Reviews and syntheses: Agropedogenesis – humankind as the sixth soil-forming factor and attractors of agricultural soil degradation

Kuzyakov, Yakov; Zamanian, Kazem

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-4783-2019

Articles | Volume 16, issue 24

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-4783-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-4783-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 24

Reviews and syntheses

|

17 Dec 2019

Reviews and syntheses |

| 17 Dec 2019

Reviews and syntheses: Agropedogenesis – humankind as the sixth soil-forming factor and attractors of agricultural soil degradation

Yakov Kuzyakov and Kazem Zamanian

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Interactive discussion

Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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SC1: 'Comments on the publication entitled “Agropedogenesis: Humankind as the 6th soil-forming factor and attractors of agrogenic soil degradation’’ by Yakov Kuzyakov and Kazem Zamanian in ‘’Biogeosciences Discuss."', D.K. PAL, 15 Jun 2019
- AC1: 'Reply to the comments by D.K. Pal', Kazem Zamanian, 19 Jul 2019
  - SC2: 'Response to the "Reply of the authors"', D.K. PAL, 02 Aug 2019
RC1: 'Comments on "Agropedogenesis: Humankind as the 6th soil-forming factor and attractors of agrogenic soil degradation"', Anonymous Referee #1, 03 Sep 2019
- AC2: 'Respond to the reviewer #1', Kazem Zamanian, 24 Sep 2019
SC3: 'comment on “Agropedogenesis: Humankind as the 6th soil-forming factor and attractors of agrogenic soil degradation”', Ruhollah Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi, 04 Sep 2019
- AC3: 'Respond to revewer #2', Kazem Zamanian, 24 Sep 2019
RC2: 'Comments on "Agropedogenesis: Humankind as the 6th soil-forming factor and attractors of agrogenic soil degradation', Anonymous Referee #2, 06 Sep 2019
- AC3: 'Respond to revewer #2', Kazem Zamanian, 24 Sep 2019
SC4: 'Comment on Agropedogenesis: Humankind as the 6th soil-forming factor and attractors of agrogenic soil degradation', Peter Kühn, 06 Sep 2019
- AC4: 'Respond to Prof. Kühn', Kazem Zamanian, 24 Sep 2019

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (29 Sep 2019) by Jianming Xu

AR by Anna Wenzel on behalf of the Authors (08 Oct 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (09 Oct 2019) by Jianming Xu

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (09 Oct 2019)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (19 Oct 2019)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (24 Oct 2019) by Jianming Xu

Short summary

Agropedogenesis, i.e. soil development under agricultural use, is the anthropogenic modification of soil and environmental factors for optimization of crop production. Maximization of only this function, crop production, leads to declines in all other soil functions and consequently promotes uniformity in soil properties around the globe. Here we developed a new scientific background for the theory of agropedogenesis and the identification of soil degradation stages.