Effects of Soil and Water Conservation at Different Landscape Positions on Soil Properties and Farmers’ Perception in Hobicheka Sub-Watershed, Southern Ethiopia by Tamrat Sinore, Dinsa Doboch

“…The result revealed that the clay, soil moisture content, soil pH, OC, TN, Av.P, and CEC were higher in soil bund with desho grass as compared to adjacent soil bund only, whereas, bulk density, silt, and sand contents were higher in adjacent soil bund only compared to soil bund with desho grass. …”
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Sensitivity Analysis and Identification of Parameters to the Van Genuchten Equation by Guangzhou Chen, Lifeng Jiao, Xinhai Li

“…Selecting the desorption and absorption experimental data of silt loam from a northwest region in China as an instance, Monte-Carlo method was firstly applied to analyze sensitivity of the parameters and uncertainty of model so as to get the key parameters and posteriori parameter distribution to guide subsequent parameter identification. …”
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Convolutional neural network prediction of the particle size distribution of soil from close-range images by Enrico Soranzo, Carlotta Guardiani, Wei Wu

“…Our model is trained on a diverse dataset of soil samples ranging from clayey silt to gravel. We employed transfer learning by using MobileNet pre-trained on ImageNet and adding additional layers to fine-tune the model for our specific task. …”
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Numerical Modeling of Soil Evaporation Process and Its Stages Dividing during a Drying Cycle by Jiangbo Han, Jin Lin, Yunfeng Dai

“…To do this, a numerical simulation experiment in a bare silt soil was conducted to reproduce the soil drying process during a 20-d period after a 2-cm rainfall event. …”
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Sugarcane Yield Response to Furrow-Applied Organic Amendments on Sand Soils by J. Mabry McCray, Shangning Ji, Leslie E. Baucum

“…These soils have very low water and nutrient-holding capacities because of the low content of organic matter, silt, and clay. Because of high costs associated with broadcast application, this field study was conducted to determine sugarcane yield response to furrow application of two organic amendments on sand soils. …”
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Effects of Environmental and Disturbance Factors on Plant Community Distribution in Tropical Moist Afromontane Forests, South-West Ethiopia by Semegnew Tadese, Teshome Soromessa, Getaneh Gebeyehu

“…Environmental and disturbance factors, such as elevations, slopes, harvesting indexes, soil pH, silt, and herbaceous cover, were the most important for determining plant community distribution in the area. …”
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Engineering behavior and geotechnical challenges of sulfate-rich soils in Astana by Nazerke Sagidullina, Alfrendo Satyanaga, Jong Kim, Sung-Woo Moon

“…Initial soil characterization revealed that the soil is well-graded sand with silt (SW-SM), with significant sulfate content (8518.8 ppm) and salinity (18.45%). …”
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Impact of No-Tillage and Conventional Tillage Systems on Soil Microbial Communities by Reji P. Mathew, Yucheng Feng, Leonard Githinji, Ramble Ankumah, Kipling S. Balkcom

“…In this study, the effects of long-term conventional and no-tillage practices on microbial community structure, enzyme activities, and selected physicochemical properties were determined in a continuous corn system on a Decatur silt loam soil. The long-term no-tillage treatment resulted in higher soil carbon and nitrogen contents, viable microbial biomass, and phosphatase activities at the 0–5 cm depth than the conventional tillage treatment. …”
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Properties of Arboreal Ant and Ground-Termite Nests in relation to Their Nesting Sites and Location in a Tropical-Derived Savanna by B. C. Echezona, C. A. Igwe, L. A. Attama

“…Soils worked by ants and termites had greater proportions of silt-sized (17.9 versus 9.7) and clay-sized (19.2 versus 9.3) to the detriment of coarse-sized particles (51.2 versus 60.9) and fine-sand-sized particles (11.7 versus 20.1) relative to the adjacent soils. …”
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Determination of Some Soil Characteristics of Roadside Landslides Region: A Case Study of Lapseki-Sevketiye (Canakkale) by Mehmet Parlak

“…While wheat field samples had higher electrical conductivity, organic matter, available potassium (K), clay, silt, and plasticity index, but lower pH and fine sand contents than the inside samples. …”
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Soil Fertility Status as Influenced by Slope Gradient and Land Use Types in Southern Ethiopia by Kedir Merga, Gifole Gidago, Fanuel Laekemariam

“…Results indicated that most of the physicochemical properties of soils were significantly (P<0.01) affected by land use and slope gradient. Silt and sand particles did not vary significantly (P>0.05) among the land use types. …”
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Impacts of Groundwater Recharge from Rubber Dams on the Hydrogeological Environment in Luoyang Basin, China by Shaogang Dong, Baiwei Liu, Huamin Liu, Shidong Wang, Lixin Wang

“…Nitrates adsorbed by the silt clay of aeration zone appear to have entered the groundwater through physical and chemical reactions. …”
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Random Forest-Based Prediction Model for Stiffness Degradation of Offshore Wind Farm Submarine Soil by Ben He, Mingbao Lin, Xinran Yu, Zhishuai Zhang, Song Dai

“…The stiffness degradation laws of mucky clay and silt clay from offshore wind turbines were firstly investigated in the study. …”
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Macrophyte species, composition, abundance and diversity in relation to some environmental factors in Upper Awash River basin, Ethiopia by Temesgen Tigab

“…., Sida schimperiana, Alternanthera sessilis, Lagarosiphon cordofanus, Brachiaria mutica, Juncus effuses, Ludwigia abyssinica, Cyperus latifolius, and Cyperus papyrus were limited to sites where there was higher DO,TN and Silt. Half of the macrophyte diversity was explained by environmental factors like nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment texture. …”
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Investigation of the flow characteristics of slit check dams using novel models by Muhammet Emin Emiroglu, Erdinc Ikinciogullari, Eyyup Ensar Yalcin, Enes Gul

“…Slit-check dams are essential structures for managing the transport of silt and woody debris, especially in events of significant floods. …”
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Biochar reduces early-stage mineralization rates of plant residues more in coarse-textured soils than in fine-textured soils – an artificial-soil approach by T. M. Inagaki, S. Weldon, F. B. Bucka, F. B. Bucka, E. Farkas, D. P. Rasse

“…We can show that biochar application significantly reduces the early-stage carbon mineralization rates of plant residues in various soil textures (from 5 % to 41 % clay) but more significantly in sandy soils. Clay and silt particles alone also reduce C mineralization, but the magnitude of the changes is negligible compared to the impact of biochar. …”
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Les agglomérations de Germanie Seconde aux ive et ve s. apr. J.-C. by Raymond Brulet

“…However, other issues occur: the exploitation of various resources on both sides of a west-east line, between silt and sand soils, depopulation which hits the greater portion of the province, and regular installation of new foreign communities. …”
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Influence of Environmental Factors on the Aboveground Biomass of Mature and Postmining Forests in Chocó by David Pérez Abadía, Harley Quinto Mosquera, José María Del Arco

“…In mature forests, the AB amount was positively influenced by height and richness, and negatively influenced by dominance and evenness; in areas degraded by mining, the AB level was positively related to richness and equity, and negatively related to species diversity and soil silt. In summary, environmental factors determine the carbon storage in the forests in Chocó. …”
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Experimental Study of the Influence of Excavation Surface Stability and Sand Flowability Caused by Dense Slurry–Earth Pressure Balance Shield Tunneling in Silty Sand Stratum by Yongjin Qian, Fanlu Min, Zhenze Mo, Xihui Fan

“…To ensure the stable and efficient construction of the Earth pressure balance (EPB) shield in silt stratum, it is necessary to reduce the disturbance to the stratum during tunneling and reduce the risk of spewing and blocking during soil discharge. …”
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Correction Method for Resuspended Road Dust Emission Factors according to Vehicle Speed Using a Mobile Monitoring Vehicle by Sang-Hee Woo, Hyoungjoon Jang, Seung-Bok Lee, Juyoung Jeong, Choonghwan Lee, Seokhwan Lee

“…Local hot spots with high silt loading were identified by adjusting the EF according to vehicle speed. …”
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