Healthy soil as a necessary condition of human life

The health of soil ecosystem as self-maintenance and sustainable bioproductivity review article

“…In economically progressive countries the understanding and development of the concept of SH originated due to the high requirements for food and feed quality, as well as due to concern for the fate of the soil state. This has led to a number of the definitions which today dominate in conceptions of SH (Karlen et al, 1997;Sokolov et al, 2010;Karlen et al, 2008;Doran and Zeiss, 2000;Anderson, 2003). There is also an opinion on the need to consider physical and chemical indices of soil quality as the components of its health Van Bruggen and Semenov, 2000;Semenov, 2015).…”

“…There is also an opinion on the need to consider physical and chemical indices of soil quality as the components of its health Van Bruggen and Semenov, 2000;Semenov, 2015). An example of this approach is given in the work (Sokolov et al, 2010): "Health of the soil is a function of its environmental sustainability, including: a) optimally balanced and adapted (to the ecological resources) biodiversity of pedocenosis; b) self-purification of soil from pollutants through adsorption and (or) of biotransformation; c) the suppression of harmful biota (phytopathogenic and sanitary indicative) by dominated aboriginal soil microorganisms". Thus, such definition of SH as category took the mixed status in the characteristics of the soil.…”

“…It includes a number of properties of the soil, which to a greater or lesser degree are changed in the process of technological impacts. Colleagues from the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) determine the quality of the soil as "the ability of the soil to function within the boundaries of the ecosystem to maintain its biological productivity and quality, ensuring the health of plants and animals" (Carpenter et al, 2001;Karlen et al, 1997;Sokolov et al, 2010). Although such a definition of soil quality puts its physical and chemical characteristics on top, but it also includes its biological properties Van Bruggen and Semenov, 2000).…”

Agrotechnology for Snapshots Soil Health with Bacteria

“…It can also negatively affect the structure of microbial communities. At the same time, soil microflora, as the system most sensitive to any changes in biogeocenose, in this aspect acts as an indicator of the state of fertility and``soil health'' [1,16,19,20]. Different numerical taxonomy groups of microorganisms participating in the conversion of organic substrates.…”

“…Therefore, indicator groups can serve not only major fils, as it considered in present time, but also minor. It is the balanced frequency and taxonomic diversity of microorganisms that determines the self-cleaning (sanitation) and suppressive activity of soil microbial community [1,19].…”