Soil aggregate stability is an essential soil property, influencing many soil behaviors. However, the relationships between drying and wetting cycles and aggregate stability dynamics with different initial aggregate size classes have not been clarified. This study was conducted to investigate the effects of drying and wetting cycles on aggregate stability under different breakdown mechanisms, a...

Slaking experiments were conducted of fragipan clods immersed in solutions of poultry manure, aerobically digested biosolid waste (ADB), fluidized bed combustion byproduct (FBC), D-H2O, CaCO3, NaF, Na-hexa-metaphosphate, and ryegrass root biomass. The fragipan clods were sampled from the Btx horizon of an Oxyaquic Fragiudalf in Kentucky. Wet sieving aggregate analysis showed significantly bette...

The effect of no-tillage (NT) vs. conventional tillage (CT) has been evaluated in rainfed conditions but seldom studied under irrigation, where soil sealing favour degradation. To contribute to this knwledge, research analyses aggregate stability disaggregation forces produced irrigation (slaking and mechanical breakdown) the susceptibility soils cropped with irrigated maize. Soils were sampled...

Slaking is a rapid wetting of soil aggregates that affects their stability in the face effects water. The aggregate’s has an indirect influence on functioning through its minimising erosion. Testing slaking very simple, does not need additional complicated equipment and could be done for any point. was performed natural air-dry (7–10 mm) sampled from arable layers four different types soils wit...