1. Assessment of soil erosion and sediment yield in the Tamiraparani sub-basin, South India, using an automated RUSLE-SY model

   • N. S. Magesh
   • N. Chandrasekar

   Original Article 25 August 2016 Article: 1208

   

2. Peloids of Crimean salt lakes and the Dead Sea: controls on composition and formation

   • Irina Kotova
   • Elena Kayukova
   • Sergey Kotov

   Original Article 25 August 2016 Article: 1207

   

3. Effects of water diversion and climate change on the Rur and Meuse in low-flow situations

   • Christiane Pyka
   • Cor Jacobs
   • Jos Timmerman

   Thematic Issue 25 August 2016 Article: 1206

   

4. Assessment of forest soil contamination in Krakow surroundings in relation to the type of stand

   • Ewa Błońska
   • Jarosław Lasota
   • Anna Klamerus-Iwan

   Original Article Open access 25 August 2016 Article: 1205

   

5. Impacts of agricultural water saving practice on regional groundwater and water consumption in an arid region with shallow groundwater

   • Hang Chen
   • Zhongyi Liu
   • Alexander Fernald

   Original Article 25 August 2016 Article: 1204

   

6. Spatiotemporal variability of surface-soil moisture of land uses in the middle reaches of the Heihe River Basin, China

   • Sheng Wang
   • De-liang Guo
   • Quan-jiu Wang

   Original Article 25 August 2016 Article: 1203

   

7. Antibiotics in water and sediments from Liao River in Jilin Province, China: occurrence, distribution, and risk assessment

   • Deming Dong
   • Liwen Zhang
   • Xiuyi Hua

   Original Article 25 August 2016 Article: 1202

   

8. Environmental impact of oil shale mining

   • Vivika Väizene
   • Ingo Valgma
   • Mall Orru

   Original Article 25 August 2016 Article: 1201

   

9. Geoheritage from the remote rainforest: hidden treasures in the upstream of the Pertang River, Taman Negara Kuala Koh (National Park), Kelantan, Malaysia

   • Dony Adriansyah Nazaruddin

   Original Article 25 August 2016 Article: 1200

   

10. Creep behavior of slip zone soil of the Majiagou landslide in the Three Gorges area

    • Miaojun Sun
    • Huiming Tang
    • Xinli Hu

    Original Article 25 August 2016 Article: 1199

    

11. Effectiveness of geotextiles for road slope protection under simulated rainfall

    • Hongyuan Liu
    • Jing Wang
    • Yaping Kong

    Original Article 25 August 2016 Article: 1198

    

12. Temporal variation of near-surface CO₂ concentrations over different land uses in Suzhou City

    • Huping Hou
    • Shaoliang Zhang
    • Shanchuan Guo

    Original Article 25 August 2016 Article: 1197

    

13. Physical and chemical variables analysis for clustering of soils in the longitudinal dunes of Sandy Pampa, Argentina

    • J. Irigoin
    • I. Paladino
    • M. C. Costa

    Thematic Issue 25 August 2016 Article: 1196

    

14. Multi-criteria analysis in Artemia farming site selection for sustainable desert ecosystems planning and management (case study: Siahkouh Playa, Iran)

    • A. R. Keshtkar
    • Z. Oros
    • H. Paktinat

    Original Article 24 August 2016 Article: 1195

    

15. A multilevel U-tube sampler for subsurface environmental monitoring

    • Xuehao Liu
    • Qi Li
    • Xiaochun Li

    Thematic Issue 22 August 2016 Article: 1194

    

16. Environmental assessment of leachate transport in saturated homogeneous media using finite element modeling

    • S. P. Markhali
    • M. Ehteshami

    Original Article 22 August 2016 Article: 1193

    

17. Numerical investigation on effect of varying injection scenario and relative permeability hysteresis on CO₂ dissolution in saline aquifer

    • R. Vivek
    • G. Suresh Kumar

    Original Article 20 August 2016 Article: 1192

    

18. Analyses of traits and driving forces on urban land expansion in a typical coal-resource-based city in a loess area

    • Yingui Cao
    • Zhongke Bai
    • Xiaoran Zhang

    Thematic Issue 18 August 2016 Article: 1191

    

19. Characteristics of land subsidence, earth fissures and related disaster chain effects with respect to urban hazards in Xi’an, China

    • J. B. Peng
    • X. H. Sun
    • G. C. Sun

    Original Article 18 August 2016 Article: 1190

    

20. NDVI-based vegetation dynamics and their response to recent climate change: a case study in the Tianshan Mountains, China

    • Qun Liu
    • Zhaoping Yang
    • Cuirong Wang

    Original Article 18 August 2016 Article: 1189

    

21. Geochemical variations of core sediments of Pichavaram Lagoon, southeast coast of Tamil Nadu, India: a provenance and paleoenvironmental study

    • R. Kalaivanan
    • M. Jayaprakash
    • L. Giridharan

    Original Article 18 August 2016 Article: 1188

    

22. Hydrogeochemical processes occurring in the hydrothermal systems of the Gonghe–Guide basin, northwestern China: critical insights from a principal components analysis (PCA)

    • Xiaobo Zhang
    • Qinghai Guo
    • Chao Zhou

    Original Article 18 August 2016 Article: 1187

    

23. Hydrochemical and isotopic investigations as indicators of recharge processes of the Continental Intercalaire aquifer (eastern piedmont of Dahar, southern Tunisia)

    • Zahra Dhaoui
    • Kamel Zouari
    • Rachid Farouni

    Original Article 17 August 2016 Article: 1186

    

24. An improved method of sediment grain size trend analysis in the Xiaoqinghe Estuary, southwestern Laizhou Bay, China

    • Qiao Su
    • Changsheng Peng
    • Hongjun Yu

    Original Article 17 August 2016 Article: 1185

    

25. The international year of soils revisited: promoting sustainable soil management beyond 2015

    • Ronald Vargas Rojas
    • Lucrezia Caon

    International Viewpoint and News 17 August 2016 Article: 1184

    

26. Ashraf M. A., Sarfraz M., Naureen R., Gharibreza M. | Environmental impacts of metallic elements: speciation, bioavailability and remediation

    • Alfred V. Hirner

    Reviews on Books and Media 17 August 2016 Article: 1183

27. Combining geophysical techniques and multi-criteria GIS-based application modeling approach for groundwater potential assessment in southwestern Nigeria

    • Kehinde Anthony Mogaji

    Original Article 16 August 2016 Article: 1181

    

28. Square-form structure failure model of mining-affected hard rock strata: theoretical derivation, application and verification

    • Chao Xu
    • Liang Yuan
    • Longyong Shu

    Original Article 16 August 2016 Article: 1180

    

29. A superb modified new adsorbent, Artocarpus odoratissimus leaves, for removal of cationic methyl violet 2B dye

    • L. B. L. Lim
    • N. Priyantha
    • N. A. H. Mohamad Zaidi

    Original Article 16 August 2016 Article: 1179

    

30. A new calculation model for the stress field of hydraulic fracture propagation at the formation interface

    • Cong Lu
    • Jian-chun Guo
    • Li-ming Liu

    Original Article 16 August 2016 Article: 1178

    

31. Porous media hydrogen storage at a synthetic, heterogeneous field site: numerical simulation of storage operation and geophysical monitoring

    • W. T. Pfeiffer
    • S. A. al Hagrey
    • S. Bauer

    Thematic Issue 16 August 2016 Article: 1177

    

32. High-capacity wells and baseflow decline in the Wolf River Basin, northeastern Wisconsin (USA)

    • Susan Borchardt
    • Woonsup Choi
    • Weon Shik Han

    Original Article 16 August 2016 Article: 1176

    

33. Surface passivation model explains pyrite oxidation kinetics in column experiments with up to 11 bars p(O₂)

    • Marton Berta
    • Frank Dethlefsen
    • Andreas Dahmke

    Thematic Issue 16 August 2016 Article: 1175

    

34. Restoration of ecosystem functions and efficiency control: case study of the Danube floodplain between Neuburg and Ingolstadt (Bavaria/Germany)

    • Barbara Stammel
    • Peter Fischer
    • Bernd Cyffka

    Thematic Issue 16 August 2016 Article: 1174

    

35. Variations in water resources availability at the Ecuadorian páramo due to land-use changes

    • Jorge Espinosa
    • Diego Rivera

    Original Article 16 August 2016 Article: 1173

    

36. Biodegradation of Remazol Black B in sequential microaerophilic–aerobic operations by NAR-2 bacterial consortium

    • S. Nazanin Kardi
    • Noor Aini Abdul Rashid
    • Azura Ahmad

    Original Article 16 August 2016 Article: 1172

    

37. Contamination status and assessment of urban and non-urban soils in the region of Sulaimani City, Kurdistan, Iraq

    • Mohammad Said Hamma Khorshid
    • Sören Thiele-Bruhn

    Original Article 16 August 2016 Article: 1171

    

38. Isotopic and geochemical studies of groundwater from the Ramganga basin and the middle Ganga Plains: implication for pollution and metal contamination

    • S. K. Tiwari
    • S. K. Bartarya
    • A. K. L. Asthana

    Original Article 12 August 2016 Article: 1170

    

39. Retrieval of land surface temperature from Landsat 8 TIRS for the command area of Mula irrigation project

    • Bhaskar R. Nikam
    • Furkat Ibragimov
    • S. P. Aggarwal

    Original Article 12 August 2016 Article: 1169

    

40. Distribution and behavior of zinc in estuarine environments: an overview on Bahía Blanca estuary (Argentina)

    • Jorge E. Marcovecchio
    • Sandra E. Botté
    • Melisa D. Fernández Severini

    Thematic Issue 12 August 2016 Article: 1168

    

41. Groundwater storage and depletion trends in the Loess areas of China

    • Aidi Huo
    • Jianbing Peng
    • Yuxiang Cheng

    Original Article 11 August 2016 Article: 1167

    

42. Analysis and simulation of the water and energy balance of intense agriculture in the Upper Rhine valley, south-west Germany

    • Matthias Stork
    • Lucas Menzel

    Thematic Issue 11 August 2016 Article: 1166

    

43. Numerical simulation of hydrodynamic and gas mixing processes in underground hydrogen storages

    • F. Feldmann
    • B. Hagemann
    • M. Panfilov

    Thematic Issue Open access 11 August 2016 Article: 1165

    

44. Quantifying soil erosion effects on soil productivity in the dry-hot valley, southwestern China

    • Xingwu Duan
    • Bing Liu
    • Detai Feng

    Original Article 11 August 2016 Article: 1164

    

45. Self-supply and accountability: to govern or not to govern groundwater for the (peri-) urban poor in Accra, Ghana

    • Jenny Grönwall

    Original Article Open access 11 August 2016 Article: 1163

    

46. Prediction of city tunnel water inflow and its influence on overlain lakes in karst valley

    • Xiaoguang Jin
    • Yayong Li
    • Hongwei Liu

    Thematic Issue 11 August 2016 Article: 1162

    

47. Role of energy consumption and economic growth in the spread of greenhouse emissions: empirical evidence from Spain

    • Mounir Ben Mbarek
    • Boutheina Boukarraa
    • Kais Saidi

    Original Article 11 August 2016 Article: 1161

48. Characterization of the karst hydrogeology of the Boone Formation in Big Creek Valley near Mt. Judea, Arkansas—documenting the close relation of groundwater and surface water

    • John Murdoch
    • Carol Bitting
    • John Van Brahana

    Original Article 11 August 2016 Article: 1160

    

49. Comparison of slug and pumping tests for hydraulic tomography experiments: a practical perspective

    • Daniel Paradis
    • René Lefebvre
    • Bernard Giroux

    Thematic Issue 11 August 2016 Article: 1159

    

50. Determination of the thermal conductivity of sandstones from laboratory to field scale

    • Jin Luo
    • Jia Jia
    • Philipp Blum

    Thematic Issue 11 August 2016 Article: 1158