International Agrophysics, ( ISI ), Volume (32), No (1), Year (2018-2) , Pages (69-80)

Title : ( Impact of monovalent cations on soil structure. Part II. Results of two Swiss soils )

Authors: Elham Farahani , Hojat Emami , Thomas Keller ,

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Abstract

In this study, we investigated the impact of adding solutions with different potassium and sodium concentrations on dispersible clay, water retention characteristics, air permeability, and soil shrinkage behaviour using two agricultural soils from Switzerland with different clay content but similar organic carbon to clay ratio. Three different solutions (including only Na, only K, and the combination of both) were added to soil samples at three different cation ratio of soil structural stability levels, and the soil samples were incubated for one month. Our findings showed that the amount of readily dispersible clay increased with increasing Na concentrations and with increasing cation ratio of soil struc¬tural stability. The treatment with the maximum Na concentration resulted in the highest water retention and in the lowest shrinkage capacity. This was was associated with high amounts of readily dispersible clay. Air permeability generally increased during incu¬bation due to moderate wetting and drying cycles, but the increase was negatively correlated with readily dispersible clay. Readily dispersible clay decreased with increasing K, while readily dis¬persible clay increased with increasing K in Iranian soil (Part I of our study). This can be attributed to the different clay mineralogy of the studied soils (muscovite in Part I and illite in Part II).

Keywords

, air-permeability, sodium, potassium, soil shrinkage, specific volume, turbidity
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author = {Farahani, Elham and Emami, Hojat and Thomas Keller},
title = {Impact of monovalent cations on soil structure. Part II. Results of two Swiss soils},
journal = {International Agrophysics},
year = {2018},
volume = {32},
number = {1},
month = {February},
issn = {0236-8722},
pages = {69--80},
numpages = {11},
keywords = {air-permeability; sodium; potassium; soil shrinkage; specific volume; turbidity},
}

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%T Impact of monovalent cations on soil structure. Part II. Results of two Swiss soils
%A Farahani, Elham
%A Emami, Hojat
%A Thomas Keller
%J International Agrophysics
%@ 0236-8722
%D 2018

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