Organic farming enhances soil microbial abundance and activity—A meta-analysis and meta-regression

Productivity, profitability and partial nutrient balance in maize-based conventional and organic farming systems in Kenya

(2016) Noah Adamtey et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Shallow non-inversion tillage in organic farming maintains crop yields and increases soil C stocks: a meta-analysis

(2016) Julia Cooper et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Soil microbial community and microbial residues respond positively to minimum tillage under organic farming in Southern Germany

(2016) Hanyin Sun et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

The impact of crop rotation on soil microbial diversity: A meta-analysis

(2016) Zander Samuel Venter et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

Meta-analysis approach to assess effect of tillage on microbial biomass and enzyme activities

(2016) Stacy M. Zuber et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Soil Biodiversity and the Environment

(2015) Uffe N. Nielsen et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Publication bias in meta-analyses from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

(2015) Michal Kicinski et al.   STATISTICS IN MEDICINE

Organic amendments as ecosystem engineers: Microbial, biochemical and genomic evidence of soil health improvement in a tropical arid zone field site

(2014) K. Aparna et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Soil biodiversity and soil community composition determine ecosystem multifunctionality

(2014) C. Wagg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Soil biological properties, soil losses and corn yield in long-term organic and conventional farming systems

(2014) Erika Larsen et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Does agricultural crop diversity enhance soil microbial biomass and organic matter dynamics? A meta-analysis

(2013) M. D. McDaniel et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Microbial biomass, activity, and community structure in horticultural soils under conventional and organic management strategies

(2013) Tida Ge et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

A Re-Analysis of the Cochrane Library Data: The Dangers of Unobserved Heterogeneity in Meta-Analyses

(2013) Evangelos Kontopantelis et al.   PLoS One

Yield and Economic Performance of Organic and Conventional Cotton-Based Farming Systems – Results from a Field Trial in India

(2013) Dionys Forster et al.   PLoS One

The crop yield gap between organic and conventional agriculture

(2012) Tomek de Ponti et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Functional Gene Differences in Soil Microbial Communities from Conventional, Low-Input, and Organic Farmlands

(2012) Kai Xue et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Using organic-certified rather than synthetic pesticides may not be safer for biological control agents: Selectivity and side effects of 14 pesticides on the predator Orius laevigatus

(2012) Antonio Biondi et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Comparing the yields of organic and conventional agriculture

(2012) Verena Seufert et al.   NATURE

Enhanced top soil carbon stocks under organic farming

(2012) A. Gattinger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Long-term application of organic manure and mineral fertilizers on aggregation and aggregate-associated carbon in a sandy loam soil

(2012) Hongyan Yu et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Global agriculture and nitrous oxide emissions

(2012) Dave S. Reay et al.   Nature Climate Change

Assessment of soil microbial diversity measurements as indicators of soil functioning in organic and conventional horticulture systems

(2011) Romina Romaniuk et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Development of reduced tillage systems in organic farming in Europe

(2011) Paul Mäder et al.   RENEWABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS

Roles of biotic and abiotic variables in determining spatial variation of soil respiration in secondary oak and planted pine forests

(2011) Junwei Luan et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Soil microbial communities and activities under intensive organic and conventional vegetable farming in West Java, Indonesia

(2010) Bram Moeskops et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Pyrosequencing Assessment of Soil Microbial Communities in Organic and Conventional Potato Farms

(2010) Akifumi Sugiyama et al.   PLANT DISEASE

Choosing Organic Pesticides over Synthetic Pesticides May Not Effectively Mitigate Environmental Risk in Soybeans

(2010) Christine A. Bahlai et al.   PLoS One

Fruit and Soil Quality of Organic and Conventional Strawberry Agroecosystems

(2010) John P. Reganold et al.   PLoS One

Natural products in crop protection

(2009) Franck E. Dayan et al.   BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY

Effects of fertilizer and spatial heterogeneity in soil pH on microbial biomass indices in a long-term field trial of organic agriculture

(2009) Stefanie Heinze et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Effects of four tillage systems on soil structure and soil microbial biomass in organic farming

(2009) J. F. Vian et al.   SOIL USE AND MANAGEMENT

Soil biochemical indicators as a tool to assess the short-term impact of agricultural management on changes in organic C in a Mediterranean environment

(2008) A. Lagomarsino et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

The unseen majority: soil microbes as drivers of plant diversity and productivity in terrestrial ecosystems

(2008) Marcel G. A. van der Heijden et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Effects of Crop Diversity on Agroecosystem Function: Crop Yield Response

(2008) Richard G. Smith et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Relationships between soil pH and microbial properties in a UK arable soil

(2008) J.C. Aciego Pietri et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Long-term organic farming fosters below and aboveground biota: Implications for soil quality, biological control and productivity

(2008) Klaus Birkhofer et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Differences in soil enzyme activities, microbial community structure and short-term nitrogen mineralisation resulting from farm management history and organic matter amendments

(2007) Christine H. Stark et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY