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Open Journal of Soil Science (OJSS) is an openly accessible journal published monthly. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of soil science. All manuscripts must be prep…
Formeluh Abraham Toh, Lawrence Monah Ndam, Tsi Evaristus Angwafo, Ngosong Christopher
Soil organic carbon (SOC) mineralization was carried out on soil samples collected from two depths: 0 - 20 cm and 20 - 40 cm for all land use (LU) types (grasslands, croplands, natural forest/fallow lands, cocoa/palm plantations, and settlement/agro-forests).…
Helena Cotler, Leticia Merino, Sergio Martinez-Trinidad
Forests improve the livelihoods and resilience of communities in diverse ways. In particular, soils provide important environmental services for communities in addition to performing many essential ecological functions in forest ecosystems, such as nutrient u…
Marie Claver Ndébane Ngom, Pape Ibrahima Djighaly, Nathalie Diagne, Maty Ndour, Ganna Ndong, Daouda Ngom, Mariama Ngom, Saliou Ngom, Sergio Svistoonoff
Soil salinization is one of the major causes of land degradation. In Senegal, this phenomenon continues to grow, making soils unsuitable for agriculture. To rehabilitate salty lands, one of the recommended strategies is the use of salt-tolerant plants. Among…
Fredrick M. Mngube, Raphael Kapiyo, Paul Aboum, Douglas Anyona, Gabriel O. Dida, 1 1
The interactive and cumulative effect of temperature and rainfall on land cover change is a priority at global, regional and local scale. This study examined changes in six land cover categories (forestland, grasslands, shrub land, bare land, built-up areas a…
Carmo Horta, João Paulo Carneiro
The use of digestates or cattle slurries as fertilisers could contribute to the recycling of nutrients and organic matter, thus meeting the goals of the circular economy in agriculture. This work aims at evaluating the fertilising properties of a solid digest…
Amitava Chatterjee, Alexsandro Felipe de Jesus, Diksha Goyal, Sailesh Sigdel, Larry J. Cihacek, Bhupinder S. Farmaha, Sindhu Jagadamma, Lakesh Sharma, Daniel S. Long
Soil temperature controls gaseous nitrogen losses through nitrous oxide (N 2 O) and ammonia (NH 3 ) fluxes. Eight surface soils from agricultural fields across the United States were incubated at 10 ° C, 20 ° C, and 30 ° C, and N 2 O and NH 3 flux were measur…
Robert J. Lascano, Gary R. Leiker, Timothy S. Goebel, Steven A. Mauget, Dennis C. Gitz III
Crop production in the Texas High Plains is shifting from irrigated to dryland due to the increase of the depth to the water table from the Ogallala aquifer in regions where the saturated thickness of 9 m, the minimum to sustain irrigation, has been reached.…
Georges Kogge Kome, Fritz Oben Tabi, Roger Kogge Enang, Francis Brice Tedou Silatsa
Declining yields in oil palm fresh fruit bunch (FFB) have been recorded over the past years in the coastal lowlands of southwest Cameroon and current actual yields are very low (<12 t FFB ha − 1 • yr − 1 ) compared to the potential yields (25…
Carson Wright, Jessique Ghezzi-Haeft
Over-application of fertilizer to cropland adversely affects both environmental and agricultural ecosystems. This study examined whether planting a legume-based winter cover crop mix offsets fertilizer application via natural nitrogen inputs. The influence of…
Jalal D. Jabro, William B. Stevens, William M. Iversen
Soil bulk density and moisture content are dynamic properties that vary with changes in soil and field conditions and have many agricultural, hydrological and environmental implications. The main objective of this study was to compare between a soil core samp…
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Open Journal of Soil Science (OJSS) is an openly accessible journal published monthly. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of soil science. All manuscripts must be prep… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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