Anand Narain Singh

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What is the best method for calculating leaf construction cost?

Leaf construction cost is an important parameter in understanding the functioning efficiency of a plant. There are several protocols given in the literature but I am confused and see no consensus....

09 September 2013 1,259 1 View

Is it possible to redesign and restore any unproductive natural ecosystem, like desert and severely degraded mining lands, into a productive one?

Ecological Engineering is a new baby of Ecosystem Ecology, its principles and their applications are not very different from conceptual ideas and practical applications of Restoration Ecology....

09 September 2013 9,448 32 View

In a degraded soil habitat what is the suggested quantity of soil microbial biomass carbon as of soil organic carbon? Are there any trends?

Soil microbial biomass carbon is an important soil parameter to assess the biological fertility of the soil. However, It is not very clear that what quantity of organic carbon would be...

09 September 2013 2,948 0 View

Are there any possibilities for biological fertility of soil when soil organic C and N contents are poor in a redeveloping degraded soil?

Soil organic carbon is the main constituent of soil nutrients. Normally, structural attributes of any organism need more carbon for structural built up. Therefore, soil organic carbon (SOC) is one...

08 August 2013 6,232 11 View

Can anybody suggest a good method to estimate total heavy metal concentrations in urban soils?

We are using digestion mixture -aqua regia (a digestion mixture of Nitric acid, Perchloric acid and sulphuric acid into 5:1:1 ratio) for soil and plant samples digestion. I want more satisfactory...

08 August 2013 8,804 3 View