Soil management evidence
What farming does to soil: 37,655 findings from 2,743 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
493 papersZero tillageBulk density
195 papersZero tillageTotal Nitrogen
183 papersZero tillageYield
150 papersConservation tillageSoil organic carbon
121 papersReduced tillageSoil organic carbon
99 papersZero tillageMicrobial biomass Carbon
92 papersZero tillageParticulate organic carbon
81 papers
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About ten items per paper, each with the passage it came from.
Recently added
The effectiveness of agrotechnical anti-erosion measures on sloping soils in the conditions of the forest-steppe of Ukraine
Bulygin et al. · 2025 · Journal of Ecological Engineering
11 findings1 site
Organic carbon dynamics and changes in some physical properties of soil and their effect on grain yield of maize under conservative tillage practices in Abakaliki, Nigeria
James & Chukwuebuka · 2017 · African Journal of Agricultural Research
12 findings1 site
The Impact of Traffic-Induced Compaction on Soil Bulk Density, Soil Stress Distribution and Key Growth Indicators of Maize in North China Plain
Wang et al. · 2022 · Agriculture
16 findings1 site
Soil Compaction and Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis) Yield in a Clay Textured Soil
· 2010 · American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences
4 findings1 site
Residual Effect of Cover Crops and Conservation Tillage on Soil Physical Properties and Wheat Yield Grown after Direct Seeded Rice
Shahid et al. · 2020 · International Journal of Agriculture and Biology
13 findings1 site
Tillage and Rice-Wheat Cropping Sequence Influences on Some Soil Physical Properties and Wheat Yield under Water Deficit Conditions
Kumar et al. · 2012 · Open Journal of Soil Science
20 findings1 site