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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…
Sivarajah Mylevaganam, Chittaranjan Ray
To assess the groundwater vulnerability due to leaching of chemicals, the groundwater system in the unsaturated zone is characterized by conceptual models that are further extended and refined with more detailed mathematical models to understand the governing…
Saman M. K. Rasheed
Land use changes from natural ecosystems into managed ecosystems resulted in negative impact on soil structure and quality. The purpose of this study was to determine the influences of different land-use types on physical and chemical properties of soils in S…
Richard L. Haney, Elizabeth B. Haney
Nitrogen (N) mineralisation contributes considerably to crop growth in fertilized and unfertilized fields. It is useful to be able to assess potential N mineralisation to increase fertilizer application efficiency, prevent excessive N runoff, and improve envi…
Jamal Elfaki, Mohamed Gafer, Magboul Sulieman, Mushtaha Ali
Twenty-six soil samples were collected from five soil profiles at different climatological and ecological regions in central Sudan. Soil profile was dug in each studied area and morphological profile description was carried out for different horizons. All sam…
Magboul M. Sulieman, Ibrahim S. Ibrahim, Jamal T. Elfaki, Mohamed S. Dafa-Allah
Origin and distribution of the heavy minerals of surficial and subsurficial sediments has been investigated in the alluvial Nile River terraces, Khartoum North, Sudan. Heavy mineral assemblages in the very fine sand fraction (0.063 - 0.125 mm) of 10 sediment…
Ramesh P. Tripathi, Isaac Kafil, Woldeselassie Ogbazghi
Most Eritrean farmers do not adopt soil conservation measures and till even sloppy fields 2 - 4 times for planting sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor L.) with a view to facilitate rainwater intake. Field experiments were conducted at Hamelmalo to optimize tillage and…
Xinhua Yin
It is essential to develop innovative approaches that can apply N more efficiently. The objective of this study was to examine in-season side-dress urea and ammonium nitrate (UAN) applications to cotton on no-till soils with high residual N fertility. A field…
Olayinka Olakunle Olatunji, Yetunde Oyeyiola, Gbade Oyewunmi Oyediran
The study investigats the morphological, physical and chemical characteristic of a toposequence on basement complex in Ejioku area, south-western Nigeria on latitude 07 ° 28.675'N; and longitude 004 ° 07.219'E; 180 m above sea level at the upper slope. It ter…
Dominique Proust
This research work was designed to compare the Zn distribution in a long-term sludge-amended soil with that in a control soil. Two complementary approaches were performed: 1) a geochemical approach at the metric scale of the bulk soil horizons and 2) a minera…
Robert J. Lascano, Dan R. Krieg, Jeffrey T. Baker, Timothy S. Goebel, Dennis C. Gitz III
Cotton ( Gossypium hirsutum L.) is planted on more land area than any other crop on the Texas High Plains. Much of this area is considered highly erodible and requires a conservation compliance program to participate in government farm programs. Because this…
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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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