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Geodiversity is an inseparable but underutilized aspect of ecological connectivity assessments under climate change

Ecography, EarlyView.
Conservation has shifted towards a climate change adaptation approach in which expected species range shifts are increasingly considered to mitigate effects of climate change and habitat fragmentation on biodiversity. As part of this, ecological connectivity needs to be ensured to support gene flow and viable populations in the face of changing ...
Aino‐Maija Määttänen, Maria Hällfors, Julia Kemppinen   +2 more
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Powerful yet challenging: mechanistic niche models for predicting invasive species potential distribution under climate change

Ecography, EarlyView.
Risk assessments of invasive species present one of the most challenging applications of species distribution models (SDMs) due to the fundamental issues of distributional disequilibrium, niche changes, and truncation. Invasive species often occupy only a fraction of their potential environmental and geographic ranges, as their spatiotemporal dynamics ...
Erola Fenollosa, Sean E. H. Pang, Natalie J. Briscoe, Antoine Guisan, Roberto Salguero-Gómez   +4 more
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Lagged responses in the composition of small mammal communities to a century of climate change

Ecography, EarlyView.
Climate change has widespread effects on the distribution, abundance and behavior of species around the world, leading to the reshuffling of ecological communities. However, it remains unclear whether individual species' range shifts scale up to result in communities whose rate of change lag, lead, or track the rate of climate change. We capitalized on
Ethan Abercrombie, Jonathan A. Myers, Richard L. Usdin, Adam B. Smith   +3 more
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Comparative Analysis of Housing Systems: Microclimate, Production Performance, and Economic Efficiency in Broiler Housing System

Animal Production: Indonesian Journal of Animal Production
Microclimate conditions significantly influence broiler production efficiency in tropical climates. This study evaluated microclimate conditions and their impact on production and economic efficiency in open, semi-closed, and closed housing systems.
Roni Fadilah, Elly Tugiyanti, Rosidi, Ismoyowati, Novie Andri Setianto   +4 more
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Warming summers limit reindeer grazing, weakening herbivory pressure in the mountain tundra

Ecography, EarlyView.
Climate change is predicted to alter species interactions by exposing ecosystems to increasingly frequent and intense warm spells. In the mountain tundra, grazing by large herbivores, particularly reindeer, can limit shrub expansion and preserve Arctic plant diversity.
Marianne Stoessel, Akiko Kato, Regina Lindborg   +2 more
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A Model Integrating Theory and Simulation to Establish the Link Between Outdoor Microclimate and Building Heating Load in High-Altitude Cold Regions

Buildings
The heating load of residential buildings is closely related to the local microclimate. However, there is a lack of quantitative indicators for assessing the impact of the outdoor microclimate on building heating loads in Lhasa residential buildings ...
Jiaqin Han, Xing Li, Yingzi Zhang
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Integrating Remote Sensing and Machine Learning for Enhanced Surface Urban Heat Island Analysis and Its Impact on Building Energy Demand

Energy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.
Satellite (MODIS) mapping links Urban Heat Island (UHI) intensity to city‐scale energy demand—higher daytime cooling demand and altered nighttime heating demand—supporting targeted mitigation and planning. ABSTRACT This study examines the surface urban heat island (SUHI) effect on building energy consumption in Tehran from 1998 to 2024, utilizing MODIS
Rasool Maroofiazar, Ali Maboudi Reveshti
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Late summer plateau pika spatial habitat use revealed by high‐resolution wildlife tracking and unmanned aerial vehicle data on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau

Grassland Research, EarlyView.
Tiny “ecosystem engineers,” plateau pikas range across 1600 m², about two basketball courts, mixing soil and nutrients that sustain Tibet's fragile grasslands. Custom‐made trackers and drone imagery show dawn‐to‐dusk surface foraging and nested‐scale patch choices, offering fresh guidance for wildlife‐friendly grazing management.
Dan Li, Johannes M. H. Knops, Li Li
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Effectiveness of integrated shrub management and restoration techniques for rehabilitating shrub‐encroached rangelands of South Africa

Grassland Research, EarlyView.
Herbaceous plant recovery following shrub clearing and reseeding in the rangelands of Peddie, Eastern Cape of South Africa. CTL, control; CO, cutting only; CR, cutting and reseeding; UPO, uprooting only; UPR, uprooting and reseeding. Abstract Background Shrub encroachment (SE) drives rangeland degradation, threatening biodiversity and forage ...
Monelisi Makanya, Khanyisa Jama, Mthunzi Mndela, Sinalo Malindie   +3 more
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CFD Analysis of Dual‐Layer PCM Roofs for Thermal Mitigation in Residential Buildings

Heat Transfer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a computational fluid dynamics analysis of dual‐layer phase change material (PCM) roofs for passive cooling in residential buildings under the hot and humid climate of Bangladesh. A three‐dimensional transient model was developed in ANSYS Fluent using the enthalpy–porosity approach to simulate coupled heat conduction ...
Mohammad Junaid, Sakhawat Hossan Robel, Mahmud Or‐Rashid, Pabel Shahrear, Md Shajedul Karim, Suvash C. Saha, Goutam Saha   +6 more
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