5. Impact of viticultural practices on the biological quality of soils

5.1 Working the soil

The impact of tillage was measured on microbial communities and macrofauna, but no references were found for nematofauna and microarthropods (figure 8 , see table 2 for bibliographical references). The term "tillage" is used here to refer to work in the inter-row, and is generally compared to a grassed inter-row. In the majority of articles, the depth, tool and intensity of work are not very detailed, so all types of intervention are amalgamated in this modality. There are few or no articles on row cultivation. The effect of the type of tillage,...