Purpose Shifts of microbial biomass and functional diversity under different vegetation patterns can impact the soil processes, and the specific knowledge about this can be used to develop sound vegetation restoration strategies. This study was devoted to examine the effects of different vegetation patterns on microbial biomass and functional diversity and explore the relationship between soil ...

Erosion process occurs naturally, shaping the Earth’s surface. Soil loss can cause harmful effects to environment when intensive anthropic activities occur. Mathematical models have been used as effective and less costly alternatives for identifying sites highly prone soil loss, especially at watershed scale. In Brazil, Revised Universal Loss Equation (RUSLE) is one of most commonly prediction ...

Abstract Landslides are one of the most common natural disasters in Indonesia. The Tana Toraja area has not been spared landslides, especially Makale Selatan district. is supply areas for agricultural products South Sulawesi. Therefore it necessary to map landslide-prone support landslide disaster mitigation. This study aims regions and determine factors influencing events Selatan. uses an Anal...

Soil enzyme activities in different plantation types and land use patterns could indicate changes soil quality. This research was aimed at exploring the dynamics of involved carbon, nitrogen phosphorus cycling, their responses to physicochemical properties resulting from natural vegetation restorations schemes. Knowing about effects on is crucial for understanding ecosystem functions processes....

M echanical ventilation has been the main treatment of pulmonary insufficiency, especially acute respiratory failure and acute respiratory distress syndrome CARDS), for the last 30 years. Because mechanical ventilation itself may cause or propagate lung injury, therapeutic strategies increasingly focus on the avoidance of these iatrogenic factors by including adjunct measures such as inhaled va...

Flash Flood Guidance consists of indices that estimate the amount of rain of a certain duration that is needed over a given small basin in order to cause minor flooding. Backwater catchment inundation from swollen rivers or regional groundwater inputs are not significant over the spatial and temporal scales for the majority of upland flash flood prone basins, as such, these effects are not cons...

Sodium chloride and other osmotically active molecules are often applied to microbial cultures or soils to describe microbial responses and adaptation to desiccation in soils. However, salts and other osmolytes may have different effects on microorganisms than matric deficits caused by soil drying. It was thus hypothesized that low matric and osmotic potentials would have different effects on s...