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Pascal Boivin
Researcher at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Publications - 59
Citations - 1658
Pascal Boivin is an academic researcher from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. The author has contributed to research in topics: Soil water & Soil structure. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 56 publications receiving 1363 citations. Previous affiliations of Pascal Boivin include University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland & Institut de recherche pour le développement.
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Soil Organic Carbon and Soil Bio-Physicochemical Properties as Co-Influenced by Tillage Treatment
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the impact of reduced tillage (RT) and conventional tillage on soil quality and found that the difference in soil physical and biochemical properties with RT induced a more stable soil with increased porosity and improved microbial activity.
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Shrinkage properties of repacked soil at different states of uniaxial compression
TL;DR: In this article, the shrinkage curves of repacked aggregated soil were analyzed at increasing levels of uniaxial compression after conditioning to different initial water potentials, indicating a strengthening of interaggregate bonds and thus an increase in hydrostructural stability.
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Evaluation of the potential for soil organic carbon content monitoring with farmers
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the minimum detectable change (MDC) of past results calculated based on the observed organic carbon (SOC) changes was 0.013 % g g-1 at canton scale (2700 fields).
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Changes in topsoil organic carbon content in the Swiss leman region cropland from 1993 to present. Insights from large scale on-farm study
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors quantified the on-farm organic carbon content deficit and change rate of cropland topsoil (0-20 cm) from western Switzerland using the data base of Geneva and Vaud cantons containing more than 30,000 top-soil analyses, performed every ten years on every cultivated field of the region since 1993.
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A Laboratory Device for Continual Measurement of Water Retention and Shrink/Swell Properties during Drying/Wetting Cycles
TL;DR: A new apparatus was developed for simultaneously and continuously measuring the water retention and shrink/swell properties of growing media during several drying/wetting cycles with varying intensities, showing encouraging results on slightly decomposed Sphagnum peat.