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- Organic dairy farming in GAEC de la Branchette, FR
- Organic hop farming in Trzebieszów, PL
- Assessing soil quality in the Suining study site
- Importance of good soil quality
- Impact of soil management on physical soil properties
- Effect of agricultural management on soil life
- Physical characteristics of Crete study site
- Soil threats and approaches for their mitigation
- Land management practices that protect Crete from degradation
- Benefits of using catch crops, SI
- Introducing the iSQAPER project
- Benefits of straw return
- Alternatives to lime for reducing soil acidity
- Rock fragments and soil conservation
- Tartumaa study site, Estonia
- Soils in Estonia
- Minimum tillage, Estonia
- No-tillage, Estonia
- Zala study site, Hungary
- Factors affecting soil quality
- Nutrient cycle in organic farming, SI
- Biochar as a soil improver
- SQAPP - the soil quality assessment app
- SQAPP - quick user guide
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- Focus points for sustainable management in the Netherlands
- Aandachtspunten voor bodembeheer
- Prácticas agrícolas sostenibles del sureste Español
- Land management practices and soil threats in the island of Crete
- Converting cropland to grazing land
- Fertilising with farmyard manure
- Biochar and zeolite - integrated soil fertility management
- Organic farming
- Ekološko kmetijstvo
- Biodiversity in organic farming
- Soils in Poland - how to improve and save
- Earthworms indicate healthy soils
- Sustainable farming practices to mitigate soil threats
- Catch crops - importance for soil quality
- Prezimni dosevki - pomen za kakovost tal
- Land use in Estonia
- Soils of Estonia
- Land management in Zala county
- Soil quality indicators: integrated soil quality assessment
- Nutrient cycle in organic farming
- Krogotok hranil na ekološki kmetiji
- Biochar as a soil amendment
- Biooglje kot izboljševalec tal
- Specific soil degradation processes in pastures
- Agricultural friendly management in Estonia - reduced tillage
- No-till farming in Estonia
- Labile carbon: a sensitive soil quality indicator
- What soil threats are addressed in SQAPP?
- SQAPP launch factsheet
- Good practice leaflets
- Laboreo mínimo, España
- Ekološko kmetijstvo, Slovenia
- Managementul apei pe terenurile arabile, Romania
- Otsekülv (direct seeding), Estonia
- Non-inversion tillage, Netherlands
- Minimum tillage, permanent soil cover and manure application, Spain
- Minimum and no tillage, Crete
- Organic farming, broad rotation and organic manure, Slovenia
- Farmyard manure, Hungary
- Water management, Romania
- Extensive sustainable grazing, Crete
- Sewage sludge incorporation, Portugal
- Incorporação de lamas de etar, Portugal
- Straw mulching and no tillage, China
- Straw mulching and no tillage, China_CN
- Crop rotation, fertilization and green manure
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- Zones & systems
- Pedoclimatic zones of Europe
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- Crop & livestock systems
- Spatial analysis of climate, soil and crop types
- References
- Importance of cropping practices and soil type under a changing climate
- Cropping systems and pedoclimatic zones - assessment methods
- Cropping systems in relation to pedoclimatic conditions in Europe
- Cropping systems in relation to pedoclimatic conditions in China
- Cropping systems and pedoclimatic zones - discussion and conclusions
- Soil quality
- Soil quality - a critical review
- References
- Concepts of soil quality
- Concepts related to soil assessment
- Approaches to soil quality assessment
- Requirements for soil quality indicators
- Methods for selecting a minimum data set
- Frequently proposed soil quality indicators
- Novel soil quality indicators - review
- Deriving a soil quality index and alternatives
- Stakeholder involvement in developing and using soil quality assessment schemes
- Interpretation of indicator values
- Soil quality indicators conclusions & outlook
- Management practices and soil quality
- Soil quality indicators from long-experiments
- Novel soil quality indicators
- References
- Novel soil quality indicators - experimental methods
- Labile carbon fractions as soil quality indicators
- Soil suppressiveness to Pythium ultimum and its relation with soil parameters
- Effect of tillage and organic matter additions on nematodes community assessed with 18S squencing
- Community level physiological profiling with MicroResp®
- Novel soil quality indicators - general discussion and conclusion
- Visual soil and plant quality assessment
- Susceptibility to wind and water erosion
- Surface ponding (under cropping)
- Subsoil compaction
- Soil colour
- Soil porosity
- Soil structure and consistency
- Soil stability (soil slaking test)
- Earthworm density
- pH
- Infiltration rate / penetration resistance
- Topsoil compaction
- Labile organic carbon
- Number and colour of soil mottles
- Degree of clod development
- Crop yield
- Root system size and development
- Root diseases
- Weed infestation
- Soil fauna
- Environmental exposure to pesticides (EPP)
- Indicator performance
- Soil quality - a critical review
- SQAPP
- Designing SQAPP: the soil quality assessment app
- User feedback and SQAPP development
- SQAPP (beta version) - questionnaire
- SQAPP (beta version) - feedback results
- SQAPP (beta version) - gender disaggregated feedback results
- Demonstration events - feedback results
- Soil Horizons Workshop - feedback
- Field evaluation of SQAPP performance (beta version) in the greater Albaida region
- iSQAPER project partners' SQAPP review
- SQAPP FAQs
- Agricultural management practices recommended by SQAPP
- Terrain management
- Soil management
- Vegetation management
- Water management
- Carbon and nutrient management
- Pest management
- Pollutant management
- Grazing management
- Developing SQAPP
- Building SQAPP
- SQAPP architecture
- SQAPP data
- SQAPP for different types of user
- Land management
- Agricultural management practices in the iSQAPER study sites
- Demonstration events in the study sites
- Impact of promising agricultural management practices
- References
- Soil quality assessment and analysis methods
- Correlation between VSA soil indicators and measured soil properties
- AMPs of proven effectiveness to include in SQAPP
- Correlation between VSA soil indicators
- Correlation between AMP groups, VSA soil indicators and measured soil properties
- Measured impact of innovative AMPs on soil threats
- Farming systems, pedo-climatic zones and AMPs
- Identification of experimental sites in which to measure impact of AMPs
- iSQAPER study sites
- Study site 14: Gongzhuling, China
- Study site 13: Zhifanggou Watershed, China
- Study site 12: Suining, China
- Study site 11: Qiyang, China
- Study site 10: Tartumaa, Estonia
- Study site 9: Trzebieszów, Poland
- Study site 8: Braila County, Romania
- Study site 7: Zala County, Hungary
- Study site 6: Ljubljansko polje, Slovenia
- Study site 5: Crete, Greece
- Study site 4: SE Spain
- Study site 3: Cértima, Portugal
- Study site 2: GAEC de la Branchette, France
- Study site 1: De Peel, Netherlands
- Upscaling
- Effect of farming on soil quality
- References
- Upscaling approaches in geospatial environmental studies
- Approach taken to evaluate the soil environmental footprint
- Geospatial, farming systems and agricultural management practices data
- Selecting farming systems, agricultural managment practices and soil quality indicators for upscaling
- Definition of farming systems, agricultural managment pactices and soil quality indicators
- Effect of agricultural management practices on soil quality
- Gaps in knowledge and further work
- Effect of management on soil quality
- References
- Approach to upscale the effect of key management practices
- Quantification of soil ecosystem services at the continental scale
- Agri-climatic regions for policy analysis
- Effect of agricultural managment practices in different agro-climatic regions in Europe and China
- Detailed spatial results of the effect of key management practices on ecosystem services
- Soil management scenarios
- Policies and environmental footprint
- Effect of farming on soil quality
- Policy
- Grounding sustainability: land, soils and the Sustainable Development Goals
- Policy relevant conclusions
- Protecting Europe's soils: policy solutions and opportunities
- Lessons for policy
- The iSQAPER toolkit: research conclusions for policy makers
- The iSQAPER toolkit – a new, interconnected approach to soil quality assessment
- Quality soils - supporting the transition to a resilient and sustainable economy
- References
- Developing policies that promote soil quality and agricultural resilience
- The key role of the next CAP in delivering healthy agricultural soils
- Applying SQAPP
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