Microbiological Indicators for Assessing the Effects of Agricultural Practices on Soil Health: A Review

Agronomy, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(2), P. 335 - 335

Published: Jan. 28, 2025

Agricultural practices significantly impact soil properties and ecological functions, highlighting the importance of comprehensive health assessments. Traditionally, these assessments have focused on physical chemical indicators, often neglecting microbiological properties. This review explores potential indicators in evaluating effects agricultural emphasizing their significance addressing challenges associated with application. A key advantage is high sensitivity rapid response to environmental changes. These can be grouped into three categories: microbial biomass abundance, taxonomic composition diversity, activity. Among these, carbon, basal respiration, decomposition rates are considered most reliable interpretable indicators. Microbial diversity remain limited diagnostic predictive capabilities due interpretation. Integrating offers a more holistic understanding interactions between health, enhancing our ability monitor, manage, preserve ecosystems. To facilitate adoption production land management, further efforts needed improve interpretability establish standardized criteria for assessment.

Language: Английский

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Role of Plants and Urban Soils in Carbon Stock: Status, Modulators, and Sustainable Management Practices

Plants, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 14(4), P. 546 - 546

Published: Feb. 10, 2025

Urban soils are vital components of urban ecosystems, significantly influenced by anthropogenic activities and environmental factors. Despite misconceptions about their quality, play a pivotal role in carbon (C) cycling storage, impacting global emissions sequestration. However, challenges such as soil contamination, land use changes, expansion pose significant threats to quality C storage capacity. Over the last two decades, there has been an increasing interest potential part climate change mitigation strategies. In this review, bibliometric analysis covering twenty years (2004-2024) was performed offer insights into research trends, mainly Mediterranean region. This paper also identifies gaps proposes essential solutions for mitigating negative impacts urbanization on biodiversity functions. Key modulators, including plants, microbes, features, highlighted dynamics, emphasizing importance effective vegetation management enhance sequestration ecosystem services. Strategies reintroducing nature areas applying organic amendments promising improving microbial diversity. Further awareness maximize effectiveness these strategies, ensuring sustainable resilience.

Language: Английский

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Assessing the effect of composted cyclosporin A fermentation residue as organic fertilizer: Focus on soil fertility and antibiotic resistance

Journal of Environmental Sciences, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Feb. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Microbial gene activity in straw residue amendments reveals carbon sequestration mechanisms in agricultural soils

Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 179, P. 108994 - 108994

Published: Feb. 27, 2023

Land-use practices and their intensity along with climatic conditions alter amounts of soil organic carbon content consequently influence microorganisms. However, land-use management, such as crop residue incorporation to soils has a potential mitigate losses thereafter promote the diversity To gain insight microbial functional activity under amendments, glasshouse experiment arable grassland was performed. Straw added in monitored using captured metatranscriptomics technique. The overall expression genes related matter degradation differed between two systems. addition enhanced involved material, particularly soils. After month amendment, gene had similar pattern that grasslands. straw triggered upregulation set enzyme families catalysing both land-uses but downregulated higher number grasslands, biosynthesis carbohydrates were upregulated at addition. These findings indicate low have get more active amendments. In grasslands amendments trigger sequestration process from material can significantly contribute sequestration.

Language: Английский

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Forest soil inoculation with Bacillus subtilus reduces soil detachment rate to mitigate rill erosion

Rhizosphere, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 26, P. 100707 - 100707

Published: May 10, 2023

Language: Английский

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