Publications related to Soil compaction (agriculture)

Using PhenoCams to track crop phenology and explain the effects of different cropping systems on yield

CONTEXT: Crop phenology integrates information of how environmental drivers and management practices affect plant performance and crop yield. However, little is known about the impact of cropping systems (CS) on crop phenology and how this relates to diffe ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Vegetation Drastically Reduces Wind Erosion: An Implementation of the RWEQ in the Mongolian Gobi Steppe

Charlotte Gisèle Weil

Soil loss prevention is an important ecosystem service for protecting human and environmental health. Using spatiotemporal climate and environmental data of the Eastern Gobi Steppe, a region missing from previous studies of Mongolian wind-based soil erosio ...

MDPI2022

Soil nutrient availability alters tree carbon allocation dynamics during drought

Leonie Corine Schönbeck

Drought alters allocation patterns of carbon (C) and nutrients in trees and eventually impairs tree functioning. Elevated soil nutrient availability might alter the response of trees to drought. We hypothesize that increased soil nutrient availability stim ...

2021

A machine learning approach for mapping the very shallow theoretical geothermal potential

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Dan Assouline, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni

The very shallow geothermal potential (vSGP) is increasingly recognized as a viable resource for providing clean thermal energy in urban and rural areas. This is primarily due to its reliability, low-cost installation, easy maintenance, and little constrai ...

2019

Improving slash-and-burn agriculture in Central Menabe, Madagascar

Justine Marie Gay des Combes

Slash-and-burn agriculture is considered as an important driver of deforestation in the tropics. In Madagascar, a biodiversity hotspot, this type of agriculture particularly threatens the tropical forest cover. On the south-western coast of the island, in ...

EPFL2017

Effects of flooding on phosphorus and iron mobilization in highly weathered soils under different land-use types: Short-term effects and mechanisms

Thomas Guillaume

The strong affinity of phosphorus (P) to iron (Fe) oxides and hydroxides in highly weathered tropical soils limits P availability and therefore plant productivity in tropics. In flooded soils, however, P fixed by Fe oxides and hydroxides can be released in ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

Hysteretic sediment fluxes in rainfall-driven soil erosion: Particle size effects

David Andrew Barry, Seifeddine Jomaa, Mohsen Cheraghi

A detailed laboratory study was conducted to examine the effects of particle size on hysteretic sediment transport under time-varying rainfall. A rainfall pattern composed of seven sequential stepwise varying rainfall intensities (30, 37.5, 45, 60, 45, 37. ...

American Geophysical Union2016

Estimation of Soil Moisture from Airborne Hyperspectral Imagery with Support Vector Regression

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Devis Tuia, Frank Grégoire Jean de Morsier, Maurice Borgeaud, Jelena Stamenkovic

In this paper, we propose to estimate soil moisture in bare soils directly from hyperspectral imagery using support vector regression (nu-SVR). nu-SVR is a supervised non-parametric learning technique, e.g. making no assumption on the underlying data distr ...

2013

Impacts of irrigation with industrial treated wastewater on soil properties

André Mermoud, Pascal Boivin

Wastewater reuse in agriculture is a widespread practice in developing countries, especially in urban areas where water shortage and poverty encourage people to use that marginal resource. Raw or treated wastewaters are used by farmers, but even treated wa ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Influence of rock fragment coverage on soil erosion and hydrological response: Laboratory flume experiments and modeling

David Andrew Barry, Alessandro Brovelli, Seifeddine Jomaa

Two laboratory flume experiments on the effect of surface rock fragments on precipitation-driven soil erosion yields were carried out. The total sediment concentration, the concentration of seven individual size classes and the flow discharge were measured ...

American Geophysical Union2012

Coupled effects of canal lining and multi-layered soil structure on canal seepage and soil water dynamics

David Andrew Barry

Ponding tests were conducted in the Shiyang River Basin in Northwest China to assess canal leakage characteristics. Four anti-seepage constructions (concrete lining, pebble lining, clay lining plus compacted canal bed, compacted canal bed only) were perfor ...

2012

Application of the denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) technique as an efficient diagnostic tool for ciliate communities in soil

Enrique Lara, Alexandre Jousset

Ciliates (or Ciliophora) are ubiquitous organisms which can be widely used as bioindicators in ecosystems exposed to anthropogenic and industrial influences. The evaluation of the environmental impact on soil ciliate communities with methods relying on mor ...

2010

Effect of competing ions and complexing organic substances on the cadmium uptake by the soil bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti

Rita Hajdu Schenk

In an effort to improve the understanding and prediction of Cd uptake by soil bacteria, adsorbed and intracellular Cd were determined in unpolluted and highly polluted model soil solutions within a concentration range spanning from 10-9 to 5  10-5 M of ca ...

2009

Effects of crab burrows on pore water flows in salt marshes

David Andrew Barry

Macro-pores such as crab burrows are found commonly distributed in salt marsh sediments. Their disturbance on the soil structure is likely to influence both pore water flows and solute transport in salt marshes; however, the effects of crab burrows are not ...

2009

Assessment of structural evolution of aggregated soil using neutron tomography

Lyesse Laloui, Laurent Vulliet, Azad Koliji

The advanced non-destructive method of neutron tomography, together with image analysis, is used to evaluate the structural evolution of an aggregated soil during one-dimensional compression tests. Aggregation of primary particles is a commonly observed ph ...

American Geophysical Union2008

Plant water accessibility function: A design and management tool for trickle irrigation

Dani Or

Systematic evaluation of different trickle irrigation design and management scenarios must consider the impact of a particular design on crop response at different soils, climatic conditions, and management options. Anecdotal evidence suggests that differe ...

2006

TASC-eine PC-Anwendung zur Vorbeugung von Schadverdichtungen

Gilbert Steinmann, Etienne Diserens

TASC (TYRES/TRACKS AND SOIL COMPACTION) is an Excel tool designed foremost as an aid in arable farming. The vulnerability of the soil to the passage of wheels or tracks is assessed after considering soil and load property factors. Danger of soil compaction ...

2005