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- The 2017 Report of The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: From 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health
- This article summarizes key messages from 40 indicators in the Lancet Countdown's 2017 report.
- Aberturas del dosel y espectro de la luz en el sotobosque de una selva nublada andina de Venezuela
- Article on canopy gaps and understory light spectrum in a Venezuelan Andean cloud forest.
- Adaptación de un modelo de claros para el estudio de la dinámica de un bosque estacional en los llanos occidentales de Venezuela
- Article discussing the adaptation of a gap model to the study of the dynamics of a seasonal forest in the western plains of Venezuela.
- Adjusting Sowing Dates Improved Potato Adaptation to Climate Change in Semiarid Region, China
- This article examines how potato production can be improved by altering planting date in China’s semiarid region, thus improving potato adaptation to climate change.
- Algunos criterios para el establecimiento de prioridades de investigacion en el eje fluvial Orinoco-Apure
- This report reflects the efforts of the Office of the Orinoco-Apure Project to define an environmental policy based research delineating priority areas of research and identification of potential environmental impacts of the project.
- An Analysis of the Habitat of the Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros Rhinoceros Unicornis (Mammalia: Perissodactyla: Rhinocerotidae) at the Chitwan National Park, Nepal
- This article uses geographic information systems and landscape-level data obtained from remote sensing sources to build a habitat suitability index model for the Greater One-horned Rhinoceros.
- Archaeology, Heritage, and Moral Terrains: Two Cases from the Mesa Verde Region
- This article applies an environmental justice lens to two archaeological research narratives, one centering on chemical analysis of biomolecular artifact residues and the other on paleohydrology and Pueblo farming.
- Assessing potential impacts of CO2 - and deforestation - induced climate change on maize and black bean in Venezuela
- Article on assessing potential impacts of CO2 and deforestation induced climate change on maize and black bean in Venezuela.
- The Association between Hantavirus Infection and Selenium Deficiency in Mainland China
- This article studies the role of selenium concentration in hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) caused by hantaviruses, using a multidisciplinary approach combining ecological analysis with preliminary experimental data.
- Biomass burning drives atmospheric nutrient redistribution within forested peatlands in Borneo
- This article quantifies the influence of fire on biogeochemical fluxes of nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur in a 12 ha forested peatland in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
- Bird watching in China reveals bird distribution changes
- This article describes the development of the China Bird Watching Database and its use to understand bird distribution changes.
- Book Review:Quantitative Paleozoology
- Book Review of "Quantitative Paleozoology" written by R. Lee Lyman.
- Book Review: The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature
- Book Review of "The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature" written by David George Haskell.
- Book Review: The Pursuit of Ecotopia: Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World
- Book Review of "The Pursuit of Ecotopia: Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World" written by Eugene N. Anderson.
- Buruli Ulcer Disease and Its Association with Land Cover in Southwestern Ghana
- This article presents the first analysis of Buruli ulcer at the village level in southwestern Ghana, where prevalence rates are among the highest globally, and explores fine and medium-scale associations with land cover by comparing patterns both within Buruli ulcer clusters and surrounding landscapes.
- Characterizing recent and projecting future potential patterns of mountain pine beetle outbreaks in the Southern Rocky Mountains
- This article aims to quantify the landscape-level drivers that explain the dynamic patterns of mountain pine beetle (MPB) mortality, and simulate areas with future potential MPB mortality under projected climate-change scenarios in Grand County, Colorado, USA.
- A China data set of soil properties for land surface modeling
- This article describes the use of a comprehensive 30x30 arc-second resolution gridded soil characteristics data set of China for land surface modeling.
- Climate change and human infectious diseases: A synthesis of research findings from global and spatio-temporal perspectives
- This article shows that over the past few decades, the reported negative or uncertain responses of infectious diseases to climate change has been growing.
- Combining Spatial-Temporal and Phylogenetic Analysis Approaches for Improved Understanding on Global H5N1 Transmission
- This article reports an interdisciplinary effort that combines the geospatial informatics approach with a bioinformatics approach to form an improved understanding on the transmission mechanisms of H5N1 virus.
- Comparison of different methods for monitoring glacier changes observed by Landsat images
- This paper presents three methods for classifying glacier boundaries, compares the three methods to provide advice on how to choose an appropriate method, and analyzes the relationship between glacier change and the trends of precipitation and temperature.
- A Comparison of Least Squares Regression and Geographically Weighted Regression Modeling of West Nile Virus Risk Based on Environmental Parameters
- This article discusses the effectiveness of utilizing local spatial variations in environmental data to uncover the statistical relationships between West Nile Virus (WNV) risk and environmental factors.
- Complejo Hidroelectrico General Jose Antonio Paez: Sedimentos en el Embalse
- This report is on a study to quantify the production of sediment created by erosion in the upper basin of the Rio Santo Domingo dam site and determine the magnitude of the problem of sedimentation in the "Hydroelectric Complex General Jose Antonio Paez" reservoir.
- Controlling Gully Erosion with Earth Dams in North-Central Texas
- This article describes the use of earth dams for controlling gully erosion in part of the Eastern Cross Timbers of North-Central Texas.
- Creased-Plastic Rock Permeameter for Hydrogeology Students
- This article discusses the use of creased-plastic permeameters as an inexpensive way for students to estimate the hydraulic conductivity of local rock aquifers.
- Crecimiento diamétrico de especies arbóreas en un bosque estacional de los Llanos occidentales de Venezuela
- Article discussing the diametric tree growth in functional groups species in a seasonal forest of the Venezuelan western plains.
- Delayed Antarctic melt season reduces albedo feedback
- Article discusses how Antarctica's response to climate change varies greatly both spatially and temporally. The authors used a 43-year record of Antarctic snow melt seasons from space-borne microwave radiometers with a machine-learning algorithm to show that both the onset and the end of the melt season are being delayed.
- Delta-Flux: An Eddy Covariance Network for a Climate-Smart Lower Mississippi Basin
- This article describes the rationale to create the new Delta-Flux network, which will coordinate efforts to quantify carbon and water budgets at seventeen eddy covariance flux tower sites in the Lower Mississippi River Basin.
- Detecting Stems in Dense and Homogeneous Forest Using Single-Scan TLS
- This article presents a new method to automatically detect stems in dense and homogeneous forest using single-scan terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) data.
- Dinámica y Control de Malezas Acuáticas en Algunas Islas de la Zona Protegida Delta del Río Orinoco
- Report on the dynamics and control of aquatic weeds in some islands of the protected area of the Orinoco Delta.
- Ecological Responses of Venezuelan Savannas to Global Climate Change: Workshop Report
- Report from a workshop on ecological responses of Venezuelan savannas to global climate change.
- Editorial: Applications of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) in Geosciences
- This article contains an editorial on applications of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) in Geosciences.
- Efficiency Comparison of Variably-Spaced, Non-Pumped Wells for Filtering Polluted Groundwater
- This article investigates the capability of variably-spaced arrays of non-pumped wells, filled with reactive media, to filter a hypothetical contaminant plume.
- Estimating FPAR of Maize Canopy Using Airborne Discrete-Return LiDAR Data
- This article tests a method to estimate the fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (FPAR) of maize from airborne discrete-return LiDAR data.
- Estimating Individual Tree Height and Diameter at Breast Height (DBH) from Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) Data at Plot Level
- This article explores the methods of using terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) technology to obtain point cloud data and estimate individual tree height and diameter at breast height (DBH) at plot level in regions with complex terrain.
- Ethics Gaming Survey Results
- Dataset generated for a National Science Foundation grant project, "EAGER: Prototyping a Virtue Ethics Game." These files contain the research results of the pre-test and post-test surveys.
- Ethnobiology 5: Interdisciplinarity in an Era of Rapid Environmental Change
- This article argues that ethnobiology is preadapted to be a scholarly umbrella for a number of disciplines that concern human-environment interactions, suggesting that two goals of Ethnobiology 5 are to bridge traditional academic boundaries in order to broaden the community of ethnobiologists, and to capitalize on and communicate the relevance of ethnobiological scholarship for solving problems related to contemporary environmental and cultural crises.
- Evaluating Nitrogen Management Practices for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction in a Maize Farmland in the North China Plain: Adapting to Climate Change
- Article describes how quantification of the trade-offs among greenhouse gas emissions, yield, and farmers' incomes is essential for proposing economic and environmental nitrogen (N) management strategies for optimizing agricultural production. A four year field experiment was conducted on maize in the North China Plain.
- Evaluation of Climate Change Impacts on Wetland Vegetation in the Dunhuang Yangguan National Nature Reserve in Northwest China Using Landsat Derived NDVI
- This article uses 41 Landsat images between 1988 and 2016 to calculate the normalized difference vegetation indices (NVDIs) of the wetland vegetation at Xitugou (XTG) and Wowachi (WWC) inside the Dunhuang Yangguan National Nature Reserve in northwest China in order to assess the impacts of climate change on wetland vegetation.
- Evaluation of Threshold Selection Methods for Adaptive Kernel Density Estimation in Disease Mapping
- This article assesses the relative performance of threshold selection methods in terms of resolution and reliability for disease mapping.
- Evaluation Of WEPP For Runoff And Sediment Yield Prediction On Natural Gas Well Sites
- This article discusses the evaluation of Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) for runoff and sediment yield prediction on natural gas well sites, instead of focusing only on the effects on fields, rangelands, and forests.
- Forest above Ground Biomass Inversion by Fusing GLAS with Optical Remote Sensing Data
- This article describes a study combining Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) data with MODIS/BRDF (Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function) and ASTER GDEM data to estimate forest aboveground biomass in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China.
- Geographic Distribution of HIV/AIDS in Texas
- This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on HIV/AIDS. This presentation discusses the geographic distribution of HIV/AIDS in Texas and the associated factors.
- Geophysical Prospecting for Oil and Gas Well Effluent
- This article describes the evaluation of the utility of an earth resistivity system for detecting drilling effluent at a site in the Trinity Group outcrop zone.
- GPS: Rocket
- This video discusses research on developing a rocket recovery system with sensor networks and wireless communication. The research team project was to develop a GPS/GSM based tracking system for the recovery of high power model rockets. This research is part of Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Sensor Education, a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded grant project.
- GPS Tracking of High Power Model Rockets
- Poster presented as part of the Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Sensor Education, a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded grant project. This poster discusses research on GPS/GSM based tracking systems for the recovery of high power model rockets.
- A Graben in the Eagle Ford Shale, Lewisville, Texas
- This article describes a graben bounded by normal faults in an outcrop of the Eagle Ford formation within Denton County.
- Growth dynamics of tropical savanna grasses: from individual shoots to plant models
- Paper presented at the First Biennial Meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society in 2002. This paper discusses growth dynamics of tropical savanna grasses from individual shoots to plant models.
- Health and Climate Change: policy responses to protect public health
- This article summarizes key messages from the 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change, accompanied by ten underlying recommendations to accelerate action in the next 5 years.
- Heterogeneidad estructural y lumínica del sotobosque de una selva nublada andina de Venezuela
- Article discussing the understory of an Andean cloud forest in the Sierra Nevada National Park, Venezuela.
- A History of Geography at the University of North Texas
- This article provides a history of the Geography Department at the University of North Texas.