Conservation agriculture improves soil health and sustains crop yields after long-term warming.

ABSTRACT: Climate warming threatens global food security by exacerbating pressures on degraded soils under intensive crop production. Conservation agriculture is promoted as a sustainable solution that improves soil health and sustains crop yields in a changing climate, but these benefits may be affected by long-term warming. Here, we investigate the effects of conservation agriculture compared to conventional agriculture on 17 soil properties, microbial diversity and crop yields, during eight-years' experimental warming. An overall positive effect of warming on soil health over time under conservation agriculture is characterized by linear increases in soil organic carbon and microbial biomass carbon. Warming-triggered shifts in microbial biomass carbon and fungal diversity (saprogen richness) are

SUBMITTER: Teng J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11467207 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature