Grade of weathering and fertility of volcanic ash soils of Aso volcano     

Shigenori Aomine  Koji Wada 《Soil Science and Plant Nutrition》2013,59(2):27-33

Texture is one of the major criterions in soil classification, probably because it has a decisive influence on soil properties. This is particularly true for volcanic ash soils. Most ashes are largely composed of sand and silt particles with little clay (11, 15). The ash weathers very rapidly (1), and clay site particles less than 2 microns in diameter occur even within a few months, as shown by Ishii at the authors' laboratory. Those clay size particles produced in the early stage of weathering are slightly weathered ones (2), and are still subject to rapid weathering, losing bases and silica under humid and well drained conditions. In consequence the clay fraction of volcanic ash soils is composed of particles which vary in degree of weathering from slightly altered glass and feldspar to true clay mineraloids and minerals. The clay fraction of younger soils as a whole is less and that of older ones is more weathered. Weathering brings a remarkable change in the properties of volcanic ash soils; for example, an inerease in soil acidity, lowering of base saturation and bulk density, or accumlation of organic matter. These changes must exert a great influence on soil fertility directly or indirectly.  相似文献   

Heat of immersion of soil allophanic clays     

Shigenori Aomine  Kazuhiko Egashira 《Soil Science and Plant Nutrition》2013,59(5):204-211

Amorphous soil inorganic materials, specifically allophane. are believed to have a marked effect on soil properties and soil productivity, even in a relatively small amount, due to their large specific surface area, peculiar nature of surface and high chemical reactivity. They seem be present in soils, more or less, but determination of their content is generally semiquantitative or not fully reliable, because allophane includes aluminosilicates in a wide range of chemical composition and of properties, and any satisfactory, quantitative analytical method has not been established.  相似文献   

Genetic population evaluation of two closely related flatfish species, the rare barfin flounder and spotted halibut, along the Japanese coast   总被引：3，自引：1，他引：3  

María Del Mar Ortega-Villaizán Romo  Masato Aritaki  Shigenori Suzuki  Minoru Ikeda  Takashi Asahida  Nobuhiko Taniguchi 《Fisheries Science》2006,72(3):556-567

ABSTRACT:   Barfin flounder and spotted halibut have been selected as target species for stock enhancement in Japan. Understanding the genetic condition of the wild stock is a principal requirement in any stock enhancement program. The genetic variability of barfin flounder and spotted halibut, and the population structure of spotted halibut were evaluated using microsatellite DNA markers (msDNA) and the control region of the mitocondrial DNA (mtDNA). Barfin flounder and spotted halibut showed high genetic variability at the msDNA level. Barfin flounder A was 16.7 and H _e was 0.860; spotted halibut A _n ranged from 7.7 to 10.2 and H _e ranged from 0.710 to 0.774. At the mtDNA level, high haplotype ( h  = 0.922) and low nucleotide (π = 0.002) diversities were observed for barfin flounder; however, low haplotype and nucleotide diversities ( h  = 0.603–0.620 and π = 0.001–0.002), and very low haplotype and nucleotide diversities ( h  = 0.193 and π = 0.0003) were observed for spotted halibut in the north and south locations, respectively. Slight genetic differentiation among spotted halibut sampling locations was observed from the msDNA. MtDNA analyses showed genetic differentiation between north and south locations, but not within them. The designation of north-specific and south-specific management units in the future stock enhancement activities of spotted halibut is recommended.  相似文献