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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

Effects of fire timing and snow cover on tallgrass prairie plant re-emergence phenology, growth rate, and flowering. [PDF]

Ecol Appl
Homann MA, Damschen EI.
europepmc   +1 more source

Protection status, human disturbance, snow cover and trapping drive density of a declining wolverine population in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2022
Barrueto M, Forshner A, Whittington J, Clevenger AP, Musiani M.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Revealing Dust Source Changes in East Asia From Past to Future: An Interpretable Deep Learning Approach

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aeolian dust source areas are controlled by climate and human activities and are closely associated with land degradation, yet their long‐term evolution under global warming remains insufficiently quantified. An integrated framework that couples a U‐Net segmentation model with Shapley Additive Explanations (SHAP) was built to map and attribute
Yanyu Li, Qizhong Wu, Xueshun Chen, Jiang Yue, Jieying He, Huaqiong Cheng   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The effects of human activity and snow cover on the distribution of mammals and terrestrial birds in the Altai Mountains under climate change. [PDF]

Commun Biol
Tao X, Liu X, Cui S, Guo S, Li C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Habitat, Snow-Cover and Soil pH, Affect the Distribution and Diversity of Mortierellaceae Species and Their Associations to Bacteria. [PDF]

Front Microbiol, 2021
Telagathoti A, Probst M, Peintner U.
europepmc   +1 more source

Integrating Grain to Ground Motion Data for Critical Rock Bridge and Slope Failure Analysis

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rock masses can fail catastrophically with little warning, yet their stability depends on hidden internal connections that channel forces and localise damage. Among these, rock bridges–a “known unknown” in slope mechanics–lock fractured rock and control how failure unfolds, but their concealed geometry and uncertain strength obscure where and ...
Antoinette Tordesillas, Shuo Zhou, Leonnardo Probst, Pat Bellett, Michal Nitka, Jacek Tejchman   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intensified occurrences of snow droughts are related to the snow cover dynamics in the Hindu Kush Himalayas. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Singh H, Varade D, Gupta V.
europepmc   +1 more source

Elevation‐dependent soil and plant responses to a decade of warming and species removal

Oikos, EarlyView.
Understanding how ecosystems retain or release carbon under warming is a critical challenge. Dominant plant species, which contribute the most biomass, can mediate ecosystem responses to warming by modifying microclimate and nutrient cycling. To investigate how warming and shifts in plant dominance interact to affect carbon and nutrient dynamics, we ...
Anna Wootton, Olivia K. Vought, Isabel E. Thornberry, Carol Adair, Karin Rand, Maxwell Landsman‐Gerjoi, Aimée T. Classen   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of current and warmer climate conditions on snow cover loss in burned forests. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Koshkin A, Marshall AM, Rittger K.
europepmc   +1 more source