Balancing tracks and trees: Assessing railroad impact on Brazilian biodiversity
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.The Brazilian West–East Integration Railway (FIOL) aims to boost the national economy by improving commodity transport; however, it crosses three of Brazil's most biodiverse and fragile regions: the Caatinga, Cerrado and Atlantic Forest. Using digitised plant records and land‐use analyses, our study reveals significant vegetation loss within the ...
Ana Luiza Silva Rocha +3 more
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Design of global climate control based on fuzzy systems with concept of carbon emissions. [PDF]
PLoS OneNaseer S +5 more
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Development and adoption of Kernza—A perennial grain crop for sustainable agriculture
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Annual cereal grains account for ~50% of human food calories, but cultivation of these crops has resulted in major environmental and social issues worldwide. For nearly three decades, researchers have been breeding intermediate wheatgrass—a perennial cool‐season grass—to serve as the world's first commercial‐scale perennial grain crop to improve ...
Jessica L. Gutknecht +15 more
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CrAssphage distribution analysis in an Amazonian river based on metagenomic sequencing data and georeferencing. [PDF]
Appl Environ MicrobiolMartins DT +6 more
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Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.October 2019 was characterized by three main multiday wet spells in Bafoussam and Dschang. Our results indicated that wet spells were influenced by a vortex pair near the Gulf of Guinea, a strong Sahara Heat Low located anomalously far east and north, a northward shift of the intertropical discontinuity, an enhancement of the inland penetration of the ...
Derbetini A. Vondou +3 more
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A comprehensive dataset of agarwood tree (<i>Aquilaria Malaccensis</i>) leaf images for disease analysis in Brunei Darussalam. [PDF]
Data BriefShafik W +7 more
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Long‐Term Effects of Low‐Drop Grade Control Structures on Channel Evolution in the Yazoo River Basin
River Research and Applications, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Channel incision is a widespread problem, especially in river basins that have an extensive history of channel alterations. Because channel incision causes large ecological and economic consequences, the prevention of continued migration of headcuts, defined as a steep change in stream gradient over a short reach, has been the focus of many ...
Nicky M. Faucheux +2 more
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Population growth poses a significant threat to forest ecosystems: A case study from the Hindukush-Himalayas of Pakistan. [PDF]
PLoS OneAlam N +5 more
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Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.Tree canopy height is a key indicator of forest biomass and structure, yet accurate mapping across the Amazon remains challenging. Here, we generated a canopy height map of the Amazon forest at ~4.8 m resolution using Planet NICFI imagery and a deep learning U‐Net model trained with airborne LiDAR data.
Fabien H. Wagner +21 more
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Modeling land use and land cover dynamics of Bale Mountains National Park using Google Earth Engine and cellular automata-artificial neural network (CA-ANN) model. [PDF]
PLoS OneTiye FS +3 more
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