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What's there beyond the sun and the sea? Detecting tourists' interest towards nature in a mass tourism destination using social media data

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Nature‐based tourism is a rapidly growing subsector of the international tourism industry. However, capturing broad‐scale patterns of nature visits during touristic trips or visitors' appreciation of nature may be difficult using traditional data sources and methods. In this study, we harness geotagged social media data to understand the scale
Matti Hästbacka, Tatu Leppämäki, Anna Hausmann, Matías Manuel González Hernández, Tuuli Toivonen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Landscape Context and Water Quality Differentially Associated with Waterbird Diversity in Coal-Mining Subsidence Lakes

Diversity
Coal-mining subsidence lakes are an expanding artificial wetland type in China, yet the relationships between waterbird diversity components and water-quality and landscape gradients remain unclear.
Zihao Sun, Yunwei Song, Jinming Zhao
doaj   +1 more source

Economic Governance to Expand Commercial Wetlands: Within- and Cross-Scale Challenges [PDF]

, 2011
Commercial wetlands are defined as wetlands directed by an entrepreneur with the intention of making a profit. The combination of ecosystem services that commercial wetlands can provide seems to be an attractive societal perspective.
Blaeij, A.T., de, Polman, N.B.P., Reinhard, A.J.   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Inter‐Annual Variation in Alpha and Beta Diversity of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Communities in Agricultural Ditches

River Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ditches are essential elements of the agricultural landscape because of their role as habitat or refuge for aquatic species, especially in homogenized and intensively cultivated areas. However, data on the biodiversity associated with agricultural ditches, and its variation over time, are underrepresented in ecological research.
Michela Rappocciolo, Martina Chiorino, Elide Sgarella, Davide Solazzo, Cristina Spreafico, Alberto Doretto   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Macroinvertebrate assemblages and biodiversity levels: ecological role of constructed wetlands and artificial ponds in a natural park

Journal of Limnology, 2014
Constructed wetlands play an important role in water supply, floodwater retention and nutrient removal, at the same time allowing the restoration of lost habitat and the preservation of biodiversity.
Laura Sartori, Sergio Canobbio, Riccardo Cabrini, Riccardo Fornaroli, Valeria Mezzanotte   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effects of Engineered Dam Releases on Benthic Assemblages During Drought and Comparison With Unregulated Reaches

River Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT River regulation following damming is often associated with deleterious downstream effects, in large part due to reduced total discharge and disruption of seasonal flooding. These effects would be expected to be exacerbated by drought, particularly extended drought.
Jeffrey G. Holmquist, Jutta Schmidt‐Gengenbach   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using time‐series remote sensing to identify and track individual bird nests at large scales

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Time‐series airborne imagery can potentially track individuals over time to collect information beyond one‐off counts. Using weekly UAS‐based imagery of wading bird colonies, we develop an automated approach to identifying nests. Our algorithmic approach detected 68–74% of known nests and exhibited similar performance to human review of imagery ...
S. K. Morgan Ernest, Lindsey A. Garner, Ben G. Weinstein, Peter Frederick, Henry Senyondo, Glenda M. Yenni, Ethan P. White   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing the potential for tertiary nitrification in sub-surface flow constructed wetlands [PDF]

, 2016
The challenge of how to maintain or improve wastewater treatment performance without causing an excessive increase in energy or costs is increasingly focussed towards ammonia.
Butterworth, Eleanor, Dotro, Gabriela, Jefferson, Bruce, Jones, Mark, Richards, Andrew   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Lacking data? No worries! How synthetic images can alleviate image scarcity in wildlife surveys: A case study with muskox (Ovibos moschatus)

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
This study investigates the integration of synthetic imagery, created with diffusion‐based models, to supplement limited training data and improve muskox (Ovibos moschatus) detection in zero‐shot (ZS) and few‐shot (FS) settings. ZS models detected more than 80% of muskoxen in real images, confirming the potential of synthetic data as a substitute for ...
Simon Durand, Samuel Foucher, Alexandre Delplanque, Joëlle Taillon, Jérôme Théau   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Study on the Optimization of Carbon Sequestration in Shanghai’s Urban Artificial Wetlands: The Cases of Shanghai Fish and Dishui Lake

Land
The study focused on optimizing carbon sequestration in urban artificial wetlands, using the Shanghai Fish and Dishui Lake as case studies. As cities like Shanghai experienced rapid urbanization, natural wetland areas diminished, making artificial ...
Jin Wang, Jingren Yu, Manjuan Shen, Shengquan Che   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source