Longleaf pine savannas are one of the most threatened ecosystems in the world, yet are understudied. Ants are a functionally important and diverse group of insects in these ecosystems. It is largely unknown how local patterns of species diversity and composition are determined through the interaction of this dominant animal group with abiotic features of longleaf pine ecosystems. Here we descri...

successful application of a tbm in a project requires investigating both the ground conditions and the machine and backup system design features. prediction of the machine performance is very important as it has a big effect on the duration of the project and the costs. in this respect, both penetration rate and advance rate must be estimated. utilization factor, which depends on the type of op...

the effect of drought indices on hydrostatic variations and qualitative parameters of the zahedan plain's aquifer was investigated. for this purpose, 12-year statistics from observational and piezometry wells in the plain, the drought index of percentage normal )pn), standardized precipitation index )spi(, and 30-year precipitation statistics of zahedan station were used. results revealed ...

We are interested in Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) as a geophysical tool useful for determining the depth of the ground water table (GWT) and for monitoring shallow water infiltration in sandy soils. At hydrostatic equilibrium, the water content distribution in a homogeneous unsaturated soil down to the water saturated zone depends on the soil water retention function. A classical way to fit r...

abstractthe understanding of water resources for the purpose of ground and surface water management as two inseparable systems is great importance. in this study by examining the time series of climatic variables (precipitation), hydrological (flow and consume) and the level of water table, the parameters associated with each other and with fluctuating water table can be realized. there was a d...

background: natural radioactivity, though natural requires concentration monitoring, especially for the health/ environmental checks of the populace. materials and methods: the activity concentrations of 40k, 238u and 232th in the waters from wells with depths ranging between 141.0 - 214.0 feet were randomly sampled and determined from 20 locations in ago-iwoye town in south western, nigeria. r...

6 twodee-2 is a Fortran 90 code based on a previous code (twodee). It is de7 signed to solve the shallow water equations for fluid depth, depth-averaged horizon8 tal velocities and depth-averaged fluid density. The shallow layer approach used by 9 twodee-2 is a compromise between the complexity of CFD models and the simpler 10 integral models. It can be used for forecasting gas dispersion near ...

At radar frequencies below 2 GHz, the mismatch between the 5 to 15 cm sensing depth of classical time domain reflectometry (TDR) probe soil moisture measurements and the radar penetration depth can easily lead to unreliable in situ data. Accurate quantitative measurements of soil water contents at various depths by classical methods are cumbersome and usually highly invasive. We propose an impr...