Continuous cropping (CC) is a common practice in agriculture, and usually causes serious
economic losses due to soil degeneration, decreased crop yield and quality, and increased …

Antibiotics and antibiotic‐resistant bacteria (ARB) enter the environment through municipal
and agricultural waste streams and pose a potential risk to human and livestock health …

Abstract Labile,'high‐quality', plant litters are hypothesized to promote soil organic matter
(SOM) stabilization in mineral soil fractions that are physicochemically protected from rapid …

More diverse crop rotations have been promoted for their potential to remediate the range of
ecosystem services compromised by biologically simplified grain‐based agroecosystems …

Saprotrophic fungi are abundant in soils of (semi-) natural ecosystems, where they play a
major role in ecosystem functioning. On the contrary, saprotrophic fungal biomass is …

Straw return is a widely recognized strategy for increasing soil organic carbon (SOC)
sequestration and improving soil quality and crop productivity. A 4-year-long field …

Core Ideas Continuous addition of ammonical N fertilizer increases soil acidity. Soil
acidification influences nutrient dynamics and crop yields. Soil organic C and soil N …

Agriculture has undergone dramatic technological and cultural changes over the past
century. Many would argue that the changes have been unquestionably positive with huge …

Biological input of nitrogen (N) from the atmosphere by free-living diazotrophs can help
alleviate fertilizer use in agricultural systems. In this study, we investigated the effect of N …

Field experiments were conducted for two-consecutive summer seasons of 2016–17 and
2017–18 at Agriculture Research Institute Mingora Swat, Pakistan, on soybean and maize …