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Asymmetric Responses of Ecosystem Health to Urbanization in a Typical Karst City: Spatiotemporal Patterns and Driving Mechanisms in Guilin, China

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Urban expansion can substantially reshape ecosystem structure and functioning, especially in ecologically fragile Karst landscapes. Clarifying how ecosystem health (EH) responds to urbanization and identifying the factors that drive spatial variation in EH are important for regional sustainability.
Jinlong Hu, Zhenhong Bin, Yingxue Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative assessment of empirical and hybrid machine learning models for estimating daily reference evapotranspiration in sub-humid and semi-arid climates. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Acharki S, Raza A, Vishwakarma DK, Amharref M, Bernoussi AS, Singh SK, Al-Ansari N, Dewidar AZ, Al-Othman AA, Mattar MA.   +9 more
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Afforestation Partially Offsets Losses of Soil Conservation Services and Carbon Stock From Direct and Indirect Urban Expansion in China

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Urban expansion has exerted both direct and indirect impacts on natural land and ecosystem services it supports, driven by increasing population and food demand, yet these underlying pathways remain insufficiently distinguished. Here, we quantified the losses of soil conservation services (water erosion regulation and sandstorm prevention) and
Shuai Liu, Ting Hua, Shurong Zhang, Yiman Zhang, Wenwu Zhao   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reference evapotranspiration estimation using reanalysis and WaPOR products in dryland Croplands. [PDF]

Heliyon
Veysi S, Nouri M, Jabbari A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Determining the Optimal Water Storage Depth of Apple Orchards in the Chinese Loess Plateau: Balancing Soil Desiccation Mitigation, Plant Utilization, and Engineering Construction

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Deep‐rooted plantations are central to dryland ecological restoration, yet their long‐term cultivation drives widespread deep soil desiccation, threatening ecosystem sustainability. While artificial water replenishment is a key deep soil desiccation mitigation strategy, the depth‐dependent positional effect of stored water on eco‐hydrological ...
Haoyan Wei, Xuguang Zhang, Yanwei Lu, Sk Shamshul Alam Kamar, Hailong He, Xia Wang, Min Li   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The optimal alternative for quantifying reference evapotranspiration in climatic sub-regions of Bangladesh. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2020
Salam R, Islam ARMT, Pham QB, Dehghani M, Al-Ansari N, Linh NTT.   +5 more
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Ecological Challenges and Strategic Responses to China's Quantitative Rigidity of Cultivated Land Protection

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Balancing food security and ecological sustainability has become a critical challenge for land governance in rapidly urbanizing countries. China has successfully maintained national cultivated land quantity through a comprehensive farmland protection regime.
Yuzhe Wu, Zhuofan Li, Xinyan Shen
wiley   +1 more source

Performance evaluation of different empirical models for reference evapotranspiration estimation over Udhagamandalm, The Nilgiris, India. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Raja P, Sona F, Surendran U, Srinivas CV, Kannan K, Madhu M, Mahesh P, Annepu SK, Ahmed M, Chandrasekar K, Suguna AR, Kumar V, Jagadesh M.   +12 more
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Spatiotemporal Interactions of Land Use Change, Land Surface Temperature, and Vegetation Dynamics in China's Caohai National Nature Reserve

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding the spatiotemporal dynamics of land use change (LUC), land surface temperature (LST), and vegetation indices is critical for assessing ecological changes and informing sustainable land management. This study investigates the long‐term interrelationships between LUC, LST, and vegetation indices in China's Caohai National Nature ...
Yin Su, Ran Liu, Jie Liu, Xiaohui Xue
wiley   +1 more source

EvatCrop: a novel hybrid quasi-fuzzy artificial neural network (ANN) model for estimation of reference evapotranspiration. [PDF]

PeerJ
Banerjee G, Sarkar U, Sarkar S, Ghosh I.
europepmc   +1 more source