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Assessment of physical and hydrological properties of biological soil crusts using X-ray microtomography and modeling

This paper reports on a feasibility study to use X-ray tomography and our structure-property relationships models – the DigiPac software suite originally supported by EPSRC (EP/D503078/1) – to link microstructures with hydraulic properties of fragile biological soil crusts. It represents a new tool for soil researchers who are more accustomed to field/lab measurements than numerical simulations. It has attracted White Rose Collaboration Funding to set up a network of researchers from Leeds/Sheffield/York to work together on soil compaction, and to collaborate with scientists from the EU Joint Research Centre to address the problem at the EU scale.