts": [{"organization": "El-Haris, M. K., Cochran, V. L., Elliott, L. F., Bezdicek, D. F.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.2136/sssaj1983.03615995004700060020x"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Soil%20Science%20Society%20of%20America%20Journal", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.2136/sssaj1983.03615995004700060020x", "name": "item", "description": "10.2136/sssaj1983.03615995004700060020x", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.2136/sssaj1983.03615995004700060020x"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "1983-11-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/agronomy11040787", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:20:54Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-04-16", "title": "Groundcover Mulching in Mediterranean Vineyards Improves Soil Chemical, Physical and Biological Health Already in the Short Term", "description": "<p>Vineyards are among the land uses with the highest soil degradation rate in Mediterranean Europe, mainly due to intensive tillage management. Therefore, practices able to foster soil health are critical to promote sustainable wine production. We studied the following treatments in two organic farms in Chianti Classico (Italy): conventional tillage, spontaneous vegetation, pigeon bean (Vicia faba var. minor) incorporated in spring and a mixture of barley (Hordeum vulgare) and squarrosum clover (Trifolium squarrosum), both incorporated and left as mulch. An innovative approach, based on gamma-ray and apparent electrical conductivity, was used to account for the fine-scale soil variability that was included in the statistical model. Mulched groundcovers were associated with higher soil organic matter compared to tillage, already after two years. An increased N availability was found under all groundcovers compared with tillage. The effect of soil management practices on P2O5 strongly varied across farms and years, while it was not statistically significant on K availability. Spontaneous vegetation positively influenced the soil structure index, soil penetration resistance and soil biological health. The results show that mulched groundcovers can improve soil health already in the short term, thereby potentially increasing the sustainability of the wine sector.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "cover crop; tillage; green manure; organic farming; sustainable agriculture; vite; agricoltura sostenibile; inerbimento; sovescio; colture di copertura; gestione del suolo; lavorazione del terreno; inerbimento permanente; inerbimento spontaneo", "green manure", "S", "cover crop; tillage; green manure; organic farming; sustainable agriculture", "Agriculture", "cover crop", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "6. Clean water", "sustainable agriculture", "organic farming", "tillage", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/11/4/787/pdf"}, {"href": "https://arpi.unipi.it/bitstream/11568/1168505/1/Raffa%20et%20al._2021.pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.iris.sssup.it/bitstream/11382/541888/1/Warren%20Raffa%20et%20al%20%282021%29_Agronomy.pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/11/4/787/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11040787"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agronomy", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/agronomy11040787", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/agronomy11040787", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/agronomy11040787"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-04-16T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/plants10030468", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:21:05Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-03-02", "title": "Impact of Legumes as a Pre-Crop on Nitrogen Nutrition and Yield in Organic Greenhouse Tomato", "description": "<p>An organic greenhouse crop of tomato was established in February following cultivation of cowpea (CP) or common bean (CB) for green pod production, or faba bean (FB) for green manuring. The vegetative residues of CP and CB were incorporated to the soil together with farmyard manure (FYM), prior to establishing the tomato crop. The FB plants were incorporated to the soil at anthesis together with either FYM or composted olive-mill waste (CO). Green manuring with FB resulted in higher soil mineral N levels during the subsequent tomato crop and higher tomato fruit yield when combined with FYM, compared to compost. The level of soil mineral N was the main restrictive factor for yield in organic greenhouse tomato. FB for green manuring as preceding crop to tomato increased significantly the level of soil mineral N and tomato yield compared to CB or CP aiming to produce green pods. The lowest tomato yield was obtained when the preceding crop was CB cultivated for green pod production. The soil mineral N was significantly higher when FYM was applied as base dressing compared with CO, despite the higher total N concentration in CO, pointing to slower mineralization rates of CO during tomato cultivation.</p>", "keywords": ["common bean", "2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "green manure", "organic", "Botany", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "rhizobia", "01 natural sciences", "faba bean", "Article", "cowpea", "PGPR", "BNF", "QK1-989", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "BNF; Common bean; Cowpea; Faba bean; Green manure; Organic; PGPR; Rhizobia"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/10/3/468/pdf"}, {"href": "https://iris.unito.it/bitstream/2318/1796167/1/Plants_10_468.pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/10/3/468/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10030468"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Plants", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/plants10030468", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/plants10030468", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/plants10030468"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-03-02T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5281/zenodo.4333554", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:23:27Z", "type": "Dataset", "title": "Best4Soil_databases_datamining_V1", "description": "This document contains data on the host plant status of field crops, vegetable crops and green manure crops for soilborne plant parasitic nematodes and soilborne fungal pathogens. The data was used for the construction of two databases in context of the Best4Soil Thematic Network, a Horizon 2020 project (Grant Agreement n\u00b0817696). The databases are accessible through the website https://ww.best4soil.eu/database ; they are hosted on https://nematodes.soilhealthtool.eu/", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "field crop", "Best4Soil", " database", " hostplant", " soilborne pathogen", " nematode", " field crop", " vegetable", " green manure", " cover crop", "green manure", "hostplant", "nematode", "Best4Soil", "vegetable", "cover crop", "15. 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The data was used for the construction of two databases in context of the Best4Soil Thematic Network, a Horizon 2020 project (Grant Agreement n\u00b0817696). The databases are accessible through the website https://ww.best4soil.eu/database ; they are hosted on https://nematodes.soilhealthtool.eu/", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "field crop", "Best4Soil", " database", " hostplant", " soilborne pathogen", " nematode", " field crop", " vegetable", " green manure", " cover crop", "green manure", "hostplant", "nematode", "Best4Soil", "vegetable", "cover crop", "15. 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Zero hunger", "agro-ecological", "green manure", "wheat", "15. 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These effects may depend on soil P status and the quality of the CC residues.</p>Aim<p>Our aim was to quantify the more persistent effects of incorporation of residues of three different CC species on barley growth and P uptake and whether any response in growth and P uptake was related to soil P status and changes in soil microbial properties.</p>Methods<p>We examined the impact of soil P status, CC species, and residue fraction (shoots and/or roots) on the growth of winter barley (Hordeum vulgare) and soil microbial properties. Shoot and root residues from three contrasting CC (oats, Avena sativa; corncockle, Agrostemma githago; lupine, Lupinus angustifolius) were incubated for 2 months in soil with low and medium P status. Dry matter yield and P offtake characterized effects of CC residues on barley while phospholipid fatty acids (PLFAs), neutral lipid fatty acids (NLFAs), and enzyme activity characterized soil microbial properties after barley harvest.</p>Results<p>Effects of shoot residues on barley yield and P offtake appeared neutral or positive and not affected by soil P status, while the effect of root residues appeared negative for medium P soil and neutral for low P soil. With lupine shoot biomass, however, barley yield and P offtake increased in both soils. Neither CC treatments nor soil P status affected the microbial community composition (bacterial and fungal specific PLFAs). Lupine roots increased phosphomonoesterase, and lupine residues generally stimulated microbial abundance (total microbial PLFAs) compared to other CC treatments.</p>Conclusion<p>We conclude that the effect of CC residues on the following crop and soil microorganisms depends on soil P status and that lupine had the largest positive impact on barley growth.</p", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "corncockle", "green manure", "13. Climate action", "lupine", "neutral lipid fatty acid", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "phospholipid fatty acid", "15. 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