Lessons from a landmark 1991 article on soil structure: distinct precedence of non-destructive assessment and benefits of fresh perspectives in soil research

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dc.contributor.authorBaveye, Philippe C.
dc.contributor.authorBalseiro-Romero, María
dc.contributor.authorBottinelli, Nicolas
dc.contributor.authorBriones, María
dc.contributor.authorCapowiez, Yvan
dc.contributor.authorGarnier, Patricia
dc.contributor.authorKravchenko, Alexandra
dc.contributor.authorOtten, Wilfred
dc.contributor.authorPot, Valérie
dc.contributor.authorSchlüter, Steffen
dc.contributor.authorVogel, Hans-Jörg
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-24T14:54:50Z
dc.date.available2022-01-24T14:54:50Z
dc.date.issued2022-01-19
dc.description.abstractIn 1991, at the launch of a national symposium devoted to soil structure, the Australian Society of Soil Science invited Professor John Letey to deliver a keynote address, which was later published in the society’s journal. In his lecture, he shared the outcome of his reflexion about what the assessment of soil structure should amount to, in order to produce useful insight into the functioning of soils. His viewpoint was that the focus should be put on the openings present in the structure, rather than on the chunks of material resulting from its mechanical dismantlement. In the present article, we provide some historical background for Letey’s analysis, and try to explain why it took a number of years for the paradigm shift that he advocated to begin to occur. Over the last decade, his perspective that soil structure needs to be characterised via non-destructive methods appears to have gained significant momentum, which is likely to increase further in the near future, as we take advantage of recent technological advances. Other valuable lessons that one can derive from Letey’s pioneering article relate to the extreme value for everyone, even neophytes, to constantly ask questions about where research on given topics is heading, what its goals are, and whether the methods that are used at a certain time are optimal.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationBaveye P, Balseiro-Romero M, Bottinelli N, et al., (2022) Lessons from a landmark 1991 article on soil structure: distinct precedence of non-destructive assessment and benefits of fresh perspectives in soil research. Soil Research, Volume 60, Number 4, 2022, pp. 321-336en_UK
dc.identifier.issn1838-675X
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1071/SR21268
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/17487
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherCSIRO Publishingen_UK
dc.subjectaggregate stabilityen_UK
dc.subjectcomputed tomographyen_UK
dc.subjectearthworms; micromorphologyen_UK
dc.subjectsoil faunaen_UK
dc.subjectsoil functionsen_UK
dc.subjectsoil image analysisen_UK
dc.subjectsoil microorganismsen_UK
dc.subjectsoil measuringen_UK
dc.subjectsoil organic matteren_UK
dc.titleLessons from a landmark 1991 article on soil structure: distinct precedence of non-destructive assessment and benefits of fresh perspectives in soil researchen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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