After reading this article you will learn about the buffering of soils. Buffering of soils is their resistance against any change in the concentration of hydrogen or other cation in the soil solution. For example, the clay micelle is almost completely saturated with hydrogen ions in strongly acid soils which also contain some in the […]
Buffering of Soils
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Addition and Loss of Nitrogen from Soil
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Nitrogen is added to the soil and lost from it when it undergoes a number of transformations. A small portion of nitrogen gas is directly assimilated by symbiotic and non- symbiotic nitrogen fixing bacteria and also by blue-green algae, to synthesize their cell protoplasm. Proteins present in organic matter as well as in the bodies […]