Investigating microplastic dynamics in soils: Orientation for sampling strategies and sample pre‐procession

CJ Weber, C Weihrauch, C Opp… - Land degradation & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Studies on microplastics in soils is currently being established as a new research field. So
far, mainly'explorative studies' have been carried out to detect microplastics in different soil …

The role of land management and elevation in shaping soil microbial communities: Insights from the Central European Alps

N Praeg, J Seeber, G Leitinger, E Tasser… - Soil Biology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the last 100 years, climate warming has been affecting the European Alps faster and more
severely than globally observed temperature patterns. Temperature changes are known to …

Constitutive modelling of cemented paste backfill: A data-mining approach

C Qi, Q Chen, A Fourie, X Tang, Q Zhang… - … and Building Materials, 2019 - Elsevier
The environmental risks posed by mine tailings suggest the necessity of recycling tailings as
cemented paste backfill (CPB) and constitutive modelling is an important step to understand …

Flocculation-dewatering prediction of fine mineral tailings using a hybrid machine learning approach

C Qi, HB Ly, Q Chen, TT Le, VM Le, BT Pham - Chemosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
Polymer-assisted flocculation-dewatering of mineral processing tailings (MPT) is crucial for
its environmental disposal. To reduce the number of laboratory experiments, this study …

Deposition and in-situ translocation of microplastics in floodplain soils

CJ Weber, C Opp, JA Prume, M Koch… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
The microplastic (MP) contamination of oceans, freshwaters, and soils has become one of
the major challenges within the Anthropocene. MP is transported in large quantities through …

[HTML][HTML] The improved integral suspension pressure method (ISP+) for precise particle size analysis of soil and sedimentary materials

W Durner, SC Iden - Soil and Tillage Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Integral Suspension Pressure (ISP) method is a technique to determine the
continuous particle size distribution (PSD) of soil materials by inverse modeling of …

Particle size distribution of various soil materials measured by laser diffraction—the problem of reproducibility

C Polakowski, M Ryżak, A Sochan, M Beczek, R Mazur… - Minerals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Particle size distribution is an important soil parameter—therefore precise measurement of
this characteristic is essential. The application of the widely used laser diffraction method for …

Spatial connections between microplastics and heavy metal pollution within floodplain soils

CJ Weber, J Hahn, C Opp - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Soils contain an increasing number of different pollutants, which are often released into the
environment by human activity. Among the “new” potential pollutants are plastics and …

Influences of macropores on infiltration into seasonally frozen soil

D Demand, JS Selker, M Weiler - Vadose Zone Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Core Ideas Macropores allow water infiltration into a frozen soil close to 0° C and at high
water saturation. Connected biopores channel water beneath the frozen layer. Frozen layer …

[HTML][HTML] Recommendations for soil sample preparation, pretreatment, and data conversion for texture classification in laser diffraction particle size analysis

C Polakowski, A Makó, A Sochan, M Ryżak, T Zaleski… - Geoderma, 2023 - Elsevier
With regard to the differences between soil particle size distribution (PSD) obtained by sieve-
sedimentation methods (SSMs), eg, the sieve-pipette method (SPM) and the laser diffraction …