Soil structure affects a range of soil functions (eg, water, air, heat, and nutrient transport) and
ecosystem services (eg, production, climate regulation). Agricultural intensification is a …

Soil microbial biomass is an important component of soil organic matter constituting from 2
to 5% of the soil organic carbon and play a significant role in the cycling of nutrients and …

The concept of degree of compactness (DC), referred to as field bulk density (BD) as a
percentage of a reference bulk density (BDref), was developed to characterize compactness …

Crop growth and yield are affected by soil compactness. Rather than using bulk density, it
has been suggested that soil compactness be described by relative bulk density, eg the …

Soil bulk density (ρb) is required to estimate, evaluate, and calculate many physical soil
properties and processes and is essential to convert data from weight‐based to volume‐and …

Degradation of soil quality is a major concern due to the scarcity of fertile land, and needs to
be properly addressed in the environmental assessment of agro-forestry systems. This …

Models that integrate the influence of soil intrinsic attributes on the estimation of soil
compaction are scarce for Hapludox. The present study tested the hypothesis that the …

Identifying the vulnerability of soils to compaction damage is becoming an increasingly
important issue when planning and performing farming operations. Soil compaction models …

A integração da atividade de lavoura com a de pecuária no sistema plantio direto (SPD) em
áreas que permanecem apenas com culturas de cobertura no inverno pode se tornar uma …

The development of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracking has led to an increase in oil
and natural gas extraction. Development of infrastructure to extract and transport these …