In a semiarid region of central Iran, effects of parent materials, physiography and landscape position, land use, andmanagement practices on association of organic carbon with secondary (aggregates) particles and aggregate stability canhave important consequences in terms of carbon sequestration and budgeting, deciding on the proper land use strategy andsuitable soil conservation practices. It ...

We investigated the effect of leaf litter on below ground carbon export and soil carbon formation in order to understand how litter diversity affects carbon cycling in forest ecosystems. 13C labeled and unlabeled leaf litter of beech (Fagus sylvatica) and ash (Fraxinus excelsior), characterized by low and high decomposability, were used in a litter exchange experiment in the Hainich National Pa...

Plant root exudates contain various organic and inorganic components that include glucose, citric and oxalic acid. These components affect rhizosphere microbial and microfaunal activities, but the mechanisms are not fully known. Studies concerned from degraded grassland ecosystems with low soil carbon (C) contents are rare, in spite of the global distribution of grasslands in need of restoratio...

the rehabilitation of sandy desertified land in various dryland ecosystems by different management practices has a great potential to increase aggregate stability and improve soil quality. however, plants in general may have a different ability to sustain soil. the objective was to determine the effects of reclamation practices including haloxylon ammodendron and atriplex canescens plantation o...

soil enzyme activities are considered as one of the most important biological indicators and reflect the soil quality and fertility. current study was conducted to investigate the relationship between urease, invertase, alkaline phosphatase and aryl sulphatase activities of two histosols (located in kerman and shahrekord provence) and some of the soil chemical and biological properties. soil sa...

carbon sequestration in soil and plant biomass is the most simple and economic way for co2 decrease that is important in environment improvement. this research was done in miankaleh region of behshahr in mazandaran for comparison of carbon sequestration in different plant types. firstly, plant types were determined and dominant species was identified in each type. number and size of plots was o...

information about forms of phosphorus (p) is important for the evaluation of p status in soil and also understanding of the soil fertility and plant nutrition. to obtain such information and to determine the relationship between the p forms from soil characteristics, amount of different organic and inorganic p forms of 20 soil composite samples of eastern azerbaijan province, iran were determin...

Organic matter is mainly present in the top 20–30 cm of most soil profiles and is essentially an array of organic macromolecules consisting principally of combinations of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulphur. Soil organic matter is commonly measured as the quantity of organic carbon. The global pool of organic carbon in soil to a depth of 1 m has been estimated at 1,200–1,...