Understanding the relationship between plasticity of muddy soil and earth pressure can be crucial to maintaining tunnel stability and predicting ground behavior during earth pressure balance (EPB) ...

Fine-grained soils, predominately comprised of silt and clay fractions, are central to many geotechnical challenges due to their unique behaviour under varying moisture conditions. Their properties, ...

The complexity of plant response to density in nature has been recognized, but seldom interpreted, especially in the context of various abiotic environments or plant ontogeny. Our objective was to ...

Plant and Soil, Vol. 391, No. 1/2 (June 2015), pp. 63-75 (13 pages) Background Lateral root (LR) plasticity is a key trait that plays a significant role in plant adaptation to fluctuating soil ...

Grapevine is a globally significant fruit crop that exhibits remarkable phenotypic plasticity (PP) due to genotype-per-environment interactions (a concept known as terroir). This adaptability impacts ...

Infrastructures often suffer severe damage due to geotechnical hazards of both natural kinds such as floods or earthquakes and man-made ones like underground construction work and excavations. The ...