Soil degradation and salinization are two of the utmost threat affecting agricultural areas, derived from the increasing use of low quality water and inappropriate cultural practices. The problem of low productivity of saline soils may be ascribed not only to their salt toxicity or damage caused by excess amounts of soluble salts but also arising from the lack of organic matter and available mi...

Data from 139 research sites throughout the Inland Northwest were analyzed for effects of ash cap on site productivity, nutrient availability and fertilization response. Stand productivity and nitrogen (N) fertilizer response were greater on sites with ash cap than on sites without. Where ash was present, depth of ash had no effect on site productivity or N fertilizer response. Site productivit...

homogeneous yield-limiting factors, for which a single rate of a specific crop input is appropriate (Doerge, 1999). The spatial variation of productivity across farm fields can be classiVarious techniques of delineating management zones fied by delineating site-specific management zones. Since productivity are currently being investigated in different parts of the is influenced by soil characte...

The objective of this study was to determine the effects of water regime/soil condition (continuous flooding, saturated, and aerobic), cultivar ('Cocodrie' and 'Rondo'), and soil texture (clay and sandy loam) on rice grain yield, yield components and water productivity using a greenhouse trial. Rice grain yield was significantly affected by soil texture and the interaction between water regime ...

Title of Thesis: EVALUATION OF LABILE SOIL CARBON TEST FOR PREDICTION OF SOIL PRODUCTIVITY RESPONSE TO ORGANIC MATTER MANAGEMENT Shawn T. Lucas, Master of Science, 2004 Thesis Directed by: Professor Ray R. Weil Department of Natural Resource Sciences and Landscape Architecture A KMnO4 oxidation method for estimating labile soil C (CL) was evaluated for use in a soil testing mode to identify soi...

Agricultural production systems face increasing threats from more frequent and extreme weather fluctuations associated with global climate change. While there is mounting evidence that increased plant community diversity can reduce the variability of ecosystem functions (such as primary productivity) in the face of environmental fluctuation, there has been little work testing whether this is tr...

In a 13-year grassland biodiversity experiment in Minnesota, USA, we addressed two main questions: What set of ecological mechanisms caused aboveground productivity to become approximately 340% greater in highly diverse plant mixtures than in the average monoculture? Why did the effect of diversity on productivity become so much stronger through time? Because our grassland system is N limited, ...

Understanding the role of soil organic matter (SOM) in soil quality and subsequent crop yield and input requirements is useful for agricultural sustainability. SOM is widely considered to affect a wide range of soil properties, however, great uncertainty still remains in identifying the relationships between SOM and crop yield due to the difficulty in separating the effect of SOM from other yie...

SSSAJ: Volume 71: Number 4 • July–August 2007 Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 71:1314–1322 doi:10.2136/sssaj2006.0323 Received 12 Sept. 2006. *Corresponding author ([email protected]). © Soil Science Society of America 677 S. Segoe Rd. Madison WI 53711 USA All rights reserved. No part of this periodical may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including...

an experiment involving erosion simulation was conducted at the soil and water con-servation research center of the university of tehran. a split-factorial plot with four replications was designed. five soil desurfacing treatments of blank, 5, 10, 15, and 20 cm of soil surface removal (e0, e5, e10, e15, and e20) were carried out, respectively. fertilizer treatments were 0, 65, and 130 kg ha-1 o...