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Feng Huang, Danrong Zhang and Xi Chen
Groundwater depth is an important environmental factor affecting vegetation growth and landscape dynamics in arid environments. This study applied a science mapping approach to visualize the development of groundwater-vegetation-related research, synthes...
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Frances Wiig, Michael J. Harrower, Alexander Braun, Smiti Nathan, Joseph W. Lehner, Katie M. Simon, Jennie O. Sturm, John Trinder, Ioana A. Dumitru, Scott Hensley and Terence Clark
Subsurface imaging in arid regions is a well-known application of satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). Archaeological prospection has often focused on L-band SAR sensors, given the ability of longer wavelengths to penetrate more deeply into sand. In...
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Ahmed Mohamed, Ahmed Asmoay, Saad S. Alarifi and Musaab A. A. Mohammed
Forty-eight water samples (30 groundwater and 18 surface water samples) were collected from the study region. Physical and chemical examinations were performed on the water samples to determine the values of various variables. Several graphs, sheets, and...
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Nicholas P. Sisto, Sergei Severinov and Gilberto Aboites Manrique
Drought poses significant risks to society, in particular irrigated-crop production, which accounts for a large share of global freshwater use. Given its key role in the production of food, feed and fiber crops, there exists a need for policy measures to...
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John Day, Reed Goodman, Zhongyuan Chen, Rachael Hunter, Liviu Giosan and Yanna Wang
Due to increasing water use, diversion and salinization, along with subsidence and sea-level rise, deltas in arid regions are shrinking worldwide. Some of the most ecologically important arid deltas include the Colorado, Indus, Nile, and Tigris-Euphrates...
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Stefan L. Smith
The increasing availability and sinking costs of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, has resulted in these devices becoming relatively commonplace on archaeological sites. The advantages of being able to rapidly obtain bespoke high...
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Stefan L. Smith and Marie-Laure Chambrade
Recent developments in the availability of very high-resolution satellite imagery through platforms like GoogleEarth (Google, Santa Clara County, CA, USA) and Bing Maps (Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA) have greatly opened up the possibilities of their use b...
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Phathutshedzo Eugene Ratshiedana, Mohamed A. M. Abd Elbasit, Elhadi Adam, Johannes George Chirima, Gang Liu and Eric Benjamin Economon
Precise adjustments of farm management activities, such as irrigation and soil treatment according to site-specific conditions, are crucial. With advances in smart agriculture and sensors, it is possible to reduce the cost of water and soil treatment inp...
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El-Alaouy Nafia, Badreddine Sebbar, El Houssaine Bouras, Aicha Moumni, Nour-Eddine Laftouhi and Abderrahman Lahrouni
Morocco often faces significant intense rainfall periods that can generate flash floods and raging torrents, causing serious damage in a very short period of time. This study aims to monitor wetland areas after a flash-flood event in an arid region, Saqu...
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Romeo Mendez-Estrella, Jose Raul Romo-Leon and Alejandro E. Castellanos
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Paula Santi Malnis,Carina E. Colombi,Natalia G. Rodríguez-Posatini,Luis M. Rothis,Carlos O. Limarino
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Recent studies proposed that distributive fluvial systems (DFS) occupy a great proportion in modern continental sedimentary basins, challenging classical sedimentary models proposed for similar ancient basin. Because of this, arises the importance of stu...
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Yuzhe Wang, Siyu Gun, Yaoyu Li and Laiye Qu
Due to the increasing frequency of extreme drought events worldwide in recent years, improving the adaptability of plants to arid environments has become an important research topic. In particular, many studies have investigated the effects of melatonin ...
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Hosia T. Pule, Julius T. Tjelele and Michelle J. Tedder
Seriphium plumosum L. is an indigenous unpalatable shrub that occurs in fire-prone semi-arid South African grassland areas, yet research proposes the use of fire to control its encroachment of rangelands. This study investigated the interaction effects o...
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Dimitris Tigkas, Harris Vangelis, Nikolaos Proutsos and George Tsakiris
The agricultural sector is vulnerable to extreme phenomena such as droughts, particularly in arid and semi-arid environments and in regions where water infrastructure is limited. Devising preparedness plans, including means for efficient monitoring and t...
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Rosa Mediavilla, Juan I. Santisteban, Ignacio López-Cilla, Luis Galán de Frutos and África de la Hera-Portillo
Wetlands are environments whose water balance is highly sensitive to climate change and human action. This sensitivity has allowed us to explore the relationships between surface water and groundwater in the long term as their sediments record all these ...
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Yuzhen Feng, Sachiko Sueki, Dale Devitt and Kumud Acharya
Electricity in the Southwestern United States is primarily generated with water intensive steam turbines. If energy demand continues to rise this will lead to a further rise in water demand. A comprehensive understanding of water consumption and withdraw...
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Yuzhen Feng, Sachiko Sueki, Dale Devitt and Kumud Acharya
Electricity in the Southwestern United States is primarily generated with water intensive steam turbines. If energy demand continues to rise this will lead to a further rise in water demand. A comprehensive understanding of water consumption and withdraw...
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Marusia Rentería-Villalobos, Alejandro Covarrubias-Muños, Alfredo Pinedo-Álvarez and Guillermo Manjon-Collado
Water in arid and semi-arid environments is characterized by the presentation of complex interactions, where dissolved chemical species in high concentrations have negative effects on the water quality. Radon is present in areas with a high uranium and r...
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Marusia Rentería-Villalobos, Alejandro Covarrubias-Muños, Alfredo Pinedo-Álvarez and Guillermo Manjon-Collado
Water in arid and semi-arid environments is characterized by the presentation of complex interactions, where dissolved chemical species in high concentrations have negative effects on the water quality. Radon is present in areas with a high uranium and r...
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Brian F. Thomas, Ali Behrangi, James S. Famiglietti
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Episodic recharge as a result of infrequent, high intensity precipitation events comprises the bulk of groundwater recharge in arid environments. Climate change and shifts in precipitation intensity will affect groundwater continuity, thus altering groun...
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