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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Francesca A Ridley, Stephen P Rushton, Emily J Hickinbotham, Andrew J Suggitt, Philip J K McGowan, Louise Mair
Threat mapping is a necessary tool for identifying and abating direct threats to species in the ongoing extinction crisis. There are known gaps in the threat mapping literature for particular threats and geographic locations, and it remains unclear if the distribution of research effort is appropriately targeted relative to conservation need. We aimed to determine the drivers of threat mapping research effort and to quantify gaps that, if filled, could inform actions with the highest potential to reduce species' extinction risk...
April 16, 2024: Conservation Biology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hongyu Jia, Xuehai Fei, Jingyu Zhu, Weiduo Chen, Rui Chen, Zhangze Liao, Binghuang Zhou, Yingqian Huang, Haiqiang Du, Peng Xu, Xu Zhang, Wangjun Li
It is important to investigate the responses of greenhouse gases to climate change (temperature, precipitation) and anthropogenic factors in plateau wetland. Based on the DNDC model, we used meteorological, soil, and land cover data to simulate the soil CO2 emission pattern and its responses to climate change and anthropogenic factors in Guizhou, China. The results showed that the mean soil CO2 emission flux in the Caohai Karst Plateau Wetland was 5.89 ± 0.17 t·C·ha-1 ·yr-1 from 2000 to 2019, and the annual variation showed an increasing trend with the rate of 23...
April 15, 2024: Scientific Reports
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Zhan Wang, Geraldo B Martha, Jing Liu, Cicero Z Lima, Thomas W Hertel
High transportation costs have been a barrier to the expansion of agriculture in the interior of Brazil. To reduce transportation costs, Brazil launched the National Logistics Plan, aiming to expand its railway network by up to 91 % by 2035. Such a large-scale infrastructure investment raises concerns about its economic and environmental consequences. By combining geospatial estimation of transportation cost with a grid-resolving, multi-scale economic model that bridges fine-scale crop production with its trade and demand from national and global perspectives, we explore impacts of transportation infrastructure expansion on agricultural production, land use changes, and carbon emissions both locally and nationally in Brazil...
April 13, 2024: Science of the Total Environment
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REVIEW
Sanjay Rajagopalan, Armando Vergara-Martel, Jeffrey Zhong, Haitham Khraishah, Mikhail Kosiborod, Ian J Neeland, Jean-Eudes Dazard, Zhuo Chen, Thomas Munzel, Robert D Brook, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Peter Hovmand, Sadeer Al-Kindi
Urban environments contribute substantially to the rising burden of cardiometabolic diseases worldwide. Cities are complex adaptive systems that continually exchange resources, shaping exposures relevant to human health such as air pollution, noise, and chemical exposures. In addition, urban infrastructure and provisioning systems influence multiple domains of health risk, including behaviors, psychological stress, pollution, and nutrition through various pathways (eg, physical inactivity, air pollution, noise, heat stress, food systems, the availability of green space, and contaminant exposures)...
April 16, 2024: Circulation
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Fangqi Tan, Yuning Cheng, Yangyang Yuan, Xueyuan Wang, Boqing Fan
It is crucial to employ scientifically sound models for assessing the quality of the ecological environment and revealing the strengths and weaknesses of ecosystems. This process is vital for identifying regional ecological and environmental issues and devising relevant protective measures. Among the widely acknowledged models for evaluating ecological quality, the ecological index (EI) and remote sensing ecological index (RSEI) stand out; however, there is a notable gap in the literature discussing their differences, characteristics, and reasons for selecting either model...
April 15, 2024: Heliyon
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Bikem Ekberzade, Omer Yetemen, Yasemin Ezber, Omer Lutfi Sen, Hasan Nuzhet Dalfes
UNLABELLED: At the current juncture with climate change, centennial projections of species distributions in biodiversity hotspots, using dynamic vegetation models may provide vital insight into conservation efforts. This study aims to answer: (1) if climate change progresses under a business-as-usual scenario of anthropogenic emissions for this century, how may the forest ranges be affected? (2) will there be potential regional extinctions of the taxa simulated? (3) may any site emerge as a potential refugium? STUDY AREA: Anatolian Peninsula and its surroundings, longitudes 24-50° E, latitudes 33-46° N...
April 2024: Ecology and Evolution
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Longfei Chen, Qian Zhang, Meiyin Zhu, Guangze Li, Liuyong Chang, Zheng Xu, Hefeng Zhang, Yanjun Wang, Yinger Zheng, Shenghui Zhong, Kang Pan, Yiwei Zhao, Mengyun Gao, Bin Zhang
In recent years, there has been an increasing amount of research on nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions, and the environmental impact of aviation NOx emissions at cruising altitudes has received widespread attention. NOx may play a crucial role in altering the composition of the atmosphere, particularly regarding ozone formation in the upper troposphere. At present, the ground emission database based on the landing and takeoff (LTO) cycle is more comprehensive, while high-altitude emission data is scarce due to the prohibitively high cost and the inevitable measurement uncertainty associated with in-flight sampling...
April 12, 2024: Science of the Total Environment
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Faezeh Absalan, Fatemeh Hatam, Mirjam Blokker, Marie-Claude Besner, Michèle Prévost, Françoise Bichai
Urbanization increases the land surface temperature through surface mineralization, adversely affecting vegetation and enhancing the urban heat island (UHI) effect. Global climate change has intensified this warming effect with more frequent and intense heatwaves during hot seasons. While these transformations influence soil temperature, their consequences on drinking water temperature within the drinking water distribution system (DWDS) remains poorly understood. Literature proposes to increase pipe burial depths to mitigate drinking water heating during summer...
March 28, 2024: Water Research
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Armin Moghimi, Vahid Sadeghi, Amin Mohsenifar, Turgay Celik, Ali Mohammadzadeh
Relative radiometric normalization (RRN) is a critical pre-processing step that enables accurate comparisons of multitemporal remote-sensing (RS) images through unsupervised change detection. Although existing RRN methods generally have promising results in most cases, their effectiveness depends on specific conditions, especially in scenarios with land cover/land use (LULC) in image pairs in different locations. These methods often overlook these complexities, potentially introducing biases to RRN results, mainly because of the use of spatially aligned pseudo-invariant features (PIFs) for modeling...
April 2, 2024: Sensors
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REVIEW
Doo Hong Lee, Hye Yeon Park, Joonwhoan Lee
Accurate urban green space (UGS) measurement has become crucial for landscape analysis. This paper reviews the recent technological breakthroughs in deep learning (DL)-based semantic segmentation, emphasizing efficient landscape analysis, and integrating greenness measurements. It explores quantitative greenness measures applied through semantic segmentation, categorized into the plan view- and the perspective view-based methods, like the Land Class Classification (LCC) with green objects and the Green View Index (GVI) based on street photographs...
March 31, 2024: Sensors
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Drew Priebe, Burooj Ghani, Dan Stowell
The ongoing biodiversity crisis, driven by factors such as land-use change and global warming, emphasizes the need for effective ecological monitoring methods. Acoustic monitoring of biodiversity has emerged as an important monitoring tool. Detecting human voices in soundscape monitoring projects is useful both for analyzing human disturbance and for privacy filtering. Despite significant strides in deep learning in recent years, the deployment of large neural networks on compact devices poses challenges due to memory and latency constraints...
March 22, 2024: Sensors
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ingridi Camboim Franceschi, Rubem Augusto da Paixão Dornas, Isabel Salgueiro Lermen, Artur Vicente Pfeifer Coelho, Ademir Henrique Vilas Boas, Adriano Garcia Chiarello, Adriano Pereira Paglia, Agnis Cristiane de Souza, Alana Rafaela Borsekowsky, Alessandro Rocha, Alex Bager, Alexander Zaidan de Souza, Alexandre Martins Costa Lopes, Aloysio Souza de Moura, Aluane Silva Ferreira, Alvaro García-Olaechea, Ana Cláudia Delciellos, Ana Elisa de Faria Bacellar, Ana Kellen Nogueira Campelo, Ana Maria Oliveira Paschoal, Anderson Claudino Rolim, André Luiz Ferreira da Silva, Andre Monnerat Lanna, André Pereira da Silva, Andresa Guimarães, Ângela Cardoso, Angelica Soligo Cassol, Anna Ludmilla da Costa-Pinto, Ariel Guilherme Santos do Nascimento, Arthur Soares Fernandes, Aryanne Clyvia, Aureo Banhos Dos Santos, Barbara Lima-Silva, Beatriz de Mello Beisiegel, Beatriz Fernandes Lima Luciano, Bernardo de Faria Leopoldo, Bruna Nunes Krobel, Bruno Busnello Kubiak, Bruno Henrique Saranholi, Bruno Senna Correa, Caio Sant Anna Teixeira, Camila Rezende Ayroza, Camila Righetto Cassano, Camilo Benitez-Riveros, Carla Cristina Gestich, Carla Denise Tedesco, Carla Gheler-Costa, Carla Grasiele Zanin Hegel, Carlito da Silva Evangelista Junior, Carlos Eduardo Morando Faria Ferreira, Carlos Eduardo Viveiros Grelle, Carolina Franco Esteves, Caroline da Costa Espinosa, Caroline Leuchtenberger, Catalina Sanchéz-Lalinde, Cauanne Iglesias Campos Machado, Cecilia Andreazzi, Cecília Bueno, Cecilia Cronemberger de Faria, Claudio Novaes, Cynthia Elisa Widmer, Cyntia Cavalcante Santos, Daniel da Silva Ferraz, Daniel Galiano, Daniela Aparecida Savariz Bôlla, Daniela Behs, Daniele Pereira Rodrigues, Danielle Picão de Melo, Déborah Maria Soares Ramos, Denise Lidório de Mattia, Diego Dias Pavei, Diogo Loretto, Douglas da Silva Huning, Douglas de Matos Dias, Éder Ricardo Paetzhold, Elaine Rios, Eleonore Zulnara Freire Setz, Eliana Cazetta, Emanuel Giovani Cafofo Silva, Emanuelle Pasa, Erica Naomi Saito, Erick Francisco Silva de Aguiar, Érika Paula Castro, Ernesto Bastos Viveiros de Castro, Ezequiel Pedó, Fabiane de Aguiar Pereira, Fábio Bolzan, Fábio de Oliveira Roque, Fábio Dias Mazim, Fábio Henrique Comin, Fábio Maffei, Felipe Bortolotto Peters, Felipe Moreli Fantacini, Felipe Pessoa da Silva, Felipe Santana Machado, Felipe Vélez-Garcia, Fernanda Stussi Duarte Lage, Fernando Araújo Perini, Fernando Camargo Passos, Fernando Carvalho, Fernando Cesar Cascelli de Azevedo, Fernando Ferreira, Fernando Ferreira de Pinho, Flávia Guimarães Chaves, Flavia Regina Miranda, Flavio Henrique Guimarães Rodrigues, Flávio Kulaif Ubaid, Francisco Homem Gabriel, Franco Leandro de Souza, Fred Victor de Oliveira, Gabriel Cupolillo, Gabriela de Araújo Pires Moreira, Gabriela Mette, Gabriela Teixeira Duarte, Gabrielle Beca, Gilberto Corso, Gilmar Perbiche-Neves, Glauber Henrique Borges de Oliveira Souto, Glenda Jéssica da Silva Vilarroel, Graziele O Batista, Guilherme Braga Ferreira, Gustavo Alves da Costa Toledo, Gustavo Senger, Helena de Godoy Bergallo, Hellen Cristina Pinheiro Dos Santos, Humberto Angelo Gazola, Isabel Melo, Ismael Verrastro Brack, Iuri Veríssimo, Ivan Réus Viana, Izabela Costa Laurentino, Jaime Luis Diehl, Jairo José Zocche, Jimi Martins-Silva, João Paulo Gava Just, Jorge José Cherem, Jorge Luiz Nascimento, Jorge Reppold Marinho, José Oliveira Dantas, Jose Roberto de Matos, José Salatiel Rodrigues Pires, Josi Fernanda Cerveira, Juan Ruiz-Esparza, Juliana Paulo da Silva, Juliano André Bogoni, Karina Theodoro Molina, Karla Dayane de Lima Pereira, Karoline Ceron, Kristel de Vleeschouwer, Laís Lautenschlager, Larissa Bailey, Larissa Fornitano, Lilian Elaine Rampim, Lorena Sforza, Luan Gonçalves Bissa, Luca Mattos Santucci, Lucas Gonçalves da Silva, Lucas Neves Perillo, Lucas Ribeiro Correa, Ludmila Hufnagel, Luis Fernando Alberti, Luis Jose Recalde Mello, Luis Renato Rezende Bernardo, Luiz Gustavo Rodrigues Oliveira-Santos, Luiza Neves Guimarães, Maíra Benchimol, Manuela Catharina Twardowschy, Marcela Ferreira-Riveros, Marcelo da Silva, Márcia Maria de Assis Jardim, Marco Aurélio Leite Fontes, Marcos Adriano Tortato, Marcos Tadeu do Nascimento, Margareth Lumy Sekiama, Maria Clara Nascimento-Costa, Maria Ester Bueno Dos Santos, Maria Santina de Castro Morini, Mariana Baldy Nagy-Reis, Mariane da Cruz Kaizer, Mariano José Ribeiro da Silva Sant'Anna, Marilia Teresinha Hartmann, Marina Ochoa Favarini, Marina Oliveira Olivo, Martín Alejandro Montes, Martin Roberto Del Valle Alvaréz, Matheus Feldstein Haddad, Maurício Djalles Costa, Maurício Eduardo Graipel, Mauricio Quoos Konzen, Mauro Galetti, Meyline de Oliveira Souza Almeida, Michel Barros Faria, Micheli Ribeiro Luiz, Michelle Noronha da Matta Baptista, Miguel Ângelo Marini, Milton Cezar Ribeiro, Natalie Olifiers, Natasha Moraes de Albuquerque, Nicolás Cantero, Nivaldo Peroni, Noeli Zanella, Olívia Mendonça-Furtado, Olivier Pays, Orlando Ednei Ferretti, Oscar Rocha-Barbosa, Paloma Marques Santos, Patrícia Menegaz de Farias, Patrício Adriano da Rocha, Paul François Colas-Rosas, Paula Ribeiro-Souza, Paula Ferracioli, Paulo Afonso Hartmann, Paulo de Tarso Zuquim Antas, Paulo Ribeiro, Paulo Tomasi Sarti, Paulo Ivo Mônico, Pedro Volkmer de Castilho, Peônia Brito de Moraes Pereira, Peter Gransden Crawshaw, Pierre-Cyril Renaud, Rafael Spilere Romagna, Rafael Turíbio Moraes de Sousa, Raíssa Soares Spagnol, Raone Beltrão-Mendes, Ravi Fernandes Mariano, Renata Reinoso Rocha, Renata Sousa-Lima, Renata Valls Pagotto, Rhayssa Terra de Faria, Ricardo Corassa Arrais, Ricardo Moratelli, Ricardo Sartorello, Rita de Cassia Bianchi, Roberto de Carvalho Guimarães, Rodrigo Lima Massara, Romulo Theodoro Costa, Rosane Vera Marques, Ruan Márcio Ruas Nunes, Sandra Maria Hartz, Saulo Meneses Silvestre de Sousa, Saulo Ramos Lima, Sergio Lutz Barbosa, Silvia Neri Godoy, Stephen Francis Ferrari, Talita Guimarães de Araújo-Piovezan, Talita Laura Góes, Tatiane Campos Trigo, Thales R O de Freitas, Thiago Bernardes Maccarini, Thiago Marcial de Castro, Thiago Ribas Bella, Tonny Marques de Oliveira Junior, Uslaine Maciel Cunha, Vanessa Tavares Kanaan, Vera Pfannerstill, Victor Siqueira Pimentel, Vilmar Picinatto Filho, Vinícius Nunes Alves, Viviana Rojas-Bonzi, Viviane Mottin, Vlamir José Rocha, Andreas Kindel, Igor Pfeifer Coelho
Camera traps became the main observational method of a myriad of species over large areas. Data sets from camera traps can be used to describe the patterns and monitor the occupancy, abundance, and richness of wildlife, essential information for conservation in times of rapid climate and land-cover changes. Habitat loss and poaching are responsible for historical population losses of mammals in the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot, especially for medium to large-sized species. Here we present a data set from camera trap surveys of medium to large-sized native mammals (>1 kg) across the Atlantic Forest...
April 12, 2024: Ecology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Darin J McNeil, Sarah C Goslee, Melanie Kammerer, Sarah E Lower, John F Tooker, Christina M Grozinger
As insect populations decline in many regions, conservation biologists are increasingly tasked with identifying factors that threaten insect species and developing effective strategies for their conservation. One insect group of global conservation concern are fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae). Although quantitative data on firefly populations are lacking for most species, anecdotal reports suggest that some firefly populations have declined in recent decades. Researchers have hypothesized that North American firefly populations are most threatened by habitat loss, pesticide use, and light pollution, but the importance of these factors in shaping firefly populations has not been rigorously examined at broad spatial scales...
April 10, 2024: Science of the Total Environment
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hayden Tackley, Barret Kurylyk, Craig Lake
Estuaries are vulnerable to oceanic and atmospheric climate change. Much of the research investigating climate change impacts on estuaries is focused on saltwater intrusion within surface water due to drought and rising sea levels, with implications for ecosystems and humans. Groundwater and soil near estuaries may also be influenced, as estuary salinity and hydraulic head changes can impact soils and aquifers not previously at risk of salinization. This study was conducted to address knowledge gaps related to present and future groundwater salinity distribution in a groundwater system connected to a macro-tidal estuary that experiences a tidal bore due to its hydraulic connection to the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, Canada...
April 10, 2024: Science of the Total Environment
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yuanyuan Huang, Xiaodong Song, Ying-Ping Wang, Josep G Canadell, Yiqi Luo, Philippe Ciais, Anping Chen, Songbai Hong, Yugang Wang, Feng Tao, Wei Li, Yiming Xu, Reza Mirzaeitalarposhti, Heba Elbasiouny, Igor Savin, Dmitry Shchepashchenko, Raphael A Viscarra Rossel, Daniel S Goll, Jinfeng Chang, Benjamin Z Houlton, Huayong Wu, Fei Yang, Xiaoming Feng, Yongzhe Chen, Yu Liu, Shuli Niu, Gan-Lin Zhang
Global estimates of the size, distribution, and vulnerability of soil inorganic carbon (SIC) remain largely unquantified. By compiling 223,593 field-based measurements and developing machine-learning models, we report that global soils store 2305 ± 636 (±1 SD) billion tonnes of carbon as SIC over the top 2-meter depth. Under future scenarios, soil acidification associated with nitrogen additions to terrestrial ecosystems will reduce global SIC (0.3 meters) up to 23 billion tonnes of carbon over the next 30 years, with India and China being the most affected...
April 12, 2024: Science
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Linda Berrio-Giraldo, Clara Villegas-Palacio, Santiago Arango-Aramburo, Lina Berrouet
Scenario and policy assessments in socioeconomic and environmental studies face significant challenges in socio-ecological systems (SES). There are a limited number of studies that have looked at the impact of different scenarios within integrated approaches, and many have used a static approach with a single driver of change. The present work analyzes the SES dynamics for a strategic basin in the Colombian Andes when implementing and analyzing scenarios and policies related to land cover and land use change using a system dynamics simulation model...
April 10, 2024: Ambio
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mina Shahed Behrouz, David J Sample, Odhiambo B Kisila, Michael Harrison, Mohammad Nayeb Yazdi, Roja Kaveh Garna
Urbanization changes land cover through the expansion of impermeable surfaces, leading to a significant rise in runoff, sediment, and nutrient loading. The quality of stormwater is related to land use and is highly variable. Currently, stormwater is predominantly described through watershed models that rely minimally, if at all, on field monitoring data. The simple event mean concentration (EMC) wash-off approach by land use is a common method for estimating urban runoff loads. However, a major drawback of the EMC approach is it assumes concentration remains constant across events for a specific land use...
April 9, 2024: Journal of Environmental Management
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Cécile Vulliet, Jack Koci, Marcus Sheaves, Nathan Waltham
Although saltmarshes are critical coastal ecosystems they are threatened by human activities and sea-level rise (SLR). Long-term restoration and management strategies are often hampered by an insufficient understanding of the past, present, and future processes that influence tidal wetland functionality and change. As understanding vegetation distribution in relation to elevation and tidal hydroperiod is often the basis of restoration and management decisions, this study investigated the relationships between micro-topography, tidal hydroperiod, and the distribution of saltmarshes, mangroves, and unvegetated flats in a tropical estuary situated within a Great Barrier Reef Catchment in North Queensland, Australia...
April 4, 2024: Marine Environmental Research
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Xiao Feng, A Townsend Peterson, Luis José Aguirre-López, Joseph R Burger, Xin Chen, Monica Papeş
Species are distributed in predictable ways in geographic spaces. The three principal factors that determine geographic distributions of species are biotic interactions (B), abiotic conditions (A), and dispersal ability or mobility (M). A species is expected to be present in areas that are accessible to it and that contain suitable sets of abiotic and biotic conditions for it to persist. A species' probability of presence can be quantified as a combination of responses to B, A, and M via ecological niche modeling (ENM; also frequently referred to as species distribution modeling or SDM)...
April 10, 2024: Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jiao Ping, Tian Chang-Yan, Hu Shun-Jun
Food security is closely related to the development of human society, and the root of food production lies in cultivated land, with water conservancy as its lifeline. This study estimates the ecological water consumption of located in the arid region of Northwest China (the Karamay region and Muzat River basin) from 1990 to 2020 based on the optimized Land Surface Energy Balance Algorithm. The verification accuracy of SEBAL energy balance model is greatly improved after optimization. It was showed an increasing trend in the Karamay region and Muzat River basin, increasing at the rates of 2...
April 15, 2024: Heliyon
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