Soils contaminated with radionuclides, particularly 137Cs and 90Sr, pose a long-term radiation hazard to human health through exposure via the foodchain and other pathways. Remediation of radionuclide-contaminated soils has become increasingly important. Removal of the contaminated surface soil (often up to 40 cm) or immobilization of radionuclides in soils by applying mineral and chemical amen...

The possibility of distinguishing different soil moisture levels by electronic nose (e-nose) was studied. Ten arable soils of various types were investigated. The measurements were performed for air-dry (AD) soils stored for one year, then moistened to field water capacity and finally dried within a period of 180 days. The volatile fingerprints changed during the course of drying. At the end of...

The need for accurate information on the organic matter (OM) content in soils at European, National or Regional level has been increasing steadily over the past few years. This is a result of increasing concern about environmental problems such as soil degradation, desertification (CEC, 1992; UNEP, 1991), erosion and, at the worldwide level, the impact of climate change. There is some evidence ...

the need to understand the nature of organic P in these soils. The organic P composition of semi-arid arable soils is largely unSoil organic P determination has traditionally been known, but such information is fundamental to understanding P dynamics in irrigated agriculture. We used solution 31P nuclear magnetic hampered by difficulties with the extraction, separation resonance (NMR) spectrosc...

The aims of this study were to investigate zinc content in the studied soils; evaluate the efficiency of geostatistics in presenting spatial variability of zinc in the soils; assess bioavailable forms of zinc in the soils and to assess soil-zinc binding ability; and to estimate the potential ecological risk of zinc in soils. The study was conducted in southern Poland, in the Malopolska Province...

The common use of soil-fertility control data in Croatia includes properties such as soil pH, organic matter content and plant-available phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) extracted by ammonium lactate (AL) solution. These data are commonly used for fertilizer recommendations for both field vegetable (Lončarić et al., 2003) and arable crops (Vukadinović et al., 1996). Also, the same soil data hav...

1 AgroParisTech, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, UMR 1402 ECOSYS, Thiverval Grignon, France, 2 Laboratoire de Géologie de l’ENS-PSL Research University–Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8538, Paris, France, 3 Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 4 Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 5 Department of Ecology, S...