Flexibility evaluation of psammophytes using Young’s modulus based on 3D numerical simulation
Frontiers in Environmental ScienceFlexible psammophytes play an important role in controlling soil wind erosion and desertification, owing to their characteristics. Although flexibility of psammophytes has been considered in previous studies, the interaction between flexible psammophytes
Hongxu Xiang +10 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018 Calligonum mongolicum is a dominant native perennial shrub on sand dunes in arid deserts of northwestern China, and is therefore widely used in sand dune stabilization in these regions.
Baoli Fan +7 more
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Invigorasi Benih untuk Memperbaiki Perkecambahan Kacang Panjang (Vigna Unguiculata Hask. Ssp. Sesquipedalis) pada Cekaman Salinitas [PDF]
, 2008 The objective of this research was to study the influence of invigoration on yard-long bean seed germination under salinity stress. The research was conducted at Seed Science and Technology Laboratory, Department of Agronomy IPB from September to ...
Erinnovita, E. (Erinnovita) +2 more
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Deposition and transport of functionalized carbon nanotubes in water-saturated sand columns [PDF]
, 2012 Knowledge of the fate and transport of functionalized carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in porous media is crucial to understand their environmental impacts. In this study, laboratory column and modeling experiments were conducted to mechanistically compare the ...
Carpena, Rafael Munoz +6 more
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Sensitivity of soil dust emissions to driving factor variability in earth's main drylands
GeodermaThe identification of driving factors that contribute to dust emissions holds great significance on studying global climate change. In the present study, we constructed a new index, Dust Sensitivity Index, which allowed us to identify the sensitivity of ...
Xuesong Wang, Chunlai Zhang
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Development and calibration of a sand pluviation device for preparation of model sand bed for centrifuge tests [PDF]
, 2016 A bespoke 0.068m3 (18.5 gallon) sand hopper is employed at the newly established 50gTon centrifuge facility at the University of Sheffield. The sand hopper employs a series of mesh inserts of different diameters which control the flow rate and thus the ...
Black, J.A. +3 more
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The potential for sand dams to increase the adaptive capacity of East African drylands to climate change [PDF]
, 2016 Drylands are home to more than two billion people and are characterised by frequent, severe droughts. Such extreme events are expected to be exacerbated in the near future by climate change.
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International Soil and Water Conservation ResearchDust emission caused by wind erosion of soil is an important surface process in arid and semi-arid regions. However, existing dust emission models pay insufficient attention to the impacts of aerodynamic entrainment of particles.
Xiaofeng Zuo +5 more
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Youqicang pingjia yu kaifa, 2023 To address the challenges of test instrument obstruction and the suboptimal deployment of concentric stratified water injection in the Subei complex fracture block oilfields, an innovative approach involving the use of a hollow rod for pipe cleaning was ...
XU Guochen, LIU Xiaowen
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Modification of soil structure of sand tailings: 2. effect of silt, sand and clay contents on aggregate development using organic amendments [PDF]
, 1996 The effect of skeletal materials (silt and very fine sand) and clay on aggregate formation and stabilization of organically amended sand tailings (99% sand) was investigated.
A. M., Mokhtarudin, Subari, Zulkifli
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