It has taken time for the international community to accept the idea of biodiversity values, a concept which had previously been restricted to the limited aesthetic and touristic aspects of wildlife. This situation changed following the International Convention on Biodiversity in Rio de Janeiro (1992), which focussed on “the forgotten environmental problem” of biodiversity erosion and made the ...

marily in the use of fermented preparations in compost and as field sprays. These unique preparations (Table Biodynamic agriculture is a unique organic farming system that 1) consist of specific minerals or plants treated or ferutilizes, in addition to the common tools of organic agriculture, specific fermented herbal preparations as compost additives and field sprays. mented with animal organs...

Soil serves as a reservoir for Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus, fungi that produce carcinogenic aflatoxins in agricultural commodities. Populations in soil are genetically diverse and individual genotypes show a clustered distribution pattern within fields. Surveys over large geographic regions suggest that climate and crop composition influence species density and aflatoxin-producing pot...

PH (Puissance de Hydrogen) is an essential ingredient of soil that effects on fertility and productivity of dirt. Barddhaman district is a part of Lower Gangetic Plain fully covered by alluvial soil and popularly known as 'rice bowl of West Bengal' owing to its lofty production. This data article provides a block level data on soil PH that is essential for further investigation of the relations...

Soil erosion research is a popular topic in soil science that appears in conjunction with several other topics like soil and/or water conservation, soil physics, chemistry and – biology and others. A request for the term “soil erosion” on CAB abstract CD, dated from January 1992 to January 2001, resulted in 15.531 articles. According to the publication year on average 1.639 articles are publish...

Understanding soil organic matter (SOM) decomposition and its interaction with rhizosphere processes is a crucial topic in soil biology and ecology. Using a natural 13C tracer method to separately measure SOM-derived CO2 from root-derived CO2, this study aims to connect the level of rhizosphere-dependent SOM decomposition with the C and N balance of the whole plant–soil system, and to mechanist...

Previous research has shown that population densities of plant-parasitic nematodes are reduced when a legume crop is grown in rotation with sugarcane. However, this effect is only temporary, as nematodes usually return to high densities within 12 months of planting sugarcane. This rapid resurgence suggests that natural enemies that normally keep plant-parasitic nematodes under control in natura...

www.frontiersinecology.org © The Ecological Society of America S contain a huge and dynamic pool of carbon (C), that is a critical regulator of the global carbon budget. As the repository for more than three-fourths of the earth’s terrestrial C, soils store 4.5 times the amount of C contained in vegetation (Lal 2004). Small changes in the processes governing soil C cycling have the potential to...