The construction of soil surface microtopography not only effectively mitigates soil erosion, improves soil structure, and enhances soil ecological functions, but also significantly optimizes the seedbed environment for seedling emergence and crop gr...
Microtopography plays an important role in various ecological, hydrologic, and biogeochemical processes. However, quantifying the characteristics of microtopography represents a data-intensive challenge. Over the last decade, high-resolution or close...
Soil microorganisms play crucial roles in the stability of the global carbon pool, particularly in permafrost peatlands that are highly sensitive to climate change. Microtopography is a unique characteristic of peatland ecosystems, but how microtopog...
The microtopography of tidal freshwater forested wetlands (TFFWs) impacts biogeochemical processes affecting the carbon and nitrogen dynamics, ecological parameters, and habitat diversity. However, it is challenging to quantify low-relief microtopogr...
Natural rainfall affects the stability of soil aggregates by the kinetic energy of the rain changing the morphological characteristics of slope micro-topographic factors. Although the relationship between the stability of soil aggregates and micro-to...
Adopting a comprehensive, basin-wide method for preventing flood disasters would be effective to deflect the climate-change-induced intensified water-related disasters. This study considers the land use and settlement patterns based on microtopograph...
Chasing is one of the main decorative techniques found in metal work. The imprints left by different chasing tools are unique not only to the tool, but also to the chaser. The analysis and characterisation of toolmarks provide vast information that i...
Seismic lines are linear forest clearings used for oil and gas exploration. The mechanical opening of forests for these narrow (3–10 meter) lines is believed to simplify microtopographic complexity and depress local topographic elevation. In tr...
Microtopography plays a crucial role in regulating soil moisture in arid and semi-arid regions, thereby significantly influencing vegetation growth and distribution. The Loess Plateau, characterized by a deeply incised and fragmented landscape, neces...
Background/Objectives: Natural oils are widely promoted and used around the world as part of skincare. Among them, extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) stands out for its broad range of organic compositions and well-known moisturizing properties. This study...
The occurrence and development of rill erosion depends on the hydraulic characteristics of water flow and underlying soil surface features. Our experiments include one-rainfall-intensity treatments (2.0 mm min−1) and various microtopographic le...
Spatial genes represent the fundamental interplay among the morphological characteristics of historical districts. Identifying and analyzing these morphological elements can enhance our understanding of urban spatial development, uncover spatial mean...
Plain farmland areas without significant topographic slope exhibit microtopographic features of different scales. Quantitative assessment of the effects of microtopography at different scales on runoff generation in typical farmland areas is of great...
(1) Background: Skin barrier function resides mostly in the stratum corneum, which consists of a protein component, the corneocyte (bricks), which provides a scaffold for the second component, the extracellular matrix, consisting of multilayers of li...
A novel simulation method of microtopography for grinding surface was proposed in this paper. Based on the theory of wavelet analysis, multiscale decomposition of the measured topography was conducted. The topography was divided into high frequency b...
The main dominant tree species of karst forest at the microtopography and the microhabitat scale were taken as the research object in this study, and the stoichiometric characteristics of different components and their influencing factors were analyz...
In ecological restoration of arid/semi-arid sandy lands, micro-topographic variations and artificial shrub arrangement synergistically drive vegetation recovery and soil quality improvement. As a typical fragile ecosystem in northern China, the Mu Us...
Accurate spatial identification of check dams is a key prerequisite for evaluating soil and water conservation benefits and optimizing dam system planning on the Loess Plateau. Current deep learning models face severe misclassification and omission i...
Twenty-four plants were studied in Guizhou province, China. Based on various microhabitats (soil surface, stone gully, and stone surface) and microtopographies (slope aspect, slope position, and slope degree), the photosynthetic characteristics of th...
Tidal inundation is a key factor determining the structure and function of estuarine salt marsh ecosystems. However, due to the influence of microtopography (small-scale topographic variations), the fine-scale spatial variations in tidal inundation h...
In hillslope erosion modeling, the Transport Capacity (Tc) concept describes an upper limit to the flux of sediment transportable by a flow of given hydraulic characteristics. This widely used concept in process-based erosion modeling faces challenge...
The grinding grooves of material removal machining and the residues of a machining tool on the key component surface cause surface stress concentration. Thus, it is critical to carry out precise measurements on the key component surface to evaluate t...
Terrestrial Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR), also referred to as terrestrial laser scanning (TLS), has gained increasing popularity in terms of providing highly detailed micro-topography with millimetric measurement precision and accuracy. Howeve...
Soil erosion in the hilly and gully region of the middle reaches of the Yellow River is severe, threatening regional ecological security and the water–sediment balance of the Yellow River. The area features fragmented topography and significant...
Any object can be considered as a spatial distribution of atoms and molecules; in this sense, we can manufacture any object as long as the precise distribution of atoms and molecules is achieved. However, the current point-by-point methods to precise...
Hummock–hollow microtopography is associated with fine-scale variation in vegetation and soil properties in alpine peatlands. In this study, we compared plant diversity, aboveground biomass of functional groups, and soil properties between humm...
Lightning shielding failure is a major cause of insulation flashover and unplanned outages of overhead transmission lines. Conventional electrogeometric models generally assume windless conditions, flat terrain, and fixed line geometry, and thus cann...
This study utilizes UAV-based LiDAR to analyze doline microtopography within a karst mountainous terrain. The study area, ‘Gulneomjae’ in Mungyeong City, South Korea, features steep slopes, limited accessibility, and abundant vegetation&m...
Urban microtopography plays an important role in regulating soil processes and vegetation performance in newly constructed green spaces, yet its effects on surface runoff, soil nutrients, and plant growth remain insufficiently quantified in urban rel...
In the past few decades, titanium and its alloys have been widely used in the orthopaedic field. However, because titanium is bioinert and lacks antibacterial properties, infection may happen when bacteria attach to implant surfaces and form biofilms...
Clarifying the impact of underlay (i.e., the combination of near-surface vegetation and surface micro-topography) on the surface runoff process would provide a significant theoretical basis for the adjustment of vegetation patterns and the control of...
Habitat heterogeneity caused by topographic variations at the local scale is the environmental basis for the establishment and evolution of biodiversity and biomass patterns. The similarities and distinctions between the effects of microtopographic v...
In the dynamic monitoring fixed sample plot of 25 ha of coniferous broad-leaved mixed forest in the temperate zone of Northeast China, we used the data from two surveys (2013 and 2018) and microtopography data of the sample plot, and the mycorrhizal...
The spatial distribution traits of microtopography exert a profound influence on the generation of runoff and sediment. Nevertheless, the underlying mechanism through which microtopography alterations, triggered by diverse factors, impact soil erosio...
The understanding of endothelium–extracellular matrix interactions during the initiation of new blood vessels is of great medical importance; however, the mechanobiological principles governing endothelial protrusive behaviours in 3D microtopog...
The dense and deep water flow that leaves the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic flows through the upper and middle slope of the Gulf of Cádiz as a powerful bottom stream that models and interacts with bathymetry. The detailed analysis of under...
The treefall mounds and pits resulting from uprooting caused by strong winds is an indispensable microtopography for the regeneration of many tree species through improved light conditions and mineral soil exposure. These microtopographies are expect...
Ion-adsorption rare earth element (REE) deposits are a major source of REEs and are found mainly in China. The formation of such deposits is affected by a combination of endogenic and exogenic factors. This study investigated the effect of micro-topo...
Periodontitis is a common inflammatory disease that in some cases can cause tooth loss. Cementum is a mineralized tissue that forms part of the insertion periodontium and serves to fix the teeth to the alveolar bone. In addition, it acts as a reservo...
Accurately characterizing rainfall runoff processes in plain farmland, especially at the plot scale with significant micro-topographic features, has presented challenges. Integrated surface–subsurface flow models with high-precision surface flo...
Wire icing events pose a significant threat to the southern power grid’s transmission lines in China. Fifteen such events were identified from 2018 to 2020 on the Guilin-Haiyang Mountain transmission line. Hourly measurements of ice thickness a...
Micro-topography has been proved to be beneficial for plant colonization in severe environments. There are numerous micro-topographies caused by erosion of gangue dumps in the Northeast China, which can make plant colonization difficult. To determine...
This study evaluated the influence of post-polymerization duration and a 14-day aging period on the mechanical and physical properties of 3D-printed standard resin models. Methods: Specimens were printed using Anycubic resin (50 µm layers) and...
Understanding the impoundment effects of cascade reservoirs on fish reproduction is essential for the conservation and management of river ecosystems. Using the lower Jinsha River as an eco-hydraulic reference, this study conducted laboratory experim...
The non-invasive inspection of surfaces is a major issue in a wide variety of industries and research laboratories. The vast and increasing range of surface types, tolerance requirements and measurement constraints demanded during the last decades re...
Research Highlights: Reclaimed minesites provide an opportunity to establish plantings of tree species of special concern, such as the American chestnut (Castanea dentata (Marshall) Borkh.), white oak (Quercus alba L.) and shortleaf pine (Pinus echin...
In order to study the leaching of exogenous nitrogen during green space management and maintenance, the parameters of the model were calibrated through field monitoring and grow box simulation experiments, and the Model for Studying Nitrogen Transpor...
Successful fracture healing is dependent on an optimal mechanical and biological environment at the fracture site. Disturbances in fracture healing (non-union) or even critical size bone defects, where void volume is larger than the self-healing capa...
This study is structured to address the problem of mapping the bottom of shallow and ultra-shallow inland water bodies using high-resolution satellite imagery. These environments, with their diverse distribution of optically relevant components, pose...
Three methods to estimate the presence of ground surface stones from publicly available Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) point clouds are presented. The first method approximates the local curvature by local linear multi-scale fitting, and the second me...
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