Published in Environmental Earth Sciences
Alpine grasslands of the Neotropical Andes have high soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks and provide crucial ecosystem services. However, stability of the SOC in these grasslands is not well-studied. Having insights into SOC stability contributes to a better understanding of ecosystem vulnerability and maintaining of ecosystem services. The objectives...
Published in Environmental Earth Sciences
Flow plays a major role in environmental sciences, because many of the Earth’s physical and biological processes involve movement. Yet, there are major differences between theoretically available and practically applied visualization techniques to represent flow. This paper surveys various techniques in computational and environmental flow visualiz...
Published in Environmental Earth Sciences
Understanding the sustainable mining dynamics prevents economic uncertainties, operational errors and severe environmental degradation during mining. The mine dynamics vary depending on multiple factors that can affect overall efficiency. A computational model would help in assessing mining operations. This paper proposes a set of novel computation...
Published in Environmental Earth Sciences
Published in Environmental Earth Sciences
Successive applications of swine manure (SM) in agriculture may contribute to environmental contamination by excess of phosphorus (P). In this study, we analyzed the dynamics of P fractions in soil cultivated with Ilex paraguariensis, following successive applications of SM over a long period (> 40 years) in southern Brazil. Soil samples in the 0–5...
Published in Environmental Earth Sciences
With the development of mining, the hydrochemical environment has changed in the Renlou coal mine, Anhui Province, China. It will be of great significance to coal mine safety production by exploring the temporal and spatial evolution law of hydrochemistry of main water-inrush aquifers in Renlou coal mine under the effect of mining. Groundwater samp...
Published in Environmental Earth Sciences
With the acceleration of urbanization, the degree of human influence on land use is getting increasingly deeper. To research the future land use, this paper collects 5 years of land use from 1992 to 2012 from the government, and integrates cellular automata and Markov models to predict the land use change in 2020 and in 2030 in the Idrisi software....
Published in Environmental Earth Sciences
Soil spatial distribution often shows high variability because of geo-environmental settings affecting soil formation and geomorphic processes. The paper describes a combined pedological–geophysical approach for investigating the interplay among soil-forming processes, geomorphic dynamics and physico-chemical soil properties in a soil catena in a M...
Published in Environmental Earth Sciences
The oxidation of sulfides present in mine tailings may generate acidic leachate and result in the discharge of contaminants such as metals, derived from mine wastes into the environment. For mine sites in regions with a humid climate such as the Doyon-Westwood mine, Abitibi, Quebec, acid mine drainage (AMD) is often inhibited using the low gas diff...
Published in Environmental Earth Sciences
The Nubian Sandstone Aquifer (NSA) has been the main source of water in the western desert of Egypt since 1985. This aquifer is subject to excessive groundwater withdrawal in the region, causing declines in potentiometric heads and a deterioration of groundwater quality. Consequently, investigations were undertaken to provide baseline water quality...
