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Variance of soil bacterial community and metabolic profile in the rhizosphere vs. non-rhizosphere of native plant Rumex acetosa L. from a Sb/As co-contaminated area in China

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The sustainability of changes in agricultural technology: The carbon, economic and labour implications of mechanisation and synthetic fertiliser use

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Local soil quality assessment of north-central Namibia: integrating farmers' and technical knowledge

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Arable Land Tenancy and Soil Quality in Germany: Contesting Theory with Empirics

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Soil Productivity Degradation in a Long-Term Eroded Olive Orchard under Semiarid Mediterranean Conditions

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Mining environments

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Mitigation and adaptation investments for desertification and climate change: an assessment of the socioeconomic return

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The Muencheberg Soil Quality Rating for Assessing the Quality of Global Farmland

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Assessing hydrological and provisioning ecosystem services in a case study in Western Central Brazil

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Microscale pollen release and dispersal patterns in flowering grass populations

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Soil particle size distribution and induced soil carbon transport by ephemeral gully erosion in Mediterranean mountain arable land

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Education in Ecological Engineering—a Need Whose Time Has Come

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Pedological characterization and soil fertility assessment of the selected rice irrigation schemes, Tanzania

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Risk assessment of land ecology on a regional scale: Application of the relative risk model to the mining city of Daye, China

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Compilation of Functional Soil Maps for the Support of Spatial Planning and Land Management in Hungary

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Characteristics of water retention, nutrient storage, and biomass production across alpine grassland soils in the Qilian Mountains

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Rates of anthropogenic transformation of soils in the Botanical Garden of Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland)

Musielok, Ł., Drewnik, M., Stolarczyk, M., Gus-Stolarczyk, M., Bartkowiak, S., Kożyczkowski, K., Lasota, J., Motak, A., Szczechowska, K., & Wątły, M. (2018) · CATENA · doi:10.1016/j.catena.2018.06.023 · Cited by 18 · see citing works

Taking account of uncertainties in digital land suitability assessment

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Development and spatialization of a soil potential multifunctionality index for agriculture (Agri-SPMI) at the regional scale. Case study in the Occitanie region (France)

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Akselendi Ovası Tarım Topraklarının Temel Toprak Özellikleri ve Bitki Besin Elementi Durumularının Belirlenmesi ve Dağılım Haritalarının Oluşturulması

ÇELİK, P., & Dengız, O. (2017) · Türkiye Tarımsal Araştırmalar Dergisi · doi:10.19159/tutad.322336 · Cited by 17 · see citing works

Ploughing/zero‐tillage rotation regulates soil physicochemical properties and improves productivity of erodible soil in a residue return farming system

Wang, H., Wang, S., Qi, Y., Zhang, Y., Wang, R., Li, J., & Wang, X. (2020) · Land Degradation and Development · doi:10.1002/ldr.3836 · Cited by 18 · see citing works

Assessment of Soil Functions: An Example of Meeting Competing National and International Obligations by Harnessing Regional Differences

Valujeva, K., Nipers, A., Lupiķis, A., & Schulte, R. P. O. (2020) · Frontiers in Environmental Science · doi:10.3389/fenvs.2020.591695 · Cited by 17 · see citing works

Understanding Soils: Their Functions, Use and Degradation

Saljnikov, E., Eulenstein, F., Lavrishchev, A. V., Mirschel, W., Blum, W. E. H., McKenzie, B. M., Lilburne, L., Römbke, J., Wilke, B., Schindler, U. G., et al. (2021) · Innovations in landscape research · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-85682-3_1 · Cited by 16 · see citing works

Plant Community and Succession in Lowland Grasslands under Saline–Alkali Conditions with Grazing Exclusion

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Soil distribution and soil properties in the subalpine region of Kazbegi; Greater Caucasus; Georgia: Soil quality rating of agricultural soils

Hanauer, T., Pohlenz, C., Kalandadze, B., Urushadze, T. F., & Felix‐Henningsen, P. (2017) · Annals of Agrarian Science · doi:10.1016/j.aasci.2016.12.001 · Cited by 16 · see citing works

Soil Management for Better Crop Production and Sustainable Agriculture

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Land-Use Change on Soil C and N Stocks in the Humid Savannah Agro-Ecological Zone of Ghana

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System Cognition and Analytic Technology of Cultivated Land Quality from a Data Perspective

Tang, H., Niu, J., Niu, Z., Liu, Q., Huang, Y., Yun, W., Shen, C., & Huo, Z. (2023) · Land · doi:10.3390/land12010237 · Cited by 15 · see citing works

Digital Soil Assessments

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Effects of intensities and cycles of heating on mineralization of organic matter and microbial community composition of a Mollisol under different land use types

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Assessing the Productivity Function of Soils

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Productivity Potentials of the Global Land Resource for Cropping and Grazing

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Assessing agricultural soil quality on a global scale

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Soil Productivity Potential

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Assessing the soil capacity to produce food and biomass worldwide

Rosin, N. A., McBratney, A. B., Poppiel, R. R., Rosas, J. T. F., Amorim, M. T. A., Francos, N., & Demattê, J. A. M. (2026) · Geoderma · doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2026.117821