Executive Summary Biochar is an increasingly popular topic in environmental management due to its potential effects on several ecosystem functions. Specifically, biochar has been linked to significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, including nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide and methane when used as a soil amendment. It has also been suggested as a long term mechanism to sequester carbon i...

Organic soils in peatlands store a great proportion of the global soil carbon pool and can lose carbon via the atmosphere due to degradation. In Germany, most of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from organic soils are attributed to sites managed as grassland. Here, we investigated a land use gradient from near-natural wetland (NW) to an extensively managed (GE) to an intensively managed grass...

REFERENCES 1. Mallen CD, Peat G. Screening older people with musculoskeletal pain for depressive symptoms in primary care. Br J Gen Pract 2008; 58(555): 688–693. 2. Zigmond AS, Snaith RP. The hospital anxiety and depression scale. Acta Psychiatr Scand 1983; 67(6): 361–370. 3. Mallen CD, Peat G, Thomas E, et al. A systematic review of prognostic factors for joint pain in primary care: a systemat...

Peats are geotechnically problematic soil due to their high compressibility and low shear strength. Cement is widely used for the stabilization of peat by deep mixing method (DMM). This paper presents the results of the model study of compressibility property of peats stabilized with cement columns formed by DMM. The results of consolidation test, scanning electron micrographs (SEM) and energy ...

in order to evaluate the possibility use of palm waste cellulose as a substitute substrate for growing pot plants, an experiment was conducted in completely randomized block design with 6 replication and six treatments on aglaonema sp. the treatments were 5 levels including 0, 25, 50, 75 and 100 palm celluloid wastes mixed with different rates of some amendments such as peat, coconut coir, perl...

Purpose Hot peat baths (40 45 °C) are used in rehabilitation medicine to treat pain, increase perfusion and relax muscles. Because of substantial heat stress (core body temperature increased by 1 1.5 °C within 30 min) patients ́ linear HRV parameters are influenced due to sympathovagal activity. The aim of the observational study was to investigate reactions of the cardiac autonomic nervous syst...

Halogens in porewater of peat bogs – the role of peat decomposition and dissolved organic matter H. Biester, D. Selimović, S. Hemmerich, and M. Petri University of Heidelberg, Institute of Environmental Geochemistry, INF 236, 69 120 Heidelberg, Germany Zweckverband Bodensee-Wasserversorgung, Betriebsund Forschungslabor, Süßenmühle 1, 78 354 Sipplingen, Germany Received: 16 August 2005 – Accepte...

This work is the first extensive study on the removal of carbon monoxide from polluted air in biofilters. It compares the performance of two packing materials, namely lava rock alone and a mixture of peat and lava rock. The results show that the biofilter packed with the mixture of peat and lava rock performed much better than the other one. The effect of operating conditions as, among others, ...

Effect of different potting media on growth of rough lemon (Citrus jambhiri L.) rootstock was studied. Freshly harvested seeds of rough lemon were germinated in flat trays of sterilized sand under greenhouse conditions. Six week old seedlings, uniform in size were transplanted from trays to pots (15x15 cm). Leaf manure, peat, spent compost of oyster and button mushroom were added in different c...

Most of the Tylenchulus semipenetrans larvae applied on the surface of four soils in pots 14.5-cm deep moved no further downward than 6.5 crn, and remained in the upper half of the pot. The percentage of second-stage larvae that developed into adult females on 'Homosassa' sweet orange in the soils were: sandy loam, 6.8% in the same soil with inoculation holes, 8.6%; loamy sand, 5.4%; coarse san...