Mai Suan Li, Nguyen Truong Co, Govardhan Reddy, C-K. Hu, J. E. Straub, and D. Thirumalai Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Al. Lotnikow 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland Saigon Institute for Computational Science and Technology, 6 Quarter, Linh Trung Ward, Thu Duc District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Biophysics Program, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Mary...

D. C. Schmadel,1,* G. S. Jenkins,1,* J. J. Tu,2,3 G. D. Gu,3 Hiroshi Kontani,4 and H. D. Drew1,5 1Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA 2Department of Physics, City University of New York, New York, New York 11973, USA 3Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA 4Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Furo-cho,...

BACKGROUND Parks are valuable resources for physical activity (PA) given their widespread availability and low cost to maintain and use. Both proximity to parks and the availability of particular features are important correlates of PA. However, few studies have explored multiple measures of proximity simultaneously or the specific facilities associated with park use and park-based PA among adu...

The objective of the presented work was to conduct an ex-post analysis of land use change in Wroclaw city, Poland, as a response to the soil protection regulations. The assessment that was a part of Urban Soil Management Strategy (URBAN-SMS) project involved development of land use change maps based on the satellite image data, analysis of land use change trends within 15 years period and subse...

Scattered small stands of Nothofagus truncata occur in the upper Taramakau catchment, Arthur's Pass National Park, beyond the previously assumed range of the species in north Westland. Restricted to older soils on stable north to north-west slopes, the N. truncata stands are surrounded by N. fusca dominated forest and their upper altitudinal limits at 370-500 m border N. fusca-N. menziesii or N...

In Costa Rica's Corcovado National Park, the fossorial land crab, Gecarcinus quadratus (Gecarcinidae), densely populates (1 - 6 m(-2)) a region of forest extending from the Park's Pacific coastline inland to ca. 600 m. Throughout this coastal forest ('crabzone'), crabs selectively forage for fallen leaves and relocate them to subterranean burrow chambers. Comparisons between surface soils (0 - ...

HHCB (1,3,4,6,7,8-hexahydro-4,6,6,7,8-hexamethylcyclopenta-c-2-benzopyrane) and AHTN (7-acetyl-1,1,3,4,4,6-hexamethyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalene) are found in reclaimed municipal wastewater. They may accumulate in soils receiving long-term application of reclaimed water thus adversely impact the soil biota. We evaluated the extent of their accumulation in receiving soils using HYDRUS-1D base...

There is a worldwide growing concern about soil pollution by a wide range of contaminants due to their increased accumulation caused by expeditious industrial and urban development in recent decades. This issue is of special interest because of the danger toxic metals may pose to food quality and human health when they enter the food chain. The present study was undertaken to determine the impa...

Installation of impervious surfaces in urban areas has attracted increasing attention due to its potential hazard to urban ecosystems. Urban soils are suggested to have robust carbon (C) sequestration capacity; however, the C stocks and dynamics in the soils covered by impervious surfaces that dominate urban areas are still not well characterized. We compared soil organic C (SOC) densities and ...