Accuracy of regional-to-global soil maps for on-farm decision-making: are soil maps “good enough”? [PDF]
A major obstacle to selecting the most appropriate crops and closing the yield gap in many areas of the world is a lack of site-specific soil information.
J. J. Maynard +7 more
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Tolerable versus actual soil erosion rates in Europe [PDF]
Erosion is a major threat to soil resources in Europe, and may impair their ability to deliver a range of ecosystem goods and services. This is reflected by the European Commission's Thematic Strategy for Soil Protection, which recommends an indicator ...
Jones, Robert J. A. +3 more
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Dynamics of CO2 emission under sweet corn (Zea mays Saccharata) cultivation at ultisol applied with compost [PDF]
One source of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) comes from agricultural activities, especially crop cultivation. This research was aimed to measure the amount of CO2 emitted from Ultisol treated with compost during the cultivation of sweet corn.
Yulnafatmawita +2 more
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A multidisciplinary study of an exceptional prehistoric waste dump in the mountainous inland of Calabria (Italy) : implications for reconstructions of prehistoric land use and vegetation in Southern Italy [PDF]
The mountainous inland of northern Calabria (Southern Italy) is known for its sparse prehistoric human occupation. Nevertheless, a thorough multidisciplinary approach of field walking, geophysical survey and invasive research led to the discovery of a ...
Arienzo, Ilenia +9 more
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Soil organic carbon stock variation with climate and land use in shale derived soils [PDF]
Anthropogenic activities, urbanization and industrialization cause an increase in the atmospheric carbon dioxide. Current focus of the soil scientists and the environmentalists is to quantify the carbon stocks and its flow in the agroecological system ...
Mehmood Ayaz +11 more
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Konstantin Dmitrievich Glinka made a major contribution to the development of such areas of soil science as genesis, geography, cartography and mineralogy of soils.
A. L. Ivanov, L. V. Orlova
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Between Religion and Agriculture: A Roadmap to Revamping Nigeria’s Economy [PDF]
This paper investigated “Between Religion and Agriculture: A Roadmap to Revamping Nigeria's Economy." Religion is meant to affect all facets of life both at the individual and community levels.
E. Eyo, Ubong
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Retrieval of soil salinity from Sentinel-2 multispectral imagery
Soil salinity is a widespread environmental hazard and the main causes of land degradation and desertification, especially in arid and semi-arid regions.
Mohammad Mahdi Taghadosi +2 more
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Agroecological evaluation of interrelationships of soil properties in time and space
This paper assesses the relationship between the physico-chemical and agro-chemical properties of sod-podzolic soils in the Moscow region and ordinary heavy-loamy chernozems in the Krasnodar region within the catenas and down the soil profile.
V. I. Savich +3 more
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Two classification systems under comparison differ in objects, terminology, hierarchical levels, and approaches to identify soils. However, they have some common features: both systems are oriented to soil properties and apply the pedogenetic concepts ...
M. I. Gerasimova
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