Invasive plants are recognized for their impressive abilities to withstand adverse environmental conditions however, all invaders do not express the similar abilities. Therefore, survival, growth, nutrient uptake and fecundity of two co-occurring, invasive Physalis species were tested under water and salinity stresses, and different soil textures in the current study. Five different water stres...

in this study argillic horizons in calcareous soils of a semiarid region, with xeric and mesic soil moisture and temperature regimes, in the west of urmia lake were studied. thus, a toposequence in different physiographic positions including piedmont plains, plateau, hills and mountains was investigated. in each land type, three soil profiles were dug and described and their morphological prope...

Palaeosols in the Granada Basin (SE Spain) have been studied in two different situations: surface soils on geomorphically stable surfaces since the Early Pleistocene with younger pedogenic overprinting and buried soils on unstable surfaces from the Middle–Late Pleistocene on which successive erosional–depositional episodes have alternated with pedogenic episodes. For each soil clay and iron acc...

The majority of hydraulic processes under a natural condition in a field are carried out under unsaturated flow conditions. The soil moisture retention curve (SMRC) is the most important hydraulic characteristic of an unsaturated soil whose knowledge is of prime importance in soil-water studies such as soil conservation, soil erosion, land evaluation, soil reclamation, and water resources manag...

this study was conducted to investigate the type and origin of clay minerals via several profiles in lordegan hilly lands. the profiles were located in two kinds of land uses including forest and dry farm at different slope positions as sampling sites. the soil saples were collected from two depths of soil horizons to indicate cec, soil texture, oc%, calcium carbonate equivalent, x-ray diffract...

The pseudoparticles include the stacks of intercalated layers in the case of incomplete clay exfoliation in clay/polymer nanocomposites. In this article, the effects of pseudoparticle properties on the shear, bulk, and Young's moduli of nanocomposites are studied using the Norris model. The properties of pseudoparticles are determined in some samples by the experimental data of Young's modulus ...

This article employs Least Square Support Vector Machine (LSSVM) for determination of Compression Index (Cc) of marine clay in east coast of Korea. This study uses LSSVM as a regression tool. In LSSVM, the regression equation is obtained as the solution to a linear system instead of a quadratic programming (QP) problem. The input parameters of LSSVM are natural water content (n), liquid limit ...