Browsing by Author "Nawal Ababsa"

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    DOES EARTHWORMS DENSITY REALLY MODIFY SOIL'S HYDRODYNAMIC PROPERTIES IN IRRIGATED SYSTEMS WITH RECYCLED WATER?
    (Journal of Fundamental and Applied Sciences, 2016-05-01) Nawal Ababsa; Dalila Addad
    ABSTRACT Our study has the general objective to understand the impact of the valuation of treated water on earthworm abundance and total porosity of the soil and the effect of the interaction between these two physical-biological components of the hydrological functioning of soils. It was carried out on the meadows soils of the valley of Wadi Bousselam. Although the treated water has high organic and particulate filler, it improved the earthworm abundance, total porosity and hydraulic conductivity of the soil.
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    Long-term effects of wastewater reuse on hydro physicals characteristics of grassland grown soil in semi-arid Algeria
    (Journal of King Saud University – Science, 2019-10-08) Nawal Ababsa; Dalila Addad
    abstract The raw and treated wastewaters are often evacuated downstream of settlements and widely reused in pre-urban agricultural irrigation. Our study highlights the impact of wastewaters on the soil hydrophysical properties as well as biological activity. Our study was conducted in eastern part of Algeria, on long-term (>60 years) wastewater irrigated grassland to determine the biological component and hydrodynamic soil behavior under these practices. Effects of three wastewater types (raw urban, treated and agricultural effluents) on soil were studied and water was characterized both physically and chemically. Assessment of the effects involved soil porosity, soil hydraulic conductivity and earthworms’ abundance. The results revealed that waters contain high concentrations of organics (BOD 5&COD) and suspended solids (SS). Hydro-physical properties and biological activity showed that irrigation with raw urban wastewater enhances soil earthworm density, porosity and higher water transfer via hydraulic conductivity. Biological activity resulted in ideal pore architecture for materials and solutes transfer, induced a variety of micro morphological transformations in relation to the abundance of earthworm communities mostly endogeic and anecic.
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    Structure and diversity of earthworm communities in long-term irrigated soils with raw effluent and treated wastewater
    (Water Science & Technology, 2023) Nawal Ababsa; Khaled Bouchama
    ABSTRACT This study was conducted in two natural meadows: first, soils were irrigated with raw wastewater (SIRWW) and in the second, soils were irrigated with treated wastewater (SITWW). Earthworms were sampled in eight soil blocks spaced 10 m apart at each site. Earthworm community was characterized and compared using density, biomass, composition, structure, species richness, and diversity parameters. At both meadows, 459 earthworm individuals from two families and seven species were collected. The highest earthworm density and species richness were recorded at SIRWW. Nicodrilus caligenus was the most abundant species. Most of earthworm community parameters decreased significantly at SITWW. Only two species (N. caligenus and Octodrilus complanatus) were common between the two grasslands. Among the seven species identified at both meadows, four (Allolobophora longa, Eisenia foetida, Allolobophora rosea, Allolobophora chlorotica) were exclusively present in SIRWW, whereas a single species (Amynthas sp.) was characterized in SITWW. Three ecological earthworm groups (epigeic, endogeic, and anectic) were represented in SIRWW, with the dominance of endogeics. Further studies are needed to quantify pollution in this soils and the accumulation of pollutant load in earthworms. It is also important to highlight the relationship between the abundance and diversity of earthworms in these two ecosystems with soil biological activity.