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Open AccessWater’s path from moss to soil Vol. 2: how soil-moss combinations affect soil water fluxes and soil loss in a temperate forest
Mosses are key components of many ecosystems and particularly related to water cycling. In principle, the importance of mosses for water-related processes is known; however, their influence is rarely quantifie...
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Open AccessSpotting ethylene in forest soils—What influences the occurrence of the phytohormone?
Due to the rapid microbial degradation, ethylene (ethene; C2H4) detection in most soils is difficult. The knowledge about factors favoring the occurrence of C2H4 is mainly based on laboratory experiments which ar...
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Wald und Boden
Böden übernehmen herausragende Funktionen innerhalb eines Waldökosystems und stehen mit diesem in intensiven Wechselbeziehungen. Sie bilden nicht nur den Wurzelraum der Bäume und stellen ihre Wasser- und Nährs...
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Hydraulic Conductivity in a Soil Cultivated with Wheat-Rapeseed Rotation Under Two Tillage Systems
To evaluate the effect of tractor transits and tillage system operations on soil pore functioning in a Haploxeroll, soil physical properties were measured on a field located in central Chile. The study site wa...
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Reductions in water, soil and nutrient losses and pesticide pollution in agroforestry practices: a review of evidence and processes
Agroforestry systems combining trees with crops or pastures have been widely used to reduce water, soil, and nutrient losses and associated water pollution from agricultural lands in both temperate and tropica...
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Controlling Soil Erosion Using No-Till Farming Systems
Soil erosion is a natural phenomenon that has been thrown off balance by human activity and particularly by agriculture. It is associated with severe environmental impacts, high economic costs, reduced product...
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Open AccessThe strength of soil-plant interactions under forest is related to a Critical Soil Depth
Soil properties and terrain attributes are of great interest to explain and model plant productivity and community assembly (hereafter P&CA). Many studies only sample surface soils, and may therefore miss impo...
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Glycerol-modified poly(ε-caprolactone): an biocatalytic approach to improve the hydrophilicity of poly(ε-caprolactone)
Novel poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL)–glycerol polyester was synthesized in one step in the presence of Novozym 435 under mild reaction conditions. The objective of the study was to investigate the feasibility of e...
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Conservation tillage and organic farming reduce soil erosion
The impact of different arable farming practices on soil erosion is only partly resolved, and the effect of conservation tillage practices in organic agriculture on sediment loss has rarely been tested in the ...
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Pentaerythritol particles covered by layer-by-layer self assembled thin films with stereocomplex of isotactic poly(methyl methacrylate) and syndiotactic poly(methyl methacrylate)
In this paper, we present a different approach of coating a phase change material (PCM) for a possible use in thermal energy storage. We focused on layer-by-layer coating of pentaerythritol (PE) particles, whi...
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Electrical Properties
Electronic materials – conductors, insulators, semiconductors – play an important role in todayʼs technology. They constitute electrical and electronic devices, such as radio, television, telephone, electric li...
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Metrological traceability chain for pH measurement results
The extent to which technical barriers to international trade caused by non-acceptance of chemical measurement results can be removed, largely depends on the success in building up national and international t...
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CCQM-P111 study on traceable determination of practical salinity and mass fraction of major seawater components
The first part of the study assessed the equivalence of practical salinity measurement results of a slightly diluted seawater sample from the North Atlantic, which were traceable to the SI. The study shows tha...
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pH and electrolytic conductivity as parameters to characterize bioethanol
To guarantee the quality of bioethanol and avoid damage to the fuel system in a car, the determination of acidity, water content, as well as chloride, sulfate, alkali metal and alkaline earth metal content are...
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Consistency of practical salinity measurements traceable to primary conductivity standards: Euromet project 918
Measurements of practical salinity are based on conductivity measurements, which are traceable to the conductivity of a defined KCl reference solution. The conductivity of this reference solution must be trace...
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Algebraic computing on a local net
An extension of the computer algebra system SAC-2 for the execution of algorithms by the workstations on a local net is described. We are more interested in the reduction of the execution time of existing algo...
