Bioindicators of soil quality in coffee organic cultivation systems

Soil invertebrates as bioindicators of urban soil quality.

This study aimed at relating the abundance and diversity of invertebrate communities of urban soils to chemical and physical soil characteristics and to identify the taxa most sensitive or tolerant to soil stressors. The invertebrate community of five urban soils in Naples, Italy, was sampled. To assess soil quality invertebrate community indices (Shannon, Simpson, Menhinick and Pielou indices)...

The role of soil organic matter in maintaining soil quality in continuous cropping systems

Maintenance and improvement of soil quality in continuous cropping systems is critical to sustaining agricultural productivity and environmental quality for future generations. This review focuses on lessons learned from long-term continuous cropping experiments. Soil organic carbon (SOC) is the most often reported attribute from long-term studies and is chosen as the most important indicator o...

Effects of Controlled Drainage Systems to prevent chemical soil degradation in the Area under Sugarcane Cultivation

The Imam Khomeini sugarcane agro-industry is one of ten sugarcane agro-industry plantations in Khuzestan province. As regard as the drains has been installed  in this plantation many years ago so there is water and salt balance in this land that is one of the condition for implementation controlled drainage. This research was designed to investigate the possibility of using a controlled drainag...

Assessing Soil Quality in Organic Agriculture

Carbon sequestration in sugarcane plant and soil with different cultivation systems

Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) is a multi-purpose crop, mainly planted in South-western (SW) parts of Iran. However, the capability of sugarcane farms to sequestrate carbon into soil and plant is not well documented. In this research, the carbon sequestration in sugarcane plant and soil in a ratooning traditional cultivation system at the Amirkabir Sugarcane Agro-Industry Complex...