Preventing plastic shrinkage cracks improves the durability of concrete. This is because serve as pathways by which corroding agents can penetrate Freshly cast concrete a saturated mixture reactive and non-reactive materials. As water moves out mass used in hydration process, free reduces. Eventually, be considered to unsaturated. In this research project, viability using soil content sensors m...

Key to understanding forest water balances is the role of tree species regulating evapotranspiration (ET), but synergistic impact composition, topography, and availability on ET how this shapes drought sensitivity across landscape remains unclear. Our aims were quantify (1) effect composition topography including elevation hillslope gradients relationship between availability, (2) whether has c...

Following water, nitrogen (N) is the most frequent limiting factor to aboveground net primary production in arid ecosystems. Increased water availability can stimulate both plant nitrogen uptake and microbial nitrogen mineralization, but may also stimulate losses from the ecosystem. Here, we assess the effect of water availability on nitrogen stocks and transformations in an arid ecosystem. We ...