Soil erosion and agricultural sustainability

By David R. Montgomery. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2007

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Subfields: Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, Soil Science

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Bacteria and fungi can contribute to nutrients bioavailability and aggregate formation in degraded soils. (2016, positive): “Destruction of soil structure is one of the most important indicator of soil degradation which is mainly caused by loss of organic matter through intensive soil management practices and land use changes (Oldeman et al., 1990; Montgomery, 2007).”
Testing for Complementarity: Glyphosate Tolerant Soybeans and Conservation Tillage (2015, neutral): “Since their commercial introduction in 1996, genetically engineered (GE) crop varieties have been both successful and controversial (Moschini 2008).”
Soil and human security in the 21st century (2015, background): “Numerous studies of natural rates of soil production now suggest rates between 50 to 200 mMy for many environments, indicating that the pace of erosion in numerous agricultural areas is, or until recently has been, unsustainable (47).”
Analyzing High Resolution Topography for Advancing the Understanding of Mass and Energy Transfer Through Landscapes: A Review (2015, background): “…geomorphic agents (Marsh, 1869, 1882), have now significantly impacted landscapes and their ecosystems (Hooke, 1994, 2000; Foley et al., 2005; Ellis et al., 2006; Montgomery, 2007; Syvitski and Saito, 2007;30 Wilkinson and McElroy, 2007; Ellis, 2011; Sidle and Ziegler, 2012; Tarolli et al., 2014).”
Biofuels: Efficiency, Ethics, and Limits to Human Appropriation of Ecosystem Services (2010, background): “He calculates an average erosion rates of soil necessary to dissipate the entropy produced by US maize agriculture of 23–45 t ha yr, this is bounded from above by an experimental estimate of mean soil erosion by conventional agriculture worldwide of 47 t ha yr (Montgomery 2007b).”
Reduced tillage in temperate organic farming: implications for crop management and forage production (2010, background): “In recent reviews, traditional mouldboard ploughing was shown to cause soil erosion (Montgomery, 2007; Triplett & Dick, 2008) and loss of soil organic carbon (Lal et al., 2007).”
Soil erosion modelling: A global review and statistical analysis (2020, positive): “This distribution of soil erosion rates among the different land cover/use units ﬁ t those reported by Montgomery (2007) and Borrelli et al. (2017a, 2017b) for values observed from ﬁ eld measurements.”
Land use and climate change impacts on global soil erosion by water (2015-2070) (2020, background): “mission (6, 7) (SI Appendix, Climate and Future Change).”
Soil Degradation, Land Scarcity and Food Security: Reviewing a Complex Challenge (2016, background): “In regions such as Asia and Africa, where soil erosion is associated with reduced vegetation cover, the loss of soil carbon can trigger catastrophic shifts to severely degraded landscapes [4,9,67,70,86,140,202,205,206].”
The potential ecological costs and cobenefits of REDD: a critical review and case study from the Amazon region (2009, background): “We live today with the legacies of soil management and mismanagement, from ancient civilizations to recent times, with most examples of historical deforestation leading to soil degradation (Montgomery, 2007).”
Cost of agricultural productivity loss due to soil erosion in the European Union: From direct cost evaluation approaches to the use of macroeconomic models (2018, background): “According to Montgomery (2007), the United States Department of Agriculture also considers soil loss rates of less than 12 t ha −1 year−1 (equivalent to 1mmof erosion per year, assuming a bulk density of 1,200 kg/m3) to be tolerable for maintaining crop productivity.”