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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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Aikaterini Lyra, Athanasios Loukas, Pantelis Sidiropoulos and Lampros Vasiliades
This study presents the projected future evolution of water resource balance and nitrate pollution under various climate change scenarios and climatic models using a holistic approach. The study area is Almyros Basin and its aquifer system, located in Ce...
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Zhiqiang Tang, Na He, Liying Zhang, Lili Wang, Diankai Gong, Changhua Wang, Hui Wang, Guomin Sui and Wenjing Zheng
A comprehensive understanding of rice straw (RS) and biochar (BC) addition affecting soil quality, enzyme activities, bacterial community structure and grain yield is crucial. The objective of this study was to examine the dynamics of the soil microbial ...
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Tienan Li, Fang Ma, Jun Wang, Pengpeng Qiu, Ning Zhang, Weiwei Guo, Jinzhong Xu and Taoyan Dai
In order to identify the effects of the slope and precipitation intensity on the soil runoff depth and runoff rate, different tillage patterns (slope-ridge direction, horizontal slope-ridge direction, no-ridge farming) and different slopes (3° and 5°) we...
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Benjamin Ruch, Margita Hefner and André Sradnick
Market gardening is a widespread practice of bio-intensive vegetable production characterized by direct marketing, small-scale farming structures, high crop densities, and innovative cultivation approaches. Currently, deep compost mulch (DCM) is a popula...
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Islombek Mirpulatov, Mikhail Gasanov and Sergey Matveev
Crop simulation models are an important tool for assessing agroecosystem performance and the impact of agrotechnologies on soil cover condition. However, the high uncertainty and labor intensiveness of long-term weather forecasting limits the applicabili...
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Claudia Schepp, Bernd Diekkrüger and Mathias Becker
While interflow from the slopes can be crucial for water and nutrient availability in low-input farming systems in wetlands in East Africa, very little data exist on hillslope hydrology and associated nutrient transport in deeply weathered saprolites ove...
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Maria Pia Gervasio, Elisa Soana, Fabio Vincenzi and Giuseppe Castaldelli
In transitional environments, the role of sediments biogeochemistry and denitrification is crucial for establishing their buffer potential against nitrate (NO3-) pollution. The Po River (Northern Italy) is a worldwide hotspot of eutrophication. However, ...
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Gabriella Caruso, Maria Grazia Giacobbe, Filippo Azzaro, Franco Decembrini, Marcella Leonardi, Stefano Miserocchi, Xiuyun Cao, Chunlei Song and Yiyong Zhou
Bacterial and phytoplankton communities are known to be in close relationships, but how natural and anthropogenic stressors can affect their dynamics is not fully understood. To study the response of microbial communities to environmental and human-induc...
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Mingqing Liu, Yuncheng Wu, Sijie Huang, Yuwen Yang, Yan Li, Lei Wang, Yunguan Xi, Jibing Zhang and Qiuhui Chen
Inappropriate organic fertilizer application may cause serious environmental risks, especially nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) losses. To achieve a win?win for high yield and environmental protection in organic agriculture, it was essential to demonstrat...
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