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Coffee productions should have environmental value such as providing high soil microbial diversity while producing high yield. To examine that purposes, two experimental plots were constucted at benchmark site of Conservation and Sustainable Management of Below-Ground Biodiversity (CSM-BGBD), in Sum...
JOURNAL OF TROPICAL SOILS; Vol. 17 No. 2: May 2012; 181-187 | 2012
Taxa diversity within soil fauna functional groups can affected ecosystem functioning such as ecosystem engineers,which influence decomposition and nutrient cycling. The objective of this study is to describe ecological diversityvariation within soil fauna as ecosystem engineers in soil ecosystem of...
JOURNAL OF TROPICAL SOILS; Vol. 17 No. 2: May 2012; 173-180 | 2012
Research on soil temperature in mangrove forest is a part of the mangrove ecosystem microclimate research. Studieson microclimate variables interaction, including soil temperature is important and interesting because it is associatedwith ecosystem and environmental changes, and the biota living in i...
JOURNAL OF TROPICAL SOILS; Vol. 17 No. 2: May 2012; 165-172 | 2012
Greenhouse experiment was conducted at Agricultural Faculty of Winaya Mukti University Tanjungsari SumedangRegency, from May to October 2009. The objective of this experiment was to study the effect of bokashi bottom ashon the growth, yield, and Pb content of upland rice. The experiment used a Rando...
JOURNAL OF TROPICAL SOILS; Vol. 17 No. 2: May 2012; 157-163 | 2012
The research was aimed to obtain a combination of rice straw (S) and tithonia (Tithonia diversifolia) (T) to increasechemical fertilizers use efficiency (FUE) on paddy soil which was conducted in Sicincin, Padang Pariaman Regencyin 2008. The experiment consisted of 8 treatments (A= recommendation in...
JOURNAL OF TROPICAL SOILS; Vol. 17 No. 2: May 2012; 151-156 | 2012
Most developing areal for peanut crop (Arachis hoypogeae) is upland, that is dominated by parent soil and has acidcharacteristis. Main constraints for this soil are pH and low soil productivity. Dolomite plus is a dolomite ameliorant,with phosphate nutrient. The dolomite plus beside as the amelioran...
JOURNAL OF TROPICAL SOILS; Vol. 17 No. 2: May 2012; 143-150 | 2012
A laboratory experiment was carried out at Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, Ibadan to evaluate the nutrientrelease pattern of neem fortified cocoa pod husk developed for use as organic fertilizer materials. Cocoa Pod Husk(CPH), Neem Leaf (NL), Neem Seed (NS), CPH + NL (90:10), CPH + NL (80:20), ...
JOURNAL OF TROPICAL SOILS; Vol. 17 No. 2: May 2012; 129-134 | 2012
The objective of multi years study was to formulate an alternative organic based fertilizer by mixing a fresh manureand phosphate rock with several different grain sizes conducted in the Field Experimental Station of the Universityof Lampung. Both materials of the fresh manure and phosphate rock wer...
JOURNAL OF TROPICAL SOILS; Vol. 17 No. 2: May 2012; 121-128 | 2012
Highly weathered Indonesian soils and potential acid sulphate soils are mainly granted for developing newlyopened wetland rice field to meet rice growing demand in Indonesia. Nutrient removal by rice harvest product ofCiliwung variety planted in newly opened wetland rice was studied in Bulungan Dist...
JOURNAL OF TROPICAL SOILS; Vol. 17 No. 2: May 2012; 115-120 | 2012
Presently, about 20% of oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq) fields in Indonesia are on peat soil, in addition to that otherarea of peat soil has been conventionally used for rice field and vegetables. To elucidate the global warmingpotentials of peat soils cultivated to oil palm, vegetable or rice fie...
JOURNAL OF TROPICAL SOILS; Vol. 17 No. 2: May 2012; 105-114 | 2012