1. Soil characterization in and around a proposed waste disposal facility at Nuclear Fuel Complex, Hyderabad, India

   • Amrit Pal Singh
   • Manish Chopra
   • D. S. Suryanarayana

   Original Article 22 March 2016 Article: 540

   

2. Land use and topography as predictors of nitrogen levels in tropical catchments in Xishuangbanna, SW China

   • Hongmei Li
   • Youxin Ma
   • Wenjie Liu

   Original Article 21 March 2016 Article: 539

   

3. Monitoring of mercury and other metals mobility by sequential fractionation in soils nearby an abandoned chlor-alkali plant in Managua (Nicaragua)

   • Rodolfo Fernández-Martínez
   • Belén Gómez-Mancebo
   • Isabel Rucandio

   Original Article 21 March 2016 Article: 538

   

4. Microstructure changes of red clay during its loss and leakage in the karst rocky desertification area

   • Yiqun Tang
   • Kai Sun
   • Qi Liu

   Original Article 21 March 2016 Article: 537

   

5. Estimates of recent Hg pollution in Northeast China using peat profiles from Great Hinggan Mountains

   • Kunshan Bao
   • Ji Shen
   • Neil McLaughlin

   Original Article 21 March 2016 Article: 536

   

6. Influence of salt concentration on volume shrinkage and water retention characteristics of compacted GMZ bentonite

   • Yong He
   • Yong-Gui Chen
   • Yu-Jun Cui

   Original Article 21 March 2016 Article: 535

   

7. Abundance and distribution of fluoride concentrations in groundwater: La Ballenera catchment, southeast of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

   • Carolina Calvi
   • Daniel Martinez
   • Florencia Gutheim

   Thematic Issue 21 March 2016 Article: 534

   

8. Monitoring and predicting land use changes in the Huai Thap Salao Watershed area, Uthaithani Province, Thailand, using the CLUE-s model

   • K. Waiyasusri
   • S. Yumuang
   • S. Chotpantarat

   Original Article 21 March 2016 Article: 533

   

9. Erratum to: Nanoscale zero-valent iron flakes for groundwater treatment

   • R. Köber
   • H. Hollert
   • J. Braun

   Erratum 21 March 2016 Article: 532

   

10. Streamflow estimation by support vector machine coupled with different methods of time series decomposition in the upper reaches of Yangtze River, China

    • Shuang Zhu
    • Jianzhong Zhou
    • Changqing Meng

    Original Article 19 March 2016 Article: 531

    

11. Surface subsidence characteristics of grout injection into overburden: case study of Yuandian No. 2 coalmine, China

    • Hao Teng
    • Jialin Xu
    • Binglong Wang

    Original Article 19 March 2016 Article: 530

    

12. A study of the system dynamics coupling model of the driving factors for multi-scale land use change

    • J. S. Zhao
    • L. Yuan
    • M. Zhang

    Original Article 19 March 2016 Article: 529

    

13. Rebuttal to “Effect of seasonable weather variations on the desiccation behavior of treated oil sand fine tailings” by Owolagba and Azam (Environ Earth Sci 2015, 74(2): 1711–1717)

    • Jian Liu
    • Jun-wen Huang
    • Jia Xu

    Rebuttal 19 March 2016 Article: 528

    

14. Hydrogeology and hydrochemistry of the Upper Thal Doab (Pakistan)

    • Zia Ul Hasan Shah
    • Zulfiqar Ahmad

    Original Article 19 March 2016 Article: 527

    

15. GIS-based nitrogen removal model for assessing Florida’s surficial aquifer vulnerability

    • Celena Cui
    • Wendy Zhou
    • Mengistu Geza

    Original Article 19 March 2016 Article: 526

    

16. Efficiency of methane fermentation of waste microalgae biomass (WMAB) collected in processes of reclamation of eutrophicated water reservoirs

    • Marcin Dębowski
    • Marcin Zieliński
    • Mirosław Krzemieniewski

    Original Article 19 March 2016 Article: 525

    

17. Geochemistry in Argentina: from pioneers to the present

    • Carlos W. Rapela
    • Pedro J. Depetris

    Thematic Issue 18 March 2016 Article: 524

    

18. Hunza river watershed landslide and related features inventory mapping

    • M. Farooq Ahmed
    • J. David Rogers
    • Muhammad Zubair Abu Bakar

    Original Article 18 March 2016 Article: 523

    

19. Index-based groundwater vulnerability mapping using quantitative parameters

    • Satiprasad Sahoo
    • Anirban Dhar
    • Durjoy Chakraborty

    Original Article 18 March 2016 Article: 522

    

20. Environmental aspects and potential impacts of proposed water transfer scheme on sustainable water management in eastern Herzegovina

    • Marina Čokorilo Ilić
    • Zoran Stevanović
    • Vesna Ristić Vakanjac

    Thematic Issue 18 March 2016 Article: 521

    

21. Snowmelt contribution to the sustainability of the irrigated Mendoza’s Oasis, Argentina: an isotope study

    • Hector Massone
    • Daniel Martinez
    • Sebastián Grondona

    Thematic Issue 18 March 2016 Article: 520

    

22. Organochlorine pesticides in agricultural soils and associated biota

    • Leonardo Lupi
    • Francisco Bedmar
    • Karina S. B. Miglioranza

    Thematic Issue 18 March 2016 Article: 519

    

23. Vegetation dynamics in relation with climate over Nigeria from 1982 to 2011

    • Tertsea Igbawua
    • Jiahua Zhang
    • Fengmei Yao

    Original Article 18 March 2016 Article: 518

    

24. A comprehensive mechanics-based model to describe bedrock river erosion by plucking in a jointed rock mass

    • Kuo-Wei Li
    • Yii-Wen Pan
    • Jyh-Jong Liao

    Original Article 18 March 2016 Article: 517

    

25. Time–space characterization of vegetation in a semiarid mining area using empirical orthogonal function decomposition of MODIS NDVI time series

    • Shaogang Lei
    • Lixin Ren
    • Zhengfu Bian

    Original Article 18 March 2016 Article: 516

    

26. Biogeochemical coefficients as indicators of nutrient element sorption in jerivá (Syagrus romanzoffiana (Chamisso) Glassman), a palm tree species from Brazil

    • Rosely Aparecida Liguori Imbernon
    • Rejane Gonçalves Rocha

    Original Article 18 March 2016 Article: 515

    

27. Assessment of impact of coal mining on ground and surface waters in Tozaklı coal field, Kırklareli, northeast of Thrace, Turkey

    • O. Arkoc
    • S. Ucar
    • C. Ozcan

    Original Article 18 March 2016 Article: 514

    

28. Characterizing of a capillary barrier evapotranspirative cover under high precipitation conditions

    • Wenjie Zhang
    • Cheng Sun
    • Qingwen Qiu

    Original Article 17 March 2016 Article: 513

    

29. Ammonium nitrogen concentration in the Weihe River, central China during 2005–2015

    • Shengjie Wang
    • Aigang Lu
    • Fenli Chen

    Original Article 17 March 2016 Article: 512

    

30. Ground fissures in Xi’an and measures to prevent damage to the Metro tunnel system due to geohazards

    • Zhi-Feng Wang
    • Shui-Long Shen
    • Ye-Shuang Xu

    Original Article 17 March 2016 Article: 511

    

31. Changes in phosphorus content, phosphatase activity and some physicochemical and microbiological parameters of soil within the range of impact of illegal dumping sites in Bydgoszcz (Poland)

    • Joanna Lemanowicz
    • Agata Bartkowiak
    • Barbara Breza-Boruta

    Original Article Open access 17 March 2016 Article: 510

    

32. Calibration of two filter papers at different temperatures and its application to GMZ bentonite

    • Zancheng Zhu
    • De’an Sun
    • Zhanhong Qiu

    Original Article 17 March 2016 Article: 509

    

33. Sedimentary record of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Songhua River, China

    • Deming Dong
    • Xiaoxue Liu
    • Yaojing Xie

    Original Article 16 March 2016 Article: 508

    

34. Drought impacts on the fresh water potential of a karst aquifer in Crete, Greece

    • E. Steiakakis
    • D. Vavadakis
    • C. Anagnostopoulou

    Original Article 16 March 2016 Article: 507

    

35. Characteristics of water chemistry and its indication of chemical weathering in Jinshajiang, Lancangjiang and Nujiang drainage basins

    • Li-Li Zhang
    • Zhi-Qi Zhao
    • Cong-Qiang Liu

    Original Article 16 March 2016 Article: 506

    

36. Effect of irrigation with microcystins-contaminated water on growth, yield and grain quality of rice (Oryza sativa)

    • Chanjuan Liang
    • Weimin Wang
    • Yu Wang

    Original Article 16 March 2016 Article: 505

    

37. Simulating seismic chimney structures as potential vertical migration pathways for CO₂ in the Snøhvit area, SW Barents Sea: model challenges and outcomes

    • Alexandros Tasianas
    • Lena Mahl
    • Holger Class

    Original Article 16 March 2016 Article: 504

    

38. Preliminary research on the theory and application of unsaturated Red-layers embankment settlement based on rheology and consolidation theory

    • Junxin Liu
    • Wei Liu
    • Yutian Liu

    Original Article 16 March 2016 Article: 503

    

39. Investigations of Changjing earth fissures, Jiangyin, Jiangsu, China

    • Guang-ya Wang
    • G. You
    • Jian-qiang Wu

    Original Article 15 March 2016 Article: 502

    

40. Using isotopes to determine the contribution of volcanic ash to Sr and Ca in stream waters and plants in a granite watershed, Mt. Tsukuba, central Japan

    • Masami Kanao Koshikawa
    • Mirai Watanabe
    • Takanori Nakano

    Original Article 15 March 2016 Article: 501

    

41. Application of chemometrics to hydrochemical parameters and hydrogeochemical modeling of Calera River basin in the Northwest of Argentina

    • M. Rodríguez
    • A. Sfer
    • A. Sales

    Original Article 15 March 2016 Article: 500

    

42. Wellbore cement degradation in contact zone with formation rock

    • Agata Lorek
    • Małgorzata Labus
    • Petr Bujok

    Original Article Open access 15 March 2016 Article: 499

    

43. Quantitative geo-morphometric and land cover-based micro-watershed prioritization in the Tons river basin of the lesser Himalaya

    • Pankaj Chauhan
    • Devi Datt Chauniyal
    • Reet Kamal Tiwari

    Original Article 15 March 2016 Article: 498

    

44. Experimental studies on nanomaterials for soil improvement: a review

    • Yu Huang
    • Lin Wang

    Original Article 14 March 2016 Article: 497

    

45. Spillway discharges by modification of weir shapes and overflow surroundings

    • Il Won Seo
    • Young Do Kim
    • Chang Geun Song

    Original Article 14 March 2016 Article: 496

    

46. The hydromorphological state in mountain rivers subject to human impacts: a case study in the North-West of Italy

    • Claudia Dresti
    • Gianfranco Becciu
    • Marzia Ciampittiello

    Original Article 14 March 2016 Article: 495

    

47. Geochemistry of major and trace elements in Permian coal: with an emphasis on No. 8 coal seam of Zhuji coal mine, Huainan Coalfield, China

    • Shancheng Chen
    • Dun Wu
    • Xiang Fan

    Original Article 12 March 2016 Article: 494

    

48. Application of a distributed degree-day model of glaciers in the upper reaches of the Beida River Basin

    • Sheng Wang
    • Jinfeng Wang
    • Jianchen Pu

    Original Article 12 March 2016 Article: 493

    

49. Stability of earth slopes under the effect of main environmental properties of weathered clay–marl deposits in Belgrade (Serbia)

    • Srđan Kostić
    • Nebojša Vasović
    • Dragutin Jevremović

    Original Article 12 March 2016 Article: 492

    

50. Groundwater risk mapping prediction using mathematical modeling and the Monte Carlo technique

    • Fatemeh Jafari
    • Saman Javadi
    • Mohsen Mohammadzadeh

    Original Article 12 March 2016 Article: 491