The study focused on investigating the contribution of reclamation strategies saline-sodic soils and their impacts soil fertility characteristics. In this study, treatments were denoted as: SG1 SG2 (23.8 47.7 ton/ha spent grain); TC1 TC2 47.6 compost); Azospirillium in inoculation with seed (Az); Az + (Az+SG1); (Az+TC1); mineral fertilizers (NPK); control (CK). All mixed pots 30 kg soil. result...

The land disturbed by open-pit oil sands mining must be restored to support the survival and growth of native boreal plants. Because tailings sand sodic shale overburden are commonly used as an underlying parent substrate that is capped forest cover soils, soil pH in reclamation sites often higher compared with undisturbed soil. Sulfur a major byproduct refining could potentially amendment lowe...

application of soil conditioners for remediation of saline- sodic soils is one of the common methods for improving soil properties in arid and semi-arid regions. in order to study the effect of soil conditioners on retention of soil moisture content, an experiment was carried out based on randomized complete block design with three replications in a saline-sodic sandy clay loam soil. the treatm...

Salt accumulation in soils poses severe challenges for crop production arid and semi-arid regions. Scarcity of rainfall a high evaporation rate these regions are considered major reasons salt accumulation. It drastically reduces the leaching excessive salts below root zone crops. The toxic effects on plants can be greatly reduced with use biological inorganic amendments. present study was condu...

The management of municipal solid waste (MSW) and the reclamation degraded sodic soils are two serious environmental socio-economic problems experienced by developing nations. To overcome these problems, a technology has been developed for composting MSW using earthworm ligno-cellulolytic microbial consortia its utilization sustainable soils, as well harnessing their productivity potential. sta...

In the Serengeti ecosystem of East Africa, grazing ungulates prefer areas with elevated grass Na, suggesting that some grasses tolerate both high soil Na and defoliation. We performed a factorial Na-by-defoliation greenhouse study with five abundant Sporobolus congeners to explore whether Serengeti grasses possess traits which: (i) confer tolerance to both Na and defoliation (cross-tolerance); ...

BACKGROUND In the lower Mekong Basin and coastal zones of Southern Vietnam, forests dominated by the genus Melaleuca have two notable features: most have been substantially disturbed by human activity and can now be considered as degraded forests; and most are subject to acute pressures from climate change, particularly in regards to changes in the hydrological and sodicity properties of forest...

Our aim in this work is (1) to characterize mineralogically and geochemically the brown amphibole and other minerals filling millimetric veins in the Cóbdar metabasalts of the Betic ophiolites in southern Spain, and (2) to deduce their genetic conditions, mainly with the aid of the optical microscopy and analytical electron-microprobe analysis, complemented by transmission and analytical electr...

soil samples from the jakara irrigation project site were evaluated with respect to possible degradation caused by irrigation. most of the soils were neutral to alkaline with ph values ranging between 6.58 + 0.04 and 10.45 + 0.03. the electrical conductivity ranged from 0.3 + 0.01 to 75.2 + 0.06 dsm-1 which implies low to very high salinity. the concentrations of the exchangeable cations in the...