Bioindicators of Soil Quality for Agricultural Soil Use
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil and Plant Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 4496
Special Issue Editor
Interests: soil ecology; invasive organisms; soil physics; utilization of organic wastes
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biological indicators have been used to gauge the environmental quality and detect pollution. However, they have become equally important in agriculture to assess land and soil quality/health. With the Earth’s population approaching 10 billion people by mid-century, necessitating greater and more sustainable production on less agricultural land with shifts in the geographic distribution of production systems becoming inevitable. Biological indicators based on nematodes, protozoa, functional microbial communities, soil respiration, and carbon sequestration will become essential tools for assessing the suitability of land for specific agricultural production, and for guiding soil management and conservation. This Special Issue will highlight novel research on soil biological indicators that are used to guide ecological soil management and to evaluate land for agricultural production. This issue is not limited to agricultural applications of biological indicators of soil quality, but also invites contribution that demonstrate the utility of these indicators for assessing impacts on climate change.
Prof. Dr. Josef Görres
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- soil quality
- biological indicators
- agriculture
- climate change
