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Remote Sensing, 2023 The presence of salinity and sodicity in the root zone can limit root development and impact crop yield. Topsoil constraints are likely to have the greatest impact on crop growth early in the growing season, when plant roots are still shallow.
Fathiyya Ulfa +3 more
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Stockpiling disrupts the biological integrity of topsoil for ecological restoration [PDF]
, 2022 Purpose: Biotic and abiotic properties of soils can hinder or facilitate ecological restoration, and management practices that impact edaphic factors can strongly influence plant growth and restoration outcomes. Salvaged topsoil is an invaluable resource
Valliere, Justin +6 more
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Technosols for Mine Restoration: Overcoming Challenges and Maximising Benefit
Applied SciencesThe escalating demand for non-renewable resources is anticipated to intensify extractive activities, which are invariably associated with significant environmental externalities.
Teresa Rodríguez-Espinosa +4 more
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Frontiers in Food Science and TechnologyIntroductionThe choice of growth media is an important aspect of nurseries, as it affects the success and quality of the seedling establishment. A greenhouse experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of soil amendment on germination and growth ...
Stanlake Mangezi +6 more
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Heavy metal contamination of topsoil around a cement factory – A case study of Obajana Cement Plc
Environmental Pollutants & Bioavailability, 2022 The concentration of heavy metals (Cd, Co, Cr, Pb and Ni) in topsoil samples around Obajana Cement Plc was determined to assess the impact of cement dust emitted from the factory environment.
Victoria Omolara Enobong Akpambang +2 more
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Customs Regarding Topsoil in Old China : Topsoil Transfers and the Rights of Tenants [PDF]
, 1975 Topsoil (tian-mian 田面) originated where land productivity was augmented by the investment of the tenants' labor (this was known as gong-ben 工本) in improvements of the irrigation, the fertility, and the cultivable area of the land they were renting ...
草野, 靖
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Soil Science Annual, 2019 This study aims to identify the influence of soil organic matter (OM) content and calcium carbonates (CaCO3) on soil reflectance and select the optimum spectral bands for discriminating between topsoils of different soil types situated in the irrigated ...
Lazaar Ayoub +8 more
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, 2023 Mining is one of the basic sectors of the country's economy. However, it generates large environmental impacts, as well as a large amount of waste.
Andrade, Adriano Alves de
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Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica. Section B, Soil and Plant Science, 2023 The aim of this work was to investigate the effect of long-term (45-year) fertilization of the crop rotation on soil organic carbon concentration (SOC%) changes in different periods of the experiment and its trend under conditions of more northerly ...
V. Loide
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, 2018 Topsoil contamination near the Stanisław Siedlecki Polish Polar Station (PPS), Hornsund, Svalbard, has been assessed using magnetic methods supplemented by chemical analyses and microscopic observations.
Gonet, Tomasz +8 more
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