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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Joaquin A Nuñez, Sebastián Aguiar, Esteban G Jobbágy, Yohana G Jiménez, Pablo Baldassini
The demand for mountain water resources is increasing, and their availability is threatened by climate change, emphasizing the urgency for effective protection and management. The upper Sali-Dulce watershed holds vital significance as it contributes the majority of the Sali-Dulce water resources, supporting a densely populated dry region in Northwestern Argentina, covering an area of 24,217 km2 . However, the potential impact of climate change and land use/land cover change on water yield in this watershed remains uncertain...
April 8, 2024: Journal of Environmental Management
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Caroline E Vickery, John E Quinn
Forests boast essential resources and potential to mitigate climate change, meriting the development of conservation policies on all governmental scales. Ecosystem services provided by forests, including biodiversity, air quality, and food and fuel production, make forests valuable assets for climate-vulnerable communities that often lack the means to cope with ecosystem service degradation resulting from climate change. Historically, these vulnerable communities are previously marginalized and socio-economically limited, and climate change augments already-existing injustices...
April 8, 2024: Journal of Environmental Management
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Amie K Allen, Kristen E Ravi, Megan Haselschwerdt, Victoria Niederhauser
Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the campus resource utilization experiences of university students with childhood domestic violence exposure (CDV) histories. Participants: 368 students attending a large, flagship, land-grant, predominantly White university in the Southeastern United States. Methods: Participants completed a web-based survey with variables including CDV, campus resource utilization and perceptions of said resources, and participant resource suggestions. Results: Most students utilized at least one health-related campus resource, with the student health and counseling centers being the most common and helpful...
April 9, 2024: Journal of American College Health: J of ACH
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Afeworki Hagos Mesfin, Kidane Giday Gebremedhin, Tewodros Tefera, Mulugeta Diro Chimsa, Remko Vonk
Food and nutrition security is a major global challenge especially indeveloping countries.Agriculture is main means of livelihoods and hunger is drastically increasing from time to time especially due to effects of climate change, conflict and other manmade and natural calamities in these countries. Similarly, the Tigray Region is one of the Ethiopia's most food and nutrition insecure regions with agriculture serving as the main source of income and employment. This study was therefore conducted to fill the gap in understanding the socioeconomic situation, bio-physical environment, institutional setting and policy landscape by analysing the existing circumstances in Tigray Region...
April 15, 2024: Heliyon
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Giuseppe Bonanno, Vincenzo Veneziano
This study investigated the germination capacity (endogenous factor) of Petagnaea gussonei (Spreng.) Rauschert, an endemic monospecific plant considered as a relict species of the ancient Mediterranean Tertiary flora. This investigation focused also on the temporal trends of soil-use, climate and desertification (exogenous factors) across the natural range of P. gussonei. The final germination percentage showed low values between 14 and 32%, the latter obtained with GA3 and agar at 10 °C. The rising temperatures in the study area will further increase the dormancy of P...
April 8, 2024: Scientific Reports
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Gaofeng Zhu, Chen Shi
A huge amount of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fabric is abandoned from nuclear power plants every year, the traditional treatment process will occupy land resources and pollute the environment; therefore, a lot of research has been carried out on the chemical treatment of PVA fabric. Herein, the performance of degradation of polyvinyl alcohol under high-pressure and high-temperature conditions is investigated. The effects of the initial pH value, reaction temperature, molar ratio of H2 O2 /Fe2+ , and H2 O2 dosage on PVA degradation were evaluated...
April 7, 2024: Environmental Technology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Xavier Lecomte, Miguel N Bugalho, Filipe X Catry, Paulo M Fernandes, Andreu Cera, Maria C Caldeira
Climate change is increasing the frequency of droughts and the risk of severe wildfires, which can interact with shrub encroachment and browsing by wild ungulates. Wild ungulate populations are expanding due, among other factors, to favorable habitat changes resulting from land abandonment or land-use changes. Understanding how ungulate browsing interacts with drought to affect woody plant mortality, plant flammability, and fire hazard is especially relevant in the context of climate change and increasing frequency of wildfires...
April 5, 2024: Ecological Applications
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Minwoo Seong, Gwangbin Kim, Dohyeon Yeo, Yumin Kang, Heesan Yang, Joseph DelPreto, Wojciech Matusik, Daniela Rus, SeungJun Kim
The sports industry is witnessing an increasing trend of utilizing multiple synchronized sensors for player data collection, enabling personalized training systems with multi-perspective real-time feedback. Badminton could benefit from these various sensors, but there is a scarcity of comprehensive badminton action datasets for analysis and training feedback. Addressing this gap, this paper introduces a multi-sensor badminton dataset for forehand clear and backhand drive strokes, based on interviews with coaches for optimal usability...
April 5, 2024: Scientific Data
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Amir Khan, Ajay Veer Singh, Bharti Kukreti, Deepali Tiwari Pandey, Viabhav Kumar Upadhayay, Rajeew Kumar, Reeta Goel
Agriculture stands as a thriving enterprise in India, serving as both the bedrock of economy and vital source of nutrition. In response to the escalating demands for high-quality food for swiftly expanding population, agricultural endeavors are extending their reach into the elevated terrains of the Himalayas, tapping into abundant resources for bolstering food production. Nonetheless, these Himalayan agro-ecosystems encounter persistent challenges, leading to crop losses. These challenges stem from a combination of factors including prevailing frigid temperatures, suboptimal farming practices, unpredictable climatic shifts, subdivided land ownership, and limited resources...
April 3, 2024: Science of the Total Environment
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hom Nath Gartaula, Kishor Atreya, Kanchan Kattel, Dil Bahadur Rahut
Food security and dietary diversity, defined as providing either physical (availability) or economic (accessibility) access to food, are linked with access to and control over productive resources and is a highly-gendered phenomenon. In Nepal, labor out-migration has increased household income and may have increased people's ability to access diverse food either by increasing investment in agriculture or purchasing various food items from the market. However, the relationship between household dietary improvement and labor out-migration is complex...
2024: PloS One
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hao Zhang, Yao Niu, Haixu Zhang, Qiang Huang, Jie Luo, Siyao Feng, Heran Jia
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, located at the Third Pole and known as the "Asian water tower," serves as a crucial ecological barrier for China. Grasping the soil quality on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau holds paramount importance for the rational and scientific exploitation of soil resources within the region and is essential for vegetation restoration and ecological reconstruction. This study, conducted in Maqin County, Qinghai Province, collected 1647 soil samples (0-20 cm) within a study area of 6300 km2 ...
April 5, 2024: Environmental Geochemistry and Health
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REVIEW
Bethan R Mead, Tracey Duncombe, Rebecca Gillespie, Nina Pugh, Charlotte A Hardman
Food system challenges exacerbate inequalities in access to fresh healthy food and threaten food security. Lack of food security, referred to as food insecurity, is associated with poorer physical and mental health outcomes and has been identified as a key challenge to address by calls for food system transformation. Increasing food production through urban agriculture, the production of fruit and vegetables in urban areas, has been identified as a potentially effective contributor to food system transformation, but the effect of this on household or UK-level food security is unclear...
April 5, 2024: Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Marta Yebra, Gianluca Scortechini, Karine Adeline, Nursema Aktepe, Turkia Almoustafa, Avi Bar-Massada, María Eugenia Beget, Matthias Boer, Ross Bradstock, Tegan Brown, Francesc Xavier Castro, Rui Chen, Emilio Chuvieco, Mark Danson, Cihan Ünal Değirmenci, Ruth Delgado-Dávila, Philip Dennison, Carlos Di Bella, Oriol Domenech, Jean-Baptiste Féret, Greg Forsyth, Eva Gabriel, Zisis Gagkas, Fatma Gharbi, Elena Granda, Anne Griebel, Binbin He, Matt Jolly, Ivan Kotzur, Tineke Kraaij, Agnes Kristina, Pınar Kütküt, Jean-Marc Limousin, M Pilar Martín, Antonio T Monteiro, Marco Morais, Bruno Moreira, Florent Mouillot, Samukelisiwe Msweli, Rachael H Nolan, Grazia Pellizzaro, Yi Qi, Xingwen Quan, Victor Resco de Dios, Dar Roberts, Çağatay Tavşanoğlu, Andy F S Taylor, Jackson Taylor, İrem Tüfekcioğlu, Andrea Ventura, Nicolas Younes Cardenas
Globe-LFMC 2.0, an updated version of Globe-LFMC, is a comprehensive dataset of over 280,000 Live Fuel Moisture Content (LFMC) measurements. These measurements were gathered through field campaigns conducted in 15 countries spanning 47 years. In contrast to its prior version, Globe-LFMC 2.0 incorporates over 120,000 additional data entries, introduces more than 800 new sampling sites, and comprises LFMC values obtained from samples collected until the calendar year 2023. Each entry within the dataset provides essential information, including date, geographical coordinates, plant species, functional type, and, where available, topographical details...
April 4, 2024: Scientific Data
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
M O Ukoba, E O Diemuodeke, T A Briggs, M M Ojapah, K E Okedu, K Owebor, K Akhtar, C Ilhami
The understanding of the geographical variability of biomass energy is an essential requirement for the optimal location of biomass energy conversion plants. This research presents a multicriteria GIS-based assessment of biomass energy potentials and the appropriate siting of biomass plants in Nigeria. The study applies the weighted overlay multicriteria decision analysis method. Crop and forest areas, settlement (energy supply areas), shrub/grasslands, barren land, water bodies, distance from water sources, road accessibility, topography, and aspect are the criteria that were considered for locating a biomass facility in this study...
2024: Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ross N Cuthbert, Masimini S Nkosi, Tatenda Dalu
Microplastics are widespread pollutants, but few studies have linked field prevalence in organisms to laboratory uptakes. Aquatic filter feeders may be particularly susceptible to microplastic uptake, with the potential for trophic transfer to higher levels, including humans. Here, we surveyed microplastics from a model freshwater shrimp, common caraidina ( Caridina nilotica ) inhabiting the Crocodile River in South Africa to better understand microplastic uptake rates per individual. We then use functional response analysis (feeding rate as a function of resource density) to quantify uptake rates by shrimps in the laboratory...
April 2024: Ecology and Evolution
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Millicent V Gaston, Andrew F Barnas, Rebecca M Smith, Sean Murray, Jason T Fisher
Many large carnivores, despite widespread habitat alteration, are rebounding in parts of their former ranges after decades of persecution and exploitation. Cougars ( Puma concolor ) are apex predator with their remaining northern core range constricted to mountain landscapes and areas of western North America; however, cougar populations have recently started rebounding in several locations across North America, including northward in boreal forest landscapes. A camera-trap survey of multiple landscapes across Alberta, Canada, delineated a range edge; within this region, we deployed an array of 47 camera traps in a random stratified design across a landscape spanning a gradient of anthropogenic development relative to the predicted expansion front...
April 2024: Ecology and Evolution
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kang Chao
Family farming plays a pivotal role in ensuring household food security and bolstering the resilience of food systems against climate change. Traditional agricultural practices are evolving into context-specific, climate-resilient systems such as family farming, homestead gardening, and urban agriculture. This study examines the ways in which family farming can foster climate-resilient food systems amidst climate vulnerabilities. A systematic literature review spanning the past 22 years was undertaken to develop a conceptual framework...
April 15, 2024: Heliyon
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EDITORIAL
Narin Maclean, P Davies, S Lewis
Prone positioning is an intervention used for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) whose hypoxia is worsening despite conventional treatment. Previously used infrequently, it became an important treatment escalation strategy for hypoxia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Current evidence for prone positioning suggests increased survivability in intubated patients with moderate to severe ARDS who are prone for >12 hours a day. As a relatively low-cost, low-tech intervention with a growing evidence base, the viability of prone positioning in the deployed land environment is considered in this article...
April 2, 2024: BMJ military health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jia Yang, Abigail Winrich, Tian Zhang, Lei Qiao, Chris Mattingly, Chris Zou
Water availability in the subhumid region is highly vulnerable to frequent droughts. Water scarcity in this region has become a limiting factor for ecosystem health, human livelihood, and regional economic development. A notable pattern of land cover change in the subhumid region of the United States is the increasing forest area due to afforestation/reforestation and woody plant encroachment (WPE). Given the distinct hydrological processes and runoff generation between forests and grasslands, it is important to evaluate the impacts of forest expansion on water resources, especially under future climate conditions...
April 2, 2024: Journal of Environmental Management
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Abdulaziz I Almulhim, Abdulla Al Kafy, Md Nahid Ferdous, Md Abdul Fattah, Syed Riad Morshed
Sustainable urban development is crucial for managing natural resources and mitigating environmental impacts induced by rapid urbanization. This study demonstrates an integrated framework using machine learning-based urban analytics techniques to evaluate spatiotemporal urban expansion in Saudi Arabia (1987-2022) and quantify impacts on leading land, water, and air-related environmental parameters (EPs). Remote sensing and statistical techniques were applied to estimate vegetation health, built-up area, impervious surface, water bodies, soil characteristics, thermal comfort, air pollutants (PM2...
April 2, 2024: Journal of Environmental Management
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