[HTML][HTML] Soil degradation in the European Mediterranean region: Processes, status and consequences

CSS Ferreira, S Seifollahi-Aghmiuni, G Destouni… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Soil, a non-renewable resource, sustains life on Earth by supporting around 95% of global
food production and providing ecosystem services such as biomass production, filtration of …

Integrating viruses into soil food web biogeochemistry

C Carreira, C Lønborg, B Acharya, L Aryal… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The soil microbiome is recognized as an essential component of healthy soils. Viruses are
also diverse and abundant in soils, but their roles in soil systems remain unclear. Here we …

Soil microorganism regulated aggregate stability and rill erosion resistance under different land uses

Y Yang, Y Zhang, X Yu, G Jia - Catena, 2023 - Elsevier
How microbial communities respond to soil aggregation and rill erosion resistance has
rarely been addressed. Such a knowledge gap hinders the practice of guiding sustainable …

Global vulnerability of soil ecosystems to erosion

CA Guerra, IMD Rosa, E Valentini, F Wolf, F Filipponi… - Landscape …, 2020 - Springer
Context Soil erosion is one of the main threats driving soil degradation across the globe with
important impacts on crop yields, soil biota, biogeochemical cycles, and ultimately human …

Degraded land rehabilitation through agroforestry in India: Achievements, current understanding, and future prospectives

D Jinger, R Kaushal, R Kumar, V Paramesh… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Land degradation is one of the most important factors responsible for the alarming situation
of food security, human health, and socioeconomic development in the country. Currently …

Assessment of Water-Induced Soil Erosion as a Threat to Natura 2000 Protected Areas in Crete Island, Greece

S Stefanidis, V Alexandridis, K Ghosal - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Water erosion is a major threat to biodiversity, according to the European Commission's Soil
Thematic Strategy, as it negatively affects soil structure, soil fertility and water availability for …

Assessing soil loss by water erosion in a typical Mediterranean ecosystem of northern Greece under current and future rainfall erosivity

S Stefanidis, V Alexandridis, C Chatzichristaki… - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
Soil is a non-renewable resource essential for life existence. During the last decades it has
been threatened by accelerating erosion with negative consequences for the environment …

Aligning science and policy of regenerative agriculture

MM Al‐Kaisi, R Lal - Soil Science Society of America Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Scientific findings since the 1980s indicate conventional agriculture (CONVA) accounts for 8
to 12% of US greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, or 23% of the country's total anthropogenic …

CollembolAI, a macrophotography and computer vision workflow to digitize and characterize samples of soil invertebrate communities preserved in fluid

S Sys, S Weißbach, L Jakob, S Gerber… - Methods in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soils are inhabited by communities of tiny invertebrates that participate in the essential
functions of soils. Characterizing those communities in terms of species diversity and …

Assessment of soil fertility status under soil degradation rate using geomatics in West Nile Delta

MAE AbdelRahman, MM Metwaly, AA Afifi, P D'Antonio… - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
The presence of a noticeable rate of degradation in the land of the Nile Delta reduces the
efficiency of crop production and hinders supply of the increasing demand of its growing …