On the risks of good intentions and poor evidence – comment on “Back to the future? Conservative grassland management can preserve soil health in the changing landscapes of Uruguay” by Säumel et al. (2023)
José Paruelo,Luis López-Mársico,Pablo Baldassini,Felipe Lezama,Bruno Bazzoni,Luciana Staiano,Agustin Nuñez,Anaclara Guido,Cecilia Ríos,Andrea Tommasino,Federico Gallego,Fabiana Pezzani,Gonzalo Camba Sans,Andrés Quincke,Santiago Baeza,Gervasio Piñeiro,and Walter Baethgen
Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria, INIA – La Estanzuela, Colonia, Uruguay
Santiago Baeza
Departamento de Sistemas Ambientales, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
Gervasio Piñeiro
LART-IFEVA and Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Departamento de Sistemas Ambientales, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
Walter Baethgen
International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), Columbia University, Palisades, NY, USA
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In this article, we make comments on some methodological issues and on the general approach of the paper Back to the future? Conservative grassland management can preserve soil health in the changing landscapes of Uruguay (Säumel et al., 2023; https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-9-425-2023). We identified several design and methodological problems in the aforementioned publication that may induce potential misinterpretations.
In this article, we make comments on some methodological issues and on the general approach of...
