Evidence of non‐site‐specific agricultural management effects on the score of visual soil quality indicators

• Published in: Soil use and management Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 474 - 484
• Main Authors: Teixeira, Fernando, Lemann, Tatenda, Ferreira, Carla, Glavan, Matjaž, Zoltán, Tóth, Hermann, Tamás, Lipiec, Jerzy, Frąc, Magdalena, Reintam, Endla, Xu, Minggang, Fan, Hongzhu, Ritsema, Coen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bedfordshire Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.01.2023
• Subjects: administrative management; aggregate stability; Agricultural management; Agricultural practices; China; Color; Colour; Consistency; Europe; Farming systems; Fisher's exact test; Hypotheses; Indicators; New Zealand; New Zealand visual soil assessment method; no-tillage; Null hypothesis; pedoclimatic zones; Porosity; Slope stability; Soil aggregates; Soil analysis; Soil erosion; Soil management; Soil porosity; Soil quality; Soil stability; Soil structure; Soil types; Statistical analysis; surveys; Tillage; Visual effects; visual soil quality indicators; New Zealand; China; Europe

This study investigates 11 agricultural management practices (AMPs) and their effects on seven visual soil quality indicators and soil aggregate stability. The survey carried out across eight pedoclimatic zones in Europe and China was based on visual soil assessments (New Zealand VSA method) perform...