The Role of Soils in the Environment
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil Conservation and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 407
Special Issue Editor
Interests: soil ecology; invasive organisms; soil physics; utilization of organic wastes
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Soils provide important ecosystem services. Among these are provisioning of food and fiber production, pollutant mitigation, supporting nutrient cycling, regulating climate and water quality, and contributing value to economy and culture. In this Special Issue we invite papers which focus on the role that soils take in regulating environmental processes at any spatial and temporal scale.
Soils are highly variable at all scales, whether at small scales where the distribution of nutrients and organisms varies among aggregates, to large scale (e.g., continents), at which Jenny’s equation plays out, resulting in thousands of distinct soil series. Regardless of the scale at which processes occur, soils are an essential part of the Earth’s life-support system. This Special Issue wants to highlight the link between soil and environmental quality.
Submissions may include manuscripts on soil management for sustainable agriculture and food quality and nutrient density, pollutant mitigation, reduction of climate change gas emissions, climate change resilience, soil biodiversity, and mitigating the effects of urbanization. However, submissions that link the sustainable use of soils to the quality of the human ecosystem and associated cultures are also welcome. Manuscripts should make a clear connection between soils and sustainability. Acceptable types of manuscripts include research papers, reviews, and meta-analyses. We recognize that many scientific disciplines involve the exploration of soils. Therefore, we ask that research papers use rigorous experimental methods and statistical data analyses appropriate to the field of study.
Dr. Josef H. Gorres
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- Soils
- The total environment
- Soil conservation
- Soil biodiversity
- Sustainable agriculture
- Climate change resilience
- Food quality
- Pollutant mitigation
- The human ecosystem
