Francesco Morari

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of 40 years of organic, mineral and mixed fertilisations on soil organic properties were evaluated in a continuous maize system, and the following properties were analyzed: total organic carbon (TOC), humic carbon (HC) and its molecular weight distribution, HC/TOC and the hormone-(auxin and gibberellin-like) activities of the humic substances and their effects on two key enzymes involved in nitrate assimilation in maize seedlings.

TL;DR: In this paper, the long-term evolution of soil P forms has been studied in a factorial experiment combining three soils (sandy, clay and a peaty) with three types of fertilization (no fertilizer, farmyard manure and mineral fertilizer).

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of a 6m buffer strip (BS) in reducing runoff, suspended solids and nutrients from a field growing maize, winter wheat and soybean was assessed in a field experiment conducted in North-East Italy during 1998-2001.

TL;DR: In this article, the potential use of electro-magnetic induction scans (EMI) to measure apparent electrical conductivity and improve the estimate accuracy of sparsely sampled primary variables was assessed in a 5-ha gravelly soil vineyard in Valpolicella, north-eastern Italy.

TL;DR: In this paper, two Landsat images, acquired in 1987 and 2008, were analyzed to evaluate desertification processes in central North Kurdufan State (Sudan), and spectral mixture analysis (SMA) and multitemporal comparison techniques (change vector analysis) were applied to estimate the long-term desertification/regrowing of vegetation cover over time and in space.