Nitrogen (N) availability affects plant biomass yield and, hence, phytoextraction of contaminants during phytoremediation of end-of-life municipal lagoons. End-of-life lagoons are characterized by fluctuating moisture conditions, but the effects on biosolid N dynamics have not been adequately characterized. This 130-d laboratory incubation investigated effects of three moisture levels (30, 60, ...

Freshwater sediments are important sites of organic carbon (OC) burial and mineralization. Previous studies indicate that warming can increase rates of OC mineralization, implying more CO2 release from sediments and, consequently, less OC burial, but temperatures typical of tropical ecosystems are poorly represented in the models of temperature and OC mineralization. We measured OC mineralizati...

Estimation of seasonal N availability via a soil test has proved difficult. This information gap has lead to fertilizer recommendations based upon soil inorganic N levels found before planting and or preside dress. Complicating matters, as famers adopt new irrigation technologies, the results from older fertilizer rate trails may also be less applicable. In general, most when not all recommenda...

samples. When a soil analysis requires field-moist soil, a pre-incubation time of 7 to 10 d after rewetting dried Carbon and N mineralization in dried soils that are rewetted has soil may be used to equilibrate the samples before analybeen proposed as a rapid index of C and N mineralization potential sis (Franzluebbers et al., 1996). and to reflect soil management, but further research is neede...