Hochiminh City environs have more than 45,000 ha of coastal plain soils which to be continued to the South by the great mangrove forest in Camau peninsula. How to protect and afforest mangroves successfully on these soils when using them also for aquaculture (shrimp, fish, crab, mollusc, etc.)? An answer to this question is now urgently needed. Dealing with the study on soil genesis/ geography ...

Majority of the fungi producing diseases in man and animals exist freely in nature as soil saprophytes or plant pathogens and gain entrance into the body through abrasion, implantation or inhalation. Adametz isolated fungi for the first time from the soil in the year 1886, since then there has been very few reports. Manipal and surrounding places being coastal areas, experience heavy rainfall w...

In 1999, the Fall River Long-Term Site Productivity study began in coastal Washington to investigate how intensive management practices affect soil processes and forest productivity. By comparing conventional harvests to more intensive wood removal treatments, researchers are answering long-standing questions about how residual organic matter influences future growth. Also, by using herbicides ...

Present study is an attempt to examine the suitability of soil moisture products available from Aqua-AMSR-E for their application in monsoon simulations at different temporal scales ranging from medium range to climate scales. For this purpose we have analysed the AMSR-E soil moisture products over 18 locations in India to evaluate their suitability for assimilation in numerical models. It has ...

Saltwater intrusion driven by water extraction, coastal modifications, and climate change may alter the biogeochemical cycling of freshwater coastal wetlands. Anaerobic respiration in freshwater wetlands is typically dominated by methanogenesis, leading to a high methane (CH 4 ) flux, but the availability of sulfate (SO4 2— ) in seawater may shift the dominant pathway to SO4 2— reduction, decre...

Ren, H.; Guo, Q.; Liu, H.; Li, J.; Zhang, Q.; Xu, H., and Xu, F., 2014. Patterns of alien plant invasion across coastal bay areas in southern China. Journal of Coastal Research, 30(3), 448–455. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. An understanding of the ways in which levels of invasions by alien species are correlated with environmental factors is helpful to manage the negative impacts of ...

Halophytes play important roles in coastal ecosystems. However, few reports have described bacterial communities related to halophytes, and the distribution patterns of these bacteria in different plant tissues have been rarely compared. This paper mainly studied the diversity and community structure of endophytic and rhizosphere (Rh) bacteria related to the halophyte Messerschmidia sibirica, a...

Increased poultry production has contributed to excess nutrient problems in Atlantic Coastal Plain soils due to land application of poultry litter (PL). Aluminum sulfate [alum, Al(2)(SO(4))(3).14H(2)O] amendment of PL effectively reduces soluble phosphorus (P) in the PL; however, the effects of these litters when added to acidic, sandy soils are not well understood. The objective of this study ...

Coastal eutrophication is expected to increase due to expanding and intensifying agriculture which causes a large amount of soil-associated P to be transported into aquatic systems. We performed anaerobic long-term incubations on field soil to mimic the conditions that eroded soil encounters in brackish sediments. The release of P from soil increased with the amount of labile organic C (acetate...

Western European coastal sand dunes are highly important for nature conservation. Communities of the creeping willow (Salix repens) represent one of the most characteristic and diverse vegetation types in the dunes. We report here the results of the first kingdom-wide fungal diversity assessment in S. repens coastal dune vegetation. We carried out massively parallel pyrosequencing of ITS rDNA f...