Abstract China's Loess Plateau is the largest loess deposit in the world in terms of both
depth and area. Water storage in soils of the Plateau has direct impacts on food security …

This review provides a detailed synthesis of various in-situ, remote sensing, and machine
learning approaches to estimate soil moisture. Bibliometric analysis of the published …

Many environmental and hydrological applications require knowledge about soil moisture.
Its measurement accuracy is known to depend on the sensor technique, which is sensitive to …

Warmer and drier climates over Eastern Amazonia have been predicted as a component of
climate change during the next 50–100 years. It remains unclear what effect such changes …

Abstract Smart, real-time, low-cost, and distributed ecosystem monitoring is essential for
understanding and managing rapidly changing ecosystems. However, new techniques in …

Drying and wetting cycles of O horizon in forest soils have not received much attention,
partly due to methodological limitations for nondestructive monitoring of the O horizon water …

Soil bulk density (ρb) is required to estimate, evaluate, and calculate many physical soil
properties and processes and is essential to convert data from weight‐based to volume‐and …

Bright radar reflections observed beneath the south polar layered deposits (SPLD) by the
Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding instrument were …

In temperate deciduous forests, the herb layer contributes most to total vascular plant
species richness. The diversity of the tree layer can influence herb layer diversity by …

Our objectives were to quantify and compare soil CO 2 efflux of two dominant soil types in an
old-growth neotropical rain forest in the Atlantic zone of Costa Rica, and to evaluate the …