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Roy C. Sidle, Arnaud Caiserman, Ben Jarihani, Zulfiqor Khojazoda, Jens Kiesel, Maksim Kulikov and Aslam Qadamov
The Vakhsh River is tributary to the Amu Dayra, supporting numerous hydropower facilities as well as irrigation and community water supplies. High sediment loads are major concerns for these uses, yet little is known about the spatial distribution of the...
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Cato Sandford, Chris Malins and Calliope Panoutsou
The ?low indirect land use change risk? (?low ILUC-risk?) concept was developed to assess whether crop-based biofuels would compete with other land uses and cause the expansion of agricultural land. At the core of low ILUC-risk is an ?additionality princ...
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Dereje Tessema Adigeh and Birhanu Girma Abebe
Urban land acquisition is a fundamental precondition to sustaining the socio-economic livelihood of urban residents. In Ethiopia, with the high rate of peri-urbanization, the demand for urban land for various urban uses, such as housing development, is r...
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Georgios Theodosiou and Sampson Panajiotidis
Urban streams are ecosystems of great ecological and hydrological importance for human environments. However, they face pressure on biodiversity, hydromorphology, and water quality. In this study, an urban riparian system of a Mediterranean city (Thessal...
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Tanoh Jean-Jacques Koua, Jaehak Jeong, Tadesse Abitew Alemayehu, Yeganantham Dhanesh and Raghavan Srinivasan
Eutrophication in the Lobo watershed remains a major problem. The work carried out has focused on chemical and biological analyses in the lake or in its immediate environment: they did not sufficiently take into account the diffuse transfer of nutrients ...
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Hew Cameron Merrett and Jao-Jia Horng
In drinking water catchments, exploiting ecosystem services provided by stream buffers has the potential to complement conventional engineering solutions such as water treatment and reduce the overall public health risks to consumers. These stream buffer...
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Heena Saheewala, Suman Sanadhya, Sudhir Kumar Upadhyay, Santosh Ranjan Mohanty and Devendra Jain
Potassium (K) helps crop plants to resist biotic and abiotic challenges and plays a vital role in biochemical, metabolic, and physiological processes. Due to intense agricultural practices over the past few decades, the soil K reserve has been observed t...
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Sérgio Mateus Chilaule, Mercedes Vélez-Nicolás, Verónica Ruiz-Ortiz, Ángel Sánchez-Bellón and Santiago García-López
The degradation of groundwater quality due to nitrate is a widespread issue in heavily agricultural areas and a major concern for public health. Improving knowledge of the intrinsic vulnerability of aquifers with respect to the actual contamination is cr...
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Rosalba O. Fors, Emilia Sorci-Uhmann, Erika S. Santos, Patricia Silva-Flores, Maria Manuela Abreu, Wanda Viegas and Amaia Nogales
Soil characteristics, land management practices, and plant genotypes influence arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) communities, leading to the proliferation of AMF taxa with different growth and nutritional outcomes in their hosts. However, the specific p...
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Pollyana Mona Soares Dias, Jeane Cruz Portela, Joaquim Emanuel Fernandes Gondim, Rafael Oliveira Batista, Leticia Sequinatto Rossi, Jonatan Levi Ferreira Medeiros, Phâmella Kalliny Pereira Farias, Paulo Jardel Mota, Diego José da Costa Bandeira, Luís Cesar de Aquino Lemos Filho, Geisiane Xavier de Matos, Francisco de Oliveira Mesquita, Felipe Ozias de Oliveira, Antonio Genilson Rodrigues Araújo and Claudeone Manoel do Nascimento
Studies on soils and their interrelationships with land use in the context of the semi-arid region of Brazil are still scarce, even though they have the potential to assist in understanding the use and management of soil and agricultural crops. From this...
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