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
Add a paper without typing
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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Upload the PDF
Bibliography comes from the DOI; nothing to type.
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The library reads it
Tables, text and figure captions, in the background. You can keep working.
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Confirm what is uncertain
About ten items per paper, each with the passage it came from.
Recently added
Land-use changes from arable crop to kiwi-orchard increased nutrient surpluses and accumulation in soils
Lu et al. · 2016 · Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
15 findings1 site
Straw Deep Burial and Returning to Farmland: Mechanistic Study on Enhancing Albic Soil Fertility
Wang et al. · 2025 · Agronomy
21 findings1 site
Organic Manuring on Fruits and Vegetable Production and Soil Properties in Landmark University, Omu - Aran, South - West Nigeria
O et al. · 2017 · Nigerian Journal of Soil Science
17 findings2 sites
Response of soil microbial biomass and community structures to conventional and organic farming systems under identical crop rotations
Esperschuetz et al. · 2007 · FEMS Microbiology Ecology
11 findings1 site
Macroinvertebrates in North American tallgrass prairie soils: effects of fire, mowing, and fertilization on density and biomass
Callaham · 2003 · Soil Biology and Biochemistry
14 findings1 site
Cover crops improve soil health across termination strategies in organic cropping systems of the Mid‐South United States
Amorim et al. · 2026 · Agronomy Journal
2 findings1 site