Human-altered soils - Signatures of Anthrosols and their potential for arable lands
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41210%2F23%3A94763" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41210/23:94763 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42832-022-0164-0" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42832-022-0164-0</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42832-022-0164-0" target="_blank" >10.1007/s42832-022-0164-0</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Human-altered soils - Signatures of Anthrosols and their potential for arable lands
Original language description
The fertility of human-altered soils, Anthrosols, developed from past settlement activities for crop production is scarcely studied. The study evaluated the fertility of Anthrosols developed from the 15th to mid-20th century AD settlement in Old Buipe, Savanna region, Ghana, to determine whether abandoned localities are suitable for arable fields. Human activities enhanced the physical attributes of the Anthrosols: brown to dark brown intergrain fine soil, 15%-35% organic matter, 15%-30% potsherd, and 5%-15% charred materials. The Anthrosols were slightly acidic to neutral reactions (5,67-6,83, 5,83-6,95), high cation exchange capacity (CEC, 18,77-45,31me/100 g), electric conductivity pH(H2O), pH(CaCl2) (EC = 0,28-0,36 dS m-1), accumulation, and distribution of organic C, total N, P, Mn, Cu, Zn, K, and Fe, and available P, K, Ca, Mg, S, Mn, Fe, Cu, and Zn. Plant-available nutrients were comparatively higher than concentrations in non-anthropogenic soils. The level of releasability (bioavailable fractions of total concentrations) of P, K, Ca, Mn, Fe, Cu, and Zn partly compensates for low plant-available portions. Enrichment of chemical and physical properties of Anthrosols make them fertile for arable fields. The signatures of settlement activities are strong and can remain in soils for a long time, even under harsh environmental conditions.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000845" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000845: Centre for investigation of synthesis and transformation of nutritional substances in the food chain in interaction with potentially harmful substances of athropogenic origin: assessment of contamination risks for the quality of production</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Soil Ecology Letters
ISSN
0867-1761
e-ISSN
0867-1761
Volume of the periodical
5
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
1-13
UT code for WoS article
000910840400005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85145856220