Hao Chen

TL;DR: In this article, a field experiment comparing soil organic matter and wheat productivity between controlled traffic and conventional tillage farming systems was conducted on the Loess Plateau of China, where two controlled traffic treatments (zero tillage with residue cover and no compaction, shallow tillage, residue cover with no compression, and a conventional TCA) and one conventional taca treatment were compared.

TL;DR: In this semiarid ecosystem, three grasslands with long-term traditional managements were selected to investigate the seasonal fluctuations of microbial biomass carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus, and the turnover rates and fluxes of soil microbial biomass based on their seasonal fluctuations were calculated.

TL;DR: In this paper, an arable loam calcareous soil was treated with simulated farming practices that included wheat straw and nitrogen incorporation and three DRW cycles at intervals of 14 days during a 90-day experimental period of incubation at 25°C.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report the soil physical properties after 9 years of dryland wheat production under these treatments, and the substantial improvements seen in soils under controlled traffic compared with conventional tillage, which significantly reduced soil bulk density in the 0-0.15 m soil layer, and increased total porosity, where macroporosity (>60 µm) and mesoporosity (0.2 µm), readily available water content and saturated hydraulic conductivity were greater.