Soil pollution with heavy metals is an ever growing

concern due to the potential threat to food safety and

detrimental effects on human and animal health. The

uptake of metals by plants and ingestion ...

The main goal of this study is to identify the most important factors affecting land use change based on previous literature. The method used is qualitative and a type of meta-study known as meta-synthesis. We review the purpose of each study, data...

The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of land use change on soil properties in six different sites of Guilan province, northern Iran. The study sites were deforested approximately 40 years ago and changed to tea farms. Soil...

Land subsidence caused by land use change and overexploitation of groundwater is an example of mismanagement of natural resources, yet subsidence remains difficult to predict. In this study, the relationship between land subsidence features and geo...