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Manuel López-Vicente and Gao-Lin Wu
This special issue includes six articles that cover a variety of issues about the topic of soil and water conservation in agricultural systems, including the following: a bibliometric analysis of soil and water conservation in the Loess Region of China; ...
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Vanessa Mendoza-Grimón, Juan Ramón Fernández-Vera, Jose Manuel Hernández-Moreno and María del Pino Palacios-Díaz
In the Canary Islands, there is a hydrological imbalance between water consumption and renewable water availability. To provide more water resources, reverse osmosis (RO) from seawater is used. As boron (B) contents in irrigation water higher than 0.7 mg...
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Lihong Wang, Tianxiao Li, Hui Liu, Zuowei Zhang, Aizheng Yang and Hongyu Li
Global climate warming and increased climate variability may increase the number of annual freeze?thaw cycles (FTCs) in temperate zones. The occurrence of more frequent FTCs is predicted to influence soil carbon and nitrogen cycles and increase nitrogen ...
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Jing Yang, Wenqi Guo, Chengsen Zhao, Biqing Zhou, Wenhao Yang, Shihe Xing and Fenghua Ding
Reducing soil nitrogen leaching losses and improving nitrogen-use efficiency with effective fertilization management strategies are extremely important for sustainable agricultural development. A 2-year field study was executed with the same nitrogen inp...
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Hongyan Zhu, Bingyan Zheng, Weizheng Zhong, Jinbo Xu, Weibo Nie, Yan Sun and Zilong Guan
Salt and nutrient transport and transformations during water infiltration directly influence saline soil improvement and the efficient use of water and fertilizer resources. The effects of soil initial salinity (18.3 g/kg, 25.5 g/kg, 42.2 g/kg, 79.94 g/k...
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Ivars Klavin?, Arta Bardule, Zane Klavina and Zane Libiete
Mercury (Hg) is a toxic contaminant that bioaccumulates in trophic chains in its organic form?methylmercury (MeHg). Hg methylation is driven by microorganisms in favourable conditions, stagnant water pools being among potential methylation hotspots. In t...
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Yali Li, Hongjuan Zhang, Mengzhu Liu and Hongwei Pei
Reclamation of treated sewage is an important way to alleviate urban water scarcity and optimize ecological layout, especially in irrigating urban turfgrass. Nevertheless, the irrational use of reclaimed sewage could result in risk of excessive nitrogen ...
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Naila Sumreen Hina
The significance of nitrogen in agricultural ecosystems cannot be overstated; however, it can pose a threat to the environment when it leaches into groundwater. This comprehensive meta-analysis sheds light on the complex relationship between organic and ...
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Qiyue Chen, Lei Wang, Bo Li, Siteng He, Yang Li, Yongmei He, Xinran Liang and Fangdong Zhan
The soil in a lead?zinc mining area, contaminated with heavy metals like cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb), poses a risk to crops such as maize. Experiments using biochar and sepiolite as soil ameliorants in potted maize showed these substances can mitigate hea...
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Huandi Li, Jiang Li, Xiyun Jiao, Hongzhe Jiang, Yong Liu, Xinglang Wang and Chao Ma
Due to containing an abundance of essential nutrients, straw has significant potential to mitigate carbon (C), nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) deficits in soil. However, a lack of comprehensive and systematic reviews on C, N, P, and K rel...
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