Knowing how evapotranspiration (ET) is mediated by abiotic and biotic pathways essential to understanding water affects ecosystem productivity. Recent studies have investigated the average transpiration fraction (T/ET) across sites biomes, but temporal variability of partitioning its controls are less understood. Here, we examine availability may regulate seasonal interannual ET partitioning. T...

Abstract This study assessed trends in gridded (0.25° × 0.25°) Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) precipitation, potential evapotranspiration (PET), and precipitation minus PET (PMP) across the four water management zones (WMZs) Uganda including Kyoga, Victoria, Albert, Upper Nile. The period considered was 1979–2013. Validation of CFSR datasets conducted using observed at eight meteorol...

In vivo estimations of Pb particle bioavailability are costly and variable, because of the nature of animal assays. The most feasible alternative for increasing the number of investigations carried out on Pb particle bioavailability is in vitro testing. This testing method requires calibration using in vivo data on an adapted animal model, so that the results will be valid for childhood exposur...

ABSTRACT- Efficient use of irrigation water for summer crops should be considered seriously due to rare occurrence of precipitation in summer. This research was focused on the assessment of water use efficiency for dominant crops of summer cropping pattern in the study area (i.e., maize and rice) via considering water productivity (WP) with different water management scenarios at farm level at ...

Intervention: Intervention sites participated in learning collaboratives focused on policy and environmental changes to increase healthy eating, drinking, and physical activity opportunities during afterschool time (materials available at www.osnap.org). Collaboration between Boston Public Schools Food and Nutrition Services, afterschool staff, and researchers established water-delivery systems...