Assessment of Nitrogen Ceilings for Dutch Agricultural Soils to Avoid Adverse Environmental Impacts by Wim de Vries, Hans Kros, Oene Oenema, Jan Willem Erisman

“…The N ceilings were calculated on the basis of critical limits for NO3 concentrations in groundwater, N concentrations in surface water, and ammonia (NH3) emission targets related to the protection of biodiversity of natural areas. …”
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Interstitial fauna of the Sava River in Eastern Slovenia by Simona Prevorčnik, Anja Remškar, Cene Fišer, Boris Sket, Gregor Bračko, Teo Delić, Nataša Mori, Anton Brancelj, Maja Zagmajster

“…The best studied of all interstitial habitats is the hyporheic zone, an interface between surface water and groundwater (phreatic zone) environments. The Sava River in central Slovenia (i.e., at the Ljubljana alluvial plain) readily qualifies as one of the global hotspots of interstitial biodiversity, while data from other river sections are lacking. …”
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Irrigation Management of HLB-Affected Trees by Davie Mayeso Kadyampakeni, Kelly T. Morgan, Mongi Zekri, Rhuanito Ferrarezi, Arnold W. Schumann

“…Other benefits of proper irrigation scheduling include reduced loss of nutrients from leaching as a result of excess water applications and reduced pollution of groundwater or surface waters from the leaching of nutrients. …”
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Risk Assessments of Water Inrush from Coal Seam Floor during Deep Mining Using a Data Fusion Approach Based on Grey System Theory by Yaru Guo, Shuning Dong, Yonghong Hao, Zaibin Liu, Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh, Wenke Wang, Yaoquan Gao, Pei Li, Ming Zhang

“…For the safety of coal mining, horizontal directional drilling and grouting techniques have been implemented to detect and plug the fractures and conduits that deliver high-pressure groundwater to coal mine. Taking the grouting engineering performed at Xingdong coal mine at 980 m below sea level as an example, we collected the data of grouting quantity, the loss of drilling fluid, gamma value, water temperature, average water absorption, distance between grouting loss points, water pressure on coal seam floor, and aquifuge thickness at 90 boreholes in the mine to conduct grey relational analysis, first. …”
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Preferential flow in soils is key to the development of nebkhas in water limited regions by Weicheng Luo, Wenzhi Zhao, Ning An, Chengpeng Sun, Hong Zhou

“…However, water use strategies and infiltration characteristics of nebkhas change with their development stages in regions with low precipitation and deep groundwater, and those changes are not well known. Here, we investigated changes in soil properties and quantified preferential flow characteristics with a dye tracer experiment in nebkhas at different development stages including bare sand dunes (BD), and small (SN) and large nebkha (LN) in different precipitation conditions. …”
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Assessing the Geological Environment Resilience Under Seawater Intrusion Hazards: A Case Study of the Coastal Area of Shenzhen City by Dong Su, Jinwei Zhou, Maolong Huang, Wenlong Han, Aiguo Li, Enzhi Wang, Xiangsheng Chen

“…Revealing geological environment resilience (GER) under seawater intrusion (SWI) hazards is a prerequisite for solving groundwater resource depletion, land salinization, and ecological degradation in coastal cities. …”
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Irrigation Management of HLB-Affected Trees by Davie Mayeso Kadyampakeni, Kelly T. Morgan, Mongi Zekri, Rhuanito Ferrarezi, Arnold W. Schumann

“…Other benefits of proper irrigation scheduling include reduced loss of nutrients from leaching as a result of excess water applications and reduced pollution of groundwater or surface waters from the leaching of nutrients. …”
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Analyzing water uptake of apple trees using isotopic techniques in the Shandong Peninsula, China by Tianze Pang, Ying Zhao, María Poca, Jianjun Wang, Hongchen Li, Jinzhao Liu

“…Notably, the isotopic compositions of the xylem water leaned more towards signatures of soil water, rather than immediate irrigation water or groundwater. Given the irrigation water used to be the dominant water source recharging into soil, the weak contribution of irrigation water to plant would be attributed to the high soil evaporation rates during the growth phase, which strongly alter the isotopic composition of irrigation water in shallow soil layers. …”
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Experimental Investigation of the Deformation Characteristics of Tianjin Clays under Coupled Dynamic Stress and Seepage Fields by Huayang Lei, Shuangxi Feng, Rui Jia, Mingjing Jiang

“…Soft soil ground not only bears the vibration load during operation and construction but also receives seepage effects caused by the bursting of pipelines and variations in groundwater levels. Under the coupling action of dynamic and seepage loads, large settlement can occur in soft soil since the deformation is related to both cyclic stress and seepage. …”
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Mechanisms linking river flow regime and riparian hardwood establishment by Steven F. Railsback, John H. Bair

“…A more complete conceptual model of hardwood establishment considers that seeds need to be deposited where soil is moist long enough to develop roots but far enough from the water's edge to avoid mortality in flow fluctuations; for soil moisture to remain within reach of roots, which could require unusually steady flows, a high capillary fringe, or favorable groundwater gradients; and to avoid mortality due to scour or inundation in winter high flows. …”
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Forecasting Different Types of Droughts Simultaneously Using Multivariate Standardized Precipitation Index (MSPI), MLP Neural Network, and Imperialistic Competitive Algorithm (ICA) by Pouya Aghelpour, Vahid Varshavian

“…MSPI was calculated in 5-time windows of the multivariate drought, including MSPI3–6 (drought in perspectives of soil moisture and surface hydrology simultaneously), MSPI6–12 (hydrological and agricultural droughts simultaneously), MSPI3–12 (soil moisture, surface hydrology, and agricultural droughts simultaneously), MSPI12–24 (drought in perspectives of agriculture and groundwater simultaneously), and MSPI24–48 (socio-economical droughts). …”
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Safety and efficacy of a feed additive consisting of chromium propionate (KemTRACE™ chromium) for all growing poultry species (KEMIN EUROPA N.V) by EFSA Panel on Additives and Products or Substances used in Animal Feed (FEEDAP), Roberto Edoardo Villa, Giovanna Azimonti, Eleftherios Bonos, Henrik Christensen, Mojca Durjava, Birgit Dusemund, Ronette Gehring, Boet Glandorf, Maryline Kouba, Marta López‐Alonso, Francesca Marcon, Carlo Nebbia, Alena Pechová, Miguel Prieto‐Maradona, Ilen Röhe, Katerina Theodoridou, Jaume Galobart, Maria Vittoria Vettori, Jordi Ortuño, Fabiola Pizzo, Jordi Tarrés‐Call

“…The Panel considered that the use of the microtracer as proposed in the conditions of use would not introduce safety concerns for the target animals, the consumers and terrestrial environmental compartment, but no conclusion could be made for the groundwater. The microtracer should be considered a dermal and respiratory sensitiser. …”
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Variation Characteristics of the Main Hydrochemical Indexes in Typical Subterranean Rivers in the South China Karst Region Based on Curve Fitting by Shuyi Liu, Chuan Liang, Lina Wang, Lingwei Zeng, Chunyi Wang

“…This study aims to provide a basis for the management of karst areas and the improvement of groundwater quality by evaluating geochemical processes.…”
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Assessment of Acid Mining Drainage (AMD) Formation in the Ore Stock and Waste Dam Reservoir Areas: An example of Gümüşhane by Enver Akaryalı, Mehmet Ali Gücer, Selçuk Alemdağ

“…AMD describes the formation of acid when sulphide-bearing (especially pyrite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite) mine wastes are exposed to oxidising conditions, typically in the presence of air (oxygen) and water, due to groundwater, rain and run-off. In this study, processes have been carried out to determine the occurrence of AMD in the ore stock and waste storage areas of the Gümüştaş Mining. …”
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A scoping review on the association between early childhood caries and life on land: The Sustainable Development Goal 15. by Morẹ Nikẹ Oluwátóyìn Foláyana, Robert J Schroth, Duangporn Duangthip, Ola B Al-Batayneh, Jorma I Virtanen, Ivy Guofang Sun, Arheiam Arheiam, Carlos A Feldens, Maha El Tantawi

“…The other reported that excessive calcium was associated with the presence of compounds increasing groundwater acidity that had an impact on human health, including caries. …”
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Assessment of runoff composition and residence time using stable isotopes and hydrochemical characteristics in Urumqi River Basin, northwest China by Siqi Wu, Fang Feng, Shuang Jin, Zhongqin Li, Michael A. Urban, Qiaohua Huang, Qiannian Shi

“…Using the end-member mixing analysis (EMMA), it was calculated that the contribution ratios of ice and snow meltwater, atmospheric precipitation and groundwater to runoff were as follows: 3.81 %, 60.45 %, 35.75 % in spring; 28.99 %, 15.42 %, and 55.59 % in summer; and 22.72 %, 3.34 %, and 73.94 % in autumn. …”
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Research on wireless monitoring system for internal temperature field of coal gangue mountain by Xiaofei Liu, Chunhao Liang, Jifa Qian, Xiaolin Li, Xuemei Li, Baoli Li, Guang Xu, Bin Zhou

“…Additionally, the coal gangue that ignites spontaneously significantly pollutes the land and groundwater, causing serious risks to the health and safety of individuals living and working in the vicinity. …”
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Evaluating combinations of rainfall datasets and optimization techniques for improved hydrological predictions using the SWAT+ model by Mahesh R. Tapas, Randall Etheridge, Thanh-Nhan-Duc Tran, Manh-Hung Le, Brian Hinckley, Van Tam Nguyen, Venkataraman Lakshmi

“…For the Cape Fear and Tar-Pamlico watersheds, the study highlighted SWAT+ 's challenges in predicting base flow for groundwater-driven systems and demonstrated the potential of optimization techniques to improve flow simulations despite poor satellite-gauge rainfall correlation. …”
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Assessing the Role of Incubation Temperature as a Barrier to Successful Establishment of Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in a Rapidly Warming Arctic by Elizabeth D. Lindley, Karen M. Dunmall, Peter A. H. Westley

“…We exposed embryos to temperatures previously recorded in the substrate of an Arctic groundwater spring‐fed spawning environment. Using a common garden experimental design, coho salmon embryos were exposed to treatments that thermally mimicked four spawning dates from August 1 to October 1 (AUG1, SEPT1, SEPT15, and OCT1). …”
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Experimental Study on the Influence of Hydromechanical Boundary Conditions on Shear-Flow Coupling Characteristics of Granite Joints by Yangbing Cao, Yang Wu, Xiangxiang Zhang, Zhi Liu, Weiguo Gong, Zhenping Huang

“…The instability of jointed rock mass is usually the shear process of the rock mass along discontinuities under the influence of groundwater flow. By conducting laboratory tests and numerical experiments on the shear-flow coupling of rock joints under constant normal stiffness (CNS) and constant normal stress (CNL) boundary conditions, the influence of normal boundary conditions and seepage pressure on the shear mechanical and flow characteristics of joints were investigated. …”
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