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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…
Robson Andreazza, Leandro Bortolon, Simone Pieniz, Flávio A. O. Camargo, Elisandra Solange Oliveira Bortolon
Brachiaria decumbens is a high biomass plant with great potential for phytoremediation of copper-polluted soils. The current study aimed to evaluate B . decumbens plants for phytoextraction and phytostabilization use in two different copper contaminated viney…
Yonathan D. Redel, Rudolf Schulz, Torsten Müller
Increased turnover of organic matter as a result of soil disturbance (e.g. by soil tillage) is described in principle, but the direct influence of soil disturbance on soil P turnover especially for organic farming systems has not been sufficiently proven. The…
Assize Touré, Emile Temgoua, Claire Guenat, Bo Elberling
Soil organic carbon (SOC) losses due to poor soil management in dryland are now well documented. However, the influence of soil properties on organic carbon change is not well known. The g roundnut plant ( Arachis hypogaea L.), and the dominant crop system in…
Nurmiaty, Sumbangan Baja
Recently, South Sulawesi Provincial government has launched the “ gong ” program with the main objective to optimize all the resources (land, infrastructures, and farmers) in agriculture areas for maize production in the province. This study is aimed at ident…
Kamala Haripal, Sunanda Sahoo
Conversion of forest to agricultural fields has become a common practice in India. Very often these fields have been abandoned due to lack of sustainable production. In course of time these fallow lands undergo natural secondary succession. Present study was…
Matthew A. Haynes, Richard A. McLaughlin, Joshua L. Heitman
The process of constructing roads and buildings usually involves the removal of topsoil and grading of the subsoil followed by a variety of activities using heavy equipment. This presents multiple challenges in attempts to establish vegetation on these areas:…
Yangbo Xu, Donglin Dong, Guobin Duan, Xuetao Yu, Zhiwei Yu, Wei Huang
Techniques of geostatistics are used to perform traditional statistical analysis and spatial structural analysis with ArcGIS, geostatistical software GS+ and statistical software SPSS in order to obtain the knowledge of characteristics of distribution and spa…
Shunfeng Ge, Haigang Xu, Mengmeng Ji, Yuanmao Jiang
Soil organic carbon and nitrogen are used as indexes of soil quality assessment and sustainable land use management. At the same time, soil C/N ratio is a sensitive indicator of soil quality and for assessing the carbon and nitrogen nutrition balance of soils…
Sagarika Banerjee, Elisa D’Angelo
The broiler ( Gallus gallus domesticus ) industry in the United States and several other countries routinely includes subtherapeutic levels of antibiotics such as roxarsone, virginiamycin, and bacitracin in the feed to improve bird growth yields. Large fracti…
Shahla Z. Jafarova
The economic, political and social stability of the society, and an efficiency of the agroindustrial complexes depend on state of the soil resources. Using of the soil resources rationally is an important term for provision of the food safety. In this regard…
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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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