Soil health: looking for suitable indicators. What should be considered to assess the effects of use and management on soil health?

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Autor(a) principal: Cardoso, Elke Jurandy Bran Nogueira
Data de Publicação: 2013
Outros Autores: Vasconcellos, Rafael Leandro Figueiredo, Bini, Daniel, Miyauchi, Marina Yumi Horta, Santos, Cristiane Alcantara dos, Alves, Paulo Roger Lopes, Paula, Alessandra Monteiro de, Nakatani, André Shigueyoshi, Pereira, Jamil de Moraes, Nogueira, Marco Antonio
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Scientia Agrícola (Online)
Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/sa/article/view/64055
Resumo: Soil Health refers to the ecological equilibrium and the functionality of a soil and its capacity to maintain a well balanced ecosystem with high biodiversity above and below surface, and productivity. To understand and use soil health as a tool for sustainability, physical, chemical, and biological properties must be employed to verify which respond to the soil use and management within a desired timescale. Attributes with a rapid response to natural or anthropogenic actions are considered good indicators of soil health. Among the physical indicators, soil texture, aggregation, moisture, porosity, and bulk density have been used, while among chemical indicators total C and N, mineral nutrients, organic matter, cation exchange capacity, among others are well established. However, most of them generally have a slow response, when compared to the biological ones, such as microbial biomass C and N, biodiversity, soil enzymes, soil respiration, etc., in addition to macro and mesofauna. Thus, a systemic approach based on different kinds of indicators (physical, chemical and biological) in assessing soil health would be safer than using only one kind of attribute. Many human activities have caused desertification, loss of biodiversity, disruption of aggregates, loss of organic matter and nutrients, among others. Today, it is imperious to maintain soil health and productivity with increasing emphasis on reforestation and recuperation of degraded areas through the use of organic amendments, reintroduction of plants, soil fauna and microorganisms. This review focused on an integrative view on indicators of soil health to be used as tools for prediction of sustainability in production systems.
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spelling Soil health: looking for suitable indicators. What should be considered to assess the effects of use and management on soil health? land-usemicrobial communitysoil faunasoil qualitysustainability Soil Health refers to the ecological equilibrium and the functionality of a soil and its capacity to maintain a well balanced ecosystem with high biodiversity above and below surface, and productivity. To understand and use soil health as a tool for sustainability, physical, chemical, and biological properties must be employed to verify which respond to the soil use and management within a desired timescale. Attributes with a rapid response to natural or anthropogenic actions are considered good indicators of soil health. Among the physical indicators, soil texture, aggregation, moisture, porosity, and bulk density have been used, while among chemical indicators total C and N, mineral nutrients, organic matter, cation exchange capacity, among others are well established. However, most of them generally have a slow response, when compared to the biological ones, such as microbial biomass C and N, biodiversity, soil enzymes, soil respiration, etc., in addition to macro and mesofauna. Thus, a systemic approach based on different kinds of indicators (physical, chemical and biological) in assessing soil health would be safer than using only one kind of attribute. Many human activities have caused desertification, loss of biodiversity, disruption of aggregates, loss of organic matter and nutrients, among others. Today, it is imperious to maintain soil health and productivity with increasing emphasis on reforestation and recuperation of degraded areas through the use of organic amendments, reintroduction of plants, soil fauna and microorganisms. This review focused on an integrative view on indicators of soil health to be used as tools for prediction of sustainability in production systems. Universidade de São Paulo. Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz2013-08-01info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://www.revistas.usp.br/sa/article/view/6405510.1590/S0103-90162013000400009Scientia Agricola; v. 70 n. 4 (2013); 274-289Scientia Agricola; Vol. 70 Núm. 4 (2013); 274-289Scientia Agricola; Vol. 70 No. 4 (2013); 274-2891678-992X0103-9016reponame:Scientia Agrícola (Online)instname:Universidade de São Paulo (USP)instacron:USPenghttps://www.revistas.usp.br/sa/article/view/64055/66764Copyright (c) 2015 Scientia Agricolainfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessCardoso, Elke Jurandy Bran NogueiraVasconcellos, Rafael Leandro FigueiredoBini, DanielMiyauchi, Marina Yumi HortaSantos, Cristiane Alcantara dosAlves, Paulo Roger LopesPaula, Alessandra Monteiro deNakatani, André ShigueyoshiPereira, Jamil de MoraesNogueira, Marco Antonio2013-10-29T16:17:46Zoai:revistas.usp.br:article/64055Revistahttp://revistas.usp.br/sa/indexPUBhttps://old.scielo.br/oai/scielo-oai.phpscientia@usp.br||alleoni@usp.br1678-992X0103-9016opendoar:2013-10-29T16:17:46Scientia Agrícola (Online) - Universidade de São Paulo (USP)false
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Soil health: looking for suitable indicators. What should be considered to assess the effects of use and management on soil health?
title Soil health: looking for suitable indicators. What should be considered to assess the effects of use and management on soil health?
spellingShingle Soil health: looking for suitable indicators. What should be considered to assess the effects of use and management on soil health?
Cardoso, Elke Jurandy Bran Nogueira
land-use
microbial community
soil fauna
soil quality
sustainability
title_short Soil health: looking for suitable indicators. What should be considered to assess the effects of use and management on soil health?
title_full Soil health: looking for suitable indicators. What should be considered to assess the effects of use and management on soil health?
title_fullStr Soil health: looking for suitable indicators. What should be considered to assess the effects of use and management on soil health?
title_full_unstemmed Soil health: looking for suitable indicators. What should be considered to assess the effects of use and management on soil health?
title_sort Soil health: looking for suitable indicators. What should be considered to assess the effects of use and management on soil health?
author Cardoso, Elke Jurandy Bran Nogueira
author_facet Cardoso, Elke Jurandy Bran Nogueira
Vasconcellos, Rafael Leandro Figueiredo
Bini, Daniel
Miyauchi, Marina Yumi Horta
Santos, Cristiane Alcantara dos
Alves, Paulo Roger Lopes
Paula, Alessandra Monteiro de
Nakatani, André Shigueyoshi
Pereira, Jamil de Moraes
Nogueira, Marco Antonio
author_role author
author2 Vasconcellos, Rafael Leandro Figueiredo
Bini, Daniel
Miyauchi, Marina Yumi Horta
Santos, Cristiane Alcantara dos
Alves, Paulo Roger Lopes
Paula, Alessandra Monteiro de
Nakatani, André Shigueyoshi
Pereira, Jamil de Moraes
Nogueira, Marco Antonio
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Cardoso, Elke Jurandy Bran Nogueira
Vasconcellos, Rafael Leandro Figueiredo
Bini, Daniel
Miyauchi, Marina Yumi Horta
Santos, Cristiane Alcantara dos
Alves, Paulo Roger Lopes
Paula, Alessandra Monteiro de
Nakatani, André Shigueyoshi
Pereira, Jamil de Moraes
Nogueira, Marco Antonio
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv land-use
microbial community
soil fauna
soil quality
sustainability
topic land-use
microbial community
soil fauna
soil quality
sustainability
description Soil Health refers to the ecological equilibrium and the functionality of a soil and its capacity to maintain a well balanced ecosystem with high biodiversity above and below surface, and productivity. To understand and use soil health as a tool for sustainability, physical, chemical, and biological properties must be employed to verify which respond to the soil use and management within a desired timescale. Attributes with a rapid response to natural or anthropogenic actions are considered good indicators of soil health. Among the physical indicators, soil texture, aggregation, moisture, porosity, and bulk density have been used, while among chemical indicators total C and N, mineral nutrients, organic matter, cation exchange capacity, among others are well established. However, most of them generally have a slow response, when compared to the biological ones, such as microbial biomass C and N, biodiversity, soil enzymes, soil respiration, etc., in addition to macro and mesofauna. Thus, a systemic approach based on different kinds of indicators (physical, chemical and biological) in assessing soil health would be safer than using only one kind of attribute. Many human activities have caused desertification, loss of biodiversity, disruption of aggregates, loss of organic matter and nutrients, among others. Today, it is imperious to maintain soil health and productivity with increasing emphasis on reforestation and recuperation of degraded areas through the use of organic amendments, reintroduction of plants, soil fauna and microorganisms. This review focused on an integrative view on indicators of soil health to be used as tools for prediction of sustainability in production systems.
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dc.publisher.none.fl_str_mv Universidade de São Paulo. Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz
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dc.source.none.fl_str_mv Scientia Agricola; v. 70 n. 4 (2013); 274-289
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