Dairy farm effluent (DFE) comprises animal feces, urine, and wash-down water collected at the milking shed. This is collected daily during the milking season and sprayed onto grazed dairy pastures. Urine patches in grazed ...

There has been much research conducted to find suitable methods for the determination of available Cd in soils. In recent years, an isotope exchange kinetics (IEK) technique has been tested to describe the kinetic transfer ...

Oxides of Fe and Mn in soils are capable of sorbing large amounts of trace metal ions and can therefore be important in controlling trace metal concentrations in soil solution, and hence trace metal bioavailability in ...

Soils surrounding cattle dips in Australia are known to be highly contaminated with As and are potentially of major concern to the environment and human health. A study of 11 dip sites in northern New South Wales (NSW) has ...

Soil solution metal concentrations and hence metal bioavailability are controlled by sorption-desorption reactions at the surfaces of soil colloids. Compared with the numerous studies on sorption of metals by soils, there ...

Availability of soil Cu to plants is dependent on the desorption into the soil solution of Cu from the surfaces of soil colloidal materials. Although there have been many studies of Cu sorption by soils, however, few have ...

A method has been developed for the speciation of arsenic (AsO₂⁻, AsO₄³⁻, and dimethylarsinic [DMA]) in natural soil solutions from contaminated sites in Australia. The separation of these anions was achieved by capillary ...

The determination of total organic phosphorus (TOP) in soils presents several methodological problems, particularly on strongly weathered and tropical soils. We reviewed the application of several methods for TOP determination ...

In many intensive agroecosystems continued inputs of phosphorus (P) over many years can significantly increase soil P concentrations and the risk of P loss to surface waters. For this study we used solid-state ³¹P nuclear ...

Microbial diversity in soils is considered important for maintaining sustainability of agricultural production systems. However, the links between microbial diversity and ecosystem processes are not well understood. This ...