Mah Tina Fallah

Coventry University | CU · Centre for Fluid and Complex Systems

Soil erosion is a major environmental threat to soil health, natural resources, and sustainable agriculture. Appropriate knowledge of dynamic factors affecting soil erosion is crucial for effective decision-making in watershed management and soil conservation practice. The present study aimed to assess the spatial–temporal distribution of annual so...

The objective of this research was to investigate the relationship between soil moisture characteristic curve (SMCC) and confined compression curve (CCC), and the ability to estimate the SMCC from the CCC. Five provinces of Iran have been chosen as sampling sites and soil samples (150) were collected from these areas, and some properties of the soi...

Accurate quantification of water balance components in large lakes is of great importance in assessing the changes in hydrological components, and subsequent variations in lakes water balance. The water balance of Urmia Lake in northwestern Iran was quantitatively analyzed in the year 2005 using remotely-sensed data (e.g. evapotranspiration and pre...

Soil specific surface area (SSA) is an important property of soil. Depending on the measurement techniques, determination of the SSA is costly and time consuming. Hence, a limited number of studies have been conducted to predict the SSA from the soil variables. In this study, the soil samples were taken from the literature. Fractal parameters (FP)...

Accumulation of heavy metals in soil media is considered as a serious environmental problem, which is hazardous to human and animal health. There have been several methods for the removal of these toxic metals. One of the commonly used methods is the use of plants, especially ornamental plants to remove heavy metals from soils. In this regard, the...

The confined compression curve (CCC) represents the relationship between the logarithm of the applied stress and the void ratio. There are several similarities between the soil water retention curve (SWRC) and the CCC. The aim of this study was to modify the Dexter SWRC model to fit the experimental CCC data by replacing the matric suction and wate...

Inappropriate crop management and long-term use of heavy agricultural equipment can lead to soil compaction. On the other hand, soil and water salinity causes reduction in the plant yield in addition to adverse effects on plants tolerance to the various stresses. The aim of this study was to investigate the interaction between soil compaction and s...

Organic matter plays an important role in the soil fertility as well as physical and biological properties of soil. However, these organic fertilizers sometimes contain heavy metals which are very harmful to human health. So, the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of three types of organic fertilizers on the heavy metals transfer facto...

Phosphorus (P) is one of the main elements involved in the eutrophication of surface water bodies, which negatively affect the water quality. Reservoir dams are local for the accumulation of sediments transported from upstream. The amount of P release from sediments to water is potentially controlled by the retention characteristics of sediments. I...

Soil and ground water resource pollution by petroleum compounds and chemical solvents has multiple negative environmental impacts. The aim of this research was to investigate the impacts of kerosene and gas oil pollutants on some physical and chemical properties, breakthrough curve (BTC), and water retention curve (SWRC) of silty clay soil during a...

In recent years, petroleum products and by-products have been widely used chemicals in soil habitats, which change the soil properties and quality of groundwater due to solubility, volatility and biodegradability of these pollutants. The aim of this research was to investigate the impacts of kerosene and gas oil pollutants on the breakthrough curve...

Abstract Hydrocarbon pollutants with negative polluting effects cause changes on physical and chemical properties of soil and water and threaten their quality and human safety. The purpose of this research was to investigate the heavy and light soils behavior on transportation of gasoline and kerosene in a pilot scale and pulse condition. An equipm...

Hydrocarbon pollutants with negative polluting effects cause changes on physical and chemical properties of soil and water and threaten their quality and human safety. The purpose of this research was to investigate the heavy and light soils behavior on transportation of gasoline and kerosene in a pilot scale and pulse condition. An equipment inclu...

Oil spillage has a major impact on the ecosystem and organisms. One of the biological methods to clean up organic contaminants is Myco-remediation and fungus can be used to achieve this purpose. The most important role of fungi is decomposition of organic compounds from the simplest to most complex one in the soil. This microorganism decomposes lig...

Petroleum hydrocarbons are one of the important environmental pollutants. It can move into soil body and change the soil properties and quality of ground water and then threaten the safety of human and other living organism. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of gasoline on two type of soils (silty clay and loamy sand) microbial re...