Changwen Du

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed and analyzed a global soil visible-near infrared (vis-NIR) spectral library, which is currently the largest and most diverse database of its kind, and showed that the information encoded in the spectra can describe soil composition and be associated to land cover and its global geographic distribution, which acts as a surrogate for global climate variability.

TL;DR: The risk assessment of PTEs through rice consumption suggests that the concentrations of Cu, Pb, and Cd in some rice samples exceed their reference oral dose for adults and children.

TL;DR: The dependence of the phosphate sorption capacity in the heating samples on thermal activation appears to be related to major changes in the crystal structure of palygorskite, and more calcium, iron and aluminum were released from the crystal matrix at 700 degrees C, which promoted phosphorus sorption.

TL;DR: In this paper, the energy of activation, EArel, estimated for the linear release, of the different nutrients, was narrow ranging between 37 to 46 KJmol−1 whereas the mean values obtained for the two coated compound CRF, differing by 50% in coating thickness, was non-significant.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper used IR-photoacoustic spectra to predict soil C and N contents using partial least square (PLS) and artificial neural network (ANN) models.