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Salt stress is one of the most serious abiotic factors that inhibit plant growth. Dunaliella salina has been recognized as a model organism for stress response research due to its high capacity to tolerate extreme salt stress. A proteomic approach ba...

This paper presents a systematic review of the research available on salinity optic fiber sensors (OFSs) for seawater based on the refractive index (RI) measurement principle for the actual measurement demand of seawater salinity in marine environmen...

New geochronological investigations for the Slănic Formation, correlated with previous bio- and lithostratigaphical information, allow for a better succession of events for the Middle Miocene, including the absolute age of the Badenian salinity crisi...

Accurate prediction of estuarine salinity can effectively mitigate the adverse effects of saltwater intrusion and help ensure the safety of water resources in estuarine regions. Presently, diverse data-driven models, mainly neural network models, hav...

This study on soil salinity inversion in coastal tidal flats based on Sentinel-2 remote sensing imagery is significant for improving saline–alkali soils and advancing tidal flat agriculture. This study proposes an improved approach for soil sal...

Soil organic carbon (SOC) and microbial biomass carbon (MBC) are highly correlated with enzyme activities. Specific enzyme activities can exclude the autocorrelation between enzyme activity and SOC and MBC. However, the responses of absolute and spec...

Salinity is an essential parameter for evaluating water quality and plays a crucial role in maintaining the stability of lake ecosystems, particularly in arid and semi-arid climates. Salinity responds to changes in climate and human activity, with si...

In the present work, the streaming potential of A. ferrooxidans and pyrite was measured in two environments: fresh and saline water (water with 35 g/L of NaCl) at different pH values. Also, attachment kinetics of A. ferrooxidans to pyrite was studied...

The development of agriculture and ecology, and the construction of water conservancy facilities are seriously hindered by the salinization of seasonal frozen soil. Unfrozen water exists in the freezing and thawing of frozen soil. This unfrozen water...

Each year, millions of tons of sodium chloride are dumped on roads, contributing to the salinization of freshwater environments. Thus, we sought to understand the effect of sodium chloride (NaCl) on freshwater lake prokaryotic communities, an importa...

Tailleux has written about the concept of epineutral mixing and has attempted to justify it from an energetic viewpoint. However, Tailleux’s approach is incorrect because it ignores the unsteady nature of the density field during baroclinic motions,...

Salinity is a very important parameter from an environmental perspective, and therefore, efficient and accurate systems are required for marine environmental monitoring and productive industries. A plasmonic sensor based on doubly deposited tapered o...

This research paper introduces a sensor that utilizes a machine-learning model to predict water salinity. The sensor’s concept and design are established through a simulation software which enables accurate modeling and analysis. Operating on t...

Managing the rapidly changing saline-alkali land under cultivation in the coastal areas of China is important not only for mitigating the negative impacts of such land on the environment, but also for ensuring long-term sustainability of agriculture....

Tomatoes are important for human diet due to their content of bioactive compounds. However, is little known about behavior of these compounds during fruit shelf life. The goal of this research was to evaluate the effects on bioactive compounds of tom...

Anthropogenic CO₂ emissions drive ocean acidification through changes in the carbonate system, lowering seawater pH. In contrast, salinity variations arise from physical processes such as freshwater fluxes and circulation. This study reports the prep...

Soil salinization has a significant impact on agricultural production and ecology. There is an urgent demand to establish an effective method that monitors the spatial and temporal distribution of soil salinity. In this study, a multi-indicator soil...

Salinity is an emerging constraint for Mediterranean coastal agriculture, where shallow groundwater, seawater intrusion, and summer evapo-concentration generate relevant intra-seasonal variability in soil electrical conductivity. Camelina [Camelina s...

The capability of osmoadaptation is a prerequisite of organisms that live in an environment with changing salinities. Halobacillus halophilus is a moderately halophilic bacterium that grows between 0.4 and 3 M NaCl by accumulating both chloride and c...

The introduction of NaCl in freshwater caused by winter runoffs is a problem whose consequences are still little understood. We sought to analyze the effect of NaCl addition on microbial communities of the hypolimnion and bottom sediments of a Canadi...

This study assessed the responses of four local Spanish cultivars of Phaseolus lunatus (lima bean) to moderate salinity. For three weeks, plants were exposed to increasing salinity (50–150 mM NaCl) under greenhouse conditions. At the end of the...

This study aimed to investigate how the combination of texture information and spectral index affects the accuracy of the soil salinity inversion model. Taking the Bianwan Farm in Jiuquan City, Gansu Province, China as the research area, the multi-sp...

Growing crops in salt-affected soils has become increasingly important for sustainable development in arid and semi-arid regions. Knowledge on the responses of alfalfa root development, yield, and quality to soil salinity is critical for assessing th...

This study proposed different techniques to estimate the isotope composition (δ¹⁸O), salinity and temperature/potential temperature in the Mediterranean Sea using five different variables: (i–ii) geographic coordinates (Longitude, Latitude), (iii) ye...

Soil salinization is an important negative factor that reduces the fertility of irrigated arable land. The fields in southern Kazakhstan are at high risk of salinization due to the dry arid climate. In some cases, even the top layer of soil has a sig...

The tomato crop has great economic and nutritional importance; however, it can be adversely affected by salt stress. The objective of this research is to quantify the agronomic and biochemical responses of tomato plants developed under salt stress wi...

Coastal lagoons provide vital ecological functions, supporting diverse flora and fauna while being highly sensitive to environmental changes. In the southern Baltic Sea, the Puck Lagoon is a hydrologically distinct subregion of the Gulf of Gdańs...

Salinity in estuarine environments has been traditionally simulated using process-based models. More recently, data-driven models including artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been developed for simulating salinity. Compared to process-based model...

Evaluating salt tolerance based on agro-physiological traits is resource-intensive when testing numerous genotypes under both control and saline conditions. Focusing specifically on stress conditions may streamlines the process while effectively reve...

The accumulation of salt through natural causes and human artifice, such as saline inundation or mineral weathering, is marked as salinization, but the hindrance toward spatial mapping of soil salinity has somewhat remained a consistent riddle despit...

The spectral features of soils are a comprehensive representation of their physicochemical parameters, surface states, and internal structures. To date, spectral measurements have been mostly performed for powdered soils and smooth aggregate soils, b...

Three-dimensional dataset of world ocean climatological annual and monthly mean absolute geostrophic velocity in isopycnal level (called WOIL-V) has been produced from the United States (U.S.) Navy’s Generalized Digital Environmental Model (GDEM) tem...

Zygophyllum propinquum (Decne.) is a leaf succulent C₄ perennial found in arid saline areas of southern Pakistan and neighboring countries, where it is utilized as herbal medicine. This study investigated how growth, water relations, ion content, chl...

Soil salinization severely limits global agricultural sustainability, particularly across the saline–alkaline landscapes of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. We examined how potassium fulvate (PF) modulates oat (Avena sativa L.) performance, soi...

Salt-affected soil is a prominent ecological and environmental problem in dry farming areas throughout the world. China has nearly 9.9 million ${\mathrm{km}}^2$ of salt-affected land. The identification, monitoring, and utilization of soil salinizatio...

Salinity, as one of the essential physical properties of seawater, is a common tracer differentiating water masses in the ocean, which often require relatively high-resolution datasets. Limited by the coverage of direct observations, however, high-re...

Water resources management in estuarine environments for water supply and environmental protection typically requires estimates of salinity for various flow and operational conditions. This study develops and applies two novel deep learning (DL) mode...

Soil, a significant natural resource, plays a crucial role in supporting various ecosystems and serves as the foundation of Pakistan’s economy due to its primary use in agriculture. Hence, timely monitoring of soil type and salinity is essentia...

The monitoring of the coastal environment is a crucial factor in ensuring its proper management. Nevertheless, existing monitoring technologies are limited due to their cost, temporal resolution, and maintenance needs. Therefore, limited data are ava...

The aim of the present review was to reconsider basic information about various functional aspects related to plant water content and provide evidence that the usefulness of measuring absolute water content in plant sciences is undervalued. First, ge...

Advances in machine-learning techniques can serve practical water management needs such as salinity level estimation. This study explores machine learning, particularly deep-learning techniques in developing computer emulators for a commonly used pro...

Temperature and salinity are some of the most influential abiotic parameters shaping biota in aquatic ecosystems. In recent decades, climate change has had a crucial impact on both factors—especially around the Antarctic Peninsula—with in...

Humans currently face an extraordinary period of plant biodiversity loss. One strategy to stem further losses involves the development of species-level recovery plans that guide conservation actions. Seeds represent an important component in the life...

The Upper Cretaceous carbonates along the Zagros thrust-fold belt “Harir-Safin anticlines” experienced extensive hot brine fluids that produced several phases of hydrothermal cements, including saddle dolomites. Detailed fluid inclusion m...

Aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) refers to injecting freshwater into an aquifer and later withdrawing it. In brackish-to-saline aquifers, density-driven convection and fresh-saline water mixing lead to a reduced recovery efficiency (RE, i.e., the v...

As the level of potassium can interfere with the normal circulation process of biosphere materials, the available potassium is an important index to measure the ability of soil to supply potassium to crops. There are rarely studies on the inversion o...

Salinization of cultivated soil is an important negative factor that reduces crop yields. Obtaining accurate and timely data on the salinity of soil horizons allows for planning the agrotechnical measures to reduce this negative impact. The method of...

This study investigated the vertical structure of an anticyclonic eddy (AE) in the northern South China Sea (SCS) in August 2017 and its response to Typhoon Hato using underwater glider and satellite altimeter data. Additionally, comparative experime...

The accuracy of the crop coefficient approaches recommended by the FAO-56 guidelines for evapotranspiration (ET) in saline environments is limited due to complex soil–water–crop interactions, highlighting the need for advanced methods to...

The electromagnetic induction (EMI) and frequency domain reflectometry (FDR) sensors, which measure the soil apparent electrical conductivity (ECa) in situ, have emerged as efficient and rapid tools for the indirect assessment of soil salinity, conve...