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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…
Lawrence H. Tanner, Ann E. Walker, Morgan Nivison, David L. Smith
The land surface in front of the Skaftafellsj?kull in southern Iceland, exposed by ice recession commencing about the start of the twentieth century, constitutes a foreland with a maximum age of about 100 years and a more distal outwash plain. The ages of dif…
Emmanuel Amoakwah, Jerry Ampofo-Asiama, Stijn Van Slycken, David K. Essumang
Phytoextraction has been introduced as a new technology to clean up soils contaminated with heavy metals as the use of conventional methods to clean up the soil is very expensive and destructive to the ecosystem. However, using plants to clean up contaminated…
John R. Nelson, Robert J. Lascano, Jon D. Booker, Richard E. Zartman, Timothy S. Goebel
Accurate models to simulate the soil water balance in semiarid cropping systems are needed to evaluate management practices for soil and water conservation in both irrigated and dryland production systems. The objective of this study was to evaluate the appli…
Bola A. Senjobi, Olufunmilayo T. Ande, A. E. Okulaja
A study was conducted to determine the effect of tillage practices on soil properties under maize cultivation in savanna ecosystem of South Western Nigeria. The tillage systems evaluated were zero, convectional and traditional tillage sys tems . The results s…
Girma Abera, Endalkachew Wolde-Meskel
Land use effect of tropical Andosol, with two from crop lands (Site 1 and Site 2) and one from Agroforestry coffee plantation (Site 3) w as explored under laboratory conditions to understand their physical, chemical and biological properties and soil organic…
Katsutoshi Seki
Increased microbial activity leads to biological clogging (or bioclogging), i.e. , the pore space is clogged by microbes and saturated hydraulic conductivity of porous media decreases. A series of column experiments were carried out to study the bioclogging o…
Mahmoud Rahil, Hajaj Hajjeh, Alia Qanadillo
A field study was conducted on the experimental farm of ministry of agriculture, located at Palestine Technical Univer sity-Kadoorie, to investigate the effects of saline water irrigation through three irrigation intervals on yield of tomato crop and soil pro…
Gary J. Michaelson, Chien-Lu Ping, Mark Clark
We combined C and N related pedon data from the USDA-NRCS National Cooperative Soil Survey Soil Characteriza tion Database with data from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) northern soils research program, representing 58 and 30 years of field work, res…
Maysoon M. Mikha, Joseph G. Benjamin, Ardell D. Halvorson, David C. Nielsen
Throughout the years, many studies have evaluated changes in soil organic carbon (SOC) mass on a fixed-depth (FD) basis without considering changes in soil mass caused by changing bulk density ( ρ b ). This study evaluates the temporal changes in SOC caused b…
Enamul Haque, Abul Kashem, Khan Towhid Osman
To observe the availability of phosphorus by different extraction methods in some cultivated soils of Hathazari Upazilla of Chittagong District, this study was carried out with 36 surface soil samples (0 - 15 cm ) belonging to six soil series, namely Bijipur,…
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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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