Australian Journal of Soil Research articles from December 2006

Australian Journal of Soil Research archives from December 2006

Soil factors that influence the fruiting of Tuber melanosporum (black truffle).
December 1, 2006... Introduction Tuber melanosporum (black truffle of Perigord) is a hypogeous ascomycete, ectomycorrhizal fungus of the Pezizales order, with great culinary and commercial value (more than 1000 [euro]/kg) due to its intense aroma. Different...

Nitrification activity in acid soils of north-eastern Victoria, Australia, as affected by liming and phosphorus fertilisation.
December 1, 2006... Introduction Nitrification in soil is carried out predominantly by autotrophic ammonia-oxidising bacteria (AOB) of the genera Nitrosomonas, Nitrosopira, and Nitrosococcus, which convert N[H.sub.3] to N[O.sub.2.sup.-], and bacteria of the...

Soil assessment of apple orchards under conventional and organic management.
December 1, 2006... Introduction Intensive trafficking in orchards by heavy machinery can cause soil compaction. This can change the soil structure and pore system (Peng et al. 2004), both pore size distribution and the connectivity of the pore network. These...

Tillage effects on sediment enrichment, soil quality, and crop productivity in Ethiopian Highlands.
December 1, 2006... Introduction Soil is part of a dynamic and diverse production system with biological, chemical, and physical attributes (Swift 1999; Sanchez et al. 2003). The degree to which it functions to provide the required economic and ecological...

Prediction of spatial ET-fluxes using remote sensing and field data of selected areas in the eastern part of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.( evapotranspiration)
December 1, 2006... Introduction Landscape evapotranspiration is a critical parameter in the water balance equation of the hydrological cycle and is poorly quantified (e.g. Allen et al. 1998; Bastiaanssen et al. 1998). Accurate estimates of evapotranspiration...

Do sand dunes of the lower Lachlan floodplain contain the same dust that produced parna?
December 1, 2006... Introduction The deposition of aeolian dust is known to have been an active factor in the process of soil formation and landscape evolution on every continent. AEolian dust has been broadly defined as a suspension of wind-blown particles...

Unravelling the effects of soil properties on water infiltration: segmented quantile regression on a large data set from arid south-west Africa.
December 1, 2006... Introduction Hillel (1971) defined the term 'infiltrability' as the infiltration rate resulting when water at atmospheric pressure is made freely available at the soil surface, such as when the rainfall rate exceeds the ability of the soil...