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Apart from the endocrine distruption of PAE in humans, does it have any toxic effect on plant tissues? I would also appreciate if some can provide a brief protocol to determine PAE content in...
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Does the presence of organic matter in the soil cause metal transformation?
12 December 2017 857 10 View
For overconsolidated fine-grained soils, the precobsolidation pressure plays a critical role in settlement calculation. Are there new expressions for approximating its value without running a...
12 December 2017 5,451 4 View
Soil water storage efficiency measurement.
12 December 2017 683 5 View
The science says that some of the N provided in the Urea will be immobilized but released later. But over what time frame, which I know is like asking how long is a piece of string? And how much...
11 December 2017 3,238 3 View
how can I convert fertiliser amount from mg/pot if I have pot volume 10 kg soil or diameter of pot
11 December 2017 7,091 19 View
Which on is the best method for contaminated soil remediation? Physical removal Soil washing Bio-remediation Thermal soil remediation other methods?
09 December 2017 1,851 7 View
Why Brooks corey and Van genuchten have different values for Ks (saturated conductivity), Theta s and Theta r for same soil. How to compare Van Genuchten and Brooks Corey for same soil eg. Sand?...
07 December 2017 2,670 3 View
At what level a micro or macro nutrient (quantitatively)( with reference to nitrates, phosphates, potassium etc.) is important or beneficial for the proper growth and development of crop and...
04 December 2017 9,281 5 View
Do u think growing in soil less media will give better plants than in soils?
03 December 2017 8,554 9 View
Can anyone explain about open circuit potential of copper coated steel zinc coated steel and carbon steel in soil under same conditions. Why OCP of copper and zinc coated steel is more than carbon...
29 November 2017 7,508 3 View
Pot soil amended with plant residue for short duration cucumber growth. if plant residue has high CN ratio (OC: 371g/kg, N:0.97 g/kg). So in that case how to control/balance or lower down the...
29 November 2017 3,756 5 View
Velocity changes
29 November 2017 4,481 4 View
To what extent will BTEX, TPC and TPH be present in soil in order to conclude that the soil is contaminated or polluted?
29 November 2017 1,311 2 View
Hello everyone, what are the current research topics in the field of bioremediation of contaminated soils ? Thanks
28 November 2017 718 2 View
Is it possible that fertilization of trees by spreading N-P-K on soil brings to a longer annual shoot growth but in an other hand they will have less leaves each?
26 November 2017 10,019 22 View
Difference between soil water content and water holding capacity (WHC) from a soil ecological point of view.
25 November 2017 7,475 7 View
To study the heavy metal presents of a sediment in the water body. is it necessary to determine the OC% and CaCo3% in the particular sediment sample. How can we relate both.
24 November 2017 1,960 9 View
In one of the experiment, I applied wheat straw and wheat biochar at three different level to the field. Soil NO-3 gradually decreased with the increasing level of Biochar while, wheat straw...
24 November 2017 7,996 4 View
Good Day... i want to know the best way to kill all bacteria inside the soil, and then i will add specific bacteria to that soil? thanks
24 November 2017 4,017 3 View
I would like to estimate relationships among soil CO₂ efflux, soil temperature and soil moisture under experimental drought condition. I set the variables like below. Dependent variable (Y): soil...
21 November 2017 5,154 6 View
Hello , I want to do runoff modelling using NRCS CN method, but to start with I am not clear about the idea of how to determine the antecedent moisture condition. In papers people have choose...
21 November 2017 3,792 10 View
In Australia, commercial asparagus farms cut back vegetative growth and mulch it into the soil at the end of the growing season in order to return the nutrients in these plant parts to the soil....
20 November 2017 1,155 3 View
In generally, we apply biochar as a treatment for soil amendment. Is it possible to take it as parameter (as soil quality indicator) not as treatment. need valuable guideline, any protocol?
18 November 2017 9,458 11 View