Standards vary in studies using rainfall simulators to evaluate erosion
California Agriculture, 2012 Rainfall simulators are often employed to measure erosion rates, in order to estimate stream loading of sediment and nutrients in California foothill watersheds.
Mark Grismer
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Optimizing Waste Management Collection Routes in Urban Haiti: A Collaboration between DataKind and SOIL [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) is a research and development organization that aims to increase access to cost-effective household sanitation services in urban communities in Haiti. Each week, SOIL provides over 1,000 households with ecological sanitation toilets, then transports the waste to be transformed into rich compost. However,
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Multiple additive regression trees as a tool for estimating soil properties. Principles and applications [PDF]
, 2008 Pedotransfer functions (PTFs) are used to estimate soil properties that are difficult and costly to measure, from others properties that are available. MART, namely Multiple Additive Regression Trees belongs to the boosted regression trees (BRT) family ...
Boulonne, L. +9 more
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iScience, 2023 Summary: Aluminum (Al)-tolerant phosphobacteria enhance plant growth in acidic soils by improving Al complexing and phosphorus (P) availability. However, the impact of Al stress and P deficiency on bacterial biochemistry and physiology remains unclear ...
Patricio Javier Barra +7 more
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Remote sensing is a viable tool for mapping soil salinity in agricultural lands
California Agriculture, 2017 Soil salinity negatively impacts the productivity and profitability of western San Joaquin Valley (WSJV) farmland. Many factors, including drought, climate change, reduced water allocations, and land-use changes could worsen salinity conditions there ...
Elia Scudiero +6 more
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Top-Ranked Priority Research Questions for Soil Science in the 21st Century [PDF]
, 2014 Soils provide critical support essential for life on earth, regulate processes across diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and interact with the atmosphere.
Adewopo, Julius +13 more
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Performance Tuning Of J48 Algorithm For Prediction Of Soil Fertility [PDF]
Published in Asian Journal of Computer Science and Information
Technology,Vol 2,No. 8 (2012), 2012 Data mining involves the systematic analysis of large data sets, and data mining in agricultural soil datasets is exciting and modern research area. The productive capacity of a soil depends on soil fertility. Achieving and maintaining appropriate levels of soil fertility, is of utmost importance if agricultural land is to remain capable of nourishing ...
arxiv
Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2018 Following rapid social and economic development over the past several decades, soil pollution by heavy metals (HMs) has been both serious and widespread in China.
Shi-bao CHEN +4 more
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The unseen world beneath our feet: Heliyon soil science. Exploring the cutting-edge techniques and ambitious goals of modern soil science. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Poschenrieder C, Scalenghe R.
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Boron application in red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) seed production [PDF]
, 2015 peer-reviewedThis work is part of the research project TR-31016, funded by the Ministry of Science and Technological Development, Republic of Serbia.A field trial with four red clover cultivars was established on acid soil in order to evaluate the effect
Bokan, Nikola +5 more
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