Soil lead content is an important parameter in environmental and industrial applications. Chemical analysis, the most commonly method for studying soil samples, are costly, however application of soil spectroscopy presents a more viable alternative. The first step in the method is usually to extract some appropriate spectral features and then regression models are applied to these extracted fea...

Soil organic matter (OM) is a source of fertility for food provisioning and means climate mitigation. A high pedodiversity observed over very short distances due to both past present land use, such as in Western Africa (Northern Togo), makes this crucial issue. In particular, some small spots covered by sacred forests (forêts sacrées) cultural value area are extremely biodiverse, calcareous OM ...

Visible and near-infrared diffuse reflectance spectroscopy has been demonstrated to be a fast and cheap tool for estimating a large number of chemical and physical soil properties, and effective features extracted from spectra are crucial to correlating with these properties. We adopt a novel methodology for feature extraction of soil spectroscopy based on fractal geometry. The spectrum can be ...

Monitoring surveys of Phytophthora related diseases in four forest nurseries Italy revealed the occurrence fourteen species to be associated with collar and root rot on plants typical Mediterranean alpine regions. In addition, a multilocus phylogeny analysis based nuclear ITS ß-tubulin mitochondrial cox1 sequences, as well micromorphological features, supported description new belonging phyloge...

Two lichen species, Variospora kudratovii and Zeroviella laxa , a lichenicolous Polycoccum clauderouxii are reported for the first time from Pakistan represent generic records as well. Detailed macro- micromorphological descriptions spot test results provided along with ITS-based molecular phylogenetic analysis.