Microbial communities play important roles in soil health, contributing to processes such as the turnover of organic matter and nutrient cycling. As soil edaphic properties such as chemical composition and physical structure change from surface layer...
Because soil depth is a crucial factor for predicting the stability at landslide and debris flow sites, various techniques have been developed to determine soil depth. The objective of this study is to suggest the graphical bilinear method to estimat...
Soil moisture is an essential variable in Earth surface modeling. Two dedicated satellite missions, the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) and the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP), are currently in operation to map the global distribution of...
The stability of soil aggregates is critical for maintaining soil structures and is positively correlated with soil resident organic and inorganic colloids. Forest conversion and soil depth affects the formation of soil aggregates; however, the detai...
Soil depth plays an important role in landslide disaster prevention and is a key factor in slopeland development and management. Existing soil depth maps are outdated and incomplete in Taiwan. There is a need to improve the accuracy of the map. The K...
To reveal the effect of the interactions between soil depth and different land use types on soil nutrients and soil bacterial communities in a karst area, fifty soil samples from five different karst land use types in Huajiang town, Guizhou province,...
The forest swamp ecosystem, as a special wetland ecosystem, is a key link in the material cycle and an important carbon sink in the carbon cycle. The global carbon cycle is of great significance, but the impact of forest swamp succession and soil dep...
Functioning as a critical ecotone between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, riparian zones exhibit soil enzyme activities that serve as key biomarkers of their nutrient cycling processes. However, despite considerable focus on riparian soil propert...
In probabilistic slope stability analysis, soil depth has been treated as a deterministic variable, although it is a highly variable parameter. This study aims to identify soil depth variability using seismic refraction survey data and to analyze its...
Despite the known influence of groundwater conditions and nitrogen application on crop growth and the soil microenvironment, less information is available on the influence of groundwater depth and nitrogen application amount on the movement and accum...
Extensive and unregulated groundwater extraction for irrigation in the arid inland basins of Northwest China has led to a continuous increase in groundwater depth in agricultural irrigation areas. This has significantly altered the distribution of so...
Quantifying deep soil (10–100 cm) and non-growing-season soil respiration (SR) is crucial for refining carbon (C) cycle models, yet the regulatory mechanisms governing these processes remain unclear. The novelty of this study lies in its focus...
Revealing soil microbial diversity and metabolic limitations in different land uses and soil depths is essential to understanding the regulation processes of soil nutrients. Here, bacterial and fungal microbial diversity and metabolic restriction in...
The regulation of nutrient availability and microbial processes in agroecosystems are strongly mediated by soil physico-chemical factors. Yet, their seasonal dynamics in different crops are not fully understood. This study monitored pH, redox potenti...
Focusing on the ecotone from the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau to the Loess Plateau (QPtoLP), this study firstly constructs a retrieval model of soil moisture in various depth layers based on multi-source remote sensing data by using the two-source e...
Wetland ecosystems are essential to the global carbon cycle, and they contribute significantly to carbon storage and regulation. While existing studies have explored the individual effects of the water depth, vegetation, and soil properties on the so...
In this study, a new method for determining the depth of frozen soil, Impulse Response Time Domain Reflectometry, is discussed. This method uses the principle of impedance measurement and the law of time–frequency domain convolution to convert...
Aims: Changes in root system architecture (RSA) and soil depth affect the root decomposition rate. However, due to soil opacity, many variables of RSA have not been well studied or even measured. Methods: To investigate the effects of soil depth and...
Soil dry depth is a key parameter that determines soil fertility and nutrient availability, ultimately affecting crop yield and quality. However, accurately measuring the dry depth of soil has been a challenge. In this work, we propose using reflecti...
Restoration of degraded landscapes through the implementation of soil and water conservation practices is considered a viable option to increase agricultural production by enhancing ecosystems. However, in the humid Ethiopian highlands, little inform...
Although Next-Generation Sequencing techniques have increased our access to the soil microbiome, each step of soil metagenomics presents inherent biases that prevent the accurate definition of the soil microbiome and its ecosystem function. In this s...
Soil salinization and alkalization is a global problem restricting agricultural production. This study compared different fertilizer regimes (addition rate and application depth) on maize growth and soil quality in saline-alkali soil. Cow manure comp...
Passive microwave remote sensing of soil moisture is crucial for monitoring the Earth’s water cycle and surface dynamics. The penetration depth during this process is significant, as it influences the accuracy of retrieved soil moisture data. W...
Soil depth is a crucial parameter in slope stability analysis in mountainous areas. The drilling survey is the most reliable method for determining soil depth, but it requires a high cost for the vast geographical area. Therefore, this study proposes...
Although groundwater quality depends on microbial processes in the soil treatment area (STA) of onsite wastewater treatment systems (OWTS), our understanding of the development of these microbial communities is limited. We examined the bacterial comm...
One of the basic requirements for controlled traffic farming (CTF) is the precise motion of all agricultural equipment on permanent traffic lanes (PTL). Tractors of machine-tractor units are then equipped with a GNSS (global navigation satellite) RTK...
With the long-term running of the subway, the soil layer around the tunnel takes on the thermal deposition effect, which can lead the air in the tunnel to heat up and pose a serious threat to the safety operation of trains. Through taking some subway...
The sensing depth of passive microwave remote sensing is a significant factor in quantitative frozen soil studies. In this paper, a microwave radiation response depth (MRRD) was proposed to describe the source of the main signals of passive microwave...
Crop seeding depth is an important parameter in agrotechnologies, but how can seeding depth automatically be maintained in on-farm soil conditions with different textures, granulometric compositions, structural contents and penetration resistances? F...
Absorptive and transport fine roots (diameter ≤ 2 mm) differ greatly in anatomy, morphology, and physiology, as well as their responses to environmental changes. However, it is still not well understood how their functional traits and biomass repa...
Seeds require adequate soil moisture prior to planting, and pre-sowing irrigation depth (PSID) represents the optimum seed moisture level. This work proposes a new methodology to obtain soil physical properties and PSID, that includes the application...
This paper investigates the influence of soil with finite depth on the vibrational behavior of a multi-span continuous beam resting on an elastic foundation. The simplified model of the Timoshenko beam supported on soil with finite depth is establish...
In a vadose zone the soil water content can change seasonally, driven by seasonal variations of meteorological factors. This dynamic behavior is depth-dependent, which controls the groundwater recharge from infiltration, and plays an essential role i...
The nature of depth distribution of soil organic carbon (SOC) was examined in 85 soils across New South Wales with the working hypothesis that the depth distribution of SOC is controlled by processes that vary with depth in the profile. Mathematical...
US cotton producers are motivated to optimize planter performance to ensure timely and uniform stand establishment early in the season, especially when planting in sub-optimal field conditions. Field studies were conducted in 2017, 2018 and 2019 to e...
Soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks are a remarkable property for soil and environmental monitoring. The understanding of their dynamics in crop soils must go forward. The objective of this study was to determine the impact of temporal environmental con...
Water storage in unsaturated and saturated zones during the crop non-growing season is one of the important supplementary water resources to meet crop water requirements in arid areas with shallow water table depth. It is necessary to analyze utiliza...
High-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), as an efficient Earth observation technology, can be used as a complementary means of observation for snow depth (SD) and can address the spatial heterogeneity of mountain snow. However, there is still...
To study the spatial distribution of soil salinization, the temporal and spatial variations of groundwater depth, along the Yellow River saline–alkali land, were analyzed. GIS technology was used to conduct spatial interpolation and quantitativ...
Straw incorporation, as a widely recommended agronomic practice, has been continuously enhancing global crop production and soil–water conservation. However, the absence of a direct predictive capability for the long-term residual biomass of in...
We investigated the effects of seed burial depth and soil water content on seedling emergence and growth of Ulmus pumila var. sabulosa (sandy elm), an important native tree species distributed over the European-Asian steppe. Experimental sand burial...
To cope with the challenges in forest management that are contemporarily caused by climate change, data on current chemical and physical soil properties are more and more necessary. For this purpose, we present a further amalgam of depth functions an...
Characterization of decomposition dynamics of fine roots is essential for understanding vegetation–soil feedbacks and predicting ecosystem responses to future climate scenarios, given their more rapid turnover rates. Using a branch-order classificati...
The Mediterranean basin is extremely vulnerable to climate change, and one of the areas most impacted by human water demand. Yet the green roofs increasingly created both for aesthetic reasons and to limit pollution and urban runoff are themselves ve...
The main goal of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission over land surfaces is the production of global maps of soil moisture (SM) and vegetation optical depth (τ) based on multi-angular brightness temperature (TB) measurements at L-band....
Microbial communities found in soil ecosystems play important roles in decomposing organic materials and recycling nutrients. A clear understanding on how biotic and abiotic factors influence the microbial community and its functional role in ecosyst...
Recently, there have been frequent reports of subsea cable breakage accidents caused by the drop of an anchor pile for aquaculture works involving subsea cables for high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission embedded in the southwest sea of Kore...
Nitrogen isotopes have garnered increasing attention in the investigation of nitrogen (N) dynamics. However, there remains a significant knowledge gap concerning the dynamics of plant–soil nitrogen interactions and their driving factors under c...
The monitoring of both cold and warm season hydrologic processes in headwater watersheds is critical for accurate water resource monitoring in many alpine regions. This work presents a new method that explores the simultaneous use of remotely sensed...
Accurate estimation of soil moisture (SM) and vegetation optical depth (VOD) is essential for understanding land–atmosphere interactions, climate dynamics, and ecosystem processes. While passive microwave missions such as SMAP and SMOS provide...
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