The extensive use of pesticides in agriculture is compromising soil and water quality. One major concern is protecting water resources from contamination. The main objective of this research was measuring 2,4- D in a silty clay soil and simulating temporal transportation of this herbicide in soil using a LEACHP model, in a corn root zone field. 2,4- D was applied at 3.5 kg a.i./ha, followed by ...

Original scientific paper In this paper a numerical model was used to evaluate water flow in free drainage lysimeters with respect to soil anisotropy (hydraulic conductivity). Lysimeters were installed in undisturbed soil profile on two soil types with different anisotropy (low and high). The soil types were classified as Luvic Stagnic Phaeozem Siltic and Haplic Gleysol Calcaric Eutric Siltic. ...

Agricultural soil emissions are a balance between sinks and sources of greenhouse gases (GHGs). The fluxes GHGs from soils complex spatially temporally heterogenous. While the surface is exchange site with atmosphere commonly where GHG measured, it important to consider processes occurring throughout profile. To reduce improve agricultural sustainability we need better understand drivers dynami...

abstract soil salinity within plant root zone is one of the most important problems that cause reduction in yield in agricultural lands. in this research, salinity in soil profile was simulated in tabriz irrigation and drainage network using saltmod and artificial neural networks (anns) models. based on initial spatial distribution of salinity in soil profile, studying area was divided to 4 dif...

it is common in the literature to confront the measured 137cs depth profile with the analytical solution of 1d advection-dispersion equation (ade) calibrated for the time of sampling which is a pure transport model useful for undisturbed soils. the degree of accuracy is strongly associated to the soil texture. it has been proven that soil with high clay content can retain radiocesium better. mo...

The adsorption study was conducted on three Japanese soils with different soil properties to characterize the adsorption pattern of Arsenic (As). Double tube method was used to find out the effect of soil moisture levels on As adsorption. For this study, besides double tube method, conventional batch method also was used. The As adsorption showed two phase kinetics. An initial and rapid adsorpt...

Soil redox potential (Eh), concentrations of oxygen (O2) and three greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, and N2O) were measured in the soil profile of a coastal forest at ridge, transition, and swamp across a hydrological gradient. The results delineated a distinct boundary in soil Eh and O2 concentration between the ridge and swamp with essentially no overlap between the two locations. Critical soil Eh ...