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Salt tolerance of selected halophytes at the two initial growth stages for future management options
( Springer , 2021 , Article)Scarcity of water and the small area of the agricultural land are considered as the crucial environmental issues challenged the Arabian Gulf countries. In this study, experiments were conducted to identify the salt tolerance ... -
Scale dependence of species–area relationships is widespread but generally weak in Palaearctic grasslands
( Wiley , 2021 , Article)Questions: Species–area relationships (SARs) are fundamental for understanding biodiversity patterns and are generally well described by a power law with a constant exponent z. However, z-values sometimes vary across spatial ... -
Scale effects on the relationships between land characteristics and ecosystem services- a case study in Taihu Lake Basin, China
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)© 2020 Elsevier B.V. It is generally recognized that marginal changes in landscape characteristics can influence multiple ecosystem services, but the causal relationships involved are still very unclear due to lack of ... -
Screening Of Some Qatari Plant Extracts For Anti Fungal Activities Of Plant Pathogenic Fungi
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2014 , Conference Paper)The present study aimed to evaluate the antifungal activity of three desert plants extracts grown naturally in Qatar: (Al-rayhan) Ocimum basilicum, Shafallah (Capparis spinosa) and Qwaif(Prosopis juliflora)to study their ... -
Seasonal and body size-dependent variability in the bioaccumulation of PAHs and their alkyl homologues in pearl oysters in the central Arabian Gulf
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)Spatiotemporal concentration patterns for 19 parents and their alkyl homologues were measured in Pinctada radiata from 7 locations in the central Arabian Gulf around Qatar in the winter, spring and summer (2014–2015). The ... -
Seasonal variability of hydrography off the east coast of Qatar, central Arabian Gulf
( Springer Nature , 2022 , Article)Seasonal variability of hydrography along a nearshore-offshore transect in the eastern part of the EEZ of Qatar has been analyzed using in situ measurements carried out during 5 different months. The study reveals distinct ... -
Seasonal variation and spatial distribution of microplastic pellets and their associated contaminants along the central east coast of India
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2023 , Article)Microplastic pellets (MPPs) are one of the significant sources of plastic pollution on shorelines worldwide. In this study, for the first time, we have examined the occurrence of MPPs and their spatial and seasonal ... -
Seasonal variation, polymer hazard risk and controlling factors of microplastics in beach sediments along the southeast coast of India
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)Microplastics (MPs) and its associated organic and inorganic contaminants are one among the significant health hazards to almost all biota, including human. We investigated the polymer hazard risk and its adsorbed contaminants ... -
Seed priming alleviates salt stress in two fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum l.) Cultivars
( United Arab Emirates University , 2022 , Article)Salinity is globally considered a widespread problem of the irrigated soils in arid and semi-arid areas. To minimize the negative effect of salinity seed priming technique is proved as a useful by improve germination and ... -
Seismic detection and characterization of a man-made karst analog - A feasibility study
( Society of Exploration Geophysicists , 2021 , Article)At the site of a water drainage shaft on the campus of Qatar University that serves as a man-made karst analog, two seismic imaging techniques were adapted to use resonant scattered waves recorded during active-source ... -
Seismic detection of a sinkhole using spectral-based analysis
( Society of Exploration Geophysicists , 2014 , Conference Paper)Seismic data recorded during a survey in the vicinity of a sinkhole revealed distinct resonances at 70 Hz. Frequency domain data inversion based on exact modeling produced effective elastic parameters for the location over ... -
Sentinel-2 image transformation methods for mapping oil spill – A case study with Wakashio oil spill in the Indian Ocean, off Mauritius
( Elsevier B.V. , 2021 , Article)Although several indices have been constructed and available at the Index database (IDB) for Sentinel-2 satellite to map and study several earth resources, no indices have been developed to map oil spill. We constructed ... -
Severe vegetation degradation associated with different disturbance types in a poorly managed urban recreation destination in Iran
( Springer Nature , 2021 , Article)Recreational activities worldwide have major impacts on the environment. This study examined the impact of different kinds of recreational activities on plant communities in a highly visited park in Mashhad, Iran. Vegetation ... -
Short-term behavioural responses to thermal stress by hawksbill turtles in the Arabian region
( Elsevier , 2014 , Article)We present a previously unrecorded short-term behavioural response by hawksbill sea turtles to elevated sea surface temperatures in the Persian/Arabian Gulf. Surface waters typically exceed 30°C for sustained periods during ... -
Silver-doped metal ferrites for wastewater treatment
( Elsevier , 2021 , Book chapter)Nanotechnology is an inspiring discipline with numerous cost-effective and novel applications. Nowadays, nanotechnology is being empowered in the field of medicine, agriculture, space science, food processing, etc. The ... -
Socio-ecological vulnerability and resilience of mountain communities residing in capital-constrained environments
( Springer , 2021 , Article)The study evaluated perceived reactions and counter-actions of Himalayan communities to climate change. The evaluation was conducted through identification and characterization of 62 socio-environment-specific indicators ... -
SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature
( wiley , 2020 , Report)© 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Current analyses and predictions of spatially explicit patterns and processes in ecology most often rely on climate data interpolated from standardized weather stations. This interpolated ... -
Solar driven photocatalytic degradation potential of novel graphitic carbon nitride based nano zero-valent iron doped bismuth ferrite ternary composite
( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)The synthetic industry has destroyed the life span of human beings due to environmental pollution. The discharged organic pollutants can be degraded by many physicochemical techniques, among them the heterogeneous ... -
Source rock evaluation and petroleum generation of the Lower Cretaceous Yamama Formation: Its ability to contribute to generating and expelling petroleum to cretaceous reservoirs of the Mesopotamian Basin, Iraq
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)The Yamama Formation is an important reservoir as well as a good source rocks in many of the oilfields of the southern Mesopotamian Basin, Iraq. The formation represents a regressive cycle deposited in a shallow carbonate ... -
Sources of primary production supporting food webs in an arid coastal embayment
( Springer Nature , 2012 , Article)Penaeid shrimp can be useful ecological indicators of linkages between shallow tropical coastal habitats, acting as integrators of carbon and nitrogen sources due to their generalist feeding habits and their mobility between ...