Since the liberation of Kuwait in 1991 research and environment institutions have investigated the impact of war on the environment of Kuwait. The information acquired on the environment and soil has been large in magnitude and comprises of many components relating to soil characteristics; terrestrial, marine and coastal environments; public health; and ground water. Most of the research studie...

We measured soil CO2 efflux (Fs) in four loblolly pine plantations in the coastal plain of South Carolina in an effort to understand how site preparation, drainage, and microclimate affect Fs, root biomass, and soil carbon pools during early stand development. All plantations were site prepared: sheared, raked, and bedded. Soil CO2 efflux, temperature (Ts), moisture (θ), root biomass (Rb), coar...

Rainfall is a driving force for the transport of environmental contaminants from agricultural soils to surficial water bodies via surface runoff. The objective of this study was to characterize the effects of antecedent soil moisture content on the fate and transport of surface applied commercial urea, a common form of nitrogen (N) fertilizer, following a rainfall event that occurs within 24 hr...

The relationship between STP (soil test P) and DRP (dissolved reactive P) in runoff has been shown to vary with soil type due to differences in soil properties. The purpose of this study was to determine if soil tests could indirectly take into account differences in soil properties and thus provide one relationship with STP and runoff DRP among a variety of soil types. Nine different soil type...

Totally 189 Streptomyces isolates were obtained from eight different soils of Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, India. Among them, only 78 isolates were morphologically distinct. The highest diversity in the Streptomyces populations was observed in agricultural soil with minimum occurrence of antagonistic organisms. The least number of Streptomyces strains was found in coastal soil with maximum antagonist...

This study challenges the paradigm that salt marsh plants prevent lateral wave-induced erosion along wetland edges by binding soil with live roots and clarifies the role of vegetation in protecting the coast. In both laboratory flume studies and controlled field experiments, we show that common salt marsh plants do not significantly mitigate the total amount of erosion along a wetland edge. We ...

UAV (unmanned Aerial Vehicle) platforms represent a challenging opportunity for the deployment of a number of remote sensors. These vehicles are a cost-effective option in front of manned aerial vehicles (planes and helicopters), are easy to deploy due to the short runways needed, and they allow users to meet the critical requirements of the spatial and temporal resolutions imposed by the instr...

Although increasing evidence has provided that soil respiration is strongly related to recent canopy photosynthesis, doubts remain as to the extent to which primary productivity controls soil respiratory and the speed of the link between soil respiration and photosynthesis. Based on the automated measurements of soil respiration and eddy covariance measurements of ecosystem photosynthesis (i.e....

c-means clustering of remotely sensed (RS) data, and multiple linear regression relating spectral response to Knowledge of surface soil properties is used to assess past erosion soil attributes may be used to evaluate variability in and predict erodibility, determine nutrient requirements, and assess surface texture for soil survey applications. This study was designed to surface soil propertie...

First-order soil surveys (scales 91:12,000) are essential for detailed land use assessment. Recently developed technologies depicting landscape variability at high resolution are useful for first-order survey development. Our objective was to compare a first-order soil survey created using conventional techniques versus a multivariate firstorder survey developed using terrain attributes calcula...