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IoT-Based Agro-Toolbox for Soil Analysis and Environmental Monitoring [PDF]

Micromachines, 2023
The agricultural sector faces numerous challenges in ensuring optimal soil health and environmental conditions for sustainable crop production. Traditional soil analysis methods are often time-consuming and labor-intensive, and provide limited real-time ...
Eleftheria Maria Pechlivani, Athanasios Papadimitriou, Sotirios Pemas, Georgios Ntinas, Dimitrios Tzovaras   +4 more
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Estimation of key potentially toxic elements in arid agricultural soils using Vis-NIR spectroscopy with variable selection and PLSR algorithms

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023
Potentially toxic elements (PTEs) pose a significant threat to soil and the environment. Therefore, the fast quantification of PTEs is crucial for better management of contaminated sites.
Said Nawar, Elsayed Said Mohamed, Safa Essam-Eldeen Sayed, Wagih S. Mohamed, Nazih Y. Rebouh, Amr A. Hammam   +5 more
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To What Extent Is Manure Produced, Distributed, and Potentially Available for Bioenergy? A Step toward Stimulating Circular Bio-Economy in Poland

Energies, 2020
Bioenergy production from animal waste can be a key driver to achieving bio-economy goals. Developing a bio-economy sector could help to create opportunities for a circular system where not only people and the planet will be benefited, but it will also ...
Paria Sefeedpari, Rafał Pudełko, Anna Jędrejek, Małgorzata Kozak, Magdalena Borzęcka   +4 more
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Combination of Imaging Infrared Spectroscopy and X-ray Computed Microtomography for the Investigation of Bio-and Physicochemical processes in Structured Soils [PDF]

, 2020
Soil is a heterogeneous mixture of various organic and inorganic parent materials. Major soil functions are driven by their quality, quantity and spatial arrangement, resulting in soil structure.
Kögel-Knabner, Ingrid, Lucas, Maik, Pihlap, Evelin, Steffens, Markus, Vetterlein, Doris   +4 more
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Simulation of sorghum introduction and its impacts on land use change—A case study on Lubelski region of Eastern Poland

GCB Bioenergy, 2020
Echoing the bioenergy development initiative in Poland, high expectations are pinned on sweet sorghum usage for biogas plants. In contrast to its high profile in the industry, the research on the introduction and production of sorghum in Poland is ...
Kesheng Shu, Małgorzata Kozak, Nosra Ben Fradj, Tomasz Zylowski, Stelios Rozakis   +4 more
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Data-Driven Soil Analysis and Evaluation for Smart Farming Using Machine Learning Approaches

Agriculture, 2023
Food shortage issues affect more and more of the population globally as a consequence of the climate crisis, wars, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Increasing crop output has become one of the urgent priorities for many countries.
Yixin Huang, Rishi Srivastava, Chloe Ngo, Jerry Gao, Jane Wu, Sen Chiao   +5 more
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Impact of Growth Sites on the Phenolic Contents and Antioxidant Activities of Three Algerian Mentha Species (M. pulegium L., M. rotundifolia (L.) Huds., and M. spicata L.)

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022
Research studies about the effect of environmental agents on the accumulation of phenolic compounds in medicinal plants are required to establish a set of optimal growth conditions.
Fatiha Brahmi, Nassima Lounis, Siham Mebarakou, Naima Guendouze, Drifa Yalaoui-Guellal, Khodir Madani, Khodir Madani, Lila Boulekbache-Makhlouf, Pierre Duez   +8 more
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Responses to Increased Salinity and Severe Drought in the Eastern Iberian Endemic Species Thalictrum maritimum (Ranunculaceae), Threatened by Climate Change

Plants, 2020
Thalictrum maritimum is an endangered, endemic species in East Spain, growing in areas of relatively low salinity in littoral salt marshes. A regression of its populations and the number of individuals has been registered in the last decade.
Sara González-Orenga, Calin Trif, Mͣ Pilar Donat-Torres, Josep V. Llinares, Francisco Collado, P. Pablo Ferrer-Gallego, Emilio Laguna, Monica Boscaiu, Oscar Vicente   +8 more
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LEACHING TEST OF VITRIFIED FLY ASH AND CERAMIC SLAG FROM AN INCINERATOR OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE (MSW) TREATED WITH Ca(OH)2 AT DIFFERENT CONCENTRATIONS AND WITH MARLSTONE

EQA, 2010
A public property site, situated on an alluvial terrace of the Idice Stream (Emilia Romagna Region-Italy) was contaminated by a layer of waste, constituted by vitrified fly ashes and ceramic materials produced by an incinerator of municipal solid waste ...
Livia Vittori Antisari, Francesca Pontalti, Andrea Simoni, Gilmo Vianello   +3 more
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Assessing the impact of management practices on gas emissions and N losses calculated with denitrification-decomposition model

Plant, Soil and Environment, 2015
The study presents the impact of management practices on greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and nitrogen (N) losses calculated with a denitrification-decomposition model. Two cropping systems were analysed.
A. Syp, A. Faber, D. Pikuła
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