Mildly hydrophobic biobased mulch: A sustainable approach to controlling bare soil evaporation
Vadose Zone Journal, 2020 Mulching with polyethylene film is the conventional approach to decrease evaporative water loss from agricultural soils, but it is not environmentally sustainable.
Jesse Lee Barnes, Michael John Nicholl
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Assessment of Physical and Hydraulic Properties of Three Rockwool Types in Comparison with Wheat Straw and Sawdust as Greenhouse Growth Media [PDF]
علوم آب و خاک, 2023 According to the rapid population growth, the challenging issue of production of economic and suitable food sources has led to greater attention to soilless culture greenhouse production systems.
Sh. Shahmansouri +2 more
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Energies, 2023 Wood bark is a by-product of the forestry industry with significant quantitative potential. Due to the higher heating value and hydrophobic character (dictated by the content of hydrophobic extracts in the chemical composition of the bark) facilitating ...
Łukasz Sobol +2 more
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Conditions to induce water repellency in soils with dimethyldichlorosilane [PDF]
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Ng, SHY, Nunes Lourenco, SD
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Water stable aggregates of Japanese Andisol as affected by hydrophobicity and drying temperature
Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics, 2014 Hydrophobicity is a property of soils that reduces their affinity for water, which may help impeding the pressure build-up within aggregates, and reducing aggregate disruption.
Leelamanie D.A.L., Karube Jutaro
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Small-scale contact angle mapping on undisturbed soil surfaces [PDF]
, 2013 Research of the last years pointed out that most soils are neither completely hydrophilic nor hydrophobic, but exhibit a subcritical level of water repellency (i.e.
Bachmann, Jörg +2 more
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Hydrologic behavior of model slopes with synthetic water repellent soils [PDF]
, 2017 In the natural environment, soil water repellency decreases infiltration, increases runoff, and increases erosion in slopes. In the built environment, soil water repellency offers the opportunity to develop granular materials with controllable ...
Cleall, Peter J. +5 more
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Spatial Gradients of Intensity and Persistence of Soil Water Repellency Under Different Forest Types in Central Mexico [PDF]
, 2016 Organic residues release hydrophobic compounds to the soil that may induce soil water repellency (WR), which may inhibit infiltration andincrease runoff and soil loss rates.
Alanís, Nancy +5 more
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Critical conditions for the wetting of soils [PDF]
, 2006 The wettability of soil is of great importance for plants and soil biota and in determining whether flooding and soil erosion will occur. The analysis used in common measurements of soil hydrophobicity makes the assumption that water always enters soils ...
Bond R. D. +5 more
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Developing extruded seed pellets to overcome soil hydrophobicity and seedling emergence barriers
Ecological Solutions and Evidence, Volume 1, Issue 2, December 2020., 2020 Extruded seed pellets containing surfactants show promise in seed‐based shrub restoration. Tick icons represent the level of success of seed treatments at two early life stages in Banksia menziesii and Lambertia inermis. Abstract 1. Globally, soil water repellency is a major constraint to plant establishment, restricting water infiltration and moisture
Alison L. Ritchie +2 more
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