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Land, 2022 This paper presents the results of 30 years of permafrost thermal monitoring in the Tiksi area in the eastern Russian Arctic. At a stone ridge site, the mean annual temperatures in the upper 30 m of the ground have increased by 1–2.4 °C compared to the ...
Pavel Konstantinov +6 more
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Land, 2022 In the last two decades in Central Yakutia, there has been a significant change in cryogenic landscapes related to climate warming and anthropogenic disturbances.
Marat I. Petrov +3 more
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Adaptive cycles of floodplain vegetation response to flooding and drying [PDF]
Earth Surface Dynamics, 2016 Flooding is a key driver of floodplain vegetation productivity. Adaptive cycles provide a model for examining the productivity of semi-arid floodplain vegetation in response to hydrology.
R. Thapa +3 more
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Challenges to Implementing the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
Land, 2023 The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has been a pivotal international instrument for global biodiversity conservation since 1992. The recent Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) aims to provide a pathway for the CBD for the ...
Qingyang Li +2 more
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Barren plateaus in quantum neural network training landscapes [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2018 Many experimental proposals for noisy intermediate scale quantum devices involve training a parameterized quantum circuit with a classical optimization loop.
J. McClean +4 more
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Fruitful exchanges: social networks and food resources amidst change
Agriculture & Food Security, 2022 Background The Amazon region of Brazil is known both for its significant biological and cultural diversity. It is also a region, like many parts of the country, marked by food insecurity, even amongst its rural agricultural populations.
Sam Schramski +1 more
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A Framework for Reviewing Silvopastoralism: A New Zealand Hill Country Case Study
Land, 2021 Silvopastoral systems can be innovative solutions to agricultural environmental degradation, especially in hilly and mountainous regions. A framework that expresses the holistic nature of silvopastoral systems is required so research directions can be ...
Thomas H. Mackay-Smith +4 more
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EVALUATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS OF THE NEA PAPHOS LOCATION IN CYPRUS (IV BC - IV AD) IN THE LIGHT OF PHYSICO-GEOGRAPHICAL MAPPING OF GEOSYSTEMS [PDF]
Acta Geobalcanica, 2021 In 2014-2019, geoarchaeological research of the ancient city Nea Paphos and the Paphos region (SW Cyprus) was carried out. One of the aims was to determine the environmental factors for the location and functioning of this city in the period from 4th BC ...
Sławomir Chwałek, Tomasz Kalicki
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Land, 2021 The peatlands of the West Siberian Lowlands, comprising the largest pristine peatland area of the world, have not previously been covered by continuous measurement and monitoring programs.
Egor Dyukarev +12 more
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People and Nature, 2022 The idea of which species are native, based on their biogeographic origin, is central to many policies and programmes. Yet definitions are contested and the meanings of ‘nativeness’ are often complex and confusing for many people.
Haylee Kaplan +2 more
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