Objective: Soil organic carbon has been the most important soil quality measurement factors and has intense relation with soil physical, chemical and biological characteristics. Organic matter and its components are important factors of soil aggregates constitution and stability and play significant role in its structure. So, this research has been done for achieving this purpose. Methods: This...

In this study influence of land-use type on soil respiration was investigated in poplar plantation, apple orchard (apple trees with understory grasses) and adjacent grassland sites in Seyitler Area, Artvin, Turkey. Soil respiration was measured approximately monthly in three sampling plots in each land use type from January 2005 to November 2005 using the soda-lime technique. Mean daily soil re...

abstract the impact of rainfall and light interception by litter on maintenance of surface soil water content is determined in an arid rangeland in khabr national park in south-east of iran. litter weight sampling is done by 90 square plots, each 1 m2, that are randomly placed within site. after determining the intensity of a typical storm of the region (20 mm/h), the rainfall duration required...

The terrestrial environment in the vicinity of La Hague nuclear reprocessing plant (COGEMA) is potentially influenced by two sources (atmospheric and marine) and by three ways of radionuclides transfer: 1) atmospheric fallout from old nuclear bombs experiments, 2) atmospheric fallout from gaseous throwing out from the reprocessing plant 3) marine aerosol and degassing (sea to land transfer) bea...

environmental pollution with heavy metals is a global disaster that is related tohuman activities. this study was conducted to determine the extent of heavy metalsaccumulation by plant species in lia industrial city (qazvin, iran) and to investigate theremediative capacity of native plant species grown in the contaminated soils. soil andindustrial wastewater sampling was done radially along tra...

This study investigated the effects of soil crust development on the underlying soil properties. The field sampling work was conducted in June 2016 in the Hobq Desert in Inner Mongolia, North China. Soil crust samples and 0–6, 6–12, 12–18, 18–24, 24–30 cm deep underlying soil samples were taken from five representative areas of different soil crust development stages. All samples were analyzed ...

An appropriate sampling method that provides for the representation of the collected material and the reliability of results plays a crucial role in environmental monitoring. This is especially important in soil quality investigations on sites with a differentiated surface microrelief, as in the case of afforested post-arable soils that have a specific, deep furrow-and-ridge microrelief. The pr...

The presented study deals with the interpretation of soil quality monitoring data using hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) and principal components analysis (PCA). Both statistical methods contributed to the correct data classification and projection of the surface (0-20 cm) and subsurface (20-40 cm) soil layers of 36 sampling sites in the region of Burgas, Bulgaria. Clustering of the variable...