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I am looking for the nutrient analysis of decayed wood inside hollow trees. What minerals does this wood debris in hollow trees exactly contain?

When trees are hollowing, internal roots can be formed inside the hollow tree. One would expect that the decayed wood inside the hollow tree are a very good growing medium for tree roots. However,...

29 April 2018 1,656 2 View

I am preparing a report about the rules and regulations of sanitary landfills. any suggestions?

I am preparing a report about the rules and regulations of sanitary landfills. Those sanitary landfills will be used to host domestic solid wastes, demolitions, and agricultural wastes. any...

26 April 2018 7,118 10 View

Which is more important to crop production ? Soil salinity or water salinity ?

Is water salinity is more important than soil salinity in case of crops production ?

13 April 2018 7,201 28 View

How can I calculate "Critical Value" for Duncan's New Multiple Range (DMRT)?

I have 200 treatments. Each treatment has 9 replications. I want to compare those using DMRT. I understand that the Degree of Freedom (DF) would be infinity.

31 March 2018 8,586 2 View

Please, can someone send me the NF P 18-837 (1993) standard; relating to the seawater and / or high sulphate water resistance test?

Please, can someone send me the NF P 18-837 (1993) standard ?

16 March 2018 4,329 2 View

Hi, I am new to feed analysis and proximate analysis. Would like to know, the best practice for determining dry matter in fresh grass and dry grass?

I have been getting problems following dry matter determination for grass samples as I obtained more than 95% DM content in fresh grass, which is very odd. The practice is to dry the sample before...

06 February 2018 1,716 13 View

Is there any data sharing system in environmental sciences for Central Asian countries?

Central Asian countries have a problem with accurate data availability. Does anybody know about the data sharing system?

05 February 2018 6,483 6 View

Will their be any drastic effect on the effeciency of the conversion process if you can use residual energy from any waste source from the industries?

i am thinking of collaborating biomass to liquid fuel conversion process within the framework of industrial sectors for increasing the efficiency as well as commercialization of the biofuel. I am...

26 January 2018 9,166 4 View

If you have any scientific papers about drainage systems used to resolve and treat the problem of high soil salinity ?

Please, if you have any scientific papers about drainage systems used to resolve and treat the problem of high soil salinity (EC > 6 mS/cm) send them to me ? Vertical drains, bio-drainage,...

09 January 2018 2,384 13 View

Is it possible -"The Arctic will never be frozen again"?

A group of polar scientists made a startling declaration: "The Arctic as we once knew it is no more" at American Geophysical Union fall meeting in New Orleans. According to NOAA's Arctic Report...

31 December 2017 1,334 28 View

Review about QGIS in assessment of the land use?

Is there reviews about QGIS in land use assessing and monitoring, or leastwise in environmental sciences in general?

29 November 2017 1,746 5 View

I was reading about the effects of Microwave heating on metal enhanced fluorescence based assays. In that context, I need to understand the following?

"For metals, the attenuation of microwave radiation arises from the creation of currents resulting from charge carriers being displaced by the electric field. These conductance electrons are...

29 November 2017 8,937 2 View

Where are the best places to advertise graduate student positions in ecology, ecohydrology, and environmental science?

We are recruiting two M.S. or Ph.D. students to work on Arctic and agricultural ecohydrology, ecosystem ecology, and expert assessment. We would like to reach the largest possible audience and...

21 November 2017 9,002 8 View

Is there any mass flow sensor that can operate at 1100 degree C?

I would like to measure the mass flow rate of high temperature piping that goes up to 1100 degree C?

21 November 2017 241 2 View

How aquaculture can be contribute on livelihood sustainability?

how sustainable rural livelihood can be applied on aquaculture

14 October 2017 9,669 15 View

Can any researcher provide the details of toxicity test on allium cepa for industrial wastewater ?

I am working on tannery wastewater. Toxic chemicals (organic pollutants) and heavy metals mainly chromium present in tannery wastewater after secondary treatment process.Their wastewater discharge...

27 September 2017 4,541 1 View

How do the waste in the landfill's body degrade?

Degradation of waste occurs in the body of the landfill. For this reason, the temperature of the materials rises and there can be a fire. Is there a model and parameters of this process?Thankful...

22 September 2017 7,073 6 View

How reliable is X-ray flourescence (XRF) in determining elemental contents of biological samples?

I want to seek the opinions of experts in the field of environmental science. I intend to determine elemental contents of some freeze dried plant samples collected after an experiment. Since I...

13 September 2017 4,430 10 View

What types of hybrid LCI are currently used in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)?

In the search for methods of calculation of inventory, we find the so-called hybrid ACVs. Three of them are highlighted: Tiered hybrid approach, IO based approach and Integradted hybrid analysis....

07 August 2017 8,318 3 View

Are principal component scores always or sometimes in Euclidean distnace?

I read here that principal components scores are always in Euclidean distance and the distance of PCA is Euclidean:...

04 August 2017 3,263 2 View

Which is better from the stand point of environmental pollution , incineration or disposal to a sanitary landfill?

Solid wastes Sanitary landfill Incineration Environmental Pollution

03 August 2017 9,816 16 View

How to calculate moisture in biomass?

Like Bamboo chips, Solid waste and other biomass residues.

26 July 2017 9,640 3 View

What is the correct method to determine leachate from organic manutre pot and to take leachate what is the watering frquency

add water to pot till field capacity then what is the suitable water adding frequency to pot to obtain a leachate. what is the suitable method to determine leachate.

26 July 2017 9,487 4 View

Can I calculate ammonia emission from the nitrogen content in the broiler litter?

I have measured the nitrogen content in the litter, and I want to calculate the ammonia emission using an equation.. can you help me in this point

25 July 2017 7,697 5 View

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