Soil Health and Quality in Organic Systems: Soil Chemistry
Scientific Results
- Carbon and Nitrogen Stocks and Nitrogen Mineralization in Organically Managed Soils Amended with Composted Manures
- Journal of Environmental Quality (2012) 41: 1337-1347
- Carbon pools and soil biochemical properties in manure-based organic farming systems of semi-arid New Mexico
- Soil Use and Management (2011) 27: 453-463
- Chemical properties, microbial biomass, and activity differ between soils of organic and conventional horticultural systems under greenhouse and open field management: a case study
- Journal of Soils and Sediments (2011) 11: 25-36
- Effects of input level and crop diversity on soil nitrate-N, extractable P, aggregation, organic C and N, and nutrient balance in the Canadian Prairie
- Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems (2009) 84: 1-22
- Effects of Reduced Tillage on Crop Yield, Plant Available Nutrients and Soil Organic Matter in a 12-Year Long-Term Trial under Organic Management
- Sustainability (2013) 5: 3876-3894
- Enhanced top soil carbon stocks under organic farming
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2012) 109: 18226-18231
- High Root Biomass for cereal crops increases carbon sequestration in organic arable systems
- Impact of reduced tillage on soil organic carbon and nutrient budgets under organic farming
- Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (2012) 27: 68-80
- The influence of organic transition strategy on chemical and biological soil tests
- Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (2013) 28: 17-31
- Management of Canadian prairie region grazed grasslands: Soil C sequestration, livestock productivity and profitability
- Canadian Journal of Soil Science (2005) 85: 183-192
- Predictability of soil succession patterns under different agricultural land use practices: Continual conventional cultivation versus transformation to organic cultivation or fallow periods
- Pedobiologia (2013) Online, ahead of print
- Quality of soil organic matter and C storage as influenced by cropping systems in northwestern Alberta, Canada
- Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems (2011) 89: 71-79
- Short-term effects of plant litter on the dynamics, amount, and stoichiometry of soil enzyme activity in agroecosystems
- European Journal of Soil Biology (2014) 65: 23-29
- Soil carbon dynamics estimation and dependence on farming system in a temperate climate
- Soil and Tillage Research (2015) 154: 53-63
- Soil carbon sequestration in Switzerland - the DOK trial
- Soil chemical properties under organic and conventional crop management systems in south Poland
- Biological Agriculture & Horticulture (2013) 29: 12-28
- Soil organic carbon and microbial biomass carbon under organic and conventional vegetable cropping systems in an Alfisol and a Vertisol
- Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems (2015) 101: 1-15
- Soil Organic Matter Functional Group Composition in Relation to Organic Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus Fractions in Organically Managed Tomato Fields
- Soil Science Society of America Journal (2015) 79: 772-782
- Soil organic matter pools and crop yields as affected by the rate of farmyard manure and use of biodynamic preparations in a sandy soil
- Organic Agriculture (2011) 1: 111-124
- Soil profile carbon and nutrient stocks under long-term conventional and organic crop and alfalfa-crop rotations and re-established grassland
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2012) 158: 156-163
- Tracing Root vs. Residue Carbon into Soils from Conventional and Alternative Cropping Systems
- Soil Science Society of America Journal (2010) 74: 1201-1210