Refining physical aspects of soil quality and soil health when exploring the effects of soil degradation and climate change on biomass production: an Italian case study

Bonfante, Antonello; Terribile, Fabio; Bouma, Johan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-5-1-2019

Articles | Volume 5, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-5-1-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-5-1-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 5, issue 1

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10 Jan 2019

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Refining physical aspects of soil quality and soil health when exploring the effects of soil degradation and climate change on biomass production: an Italian case study

Antonello Bonfante, Fabio Terribile, and Johan Bouma

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Final revised paper (published on 10 Jan 2019)
Preprint (discussion started on 13 Sep 2018)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review', David Rossiter, 24 Sep 2018
- AC1: 'Discussion SOIL-2018-30, reply to David Rossiter (RC1)', Antonello Bonfante, 08 Oct 2018
SC1: 'can physical soil properties alone can be used to quantify soil health?', Michael W. I. Schmidt, 23 Oct 2018
- AC2: 'Interactive comment SOIL-2018-30-SC1', Antonello Bonfante, 28 Oct 2018
RC2: 'Review of soil-2018-30: Refining physical aspects of soil quality and soil health when exploring the effects of soil degradation and climate change on biomass production: an Italian case study', Edward A. Nater, 10 Nov 2018
- AC3: 'Discussion SOIL-2018-30, reply to Dr. Nater (RC2)', Antonello Bonfante, 15 Nov 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (27 Nov 2018) by Paul Hallett

AR by Antonello Bonfante on behalf of the Authors (28 Nov 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (10 Dec 2018) by Paul Hallett

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (12 Dec 2018) by Lily Pereg (deceased) (Executive editor)

AR by Antonello Bonfante on behalf of the Authors (13 Dec 2018) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

This study is restricted to soil physical aspects of soil quality and health with the objective to define procedures with worldwide rather than only regional applicability, reflecting modern developments in soil physical research and focusing on important questions regarding possible effects of soil degradation and climate change.