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Impacts of land use on climate and ecosystem productivity over the Amazon and the South American continent

Environmental Research Letters, 2017
The Amazon basin is characterized by a strong interplay between the atmosphere and vegetation. Anthropogenic land use and land cover change (LULCC) affects vegetation and the exchange of energy and water with the atmosphere.
M Wu, G Schurgers, A Ahlström, M Rummukainen, P A Miller, B Smith, W May   +6 more
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Architected Load Paths Enable Stiffening and Motion Programming in Soft Pneumatic Actuators

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A single MARS template introduces an architected reinforcement strategy for programmable soft pneumatic actuators through internal structural organization and selective beam removal. This monolithic architecture enables deformation reconfiguration from continuous bending to joint‐like articulation and torsional motion, allowing one compliant platform ...
Jie Wang, Yuwen Wu, Yuze Zhang, Ye Wei, Yuting Ma, Yingxiang Liu, Kai Guo   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimized Land–Water Management Expands Afforestation Potential Under Land and Human Water‐Use Constraints

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Human water demand constrains China's feasible afforestation potential more strongly than is commonly recognized, and future climate change further intensifies this limitation. Integrating land‐use optimization with water‐saving measures substantially expands feasible afforestation area and associated carbon sinks, revealing a practical pathway to ...
Binbin Huang, Fei Lu, Yuebo Su, Xuming Wang, Hua Zheng, Zhiyun Ouyang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aspects of vegetation resilience and change in relation to major environmental disturbances in the semi-arid parts of Kordofan region-Sudan [PDF]

, 1990
The aim of this study has been to investigate the different responses of vegetation to the major environmental disturbances and discontinuities in Kordofan region of the Sudan.
Yousif A. El-mahi, El-Mahi, Yousif A.
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Vine‐Inspired Soft Robotics: Materials, Actuations, and Emerging Applications

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Vine‐inspired robots grow from the tip, enabling navigation through confined spaces with minimal disturbance. This Review summarizes material and actuation strategies for vine‐inspired growth, key functions including steering, retraction, attachment, branching, and variable stiffness, and emerging applications spanning medical intervention, confined ...
Jiahao Wu, Xingyun Liu, Fangzhou Wang, Huili Ren, Chaojun Zhang, Ziyu Ren, Zunqi Liu, Jing Li   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Land potential assessment and trend-analysis using 2000–2021 FAPAR monthly time-series at 250 m spatial resolution [PDF]

PeerJ
The article presents results of using remote sensing images and machine learning to map and assess land potential based on time-series of potential Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR) composites. Land potential here refers to
Julia Hackländer, Leandro Parente, Yu-Feng Ho, Tomislav Hengl, Rolf Simoes, Davide Consoli, Murat Şahin, Xuemeng Tian, Martin Jung, Martin Herold, Gregory Duveiller, Melanie Weynants, Ichsani Wheeler   +12 more
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Rhizodeposition Drives One Third of Belowground Carbon Input in Agroecosystems

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study quantifies photosynthesized C allocation in the plant–soil system across six crop types: barley, wheat, maize, rice, legumes and grasses. It reports C partitioning into shoot respiration, shoot‐C, root‐C, net rhizodeposition and root‐derived CO2, providing standardized percentage averages and GPP‐derived absolute values as a robust baseline ...
Zhengjun Yan, Yuan Wen, Jie Zhou, Yakov Kuzyakov, Damien Beillouin, Johannes Lehmann, Yadong Yang, Yiqi Luo, Pete Smith, Zhaohai Zeng, Huadong Zang   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nutrient deficit rather than distance of farming activities from the boundary of protected areas drives crop raids by elephants

Ecology and Society
Human-wildlife conflicts resulting from the raiding of agricultural crops by elephants are among the major challenges affecting the conservation of this flagship species.
Lackson Chama, Stanford Mudenda Siachoono, Darius Phiri   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Native vegetation of the southern forests : south-east highlands, Australian alps, south-west Slopes, and SE Corner bioregions [PDF]

, 2013
The Southern Forests study area covers an area of about six million hectares of south-eastern New South Wales, south of Oberon and Kiama and east of Albury and Boorowa (latitude 33° 02’–37 ° 06’ S; longitude 146° 56’ – 147° 06’ E).
Gellie, Nicholas James Holman
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Advancing vegetation classification of grassland ecosystems across Asia: current status and way forward [PDF]

This editorial introduces the Special Collection "Grasslands of Asia" in Vegetation Classification and Survey, highlighting the urgent need for systematic vegetation classification across Asia’s diverse grassland ecosystems. Despite their vast ecological,
Nowak, N., Naqinezhad, A., Biurrun, B., Chepinoga, V., Dengler, J.   +4 more
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