Soil fertility is the ability of ... that maximizes crop production while minimizing the mining of soil nutrient reserves and the degradation of the physical and chemical properties of soil that can ...

Other ecosystem processes that can lead to carbon loss include soil erosion and leaching of dissolved carbon into groundwater. When carbon inputs and outputs are in balance with one another ...

the lead leaching in different areas, out of the berms and into sand,” she said. A draft report from the Marine Corps showed that elevated levels of heavy metals were found in the soil behind ...