Norbert Bischoff

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of the largest policy-induced land conversion to arable land, the Virgin Lands Campaign (VLC), from 1954 to 1963, of the massive cropland abandonment after 1990 and of climate change on soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks in steppes of Russia and Kazakhstan.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a concept and practicable solutions for effective and environmentally sound cereal-based cropping systems in Siberia and conduct field trials on three experimental sites in the Altai Krai of Siberia.

TL;DR: In this article, a combination of soil analysis along a climatic gradient from the forest steppe to the dry steppe and a modelling approach with the Lund-Potsdam-Jena managed land (LPJmL) model revealed that since their cultivation soils of the Kulunda steppe lost about 20-35% of their organic carbon, not only particulate organic C was affected but also organic C located within mineral-organic associations was lost, and the proportion of the lost C is independent from the climatic conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use adapted soil management to improve not only physical but also chemical soil properties and therefore the soil fertility, which in turn improves both physical and chemical soil quality.