Over the last several decades, the distribution of the black mangrove Avicennia germinans in the Gulf of Mexico has expanded, in part because it can survive the occasional freeze events and high soil salinities characteristic of the area. Vessel architecture may influence mangrove chilling and salinity tolerance. We surveyed populations of A. germinans throughout the Gulf to determine if vessel...

where ε equals permittivity, εr equals relative permittivity, ε0 equals permittivity of free space (8.85 10 12 F Laboratory tests were conducted to simultaneously measure soil m 1), ε r equals dielectric constant (the real part of relawater content and salinity using a four-electrode Wenner array sensor. The sensor was modified to enhance the capacitive effect. Soil bulk tive permittivity), ε′′...

As a creeping process, salinisation represents a significant long-term environmental risk in coastal and deltaic environments. Excess soil salinity may exacerbate existing risks of food insecurity in densely populated tropical deltas, which is likely to have a negative effect on human and ecological sustainability of these regions and beyond. This study focuses on the coastal regions of the Gan...

The potential impact of environmental change on terrestrial Antarctic ecosystems can be explored by inspecting biodiversity patterns across large-scale gradients. Unfortunately, morphology-based surveys of Antarctic invertebrates are time-consuming and limited by the cryptic nature of many taxa. We used biodiversity information derived from high-throughput sequencing (HTS) to elucidate the rela...

in order to comparing geostatistics and artificial neural networks (ann) methods in predicting soil salinity and clay content this experiment was conducted in sistan region land. 121 soil samples were taken at the depth of 0-30 cm within the grid of 750 750 m and soil ec and clay percent were determined. 105 samples were used for training and 16 samples were used for test in both models. diffe...

struments have received the most attention for fieldscale agricultural applications, particularly the EM-38. Electromagnetic induction surveys are often used in practice to In 1992, Dı́az and Herrero discussed the monitoring estimate field-scale soil salinity patterns, and to infer changing salinity of soil salinity conditions with time in two fields using conditions with time. We developed a st...