Sampling and analysis or visual examination of soil to assess its status and use potential is
widely practiced from plot to national scales. However, the choice of relevant soil attributes …

Soil salinisation is one of the major soil degradation threats occurring in Europe. The effects
of salinisation can be observed in numerous vital ecological and non-ecological soil …

Capturing the complexity of soil life for soil quality assessments is one of the most
challenging paradoxes of contemporary soil science. Soil biota perform a plethora of …

Abstract 'Soil health'has become a dominant, pervasive phrase in soil and environmental
sciences. But despite its ubiquity, the concept remains elusively ambiguous, largely because …

Agricultural intensification is placing tremendous pressure on the soil's capacity to maintain
its functions leading to large-scale ecosystem degradation and loss of productivity in the …

Soil is a complex and dynamic biological system, and still in 2003 it is difficult to determine
the composition of microbial communities in soil. We are also limited in the determination of …

Nutrient cycling is a vital process in the ecosystem by which movement and exchange of
nutrients in available forms from the environment into living organisms and then …

The demand for quick and reproducible soil quality indicators in order to detect soil quality
changes have increased over the last decade. Since soil functioning and sustaining soil …

Traditional approaches to soil quality evaluation were based on the use of physical,
chemical and microbiological indicators. Recently, new methods, based on soil …

Soil enzymes are constantly playing vital roles for the maintenance of soil ecology and soil
health. These enzymatic activities in the soil are mainly of microbial origin, being derived …