The agricultural management as a key tool for a conservative agriculture. Its analysis through biochemistry and microbiology

Abstract

The new global challenges show the necessity of carry out changes in the ways of soil agricultural management, for which it is necessary to modify the current agricultural practices. In this review, we focus on how agricultural management influence and alter the characteristics of the soil and its ecosystem services. Here, we present evidence of the beneficial effects produced by no-tillage on physical, chemical and biological properties of the soil. Later, we discuss what happens when the agricultural management is exchanged and the soil must adapt to a new situation. Finally, we conclude with what happens when the focus is changed and the soil is analyzed when it is separated in its aggregates that form it. In addition, we analyzed what influences have the agricultural management on different soil aggregates fractions.