SOIL QUALITY MONITORING FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
Keywords:
Soil quality, sustainability in agricultural production, indicatorsAbstract
Soil and crop management practices may have impacts on the natural environment and induce changes in soil. A fundamental task of soil monitoring systems is to serve as a tool for land management in sense of sustainable development. In spite of the fact, that this task is common to all countries nowadays, there are still differences in metodologies and indicators of soil quality. Diversity of soil types may hinder identification of soil quality factors and indicators at a national scale. Assessment of soil quality is the basis for assessing sustainable soil management in this century.
The objective of this paper was to identifay some soil physical, chemical and biological indicators for soil quality monitoring in sustainable agricultural management at national level.
In many ways, soil quality is one measure of ecosystem health. Conserving soil quqlity means protecting the full range of ecological services high-quality soils provide.
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4. Barth, H., L'Hermite, P. L. (1987): Soil protection in the European Community. Elsevier Applied Science Publishers, London. 630 pp.
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6. Beare, M. H., Cameron, K. C., Williams, P. H., Doscher, C (1997): Soil quality monitoring for sustainable agriculture. Proceedings 50th Conference of the New Zeland Plant Protection Society Incorporated. Wellington, New Zeland.
7. Cameron, K. C., Cornforth, I. S., McLaren, R. G., Beare, M. H., Basher, L. R., Metherell, A. K., and Kerr, L. E. (1996): Soil Quality Indicators for Sustainable Agriculture in New Zealand: Proceedings of a Workshop. Lincoln Soil Quality Research Centre, Lincoln University, New Zealand.
8. Chen, Z. S. (1999): Selecting indicators to evaluate soil quality. Food & Fertilizer Tehnology Center. An International Information Center for Farmers in the Asia Pacific Region. pp. 1–20.
9. Doran, Ј. W., Parkin, T. B. (1994): Defining and assessing soil quality. In: Defining soil quality for a sustainable environment. J. W. Doran, D. C. Coleman, D. F Beydicek, and B. A. Stewart (Eds.). Soil Sci. Soc. Am. Special Publication No. 35, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. pp. 3–21.
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12. Hammond, A. L. (ed) (1992): World resources 1992-3. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
13. Hillel, D. (1992): Out of the Earth: Civilisation and the Life of the Soil. The Free press, New York. 321 p.
14. Hseu, Z. Y., Chen, Z. S., and Tsai, C. C. (1999): Selected indicators and conceptual framework for assessment methods of soil quality in arable soils of Taiwan. Soil and Enwironment. 2: 77–88. (In Chinese, with English abstract and tables).
15. Johnson, D. L., Ambrosce, S. H., Bassett, T. J., Bowen, M. L., Crummey, D. E., Isaaxson, J. S., Johnson, D. N., Lamb, P., Saul, M., and Winter-Nelson, A. E. (1997): Meanings of environmental terms. J. Environ. Quality 26: 581–589.
16. Karlen, D. L., Mausbach, M. J., Doran, J. W., Cline, R. G., Harris, R. F., and Schuman, G. E. (1997): Soil quality: A concept, definition, and framework for evalution. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 61: 4–10.
17. Kennedy, A. C., and Papendick, R. I. (1995): Microbial characteristics of soil quality. J. of Soil and Water Conservation 50: 243–248.
18. Lal, R. (1991): Soil research for agricultural sustainability in the Tropics. In: Toward Sustainability: A plan for collaborative research on agricultura and natural resource management (1991). Board on Agriculture (BOA), National Academy Press, Washington, D. C., pp. 66–75.
19. Lal, R. (1994): Data analysis and interpretation. In: Methods and Guidelines for Assessing Sustainable Use of Soil and Water Resources in the Tropics, R. Lal (Ed.). Soil Management Support Services Technical. Monograph. No. 21. SMSS/SCS/USDA, Washington, D. C., pp. 59–64.
20. Larson, W. E., and Pierce, F. J. (1991): Conservation and enhancment of soil quality. In: Evaluation for Sustainable Land Management in the Developing World. Int. Board for Soil Res. and Management. Bangkok, Thailand.
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2006-09-30
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Gajić, B., Milivojević, J., & Đurović, N. (2006). SOIL QUALITY MONITORING FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE. Economics of Agriculture, 53(3), 893–902. Retrieved from https://ea.bg.ac.rs/index.php/EA/article/view/1476
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