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Cultural landscape clustering and zoning of traditional rural settlements [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Settlement cultural landscape serves as a prominent indicator reflecting regional disparities in cultural landscapes, among which the cultural landscape of traditional villages is the most direct and representative manifestation.
Deyi Kong, Xinhui Fei, Ziyi Li
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Effects of Linpan nature therapy on health benefits in older women with and without hypertension

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundNature therapy can significantly benefit the physiology and psychology of middle-aged and older people, but previous studies have focused on forest environments.
Xiang Ye, Zhiwen Dou, Mingyan Jiang, Zhenghua Luo, Mao Li, Haixiong Tang, Xiao Huang, Yuqian Wang, Liwei Dong, Xiaoguang Mao, Yu Feng   +10 more
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Mapping Lost Woodland. An Attempt to Use the Spatial Distribution of Woodland-Related Place Names as a Proxy for Localizing Woodland in the Middle Ages

Rural Landscapes: Society Environment History, 2022
After many centuries, much of Europe is now largely deforested. Today, plans for reforestation are ongoing. These plans have the potential to significantly impact the landscape.
Bert Groenewoudt, Gijs Eijgenraam, Theo Spek, Menne Kosian   +3 more
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Two New Ways of Documenting Miniature Incisions Using a Combination of Image-Based Modelling and Reflectance Transformation Imaging

Remote Sensing, 2020
Digital 3D documentation methods such as Image-Based Modelling (IBM) and laser scanning have become increasingly popular for the recording of entire archaeological sites and landscapes, excavations and single finds during the last decade.
Dag-Øyvind E. Solem, Erich Nau
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An English Life in Landscape: Watching Landscape Research Over Half a Century

Journal of Landscape Ecology, 2022
From a largely autobiographical perspective, the development of the European concept of landscape is considered through the last fifty years, focussed on the gap between the environmental idea which has progressively become more ecological, so the ...
Howard Peter
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Landscape of culture and culture of landscape: does landscape ecology need culture? [PDF]

Landscape Ecology, 2010
The objects of study in landscape ecology becomeincreasingly ‘‘cultural.’’ Humans now appropriateabout 24% the Earth’s terrestrial net primary pro-ductivity (Haberl et al. 2007), and almost all ecosys-tems and landscapes around the world have beeninfluenced or even ‘‘domesticated’’ by humans(Kareiva et al. 2007). Landscapes are endowed with,and continue
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Residential greenness for mitigating impacts of extreme heat events on depression and supporting mental health

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundResidential green spaces (RGS) are a crucial aspect of urban life, which provide residents with a positive living environment both for mental and physical well-being.
Ying Yang, Yixin Zhang, Yixin Zhang, Shaojie Sheng   +3 more
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Woodland Dynamics as a Result of Settlement Relocation on Pleistocene Sandy Soils in the Netherlands (200 BC–AD 1400)

Rural Landscapes: Society Environment History, 2015
In this paper we investigate the potential of charcoal kilns as indicators (proxy data) of the interaction between settlement dynamics and the history of woodland presence, composition and structure.
Bert Groenewoudt, Theo Spek
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The Star-Beings and stones: Petroforms and the reflection of Native American cosmology, myth and stellar traditions

Journal of Lithic Studies, 2017
Native American myths, legends and oral traditions are rich with stories of giant beings existing in ancient times. They all talk of giant Thunderers or Thunder-beings, giant snakes and great Thunderbirds.
Herman E. Bender
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Variability of yield and forage quality between three heading groups of english ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) during the first growth / Variabilität von Ertrag und Futterqualität zwischen drei Reifegruppen von Englischem Raygras (Lolium perenne L.) im Verlauf des ersten Aufwuchses

Die Bodenkultur, 2016
Lolium perenne L. (Lp) zählt zu den wichtigsten und wertvollsten Futtergräsern im Grünland und ist ein unverzichtbarer Bestandteil von Saatgutmischungen für Dauerwiesen, Dauerweiden, Feldfutter sowie Nachsaaten.
Poetsch Erich M., Resch Reinhard, Krautzer Bernhard   +2 more
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