Analysis of Wind Regime and Sand Transport Potential in the Marginal Ergs of the Namak Lake, Central Iran by Ariyan Allahveisi, Mehran Maghsoudi, Abolfazl Qojezadeh Helani, Mehdi Safari namivandi

“…WRPLOT View 7 and Sand Rose software were employed to plot wind rose and sand rose diagrams and to analyze the DP, RDP, RDD, and UDI indices. …”
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Impact of Elevation Change on the Physicochemical Properties of Forest Soil in South Omo Zone, Southern Ethiopia by Mesfin Belete Hailemariam, Zerihun Woldu, Zemede Asfaw, Ermias Lulekal

“…Data on soil physicochemical properties were collected from five points (four from each corner and one from the center) of the main plot. A pit of 20 cm × 20 cm was dug at a depth of 0–30 cm and a kilogram of composite soil samples was brought to the Wolkite Soil Testing Laboratory for physicochemical analysis. …”
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Impacts of area closure on selected soil physicochemical properties at Meldam watershed, Sekota area, North Western Ethiopia by Awota Tedila, Endalkachew Fekadu, Fentaye Yimam, Wudu Abiye

“…From each plot, one composite soil sample (for TN, avP, CEC, EC, exchangeable bases, pH, and SOM) and one undisturbed sample (for BD) were collected from a 0–20 cm depth. …”
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Land Cover and Soil Properties Influence on Forage Quantity in a Semiarid Region in East Africa by Anthony Egeru, Oliver Wasonga, Geofrey Gabiri, Laban MacOpiyo, John Mburu, Jackson Gilbert Mwanjalolo Majaliwa

“…Composite soil samples at two depths (0–15 cm, 15–30 cm) were obtained from each plot. …”
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Prescribed Burning and Clear-Cutting Effects on Understory Vegetation in a Pinus canariensis Stand (Gran Canaria) by José Ramón Arévalo, Silvia Fernández-Lugo, Celia García-Domínguez, Agustín Naranjo-Cigala, Federico Grillo, Leonor Calvo

“…Cutting and burning treatment affected species composition and increased diversity. Burnt and cut plots were characterized by a diverse array of herbaceous species and by a lower abundance of Teline microphylla (endemic legume), although burning apparently induced its germination. …”
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Fungi stimulate organic phosphorus fraction transformation in subtropical masson pine plantation soils after nine years of thinning and understory removal by Zunji Jian, Lixiong Zeng, Lei Lei, Beat Frey, Changfu Liu, Yafei Shen, Jiajia Zhang, Wenfa Xiao, Mai-He Li

“…Results Compared to undisturbed plots, total soil inorganic P (Pi; + 24%) within the dominant species thinning (DST) plots showed a significant increase, which was associated with the accrual in resin-Pi (+ 30%), NaHCO3-Pi (+ 21%), and C.CHl-Pi (+ 45%). …”
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Zircon micro-inclusions as an obstacle for in situ garnet U–Pb geochronology: an example from the As Sifah eclogite locality, Oman by J. B. Walters, J. B. Walters, J. B. Walters, J. M. Garber, A. Beranoaguirre, A. Beranoaguirre, L. J. Millonig, L. J. Millonig, A. Gerdes, A. Gerdes, T. Grützner, T. Grützner, H. R. Marschall, H. R. Marschall

“…Zr contents in the analysed laser ablation spots plot along garnet–zircon mixing lines, the slopes of which can only be explained by zircon contamination. …”
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Modern Pollen–Vegetation Relationships: A View from the Larch Forests of Central Siberia by Elena Novenko, Natalia Mazei, Anton Shatunov, Anna Chepurnaya, Ksenia Borodina, Mikhail Korets, Anatoly Prokushkin, Alexander V. Kirdyanov

“…Understanding how pollen assemblages represent the local and regional vegetation composition is crucial for palaeoecological research. …”
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Enhancing forest biodiversity indicators in inventories through harmonized protocols by Moreno-Fernández D, Breidenbach J, Cañellas I, Chirici G, D’Amico G, Ferretti M, Giannetti F, Puliti S, Schnell S, Shackleton R, Skudnik M, Alberdi I

“…We leverage information from 30 intensively monitored plots established in six European countries to achieve these goals. …”
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Microbial Diversity in Mining–Affected Forest Ecosystems: Exploring the Roles of Seasonality and Environmental Factors in Qinyuan County, Shanxi Province by Aijing Yin, Yuan Yuan, Yujin Cui, Xinna Zhang

“…Alpha–diversity analysis revealed that Taiyue Mountain exhibited the highest fungal diversity among the plots, while Liushenyu displayed the highest bacterial diversity. …”
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Una inconfesa novela de la Ilustración: Cartas marruecas, del Coronel Cadalso by Jesús Cañas Murillo

“…The novelistic context that fall is plotted. The narrative traditions that converge in the text and explain the composition that it has received are identified: Cervantes and Don Quixote, the epistolary novels, autobiographical fictions, travel books, the satirical novels of customs… The circumstances of its creation and its first reception are explained. …”
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The efects of heterosis of the sorghum hybrids F1 based on cytoplasmic male sterility by O. P. Kibalnik, О. B. Kameneva, Е. А. Zhuk, Т. V. Larina, L. А. Orekhova, Yu. А. Kalinin

“…The biochemical composition of the grain was determined by the SpectraStarXT infrared analyzer. …”
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Contamination of Norway Spruce (Picea abies (L.) H. Karst.) Needles with Heavy Metals under Conditions of Technogenic Emissions by Galina V. Kalko, Alexander E. Andreev

“…The elemental composition of Norway spruce needles in spruce forests with varying degrees of heavy metal contamination in the North-West of Russia has been considered. …”
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Spatial Reconfiguration of Living Stems and Snags Reveals Stand Structural Simplification During Moso Bamboo (<i>Phyllostachys edulis</i> (Carrière) J.Houz.) Invasion into Coniferb... by Xi Chen, Xiumei Zhou, Songheng Jin, Shangbin Bai

“…The species composition, diameter class structure and distribution pattern of living stems and snags (dead standing stems) were studied. …”
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Impacts of Cereal and Legume Cultivation on Soil Properties and Microbial Communities in the Mu Us Desert by Lirong He, Lei Shi, Yang Wu, Guoliang Wang, Guobin Liu

“…A one-way randomized block design was used to establish experimental plots for a cereal (<i>Setaria italica</i>, SI), a legume (<i>Glycine max</i>, GM), and a control group with no crops (CK) in the central Mu Us Desert. …”
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THE IMPACT OF HURRICANE BETA ON THE FORESTS OF PROVIDENCIA ISLAND, COLOMBIA, SOUTHWEST CARIBBEAN by Ruiz Jorge, Fandiño María

“…The These plotswere measured in species composition, diameter at breast height (DBH), and heightwere measured within these plots. …”
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Methyltrimethyltridecylchromans (MTTCs) in Mature Crude Oils: Implications for Oil Family Classification and Palaeoenvironmental Diagnosis by Youjun Tang, Mengyue Han, Xiaoyong Yang, Ke Liu, Lian Chen, Yahao Mei, Yulu Han, Tianwu Xu, Chengfu Zhang

“…In contrast, MTTC-based salinity paraments (α/δ, α/γ, MTTCI, and the cross-plot of MTTCI versus Pr/Ph) consistently reflect a low-salinity depositional environment for these crude oils and source rocks, except in the ternary diagram of relative alkylation abundances. …”
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Mineralogical and geochemical studies of shales from Kopili Formation, Dima Hasao district Assam, North East India: Insights into diagenesis, deposition and provenance by Amit Tiwari, S.L. Memory, Joe Joseph, R.R. Meshram

“…Elemental ratios of Th/Sc, La/Sc, Cr/Th with average 0.91, 3.18, 10.13 respectively and La/Th-Hf plot suggest a felsic source rock. The Kopili shale was deposited in freshwater, continental island arc basin with fluctuating redox conditions, receiving sediments from weathered Himalayan granites and gneisses under a warm and humid climate. …”
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Ag3PO4 anchored SnWO4 Z-scheme heterojunction for reactive blue 21 degradation: Performance analysis and mechanism insights by Arpita Paul Chowdhury, K.S. Anantharaju, K. Keshavamurthy, Sharath Kumar B, Sampath Chinnam, Shikhasmita Das, Samuel Lalthazuala Rokhum

“…Also, a low rate of recombination of electron and hole pairs between Ag3PO4 and SnWO4 nanoparticles was observed. The Mott–Schottky plot revealed both Ag3PO4 and SnWO4 as n type semiconductor with flat-band potential values as 0.34 and −0.54 eV respectively. …”
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Chitosan reduces naturally occurring plant pathogenic fungi and increases nematophagous fungus Purpureocillium in soil under field conditions by Raquel Lopez-Nuñez, Jorge Prieto-Rubio, Jorge Prieto-Rubio, Inmaculada Bautista, Antonio L. Lidón-Cerezuela, Miguel Valverde-Urrea, Federico Lopez-Moya, Luis V. Lopez-Llorca

“…Chitosan effects on soil properties were analysed both under laboratory conditions by incubation with constant humidity and temperature and under field conditions in two persimmon field plots with conventional and ecological management. …”
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