Reducing tillage and growing cover crops, widely recommended practices for boosting soil
health, have major impacts on soil communities. Surprisingly little is known about their …

Fungi are important members of soil microbial communities in row-crop and grassland soils,
provide essential ecosystem services such as nutrient cycling, organic matter …

The concept of soil health has attracted considerable attention during the past two decades,
but few studies have focused on the effects on soil health of long-term soil management in …

Cover cropping is practiced to enhance soil health and sustain succeeding crop yield;
however, the effect of cover crop on soil water storage, succeeding crop yield, and water-use …

Crop production systems in the water‐limited environment of the semiarid central Great
Plains may not have potential to profitably use cover crops because of lowered subsequent …

Core Ideas Inter‐laboratory variability for mineralizable C is greater than for other
commercial soil tests. Water content and direction of rewetting both affect values of …

Tillage and stover harvest are common management practices in maize-based cropping
systems around the globe. However, frequent soil disturbance and biomass export are likely …

Cover crops are currently not widely used in annual crop production systems in California's
semiarid Central Valley due to concerns about lost opportunity costs and uncertainties about …

Land-use and-cover change (LUCC) is globally important to climate change mitigation.
However, using land-based strategies to support aggressive subnational greenhouse gas …

We studied the long-term impact of contrasting tillage and cover cropping systems on soil
structure and hydraulic properties. Complete water retention and conductivity curves for the …