Investigating microbial metabolic characteristics and soil organic carbon (SOC) within aggregates and their relationships under conservation tillage may be useful in revealing the mechanism of SOC sequestration in conservation tillage systems. However, limited studies have been conducted to investigate the relationship between SOC and microbial metabolic characteristics within aggregate fractio...

Soil respiration plays a significant role in the carbon cycle of Amazonian rainforests. Measurements of soil respiration have only been carried out in few places in the Amazon. This study investigated the effects of the method of ring insertion in the soil as well as of rainfall and spatial distribution on CO2 emission in the central Amazon region. The ring insertion effect increased the soil e...

Soil labile organic carbon and soil enzymes play important roles in the carbon cycle of coastal wetlands that have high organic carbon accumulation rates. Soils under three vegetations (Phragmites australis, Spartina alterniflora, and Scirpusm mariqueter) as well as bare mudflat in Hangzhou Bay wetland of China were collected seasonally. Seasonal dynamics and correlations of soil labile organic...

E (Rn G) cp{es[T(z)] e(z)}/ra (ra rc)/ra [1] Precision irrigation requires a method of quantifying the crop water status or root zone depletion of water to determine when and how where E is the latent heat of vaporization (J m 2 s 1), much water to apply to the soil. Changes in canopy resistance (rc) the change of saturation vapor pressure with temperaand canopy temperatures have the potential ...

An investigation was conducted in the laboratory and glasshouse to assess the sulphur (S) supplyingability of the important soil forms of the sugar industry. The amount of S in the soil as measured by a 0,5N ammonium acetate extraction procedure, was compared with the availability ofS during continuouscroppingof sorghumin pots. The number ofcropsrequired to exhaust the reserves of S was fairly ...

a Porter School of Environmental Studies, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel b Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, The Volcani Center, ARO, P.O. Box 6, Bet-Dagan 50250, Israel c Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel d Area of Soil Science, Faculty of S...

Soil carbon (C) losses and soil translocation from tillage operations have been identified as causes of soil degradation and soil erosion. The objective of this work was to quantify the variability in tillage-induced carbon dioxide (CO2) loss by moldboard (MP) and chisel (CP) plowing across an eroded landscape and relate the C loss to soil properties. The study site was a 4 ha wheat (Triticum a...

We investigated hydraulic constraints on water uptake by velvet mesquite (Prosopis velutina Woot.) at a site with sandy-loam soil and at a site with loamy-clay soil in southeastern Arizona, USA. We predicted that trees on sandy-loam soil have less negative xylem and soil water potentials during drought and a lower resistance to xylem cavitation, and reach E(crit) (the maximum steady-state trans...

For enhanced phytoextraction, mobilization of heavy metals (HMs) from the soil solid phase to soil pore water is an important process. A pot incubation experiment mimicking field conditions was conducted to investigate the performance of three soil additives in mobilizing HMs from contaminated paddy soil (Gleyi-Stagnic Anthrosol): the [S, S]-isomer of ethylenediamine disuccinate (EDDS) with app...