Tracing the 2018 Sulawesi Earthquake and Tsunami’s Impact on Palu, Indonesia: A Remote Sensing Analysis by Youshuang Hu, Aggeliki Barberopoulou, Magaly Koch

“…The use of NDVI, NDSI, and NDWI indices has allowed for a quantifiable measure of the changes in vegetation, soil moisture, and water bodies, providing a clear demarcation of the tsunami’s impact on land cover. …”
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A Monthly Water Balance Model for Vineyard Planning and Inter-Row Management by Maria Costanza Andrenelli, Sergio Pellegrini, Claudia Becagli, Alessandro Orlandini, Rita Perria, Paolo Storchi, Nadia Vignozzi

“…The model provided results consistent with the measured soil moisture values, and the annual risk of water stress corresponds to what was measured in the field, differing at most by only one class. …”
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Investigating Light and Water Optimization for Early Seedling Establishment in Albizia lebbeck (L.) Benth by Kelechi Godwin Ibeh, Adejoke Olukemi Akinyele

“…Seedling growth, development, and establishment are vulnerable stages for trees, greatly influenced by two important environmental factors: light availability and soil moisture regime. This study investigated the interactive effects of light intensity and water availability on key early vegetative growth parameters of collar diameter, height, and the number of leaves in seedlings of the tropical legume tree Albizia lebbeck. …”
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Rapid Landslide Detection Following an Extreme Rainfall Event Using Remote Sensing Indices, Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery, and Probabilistic Methods by Aikaterini-Alexandra Chrysafi, Paraskevas Tsangaratos, Ioanna Ilia, Wei Chen

“…Using Google Earth Engine, we processed satellite imagery to calculate these indices, enabling the assessment of vegetation health, soil moisture, and exposed soil areas, which are key indicators of landslide activity. …”
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Contributions of Nonleaf Organs to the Yield of Cotton Grown with Different Water Supply by Dongxia Zhan, Ying Yang, Yuanyuan Hu, Yali Zhang, Honghai Luo, Wangfeng Zhang

“…In contrast, the net photosynthetic rates of bracts and capsule walls were insensitive to soil moisture stress and decreased by a small amount between 25 and 45 days after anthesis. …”
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Design of a Solar Powered Precision Irrigation System. by Othieno John Wangara

“…Irrigated agriculture provides 40% of the world's food from less than 20% of the cultivated area highlighting the importance of irrigation in global food security. Improved soil moisture and plant sensors, and developing self-learning crop simulation frameworks that can be applied to evaluate adaptive decision support strategies related to irrigation. …”
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Effectof Unit Hydrographs and Rainfall Hyetographs on Critical Rainfall Estimates of Flash Flood by Fanzhe Kong, Wei Huang, Zhilin Wang, Xiaomeng Song

“…Calibrated Xin’anjiang Model was employed to derive the TVUHs and to obtain the maximum critical rainfall duration (Dmax) of the study basin. Initial soil moisture condition was represented by the antecedent precipitation index (Pa). …”
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Spatial patterns and driving forces of sand-binding shrubs in sand-blown and sand hazard regions of northern China by Dinghai Zhang, Haidi Qi, Yanli Wang, Ting Ning, Ruyun Tang, Yanchen Ye

“…The facilitation at small scales is primarily driven by the seed dispersal limitation and habitat association under high drought stress gradients, while the lack of interactions at medium and large scales might be attributed to soil moisture heterogeneity. This study elucidates the factors sustaining sand-binding shrub spatial patterns, thereby providing significant insights for future conservation efforts.…”
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Evaluation of Drought Using Meteorological Drought Indices, a Case Study: Alanya (Türkiye) by Redvan Ghasemlounia, Mustafa Utlu

“…The results show that precipitation has decreased in recent years and has a downward trend in most months of the period in question, and the possibility of flood events due to sudden showers in the region has increased due to the continuation of droughts experienced in the years before 2015. Investigating soil moisture and vegetation for the selected period in the study area is also important for the evaluation of the drought level. …”
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Evalu ation of potato hybrids according to tuber flesh darkening and other useful agronomic characters under the conditions of Kirov Province by N. F. Sintsova, I. V. Lyskova, E. I. Kratyuk, V. M. Arkhipov

“…Manifestation of tuber flesh darkening was found to depend on weather conditions during the growing season: the higher was the air temperature, the weaker was the darkening of raw tuber flesh, but when the soil moisture during tuberization was high, tuber flesh became more darkened. …”
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Experimental Study on Thermal Conductivity of Organic-Rich Soils under Thawed and Frozen States by Ruixia He, Ning Jia, Huijun Jin, Hongbo Wang, Xinyu Li

“…In this study, influences of soil temperature, soil moisture saturation (SMS), and soil organic matter (SOM) content on soil thermal conductivity were analyzed on the basis of laboratory experiments on the silt-organic soil mixtures of varied mixing ratios. …”
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Temporal variation of Manning roughness coefficient in furrow irrigation and its relationship with various field parameters by Hadi Rezaei Rad, Hamed Ebrahimian, Abdolmajid Liaghat, Fatemeh Khalaji, Mahshid Shabani Arani

“…Pearson and Kendall statistical tests revealed that the Manning roughness coefficient during the entire irrigation event was strongly correlated with advance time (r = 0.65, p < 0.01) and moderately correlated with inflow and outflow rates, as well as initial soil moisture and cross-sectional flow area. A weak correlation was observed between the roughness coefficient and the furrow slope (r = 0.238). …”
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Heartwood/Sapwood Characteristics of <i>Populus euphratica</i> Oliv. Trunks and Their Relationship with Soil Physicochemical Properties in the Lower Tarim River, Northwest China by Tongyu Chen, Tayierjiang Aishan, Na Wang, Ümüt Halik, Shiyu Yao

“…Redundancy analysis (RDA) further demonstrated that total nitrogen, available phosphorus, and soil moisture were significantly correlated with the physical properties of <i>P. euphratica</i> heartwood and sapwood, further validating the critical role of soil nutrients in shaping the wood characteristics of <i>P. euphratica</i>. …”
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Response of Soil C and N, Dissolved Organic C and N, and Inorganic N to Short-Term Experimental Warming in an Alpine Meadow on the Tibetan Plateau by Cheng-Qun Yu, Zhen-Xi Shen, Xian-Zhou Zhang, Wei Sun, Gang Fu

“…Experimental warming increased soil temperature by ~1–1.4°C but decreased soil moisture by ~0.04 m3 m−3. Experimental warming had little effects on SOC, TN, DOC, and DON, which may be related to lower warming magnitude, the short period of warming treatment, and experimental warming-induced soil drying by decreasing soil microbial activity. …”
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Biodegradable mulch as microclimate modification effort for improving the growth of horenso; Spinacia oleracea L. by A. Iriany, F. Hasanah, D. Roeswitawati, M.F. Bela

“…FINDINGS: All tested biodegradable mulch compositions could modify microclimate by decreasing 1-2°C of soil temperature and maintaining the soil moisture within the range of 63-84%. Although there was no significant difference in the growth and yield of horenso among the differing biodegradable mulch compositions, the biodegradable mulch composition treatments resulted in signficantly higher value than the control (without mulch). …”
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Lower grass stomatal conductance under elevated CO2 can decrease transpiration and evapotranspiration rates despite carbon fertilization by Sate Ahmad, Charilaos Yiotis, Weimu Xu, Jan Knappe, Laurence Gill, Jennifer McElwain

“…Reductions in ET from ryegrass‐dominated grasslands and pastures could increase soil moisture and groundwater recharge, potentially leading to increased surface runoff and flooding.…”
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Soil Characteristics, Growth, Yield, Mineral Composition and Proximate Content of Soybeans Under Various Tillage Techniques by Aruna Olasekan Adekiya, Olajire Damilola Adedokun, Ojo Timothy Adebiyi

“…In MC, bulk density, soil moisture content, soil organic matter, N, P, K, Ca and Mg were significantly higher and temperature lower than in other tillage methods; yet, these advantages did not translate into increased yield and quality due to the higher bulk density. …”
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Remote sensing assessment of dam impact on arid basins in Southern Saudi Arabia: A machine learning and space-for-time approach by Raid Almalki, Mehdi Khaki, Patricia M. Saco, Jose F. Rodriguez

“…Additionally, regression models showed a decrease in predictive accuracy from 2010 to 2020, as evidenced by lower R² values for NDVI (0.82–0.37), soil salinity (0.77–0.38), groundwater (0.98–0.34), and soil moisture (0.96–0.24).…”
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Grazing reduces shrub-facilitated diversity of ground-dwelling arthropods in semiarid ecosystems by Jiancai Sun, Rentao Liu, Marcelo Sternberg, Lei Zhou, Zhimin Yang

“…The key drivers of herbaceous plant height in ungrazed plots and those of soil bulk density, soil organic carbon, and soil moisture in grazed plots shaped ground-dwelling arthropod distribution between microhabitats. …”
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Determining the optimal degradation rate of biodegradable films in a maize farmland based on the EWM-TOPSIS model by Wangwang Zhang, Weishu Wang, Yuanzheng Zhang, Fangping Wang, Shijun Sun

“…Biodegradable film mulching increased average soil moisture, temperature, and the content of NO3–-N and NH4+-N throughout the entire maize growth period. …”
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