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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
84
Citations
25992
World Ranking
791
National Ranking
21

Best Publications

  • Emerging pollutants in the environment: a challenge for water resource management

    Violette Geissen;Hans Mol;Erwin Klumpp;Günter Umlauf

  • Pesticide residues in European agricultural soils – A hidden reality unfolded

    Vera Silva;Hans G.J. Mol;Paul Zomer;Marc Tienstra

  • Response of soil dissolved organic matter to microplastic addition in Chinese loess soil.

    Hongfei Liu;Xiaomei Yang;Guobin Liu;Chutao Liang

  • How water moves in a water repellent sandy soil: 1. Potential and actual water repellency

    Louis W. Dekker;Coen J. Ritsema

  • The threat of soil salinity: A European scale review

    I.N. Daliakopoulos;I.K. Tsanis;I.K. Tsanis;A. Koutroulis;N.N. Kourgialas

  • LISEM: a single-event physically based hydrological and soil erosion model for drainage basins; I: theory, input and output

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  • Water Repellency and Critical Soil Water Content in a Dune Sand

    Louis W. Dekker;Stefan H. Doerr;Klaas Oostindie;Apostolos K. Ziogas

  • Preferential flow mechanism in a water repellent sandy soil

    Coen J. Ritsema;Louis W. Dekker;J. M. H. Hendrickx;W. Hamminga

  • Distribution of glyphosate and aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) in Agricultural topsoils of the European Union

    Vera Silva;Luca Montanarella;Arwyn Jones;Oihane Fernández-Ugalde

  • Identification of suitable sites for rainwater harvesting structures in arid and semi-arid regions: A review

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  • How water moves in a water repellent sandy soil: 2. Dynamics of fingered flow

    Coen J. Ritsema;Louis W. Dekker

  • Soil texture is an important factor determining how microplastics affect soil hydraulic characteristics.

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  • Combining analytical frameworks to assess livelihood vulnerability to climate change and analyse adaptation options

    M S Reed;G Podesta;I Fazey;N Geeson

  • Occurrence, prediction and hydrological effects of water repellency amongst major soil and land-use types in a humid temperate climate

    S. H. Doerr;R. A. Shakesby;L. W. Dekker;C. J. Ritsema

  • Wetting patterns and moisture variability in water repellent Dutch soils.

    L.W Dekker;C.J. Ritsema

  • Physics of water repellent soils

    T. W.J. Bauters;T. S. Steenhuis;David DiCarlo;J. L. Nieber

  • Effects of wildfire on soil nutrients in Mediterranean ecosystems

    Lucrezia Caon;V. Ramón Vallejo;Coen J. Ritsema;Violette Geissen

  • Factors affecting farmers' behaviour in pesticide use: insights from a field study in northern China

    Liangxin Fan;Haipeng Niu;Xiaomei Yang;Wei Qin

  • Extension of a GIS procedure for calculating the RUSLE equation LS factor

    Hongming Zhang;Qinke Yang;Rui Li;Qingrui Liu

  • Use of barley straw residues to avoid high erosion and runoff rates on persimmon plantations in Eastern Spain under low frequency–high magnitude simulated rainfall events

    Artemi Cerdà;Óscar González-Pelayo;Antonio Giménez-Morera;Antonio Jordán

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