Organic farming enhances soil microbial abundance and activity—A meta-analysis and meta-regression [1] > we integrated data from 56 mainly peer-reviewed papers

Organic farming enhances soil microbial abundance and activity—A meta-analysis and meta-regression [1] > we integrated data from 56 mainly peer-reviewed papers into our analysis, including 149 pairwise comparisons originating from different climatic zones and experimental duration ranging from 3 to more than 100 years. Overall, we found that organic systems had 32% to 84% greater microbial biomass carbon, microbial biomass nitrogen, total phospholipid fatty-acids, and dehydrogenase, urease and protease activities than conventional systems. .... In summary, this study shows that overall organic farming enhances total microbial abundance and activity in agricultural soils on a global scale. [1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0180442 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...