Soil organic matter (OM) is a source of fertility for food provisioning and means climate mitigation. A high pedodiversity observed over very short distances due to both past present land use, such as in Western Africa (Northern Togo), makes this crucial issue. In particular, some small spots covered by sacred forests (forêts sacrées) cultural value area are extremely biodiverse, calcareous OM ...

the study was carried out to investigate the effective soil and topographic features on distribution of plant types in sanib taftan watershed in sistan-and-balouchestan province, iran. initially, land units map was specified by combining three maps of slope, aspect and altitude. five types including artemisia santolina- hammada salicornica, artemisia sieberi- amygdalus lycioides, artemisia lehm...

Sorption of two herbicides, fluridone (FLUN) and norflurazon (NORO), by two types of biochars, whole sediment, and various soil/sediment organic matter (OM) fractions including nonhydrolyzable carbon (NHC), black carbon (BC) and humic acid (HA) was examined. The single-point organic carbon (OC)-normalized distribution coefficients (K(OC)) of FLUN and NORO at low solution concentration (C(e)=0.0...

Soil conventional tillage has been associated with deterioration of its characteristics, while organic farming promoted as an approach to conserve a favorable soil environment. With the interest in nominating strategies without ploughing for maintaining long-term quality and subsequently increasing yields, this study set identify if how conservation practices management (OM) do improve physical...

SARS-CoV-2 has been found in soil and aquatic environments addition to aerosols. enters the from various sources, including organic amendments waste irrigation water. The virus counts virulence depend on spillover routes properties. Organic matter (OM) clay minerals protect enable survive for longer periods soil. Therefore, life forms residing may be at risk, but there is a paucity of scientifi...

this study aimed to investigate the effect of animal grazing on soil seed bank characteristics in the northern slopes of alborz. for this purpose, soil seed bank characteristics were compared between grazed and ungrazed areas. therefore, four transects perpendicular to the sides of exclosure inside and outside of it were established. then soil samples were collected within 28 plots inside and 2...

The main objective of this paper is to check the soil fertility and salinity status. For this purpose, a total of 3325 soil samples, collected from all tehsils of Muzffargarh district (from tehsil Muzaffargarh, Jatoi, Kot Addu and Ali Pur), were tested in the Soil and Water Testing Laboratory, Cane Development Cell, Fatima Sugar Mills, Muzaffargarh, Pakistan from 2012 to 2014. Samples were anal...

In arid and semi-arid grassland, many models hypothesize that desertification leads to the replacement of grassland by shrubland vegetation; however, the theoretical interpretations are open to debate. Therefore, a field study was conducted in the Guinan desertified grassland of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, North-west China, to test the hypotheses on a regional scale. We used four field sites to ...