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Extraction of Sparse Vegetation Cover in Deserts Based on UAV Remote Sensing

Remote Sensing
The unique characteristics of desert vegetation, such as different leaf morphology, discrete canopy structures, sparse and uneven distribution, etc., pose significant challenges for remote sensing-based estimation of fractional vegetation cover (FVC ...
Jie Han, Jinlei Zhu, Xiaoming Cao, Lei Xi, Zhao Qi, Yongxin Li, Xingyu Wang, Jiaxiu Zou   +7 more
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Temporal changes in habitat structure and gastropod community assemblage in response to active restoration of a Central American mangrove

Frontiers in Marine Science
Mangrove forests are biodiversity hotspots that provide critical ecosystem services, from coastal protection to carbon storage. Yet, these ecosystems are disappearing at alarming rates, and while restoration efforts are expanding globally, long-term ...
Linda López-Abuchar, Christian Peralta-Madriz, Carolina Soto-Navarro, Gabriela Vinueza-Hidalgo, Andrew Whitworth, Christopher Beirne   +5 more
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Responses of leaf economic traits of Scirpus validus and Typha orientalis to simulated warming and CO2 concentration multiplication

Guangxi Zhiwu, 2023
Climate change is an environmental issue of common concern to the international community. The response of plants to climate change reflects the growth and survival strategies of plants in response to climate change.
Hongyan YU, Mei SUN, Chunhui FENG, Junping XU, Hongyi CHEN, Zhenya LIU   +5 more
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Marina el-Alamein : Polish-Egyptian restoration mission : conservation work in 2008 [PDF]

, 2011
Current conservation work, covering clearing under archaeological supervision, architectural inventory and study of the remains, conservation, restoration and anastylosis of architectural elements and decoration (columns, bench) where applicable, was ...
Bąkowska-Czerner, Grażyna, Czerner, Rafał, Kucharczyk, Renata, Lis, Joanna, Medeksza, Stanisław, Zambrzycki, Piotr   +5 more
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The substantial first impact of bottom fishing on rare biodiversity hotspots: a dilemma for evidence-based conservation [PDF]

, 2013
The present study set out to describe the impact of a single first passage of two types of bottom fishing gear on rare protected shellfish beds formed by the horse mussel Modiolus modiolus.
Cook, Robert Lewis, Fariñas-Franco, Jose, Gell, Fiona, Holt, Rohan, Holt, Terry, Lindenbaum, Charles, Porter, Joanne, Sanderson, William, Seed, Raymond, Skates, Lucie, Stringell, Thomas   +10 more
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Linking forest ecosystem services to corporate sustainability disclosure: A conceptual analysis [PDF]

, 2015
Despite the increasing awareness of corporate dependencies and impacts on ecosystems, and related business risks and opportunities, scientific and corporate-based information on these issues is lacking.
D'amato, Dalia, Li, Ning, Lu, F-F., Rekola, Mika, Toppinen, Anne   +4 more
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A Satellite View of the Wetland Transformation Path and Associated Drivers in the Greater Bay Area of China during the Past Four Decades

Remote Sensing
As a highly productive and biologically diverse ecosystem, wetlands provide unique habitat for a wide array of plant and animal species. Owing to the strong disturbance by human activities and climate change, wetland degradation and fragmentation have ...
Kun Sun, Weiwei Yu
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Experimenting with the design of policies on sustainable resource management : A proposal for Cirad's involvement in a transversal socio-economics component of DMP in West Africa [PDF]

, 2004
In our proposal, public policy is approached as a social mediation process, where actors and sectors confront their representations, objectives, and constraints.
Leclerc, Grégoire
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Offshore Neopycnodonte oyster reefs in the Mediterranean Sea [PDF]

, 2020
© The Author(s), 2020. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Angeletti, L., & Taviani, M. Offshore Neopycnodonte oyster reefs in the Mediterranean Sea. Diversity,
Angeletti, Lorenzo, Taviani, Marco
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Laser-Accelerated proton beams as diagnostics for cultural heritage [PDF]

, 2017
This paper introduces the first use of laser-generated proton beams as diagnostic for materials of interest in the domain of Cultural Heritage. Using laser-accelerated protons, as generated by interaction of a high-power short-pulse laser with a solid ...
ANTICI, PATRIZIO, Barberio, M., SCISCIO', MASSIMILIANO, Veltri, S.   +3 more
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