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Biofunctool®: a new set of indicators to assess the impact of land management onsoil functioning [PDF]

, 2019
The concept and methods to assess soil quality have been widely debated in the literature for the last twenty years. We developed a new framework to assess soil quality following an integrative approach based on the measurement of soil dynamic functions ...
Bessou, Cécile, Brauman, Alain, Gay, Frédéric, Panklang, Phantip, Suvannang, Nopmanee, Thaler, Philippe, Thoumazeau, Alexis, Tivet, Florent   +7 more
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Packaging of Macroscopic Material Payloads: Needs, Challenges, Concepts, and Future Directions

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
This review introduces a unified framework that decomposes any macroscopic packaging system into the payload, packaging material, and packaging strategy and combines them into a conceptual packaging equation: packaging strategy = payload + packaging material.
Venkata S. R. Jampani, Manos Anyfantakis
wiley   +1 more source

An alternative method to measure electrical conductivity (EC) and sodium adsorption ratio (SAR) in salt-affected soil extracts

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023
Soil degradation due to salts affects over 100 countries, especially in arid and semi-arid regions where salts migrate to the plant root zone via capillary action when evapotranspiration exceeds rainfall.
Beverly Álvarez Torres, David R. Sotomayor Ramírez, José Pablo Castro Chacón, Gustavo Martínez Rodríguez, Luis R. Pérez Alegría, Thomas M. DeSutter   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Soil quality evaluation under agro-silvo-pastoral Mediterranean management systems [PDF]

, 2012
According to Franzluebber (2002) the degree of stratification of soil organic C and N, as well as other parameters, with soil depth, expressed as a ratio, can indicate soil quality or soil ecosystem functioning and sustainability under different ...
Doro, Luca, Francaviglia, Rosa, Ledda, Luigi, Madrau, Salvatore   +3 more
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Pyramidal Structures on Yttria‐Stabilized Zirconia after High Temperature Exposure at 1500°C: New Features on an Old Material

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
New features on yttria‐stabilized zirconia after exposure at 1500°C: Newly discovered pyramidal structures on an old material. After exposure at 1550°C on the cross section of YSZ new features, namely pyramidal structures are discovered. These structures grow with time, increase in numbers, appear as singularities, are often arranged in strings, and ...
Doris Sebold, Dylan Jennings, Robert Vaßen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Combined application of calcium fertilizer improves the immobilization of biochar-ferromanganese materials on cd/as co-polluted paddy soils under acidifying conditions

Scientific Reports
Soil acidification is an increasingly serious issue in southern China. A decrease in soil pH tends to interfere with the immobilization of heavy metals by amendments.
Jie Wang, Qi Sun, Maoyu Wang, Jiahao Wang, Yuxiang Yang, Jizi Wu, Keli Zhao   +6 more
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Short-term impact of mechanical loosening on physical soil properties in a severely compacted subsoil

Geoderma
Subsoil compaction is a serious threat to the fertility of our urban and agricultural lands. In severe cases it impedes aeration of and water infiltration into the subsoil, increasing risks of water-logging and overland run-off with erosion.
Alina Widmer, Alice Johannes, Mario Fontana, Marlies Sommer, Saïd Elfouki, Luca Bragazza, John Koestel   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The soil quality concept as a tool for exposing values in science and promoting sustainability considerations [PDF]

, 2004
The term soil quality has mainly been used as a technical concept for grading soils. It is important that the values and goals in soil use planning and soil management are explicitly stated and related to the soil quality indicators.
Schjønning, P.
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In Situ Constructed Magnetic Core‐Shell Hydrogen‐Bonded Organic Framework‐on‐Metal–Organic Framework Structure: an Efficient Catalyst for Peroxymonosulfate Activation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
In this work, a magnetic core‐shell catalyst (HOF‐on‐Fe3O4/ZIF‐67) is successfully synthesized, consisting of a metal–organic framework (ZIF‐67) with magnetic Fe3O4 as the core and a porous hydrogen‐bonded organic framework (HOF) as the shell. The catalyst efficiently activated peroxymonosulfate, resulting in rapid and effective removal of water ...
Yingying Du, Chenhui Ding, Chao Deng, Susanta Banerjee, Seema Agarwal   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interaction of fulvic acid with soil organo-mineral nano-aggregates and corresponding phosphate release

Geoderma
For more insight into the interaction of natural organic matter (NOM) with metal (hydr)oxides and oxyanions, the adsorption of added fulvic acid (FA) and the corresponding release of phosphate (PO4) were studied for a series of agricultural soils (∼0 ...
Yilina Bai, Liping Weng, Tjisse Hiemstra
doaj   +1 more source