Human health risk assessment from potentially toxic elements in the soils of Sudan: A meta-analysis.

Potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in soils threaten human health through several exposure pathways. However, health risks posed by PTEs in soils in developing countries have not yet been comprehensively investigated. Thus, such countries lack important information that is needed to implement sustainable solutions.

: a concept for the interdisciplinary study of rural-urban transformation.

Along with climate change, population growth, and overexploitation of natural resources, urbanisation is among the major global challenges of our time. It is a nexus where many of the world's grand challenges intersect, and thus key to sustainable development. The widespread understanding of urbanisation as a successive and unidirectional transformation of landscapes and societies from a rural to an urban state is increasingly questioned.

Data on spatial and temporal modelling of soil water storage in the Guinea savannah zone of Northern Ghana.

In this article, we present the space-time variability of soil moisture (SM) and soil water storage (SWS) from key agricultural benchmark soil types measured across the Guinea savannah zone of Ghana ( ≈ 2,000 measurements) in a single cropping season (Nketia et al., 2022). From 36 locations, SM measurements were obtained with a PR2/60 moisture probe calibrated for a 0-100 cm soil depth interval (at six depths).

A new method for selecting sites for soil sampling, coupling global weighted principal component analysis and a cost-constrained conditioned Latin hypercube algorithm.

Analysing spatial patterns of soil properties in a landscape requires a sampling strategy that adequately covers soil toposequences. In this context, we developed a hybrid methodology that couples global weighted principal component analysis (GWPCA) and cost-constrained conditioned Latin hypercube algorithm (cLHC). This methodology produce an optimized sampling stratification by analysing the local variability of the soil property, and the influence of environmental factors.