With the increase in rainfall, landslides occur on many gentle slopes in the mountainous areas of southeast China. Gentle slopes have a particular dual geological structure, i.e., the lower part is a gravel soil layer with good water permeability, an...
Turbidite fans, serving as good reservoirs for petroleum accumulation, are typically formed during deep faulting periods in continental basins, particularly in steep slope zones. However, gentle slope zones are also significant and unique for the for...
The gentle-slope tunnel has been adopted in many high dams, and aerators are usually required for high operating heads. For such tunnels, the lateral deflector is superior to the traditional bottom aerator, which loses its efficiency due to cavity bl...
CMOS image sensors (CISs) with global shutter (GS) function are strongly required in order to avoid image degradation. However, CISs with GS function have generally been inferior to the rolling shutter (RS) CIS in performance, because they have more...
Conventional harvesters usually depend on the operator’s expertise to manually manage the power allocation between the harvesting and traveling system, which results in problems like high subjectivity, labor intensity, and sensitivity to terrai...
The creep failure of open-pit mine slopes with weak interlayers is one of the main types of slope instability in open-pit mines. The scientific and reasonable treatment of this type of landslide is of great significance for improving the quality of o...
Nitrogen loss is the main reason for land quality degradation and productivity decline and an important factor in groundwater pollution. Extreme rainfall has occurred frequently in Karst areas of southwest China in recent years. It is of great signif...
Hurricane storm surges are influenced by several factors, including wind intensity, surface pressure, forward speed, size, angle of approach, ocean bottom depth and slope, shape and geographical features of the coastline. The relative influence of ea...
This paper presents new data from large-scale wave flume experiments. It shows the beach profile evolution and sediment transport for two different bed slopes (1:15 and 1:25), and three irregular high-energy erosive wave conditions and one low-energy...
Distributary channels at the delta front of lacustrine basins play a crucial role in transporting terrigenous sediments and redistributing depositional facies along the basin margin. These channels are also significant reservoirs for oil and gas. Thi...
Guyots are a special type of seamount with a flat top and are widely distributed in the global ocean. In this paper, a geomorphologic classification method for guyots based on multibeam bathymetry data is proposed. By studying typical guyots, namely,...
A three-dimensional numerical model was established with OpenFOAM-5.x to investigate plume characteristics under windless and rainless weather conditions. The large eddy simulation was applied, combined with a modified solver for solving governing eq...
The assessment of slope susceptibility to seismically-induced displacements receives wide attention in the geotechnical earthquake engineering field, but the alteration of the seismic wave inside the slope and at the ground surface due to the presenc...
Most election pledges require a significant budget for their implementation. In the case of a candidate for the head of a local government who presented his pledges related to urban planning by subdividing them into voting districts, we tested how th...
Hydraulic characteristics of rill incipience on steep slopes with sandy soils are different from those of gentle slopes in the mountainous watersheds. In other to better understand the processes of the incision and expansion of rill, rainfall simulat...
Sediment transport capacity in rills is an important parameter for erosion modeling on hillslopes. It is difficult to measure, especially at gentle slopes with limited rill length. In this study, a special flume with variable slope gradients in upper...
A thorough understanding of carbon storage patterns in forest ecosystems is crucial for forest management to slow the rate of climate change. Here, we explored fine-scale biomass spatial patterns in a secondary warm temperate deciduous broad-leaved f...
Eucalyptus grows rapidly and can grow up to 10 m per year, making them an important source of wood supply. Guangxi is a typical karst terrain, with hills and plains being the main growth areas for Eucalyptus. The differences in terrain can affect the...
The mechanism of low- to middle-rank coal seam gas accumulation in the Baode block on the eastern edge of the Ordos Basin is well understood. However, exploration efforts in the Shizuishan area on the western edge started later, and the current under...
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Cultivated land plays an important role in water and soil loss in earthy/rocky mountainous regions in northern China, however, its response to soil conservation measures and rainfall characteristics are still not fully understood. In the present stud...
Understory vegetation cover is an important indicator of forest health, and it can also be used as a proxy in the exploration of soil erosion dynamics. Therefore, quantifying the understory vegetation cover in hilly areas in southern China is crucial...
The behavior of asymmetrical bedforms, which include many tidal sand waves, is challenging to understand. They are of particular interest since they are mostly located within areas prone to offshore engineering activities. Most experimental investiga...
Research Highlights: Technology advances have allowed for a new approach to research the decline of the Korean fir (Abies koreana E.H.Wilson). This study provides insights into the exact causes leading to this decline. Background and Objectives: Vari...
The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between the development of rush zones in small lakes and the utilization and condition of surrounding lands. Generally, the width of the helophyte zone increased along shores with gentle slopes...
With the extensive construction of high-voltage power grid projects in complex mountainous terrains, rainfall-induced slope instability poses a significant threat to the safety of transmission tower foundations. This study focuses on a power transmis...
Agroforestry, as the dominant land use at the volcanic foot slope in Java Island, is prone to landslide due to a combination of rough relief and thick soil layer. However, evaluations of specific vegetation patterns against landslide reactivation due...
Due to rainfall infiltration, slope instability becomes frequent, which is the main reason for landslide disasters. In this study, the stability of slope affected by rainfall was analyzed using an indoor model test and geo-studio simulation method, a...
Water and nitrogen losses from farmland during the snowmelt process play a vital role in water and nitrogen management in cold regions. To explore the mechanisms and factors contributing to water and nitrogen loss from different sloping farmlands dur...
Karst features such as polje are highly vulnerable to natural and anthropogenic pollution. The main objectives of this study were to investigate the soil quality in the Ioannina polje (north-west Greece) concerning arsenic (As) and zinc (Zn), and del...
In dry regions, it is customary for farmers to use soil water conservation and/or water harvesting techniques. These practices have now become applicable to agriculturalists combating the adverse effects of drought on food production. In the semiarid...
Although rainfall is a major determinant of soil moisture content (SMC), various factors affect SMC. The effects of these environmental factors contribute to spatial heterogeneity in SMC, which influences diverse ecological processes. To better under...
Teak is a globally valuable hardwood tree species, as its growth performance is important for timber productivity. The purpose of this study was to establish an effective management system for teak plantations in the Lao PDR. Using diameter at breast...
Soil erosion in European Mediterranean vineyards is the main impact factor of uncontrolled solute and nutrient transport, degradation of soil structure, and loss of organic matter, which are key controlling factors in grape productivity and quality....
The planform of the Brahmaputra-Jamuna River followed its natural path in Bangladesh until the construction of bank protection works started to save Sirajganj from bank erosion since the 1930s. Several so-called hardpoints such as groynes and revetme...
More than three decades ago, it was noted that the ocean infragravity bound wave increasingly lags behind the forcing short-wave groups when propagating towards the shore. To date, the most recent theoretical prediction of this so-called phase lag re...
Spatial heterogeneity of soil nutrients in the dry-hot valleys of Southwest China is strongly shaped by topography, yet quantitative evidence remains limited. In this study, we assessed the effects of slope gradient, slope position, and slope aspect...
Numerical tests are performed to investigate wave transformations of nonlinear nonbreaking regular waves with normal incidence to the shore in decreasing and increasing water depth. The wave height transformation (shoaling) of nonlinear waves can, ju...
This study aims to understand and characterise the landscape of monasteries in early medieval Portugal using a methodology to better comprehend the factors influencing monastery construction. The research focuses on variables such as altitude, slope,...
Changes of soil properties along elevational gradients were studied in a less accessible and explored forest-tundra ecotone in the NW part of Central Siberia. Data on soil physical and chemical properties were collected along three horizontal transec...
The mechanism of soil detachment on steep slopes is obviously different from that on gentle slopes. However, the slope effect of soil detachment remains unclear. The objective of this study was to quantify the slope effect of soil detachment capacity...
In 1999, the Yellow River Basin (YRB) launched the Grain for Green Program (GGP), which has had a huge impact on the Yellow River Basin vegetation. Research regarding the causes of vegetation changes can provide beneficial information for the managem...
In recent years, inclined shafts have been widely used in long mountain tunnels, but the corresponding design and construction technical specifications need to be improved. By means of literature statistics and actual cases, a comprehensive and syste...
The wake behavior of wind turbines in complex terrain is influenced by the combined effects of atmospheric turbulence and terrain features, which brings challenges to wind farm power production and safety. Despite extensive studies, there remains a g...
The transport/detachment regimes of each particle size vary with size. Moreover, the changing transport/detachment regimes of sediments with size and their related mechanisms considerably affect sediment transport capacity (Tc). To investigate the tr...
The study of dynamic changes and spatial variation of landscape patterns is important to deeply understand the relationship between human activities and the natural environment. We selected a typical mountain area, Shizhu County, as the study area an...
Topography is an important factor that impacts the hydrological processes on sloping farmlands. Yet, few studies have reported the combined influences of slope gradient and slope position on infiltration characteristics and hydrodynamic parameters on...
Intense rainfall-induced shallow landslides can have severe consequences, including soil erosion and vegetation loss, making in-depth research essential for disaster risk management. However, vegetation recovery processes after shallow landslides and...
The ecological environment in loess hilly regions is fragile, and the contradiction between the development of human society and ecological environment protection is becoming more and more prominent with the intensification of human interference. In...
Geological conditions are the key for coalbed methane (CBM) accumulation and production. However, the geological feature of CBM accumulation and production in the Jurassic of Ordos Basin lacks systematic and detailed evaluation, resulting in poor CBM...
Community forestry, which is how local communities are involved in forest conservation and utilization activities, is an important forestry program in developing tropical countries. We evaluated the importance of geographical factors and community ch...
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