Land restoration

Ecosystem restoration

Soil is a fundamental component of the biosphere, functioning not only for the production of food and fiber, but also for maintaining environmental quality. It is therefore not surprising that proposals are being made soil health indices Given that human health and well-being are associated with soil quality and health, assessing soil quality and health is complex, as it requires considering multiple soil functions and integrating the physical, chemical, and biological attributes that define soil function.

Soil quality can be defined as soil function and represents a composition of its physical, chemical, and biological properties, thus performing three fundamental functions:

– It is the medium in which plants grow.
– It acts as a regulator of water flow in the environment.
– It serves as an environmental filter.

Soil is a vital, non-renewable natural resource on a human timescale.

A series of tasks must be carried out to facilitate the establishment of vegetation. This group of operations includes light compaction by rolling, deep raking, leveling, cleared of stonesand plowing, among others. The execution of these actions also depends on the type of revegetation that will be carried out subsequently.