Soil amendments
Effects of different soil amendments on the growth and yield of okra in a tropical rainforest of southwestern Nigeria
... no soil amendment was obtained in ...previous soil amendments with the new additions could account for these ...native soil fertility; hence the lower okra yield obtained during the second ...
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Application of soil amendments and their effect in the growth of heliconia
... Hydrogel amendments have been used to improve the survival and establishment of seedlings, particularly in dry environments (MUDHANGANYI et al., 2018). So the effect of the SAP did not show its effect again, as it ...
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Assessment of trace metals in Amazonian fish exposed to untreated urban sewage: high chromium concentrations in fish tissues
... Other local contaminant sources of the Madeira River Basin are fertilizers and soil amendments (Santos et al., 2012). This study aims: i) to assess the concentration of copper, nickel, [r] ...
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Use of slaughterhouse waste and tannery-based organic compost for management of reniform nematode
... increasing soil amendments (1, 3, 9, 15 and 30%, v/v) of organic compost produced from slaughterhouse waste and tannery residues on the reproduction of reniform nematodes and cotton ...to soil ...
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Soil biochemical properties in brown and gray mine soils with and without hydroseeding
... of soil organic ...the soil resources, and destroys the soil microbial components of an ...a soil resource capable of supplying wa- ter and nutrients for the plant community and must provide ...
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Aided Phytostabilization of Mine Waste
... 2011). Soil amendments like liming agents, phosphates and apatites, Fe, Al and Mn oxy/hydroxides, organic amendments, industrial waste products, organic residues such as compost, manure or sewage ...
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Effect of biochar and liming on soil nitrous oxide emissions from a temperate maize cropping system
... tion event with the highest application rate around early Au- gust. Afterwards, there were only emissions from one of the lime plots but almost none until the end of October from all the other plots. This also ...
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The economics of soil C sequestration and agricultural emissions abatement
... target soil carbon mea- ...additional soil carbon sequestration, at minimal cost to ...their soil condition and what they had planned to do with their ...
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<sup>14</sup>C in cropland soil of a long-term field trial – experimental variability and implications for estimating carbon turnover
... into soil carbon dynamics. For soil radiocar- bon, an important tracer for understanding these dynamics, experimental variability across replicates is usually not accounted for; hence, a relevant source of ...
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Organic wastes from bioenergy and ecological sanitation as a soil fertility improver: a field experiment in a tropical Andosol
... to soil amendment, possibly with and without biochar, is of certain practical relevance but needs preceding scientific investigation to study the specific metabolisms taking place and to identify the consequent N ...
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Three-dimensional soil organic matter distribution, accessibility and microbial respiration in macroaggregates using osmium staining and synchrotron X-ray computed tomography
... Our analyses could be used to improve quantitative esti- mates of the accessibility of both particulate (> 50 µm) and finer OM in soil aggregates. Our analysis showed that OM voxels had an overall transition ...
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Citrate and malonate increase microbial activity and alter microbial community composition in uncontaminated and diesel-contaminated soil microcosms
... Contamination of soils by petroleum hydrocarbons (PHCs) can impair soil function and pose serious risks to human and ecosystem health (Park and Park, 2011; Ramadass et al., 2015). A novel approach for remediating ...
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Pedotransfer functions for Irish soils – estimation of bulk density (<i>ρ</i><sub>b</sub>) per horizon type
... Abstract. Soil bulk density is a key property in defining soil ...the soil and is also essential for the measurement of soil carbon stock and nutrient ...known soil properties to ...
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Effects of environmental factors and soil properties on topographic variations of soil respiration
... in soil respiration on slopes has been ex- amined in many forest types including Japanese cedar forests (Ohashi et ...lower soil respiration rates in lower parts of the ...decreased soil respiration ...
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CD28.R5: Amendments to the rules for technical discussions
... Having examined the amendments to the Rules for Technical Discussions proposed in Annex II to. Document CE86/22, included in Document CD28/9; and[r] ...
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Effects of precipitation on soil respiration and its temperature/moisture sensitivity in three subtropical forests in Southern China
... how soil respiration responds to altered precipitation influenced by soil moisture ...forest soil moisture decreased sig- nificantly (Zhou et ...
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A modification of the mixed form of Richards equation and its application in vertically inhomogeneous soils
... For all simulations we used the mixed form of RE (Eq. 1) first and the modified form (Eq. 6) afterwards. Here, the op- erationally used “θ-based” RE (Eq. 3) is not used anymore because of its disadvantage that it can not ...
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Amino acid and N mineralization dynamics in heathland soil after long-term warming and repetitive drought
... before soil sam- pling (22 ...height). Soil moisture and soil temperature (at a soil depth of 4–7 cm) were recorded in each plot with Decagon ...sensors. Soil moisture index was calcu- ...
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The use of soil electrical resistivity to monitor plant and soil water relationships in vineyards
... Figure 3 plots the variations of ER between two periods (16–23 July 2013 and 15–21 August 2013), characterised by a steeper reduction in the FTSW compared to other days. These measurements were carried out at the end of ...
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Deriving pedotransfer functions for soil quartz fraction in southern France from reverse modeling
... sity Soil Physics, Raleigh, USA), Tusheng Ren (China Agricultural University, Beijing, China) and a third anonymous referee for their review of the manuscript and for their fruitful ...
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