Abstract Massive issues on significant water used by oil palm trees suggest further estimation of exploited trees. This research employed sap flow technique using thermal dissipation probes (TDP), compared to Penman-Monteith equation as the benchmark. Water utilization plants was studied through evapotranspiration, investigate their footprint and productivity. Field study carried out in a 17 ye...

Urbanization results to a wide spread of Technosols. Various materials are used for Technosols’ construction with limited attention their ecosystem services or disservices. The research focuses on the integral assessment soil-like in Moscow megalopolis from services’ perspective. Four groups (valley peats, sediments, cultural layers, and commercial manufactured soil mixtures) were assessed base...

Indo-Malaysian tropical peat swamp forests (PSF) sequester enormous stores of carbon in the form of phenolic compounds, particularly lignin as well as tannins. These phenolic compounds are crucial for ecosystem functioning in PSF through their inter-related roles in peat formation and plant defenses. Disturbance of PSF causes destruction of the peat substrate, but the specific impact of disturb...

Halogens are strongly enriched in peat and peatlands and such they are one of their largest active terrestrial reservoir. The enrichment of halogens in peat is mainly attributed to the formation of organohalogens and climatically controlled humification processes. However, little is known about release of halogens from the peat substrate and the distribution of halogens in the peat pore water. ...

This discussion article provides commenting on the sections of review paper by Ahmad et al. (the authors) concerning consistency limits determinations for peats and peaty soils, drawing writer’s experiences regarding usefulness liquid limit (LL) plastic (PL) testing/results these soils in explaining their geotechnical behaviors/properties. From experience, despite being regularly specified engi...

Views on the entry of organic pollutants into matter (OM) decaying process are divergent, and in part poorly understood. To clarify these interactions, pesticide dissipation was monitored mineral soils not adapted to contaminants for 241 days; groundwater sediment slurries pesticides 399 their sterilized counterparts with without peat (5%) or compost-peat-sand (CPS, 15%) mixture addition. The r...

Peat and other organic soils (e.g., organo-mineral soils) show distinctive volume changes through desiccation wetting. Important processes behind are shrinkage swelling. There is a long history of studies on which were conducted under different schemes for soil descriptions, nomenclatures parameters, measurement approaches, terminologies. To date, these have not been harmonized in order to comp...

Organic vegetable production has specific research and innovation requirements which are not shared by other parts of the food and farming sector. A pot experiment was conducted to investigate the interactive effects of few permitted organic inputs such as arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, biochar, and different ratios of peat:worm casting on tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) growth, mycorrhizal dep...