In China, manure is the most abundant organic fertilizer product. Understanding the changes in soil inorganic carbon (SIC) resulting from long-term manure fertilization is vital for accurately evaluating agricultural soil carbon stocks and predicting...
FTIR spectroscopy, attenuated total reflection (ATR), and diffuse reflectance (DRIFT) modalities, along with ICP–AES spectroscopy and correlation analysis, including two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy (2DCOS), were used for the detailed a...
The long-term field experiment on the Kastanozem showed that the standard moldboard plowing to a depth of 22 cm (control), chiseling to a depth of 35 cm, and three-tier plowing (machine type PTN–40) to a depth of 45 cm was incapable of providing a st...
This study investigated soil salinization processes in the Pavlodar region of Kazakhstan by comparing key soil parameters—namely, electrical conductivity (EC), pH, exchangeable sodium percentage (ESP), and sodium adsorption ratio (SAR) under ir...
Surface Kastanozem of the Lower Volga area was first studied as a part of the pedocomplex, with the lower part (148–160 cm) formed in Early Khvalynian Chocolate clays (13–15 ka), the middle part (100–148 cm) in a mixed clay-loess se...
Soil contamination around iron ore complexes in semiarid zones is usually described by total metal concentrations, which underestimate the labile mobile pool. At the Sokolovka-Sarbai mining and beneficiation complex (SSGPO, Northern Kazakhstan), tota...
Visible-near infrared (Vis-NIR) and mid-infrared (MIR) spectroscopy are increasingly being used for the fast determination of soil properties. The aim of this study was (i) to test the use of MIR spectra (Agilent 4300 FTIR Handheld spectrometer) for...
This research aims to evaluate the dynamics of soil loss through soil erosion by water in agricultural lands in steppe areas using a modification of the RUSLE2 model from the 1980s to the 2010s. The calculation was performed using a raster model of d...
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In order to combat land desertification and to evaluate the soil quality of different cover land types, and thereby determine the best land use strategy for vegetation restoration, this research comprehensively analyzed the soil quality of different...
Although a number of studies have provided information on soil texture, soil classification, and depth to bedrock throughout China, few studies have combined this information, which is the basis for agricultural field management. A total of 81% of Ch...
Honey contains a wide range of inorganic substances. Their content can be influenced, i.e., by the type of soil on which the bee pasture is located. As part of this study, the mineral profile of 32 samples of honey from hobby beekeepers from the Czec...
Groundwater, which is widely used in arid regions due to scarcity of surface sources, has excellent quality and, under certain conditions, can be consumed directly. Human activities have caused climate change, leading to decreased precipitation and i...
Soil moisture conservation is critical in arid and semi-arid agroecosystems, but open-top laboratory mass-loss tests quantify evaporation dynamics rather than field water-holding capacity. This study evaluated three laboratory experiments with dark c...
Livestock manure resources are abundant in the upper Yellow River basin on the eastern Tibetan Plateau, where rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) is grown under cold, short-season alpine conditions. To identify a suitable organic fertilizer substitution pro...
Grassland restoration through grazing exclusion is a key strategy for enhancing soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration, yet the dynamic contributions of plant- versus microbial-derived carbon (C) remain incompletely understood. We hypothesized that...
The long-term spectral characteristics of the bare soil surface (BSS) in the BLUE, GREEN, RED, NIR, SWIR1, and SWIR2 Landsat spectral bands are poorly studied. Most often, the RED and NIR spectral bands are used to analyze the spatial heterogeneity o...