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The 2023 China report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: taking stock for a thriving future

Description: Authors of the article declare that, with growing health risks from climate change and a trend of increasing carbon emissions from coal, it is time for China to take action. The 2023 China report of the Lancet countdown continues to track progress on health and climate change in China, while now also attributing the health risks of climate change to human activities and providing examples of feasible and effective climate solutions.
Date: November 18, 2023
Creator: Zhang, Shihui; Zhang, Chi; Cai, Wenjia; Bai, Yuqi; Callaghan, Max; Chang, Nan et al.
Partner: UNT College of Science
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Accuracy of long-term volunteer water monitoring data: A multiscale analysis from a statewide citizen science program

Description: Article describes study which assesses the relative accuracy of volunteer water quality data collected by the Texas Stream Team (TST) citizen science program from 1992–2016 across the State of Texas by comparing it to professional data from corresponding stations during the same time period.
Date: January 29, 2020
Creator: Albus, Kelly Hibbeler; Thompson, Rudi; Mitchell, Forrest; Kennedy, James H. & Ponette-González, Alexandra G.
Partner: UNT College of Science
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Airborne LiDAR Intensity Correction Based on a New Method for Incidence Angle Correction for Improving Land-Cover Classification

Description: This article considers positional shift and rotation angle deviation of the laser scanner and the inertial measurement unit (IMU) and presents a new method for calculating the incident angle based on the rigorous geometric measurement model for airborne light detection and range (LiDAR).
Date: February 1, 2021
Creator: Wu, Qiong; Zhong, Ruofei; Dong, Pinliang; Mo, You & Jin, Yunxiang
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Ambient urban N deposition drives increased biomass and total plant N in two native prairie grass species in the U.S. Southern Great Plains

Description: This article studies atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition in urban areas on two native prairie grass species, Schizachyrium scoparium and Nasella leucotricha. Findings indicate that while native prairie grasses may exhibit a positive biomass response to increased N deposition up to ~18 kg ha⁻¹ yr⁻¹, total inorganic N deposition is well above the estimated critical load for herbaceous plant species richness in the tallgrass prairie of the Great Plains ecoregion and thus may negatively affect thes… more
Date: May 6, 2021
Creator: Ponette-González, Alexandra G.; Green, Michelle L.; McCullars, Justin & Gough, Laura
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Animal Resource Use Related to Socioenvironmental Change among Mesa Verde Farmers

Description: Article is a case study of Mesa Verde subsistence utilizing optimal foraging theory models from evolutionary ecology to study small animal resource use during the Pueblo II to Terminal Pueblo III periods.
Date: July 11, 2019
Creator: Nagaoka, Lisa; Wolverton, Steven J. & Ellyson, Laura J.
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Assessing the Impact of the Built-Up Environment on Nighttime Lights in China

Description: Article describes study investigating the effects of the built-up environment on artificial light at night, focusing on construction region environments on nighttime brightness and variation with building heights and regional economic development level in China.
Date: July 19, 2019
Creator: Wang, Cheng; Qin, Haiming; Zhao, Kaiguang; Dong, Pinliang; Yang, Xuebo; Zhou, Guoqing et al.
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Assessment of personal exposure to particulate air pollution: the first result of City Health Outlook (CHO) project

Description: First paper of a series on the City Health Outlook (CHO) project, which aims to establish multi-scale, long-lasting, real-time urban environment and health monitoring networks. This paper is targeted at illustrating the characteristics of the participants and examining the effects of different covariates on personal exposure at various air pollution exposure levels.
Date: June 7, 2019
Creator: Liang, Lu; Gong, Peng; Cong, Na; Li, Zhichao; Zhao, Yu & Chen, Ying
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Automatic Extraction of Grasses and Individual Trees in Urban Areas Based on Airborne Hyperspectral and LiDAR Data

Description: This article proposes a three-dimensional (3D) vegetation extraction workflow to extract urban grasses and trees at individual tree level in urban areas using airborne LiDAR and hyperspectral data. Results suggest that two- and three-dimensional urban vegetation extraction could play a significant role in spatial layout optimization and scientific management of urban vegetation.
Date: August 23, 2020
Creator: Man, Qixia; Dong, Pinliang; Yang, Xinming; Wu, Quanyuan & Han, Rongqing
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Changes in Deep Soil Water Content in the Process of Large-Scale Apple Tree Planting on the Loess Tableland of China

Description: This article evaluates the effects of orchard development on deep soil water content (SWC) by using a meta-analysis of 162 sampling sites on the loess tableland from 44 peer-reviewed publications. The results showed that the deep SWC in orchards depended on stand age, planting density and annual precipitation.
Date: January 23, 2021
Creator: Wang, Yaping; Yan, Weiming; Han, Xiaoyang; Pan, Feifei; Cheng, Liping & Liu, Wenzhao
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Combined influence of soil moisture and atmospheric humidity on land surface temperature under different climatic background

Description: Article describes how soil moisture (SM) and atmospheric humidity (AH) are crucial climatic variables that significantly affect the climate system. However, the combined influencing mechanisms of SM and AH on the land surface temperature (LST) under global warming are still unclear. The authors systematically analyzed the interrelationships among annual mean values of SM, AH, and LST using ERA5-Land reanalysis data and revealed the role of SM and AH on the spatiotemporal variations of LST throu… more
Date: May 9, 2023
Creator: Jiang, Kang; Pan, Zhihua; Pan, Feifei; Teuling, Adriaan J.; Han, Guolin; An, Pingli et al.
Partner: UNT College of Science
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A Comparative Study of Water Indices and Image Classification Algorithms for Mapping Inland Surface Water Bodies Using Landsat Imagery

Description: This article presents a comparative study of water indices and image classification algorithms for mapping inland water bodies using Landsat imagery through obtaining 24 high-resolution (≤5 m) and cloud-free images archived in Google Earth with the same (or ±1 day) acquisition dates as the Landsat-8 OLI images over 24 selected lakes across the globe, and developing a method to generate the alternate ground truth data from the Google Earth images for properly evaluating the Landsat image classif… more
Date: May 18, 2020
Creator: Pan, Feifei; Xi, Xiaohuan & Wang, Cheng
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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A Constrained Stochastic Weather Generator for Daily Mean Air Temperature and Precipitation

Description: This article develops and tests a constrained stochastic weather generator (CSWG) for producing daily mean air temperature and precipitation based on annual mean air temperature and precipitation from tree-ring records. It presents a unique method that can be used to explore historic (e.g., archeological questions) or future (e.g., climate change) daily weather conditions based upon specified annual values.
Date: January 21, 2021
Creator: Pan, Feifei; Nagaoka, Lisa; Wolverton, Steven J.; Atkinson, Samuel F.; Kohler, Timothy A. & O'Neill, Marty
Partner: University of North Texas
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Dialectical materialism: Marx’s method in human geography?

Description: Article is a self-critique of human geography that explicates the basic tenets of dialectical materialism in Marx’s work and presents some human geography research that engages with dialectical materialism.
Date: May 29, 2019
Creator: Chatterjee, Ipsita & Ahmed, Waquar
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Estimating landscape structure effects on pollination for management of agricultural landscapes

Description: Article estimating the effects of different scenarios of forest fragmentation to find an optimized pattern of forest patches for increasing pollination in an agricultural landscape. The authors use simulated agricultural landscapes and landscape metrics to estimate the relationship between pollination and landscape structure.
Date: September 7, 2021
Creator: Rahimi, Ehsan; Barghjelveh, Shahindokht & Dong, Pinliang
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Estimating potential range shift of some wild bees in response to climate change scenarios in northwestern regions of Iran

Description: Article investigating the impact of climate change on distributional and habitat quality changes of five wild bees in northwestern regions of Iran under two representative concentration pathway scenarios (RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5). This study uses species distribution models to predict the potential range shift of these species in the year 2070.
Date: August 14, 2021
Creator: Rahimi, Ehsan; Barghjelveh, Shahindokht & Dong, Pinliang
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Exploring the socio-economic and environmental components of infectious diseases using multivariate geovisualization: West Nile Virus

Description: Article focusing on West Nile Virus (WNV), a mosquito borne pathogen, as a case study for spatial data visualization of environmental characteristics of a vector’s habitat alongside human demographic composition for understanding potential public health risks of infectious disease.
Date: July 27, 2020
Creator: Kala, Abhishek K.; Atkinson, Samuel F. & Tiwari, Chetan
Partner: University of North Texas
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Extracting Information on Rocky Desertification from Satellite Images: A Comparative Study

Description: This article uses three common open-access satellite image datasets (Sentinel-2B, Landsat-8, and Gaofen-6) for extracting information on rocky desertification in a typical karst region (Guangnan County, Yunnan) of southwest China, using three machine-learning algorithms implemented in the Python programming language: random forest (RF), bagged decision tree (BDT), and extremely randomized trees (ERT).
Date: June 26, 2021
Creator: Pu, Junwei; Zhao, Xiaoqing; Dong, Pinliang; Wang, Qian & Yue, Qifa
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Extraction of Urban Objects in Cloud Shadows on the basis of Fusion of Airborne LiDAR and Hyperspectral Data

Description: This article, fused airborne LiDAR and hyperspectral data were used to extract urban objects in cloud shadows.The experimental results confirm that the proposed method is very effective for urban object extraction in cloud shadows and thus improve urban applications such as urban green land management, land use analysis, and impervious surface assessment.
Date: March 25, 2019
Creator: Man, Qixia & Dong, Pinliang
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Fertility knowledge, contraceptive use and unintentional pregnancy in 29 African countries: a cross-sectional study

Description: Article examines the association between incorrect knowledge of ovulation and unintentional pregnancy/child among young women in sub-Saharan Africa countries.
Date: April 9, 2020
Creator: Oppong, Joseph R.; Iyanda, Ayodeji Emmanuel; Dinkins, Barbara J.; Osayomi, Tolulope; Adeusi, Temitope Joshua & Lu, Yongmei
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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