Reducing tillage and growing cover crops, widely recommended practices for boosting soil health, have major impacts on soil communities. Surprisingly little is known about their impacts on soil microbial functional diversity, and especially so in irrigated Mediterranean ecosystems. In long-term experimental plots at the West Side Research and Extension Center in California's Central Valley, we ...

Quantifying the amount of cesium incorporated into marine sediments as a result of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident has proven challenging due to the limited multi-core sampling from within the 30 km zone around the facility; the inherent spatial heterogeneities in ocean sediments; and the potential for inventory fluctuations due to physical, biological, and chemical ...

1. To study the potential for complementarity in nitrogen acquisition from different soil depths, we injected an isotope tracer ( 15 NH 4 Cl) at 5 and 20 cm depths in plant communities containing Achillea millefolium L. and Festuca ovina L. or Phleum pratense L. and Trifolium pratense L. in monocultures and two-species mixtures. 2. In monoculture, Festuca and Phleum took up tracer at 5 and 20 c...

Vertical distribution of five plant-parasitic nematodes was examined in two north Florida soybean fields in 1987 and 1988. Soil samples were collected from 0-15 cm, 15-30 cm, and 30-45 cm deep at each site. Soil at the three depths consisted of approximately 96% sand. More than 50% of Belonolaimus longicaudatus population densities occurred in the upper 15-cm soil layer at planting, but the spe...

Water samples from six depths in the upper water column of Lake Valencia, Venezuela, were incubated in situ with acetylene at several depths corresponding to different light exposures. On five dates there was sufficient nitrogen fixation to define the light-response curve for samples taken at 2 and 100 cm. The light response of nitrogen fixation was modeled successfully with an equation previou...

The depth of lumbar puncture needle insertion was recorded in 107 children. Height provided the best guide to the minimum and maximum depths of insertion. Mean depth of insertion (cm) = 0.03 x height of child (cm).

The study was carried out to investigate the effect of tree age soil physical and chemical characteristics mango orchard. Effect 4 different ages (<10, 10 - 20, 21 – 30, over 30 years) on physic-chemical properties farmers’ Mango field in Dong Thap province. research handled from June November 2021. Soil samples at two depths (0 20 50 cm) were collected basin subjected laboratory analysis De...

ABSTRACT Understanding weed emergence and development aspects is essential in decision-making for management strategies. The study evaluated the effects of different sowing depths light intensities on weeds Sida rhombifolia Senna obtusifolia under field conditions. Each species constituted an experiment, experimental design used was completely randomized, with four replications. treatments were...

We propose a novel biomedical imaging technique, called nanodiamond imaging, that noninvasively records the three-dimensional distribution of biologically tagged nanodiamonds in vivo. Our technique performs optically detected electron spin resonance of nitrogen-vacancy centers in nanodiamonds, a nontoxic nanomaterial that is easily biologically functionalized. We demonstrate the feasibility of ...