Quality assessment of meta-analyses on soil organic carbon

Fohrafellner, Julia; Zechmeister-Boltenstern, Sophie; Murugan, Rajasekaran; Valkama, Elena

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-9-117-2023

Articles | Volume 9, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-9-117-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-9-117-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 1

Review article

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21 Feb 2023

Review article |

| 21 Feb 2023

Quality assessment of meta-analyses on soil organic carbon

Julia Fohrafellner, Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern, Rajasekaran Murugan, and Elena Valkama

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-9-117-2023-supplement

Data sets

Supplementary material to: Quality Assessment of Meta-Analyses on Soil Organic Carbon Fohrafellner, Julia; Zechmeister-Boltenstern, Sophie; Murugan, Rajasekaran; Valkama, Elena https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6389949

Short summary

The number of meta-analyses in agriculture and soil sciences is continuously rising, but they are often of poor quality. We quantitatively analyzed the quality of 31 meta-analyses studying the effects of different management practices on soil organic carbon (SOC). We found that only one meta-analysis on no tillage/reduced tillage obtained a high score. New or improved meta-analyses on the effects of organic agriculture, biochar, fertilization, and crop diversification on SOC are urgently needed.