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What Is a Soil Profile?
This lab activity aims to introduce the concept of soil profiles and the language used by soil scientists. Through digging up a soil pit and...
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Effects of Organic Manure and Biochar-Based Fertilizer Application on Soil Water and Salt Transport in Brackish Water Irrigated Soil Profile
It is uncertain how soil amendments (organic manure and biochar-based fertilizer) affect soil water and salt movement below the root zone under...
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Effect of Different Proportions of Mineral Nitrogen Fertilizer Substitutions with Organic Manure on Soil Phosphorus Fractions Distribution in an Entisol Profile
The partial substitution of mineral nitrogen (N) fertilizer with organic manure can mitigate the negative effect of N on the environment. However,...
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Soil Formation, Soil Health and Soil Biodiversity
Increase in human population has led to industrialization and deterioration of the environment, including the soil. Also, there is also a constant...
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The biocontrol agent Bacillus velezensis T-5 changes the soil bacterial community composition by affecting the tomato root exudate profile
AimsRoot exudates modulate the interaction between plants, pathogens, and beneficial microbes. In this study, we tested whether tomato plants modify...
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Effect of soil contamination and additives on fermentative profile, microbial community and iron bioaccessibility of alfalfa silage
BackgroundDuring alfalfa harvesting and preservation, it is important to minimize losses and preserve dry matter and nutrients. Soil contamination of...
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Agrochemical Indicators, Content and Reserves of Mobile and Nonexchangeable Potassium Forms in the Profile of Arable Soddy-Podzolic Soil of a Long-Term Experiment with Introduction of Increasing NPK Doses
AbstractThe aim of the work is to study the effect of increasing doses of NPK on the change in agrochemical parameters and exchangeable and...
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Soil profile carbon, nitrogen, and crop yields affected by cover crops in semiarid regions
Cover crops are increasingly adopted to improve soil health in arid and semiarid regions, yet their effects on soil profile organic carbon (C) and...
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Agricultural Soil Management Impacts on Soil Microbial Communities
Soil microbial communities are significantly affected by agricultural soil management. Inappropriate management can be a cause of land degradation...
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The Development of Soil Science in Sicily
This chapter describes the development of soil science in Sicily. After a short introduction, a brief academic and scientific profile of the...
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Soil, Water and Nutrients
This Chapter provides an introduction to basic elements of soil science, from an understanding of the soil profile, its develop and its importance to...
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Soil Resilience
Soils are dynamic and subject to numerous degradative processes (e.g., erosion, compaction, salinization, acidification). Most of all, climatic...
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Bayesian Inference of Soil Traits from Green Manure Fields in a Tropical Sandy Soil
Green manure represents a crucial soil management practice for soil traits and potentially sequestering organic carbon (OC) within the soil profile....
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Land and Soil Resources
The chapter explores the varied and complex components of natural land units, emphasizing their dependence on cultural ethos, planning, and...
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Soil Cover Structure and Pasture Soil Properties in a Dry Steppe Zone under Conditions of Different Grazing Intensities
AbstractA study was made of the features of the soil cover of solonetz complexes in different parts of the pasture of an average sheep farm in the...
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Soil Physical-chemical Traits and Soil Quality Index in a Tropical Cambisol as Influenced by Land Uses and Soil Depth at Apodi Plateau, Northeastern Brazil
The soil physical-chemical changes in different land uses in a Tropical Cambisol at Apodi Plateau, Northeastern Brazil, were investigated between May...
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Generic optimization approach of soil hydraulic parameters for site-specific model applications
Site-specific crop management is based on the postulate of varying soil and crop requirements in a field. Therefore, a field is separated into...
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Tree root-soil interaction: field study of the effect of trees on soil moisture and ground movement in an urban environment
AimsLittle research has been conducted to quantify the atmosphere-plant-soil interaction in urban environments due to a lack of understanding of...
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Major Soil Types
Ethiopia has diverse soil resources. Natural conditions, such as parent materialParent material, climateClimate, topography, biotic and land use/land...
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Different responses of soil microbial respiration to nitrogen addition between surface and deep soil in a temperate steppe in Inner Mongolia
Background and aimsOver the past few decades, terrestrial ecosystems have experienced rising atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition, which further...
