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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…
Wei Jiang, Tao Tao, Zhi-Ming Liao
Removal of copper and nickel by the addition of the biodegradable chelating agent, chitosan and ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA), was investigated, alongside the reaction of a reference compound sodium citrate for comparison. The artificial-contaminate…
Arno Kleber
Many soils in the western U.S.A. contain one or several carbonate-enriched zones (CEZ). Their carbonate admixture is often attributed to steady eolian influx, with intermittent leaching episodes of variable intensity leading to pedogenic enrichment at various…
D. Paul, A. Nongmaithem, L. K. Jha
Collembola, commonly called “springtails” are wingless soft-bodied hexapods that are usually between 1 and 3 millimetres in length and occur in varying habits such as, soil surface and litter, under rocks or the bark of trees. The great majority develop in so…
Wilfredo A. Dumale Jr., Tsuyoshi Miyazaki, Kenta Hirai, Taku Nishimura
Agricultural liming contributes significantly to atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> emission from soils but data on magnitude of lime- contributed CO<sub>2</sub> in a wide range of acid soils are still few. Data on lime-contributed CO<sub>2</sub> and SOC turnover for…
U. C. Sharma, M. Datta, Vikas Sharma
In a three years experiment, conducted on acidic soil, four varieties of soybean [Glycine max (L) Merril] were tested to see their performance under different regimes of applied Phosphorus. The highest number of pods was given by the cultivar Bragg, followed…
Shengsen Wang, Ashok K. Alva, Yuncong Li, Min Zhang
Controlled release fertilizers (CRF) are produced with different rates and durations of nutrient release to cater to different crops with wide ranges of nutrient requirements. A rapid technique is needed to verify the label specifications of nutrient release…
Jude C. Obi, Bassey T. Udoh
Variability in soil properties is a critical element across wide areas of researches especially in several aspects of agriculture and environment including sewage disposal and global climate change. Particle size fraction (sand, silt, and clay), effective cat…
Ibrahimi Mohamed Khaled, Miyazaki Tsuyoshi, Nishikawa Kohei, Nishimura Taku, Imoto Hiromi
Soil column experiments and modeling investigations were performed to study the behavior of shallow water table in response to various recharge events. Hence, shallow water table fluctuations inside sandy (Toyoura sand) and clayey (Chiba light clay) soil colu…
R. Ebhin Masto, Rajkumar Ahirwar, Joshy George, L. C. Ram, V. A. Selvi
Heavy metals can stimulate the activity of soil enzymes in smaller amounts, but act as inhibitors if present in high concentrations. Natural and anthropogenic heavy metal contamination and its disturbances on soils can be evaluated by using enzymatic activiti…
Vladimir Mukhomorov, Liudmila Anikina
It is presented the results of a long-term and intensive experiment, which models the processes of primary soil formation under controlled agro-ecosystems. The influence of mineral substrate transformation is analyzed on the content of chemical elements in pl…
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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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