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Diverse Prairie Mixtures Stabilize Biomass Yields for Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Meeting global demand for sustainable aviation fuel will require the additional production of vast quantities of plant biomass, which does not compete with food production or degrade sensitive ecosystems. Our multisite experiment shows that sowing diverse native prairie seed mixes—and managing them without intensive inputs—yields a more reliable ...
Craig R. See, Yi Yang, Jacob M. Jungers
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing Urban Landscape Variables’ Contributions to Microclimates [PDF]

Advances in Meteorology, 2016
The well-known urban heat island (UHI) effect recognizes prevailing patterns of warmer urban temperatures relative to surrounding rural landscapes. Although UHIs are often visualized as single features, internal variations within urban landscapes create distinctive microclimates. Evaluating intraurban microclimate variability presents an opportunity to
Parece, Tammy E., Li, Jie, Campbell, James B. Jr., Carroll, David F.   +3 more
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Past, present and future of local crop evolution

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Promoting agrobiodiversity is a promising strategy for mitigating the negative effects of climate change on global food security. We highlight the central role evolutionary processes play in harnessing the potential of local crops by integrating genomics, archaeology, ethnobotany and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK).
Nataly Allasi Canales, Philippa Ryan, Amy Jackson, Hong Phuong Le, James Borrell, Aaron Davis, Rafal M. Gutaker   +6 more
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Influence of land use on urban climate of a small town - doi: 10.4025/actascitechnol.v35i2.13703

Acta Scientiarum: Technology, 2013
This study aimed to quantify the influence of anthropogenic activity in changing the microclimate of the urban area of a small town. To this end, the temperature and relative humidity were monitored over six days using a direct-reading thermo-hygrometers
Aparecido Ribeiro Andrade, Gustavo Sartori Pottker, Paulo Costa Oliveira Filho, Artur Lourival da Fonseca Machado   +3 more
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Climate requirements for cultivated Liberica coffee (Coffea liberica) and consequences for its use and development as a crop species

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The global coffee industry, supporting 25 million smallholder farmers, is vulnerable to climate change. Diversifying the coffee species portfolio beyond Arabica and robusta is a promising intervention. Liberica coffee could provide adaptive capacity, although its climate parameters for cultivation are poorly known.
Isobel M. J. Wild, Aaron P. Davis, Kenny Wee Ting Lee, Justin Moat   +3 more
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Impacts of Microclimate Conditions on the Energy Performance of Buildings in Urban Areas

Buildings, 2019
Urbanization trends have changed the morphology of cities in the past decades. Complex urban areas with wide variations in built density, layout typology, and architectural form have resulted in more complicated microclimate conditions.
Kavan Javanroodi, Vahid M. Nik
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Tool comparison for urban microclimate modelling

, 2020
Deliverable Technical Report / Cooling Singapore, D1.2.4 ...
Adelia, Ayu Sukma, Nevat, Ido, Acero, Juan Angel, Li, Shiying, Ruefenacht, Lea   +4 more
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A walk in the park—Identifying healthy greenspaces using scents

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
As urbanisation accelerates globally, access to nature is increasingly recognised as vital for public health and wellbeing. We captured and analysed plant‐emitted airborne ‘scent signatures’ across Oxford's urban greenspaces to assess their potential health relevance.
William T. Kay, Anya Lindström Battle, Mahal Humberstone, Molly Tucker, Kieran E. Storer, Geoffrey Kite, Katherine Willis   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Parameter investigation for urban surface‐energy balance: A large‐eddy simulation study

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.
Large eddy simulation modelling is used to investigate the variation in surface‐energy balance (SEB) across an ensemble of morphometrically identical urban geometries. The geometries have the same plan‐area fraction, vegetated fraction, and frontal‐area index, but are unique in terms of building and green‐space layout.
Christopher E. Wilson, Jonathan K. P. Shonk, Sylvia I. Bohnenstengel, Athanasios Paschalis, Maarten van Reeuwijk   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Large‐scale characterization of horizontal forest structure from remote sensing optical images

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Sub‐meter resolution remote sensing data and tree crown segmentation techniques hold promise in offering detailed information that can support the characterization of forest structure from a horizontal perspective, offering new insights in the tree crown structure at scale.
Xin Xu, Martin Brandt, Xiaowei Tong, Maurice Mugabowindekwe, Yuemin Yue, Sizhuo Li, Qiue Xu, Siyu Liu, Florian Reiner, Kelin Wang, Zhengchao Chen, Yongqing Bai, Rasmus Fensholt   +12 more
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