Soil & Tillage Research

Papers
(The TQCC of Soil & Tillage Research is 13. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Effect of different underlying surfaces on hydraulic parameters of overland flow141
Does century-old biochar affect soil interrill erodibility on cropland soils? A study on pre-industrial kiln sites122
Soil aggregate stability helps construct a stable nitrogen fixation system in lignite-based amendment-driven saline-sodic soil remediation109
Assessing the impacts of climate change on crop yields, soil organic carbon sequestration and N2O emissions in wheat–maize rotation systems102
Can gypsum and organic amendments achieve sustainability, productivity and maintain soil health under soybean-mustard cropping in sodic soils of western India97
Organic carbon sequestration by Fe oxides in aggregates in a Pinus massoniana conifer-broadleaf mixed forest91
Biogeochemistry of dissolved organic matter and inorganic solutes in soil profiles of tropical pasturelands90
Effect of cover crop on soil fertility and bacterial diversity in a banana plantation in southwestern China89
High-molecular-weight dissolved organic matter enhanced phosphorus availability in paddy soils: Evidence from field and microcosm experiments85
Using ground-penetrating radar to investigate the thickness of mollic epipedons developed from loessial parent material71
Leaf nitrogen and phosphorus resorption improves wheat grain yield in rotation with legume crops in south-eastern Australia68
Physical properties of technosols at brown coal mine wastes in Eastern Siberia67
Topsoil shear strength – Measurements and predictions67
Future warming-induced phosphorus loss mitigated by land conversion and degradation66
Soil depth mapping and its linkage to gully erosion rate prediction in granite areas of southern China65
Green manuring and crop residue management: Effect on soil organic carbon stock, aggregation, and system productivity in the foothills of Eastern Himalaya (India)65
3D printing of a fiber optic pressure sensor65
Temporal and spatial characteristics of paddy soil potassium in China and its response to organic amendments: A systematic analysis65
An overview of natural soil amendments in agriculture65
A calculation model of the mean flow velocity of overland flow considering a variety of grass covers and raindrop’s characteristics63
Weed shift and community diversity in conservation and conventional agriculture systems in pigeonpea- castor systems under rainfed semi-arid tropics62
Spatial variation and temporal decline (1985–2017) of soil organic carbon stocks (SOCS) in relation to land use types in Tombel area, South-West Cameroon60
Tillage and nitrogen supply affects maize yield by regulating photosynthetic capacity, hormonal changes and grain filling in the Loess Plateau60
Long-term tillage and cropping systems affect soil organic carbon components and mineralization in aggregates in semiarid regions59
The effect of soil salt content and ionic composition on nitrification in a Fluvisol of the Yellow River Delta59
Long-term land use and tillage influence on phosphorus species in Brazilian Oxisols: A multi-technique assessment by chemical P fractionation, 31P NMR and P K-edge XANES spectroscopies56
Microrelief and spatial heterogeneity of soils on limestone, Sub Ural plateau, Russia: Attributes and mechanism of formation55
Response of boreal clay soil properties and erosion to ten years of no-till management52
Comparison of equivalent soil mass approaches to estimate soil organic carbon stocks under long-term tillage50
Gully is the dominant sediment source of snowmelt erosion in the black soil region – A case study50
Divergent chemical compositions of soil organic matter size fractions under long-term amendments across a climate gradient50
Loss and conservation of soil organic carbon and nutrients in arid and semiarid China during aeolian dust emissions50
Spatial pattern and controlling factors of soil organic carbon density in a typical karst province, China49
From science to practice: The AGSUS protocol for monitoring and certification of sustainable soil management and carbon sequestration49
Legume cover crops enhance soil organic carbon via microbial necromass in orchard alleyways49
Assessing the effects of soil and water conservation in gully land consolidation using the modified SWAT-Terrace model48
Gully erosion susceptibility mapping considering seasonal variations of NDVI using a machine learning approach in the Mollisol region of China48
Soil aggregate stability and erosion resistance in response to integration of cover crops and poultry litter in a no-till rainfed soybean cropping system48
Divergent effects of biological soil crusts on soil respiration between bare patches and shrub patches under simulated rainfall in a desert ecosystem in Northwest China47
Exploring biochar addition impacts on soil erosion under natural rainfall: A study based on four years of field observations on the Loess Plateau47
Comparative effect of conventional and adaptive management approaches on watershed health45
The impacts of cover crop mixes on the penetration resistance model of an Oxisol under no-tillage44
Investigating the capability of estimating soil thermal conductivity using topographical attributes for the Southern Great Plains, USA44
Numerical analysis applied to the study of soil stress and compaction due to mechanised sugarcane harvest42
Do diversified crop rotations influence soil physical health? A meta-analysis42
Structure dependent changes in pore water pressure due to stress application and consequences on the effective stress42
Approximate analytical solution to equation for two-dimensional soil-water movement in ponding infiltration based on numerical simulation42
Editorial Board41
Zero-valent iron addition stimulated straw-derived carbon accumulation in submerged soil41
Effects on soil nitrogen and plant production from land applying three types of biosolids to an agricultural field for three consecutive years41
Assessing the availability of potassium and its quantity-intensity relations under long term conservation agriculture based cereal systems in North-West India41
Nitrogen agronomic efficiency under nitrogen fertilization does not change over time in the long term: Evidence from 477 global studies41
Response of soil microbial biomass C, N, and P and microbial quotient to agriculture and agricultural abandonment in a meadow steppe of northeast China41
Predicting and mapping soil magnetic susceptibility in an agro-pastoral transitional zone: Influencing factors and implications40
A meta-analysis of the impact of traffic-induced compaction on soil physical properties and grain yield40
Are the yield of sunflower and Paiaguas palisadegrass biomass influenced by soil physical quality?39
Minimizing sampling induced errors in Ks-measurements of stone bearing soils38
Effects of tillage microrelief units on splash erosion: A case study from the Loess Plateau, in China38
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Investigating spatial relationships of soil friability and driving factors through co-regionalization with state-space analysis in a subtropical watershed38
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Optimal design and setting of rotary strip-tiller blades to intensify dry season cropping in Asian wet clay soil conditions38
Including soil depth as a predictor variable increases prediction accuracy of SOC stocks38
Soil-dwelling springtails as indicators of the efficiency of No-till technologies with different amounts of mineral fertilizers in the crop rotation on chernozem soils37
Carbon accumulation dynamics and development processes of peatland established after the Changbaishan Millennium eruption37
Evaluating the Splintex model for estimating the soil water retention curve for a wide range of soils37
Changes in micronutrient concentrations under minimum tillage and cotton-based crop rotations in irrigated Vertisols36
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A novel UNet segmentation method based on deep learning for preferential flow in soil36
Spate irrigation slightly ameliorates an arid soil's quality, but tree planting enhances its characteristics35
Experimental basis for determining contact angle in the ideal model of unsaturated soils35
Crop diversification effects on soil organic carbon and nitrogen storage and stabilization is mediated by soil management practices in semiarid woody crops34
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The short-term effects of an existing channel, a single pass of tillage and their interaction on the generation of runoff and sediment34
Effect of fertilization on farmland phosphorus loss via surface runoff in China: A meta-analysis34
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Evaluation and recommendations for the use of dynamic penetrometers33
A three-year measurement reveals that partial conversion from synthetic fertilizer to dairy manure increases cumulative nitric oxide emissions from a long-term experimental cropland33
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Effect of hardpan on the vertical distribution of water stress in a converted paddy field33
Silicon uptake and utilization on Panicum maximum grass modifies C:N:P stoichiometry under warming and soil water deficit32
No-till annual wheat increases plant productivity, soil microbial biomass, and soil carbon stabilization relative to intermediate wheatgrass in a Mediterranean climate32
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Measuring the causal effect of no-till system adoption on Brazilian natural areas31
Deformation and pore water pressure change during static and cyclic loading with subsequent shearing on soils with different textures and matric potentials31
Fifteen-years of continuous application of organic materials improve the soil aggregation, organic carbon status and sustain the productivity of the basmati rice-wheat system31
Enhancing soil carbon and nitrogen through grassland conversion from degraded croplands in China: Assessing magnitudes and identifying key drivers of phosphorus reduction30
Bacterial interference competition and environmental filtering reduce the fungal taxonomic and functional contribution to plant residue decomposition in anoxic paddy soils30
Consequences of elevated CO2 on soil acidification, cation depletion, and inorganic carbon: A column-based experimental investigation30
Spatial relationships between the van Genuchten soil-water retention curve parameters and photosynthetic gas exchange variables in a wheat field29
Development of pedotransfer functions for predicting hydraulic parameters of van Genuchten model by incorporating environmental variables on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau29
Evaluating soil water dynamics under a no-tillage system with residual plastic film mulching in an arid region of western China using HYDRUS-2D29
Estimation of soil water retention curves from soil bulk electrical conductivity and water content measurements29
Does no-tillage mitigate the negative effects of harvest compaction on soil pore characteristics in Northeast China?28
Machinery traffic in sugarcane straw removal operation: Stress transmitted and soil compaction28
The potential of crop residue recycling for sustainable phosphorus management in non-flooded rice-lentil system in alkaline soil28
Interaction of pyrolysed and un-pyrolysed organic materials enhances carbon accumulation in soil irrigated with water of variable electrical conductivity28
The effects of traffic management systems on the yield and economics of crops grown in deep, shallow and zero tilled sandy loam soil over eight years.28
Forms and balance of soil potassium from a long-term integrated crop-livestock system in a subtropical Oxisol28
Variations in the profile distribution of soil aggregates and organic carbon under rice-crayfish coculture system in Jianghan Plain, China28
Deep tilling and localized liming improve soil chemical fertility and sugarcane yield in clayey soils28
Plow layer management during the fallow season can enhance the wheat productivity and resource utilization in a semi-arid region27
Evaluating soil organic carbon changes after 16 years of soil relocation in Chinese Mollisols by optimizing the input data of the RothC model27
A comparison of preferential flow characteristics and influencing factors between two soils developed in the karst region of Southwest China27
Straw burial depth and manure application affect the straw-C and N sequestration: Evidence from 13C & 15N-tracing27
Responses of greenhouse gas emissions to different straw management methods with the same amount of carbon input in cotton field27
Long-term manure application to improve soil macroaggregates and plant-available nitrogen in a Mollisol27
Potential of visible-near infrared spectroscopy for the determination of three soil aggregate stability indices27
Physical recovery of an oxisol subjected to four intensities of dairy cattle grazing27
Improvement in dryland crop performance and soil properties with multiple annual applications of lignite-derived humic amendment27
Does spontaneous cover crop increase the stocks of soil organic carbon and nitrogen in commercial olive orchard?26
Long-term straw return increases fungal residual contribution to soil microaggregate nitrogen pool: An eco-enzymatic stoichiometric study26
Control of landscape position on organic matter decomposition via soil moisture during a wet summer26
Measurement and modelling of soil water dynamics under ridge tillage in paddy field26
Spatial variation of gully erosion determinants across subtropical regions of China26
Wear on steel tillage tools: A review of material, soil and dynamic conditions26
Soil carbon, nitrogen, and biotic properties after long-term no-till and nitrogen fertilization in a subtropical Vertisol26
Effects of reduced tillage and prolonged cover cropping in maize on soil quality and yield26
Impacts of different management measures on soil nutrients and stoichiometric characteristics for sloping farmland under erosive environments in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China26
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A 44-year balanced fertilizer application affected rill erosion resistance by changing humus, aggregates, and polyvalent cation26
Current limitations and future research needs for predicting soil precompression stress: A synthesis of available data26
Environmental and management drivers of soil health indicators on Michigan field crop farms25
Partial organic substitution increases soil quality and crop yields but promotes global warming potential in a wheat-maize rotation system in China25
Using X-ray computed tomography to quantify variability in soil macropore characteristics in pastures25
Comparing mini-disk infiltrometer, BEST method and soil core estimates of hydraulic conductivity of a sandy-loam soil25
Impacts of soil compaction and historical soybean variety growth on soil macropore structure25
Soil profile carbon sequestration and nutrient responses varied with cover crops in irrigated forage rotations25
Nitrogen input level modulates straw-derived organic carbon physical fractions accumulation by stimulating specific fungal groups during decomposition25
Impact of saline soil improvement measures on salt content in the abandonment-reclamation process24
Maize/faba bean intercropping with rhizobial inoculation in a reclaimed desert soil enhances productivity and symbiotic N2 fixation and reduces apparent N losses24
Economics of alternative tillage systems in dryland crop rotations in U.S. Great Plains24
Hydraulic and pore functions of differently textured soils modified by biochar from different parts of the mango plant24
Towards rapid analysis with XRF sensor for assessing soil fertility attributes: Effects of dwell time reduction24
Investigation of the burial and mixing performance of a rotary tiller using discrete element method24
Soil salinity simulation based on electromagnetic induction and deep learning24
Divergent response of Chernozem organic matter towards short-term water stress in Poa pratensis L. rhizosphere and bulk soil in pot experiments: A spectroscopic study24
Influence of tillage methods and soil crust breakers on cotton seedling emergence in silty-loam soil24
Influence of selected maize cultivation technologies on changes in the labile fraction of soil organic matter sandy-loam cambisol soil structure24
Does long-term application of mineral fertilizers improve physical properties and nutrient regime of sandy soils?24
Higher soil carbon and nitrogen sequestration in rice than non-rice soils following land reclamation24
A high-resolution physical modelling approach to assess runoff and soil erosion in vineyards under different soil managements23
Isotropic compression behavior of salinized unsaturated agricultural soil: An experimental and constitutive investigation23
Construction of complex features for predicting soil total nitrogen content based on convolution operations23
Impact of ryegrass cover crop inclusion on soil phosphorus and pqqC- and phoD-harboring bacterial communities23
Tillage-induced microtopography alters time-dependent intrinsic correlation of runoff and sediment yield23
Maize root-induced biopores do not influence root growth of subsequently grown maize plants in well aerated, fertilized and repacked soil columns23
Experimental study on the stability of vegetated earthen slopes under intense rainfall23
Spatio-temporal evolution of water erosion in the western Songnen Plain: Analysis of its response to land use dynamics and climate change23
Quantification of the pore size distribution of a Rhodic Hapludox under different management systems with X-ray microtomography and computational simulation23
Soil microstructure as affected by tillage, rotation and residue management in a sweet sorghum-based cropping system in soils with low organic carbon content in South Africa23
No tillage decreases GHG emissions with no crop yield tradeoff at the global scale23
Conservation agriculture affects soil organic matter distribution, microbial metabolic capacity and nitrogen turnover under Danish field conditions23
An improved pore-solid fractal model for predicting coastal saline soil hydraulic properties based on changepoints determined by genetic algorithm-support vector regression23
Soil erodibility and hillslope erosion processes affected by vegetation restoration duration23
Exploring nitrogen management methods for depressing the decline of wheat grain protein in plastic film mulch via 15N-labelling technique23
Evaluation of soil macro-aggregate characteristics in response to soil macropore characteristics investigated by X-ray computed tomography under freeze-thaw effects23
Dynamics and influencing factors of soluble organic nitrogen in paddy soil under different long-term fertilization treatments23
Combined impact of no-tillage and cover crops on soil carbon stocks and fluxes in maize crops22
Comparing the effect of different sample conditions and spectral libraries on the prediction accuracy of soil properties from near- and mid-infrared spectra at the field-scale22
Development of a dual sideway-share subsurface tillage implement: Part 2. Effect of tool geometry on tillage forces and soil disturbance characteristics22
Reductive soil disinfestation with biochar amendment modified microbial community composition in soils under plastic greenhouse vegetable production22
Geometrical and statistical analysis of dynamic crack morphology in shrink-swell soils with addition of maize roots or salinity (NaCl)22
How does soil compaction alter nitrous oxide fluxes? A meta-analysis22
Mitigation of carbon dioxide by accelerated sequestration from long-term biochar amended paddy soil22
Effective prediction of soil organic matter by deep SVD concatenation using FT-NIR spectroscopy22
Higher microbial C use efficiency in paddy than in adjacent upland soils: evidence from continental scale22
Mechanical and microscopic properties of soil according to the rate of increase in pore water pressure22
Mapping cation exchange capacity and exchangeable potassium using proximal soil sensing data at the multiple-field scale22
3D-visualization and quantification of soil porous structure using X-ray micro-tomography scanning under native pasture and crop-livestock systems22
Impact of conservation tillage on the distribution of soil nutrients with depth21
Soil organic matter gain by reduced tillage intensity: Storage, pools, and chemical composition21
Effect of filling materials on reconstructed soil phosphorus adsorption and desorption in mining area21
Soil organic matter pools response to perennial grain cropping and nitrogen fertilizer21
Organic carbon distribution and soil aggregate stability in response to long-term phosphorus addition in different land-use types21
Responses of Q10 to anthropogenic soil redistribution: Synthetic effects of SOM composition and r/K-shifts of microbial community21
Simulating water and nitrogen runoff with APSIM21
Legume-based crop diversification reinforces soil health and carbon storage driven by microbial biomass and aggregates21
Subsoiling and conversion to conservation tillage enriched nitrogen cycling bacterial communities in sandy soils under long-term maize monoculture21
Effects of covering sand with different soil substrates on the formation and development of artificial biocrusts in a natural desert environment21
Biochar application promotes crops yield through regulating root development and the community structure of root endophytic fungi in wheat-maize rotation21
Deep vertical rotary tillage mitigates salinization hazards and shifts microbial community structure in salt-affected anthropogenic-alluvial soil21
Soil mechanical reinforcement by the fibrous roots of selected rangeland plants using a large soil-root shear apparatus21
Long-term green manuring enhances crop N uptake and reduces N losses in rice production system21
Modelling and optimization of urea super granule (USG) placement depth in paddy cultivation under check basin irrigation using HYDRUS-2D model20
Map-based variable-rate manure application in wheat using a data fusion approach20
Soil tillage and machinery traffic influence soil water availability and air fluxes in sugarcane fields20
Soil quality indices in a conservation agriculture based rice-mustard cropping system in North-western Indo-Gangetic Plains20
A simple method for predicting the hydraulic properties of unsaturated soils with different void ratios20
Seedbed consolidation and surface sealing for soils of different texture and soil organic carbon contents20
Impact of soil and water conservation structures on the spatial variability of topsoil moisture content and crop productivity in semi-arid Ethiopia20
Changes in soil organic carbon fractions and enzyme activities in response to tillage practices in the Loess Plateau of China20
Can legume species, crop residue management or no-till mitigate nitrous oxide emissions from a legume-wheat crop rotation in a semi-arid environment?20
Plastic-shed vegetable cultivation alters soil gross nitrogen transformation rates and nitrous oxide production pathways20
Soil heterogeneity and the challenge of identifying a trajectory of soil properties development at a mine rehabilitated site20
Long-term manuring facilitates glomalin-related soil proteins accumulation by chemical composition shifts and macro-aggregation formation20
Soil quality assessment to compare tillage systems in Cukurova Plain, Turkey20
Intercropping perennial aquatic plants with rice improved paddy field soil microbial biomass, biomass carbon and biomass nitrogen to facilitate soil sustainability20
Cropping system partially offsets tillage-related degradation of soil organic carbon and aggregate properties in a 30-yr rainfed agroecosystem20
Air injection in paddy soil reduces N2O and NH3 emissions and regulates the nitrogen cycle19
Micro/nanobubble-aerated drip irrigation affects saline soil microenvironments and tomato growth by altering bacterial communities19
Improving soil quality and wheat yield through diversified crop rotations in the North China Plain19
Degradation of acetochlor in soil by adding organic fertilizers with different conditioners19
WITHDRAWN: Counterions, smectite, and palygorskite increase microstructural stability of saline-sodic soils19
Microbial carbon and phosphorus metabolism regulated by C:N:P stoichiometry stimulates organic carbon accumulation in agricultural soils19
Effect of bio-tillage on the least limiting water range of clayey red soil19
Long-term combined effects of tillage and rice cultivation with phosphogypsum or farmyard manure on the concentration of salts, minerals, and heavy metals of saline-sodic paddy fields in Northeast Chi19
Water retention characteristics and vegetation growth of biopolymer-treated silt soils19
Rice straw incorporation mobilizes inorganic soil phosphorus by reorienting hysteresis effect under varying hydrothermal regimes in a humid tropical Inceptisol19
A geospatial approach for evaluating impact and potentiality of conservation farming for soil health improvement at regional and farm scale19
Variability in soil characteristics in the field–bund transition area increases water loss potential in paddy fields19
An empirical model for prediction of topsoil deformation in field traffic19
Assessment of carbon carrying capacities of Alfisols and Vertisols under long-term manuring and fertilization19
Dynamics and composition of soil organic carbon in response to 15 years of straw return in a Mollisol19
Soil compaction alleviation by deep non-inversion tillage and crop yield responses in no tilled soils of the Pampas region of Argentina. A meta-analysis18
Comparison of mechanized conservation agriculture and conventional tillage in Zambia: A short-term agronomic and economic analysis18
Changes in carbon and phosphorus storages and humic substances in a Ferralsol, after tillage and animal manures applications18
Particulate organic carbon is more sensitive to nitrogen addition than mineral-associated organic carbon: A meta-analysis18
Prediction of soil hydraulic properties by Gaussian process regression algorithm in arid and semiarid zones in Iran18
Soil organic matter in physical fractions after intensification of irrigated rice-pasture rotation systems18
Biochar improves cd-contaminated soil and lowers Cd accumulation in Chinese flowering cabbage (Brassica parachinensis L.)18
Chemical and spectroscopic evaluations supporting superior P availability after biochar-P fertilizer application18
Soil structure changes induced by tillage and reduction of machinery traffic on sugarcane – A diversity of assessment scales18
Effect of compaction on the relationship between electrical resistivity and soil water content in Oxisol18
Deep phosphorus fertilizer placement increases maize productivity by improving root-shoot coordination and photosynthetic performance18
Effects of soil depth and characteristics on phosphorus adsorption isotherms of different land utilization types18
Long-term effects of gypsum on the chemistry of sodic soils18
Cation composition of saline water affects soil structure by altering the formation of macropores and cracks in illite soils17
Influence of cover crops and tillage on organic carbon loss in Mediterranean olive orchards17
Greenhouse gas fluxes in a no-tillage chronosequence in Central Ohio17
Soil respiration and net carbon flux response to long-term reduced/no-tillage with and without residues in a wheat-maize cropping system17
Empirical equations for estimating field capacity in dryland cropping soils of southeastern Australia17
Green manure provides growth benefits for soil mesofauna by promoting soil fertility in agroecosystems17
Assessment and prediction of coastal saline soil improvement effects combining substrate amendments and salt barrier materials in typical region of the Yangtze River Delta17
Depth-dependent patterns in the C:N:P stoichiometry of different soil components with reclamation time in coastal poplar plantations17
Ridge-furrow film mulch with nitrogen fertilization improves grain yield of dryland maize by promoting root growth, plant nitrogen uptake and remobilization17
Glucose amendment influences restructuring of compacted soil blocks – Results of a field experiment with varying soil-site conditions17
Transformation of biochar into extracted humic substances under short-term laboratory incubation conditions: Evidence from stable carbon isotopes17
Appropriateness of introducing earthworms into sustainable agriculture from the perspective of soil carbon emissions17
A tale of two systems: Does reducing tillage affect soil health differently in long-term, side-by-side conventional and organic agricultural systems?17
How farmers approach soil carbon sequestration? Lessons learned from 105 carbon-farming plans17
Nutrient supplementation changes chemical composition of soil organic matter density fractions in desert steppe soil in northern China16
Simulating field soil temperature variations with physics-informed neural networks16
Modeling surface runoff and soil loss response to climate change under GCM ensembles and multiple cropping and tillage systems in Oklahoma16
Large scale study on influence of biopolymer to mitigate wind induced sand erosion with durability analysis16
Long-term excessive phosphorus fertilization alters soil phosphorus fractions in the acidic soil of pomelo orchards16
Long-term effects of crop rotation, tillage, and fertilizer nitrogen on soil health indicators and crop productivity in a temperate climate16
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