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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…
Augustin Désiré Balla Ondoa, Simon Ngos III, Emmanuel Ndjeng, Alexis Nyangono Abolo, Alexie N’Nanga
Magnetic susceptibility data from marine rocks can be used for global correlation due to synchronous variations in global erosion. This work, aims to show that, the magnetic susceptibility signature which exists in the cretaceous sediments of the Babouri-Figu…
Agnes Mumo Kavoo-Mwangi, Esther M. Kahangi, Elijah Ateka, Justus Onguso, Joyce M. Jefwa
Tissue culture (TC) banana plantlets at the in vitro stage are delicate and devoid of microbes and nutrients that are essential for establishment and subsequent growth. Some microbes are known for function best under certain soil threshold levels of macro and…
Jessique Ghezzi, Anastasios Karathanasis, Chris Matocha, Jason Unrine, Yvonne Thompson
Due to their enhanced stability and contaminant transport potential, environmental nanoparticles derived from soil and biosolid materials may pose a considerable risk to groundwater quality. Very little information exists on the stability and transportability…
Ernest Ukpabi Eteng, Demian Okwudiri Asawalam, Anthony Osinachi Ano
Laboratory, greenhouse and field studies were undertaken to investigate the status of Cu and Zn and to find out whether the addition of these nutrient elements in soils would increase maize grains and yield components and also, remediate their constraints in…
Cheah Poh Meng, Ahmad Husni Mohd Hanif, Samsuri Abd Wahid, Luqman Chuah Abdullah
Details regarding field decomposition and transformation of biochar in Malaysia are scarce. The objectives of this study were to investigate the physico-chemical changes experienced by Jatropha pod biochar (JPB) in acidic mineral soil under field condition. E…
Saad Al-Hamed, Mohamed Wahby, Mohamed Al-Sulaiman, Abdulwahed Aboukarima
In this research, a gamma ray sensor (The Mole) was used to get the natural radionuclides concentration in situ in the surface layer of cultivated soils. For sand, silt and clay predictions, an adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) was performed to pr…
Hatem Asal Gzar, Awatif S. Abdul-Hameed, Asmaa Younus Yahya
The accumulation of heavy metals in soil is a serious environmental problem. It is well known that heavy metals have an affinity for different compartments of soil. The risk associated with the presence of metals in soil is the ability of their transfer in wa…
Wakuru Magigi, Allan Sathiel
The paper contributes on understanding gender considerations into Sustainable Land Management (SLM) project activities on the Highlands of Kilimanjaro Region. Specifically, it documents gender profile and assesses the project activities along with gender cons…
Pavel Blažka, Zofia Fischer
Relationship of soil and water is generally considered as important in soil science. To specify it further we studied two different soils in 2012-2013, three additional soils once and made several series of experiments with drying and wetting of the soils. Pr…
Rasool Imani, Hoda Ghasemieh, Mohammad Mirzavand
Among Universal Soil Erosion Equation (USLE) factors (R, K, L, S and P), Soil Erodibility Factor (K) is one of the most important and key factors which determines soil particles resistance to be detachment by water erosion (rainfall and/or runoff) forces. In…
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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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