Systemic Soil Fertility as product of system self-organization resulting from management
Ibanor Anghinoni, Fabiane Machado Vezzani
Abstract
Soil Fertility is one of the most relevant fields of Soil Science related to agricultural production, especially in tropical and subtropical environments, due to the prevalence of weathered and naturally unproductive soils. However, indicators of Soil Fertility currently used do not represent what actual happens in the soil; once must be understood as a process. The wisdom of this importance occurred in Antiquity and evolved until the mid-19th century, when the mineralist concept was proposed, which is still dominant [...]
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FertilitySoil fertilityAgricultureProduct (mathematics)SubtropicsProcess (computing)Soil waterAgroforestryProduction (economics)Environmental scienceEarth scienceGeographyNatural resource economicsAgricultural engineeringEnvironmental resource managementEcologySoil scienceEconomicsBiologyComputer scienceEngineeringSociologyMathematicsGeologyArchaeologyPopulationDemographyOperating systemGeometryMacroeconomicsSoil Carbon and Nitrogen DynamicsSoil Management and Crop Yield