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Once ignited, the 1st-stage upward fire spread is initiated towards the free surface (opposed smoldering) with a peak temperature of 300\u202f\u00b0C, leaving behind a char structure that does not collapse. Then, a 2nd-stage downward spread (forward smoldering) is activated with a peak temperature of 600\u202f\u00b0C and regression of free surface. The upward spread is faster than the downward spread. The rates of both upward and downward spread decrease as the peat density or depth is increased. These experimental observations are successfully captured by a 1D computational model of heat and mass transfer with 5-step kinetics. Modelling results further suggest that (1) the oxygen diffusion controls the entire upward-to-downward spread of peat fire, (2) the oxidation of peat sustains the 1st-stage upward spread, and (3) the oxidation of char sustains the 2nd-stage downward spread. This is the first study investigating the upward spread of peat fire, which helps understand the persistence of peat fire and guide the fire prevention and suppression strategies.", "keywords": ["570", "Technology", "Engineering", " Chemical", "Energy & Fuels", "0904 Chemical Engineering", "Density", "Chemical", "02 engineering and technology", "MOISTURE", "0902 Automotive Engineering", "530", "Modelling", "OXYGEN", "0201 civil engineering", "COMBUSTION", "Engineering", "0204 chemical engineering", "Science & Technology", "Critical depth", "ROLES", "Opposed and forward smoldering", "BURN", "Mechanical", "Engineering", " Mechanical", "SOIL", "DENSITY", "Physical Sciences", "DEPTH", "Thermodynamics", "Wildland fire", "0913 Mechanical Engineering"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proci.2018.05.125"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Proceedings%20of%20the%20Combustion%20Institute", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.proci.2018.05.125", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.proci.2018.05.125", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.proci.2018.05.125"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.proci.2020.06.128", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:17:23Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-08-15", "title": "Influence of wind and slope on multidimensional smouldering peat fires", "description": "Abstract   Smouldering peat fires are the largest fires on Earth, destroying an important ecosystem, and releasing large quantities of smoke, which is responsible for health issues and carbon emissions. Here we study the influence of wind direction (forward, perpendicular, and opposed) and slope (uphill, side hill, and downhill) on multidimensional smouldering spread, using a shallow open reactor. These conditions are known to be controlling variables in spread dynamics of flaming wildfires; however, wind and slope are rarely studied for smouldering wildfires. We conducted 21 experiments and compared the data to an additional 15 experiments from the literature. Where airflow was concurrent with spread (forward wind and uphill), both wind and slope increased the horizontal and in-depth spread rates by up to 101% and 32%, respectively, from quiescent and flat conditions. When airflow was perpendicular to spread (perpendicular wind and side hill), horizontal spread rate was increased by wind (up to 21%), but was negligibly influenced by slope. Airflow opposite to the spread direction (opposed wind and downhill) resulted in a negligible change in horizontal spread with wind, but a decrease in horizontal spread of up to 40% due to slope. We also found that spread in any direction on a slope can be evaluated as a function of the angle of the spread relative to the horizontal plane, regardless of the slope of the terrain. Our findings provide new insight into important field conditions affecting smouldering wildfires and provide a better understanding of their spread.", "keywords": ["550", "13. Climate action", "0904 Chemical Engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "0204 chemical engineering", "15. 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A common ignition source of smouldering fires in tropical peatlands are intentional flaming fires used to clear surface vegetation. To capture the behaviour of these fires, it is necessary to consider the interaction between flaming vegetation and smouldering peat. However, doing so is infeasible with the state-of-the-art wildfire models, as they do not consider the transition from flaming to smouldering and are computationally too expensive at the field-scale hundreds of hectares. In this work, we overcome these limitations and model both flaming and smouldering at the field-scale using cellular automata: that is a discrete mathematical model that uses simple rules to capture complex behaviour while remaining computationally light. The model was calibrated against existing experiments in the literature and used to predict the effect of peat moisture content on the behaviour of peatland wildfires. The model shows how flaming creates smouldering hotspots and how these hotspots merge \u2013 flaming spreads rapidly, consuming surface vegetation, leaving behind hotspots of smouldering peat which consumes most of the peat. The model was then applied to study a real prescribed fire of 573\u202fha peatland in Borneo in 2015, observed by drone footage. The model captured the spread patterns of the fire and predicted that 2.9\u202fha of peatland burnt after 3 months with 70% peat moisture content (dry-based). This ioutcome could have been reduced to 0.02\u202fha if the peat moisture content had been above 100%. This work improves the fundamental understanding of how peat wildfires spread at the field scale which has received little attention until now.", "keywords": ["Cellular automata", "Technology", "Engineering", " Chemical", "Energy & Fuels", "0904 Chemical Engineering", "Chemical", "0902 Automotive Engineering", "Prescribed fire", "FIRE", "01 natural sciences", "630", "Modelling", "Engineering", "Smouldering", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "Science & Technology", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "624", "Peat fire", "15. Life on land", "Mechanical", "Engineering", " Mechanical", "MODEL", "13. 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In order to ensure a reliable fatigue assessment of such structures, it is essential that stress predictions be based on the actual structural behaviour. The response identification of operational wind turbines in a global framework constitutes a challenging problem due to the uncertainties associated with the variability of the wind loading and the dynamics of the rotor. In reducing these uncertainties, this study proposes a substructuring approach, which abolishes the need for modelling the intricate and time-varying dynamics of the rotor. Instead, response prediction is performed on a substructure model of the tower and the effect of wind loads and servo dynamics is accounted for via the estimated interface forces at the top of the support structure. The application is based on synthetic vibration data generated via the FAST software and an output-only Bayesian filter employing the structural model of the support structure. The effectiveness of the proposed framework is presented in terms of fatigue damage estimates at different locations on the tower.", "keywords": ["Wind turbine; Dynamic substructuring; Input-state estimation; Response identification; Fatigue damage", "Response identification", "Input-state estimation", "Dynamic substructuring", "Fatigue damage", "02 engineering and technology", "Wind turbine", "7. 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However, accounting for the presence of even a modest amount of cohesion may allow using locally available cohesive backfills to a greater extent and less overall reinforcement. Unlike purely frictional backfills, cohesive soils present are subject to the formation of cracks that tend to reduce slope stability which therefore need to be properly accounted for in any slope stability assessment.  Utili & Abd  [1]  derived a semi-analytical method for uniform c- \u03d5  slopes accounting for the presence of cracks that provides the amount of reinforcement needed as a function of soil cohesion, tensile strength, angle of shearing resistance and slope inclination employing the limit analysis upper bound method.  In this paper the formulation is extended to the seismic case, accounting for earthquake action by employing the pseudo-static approach. Ready to use design charts providing the value of the required reinforcement are plotted for both uniform and linearly increasing reinforcement distributions. From the results it emerges that accounting for the presence of cohesion allows significant savings to be made, but the presence of seismic action may require considerable additional reinforcement.", "keywords": ["0211 other engineering and technologies", "02 engineering and technology"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2017.05.140"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Procedia%20Engineering", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.proeng.2017.05.140", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.proeng.2017.05.140", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.proeng.2017.05.140"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.proeng.2017.09.509", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:17:23Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-09-12", "title": "Fatigue assessment of a wind turbine blade when output from multiple aero-elastic simulators are available", "description": "Open AccessAero-elasticity is a term that refers to the interaction between the aerodynamic, inertial and elastic loads when a structure is exposed to fluid flow such as turbulent wind inflow. Various commercial and research-based simulators are available to compute the wind turbine aero-elastic loads. These aero-elastic simulators are of varying complexity and might bear different underlying assumptions, pertaining to physics, mathematical and computational formulations. However, currently established practice dictates that the adopted aero-elastic simulators are verified and validated on the basis of measurements from test wind turbines. As a result, it is generally hard to establish one simulator as superior to another in terms of their predicted output. The objective in this paper is to statistically aggregate the fatigue load on a wind turbine blade when simultaneous simulations are performed using multiple simulators. The simulators of the wind turbine blade are of varying fidelity, and uncertainty in the modelling and assumptions on the model inputs are implicitly included, and taken into account in the statistical analysis. The main concept followed here is that rather than treating the output of the simulators as individual information sources, we consider them as part of an ensemble, which can be clustered and then aggregated to predict the \u201cmost likely\u201d fatigue load, hence reducing the inherent model-form uncertainty.", "keywords": ["Finite elements", "Uncertainty", "Wind turbine; Aeroelasticity; Uncertainty; Fatigue; Ensemble Aggregation; Data fusion; Finite elements; Machine learning", "02 engineering and technology", "Data fusion", "7. 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However, the soil interior hydrological and ecological effects will be affected by the grassland vegetation degradation. This research was carried out in the source region of the Yellow River, where grassland vegetation was in severe degradation, with the methods of choosing typical areas and quadrates to collect soil samples and doing experiments in laboratory. Some important results were obtained from this research which mainly contained four aspects as follows. (1) With the increasing of grassland degradation degrees, the capillary water holding capacity and saturated water content decreased in all soil layers as a whole. However, the capillary water holding capacity and saturated water content increased when the grassland degradation from middle degree to heavy degree in all soil layers. (2) With the increasing of grassland degradation degrees, the field water capacity first increased and then decreased in the 0\u223c10cm layer and decreased in the means of \u201cincreasing-decreasing- increasing-decreasing\u201d manners in the 10\u223c20cm, but it gradually increased in the 20\u223c30cm layers. (3) Soil saturated water content was mainly affected by the soil bulk density and total phosphorus, and the soil capillary water holding capacity was mainly affected by the soil bulk density, while the soil field water capacity was mainly affected by the total nitrogen. (4) Soil water retention was not a simple process of decreasing during the grassland degradation, but it was a changing process of differences. It was very important to protect the original grassland vegetation for the hydrological process in the river source regions and this research could provide the scientific basis for revealing the impacts of grassland vegetation degradation on soil hydrological and ecological effects in the region scale and displaying the effects of grassland vegetation degradation on river runoff forming and regulation.", "keywords": ["hydrological and ecological effects", "13. Climate action", "grassland vegetation degradation", "soil water retention ability", "the source region of the Yellow River", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. 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Equivalent dose measurements were carried out using the single-aliquot regenerative-dose (SAR) protocol on silt (4\u201311 \u03bcm) and sand-sized (63\u201390 \u03bcm and coarser fraction when available) quartz. Feldspar infrared stimulated luminescence (IRSL) emitted by 4\u201311 \u03bcm polymineral grains was measured using the post IR-IRSL290 technique. The paleoenvironmental transition from the last glacial loess to the current interglacial soil was characterized using magnetic susceptibility and its frequency dependence. SAR-OSL dating of 4\u201311 \u03bcm, 63\u201390 \u03bcm and 90\u2013125 \u03bcm quartz provided consistent ages in the loess-paleosol sites investigated, while the post-IR IRSL290 protocol proved unreliable for dating such young samples. Based on these ages and the threshold of the magnetic signal enhancement the onset of soil formation has been placed around 16.6 \u00b1 1.1 ka at Roxolany (Ukraine), 13.5 \u00b1 0.9 ka at Mo\u0161orin (Serbia) and between 17.6 \u00b1 1.4 ka and 12.4 \u00b1 1.0 ka at R\u00e2mnicu S\u0103rat (Romania). The trend observed in the magnetic parameters reflects the intensity of pedogenesis induced by regional climate amelioration during the Late Glacial, but the onset of magnetic susceptibility enhancement precedes the stratigraphic boundary of Pleistocene-Holocene dated at 11.7 ka in ice core records. Thus, magnetic susceptibility indicates a gradual increase in pedogenesis after Termination 1 (\u223c17 ka in the North Atlantic) at the sampling sites. Based on current data, it is not possible to define a synchronous threshold of change for all sections. However, the trend in the magnetic susceptibility data closely reflects the gradual transition from Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) towards the Holocene, with the onset of humus accumulation (A1 horizon) possibly linked to the prevalence of full interglacial conditions.", "keywords": ["PROTOCOL", "Luminescence dating", "Loess", "01 natural sciences", "Southeastern europe", "Magnetic susceptibility", "13. 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However, biofuels present environmental challenges, especially concerning the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This study, using a life-cycle approach, evaluates the GHG emissions and energy balance of the future nationwide production of sunflower-based biodiesel in Chile. Direct land use change is included in the analysis. The overall findings indicate that sunflower biodiesel, under the most likely production conditions, will have better environmental performance than fossil diesel in terms of both indicators. The agricultural stage is associated to key factors such as land use change, and nitrogen fertilizers. These factors contribute significantly to GHG emissions or energy demand in the biodiesel life cycle. The sensitivity analysis shows that no GHG emission saving could occur if nitrogen fertilizers rate exceeds 330\u00a0kg\u00a0N/ha. In order to reduce the environmental impacts of this biofuel, improvement measures are suggested.", "keywords": ["2. 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The technologies assessed include \u2018artificial trees\u2019, the soda lime process, augmented ocean disposal, biochar and bio-energy with carbon capture and storage.  These technologies are subjected to quantitative and qualitative analyses, based on the most recent peer reviewed data in the literature, to identify their potential performance as well as the technical and non-technical barriers to their adoption and scale up. Key findings for each technology are presented which seek to highlight the state of technological development and research needs, the anticipated life cycle capture cost in $/tCO 2  based on their potential to deliver a 0.1\u00a0ppm CO 2  reduction per annum, policy requirements for scale up and, in light of these findings, the likely role that they will play in addressing climate change and broader environmental issues in the medium to long term.  The key finding from the work is that the degree of scale-up required for negative emissions technologies to have a material impact on atmospheric emissions (i.e. at a ppm level) is probably unrealistic in less than 20 years. Therefore, emissions prevention efforts should remain the main focus in addressing climate change and the likely role for negative emissions technologies will be in augmenting a suite of mitigation measures targeting economically or practically difficult emissions.", "keywords": ["13. Climate action", "11. Sustainability", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "7. Clean energy", "12. Responsible consumption"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psep.2012.10.004"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Process%20Safety%20and%20Environmental%20Protection", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.psep.2012.10.004", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.psep.2012.10.004", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.psep.2012.10.004"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-11-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.quaint.2010.10.022", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:17:24Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-11-09", "title": "Micromorphology And Development Of Loess-Derived Surface And Buried Soils Along A Precipitation Gradient In Northern Iran", "description": "Abstract   The northern footslopes of the Alborz Mountains and an extensive hill area in eastern Golestan Province are covered by thick (\u223c70\u00a0m) loess deposits, divided by different types of interstadial and interglacials paleosols. The area shows a precipitation gradient of about 800\u00a0mm over 80\u00a0km north-south. Along this gradient, eight pedons of modern soils and six paleosols were selected in order to investigate the types of modern and past soil forming processes and to compare the degree of soil development of surface and buried soils.  The soils were described and sampled using standard sedimentological/pedological laboratory analysis. The soil pH and calcium carbonate contents show a decreasing trend with precipitation, while soil organic carbon, clay content and cation exchange capacity increase with rainfall. The silt content, however, shows a decreasing trend with rainfall. Clay mineralogy of parental loess is illite\u00a0>\u00a0chlorite\u00a0>\u00a0smectite\u00a0>\u00a0kaolinite. From north to south, the relative proportion of smectite in soil horizons increases, reaching almost dominance in regions with typic xeric soil moisture regime (SMR; \u223c600\u00a0mm of rainfall). In the areas with udic SMR, vermiculite increases and sometimes dominates. Micromorphology provides evidence for the formation of Bt horizons and intensified decalcification and increase of clay mobilisation as indicated by b-fabrics with increasing rainfall. Soils within the xeric and udic SMRs are either Alfisols or Mollisols, both showing clay illuviation features, whereas clay mobilisation is very limited in the arid part of the area.  The paleosols show differential weathering degrees indicated by trends of increasing carbonate depletion, clay mobilisation, and clay enrichment with assumed paleo-precipitation. Pedogenesis, micromorphological properties and clay minerals in the last interglacial paleosols suggest similar climate controlled trends to those reflected in the modern soils.", "keywords": ["0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2010.10.022"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Quaternary%20International", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.quaint.2010.10.022", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.quaint.2010.10.022", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.quaint.2010.10.022"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2011-04-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.quaint.2020.06.012", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:17:24Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-08-03", "title": "Kammern-Grubgraben revisited - First results from renewed investigations at a well-known LGM site in east Austria", "description": "Abstract   Kammern-Grubgraben is among the few stratified Upper Palaeolithic sites in Central Europe dating to the Last Glacial Maximum which provided not only substantial amounts of archaeological materials but also extensive preserved occupational structures. Although the site has been known since the last quarter of the 19th century, systematic excavations didn't start until the 1980's. These were carried out subsequently by two different teams providing partly incongruent observations and interpretations. Renewed field investigations commenced in 2015 and aim at reassessing stratigraphy and chronology, settlement structures and occupational sequence, as well as mobility and economy. First results provide a robust multi-method chrono-stratigraphic bracket for occupation between Greenland Stadials GS-3 and GS-2.1. Artefact technology and typology point at supra-regional contacts to both the west and east on a more general scale while a high degree of mobility is specifically demonstrated for the hunter-gatherer groups occupying the site by displaying procurement patterns for various raw materials targeting not only local, but also regional and far-distance sources. Furthermore, the new investigations have been able to almost double the previously established site extent, and targeted excavations show that the diversity and complexity of stone constructions considerably exceeds what has previously been observed.", "keywords": ["Last Glacial Maximum (LGM); lithic technology; raw material procurement; 14C/OSL chronology; Upper Paleolithic stone constructions; fossils as adornments", "ddc:930", "930", "0601 history and archaeology", "06 humanities and the arts", "01 natural sciences", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.06.012"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Quaternary%20International", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.quaint.2020.06.012", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.quaint.2020.06.012", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.06.012"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-06-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.09.037", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:17:24Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-10-06", "title": "Short-term soil formation events in last glacial east European loess, evidence from multi-method luminescence dating", "description": "Here we provide a robust luminescence chronology for Stayky (Ukraine), a reference profile in European Late Pleistocene loess stratigraphy, based on optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating on quartz (4-11 \u03bcm, 63-90 \u03bcm) and post infrared-infrared stimulated luminescence (pIR-IRSL)) on polymineral fine grains. For the Bug loess unit, the equivalent of Marine Isotope Stage (MIS 2), results are in agreement between methods, demonstrating that the suite of embryonic soils previously interpreted as reflecting climate variability similar to Greenland interstadials (GI) actually date to \u223c29/27-15 ka, with most emplaced around or after 20 ka. This temporal span is further confirmed by age-depth modelling of available data. Apart from GI-2, no interstadial-type climate events are recorded in Greenland ice core data for that time interval. As short-term pedogenetic phases are also documented in records from central-western Europe, there is a need for more research into the European mid-latitude terrestrial environments response to MIS 2 hydroclimate variability. The dating of Vytachiv paleosol, previously debatably linked to various GI events within MIS 3 resulted in ages of \u223c40 \u00b1 4 ka and \u223c53 \u00b1 4 ka at the lower transition, and \u223c26 \u00b1 2 ka to \u223c30 \u00b1 2 ka in the overlying loess. These ages indicate that the truncated Vytachiv paleosol is either not continuous, or that it encompasses a broader age range within MIS 3 than previously considered. In both cases, data would not allow for an unambiguous linking of this paleosol with specific GI events as previously attempted. The pIR-IRSL290 dating of the loams immediately underneath Pryluky unit in the range of \u223c120 ka to \u223c168 ka and of the Pryluky mollisol from \u223c90 ka to 126 ka confirm the broad correspondence of this unit with MIS 5, although poor dose recovery results open the possibility for further testing on the degree these ages provide overestimated results. Quartz data severely underestimate the pIR-IRSL290 ages for these samples. The application of pIR-IRSL290 dating for the underlying Dnieper till previously linked to the Saalian glaciation resulted in natural signals at the level of laboratory saturation, yielding minimum ages of c. 700 ka. For the same sample, the natural SAR-OSL signals for 4-11 \u03bcm quartz were found significantly below laboratory saturation level, resulting in finite ages of \u223c250-270 ka interpreted here as underestimates, while coarse quartz (63-90 \u03bcm) signals reached about 85% of the laboratory saturation level. These data suggest extreme caution must be taken when dating such old samples using quartz OSL. Results from our high-resolution luminescence dating raises important implications for the chronological representativeness of Stayky as a key loess site in Eastern Europe beyond MIS 2.", "keywords": ["Embryonic soils", "550", "Millennial-scale loess records", "Luminescence dating", "Loess", "Eastern Europe", "551", "Climate dynamics", "Pleistocene", "[SDU.STU.CL] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology", "[SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology", "13. 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So far it has been believed that the complex contains the Upper Paleolithic cave art images as well as portable art collection that resemble the instances of Upper Paleolithic worldview. Though this belief lacked the support of archaeological context and chronological attribution it remained neither proved nor disputed. However, the application of digital photogrammetric tools allowed to perform the sub-millimeter surface modeling of the rock art objects and to re-examine and reconsider the engravings that were previously attributed to Pleistocene. The modeling results presented in this article revealed the complete absence of figurative images for the collection of portable art specimens and the dubious character of those for the cave art one. Therefore, the whole collection should be reconsidered, studied and attributed according to the state of the art and contemporary archaeological record in the region. This contribution attempts to think over the possible Upper Paleolithic origin of the motifs from Kamyana Mohyla in the light of new data and proposes three hypotheses towards the understanding of the rock art assemblage from one of the caves in the complex.", "keywords": ["0601 history and archaeology", "06 humanities and the arts", "Composite beings; Kamyana mohyla; Photogrammetry; Rock art; Ukraine; Upper paleolithic;", "01 natural sciences", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://iris.unive.it/bitstream/10278/5015525/1/1-s2.0-S1040618222003081-main.pdf"}, {"href": "https://iris.unito.it/bitstream/2318/1878502/1/1-s2.0-S1040618222003081-main.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2022.09.008"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Quaternary%20International", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.quaint.2022.09.008", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.quaint.2022.09.008", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.quaint.2022.09.008"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-12-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.radmeas.2017.12.004", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:17:24Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-12-16", "title": "Luminescence properties of natural muscovite relevant to optical dating of contaminated quartz samples", "description": "Muscovite is a mineral commonly found along quartz in sediments, where the latter is the mineral of choice in numerous optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating studies. Since muscovite cannot be efficiently eliminated following standard laboratory treatments, it is important to assess its luminescence properties. This study is focused on the investigation of muscovite hand-picked from a quartz sample extracted from loess and of museum specimens of muscovite in order to evaluate their potential implication in the OSL dating of quartz samples contaminated with muscovite grains. The obtained results show that generally applicable luminescence characteristics cannot be described for muscovite. In terms of the thermoluminescence (TL) response, all samples investigated display the same wide peak at 200\u202f\u00b0C. The blue light and infrared (IR) sensitivities differ between the samples: 3 out of 5 samples present no or negligible level of OSL and IRSL response, while the other 2 samples are characterised by both blue light (2000\u20133400 counts in 0.31\u202fs of stimulation for 10\u202fmg of muscovite after irradiation with a dose of 136\u202fGy) and IR sensitivity (265\u2013320 counts in 0.31\u202fs of stimulation for 10\u202fmg of muscovite after irradiation with a dose of 136\u202fGy). Based on the samples analysed in this study, aliquots of quartz contaminated with optically (blue light) sensitive muscovite would also be IR sensitive. Hence, potentially problematic aliquots can be identified via the IRSL purity test usually used in the OSL dating of quartz samples for detection of feldspar contamination. The impact of muscovite on dose determination for quartz was also tested and it was concluded that at least in the case of bright quartz, muscovite minerals do not influence the OSL measurements.", "keywords": ["690", "03 medical and health sciences", "0302 clinical medicine", "13. Climate action", "F800", "6. 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The present research focused on energy net production, net reduction of greenhouse gases (GHG) (considered as CO2-equivalents), and energy output:input ratio of the energy cropping systems \u2018rapeseed\u2019, \u2018maize\u2019, and \u2018Miscanthus\u2019. The system-specific main products were biodiesel (rapeseed), electricity from biogas (maize), and Miscanthus chips (loose, chopped material); the related substituted fossil resources were diesel fuel (rapeseed), electricity from the German energy mix (maize), and heating oil (Miscanthus). However, research did not aim for a direct quantitative comparison of the crops. The study followed a case study approach with averaged data from commercial farms within an enclosed agricultural area (  The study indicated that bioenergy can be produced sustainably under commercial farming conditions in terms of a significantly reduced consumption of natural resources.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "13. Climate action", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "7. Clean energy", "12. 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A case study of two polyphenol extraction methods at laboratory scale, solvent extraction (SE) and pressurized liquid extraction (PLE), were first analyzed via a carbon footprint (CFP). Subsequently, the laboratory scale design was improved and translated into industrial scale and a TEA was performed on the industrial scale designs. Finally, LCA was applied again with all impact indicators and the information gathered from both the TEA and LCA was combined into concise decision support, using Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA). SE performs better than PLE, due to a lower solvent to DW ratio and a less expensive processing setup in both environmental and economic terms. The CFP of at laboratory scale aided in showing potential environmental hotspots and highlighted the need to reduce solvent use. The MCDA showed a shift in decision support depending on how strongly economic or environmental benefits are valued and eases the interpretation of the 19 different indicators derived from the TEA-LCA results. Both SE and PLE with a solvent to dry weight (DW) ratio of 5 and 10, respectively, perform competitively while SE with a solvent to DW ratio of 10 outperforms PLE with a solvent to DW ratio of 25. The case study illustrated how early design calculations (CFP), and combined LCA and TEA may be combined to improve process design.", "keywords": ["Techno-economic assessment", "Life-cycle assessment", "Solvent extraction", "02 engineering and technology", "/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/responsible_consumption_and_production; name=SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production", "01 natural sciences", "7. Clean energy", "solvent extraction", "12. 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Plasticity in a population of Leymus chinensis, a common grass species in arid and semiarid temperate grasslands of northern China, was determined in a natural grassland grazed by large domestic herbivores. We measured shoot and bud characteristics monthly along a grazing intensity gradient indicated by distance from the village gate during two growing seasons. In addition, some plants along the gradient were removed to a common transplant garden and their growth was compared. Leaf characteristics (leaf angle, leaf length, and leaf number), growth form (tiller height and tiller clusters), bud proliferation, and plant fitness differed significantly in situ along the gradient. The expression of plasticity was grazing intensity dependent: the greatest increase in tiller density, tiller cluster, and bud number occurred at a moderate grazing intensity (2.5 km from the village gate). In the transplant garden, no evidence was found for distinct populations of L. chinensis within the grassland. Leaf characteristics, tiller growth form, and bud demography of tillers not grazed showed phenotypic plasticity in response to grazing of neighbor shoots because clonal reproduction is the main breeding system for this species in grazed natural grassland and defoliation of neighbor shoots is likely to affect the physiology and morphology of tillers that are not grazed. The observed overcompensation in vegetative reproduction may aid future survival and growth and could be achieved in a prudent grazing system designed to take into account the needs of this dominant grass in semiarid temperate steppes.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "03 medical and health sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2017.06.011"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Rangeland%20Ecology%20%26amp%3B%20Management", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.rama.2017.06.011", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.rama.2017.06.011", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.rama.2017.06.011"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-11-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.renene.2019.02.126", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:17:24Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-02-25", "title": "Influence of liquid-phase hydrogen on dark fermentation by Thermotoga neapolitana", "description": "Abstract   Hydrogen is a strong inhibitor of dark fermentation. We aimed at directly correlating the hydrogen production by Thermotoga neapolitana with the supersaturation of hydrogen in the liquid phase (H2aq), which is often disregarded. Different agitation speeds, biogas recirculation and bubble induction by AnoxK\u2122 K1 carrier were tested to prevent the supersaturation of H2aq. At 100\u202frpm agitation, the H2aq was 29.7 (\u00b11.4) mL/L, which is 3-times higher than 9.7\u202fmL/L, i.e. the equilibrium concentration given by Henry's law. Increasing the agitation speed up to 600\u202frpm reduced the H2aq until 8.5 (\u00b10.1) mL/L in 2\u202fh and increased the hydrogen production rate (HPR) from 39 (\u00b12) mL/L/h at 0\u202frpm to 198 (\u00b14) mL/L/h at 600\u202frpm. Similar to 600\u202frpm, biogas recirculation and the presence of K1 carrier at 200\u202frpm maintained the H2aq below the equilibrium concentration. This study demonstrates the reciprocal influence of HPR and H2aq and revealed an inverse nonlinear correlation between the two parameters. Therefore, we conclude that an adequate gas-liquid mass transfer, efficiently provided by biogas recirculation or the presence of solid materials (e.g. a biomass carrier), is essential to remove H2 from the liquid phase and prevent H2 supersaturation.", "keywords": ["Thermotoga neapolitana", "gas recirculation", "dark fermentation", "13. Climate action", "supersaturation", "hydrogen inhibition", "hyperthermophilic", "02 engineering and technology", "Thermotoga neapolitana", " hyperthermophilic", " dark fermentation", " gas recirculation", " hydrogen inhibition", " supersaturation", "0204 chemical engineering", "7. Clean energy", "01 natural sciences", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.iris.unina.it/bitstream/11588/743161/1/Resubmission%20manuscript.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2019.02.126"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Renewable%20Energy", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.renene.2019.02.126", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.renene.2019.02.126", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.renene.2019.02.126"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-09-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.renene.2019.07.035", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-04-03T16:17:24Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-07-05", "title": "Long-term performance and life cycle assessment of energy piles in three different climatic conditions", "description": "Abstract   The main purpose behind the use of energy piles is to enable the exploitation of geothermal energy for meeting the heating/cooling demands of buildings in an efficient and environment-friendly manner. However, the long-term performance of energy piles in different climatic conditions, along with their actual environmental impacts, has not been fully assessed. In this paper, the results of a finite element model taking into consideration the heating and cooling demands of a reference building, and the intermittent operation of a ground source heat pump, are revealed to examine the long-term performance of energy piles. Furthermore, a life cycle assessment model is implemented to compare the environmental performance of energy piles and a group of conventional piles. The environmental enhancement provided by the adoption of a ground source heat pump system is quantified with respect to a conventional heating and cooling system. The obtained results show that (i) the energy pile system can meet the majority of the heating/cooling demands, except during the peak demands, (ii) the geothermal operation results in temperature fluctuations within the energy piles and the soil, (iii) the use of energy piles results in a significant reduction in environmental impacts in the majority of the examined cases.", "keywords": ["13. Climate action", "11. Sustainability", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "7. Clean energy"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2019.07.035"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Renewable%20Energy", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.renene.2019.07.035", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.renene.2019.07.035", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.renene.2019.07.035"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-02-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.09.001", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:17:29Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-09-09", "title": "Temperature Sensitivity Of Soil Respiration: Synthetic Effects Of Nitrogen And Phosphorus Fertilization On Chinese Loess Plateau", "description": "Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) fertilization has the potential to alter soil respiration temperature sensitivity (Q10) by changing soil biochemical and crop physiological process. A four-year field experiment was conducted to determine how Q10 responded to these biochemical and physiological changes in rain-fed agro-ecosystems on the semi-arid Loess Plateau. Soil respiration, as well as biotic and abiotic factors were measured in winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), with three fertilization treatments: (no fertilization (CK), 160kgNhm-1 (N), and 160kgNha-1 with 39kgPha-1 (N+P). Mean annual soil respiration rate (calculated by averaging the four years) in the N treatment and N+P treatment was 18% and 48% higher than that in the CK treatment, respectively; and it was increased by 26% (14%-48%) in the N+P treatment as compared with that in the N treatment. The decrease of Q10 in the N and N+P treatments against the CK treatment was not stable for each year, ranging from 0.01 to 0.28. The maximum decrease of Q10 in the N and N+P treatments was 10% and 15% in 2014-2015, while in other years the decrease of Q10 was numerical but not significant. Soil microbial biomass carbon (SMBC) was increased by 10% and 50%, dissolved organic carbon (DOC) was increased by 6% and 21%, and photosynthesis rate was increased ranging from 6% to 33% with N and N+P fertilization. The relative abundance of Acidobacteria, Actinobacteria and Chloroflexi were significantly higher by 32.9%-54.1% in N addition soils (N and N+P) compared to CK treatment, whereas additional P application into soils increased the relative abundance of the family Micrococcaceae, Nocardioidaceae and Chitinophagaceae. Soil respiration was positively related to SMBC, DOC and photosynthesis rate (p<0.05). However, variation in Q10 may be related to the increase of soil mineral N content and variation of the relative abundance of soil microbial community in our study. Nitrogen and additional phosphorus fertilization regimes affect soil respiration and temperature sensitivity differently.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. 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Chemical pretreatment combined with enzymatic hydrolysis was investigated as an alternative valorisation route for digestate. Acid pretreatment along with enzymatic hydrolysis was found to yield low sugars recoveries (2\u201339%), casting doubt on its suitability for ethanol production. In contrary, alkaline pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis is a better approach with elevated saccharification yields reaching up to 72%. Ethanol fermentation of alkaline pretreated digestate presented yields up to 65% consuming all the available glucose, implying that no inhibitory factors are present. Conclusively, according to the experimental results the perspective of a new integrated system is enforced. This system combines ethanol production with anaerobic digestion simultaneously producing energy in the form of ethanol and methane and improving the overall energy balance.", "keywords": ["2. 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The Italian province of Bari, with a surface of 3825 km2, was considered as case study. Two scenarios were analysed: with and without intermediate collection centres. Plastic waste indices were defined and applied to land use maps to estimate and map waste. Ten environmental, social and techno-economic criteria were considered for defining suitability. Data were integrated into a geographic information system for territorial analyses, considering the routes over the roads network. The suitability map for collection centres siting was obtained, the results showed that the situation without collection centres could be improved by interposing them. Waste path lengths and related CO2 emissions were reduced by 62 % and 20 %, respectively, in the scenario with intermediate collection centres.", "keywords": ["Territorial suitability map", "Analytic hierarchy process", "Multi-criteria decision analysis", "Transfer station siting", "CO2 emission", "Analytic hierarchy process", " CO2 emission", " Multi criteria decision analysis", " Territorial suitability map", " Transfer station siting"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Convertino, Fabiana, Vox, Giuliano, Blanco, Ileana, Hachem, Ali, Schettini, Evelia,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://iris.unisalento.it/bitstream/11587/549568/1/2025_Convertino%20et%20al.%20RC%26amp%3bR_compressed.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2025.108210"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Resources%2C%20Conservation%20and%20Recycling", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.resconrec.2025.108210", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.resconrec.2025.108210", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.resconrec.2025.108210"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-05-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.renene.2020.11.044", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:17:24Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-11-13", "title": "Photovoltaic cleaning frequency optimization under different degradation rate patterns", "description": "Abstract   Dust accumulation significantly affects the performance of photovoltaic modules and its impact can be mitigated by various cleaning methods. Optimizing the cleaning frequency is essential to minimize the soiling losses and, at the same time, the costs. However, the effectiveness of cleaning lowers with time because of the reduced energy yield due to degradation. Additionally, economic factors such as the escalation in electricity price and inflation can compound or counterbalance the effect of degradation on the soiling mitigation profits. The present study analyzes the impact of degradation, escalation in electricity price and inflation on the revenues and costs of cleanings and proposes a methodology to maximize the profits of soiling mitigation of any system. The energy performance and soiling losses of a 1\u00a0MW system installed in southern Spain were analyzed and integrated with theoretical linear and nonlinear degradation rate patterns. The Levelized Cost of Energy and Net Present Value were used as criteria to identify the optimum cleaning strategies. The results showed that the two metrics convey distinct cleaning recommendations, as they are influenced by different factors. For the given site, despite the degradation effects, the optimum cleaning frequency is found to increase with time of operation.", "keywords": ["13. Climate action", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "7. Clean energy", "cleaning frequency; degradation rate; economics; optimization; photovoltaics; soiling"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://iris.uniroma1.it/bitstream/11573/1625616/2/Micheli_Photovoltaic%20cleaning%20frequency_Post-print_2020.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2020.11.044"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Renewable%20Energy", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.renene.2020.11.044", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.renene.2020.11.044", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.renene.2020.11.044"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-04-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.105236", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:17:25Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-11-03", "title": "Critical success and risk factors for circular business models valorising agricultural waste and by-products", "description": "Abstract   For a transition from a linear, \u2018take-make-dispose\u2019 economy to a sustainable usage of all constituents of renewable resources in cascading and circular pathways, new business models valorising streams that are currently considered as waste are needed.  The aim of this article is to understand critical success and risk factors of eco-innovative business models that contribute to a circular economy via agricultural unavoidable waste or by-products valorisation.  39 cases were studied focusing on agricultural side stream conversion into valuable products. Semi-structured interviews were performed and secondary data collected. Cases were analysed according to types of initiatives, main objectives, resources and valorisation pathways, as well as external and internal factors that have influenced the businesses over time.  Following success and risk factor categories are identified: (1) technical and logistic, (2) economic, financial and marketing, (3) organisational and spatial, (4) institutional and legal, (5) environmental, social and cultural. Herein, specific factors for the agricultural sector are innovative conversion technologies, flexible in and out logistics, joint investments in R&D, price competitiveness for bio-based products, partnerships with research organisations, space availability, subsidies, agricultural waste management regulations, local stakeholder involvement and acceptance of bio-based production processes.  Insights from this study can help farmers and agribusiness managers by defining and adapting their strategies within their local contexts. They also show that for shifting from linear agro-food chains to a circular system, individual businesses need to evolve towards more dynamic and integrated business models, in which the macro-environment sets the boundary conditions for successful operations.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Circular economy", "9. 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This has led to increased emphasis on alternative P recovery (APR) from secondary streams like wastewater sludge (WWS). However, WWS end-use is a contentious topic, and EU member states prefer different end-use pathways (land application/incineration/valorisation in cement kilns). Previous Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) on APRs from WWS reached contrasting conclusions; while most considered WWS as waste and highlighted a net benefit relative to PR mining and beneficiation, others viewed WWS as a resource and highlighted a net burden of the treatment. We used a combined functional unit (that views WWS from a waste as well as a resource perspective) and applied it on a Flemish wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) with struvite recovery as APR technology. Firstly, a retrospective comparison was performed to measure the WWTP performance before and after struvite recovery and the analysis was complemented by uncertainty and global sensitivity analyses. The results showed struvite recovery provides marginal environmental benefits due to improved WWS dewatering and reduced polymer use. Secondly, a prospective LCA approach was performed to reflect policy changes regarding WWS end-use options in Flanders. Results indicated complete mono-incineration of WWS, ash processing to recover P and the subsequent land application appears to be less sustainable in terms of climate change, human toxicity, and terrestrial acidification relative to the status quo, i.e., co-incineration with municipal solid waste and valorisation at cement kilns. Impacts on fossil depletion, however, favour mono-incineration over the status quo.", "keywords": ["BURDENS", "PHOSPHORUS RECOVERY", "Wastewater sludge treatment", "LCA", "SEWAGE-SLUDGE", "GLOBAL SENSITIVITY-ANALYSIS", "PRODUCT", "7. Clean energy", "01 natural sciences", "ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS", "6. Clean water", "12. 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However, traditional phosphate resources are dwindling, thus a more efficient use of phosphorus fertilisers is required for sustainable farming. This study demonstrates the scope of image-based models parameterised by elemental maps by assessing how a dynamic root system architecture may improve phosphorus root uptake from a fertiliser pellet. A multi-image based modelling method was developed by utilising structural imaging coupled with elemental maps. Structural imaging was used to capture barley (Hordeum vulgare L. cv. Optic) root, soil and fertiliser pellet configurations as a domain for numerical simulations. Elemental mapping was used to image phosphorus in soil thin-sections of the same samples. These two imaging modes were aligned using an automated method and image-based models describing the diffusion and root-uptake of phosphorus in soil were parametrised using the elemental maps. Structural imaging showed root length density was increased inside and near the fertiliser pellet. Averaging elemental data revealed phosphorus gradients from the pellet. Modelling results suggested: the pellet only enhances phosphorus uptake of roots within 2\u202fmm over 30 days, densely packed roots decrease phosphorus uptake efficiency, and a root system that responded to nutrients from a fertiliser have comparatively increased phosphorus uptake efficiency near the pellet. The combination of structural and elemental imaging provides the means to accurately parameterise both the geometric and chemical aspects of models describing phosphorus movement in root-soil-fertiliser systems. This approach may be applicable to other plant-soil systems where structure and elemental quantities are important to the problem.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "570", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. 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Non-thermal plasma (NTP) treatment has demonstrated promising results in terms of PFAS destruction; however, challenges related to scalability, cost, and environmental impact assessment persist. This study conducts a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to evaluate the environmental performance of NTP-based technology and its potential for scaling up, based on published laboratory-scale data. Furthermore, a comparison has been made between NTP technology and traditional evaporation and incineration for PFAS removal. Sofia Landfill's leachate treatment facility in Bulgaria served as a case study. The site's leachate treatment facility currently incorporates conventional mechanical and biological treatment processes, with a reverse osmosis (RO) system being planned as a future final step. Three alternatives were evaluated: 1) A1-RO1/P involves the application of plasma treatment to the RO concentrate; 2) A2-RO2/P includes a second-stage RO system with plasma treatment for its concentrate; and 3) A3-RO2/E comprises of a second-stage RO system with concentrate evaporation and off-site incineration of its sludge. The LCA has identified human toxicity potential, freshwater and marine ecotoxicity, freshwater eutrophication and global warming potential as the five key impact categories. The analysis indicates that Bulgaria's electricity mix was the primary impact contributor, followed by transportation. The plasma-based alternatives demonstrated superior performance over the evaporation-incineration alternative, with A2-RO2/P achieving the lowest normalized environmental impact. However, pilot experiments are needed to validate these conclusions. Moreover, the expansion of LCA databases is imperative to enhance the evaluation of PFAS's environmental implications.", "keywords": ["Technology", "PFAS removal", "T", "PFAS", "Leachate treatment", "Non-thermal plasma treatment", "Advanced oxidation process", "Landfill leachate"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rineng.2025.106081"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Results%20in%20Engineering", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.rineng.2025.106081", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.rineng.2025.106081", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.rineng.2025.106081"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-09-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.rse.2016.02.046", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:17:25Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-03-05", "title": "Comparison of remote sensing and simulated soil moisture datasets in Mediterranean landscapes", "description": "AbstractThis paper presents the comparison of three global soil moisture products (ASCAT, AMSR and SMOS) versus a land surface model over a region representative of several Mediterranean landscapes located in the Northeast of the Iberian Peninsula. Our approach has been for agricultural and water management applications at the regional and local scale. Despite being a rather small area, we were able to observe different signal behaviours corresponding to major land cover classes in Mediterranean areas i.e.: dryland and irrigated crops, forests and natural vegetation (grass-shrubs). The area also allowed assessing the impact of topography. The first result of the study is that the results are very dependent on the normalizations used to make the data comparable, thus their impact must be carefully analysed. In this study, we applied two different normalisation methods (called ZV35 and ZV) and different moving average windows (1, 10 and 30days) in order to enhance seasonal effects. Using no smoothing window, ASCAT is the soil moisture product that correlates best with the LSM over all cover classes, whatever the method. Using smoothing window, AMSR-E tends to outperform other soil moisture products with the ZV method. The ZV35 method is not able to identify a small heavily irrigated area. The reason for these different results is that ZV35, tends to eliminate the monthly scale soil moisture memory and therefore becomes more sensitive to precipitation and less sensitive to the monthly evolution of superficial soil moisture. The comparison shows in general good agreement for all soil moisture products with the LSM on the temporal series simulated over flat, non irrigated areas which are not close to the sea. SMOS has difficulties in areas close to the sea and in areas with steep relief and the current version of the L2 Operational Algorithm (V5.51) depicts few values in forested areas. ASCAT, in its turn, shows some limitations over agricultural and natural vegetation where it shows an increase of soil moisture from June to October probably due to increase of penetration depth in dry soil moisture conditions. AMSR-E LPRM shows a clear vegetation cycle over all the land cover classes. From all the remote sensing products, SMOS is the only one able to see irrigation and the only that does not show clear vegetation or roughness effects. In this study, we were able to assess the impact of higher resolution soil moisture products to map irrigated areas.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0207 environmental engineering", "Soil Science", "Agriculture", "Geology", "AMSR-E", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "16. Peace & justice", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "Water management", "ASCAT", "13. Climate action", "Regional scale", "LSM", "Soil moisture", "Computers in Earth Sciences", "Irrigation", "SMOS", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2016.02.046"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing%20of%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.rse.2016.02.046", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.rse.2016.02.046", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.rse.2016.02.046"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-07-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.rse.2018.03.035", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:17:25Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-04-09", "title": "Enhanced canopy growth precedes senescence in 2005 and 2010 Amazonian droughts", "description": "Abstract   Unprecedented droughts hit southern Amazonia in 2005 and 2010, causing a sharp increase in tree mortality and carbon loss. To better predict the rainforest's response to future droughts, it is necessary to understand its behavior during past events. Satellite observations provide a practical source of continuous observations of Amazonian forest. Here we used a passive microwave-based vegetation water content record (i.e., vegetation optical depth, VOD), together with multiple hydrometeorological observations as well as conventional satellite vegetation measures, to investigate the rainforest canopy dynamics during the 2005 and 2010 droughts. During the onset of droughts in the wet-to-dry season (May\u2013July) of both years, we found large-scale positive anomalies in VOD, leaf area index (LAI) and enhanced vegetation index (EVI) over the southern Amazonia. These observations are very likely caused by enhanced canopy growth. Concurrent below-average rainfall and above-average radiation during the wet-to-dry season can be interpreted as an early arrival of normal dry season conditions, leading to enhanced new leaf development and ecosystem photosynthesis, as supported by field observations. Our results suggest that further rainfall deficit into the subsequent dry season caused water and heat stress during the peak of 2005 and 2010 droughts (August\u2013October) that exceeded the tolerance limits of the rainforest, leading to widespread negative VOD anomalies over the southern Amazonia. Significant VOD anomalies were observed mainly over the western part in 2005 and mainly over central and eastern parts in 2010. The total area with significant negative VOD anomalies was comparable between these two drought years, though the average magnitude of significant negative VOD anomalies was greater in 2005. This finding broadly agrees with the field observations indicating that the reduction in biomass carbon uptake was stronger in 2005 than 2010. The enhanced canopy growth preceding drought-induced senescence should be taken into account when interpreting the ecological impacts of Amazonian droughts.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "550", "Canopy water content", "Amazonian droughts", "satellite", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "Vapor pressure deficit", "Surface temperature", "03 medical and health sciences", "Passive microwave", "Satellite", "13. Climate action", "Soil water deficit", "canopy water content", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/bitstream/1805/17654/1/Liu_2018_enhanced.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.03.035"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing%20of%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.rse.2018.03.035", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.rse.2018.03.035", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.rse.2018.03.035"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-06-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.rse.2019.111627", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:17:25Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-01-10", "title": "Irrigation retrieval from Landsat optical/thermal data integrated into a crop water balance model: A case study over winter wheat fields in a semi-arid region", "description": "Abstract   Monitoring irrigation is essential for an efficient management of water resources in arid and semi-arid regions. We propose to estimate the timing and the amount of irrigation throughout the agricultural season using optical and thermal Landsat-7/8 data. The approach is implemented in four steps: i) partitioning the Landsat land surface temperature (LST) to derive the crop water stress coefficient (Ks), ii) estimating the daily root zone soil moisture (RZSM) from the integration of Landsat-derived Ks into a crop water balance model, iii) retrieving irrigation at the Landsat pixel scale and iv) aggregating pixel-scale irrigation estimates at the crop field scale. The new irrigation retrieval method is tested over three agricultural areas during four seasons and is evaluated over five winter wheat fields under different irrigation techniques (drip, flood and no-irrigation). The model is very accurate for the seasonal accumulated amounts (R ~ 0.95 and RMSE ~ 44\u00a0mm). However, lower agreements with observed irrigations are obtained at the daily scale. To assess the performance of the irrigation retrieval method over a range of time periods, the daily predicted and observed irrigations are cumulated from 1 to 90\u00a0days. Generally, acceptable errors (R\u00a0=\u00a00.52 and RMSE\u00a0=\u00a027\u00a0mm) are obtained for irrigations cumulated over 15\u00a0days and the performance gradually improves by increasing the accumulation period, depicting a strong link to the frequency of Landsat overpasses (16\u00a0days or 8\u00a0days by combining Landsat-7 and -8). Despite the uncertainties in retrieved irrigations at daily to weekly scales, the daily RZSM and evapotranspiration simulated from the retrieved daily irrigations are estimated accurately and are very close to those estimated from actual irrigations. This research demonstrates the utility of high spatial resolution optical and thermal data for estimating irrigation and consequently for better closing the water budget over agricultural areas. We also show that significant improvements can be expected at daily to weekly time scales by reducing the revisit time of high-spatial resolution thermal data, as included in the TRISHNA future mission requirements.", "keywords": ["[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "550", "Evapotranspiration", "0208 environmental biotechnology", "Root-zone soil moisture", "0207 environmental engineering", "FAO-56 model", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "630", "[SDU.ENVI] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces", " environment", "6. Clean water", "[SDE]Environmental Sciences", "[SDU.STU.HY] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Hydrology", "[SDU.STU.HY]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Hydrology", "[SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces", "environment", "Irrigation", "Landsat", "Land surface temperature"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Olivera-Guerra, Luis Enrique, Merlin, Olivier, Er-Raki, Salah,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111627"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing%20of%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.rse.2019.111627", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.rse.2019.111627", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111627"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.11.046", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:17:27Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2008-12-20", "title": "How Nitrogen And Sulphur Addition, And A Single Drought Event Affect Root Phosphatase Activity In Phalaris Arundinacea", "description": "Conservation and restoration of fens and fen meadows often aim to reduce soil nutrients, mainly nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P). The biogeochemistry of P has received much attention as P-enrichment is expected to negatively impact on species diversity in wetlands. It is known that N, sulphur (S) and hydrological conditions affect the biogeochemistry of P, yet their interactive effects on P-dynamics are largely unknown. Additionally, in Europe, climate change has been predicted to lead to increases in summer drought. We performed a greenhouse experiment to elucidate the interactive effects of N, S and a single drought event on the P-availability for Phalaris arundinacea. Additionally, the response of plant phosphatase activity to these factors was measured over the two year experimental period. In contrast to results from earlier experiments, our treatments hardly affected soil P-availability. This may be explained by the higher pH in our soils, hampering the formation of Fe-P or Fe-Al complexes. Addition of S, however, decreased the plants N:P ratio, indicating an effect of S on the N:P stoichiometry and an effect on the plant's P-demand. Phosphatase activity increased significantly after addition of S, but was not affected by the addition of N or a single drought event. Root phosphatase activity was also positively related to plant tissue N and P concentrations, plant N and P uptake, and plant aboveground biomass, suggesting that the phosphatase enzyme influences P-biogeochemistry. Our results demonstrated that it is difficult to predict the effects of wetland restoration, since the involved mechanisms are not fully understood. Short-term and long-term effects on root phosphatase activity may differ considerably. Additionally, the addition of S can lead to unexpected effects on the biogeochemistry of P. Our results showed that natural resource managers should be careful when restoring degraded fens or preventing desiccation of fen ecosystems.", "keywords": ["summer", "0106 biological sciences", "plant tissue", "550", "Sulphate induced enzyme activity", "phosphorus limitation", "plant", "sulfate", "drought", "deposition", "Plant Roots", "01 natural sciences", "nitrogen", "iron", "biogeochemistry", "Root-surface phosphatase", "SDG 13 - Climate Action", "Phalaris", "species richness", "phosphorus", "N:P stoichiometry", "manager", "Plant Proteins", "2. Zero hunger", "pH", "grasslands", "Phosphorus", "dynamics", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "wetland", "6. 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Climate action", "Wetlands", "sulfur", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Sulfur"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.11.046"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Science%20of%20The%20Total%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.11.046", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.11.046", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.11.046"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2009-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.rhisph.2021.100410", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-04-03T16:17:25Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-07-10", "title": "Does the exudation of coumarins from Fe-deficient, soil-grown Brassicaceae species play a significant role in plant Fe nutrition?", "description": "Abstract   The availability of iron (Fe) is highly limited for plant uptake in calcareous soils. To overcome this challenge, plants have developed different strategies of Fe mobilization. Non-gramineous species employ a reduction-based strategy (strategy I), which is assisted by the release of Fe(III)-chelating and -reducing coumarins. In this study, the coumarin release by three strategy-I plant species of the Brassicaceae family, i.e. Brassica napus L., Raphanus sativus L. and Sinapis alba L., on calcareous soil was examined using the RHIZOtest approach. With this experimental setup, the plants were first grown hydroponically in a cylindrical growth unit for 12 days, which was then subsequently brought in contact with calcareous, Fe deficient soil for another 9 days. Root exudates were collected in both experimental phases. Total carbon (C) release, coumarin exudation rates, trace metal plant uptake as well as trace metal mobilization were determined in response to Fe deficiency after 3, 6 and 9 days of soil exposure. High total C exudation rates indicated a clear stress response upon Fe deficiency during the soil contact period. Six different coumarins were detected, with scopoletin being predominantly released by all three plant species during the hydroponic stage with zero Fe supply. The exudation rate of all detected coumarins was significantly lower during soil exposure and represented only a very small fraction of the total organic compounds released. Although the role of coumarins in Fe mobilization is very complex and still not completely understood, it seems that coumarins are less important in Fe mobilization by the three investigated plant species when grown on soil compared to phytosiderophore-releasing strategy-II plants. Our data further indicate that plants growing on a Fe-deficient soil release less coumarins than in an artificial nutrient solution setup with zero Fe supply, which highlights the importance of determining root exudation rates from soil-grown plants, since data from hydroponic studies are likely not representative for soil-grown plants.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "03 medical and health sciences", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rhisph.2021.100410"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Rhizosphere", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.rhisph.2021.100410", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.rhisph.2021.100410", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.rhisph.2021.100410"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-09-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.rinp.2021.104645", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:17:25Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-08-11", "title": "Acoustic spoof surface plasmon polaritons for filtering, isolation and sensing", "description": "We study a waveguide structure supporting acoustic spoof plasmon polaritons (aSSPPs) perturbed by a defect, whose specifically tailored geometry enables controllable transmission characterized by a uniform phase distribution and very steep narrowband response. The structure is analyzed using transmission-line theory and numerical simulations, providing evidence for its use in advanced filters, isolators and sensor technology. In order to demonstrate the applicability of the aSSPP waveguide with defect, two selective narrowband filter designs are discussed and explored. Furthermore, we propose an acoustic isolator that exploits steady fluid flow to break reciprocity and provide large isolation in a narrowband region. We also propose a sensor for liquid analytes, in which the grooves of the aSSPP waveguide serve as microfluidic channels, while the sensing principle is based on the spectral shift of the transmission peak for different mixtures of water and glycerol. The sensor shows a good sensitivity and fast response, with a potential for further development for applications in water quality monitoring.", "keywords": ["Filter", "Physics", "QC1-999", "Acoustic waveguide", "02 engineering and technology", "Isolator", "Spoof surface plasmon polariton", "0210 nano-technology", "Sensor"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rinp.2021.104645"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Results%20in%20Physics", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.rinp.2021.104645", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.rinp.2021.104645", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.rinp.2021.104645"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-09-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.rse.2016.11.010", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:17:25Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-11-26", "title": "Normalizing land surface temperature data for elevation and illumination effects in mountainous areas: A case study using ASTER data over a steep-sided valley in Morocco", "description": "Abstract   The remotely sensed land surface temperature (LST) is a key parameter to monitor surface energy and water fluxes but the strong impact of topography on LST has limited its use to mostly flat areas. To fill the gap, this study proposes a physically-based method to normalize LST data for topographic - namely illumination and elevation - effects over mountainous areas. Both topographic effects are first quantified by inverting a dual-source soil/vegetation energy balance (EB) model forced by 1) the instantaneous solar radiation simulated by a 3D radiative transfer model named DART (Discrete Anisotropic Radiative Transfer) that uses a digital elevation model (DEM), 2) a satellite-derived vegetation index, and 3) local meteorological (air temperature, air relative humidity and wind speed) data available at a given location. The satellite LST is then normalized for topography by simulating the LST using both pixel- and image-scale DART solar radiation and elevation data. The approach is tested on three ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) overpass dates over a steep-sided 6\u00a0km by 6\u00a0km area in the Atlas Mountain in Morocco. The mean correlation coefficient and root mean square difference (RMSD) between EB-simulated and ASTER LST is 0.80 and 3\u00a0\u00b0C, respectively. Moreover, the EB-based method is found to be more accurate than a more classical approach based on a multi-linear regression with DART solar radiation and elevation data. The EB-simulated LST is also evaluated against an extensive ground dataset of 135 autonomous 1-cm depth temperature sensors deployed over the study area. While the mean RMSD between 90\u00a0m resolution ASTER LST and localized ibutton measurements is 6.1\u00a0\u00b0C, the RMSD between EB-simulated LST and ibutton soil temperature is 5.4 and 5.3\u00a0\u00b0C for a DEM at 90\u00a0m and 8\u00a0m resolution, respectively. The proposed topographic normalization is self-calibrated from (LST, DEM, vegetation index and in situ meteorological data) data available over large extents. As a significant perspective this approach opens the path to using normalized LST as input to evapotranspiration retrieval methods based on LST.", "keywords": ["[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "550", "Topographic normalization", "DEM", "0207 environmental engineering", "Energy balance", "02 engineering and technology", "01 natural sciences", "ASTER", "13. Climate action", "[SDE]Environmental Sciences", "DART", "Land surface temperature", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2016.11.010"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing%20of%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.rse.2016.11.010", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.rse.2016.11.010", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.rse.2016.11.010"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-02-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.rse.2018.04.013", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:17:25Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-04-24", "title": "Retrieving surface soil moisture at high spatio-temporal resolution from a synergy between Sentinel-1 radar and Landsat thermal data: A study case over bare soil", "description": "Radar data have been used to retrieve and monitor the surface soil moisture (SM) changes in various conditions. However, the calibration of radar models whether empirically or physically-based, is still subject to large uncertainties especially at high-spatial resolution. To help calibrate radar-based retrieval approaches to supervising SM at high resolution, this paper presents an innovative synergistic method combining Sentinel-1 (S1) microwave and Landsat-7/8 (L7/8) thermal data. First, the S1 backscatter coefficient was normalized by its maximum and minimum values obtained during 2015\u20132016 agriculture season. Second, the normalized S1 backscatter coefficient was calibrated from reference points provided by a thermal-derived SM proxy named soil evaporative efficiency (SEE, defined as the ratio of actual to potential soil evaporation). SEE was estimated as the radiometric soil temperature normalized by its minimum and maximum values reached in a water-saturated and dry soil, respectively. We estimated both soil temperature endmembers by using a soil energy balance model forced by available meteorological forcing. The proposed approach was evaluated against in situ SM measurements collected over three bare soil fields in a semi-arid region in Morocco and we compared it against a classical approach based on radar data only. The two polarizations VV (vertical transmit and receive) and VH (vertical transmit and horizontal receive) of the S1 data available over the area are tested to analyse the sensitivity of radar signal to SM at high incidence angles (39\u00b0\u201343\u00b0). We found that the VV polarization was better correlated to SM than the VH polarization with a determination coefficient of 0.47 and 0.28, respectively. By combining S1 (VV) and L7/8 data, we reduced the root mean square difference between satellite and in situ SM to 0.03\u202fm3\u202fm\u22123, which is far smaller than 0.16\u202fm3\u202fm\u22123 when using S1 (VV) only.", "keywords": ["550", "[SDE.IE]Environmental Sciences/Environmental Engineering", "Sentinel-1 (A/B)", "near surface soil moisture", "Bare soil", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "Sentinel-1 (AB)", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "Landsat-78", "01 natural sciences", "Energy balance modelling", "Near surface soil moisture", "Landsat-7/8", "bare soil", "13. Climate action", "energy balance modelling", "soil evaporation", "[SDE.IE] Environmental Sciences/Environmental Engineering", "Soil evaporation", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01912888/file/Amazirh%20et%20al_2018%20%281%29.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.04.013"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing%20of%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.rse.2018.04.013", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.rse.2018.04.013", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.rse.2018.04.013"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-06-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.rse.2020.112030", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:17:25Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-08-12", "title": "Sun-induced fluorescence closely linked to ecosystem transpiration as evidenced by satellite data and radiative transfer models", "description": "Closed Access[EN] Transpiration (7) returns about half of continental precipitation back into the atmosphere. However, the global spatial and temporal dynamics of transpiration are highly uncertain, and current estimates rely on either indirect remote sensing or empirical model formulations. Here, we show that T can be estimated reliably at the global scale using observations of plant sun-induced fluorescence (SIF). To do so, we derive T using two different methods from globally-distributed eddy-covariance measurements and compare it with satellite SIF retrievals from GOME-2 and OCO-2. Whereas most research to date has focused on the link between SIF and gross primary production (GPP), we demonstrate that SIF is as highly correlated with T (mean correlation coefficient R of 0.76 across sites for 16-day periods with GOME-2 and 0.75 at the daily scale with OCO-2). SIF shows a greater predictive skill to estimate T than traditional optical vegetation indices and its dynamics are very similar to those of T. Through the use of an advanced radiative transfer model, we also demonstrate a clear empirical link between SIF and T. At 83 FLUXNET sites, remote sensing data and flux-derived GPP and T are used to estimate the relevant parameters of the Soil Canopy Observation of Photosynthesis and Energy fluxes (SCOPE) radiative transfer model and to model SIF. While the relationship between SIF and photosynthesis (GPP) is mostly controlled by leaf biochemical properties and plant structure, the SIF-T relationship appears largely determined by air temperature and intrinsic water use efficiency. Our findings suggest that ongoing advances in satellite SIF retrievals will allow for a more direct estimation of transpiration over large scales", "keywords": ["Evapotranspiration", "FLUXNET", "0207 environmental engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "Solar-induced fluorescence", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Transpiration", "OCO-2", "GOME-2", "SCOPE", "13. Climate action", "FISICA APLICADA", "Photosynthesis", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112030"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing%20of%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.rse.2020.112030", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.rse.2020.112030", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112030"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-11-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.rse.2023.113621", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:17:25Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-05-13", "title": "Optimisation of AquaCrop backscatter simulations using Sentinel-1 observations", "description": "In preparation for active microwave-based data assimilation into a crop modeling system, the mapping of daily 1-km AquaCrop model (v6.1) biomass and surface soil moisture to backscatter was optimised, using two forward operators, i.e. the Water Cloud Model (WCM) and the Support Vector Regression (SVR). Both forward operators were calibrated (2014\u20132018) with 1-km Sentinel-1 backscatter ( ) observations in VV and VH polarisation, for three different study domains in Europe. For the validation period (2019\u20132021), the simulations showed reasonable performances around Czech Republic and the Iberian Peninsula, to good performances over Belgium, but with strong variations within each domain. The domain-averaged root mean square difference between the model and Sentinel-1 remained below 2 dB for both forward operators and all three study domains, and the mean bias for VV remained close to 0 dB, and close 0.5 dB for the VH polarisation. The WCM and SVR performed better in VV than VH and overall the SVR performed slightly better in mapping the AquaCrop soil moisture and vegetation to backscatter than the WCM. Additionally, the assumed linear relationship in the WCM between soil moisture and soil holds better for VV than for VH. The remaining differences between WCM or SVR simulations and Sentinel-1 observations are mainly caused by AquaCrop model errors.", "keywords": ["Agriculture and Food Sciences", "Crop biomass", "YIELD RESPONSE", "ASSIMILATION", "Backscatter modeling", "LEAF-AREA INDEX", "RADAR BACKSCATTER", "BIOMASS", "SAR BACKSCATTER", "AquaCrop optimisation", "13. Climate action", "SURFACE SOIL-MOISTURE", "Earth and Environmental Sciences", "SUPPORT", "Sentinel-1", "WATER", "Soil moisture", "FAO CROP MODEL"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113621"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing%20of%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.rse.2023.113621", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.rse.2023.113621", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113621"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-08-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.rse.2020.112050", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:17:25Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-08-24", "title": "Monitoring of wheat crops using the backscattering coefficient and the interferometric coherence derived from Sentinel-1 in semi-arid areas. Remote Sensing of Environment, 251, 112050.", "description": "Abstract   Radar data at C-band has shown great potential for the monitoring of soil and canopy hydric conditions of wheat crops. In this study, the C-band Sentinel-1 time series including the backscattering coefficients \u03c30 at VV and VH polarization, the polarization ratio (PR) and the interferometric coherence \u03c1 are first analyzed with the support of experimental data gathered on three plots of irrigated winter wheat located in the Haouz plain in the center of Morocco covering five growing seasons. The results showed that \u03c1 and PR are tightly related to the canopy development. \u03c1 is also sensitive to soil preparation. By contrast, \u03c30 was found to be widely linked to changes in surface soil moisture (SSM) during the first growth stages when Leaf Area Index remains moderate (", "keywords": ["[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Interferometric coherence", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "Surface soil moisture", "630", "Backscattering coefficient", "Winter wheat", "[SDE]Environmental Sciences", "Sentinel-1", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Semi-arid region", "C-band"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112050"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing%20of%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.rse.2020.112050", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.rse.2020.112050", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112050"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-12-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.rse.2023.113986", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:17:25Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-01-21", "title": "On-orbit calibration and performance of the EMIT imaging spectrometer", "description": "Open AccessArticle signat per 56 autors: David R. Thompson, Robert O. Green, Christine Bradley, Philip G. Brodrick, Natalie Mahowald, Eyal Ben Dor, Matthew Bennett, Michael Bernas, Nimrod Carmon, K. Dana Chadwick, Roger N. Clark, Red Willow Coleman, Evan Cox, Ernesto Diaz, Michael L. Eastwood, Regina Eckert, Bethany L. Ehlmann, Paul Ginoux, Mar\u00eda Gon\u00e7alves Ageitos, Kathleen Grant, Luis Guanter, Daniela Heller Pearlshtien, Mark Helmlinger, Harrison Herzog, Todd Hoefen, Yue Huang, Abigail Keebler, Olga Kalashnikova, Didier Keymeulen, Raymond Kokaly, Martina Klose, Longlei Li, Sarah R. Lundeen, John Meyer, Elizabeth Middleton, Ron L. Miller, Pantazis Mouroulis, Bogdan Oaida, Vincenzo Obiso, Francisco Ochoa, Winston Olson-Duvall, Gregory S. Okin, Thomas H. Painter, Carlos P\u00e9rez Garc\u00eda-Pando, Randy Pollock, Vincent Realmuto, Lucas Shaw, Peter Sullivan, Gregg Swayze, Erik Thingvold, Andrew K. Thorpe, Suresh Vannan, Catalina Villarreal, Charlene Ung, Daniel W. Wilson, Sander Zandbergen.", "keywords": ["Mineral dusts", "Teledetecci\u00f3", "550", "Radiative forcing", "7. Clean energy", "Validation", "\u00c0rees tem\u00e0tiques de la UPC::F\u00edsica::Astronomia i astrof\u00edsica", "Spectrometer--Calibration", "Pols minerals", "Visible-shortwave infrared spectroscopy", "info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/550", "ddc:550", "International space station", "Remote sensing", "Mineralogy", "Espect\u00f2metres--Calibratge", "Imaging spectroscopy", "EMIT", "Earth sciences", "Atmospheric correction", "\u00c0rees tem\u00e0tiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicaci\u00f3::Radiocomunicaci\u00f3 i exploraci\u00f3 electromagn\u00e8tica::Teledetecci\u00f3", "13. Climate action", "Hyperspectral imagery", "Calibration", "Mineral dust cycle", "NASA"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113986"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing%20of%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.rse.2023.113986", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.rse.2023.113986", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113986"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.rse.2025.114918", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:17:25Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2025-07-23", "title": "Spectral indices in remote sensing of soil: definition, popularity, and issues. A critical overview", "description": "Serving as a powerful proxy in remote sensing studies, spectral indices can generate meaningful environmental interpretation from either raw or atmospherically corrected spectral data, and characterise and quantify some important properties of various objects on Earth\u2019s surface. However, while numerous spectral indices have been developed over time, since the very launch of civilian satellites until now, some critical issues in their usage, such as comparability, remain scarcely studied, which may lead to incorrect, inconsistent, and unreliable results. In this study, we collected 471 spectral indices of various environment components (vegetation, water, and soil) that might be leveraged for soil studies, and traced their popularity in scientific publications over the past decades. The bibliometric analysis revealed a growing interest and utilisation of spectral indices as Earthobserving satellite technology advanced. Based on both literature and, for sake of complementation and illustration, some targeted regional-scale case studies, we discuss the issues of naming confusion, comparability, applicability, accuracy trade-offs, and reproducibility of using spectral indices. Overall, this overview provides an extensive list of spectral indices, both soil indices and soil-related indices, that can be useful for characterising these environment components by remote sensing. It draws attention to some misuses and confusions that must be avoided to prevent scientific pitfalls. The comparisons between different spectral indices, sensors, and correction methods, highlight the confusing effects that the misuse and non-standardised practices of the spectral indices useful for soil, may have on soil property mapping and monitoring. Insights to the judicious and appropriate usage of spectral indices in the remote sensing of soil are provided.", "keywords": ["monitoring", "remote sensing", "vegetation", "soil properties", "[SDU.STU] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences", "spectral indices", "water bodies", "bibliometrics", "[SDV.SA.SDS] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Soil study"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2025.114918"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing%20of%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.rse.2025.114918", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.rse.2025.114918", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.rse.2025.114918"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-11-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.rser.2011.04.004", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-04-03T16:17:25Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2011-05-13", "title": "Assessing Non-Marginal Variations With Consequential Lca: Application To European Energy Sector", "description": "Many policies are being designed to mitigate impacts of human activities on the environment. An environmental evaluation of these policies should include assessments of their impacts according to all known environmental impacts. Moreover, because policies may indirectly affect regions or economic sectors not initially targeted by these policies, indirect environmental consequences should be included in environmental balances. Life cycle analysis (LCA) is a holistic method made to assess environmental impacts caused by products or services according to various environmental damage categories. However, the ability of LCA to model environmental consequences due to a change is restricted to marginal changes occurring in small life cycles. New methodological developments are needed to study major changes and their environmental consequences as they may happen when a policy is applied at large scale. For that purpose, the economic general equilibrium model GTAP has been used to predict global economic perturbation that would be caused by two different European energy policies (bioenergy policy and business as usual policy). LCA was then used to assess environmental impacts due to European energy generation and perturbation of world economy. Despite the bioenergy policy involves more energy from renewable technologies which are expected to be less polluting, results show that due to rebound effects, bioenergy policy results in more environmental impacts. Combining both GTAP and LCA improves environmental assessment made with GTAP because it allows computing environmental impacts according to products life cycles instead of using economic sector emission factors and because emissions and extractions from environment are related to impacts on environment. Regarding LCA method, this new approach allows studying significant changes affecting large systems with a global modeling of economy in a time dependent environment. However, more work is needed to evaluate this new approach, especially uncertainty should be studied.", "keywords": ["13. Climate action", "11. Sustainability", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "7. Clean energy", "12. Responsible consumption"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2011.04.004"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Renewable%20and%20Sustainable%20Energy%20Reviews", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.rser.2011.04.004", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.rser.2011.04.004", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.rser.2011.04.004"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2011-08-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1890/13-0640.1", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:21:24Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-09-09", "title": "Carbon Stocks Of Intact Mangroves And Carbon Emissions Arising From Their Conversion In The Dominican Republic", "description": "<p>Mangroves are recognized to possess a variety of ecosystem services including high rates of carbon sequestration and storage. Deforestation and conversion of these ecosystems continue to be high and have been predicted to result in significant carbon emissions to the atmosphere. Yet few studies have quantified the carbon stocks or losses associated with conversion of these ecosystems. In this study we quantified the ecosystem carbon stocks of three common mangrove types of the Caribbean as well as those of abandoned shrimp ponds in areas formerly occupied by mangrove\uffe2\uff80\uff94a common land\uffe2\uff80\uff90use conversion of mangroves throughout the world. In the mangroves of the Montecristi Province in Northwest Dominican Republic we found C stocks ranged from 706 to 1131 Mg/ha. The medium\uffe2\uff80\uff90statured mangroves (3\uffe2\uff80\uff9310 m in height) had the highest C stocks while the tall (&gt;10 m) mangroves had the lowest ecosystem carbon storage. Carbon stocks of the low mangrove (shrub) type (&lt;3 m) were relatively high due to the presence of carbon\uffe2\uff80\uff90rich soils as deep as 2 m. Carbon stocks of abandoned shrimp ponds were 95 Mg/ha or \uffe2\uff88\uffbc11% that of the mangroves. Using a stock\uffe2\uff80\uff90change approach, the potential emissions from the conversion of mangroves to shrimp ponds ranged from 2244 to 3799 Mg CO2e/ha (CO2 equivalents). This is among the largest measured C emissions from land use in the tropics. The 6260 ha of mangroves and converted mangroves in the Montecristi Province are estimated to contain 3\uffe2\uff80\uff8a841\uffe2\uff80\uff8a490 Mg of C. Mangroves represented 76% of this area but currently store 97% of the carbon in this coastal wetland (3\uffe2\uff80\uff8a696\uffe2\uff80\uff8a722 Mg C). Converted lands store only 4% of the total ecosystem C (144\uffe2\uff80\uff8a778 Mg C) while they comprised 24% of the area. By these metrics the replacement of mangroves with shrimp and salt ponds has resulted in estimated emissions from this region totaling 3.8 million Mg CO2e or \uffe2\uff88\uffbc21% of the total C prior to conversion. Given the high C stocks of mangroves, the high emissions from their conversion, and the other important functions and services they provide, their inclusion in climate\uffe2\uff80\uff90change mitigation strategies is warranted.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Conservation of Natural Resources", "carbon", "mangroves", "Climate Change", "Dominican Republic", "land use", "Water", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Carbon", "mitigation", "Soil", "climate change", "13. Climate action", "Wetlands", "emission", "Rhizophoraceae", "Avicennia", "Environmental Monitoring", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Kauffman, J.B., Heider, C., Norfolk, J., Payton, F.,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1890/13-0640.1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Ecological%20Applications", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1890/13-0640.1", "name": "item", "description": "10.1890/13-0640.1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1890/13-0640.1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2014-04-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.rser.2011.02.011", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:17:25Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2011-05-08", "title": "Integrated Assessment Of Sustainability Trade-Offs And Pathways For Global Bioenergy Production: Framing A Novel Hybrid Approach", "description": "Abstract   Current controversies and debates on bioenergy production in the areas of greenhouse gases emission reduction, food and energy security, social exclusion and welfare erosion, and ecosystem deterioration attest to the challenges which the bioenergy sector has to overcome to achieve its global production potentials. Because it is yet an evolving sector, the sustainability of bioenergy production in different regions is very elusive. Experiences show that bioenergy policies in one region can have impacts not only on its own but also on other regions\u2019 social, economic and ecological sustainability. It is thus important to assess development pathways for bioenergy to exploit the potential benefits and forestall any unnecessary costs. This paper frames a novel hybrid approach for assessing bioenergy potentials for regions with diverging economic, social and ecological systems. The approach is based on a conceptual framework that takes into account trade-offs decisions on sustainability goals and production options in the assessment of bioenergy pathways. It combines different empirical techniques for the systematic investigation of trade-offs and pathways including fuzzy logic, conjoint, logit, and path analyses. To show the relevance and utility of these techniques for the integrated assessment of trade-offs and pathways in bioenergy development, we illustrated their application using results and data from previous related studies.", "keywords": ["[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "13. Climate action", "11. Sustainability", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "320", "7. Clean energy", "12. Responsible consumption"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2011.02.011"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Renewable%20and%20Sustainable%20Energy%20Reviews", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.rser.2011.02.011", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.rser.2011.02.011", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.rser.2011.02.011"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2011-08-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.rser.2011.07.118", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-04-03T16:17:25Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2011-09-23", "title": "Biofuel Economics In A Setting Of Multiple Objectives And Unintended Consequences", "description": "This paper examines biofuels from an economic perspective and evaluates the merits of promoting biofuel production in the context of the policies\u2019 multiple objectives, life-cycle implications, pecuniary externalities, and other unintended consequences. The policy goals most often cited are to reduce fossil fuel use and to lower greenhouse gas emissions. But the presence of multiple objectives and various indirect effects complicates normative evaluation. To address some of these complicating factors, we look at several combinations of policy alternatives that achieve the same set of incremental gains along the two primary targeted policy dimensions, making it possible to compare the costs and cost-effectiveness of each combination of policies. For example, when this approach is applied to U.S.-produced biofuels, they are found to be 14 to 31 times as costly as alternatives like raising the gas tax or promoting energy efficiency improvements. The analysis also finds the scale of the potential contributions of biofuels to be extremely small in both the U.S. and EU. Mandated U.S. corn ethanol production for 2025 reduces U.S. petroleum input use by 1.75%, and would have negligible net effects on CO2 emissions; and although EU imports of Brazilian ethanol may look better given the high costs of other alternatives, this option is equivalent, at most, to a 1.20% reduction in EU gasoline consumption.", "keywords": ["Q42", "Q54", "Ethanol", "ddc:330", "Q48", "Indirect Land Use Change Effects", "02 engineering and technology", "7. Clean energy", "Biofuel", " Biodiesel", " Cost-Effectiveness", " Indirect Land Use Change Effects", " Net Energy", " Multiple Objectives", " Ethanol", " Ghg", "12. Responsible consumption", "Biofuel", "Net Energy", "13. Climate action", "jel:Q54", "jel:Q42", "11. Sustainability", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "jel:Q48", "Ghg", "Biodiesel", "Cost-Effectiveness", "Multiple Objectives"], "contacts": [{"organization": "William K. Jaeger, Thorsten M. Egelkraut, Thorsten M. Egelkraut,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.feem.it/userfiles/attach/201151994124NDL2011-037.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2011.07.118"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Renewable%20and%20Sustainable%20Energy%20Reviews", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.rser.2011.07.118", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.rser.2011.07.118", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.rser.2011.07.118"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2011-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.rser.2012.04.046", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-04-03T16:17:26Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-07-06", "title": "Biofuels And Their Potential To Aid The Uk Towards Achieving Emissions Reduction Policy Targets", "description": "The potential of biofuels contributing to the UK emission reduction targets in the formulated UK Low Carbon Transition Plan (LCTP) and the UK\u2019s obligation in the wider EU emissions reduction targets are assessed using four scenarios. The scenarios were evaluated using hybrid lifecycle assessment developed in a multi-regional input\u2013output (MRIO) framework. In the hybrid MRIO LCA framework, technology-specific processes in the biofuels and fossil fuels LCA systems are integrated into a generalised 2-region (UK and Rest of the World) environmental-economic input\u2013output framework in order to account for economy-wide indirect GHG emissions in the biofuels and fossil fuels LCA systems in addition to other indirect impacts such as indirect land use change. The lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of biodiesel (soybean, palm, rape, waste cooking oil) and bio-ethanol (sugarcane, sugarbeet, corn) were assessed and compared to fossil fuel (diesel and petrol) baseline. From one of the scenarios, biodiesel production from waste cooking oil and bioethanol from sugarbeet offer the biggest potential for emissions savings relative to fossil fuel equivalent and offering a maximum emission savings of 4.1% observed with a biofuel market share of 10% reached in 2020. It was also established that under current biofuel feedstock mix, to achieve the 6% emissions saving primarily from biofuels as proposed in the LCTP, 23.8% of the transport fuels market would be required to be held by biofuels by 2020.", "keywords": ["13. Climate action", "11. Sustainability", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "7. Clean energy", "12. 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The cultivation of sugar beet and Miscanthus for bioethanol production in the North of the Netherlands is used as a case study. The environmental impacts included are greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (during lifecycle and related to direct land use change), soil quality, water quantity and quality, and biodiversity. Suitable methods are selected and adapted based on an extensive literature review. The spatial variation in environmental impacts related to the spatial heterogeneity of the physical context is assessed using Geographical Information System (GIS). The case study shows that there are large spatial variations in environmental impacts of the introduction of bioenergy crops. Land use change (LUC) to sugar beet generally causes more negative environmental impacts than LUC to Miscanthus. LUC to Miscanthus could have positive environmental impacts in some areas. The most negative environmental impacts of a shift towards sugar beet and Miscanthus occur in the western wet pasture areas. The spatially combined results of the environmental impacts illustrate that there are several trade offs between environmental impacts: there are no areas were no negative environmental impacts occur. The assessment demonstrates a framework to identify areas with potential negative environmental impacts of bioenergy crop production and areas where bioenergy crop production have little negative or even positive environmental impacts.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "certification", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "costs", "energy crop cultivation", "argentina part", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "7. Clean energy", "13. 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These discrepancies are confusing for policy and it is thus important to have scientific clarity on the basis of the assessment outcomes. Such clear insights can enable harmonisation of the different assessments. This review explores current state of the art approaches and methodologies used in bioenergy assessments, and identifies key elements that are critical determinants of bioenergy potentials. We apply the lessons learnt from the review exercise to compare and harmonise a selected set of country based bioenergy potential studies, and provide recommendations for conducting more comprehensive assessments. Depending on scenario assumptions, the harmonised technical biomass potential estimates up to 2030 in the selected countries range from 5.2 to 27.3 EJ in China, 1.1 to 18.8 EJ in India, 2.0 to 10.9 EJ in Indonesia, 1.6 to 7.0 EJ in Mozambique and 9.3 to 23.5 EJ in the US. From the review, we observed that generally, current studies do not cover all the basic (sustainability) elements expected in an ideal bioenergy assessment and there are marked differences in the level of parametric detail and methodological transparency between studies. Land availability and suitability lack spatial detail and especially degraded and marginal lands are poorly evaluated. Competition for water resources is hardly taken into account and biomass yields are based mostly on crude ecological zoning criteria. A few studies take into account improvements in management of agricultural and forestry production systems, but the underlying assumptions are hardly discussed. Competition for biomass resources among the various applications is crudely analysed in most studies and key assumptions such as demographic dynamics, biodiversity protection criteria, etc. are not explicitly discussed. To facilitate more comprehensive bioenergy assessments, we recommend an integrated analytical framework that includes all the key factors, employs high resolution geo-referenced datasets and accounts for potential feedback effects.", "keywords": ["greenhouse-gas", "spatial-distribution", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "Review", "02 engineering and technology", "7. Clean energy", "12. Responsible consumption", "11. Sustainability", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "Biomass", "SDG 15 - Life on Land", "2. Zero hunger", "Energy", "Milieukunde", "Methodology", "bio-energy", "Scheikunde", "15. Life on land", "plantation biomass resources", "carbon sequestration", "6. Clean water", "integrated approach", "sustainable bioenergy", "land-use scenarios", "13. 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An additional demand of a given commodity, irrespective of the amount, can always be supplied by the average supplier under fully elastic market assumption. This constitutes a recognised limitation for the application of LCA to the assessment of the environmental consequences of changes applied to complex systems, like agro-systems. In the so-called consequential LCI (C-LCI), the relationships between the activities and processes of a life-cycle are no longer seen as essentially technical connections, based on average data; instead the determining socio-economic mechanisms are considered via market information and eventually economic models (partial or computable general equilibrium). The practical implementation of C-LCI is however still obscure to many practitioners and the complementarities and overlaps between the different C-LCI modelling approaches have not been completely clarified so far.  This paper aims at filling this gap. The first part of the paper provides a survey of a number of applications using different equilibrium models. Afterwards we critically review the main variables and parameters supporting the definition and implementation of the C-LCI modelling approaches. In the last part of the paper we propose a methodology to integrate economic modelling and LCA in order to perform a C-LCA of biogas production, specifically addressing the indirect land use change (ILUC) issue. Finally we describe the application of this methodology to a case study dealing with the production of biogas in Luxembourg.", "keywords": ["0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "7. 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Here we compared some of the short-term ecological implications of chemical and physical removal of the bush encroacher Acacia mellifera in the central Highland savanna of Namibia. We selected 21 invaded sites, 7 had been chemically cleared, 7 had been physically cleared and 7 had never been cleared. From each site, we recorded grass species composition, as well as the densities of A. mellifera, the undesired perennial shrub Pechuel-loeschea leubnitziae and a non-targeted tree Acacia erioloba, 24\u201330\u00a0months post-treatment. We fitted one-way ANOVA models to test for the effect of treatment on grass species richness and density of targeted and non-targeted tree species. A canonical correspondence analysis was used to determine how treatment affected grass species composition. While both treatments reduced the density of the bush encroacher, P. leubnitziae effectively replaced A. mellifera in chemically treated sites, where die-back presumably happened faster and nutrient and water competition decreased more rapidly. In such sites, perennial grass species were effectively outcompeted by P. leubnitiziae.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "330", "Geography & travel", "Senegalia mellifera", "910", "15. 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