SOIL INDICATORS IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULLTURE PRODUCTION
Keywords:
Physical, chemical and biological indicators, sustainable agriculture production, soil ecosystemAbstract
The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss soil physical, chemical and biological indicators at the national level, as well as the progres made in their use for sustainable development assessment.
The population pressure adds to the need protect the existing soil resources. There is therefore a need for developing soil indikators in order to measure the sustainability of land use and management for different human activities. Efforts are made towards a better understanding of the factors that may affect the soil resource, and these factors are then translated into indicators. Only an integrated approach combining several relevant indicators can give answers to the complex questions of soil quality and sustainable soil use.
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6. 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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22. Pulleman, M. M., Six, J., Uyl, A., Marinissen, J. C. Y. and Jongmans, A. G. (2005): Earthworms and management affect organic matter incorporation and microaggregate formation in agricultural soils. Applied Soil Ecology, 29, 1–15.
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24. Seybold, C. A., Mausbach, M. J., Karlen, D. L., and Rogers, H. H. (1997): Quantification of soil quality. In: Advances in Agronomy Stewart, B. A. and Lal, R. (Eds.). Proceedings from an International Symposium on Carbon Sequestration in Soil. Lewis Publishing.
25. Shaxson, T. F. (1998): Concepts and indicators for assessment of sustainable land use. Adv. Geoecology 31: 11–19.
26. Sparling, G. P. (1992): Ratio of microbial biomass carbon to soil organic carbon as a sensitive indicator of changes in soil organic matter. Aust. J. Soil Res. 30: 195–207.
27. SSSA (1998): Internet glosary of soil science terms. Soil Science Society of America.
28. UN-CSD (1996): Indicators for sustainable development: Framework and methodologies. United Nations, New York.
29. Warkentin, B. P. (1995): The changing concept of soil quality. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. 50, 226–228.
30. Weigand, S., Auerwld, K., and Beck, T. (1995): Microbial biomass in agricultural topsoils after 6 years of bare fallow. Biol. Fert. Soils 19: 129–134.
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2006-04-30
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Gajić, B., Sredojević, Z., & Dugalić, G. (2006). SOIL INDICATORS IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULLTURE PRODUCTION. Ekonomika Poljoprivrede, 53(2), 441–450. Retrieved from https://ea.bg.ac.rs/index.php/EA/article/view/1516
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