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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…
Kristine A. Nichols, James Millar
The soil environment is linked to aboveground management including plant species composition, grazing intensity, levels of soil disturbance, residue management, and the length of time of a living plant is growing. Soil samples were collected under rangeland […
Marcela Quintero, Nicholas B. Comerford
Many Andisols of the Andes have been disturbed by traditional potato-based rotation agriculture disrupting soil structure, water retention capacity and organic matter content. This study was undertaken to investigate the contribution of conservation farming t…
Yadunath Bajgai, Nilantha Hulugalle, Paul Kristiansen, Melinda McHenry
Soil organic carbon (SOC) is the percentage measure of carbon (C) derived from living organisms in soil. Stability of soil organic matter (SOM) can be defined in terms of how easily C and nitrogen in the SOM can be decomposed. Due to the implications in the p…
Dominique Proust, Vivien Mathé, François Lévêque
The distribution of the metallic trace elements (MTE) Zn, Pb and Cd in a sludge-amended soil and their partitioning in specific soil microystems are studied by comparing their contents in amended and control soils. This comparison is achieved at the metric sc…
Sajal Roy, Shah Muhammad Imamul Huq, Md. Abul Kashem, Khan Towhid Osman
There is a major concern among scientists over the elevated levels of arsenic (As) in drinking water in Bangladesh and some parts of India. Investigating the r elease of As from water filter sludge in soil and its uptake by plants may provide information abou…
Oladipo Isaac Olaposi, Adewumi Johnson Kayode, Dairo Olawale Usman, Adejuyigbe Samuel Babatope, Ajayi Ebenezer Ayodele
This paper reports the experimental investigation of the agronomic performance of okra under various quantities of both sawdust and trash mulches. The location of the field was the research farmland of the Federal Polytechnic Ado Ekiti Nigeria; Lat 6 ? N and…
Lakshmy Kamala Sthanu, Jaya Divakaran Sarasamma, Radhakrishnan Thanu Iyer, Mohandas Chellappan
Soil quality is one of the most important factors in sustaining the global biosphere and developing sustainable agricultural practices. Land use and management practices greatly impact the direction and degree of soil quality changes in time and space. Unders…
Amadou Keita, Hamma Yacouba, Laszlo G. Hayde, Bart Schultz
With the aim of finding the geochem ical differences and helping to build alleviating strategies against iron toxicity, two hematite dominant valley bottoms irrigating rice s oils were investigated in the Tropical Savannah region of Burkina Faso. The first si…
Karolien Denef, Ilaria Del Galdo, Andrea Venturi, M. Francesca Cotrufo
In this study, we measured the stocks and pool sizes of soil organic carbon (SOC) and total soil nitrogen (TN), and their natural 13 C and 15 N abundance across a wide range of temperate European ecosystems. The objectives were to examine any distinct isotope…
D. Bitondo, F. O. Tabi, S. S. A. Kengmegne, M. Ngoucheme, A. D. MvondoZe
Micronutrient status of top soils (0 - 25 cm) collected from intensively cultivated soils (typic dystrandept) in the Bambouto highland of Cameroon was investigated. Thirty-six soil samples were collected within a 100 m × 100 m grid. 16 of them were analyzed f…
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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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