BACKGROUND Management regimes for vegetation restoration of degraded grasslands can significantly affect the process of ecological succession. However, few studies have focused on variation in the soil seed bank during vegetation restoration under different management regimes, especially in saline-alkaline grassland habitats. Our aim was to provide insights into the ecological effects of grassl...

Strontium-90 is a major hazardous contaminant of radioactive wastewater and its processing sludges at many Department of Energy (DOE) facilities. In the past, such contaminated wastewater and sludge have been disposed in soil seepage pits, lagoons, or cribs often under highly perturbed alkaline conditions (pH > 12) where 90Sr solubility is low and its adsorption to surrounding soil is high. As ...

Improvement of phosphorus circulation in the soil is necessary to enhance phosphorus availability to plants. Phosphorus circulation activity is an index of soil's ability to supply soluble phosphorus from organic phosphorus in the soil solution. To understand the relationship among phosphorus circulation activity; bacterial biomass; pH; and Fe, Al, and Ca concentrations (described as mineral co...

The present investigation aimed to analyze the role of agroforestry systems in improving soil organic matter status, microbial activity and nitrogen availability with a view to effective management of the fertility of moderately alkaline soils. The study site was located at Karnal (29◦59′N, 76◦51′E, 250 m.s.l.) and the systems were characterized by a rice–berseem crop rotation; agrisilvicultura...

Central Asia is covered by vast desert ecosystems, and the majority of these ecosystems have alkaline soils. Their contribution to global net ecosystem CO2 exchange (NEE) is of significance simply because of their immense spatial extent. Some of the latest research reported considerable abiotic CO2 absorption by alkaline soil, but the rate of CO2 absorption has been questioned by peer communiti...

the effect of some ecological factors on the survival of trichophyton violaceum t.mentagrophytes and m. gypseum was studied. three types of sterile soil, weakly alkaline (ph =7.9).neutral (ph=7.1) and acid (ph =5.6), and two conditions of wet and dry environments at different temperatures (-8, +8, + 1s, +3o, i~445 were examined. after 4, 10,15,30,60, and 90 days the survival of these fungi were...

trichoderma spp. are known as efficient plant growth promoting agents. hence, enrichment of soil by appropriate population of trichoderma is useful and important for effective plant growth promote. present study aimed to investigate the plant growth promoting effects of five strains of the genus trichoderma species include: trichoderma harzianum tr6, t. harzianum t22, t. asperellum t34, t. atro...