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    Soil restoration under pasture after topsoil removal: Some factors influencing C and N mineralization and measurements of microbial biomass (1990)
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    Plant and soil 127 (1990), S. 49-59 
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    ISSN: 1573-5036
    Keywords: microbial biomass ; mineral-N flush ; nitrogen mineralization ; pasture plants ; soil respiration ; soil restoration
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Abstract Factors influencing rates of C and N mineralization of soil and plant materials, and the reliability of different procedures for estimating microbial biomass, were measured in a soil (Typic Dystrochrept) that had been restored under grazed pasture in a temperate environment for 10–11 years after 20 cm of the original topsoil had been removed by stripping. Rates of net N mineralization were appreciably lower, but CO2-C production higher, in the stripped than in the unstripped soil. These activities were not influenced directly by levels of soil mineral-N, but they were influenced by differences in plant composition. Herbage and litter, and roots, from the stripped plots were generally mineralized more readily to CO2-C, but more slowly to net mineral-N, than were the corresponding materials from the unstripped plots. Rates of mineralization of herbage and litter, or roots, were mainly indistinguishable in stripped and unstripped soil, whereas rates of mineralization of all standing dead material were lower in stripped soil. Measurements of extractable-C flush, and of CO2-C flush (using a fumigated soil control) and mineral-N flush by fumigation-incubation procedures, indicated that microbial biomass in stripped soil had recovered to at least 88 percent of the levels in unstripped soil. Substrate-induced respiration also generally indicated high levels of recovery of microbial biomass. The fumigation-incubation procedure appeared to under-estimate microbial biomass markedly in stripped soil when unfumigated soil controls were used; the used of a large soil inoculum (20 percent w/w) only sometimes overcame this problem. Possible reasons for apparent anomalies in estimation of microbial C are discussed.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00010836
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    Soil restoration under pasture after lignite mining: Management effects on soil biochemical properties and their relationships with herbage yields (1992)
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    Plant and soil 140 (1992), S. 85-97 
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    ISSN: 1573-5036
    Keywords: invertase ; lignite mining ; microbial biomass ; nitrogen mineralization ; pasture production ; soil restoration ; sulphatase
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Abstract The recovery of soil biochemical properties under grazed, grass-clover pasture, after simulated lignite mining, was studied over a 5-year period in a mesic Typic Dystrochrept soil at Waimumu, Southland, New Zealand. The restoration procedures involved four replacement treatments, after A, B, and C horizon materials had been separately removed, from all except the control, and stockpiled for 2–3 weeks. In each replacement treatment, the effects of ripping to 1.8 m depth, mole drainage, and the use of fertilizer nitrogen were also investigated. Replacement treatment markedly influenced the recovery of herbage production and soil organic C and total N contents, N mineralization, microbial biomass (as indicated by mineral-N flush) and invertase and sulphatase activities. The effectiveness of replacement treatments decreased in the order: 1. control (no stripping or replacement). 2 A, B, and C horizon materials replaced in the same order. 3. A, B, and C horizon materials each mixed with an equal amount of siltstone overburden and replaced in order, 4. A and B horizon materials mixed before replacing over C horizon material. Ripping increased herbage production, net N mineralization, and to some extent microbial biomass. Drainage had little, if any, effect. Fertilizer N also stimulated herbage production, but depressed clover growth. Over 2.5 years, it had little detectable effect on the soil properties. Increases in soil invertase and, to a lesser extent, sulphatase activity during the trial were closely related to changes in herbage production. Microbial biomass increased more rapidly than did soil organic C in the early stages of the trial. Rates of net N mineralization strongly suggest that N availability would have limited pasture growth, especially in the treatments with mixed soil materials.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00012810
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    Microbial contributions to the increased nitrogen mineralization after air-drying of soils (1988)
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    Plant and soil 105 (1988), S. 163-167 
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    ISSN: 1573-5036
    Keywords: air-drying ; nitrogen mineralization ; microbial-N ; mineral-N flush ; soil biomass
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Abstract The amounts of mineral-nitrogen (NH4−N+NO3−N) extracted by 2MKCL and the net amounts of N mineralized (δ Min-N) during a 10-day incubation of field-moist soils, air-dried then rewetted samples, and chloroform-fumigated samples, were measured in a range of 20 topsoils from grasslands. Air-drying generally increased extractable-N and the δ Min-N of the remoistened soils, but decreased the Min-N flush after fumigation. The C∶N ratios (CO2−C production: net Min-N production) over 10 days decreased significantly from an average of 25 to 12 after initial air-drying, suggesting that substrates of low C∶N ratio, such as microbial cells, were contributiong to the extra N mineralized after the air-drying treatment. A procedure to quantify the contribution from microbial-N to the increased δ Min-N after air-drying was only partially successful, but indicated a large proportion of this increase was derived from microbial cells killed by desccation.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02376779
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    Microbial biomass C and N, and mineralizable-N, in litter and mineral soil under Pinus radiata on a coastal sand: Influence of stand age and harvest management (1995)
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    Plant and soil 175 (1995), S. 167-177 
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    ISSN: 1573-5036
    Keywords: coastal sand ; forest ; harvest management ; microbial biomass ; nitrogen mineralization ; organic matter ; Radiata pine
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Abstract Microbial biomass C and N, and anaerobically mineralizable-N, were measured in the litter and mineral soil (0–10 cm and 10–20 cm depth) of Pinus radiata plantations in two trials on a nitrogen-deficient coastal sand. The trials comprised (a) stands of different age (1 to 33 years), with five of the seven stands studied being second rotation, and (b) a harvest-management trial, with stands established after different harvesting treatments of the first-rotation trees and understorey development controlled by manual weeding and chemical sprays. The harvest-management stands were sampled in the fifth year after the second-rotation establishment. In the stands of different age, the levels of microbial biomass C and N, and also mineralizable-N, in the litter and mineral soil showed no relationship with tree age and were similar to those in the oldest (33 years) stands of P. radiata. In the harvesting trial, five years after establishment of the second rotation, levels of microbial N and mineralizable-N in the litter and mineral soil were generally lowest where whole trees and the original forest floor had been removed; they were higher in associated plots in which the original forest floor had been removed but fertilizer N was regularly applied. No marked differences were then found between the other harvest treatments, viz. whole-tree harvest, stem-only harvest with slash remaining on site, and stem-only harvest plus extra added slash materials. In each trial, levels of microbial C and N and mineralizable-N were closely related to total C, and especially total N, in 0–10 cm depth mineral soil, but not generally in litter. Respiratory measurements strongly suggest that the microbial populations in mineral soil had a high metabolic activity. On an area basis in the harvest-management trial, total tree N and microbial N in the litter and mineral soil were lowest in stands where the original forest floor had been removed. In this particular treatment, microbial N in the litter plus mineral soil (0–20 cm depth) after five years of second-rotation growth comprised 7.3% of the total ecosystem N; values in the other treatments ranged between 5.6 and 6.0%. Our results emphasise the importance of slash and litter, and probably volunteer shrubs and herbaceous under-storey species, in conserving pools of potentially available N during the early stages of tree development.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00011352
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    Measurements of microwave emission from a foam- covered, wind-driven sea (1971)
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-16
    Description: Microwave emission from North Sea and North Atlantic at surface wind speeds of 5-25 m/sec, measuring brightness temperature
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
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    Synthetic aperture radar imaging of ocean waves - Comparison with wave measurements (1980)
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-17
    Description: Synthetic aperture radar images of ocean waves were obtained in conjunction with reference wave data near Marineland, Florida, December 14, 1975. Each of the various types of measurements were processed into a form that allowed direct comparisons with the others. Maxima of radar spectra occurred at the same frequencies as the maxima of reference wave height spectra. In a comparison of a radar spectrum with observed spectra of wave height, wave orbital velocity, and surface slope the high-frequency portion of the radar spectrum lay near and between the wave height and the orbital velocity spectra but differed significantly from the surface slope spectrum. The radar-derived mean directions and model-fitted directional spreads of wave energy were close to the values from a directional wave buoy and indicated the accuracy of radar measurements of wave direction. However, a directional plot of a radar spectrum near shore at the frequency of the maximum showed a sharper peak than such a plot of a fitted spectrum derived from reference data.
    Keywords: OCEANOGRAPHY
    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research; 85; Sept. 20
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    Comparison of in situ and remotely sensed ocean waves off Marineland, Florida (1978)
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-17
    Description: Comparison between X-band and L-band radar imagery of sea waves is made. Sea truth was obtained by in situ pitch-and-roll buoy measurements. Under the low wind and wave conditions of the tests, superior wave imagery and more useful Fourier transforms were obtained with X-band SAR as compared to L-band with equivalent signal-to-noise ratio and synthetic aperture resolution. A comparison between X-band wave images and the in situ measurements shows agreement in the dominant wave direction to within a few degrees. The normalized spectra show a striking resemblance in spectral shape.
    Keywords: OCEANOGRAPHY
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    On the relationship of radar backscatter to wind speed and fetch (1978)
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-17
    Description: The physics of the interaction of electromagnetic waves with the ocean surface has been an active area of research for a number of years. This paper contains the results of satellite and aircraft experiments to investigate the ability of active microwave radars to infer surface wind speeds remotely. Data obtained from the recent National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Skylab experiment are compared with surface wind speeds measured by low-flying aircraft and ships-of-opportunity and found to give useful estimates of the ocean wind field. Also investigated was the influence of varying wave height on radar measurements of wind speed by measuring the backscattering cross-section for constant wind speed but variable wave conditions. It is found that this effect is of little importance.
    Keywords: OCEANOGRAPHY
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    Spectral characteristics of the microwave emission from a wind-driven foam-covered sea (1976)
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-16
    Description: Aircraft observations of the microwave emission from the wind-driven foam-covered Bering Sea substantiate earlier results and show that the combination of surface roughness and white water yields a significant microwave brightness temperature dependence on wind speed over a wide range of microwave wavelengths, with a decreasing dependence for wavelengths above 6 cm. The spectral characteristic of brightness temperature as a function of wind speed is consistent with a foam model in which the bubbles give rise to a cusped surface between the foam and the sea. In the fetch-limited situation the contribution of the wave structure at the surface appears to increase as the foam coverage decreases. Although the data show that the thin streaks are the most important part of the white water signature, there is some evidence for the contribution of whitecaps.
    Keywords: OCEANOGRAPHY
    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research; 81; June 20
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    Observations of oceanic white caps for moderate to highwind speeds (1972)
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    Publication Date: 2016-06-07
    Description: A series of photographs of sea surface whitecap conditions for wind speeds of 10 to 25 m/sec was obtained and analyzed for areal coverage of white water. The results are in good agreement with semiempirical calculations based on the wind speed and the development of the wave spectrum only when the contribution of thin foam streaks oriented in the direction of the wind is neglected. Since both the actively forming whitecaps and the thin foam streaks contribute significantly to the microwave emissivity of the sea surface, it is important that the foam streaks be included in the theory but differentiated from large white caps and foam patches. A simple relationship that accounts for the foam streaks based on the rate of energy transfer, the wind speed, and the wave spectrum is proposed. By means of empirically derived constant terms for the microwave signatures of white caps and foam streaks, this theory was adapted to the prediction of the increase in brightness temperature due to foam, with reasonable results to wind speeds of 20 m/sec.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: NASA. Manned Spacecraft Center 4th Ann. Earth Resources Program Rev., Vol. 4; 20 p
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