Soil moisture influences plant growth and hydrological processes. Studying the response characteristics of soil to winter rainfall under different vegetation types in humid karst areas is important for optimizing restoration patterns these areas. To this end, we monitored content arable, grassland, shrub, forest Guanling County, Guizhou Province, China, at 10-min intervals. The threshold was sm...

Abstract Accurate simulation of evapotranspiration (ET) is essential to enhance efficient irrigation management in the maize field. Here, we evaluated performance four mathematical models for estimating ET maize. The based on surface resistance calculate from different vapor sources, which are Penman‐Monteith (PM) through “big leaf” model, Shuttleworth‐Wallace (SW) model distinguishing between ...

This is a summary report on samples of conidiating Neurospora species collected over three decades, in many regions around the world, primarily from burned vegetation. The genus is ubiquitous in humid tropical and subtropical regions, but populations differ from region to region with regard to which species are present. The entire collection, >4600 cultures from 735 sites, is listed by geograph...

The humid tropical region is always under partial or complete cloud covers. As a result, optical remote sensing images of this region always encounter the problem of cloud covers and associated shadows. In this paper, an operational system for producing cloud-free and cloud shadow-free image mosaics from cloudy optical satellite imagery is presented. The inputs are several cloudy images of the ...

Abstract With the recent need to decrease energy use and promote indoor thermal comfort in overheating conditions, attention has been drawn passive cooling function of courtyards. This paper aims determine effect proportions orientations courtyards on performance traditional houses a warm, humid region so that this could guide further improvement reinterpretation building type. The results para...

The planktonic foraminiferal species Globorotalia truncatulinoides is widely used as a biostratigraphic proxy for the Quaternary in Mediterranean region. High-resolution quantitative studies performed on sediment cores collected central and western Sea evidence significant abundance of G. during Middle Holocene. robust chronological frame allows us to date this bio-event 4.8–4.4 ka Before Prese...

Groundwater vulnerability assessment is of crucial importance for land use/cover management. Some methods have been proposed specifically for the karst hydrogeological settings. Among them, COP and PaPRIKa, as two commonly applied recent methods, were adopted for the resource vulnerability assessment of a humid temperate karst region, north of Iran. Comparison of water bacterial content and dis...

To develop high-quality silage starters adapted to hot and humid weather, 12 LAB isolates from silage produced in Kyushu and Okinawa, Japan were characterized based on their morphological features, growth curves and sugar utilization. In addition, the nucleotide sequences of the V2-V3 region of their 16S rRNA genes and the 16S-23S rRNA intergenic spacer (ITS) regions were determined. The isolat...

Evidence increasingly suggests that sub-Saharan Africa is at the center of human evolution and understanding routes of dispersal "out of Africa" is thus becoming increasingly important. The Sahara Desert is considered by many to be an obstacle to these dispersals and a Nile corridor route has been proposed to cross it. Here we provide evidence that the Sahara was not an effective barrier and in...