The capacity of soil to regulate the terrestrial freshwater supply is a fundamental ecosystem service. Water percolating through soil is filtered, stored for plant utilization, and redistributed ...

Soil is a mixture of tiny particles of rock, dead plants and animals, air and water. Different soils have different properties depending on their composition. Sandy soil is pale coloured and has ...

However, it's the air, water and nutrients in the ground that ... The relative proportions of all these, along with pH, determine soil type. The pH of a soil refers to its acidity or alkalinity ...

to measure the pH of your soil. On the other hand, while it can tolerate heavy clay soils better than other types of ryegrass ...

While water erosion continues to be the most serious ... varying levels of historical erosion - often within specific soil types or landscape positions (Bruce et al. 1988). This approach works ...

Using isotope and nuclear techniques, this Section works to improve resource use efficiency by crops and in cropping-livestock systems, and to protect soil and water resources for sustainable and ...