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Soil regeneration, as a particular form of ecological regeneration within the field of restoration ecology, is creating new soil and rejuvenating soil health by: minimizing the loss of topsoil, retaining more carbon than is depleted, boosting biodiversity, and maintaining proper water and nutrient cycling. [1]
Soil regeneration is the reformation of degraded soil through biological, chemical, and or physical processes. [ 2 ] When productivity declined in the low-clay soils of northern Thailand, farmers initially responded by adding organic matter from termite mounds , but this was unsustainable in the long-term.
Regenerative agriculture is a conservation and rehabilitation approach to food and farming systems. It focuses on topsoil regeneration, increasing biodiversity, [1] improving the water cycle, [2] enhancing ecosystem services, supporting biosequestration, [3] increasing resilience to climate change, and strengthening the health and vitality of farm soil.
For example, at Wirraminna station (or property, ranch), following fencing to exclude stock, severe soil-drifts were fully revegetated and stabilised through natural regeneration of the indigenous vegetation. It was also found that furrowing (or ploughing) of eroded areas resulted in the natural regeneration of indigenous vegetation.
Hamaker was born in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, and graduated from Purdue University in Mechanical Engineering.Concerned for the environment, he became a student of ecology and agriculture and was influenced by books such as Bread From Stones, [1] [2] which showed that plants grow better in soils generated by mimicking natural soil-forming processes that take millennia, such as the ...
The new growth of seedlings and community assembly process is known as regeneration in ecology. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As ecological succession sets in, a forest will slowly regenerate towards its former state within the succession ( climax or any intermediate stage), provided that all outer parameters (climate, soil fertility availability of nutrients ...
However, higher density revegetation requires the use of more soil nutrients and water, which can potentially dry out and deplete the soil. [5] For riparian revegetation, plant roots help to increase the shear strength of bank soil, and if tree roots begin to lose their strength, the bank is susceptible to land slips .
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