Achieving and maintaining a good soil quality is essential for sustaining agricultural
production in an economically viable and environmentally safe manner. The transition of …

The development of soil quality indicators will require a combination of holistic and
reductionist approaches because of the different scales at which soil quality can be …

Management regimes of varying types and intensities can have profound impacts on
grassland soil quality. Plus, there has recently been increased interest in finding soil quality …

Chemical and microbial aspects of soil quality are an important consideration when
evaluating the benefits of soil conservation efforts such as the Conservation Reserve …

Knowledge of soil spatial variability and relationships among soil properties is important for
the evaluation of agricultural land management practices. This study was to characterize the …

Appropriate indicators and indices for assessing soil quality on a regional scale are needed
to accurately assess the impact of different land-uses and soil conservation practices on soil …

CRP lands in eastern Washington were eligible for dryland cropping production as of 1995.
Conservation and conventional take-out practices were assessed at eight sites throughout …

Diversity of soil series present in a region may hinder identification of soil quality factors and
indicators at a regional scale. Our objectives were (i) to identify soil quality factors for a …

Soil quality indicators may be useful for evaluating public policies such as the Conservation
Reserve Program (CRP). The objective of this study was to determine how CRP affected …

Identification of soil quality indicators (SQI) is important to sustainable management of
natural resources. The objective of this project was to develop a technique for identifying …