Articles | Volume 16, issue 24
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-4783-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-4783-2019
Reviews and syntheses
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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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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.
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