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View article: Rethinking Global Soil Degradation: Drivers, Impacts, and Solutions
Rethinking Global Soil Degradation: Drivers, Impacts, and Solutions Open
The increasing threat of soil degradation presents significant challenges to soil health, especially within agroecosystems that are vital for food security, climate regulation, and economic stability. This growing concern arises from intri…
View article: The invisible subsoil compaction risk under no-till farming
The invisible subsoil compaction risk under no-till farming Open
No-till (NT) is a key component of conservation agriculture aiming at producing crops with minimal soil disturbance. This land management practice offers numerous economic and ecological advantages over conventional tillage as evidenced by…
View article: MoistureMapper: An Autonomous Mobile Robot for High-Resolution Soil Moisture Mapping at Scale
MoistureMapper: An Autonomous Mobile Robot for High-Resolution Soil Moisture Mapping at Scale Open
Soil moisture is a quantity of interest in many application areas including agriculture and climate modeling. Existing methods are not suitable for scale applications due to large deployment costs in high-resolution sensing applications su…
View article: Impacts of land use change on nutrient balance and greenhouse gas emissions: a regional perspective
Impacts of land use change on nutrient balance and greenhouse gas emissions: a regional perspective Open
Nutrient balance is critical for sustainable land management, yet information scarcity hampers its systematic evaluation of trade-offs among alternate land uses. We employed a detailed regional nutrient dataset collected from 70 monitoring…
View article: TriTex: Learning Texture from a Single Mesh via Triplane Semantic Features
TriTex: Learning Texture from a Single Mesh via Triplane Semantic Features Open
As 3D content creation continues to grow, transferring semantic textures between 3D meshes remains a significant challenge in computer graphics. While recent methods leverage text-to-image diffusion models for texturing, they often struggl…
View article: General Rules for Size and Spatial Distribution of Soil Bacterial Communities
General Rules for Size and Spatial Distribution of Soil Bacterial Communities Open
Soil water dynamics within a highly fragmented soil physical environment constrain soil bacterial dispersion ranges, modulate diffusion and access to patchy resources. We have used a mechanistic modeling framework that integrates soil hydr…
View article: The influence of antecedent moisture content (AMC) on infiltration into water repellent soil: Laboratory experiments and model calculations
The influence of antecedent moisture content (AMC) on infiltration into water repellent soil: Laboratory experiments and model calculations Open
The sensitivity of infiltration rate to antecedent moisture content (AMC) in wettable soils is well-established with a low AMC promoting a higher initial infiltration rate. For water repellent soils, such as those found on fire-affected la…
View article: Evaporation dynamics from flowing water surfaces
Evaporation dynamics from flowing water surfaces Open
In contrast to the wealth of information on evaporation dynamics from placid water surfaces such as lakes and reservoirs, estimating water evaporation from turbulent surfaces of streams remains a challenge. Evidence suggests a considerable…
View article: Effects of the projected changes in land use and climate on soil vulnerability in Europe
Effects of the projected changes in land use and climate on soil vulnerability in Europe Open
Soil degradation threatens ecosystem stability and global food security by undermining soil health and functionality. Certain soil degradation processes can be further intensified under changing climate and with land use alterations. Here …
View article: Quantifying Salt Crystallization Impact on Evaporation Dynamics From Porous Surfaces
Quantifying Salt Crystallization Impact on Evaporation Dynamics From Porous Surfaces Open
We investigated the effects of salt crystallization on the dynamics of saline water evaporation in porous media. Water mass loss rates from sand columns supplied with NaCl solutions at three concentrations were monitored under controlled a…
View article: Comment on “Are soils overrated in hydrology?” by Gao et al. (2023)
Comment on “Are soils overrated in hydrology?” by Gao et al. (2023) Open
This comment challenges the perspective of Gao et al. (2023) that is rejecting the role of soil processes in hydrology. We argue that the authors present a false dichotomy between soil-centric and ecosystem-centric views. These two views o…
View article: Research-based learning as an innovative approach for teaching students of environmental engineering: a case study of the emerging field of microplastics in soil
Research-based learning as an innovative approach for teaching students of environmental engineering: a case study of the emerging field of microplastics in soil Open
We implemented research-based learning (RBL) as an alternative to traditional frontal classroom lectures and laboratory sessions to impart knowledge on the emerging topic of microplastics in soil to students. The RBL module aimed at studyi…
View article: Object-level Scene Deocclusion
Object-level Scene Deocclusion Open
Deoccluding the hidden portions of objects in a scene is a formidable task, particularly when addressing real-world scenes. In this paper, we present a new self-supervised PArallel visible-to-COmplete diffusion framework, named PACO, a fou…
View article: InterPore Journal Goes Online
InterPore Journal Goes Online Open
InterPore Journal is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal, entirely published and owned by The International Society for Porous Media (InterPore) focused on a wide range of topics related to porous media science and technol…
View article: Response from the authors (Ying Zhao, Mehdi Rahmati, Harry Vereecken and Dani Or) to RC1
Response from the authors (Ying Zhao, Mehdi Rahmati, Harry Vereecken and Dani Or) to RC1 Open
Abstract. This comment challenges Gao et al. (2023)’s perspective rejecting the role of soil processes in hydrology. We argue that the authors present a false dichotomy between soil-centric and ecosystem-centric views. These two views of h…
View article: Soil hydraulic conductivity determines the onset of water-limited evapotranspiration across scales
Soil hydraulic conductivity determines the onset of water-limited evapotranspiration across scales Open
Terrestrial vegetation, central to water-energy-carbon interactions between land and atmosphere, such as evapotranspiration, is under severe pressure due to human disturbances and changing climate. Evapotranspiration switches from being en…
View article: Soil Texture Controls the Relative Importance of Vapor Pressure Deficit and Soil Moisture for Ecosystem Water Limitation Globally
Soil Texture Controls the Relative Importance of Vapor Pressure Deficit and Soil Moisture for Ecosystem Water Limitation Globally Open
Terrestrial vegetation plays a crucial role for water-energy-carbon interactions between the land and the atmosphere but is experiencing above-average temperature increases due to climate change. This contributes to widespread increases in…
View article: On the Microgeography of Soil Bacterial Communities
On the Microgeography of Soil Bacterial Communities Open
The highly fragmented soil physical environment and the dynamic aqueous phase jointly constrain bacterial life by limiting cell dispersion and modulating diffusion and access to patchy nutrients. A modeling framework that integrates soil h…
View article: Soil bioturbation – how habitat climatic constraints shape biophysical processes
Soil bioturbation – how habitat climatic constraints shape biophysical processes Open
Soil bioturbation is the physical movement and alteration of soil by fauna and plants. It plays a central role in soil formation at long time scales and shapes soil structure at hydrologic time scales that affects many soil physical proces…
View article: Heat Sensitive Epoxy Foam for Permeability Alteration in Fractured Geothermal Fields 
Heat Sensitive Epoxy Foam for Permeability Alteration in Fractured Geothermal Fields  Open
Geothermal energy plays a growing role in the transition to renewable and carbon free energy sources. A challenge for many geothermal fields is how to enhance water-rock heat exchange either by creation of new fractures, or by blocking sho…
View article: Fire effects on soil structure and hydraulic conductivity
Fire effects on soil structure and hydraulic conductivity Open
Fire-induced changes in soil structure and hydraulic conductivity reduce infiltration and increase the likelihood for post-fire flooding and debris flows. Current post-fire hydrology models, however, cannot take fire-induced soil structure…
View article: Ecosystem scale evapotranspiration is controlled by small scale processes and soil hydraulic properties
Ecosystem scale evapotranspiration is controlled by small scale processes and soil hydraulic properties Open
The upscaling of hydrologic processes at catchment scale from small scale soil hydraulic parameterization has been met with limited success. For example, spatially variable attributes (topography, surface properties, preferential flow path…
View article: Comment on “Are soils overrated in hydrology?” by Gao et al. (2023)
Comment on “Are soils overrated in hydrology?” by Gao et al. (2023) Open
This comment challenges Gao et al. (2023)’s perspective rejecting the role of soil processes in hydrology. We argue that the authors present a false dichotomy between soil-centric and ecosystem-centric views. These two views of hydrology a…