-Soil is the most abundantly available construction material on the earth. At places it is found to be the only locally available construction material. Backfilling of utility trenches is done with the soli available from the excavation of the trenches. Properties of this backfill soil vary from site to site depending upon the material available from excavation. Many times due to use of poor so...

rainfall erosion processes a long with the rainfall characteristics can be affected by soil properties. the study was conducted to investigate the susceptibility of the aggregates in different soil textures to the rainfall erosion processes. the experiment was done on thirty soil samples recognized in four soil textures with different replications as the completely randomized design. ninety box...

The Mollisols from the Pampas Region of Argentina have been described as presenting different compactability behaviors under agricultural systems. The purpose of this study was to provide information on the inherent soil factors related to the susceptibility to compaction. Total organic carbon (TOC), texture (CLAY, SILT, SAND), water retention at 0.33 kPa (WR), Proctor maximum bulk density (BDM...

Soil productivity is a complex interaction of physical, chemical, and biological processes. Unfortunately, the effects of biomass removal on these processes are not well understood or easily measured (Powers 2006). For example, removing logging slash from forest stands for biomass production, rather than leaving the harvest residues on site, can change nutrient availability (Sinclair 1992), soi...

Mineralizable nitrogen (min-N) often correlates well with plant-available nitrogen (N) in soils, and might serve as a useful indicator of whether soils are detrimentally affected by timber harvesting practices. We examined how min-N responded to soil compaction and site organic matter removal after 1 and 5 years on three sites in central British Columbia. Mineral soil min-N was found to change ...

in forest harvesting, there is an ongoing trend to increase constantly the size, power and load of logging machines. this may cause soil degradation in forest ecosystems as the passes of these machines modify important soil structural characteristics. the present study was conducted to examine impact of skidding traffic, trail slope, traffic frequency, and soil depth on bulk density and soil co...

Broersma, K., M. Krzic, R.F. Newman, and A.A. Bomke. 2000. Effects of grazing on soil compaction and water infiltration in forest plantations in the Interior of British Columbia. In Proceedings, From science to management and back: a science forum for southern interior ecosystems of British Columbia. C. Hollstedt, K. Sutherland, and T. Innes (editors). Southern Interior Forest Extension and Res...

ract: At four sites in the Gulf Coastal Plain, mechanical whole-tree harvesting (MWT) removed more biomass nutrients than hand-fell bole-only harvesting (HFBO). Soil compaction and loblolly pine (Pinus tae& L.) regeneraion growq varied among sites. At one location, MWT increased soil bulk density by 0.1 ~ g m ~ , from 1.14 to -24 ~ g m ~ , with no effect on kee growth. At a second location, whe...

Context Compaction removal and organic amendment application are commonly used to mitigate the compaction-induced declines in crop yield, soil carbon (C) health. However, response of microbial activities nutrient pools combination mill-mud amendments decompaction profile not fully understood. Aims A field trial was conducted at Burdekin, Australia, investigate effects different managements on c...