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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Improved bore-sight calibration for airborne light detection and ranging using planar patches
This article proposes an improved method for bore-sight calibration based on the principles of symmetry of coordinate offsets and low correlations between bore-sight angles.
The Lancet Countdown: tracking progress on health and climate change
This article outlines the potential indicators and indicator domains to be tracked by the Lancet Countdown working groups, with suggestions on the methodologies and datasets available to achieve this end.
LiDAR Data for Characterizing Linear and Planar Geomorphic Markers in Tectonic Geomorphology
This paper provides a brief review of airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data for characterizing linear and planar geomorphic markers in tectonic geomorphology, including traces of active faults and surface deformation caused by earthquakes. Challenges and opportunities of LiDAR for the study of tectonic geomorphology and coseismic deformation are also discussed.
A Low-Cost GPS-Based Protocol to Create High-Resolution Digital Elevation Models for Remote Mountain Areas
This article describes the use of a low-cost GPS-based protocol to construct a high-resolution digital elevation model for a rugged, remote mountain site in the northern Peruvian Andes.
Mapping Mountain Pine Beetle Mortality through Growth Trend Analysis of Time-Series Landsat Data
This article presents a forest growth trend analysis method that integrates Landsat temporal trajectories and decision tree techniques to derive annual forest disturbance maps over an 11-year period.
Meta-discoveries from a synthesis of satellite-based land-cover mapping research
This article provides a spatialized database of scientific literature in English about land-cover mapping.
Monitoring Annual Urban Changes in a Rapidly Growing Portion of Northwest Arkansas with a 20-Year Landsat Record
This article employs a time series Landsat stack covering the period from 1995 to 2015 to detect the urban dynamics in Northwest Arkansas via a two-stage classification approach.
Nitrate and Chloride Concentrations in Groundwater beneath a Portion of the Trinity Group Outcrop Zone, Texas
This article discusses a study in which the authors evaluated spatial distributions of nitrate and chloride concentrations in groundwater in an area of north-central Texas with agricultural activity, in addition to oil and natural gas exploration and activity.
Potential Hazards of Wind Energy For Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Birds and Batsin Texas
This article discusses the potential hazards of wind energy for rare, threatened, and endangered birds and bats in Texas.
Soil Diversity as Affected by Land Use in China: Consequences for Soil Protection
This article reports the first effort to assess the impact of land-use change on soil diversity for the entire nation of China.
Spatial Distribution of Solutes in Aquifer Outcrop Zones along the Brazos River, East-Central Texas
Article discussing the spatial distribution of solutes in aquifer outcrop zones along the Brazos River, East-Central Texas.
Sustainable Science? Reducing the Carbon Impact of Scientific Mega-Meetings
This article uses 9 years of annual meeting attendance data from the Ecological Society of American and the Association of American Geographers to assess the efficacy of two additional solutions: 1) alternate large national meetings that require significant air travel with smaller regional meetings that do not; and 2) incorporate geography into the meeting location selection process.
TNR and conservation on a university campus: a political ecological perspective
Article discussing TNR and conservation on a university campus and a political ecological perspective.
Validation of a Non-Targeted LC-MS Approach for Identifying Ancient Proteins: Method Development on Bone to Improve Artifact Residue Analysis
This article discusses validation of the potential of an extraction and characterization approach via application to ancient bone proteins, as part of a larger method-development project for innovation and improvement of liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry analysis of protein residues from cooking pottery.
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