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Vulnerability of Farmer Households to Climate Change in Rocky Desertification Areas—A Case Study of Guizhou Province

Land
Climate change significantly impacts the livelihoods of farmer households. Particularly vulnerable areas, both economically and environmentally, face significant threats from climate change.
Xian Liu, Shiwei Liu, Rutong Wang, Hanya Tang, Feng Zhang, Luyao Jia, Xizao Sun   +6 more
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Monsoon climate variability over the past century recorded by laminae stalagmite δ18O from southeastern Chongqing,China

Carsologica Sinica
This study adopted the stalagmite sample TK22-1 collected from Tiankeng Cave in Youyang Autonomous County, Chongqing, China, as the research object. A high-resolution δ18O sequence spanning the past century was reconstructed through a combination of high-
Meng GONG, Xunlin YANG, Xiaoyan GE, Wenming ZHOU, Sinan WANG, Guofeng LI, Wanli XIANG   +6 more
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Soil Organic Carbon Prediction Using Sentinel-2 Data and Environmental Variables in a Karst Trough Valley Area of Southwest China

Remote Sensing, 2023
Climate change is closely linked to changes in soil organic carbon (SOC) content, which affects the terrestrial carbon cycle. Consequently, it is essential for carbon accounting and sustainable soil management to predict SOC content accurately.
Ting Wang, Wei Zhou, Jieyun Xiao, Haoran Li, Li Yao, Lijuan Xie, Keming Wang   +6 more
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A preliminary report on the contact-independent antagonism of Pseudogymnoascus destructans by Rhodococcus rhodochrous strain DAP96253. [PDF]

, 2014
BackgroundThe recently-identified causative agent of White-Nose Syndrome (WNS), Pseudogymnoascus destructans, has been responsible for the mortality of an estimated 5.5 million North American bats since its emergence in 2006.
Barlament, Courtney K, Cornelison, Christopher T, Crow, Sidney A, Gabriel, Kyle T, Keel, M Kevin, Pierce, George E, Tucker, Trudy A   +6 more
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Spatio-temporal patterns and determinants of energy efficiency across China’s provinces

Sustainable Futures
Improving energy efficiency is a critical pathway for facilitating energy transition and mitigating climate change. This study employs the Super-SBM model to measure provincial energy efficiency in China from 2010 to 2022, followed by the Global ...
Min Wan, Dewei Yang, Shuai Zhang, Yijia Ji, Junmei Zhang, Haishan Meng, Hang Yang   +6 more
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Spatio-Temporal Variations of Ecosystem Water Use Efficiency and Its Drivers in Southwest China

Land, 2023
Water use efficiency (WUE) has garnered considerable attention at global and regional levels. However, spatio-temporal variations of WUE and related influencing factors in the complex karst landforms of southwest China require further elucidation. Herein,
Ji Zhang, Shiqi Yang, Shengtian Yang, Li Fan, Xu Zhou   +4 more
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Karst ecosystem observation and assessment at local and regional scales [PDF]

InterCarto. InterGIS, 2019
The highly sensitive and vulnerable karst ecosystem in Southwest China is one of the largest exposed carbonate rock areas (more than 0.54 million km2) in the world, hosting 220 million people. Rocky desertification is the most serious eco-environmental problems in China karst.
Wang, Kelin, Yue, Yuemin, Brandt, Martin, Tong, Xiaowei   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

European Mixed Forests: definition and research perspectives [PDF]

, 2014
peer-reviewedAim of study: We aim at (i) developing a reference definition of mixed forests in order to harmonize comparative research in mixed forests and (ii) briefly review the research perspectives in mixed forests.
Ammer, Christian, Andenmatten, Ernesto, Barbati, Anna, Barreiro, Susana, Brang, Peter, Bratislav, Matovic, Bravo, Felipe, Bravo-Oviedo, Andres, Coll, Lluis, Corona, Piermaria, del Rio, Miren, den Ouden, Jan, Ducey, Mark J., Forrester, David I., Giergiczny, Marek, Jacobsen, Jette B., Kris, Verheyen, Lesinski, Jerzy, Löf, Magnus, Mason, Bill, Metslaid, Marek, Morneau, François, Motiejunaite, Jurga, O’Reilly, Conor, Pach, Maciej, Ponette, Quentin, Pretzsch, Hans, Short, Ian, Skovsgaard, Jens Peter, Soliño, Mario, Spathelf, Peter, Sterba, Hubert, Stojanovic, Dejan, Strelcova, Katarina, Svoboda, Miroslav, Svoboda, Miroslav, von Lüpke, Nikolas, Zlatanov, Tzvetan   +37 more
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Subterranean environments contribute to three‐quarters of classified ecosystem services

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Beneath the Earth's surface lies a network of interconnected caves, voids, and systems of fissures forming in rocks of sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic origin. Although largely inaccessible to humans, this hidden realm supports and regulates services critical to ecological health and human well‐being.
Stefano Mammola, David Brankovits, Tiziana Di Lorenzo, Isabel R. Amorim, Raluca Ioana Bancila, Adrià Bellvert, Enrico Bernard, Anna Blomberg, Paulo A.V. Borges, Martina Cappelletti, Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira, Rosalina Gabriel, Diana M. P. Galassi, Laura Garzoli, Vasilis Gerovasileiou, Grant C. Hose, Kathryn L. Korbel, Simone Martino, Ana Z Miller, Nataša Mori, Veronica Nanni, Giuseppe Nicolosi, Mattia Saccò, Troy S. Sakihara, Marconi Souza Silva, Anne E. Tamalavage, Maja Zagmajster, Efraín Chávez, Christian Griebler, Pedro Cardoso, Alejandro Martínez   +30 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the effects of ICT on urbanization in China: evidence from a provincial spatial panel data model

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
The study investigates the intricate relationships between ICT and urbanization through the application of spatial panel data models. The analysis is based on data collected from 31 provincial cities in China over the period from 2012 to 2021.
Di Wang, Zhaohui Sun, Renhao Yang, Qingyuan Yang   +3 more
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