Abstract
Effect of land-use management systems on coupled physical and mechanical, chemical and biological soil processes: how can we maintain and predict soil properties and functions?
Highlights
The discrepancy between a growing population with a increasing demand for food and space and an irreversible daily soil degradation of about 400 km2 worldwide enhances the urgency for a more site-specific soil management
Exceeding boundary conditions worsens chemical and biological soil properties and functions, and reduces the accessibility of particle or pore surfaces and alters pore size and distribution. This changes the flux of water, gas and heat, and will affect the actual contributions of soils as components of ecosystems
This is a problematic situation because the relevant reference magnitude is variable as it depends on the actual definition of the expected functionality of soils or land in a broader context
Summary
The discrepancy between a growing population (predicted to be 9 billion people by 2050) with a increasing demand for food and space and an irreversible daily soil degradation of about 400 km2 worldwide enhances the urgency for a more site-specific soil management. Exceeding boundary conditions worsens chemical and biological soil properties and functions, and reduces the accessibility of particle or pore surfaces and alters pore size and distribution.
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