Soil management evidence
What farming does to soil: 33,291 findings from 2,422 studies.
Search by practice, soil property and site. Every finding states where it comes from: newly read ones with page and passage of the paper, older ones entered by researchers.
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Ways into the library
- Evidence synthesisWhat a practice does to a soil property, counted per study, when it holds, and a paragraph for your manuscript.
- Knowledge spacePractices and properties in 3D, a one-minute guided tour, and chains of effects between any two concepts.
- MapWhere the studies were done, with the same filters as the search.
- GuideHow the library works, what you can rely on, and how to use it for a review or a model.
Most studied effects
How often a practice was found to raise, lower or not change a soil property, across all papers that report it.
Zero tillageSoil organic carbon
484 papersZero tillageTotal Nitrogen
181 papersZero tillageBulk density
168 papersZero tillageYield
135 papersConservation tillageSoil organic carbon
118 papersReduced tillageSoil organic carbon
94 papersZero tillageMicrobial biomass Carbon
92 papersZero tillageParticulate organic carbon
81 papers
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Drop in the PDF. The library reads bibliography, sites, treatments and results itself and asks you only about what it is unsure of.
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About ten items per paper, each with the passage it came from.
Recently added
Microbial community composition affects soil organic carbon turnover in mineral soils
Don et al. · 2017 · Biology and Fertility of Soils
4 findings1 site
Long-term impact of tillage and crop rotation on soil health at four temperate agroecosystems
Congreves et al. · 2015 · Soil and Tillage Research
43 findings4 sites
Influence of Tillage on the Mollisols Physicochemical Properties, Seed Emergence and Yield of Maize in Northeast China
Chen et al. · 2021 · Agriculture
45 findings1 site
Effects of long-term tillage systems on aggregate-associated organic carbon in the eastern Mediterranean region of Turkey
Acar, Celik & Günal · 2018 · EURASIAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE (EJSS)
11 findings1 site
Comparison of soil microbial community catabolic diversity between rhizosphere and bulk soil induced by tillage or residue retention
Yang, Wang & Shen · 2013 · Journal of soil science and plant nutrition
20 findings1 site
Differential effects of roots and symbiotic fungal hyphae on soil organic carbon under straw incorporation
Huang et al. · 2025 · Journal of Applied Ecology
15 findings1 site