Organic matter quantity and quality across salinity gradients in conduit‐ vs. diffuse flow‐dominated subterranean estuaries

Editorial: Integrative Research on Organic Matter Cycling across Aquatic Gradients

The interface between freshwater and marine ecosystems provides a unique setting to examine the evolution of biogeochemical components derived from the landscape, inland waters, estuaries, and the ocean across distinct physiochemical gradients. A diverse body of work exploring this research topic is highlighted here with the goal of integrating our understanding of how organic matter (OM) is tr...

Effect of Crop Rotation and Nitrogen Fertilization on the Quality and Quantity of Soil Organic Matter

Variation in Food Web Connectivity across Intertidal Gradients in Embayment and Fluvially-dominated Estuaries

Despite suggestions that extensive mixing and large-scale transport of organic matter occurs within estuarine systems and across fluvial-estuarine-coastal ecotones (Teal 1962, Odum 1980), more recent evidence in estuarine detritus-based food web systems has shown strong gradients in the sources of organic matter assimilated by consumers across diverse fluvial-estuarine-coastal ocean scales (Pet...

Influence of natural organic matter fouling and osmotic backwash on pressure retarded osmosis energy production from natural salinity gradients.

Pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) has the potential to produce clean, renewable energy from natural salinity gradients. However, membrane fouling can lead to diminished water flux productivity, thus reducing the extractable energy. This study investigates organic fouling and osmotic backwash cleaning in PRO and the resulting impact on projected power generation. Fabricated thin-film composite mem...

Higher Education and Sustainable Development: Quality vs. Quantity

This paper focuses on the outcome of higher education translated into the creation of both physical and social capital. Optimally apportioned quality and quantity of each of the two broad forms of capital ensures sustainable development of a society. The institutions of higher learning, specifically in the modern world, are universally considered to be the service industries responsible for con...