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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Bikem Ekberzade, Omer Yetemen, Yasemin Ezber, Omer Lutfi Sen, Hasan Nuzhet Dalfes
UNLABELLED: At the current juncture with climate change, centennial projections of species distributions in biodiversity hotspots, using dynamic vegetation models may provide vital insight into conservation efforts. This study aims to answer: (1) if climate change progresses under a business-as-usual scenario of anthropogenic emissions for this century, how may the forest ranges be affected? (2) will there be potential regional extinctions of the taxa simulated? (3) may any site emerge as a potential refugium? STUDY AREA: Anatolian Peninsula and its surroundings, longitudes 24-50° E, latitudes 33-46° N...
April 2024: Ecology and Evolution
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Pablo Andrés Gil-Leguizamón, Jaime Francisco Pereña-Ortiz, Daniel Sánchez-Mata, Ángel Enrique Salvo-Tierra, Jorge David Mercado-Gómez, María Eugenia Morales-Puentes
Landscape changes based on spectral responses allow showing plant cover changes through diversity, composition, and ecological connectivity. The spatial and temporal vegetation dynamics of the Bijagual Massif from 1986 to 2021 were analyzed as a measure of ecological integrity, conservation, and territory. The covers identified were high open forest (Hof), dense grassland of non-wooded mainland (Dgnm), a mosaic of pastures and crops (Mpc), lagoons (Lag), and bare and degraded lands (Bdl). The Bijagual Massif has 8574...
March 25, 2024: Plants (Basel, Switzerland)
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Armin Moghimi, Vahid Sadeghi, Amin Mohsenifar, Turgay Celik, Ali Mohammadzadeh
Relative radiometric normalization (RRN) is a critical pre-processing step that enables accurate comparisons of multitemporal remote-sensing (RS) images through unsupervised change detection. Although existing RRN methods generally have promising results in most cases, their effectiveness depends on specific conditions, especially in scenarios with land cover/land use (LULC) in image pairs in different locations. These methods often overlook these complexities, potentially introducing biases to RRN results, mainly because of the use of spatially aligned pseudo-invariant features (PIFs) for modeling...
April 2, 2024: Sensors
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ingridi Camboim Franceschi, Rubem Augusto da Paixão Dornas, Isabel Salgueiro Lermen, Artur Vicente Pfeifer Coelho, Ademir Henrique Vilas Boas, Adriano Garcia Chiarello, Adriano Pereira Paglia, Agnis Cristiane de Souza, Alana Rafaela Borsekowsky, Alessandro Rocha, Alex Bager, Alexander Zaidan de Souza, Alexandre Martins Costa Lopes, Aloysio Souza de Moura, Aluane Silva Ferreira, Alvaro García-Olaechea, Ana Cláudia Delciellos, Ana Elisa de Faria Bacellar, Ana Kellen Nogueira Campelo, Ana Maria Oliveira Paschoal, Anderson Claudino Rolim, André Luiz Ferreira da Silva, Andre Monnerat Lanna, André Pereira da Silva, Andresa Guimarães, Ângela Cardoso, Angelica Soligo Cassol, Anna Ludmilla da Costa-Pinto, Ariel Guilherme Santos do Nascimento, Arthur Soares Fernandes, Aryanne Clyvia, Aureo Banhos Dos Santos, Barbara Lima-Silva, Beatriz de Mello Beisiegel, Beatriz Fernandes Lima Luciano, Bernardo de Faria Leopoldo, Bruna Nunes Krobel, Bruno Busnello Kubiak, Bruno Henrique Saranholi, Bruno Senna Correa, Caio Sant Anna Teixeira, Camila Rezende Ayroza, Camila Righetto Cassano, Camilo Benitez-Riveros, Carla Cristina Gestich, Carla Denise Tedesco, Carla Gheler-Costa, Carla Grasiele Zanin Hegel, Carlito da Silva Evangelista Junior, Carlos Eduardo Morando Faria Ferreira, Carlos Eduardo Viveiros Grelle, Carolina Franco Esteves, Caroline da Costa Espinosa, Caroline Leuchtenberger, Catalina Sanchéz-Lalinde, Cauanne Iglesias Campos Machado, Cecilia Andreazzi, Cecília Bueno, Cecilia Cronemberger de Faria, Claudio Novaes, Cynthia Elisa Widmer, Cyntia Cavalcante Santos, Daniel da Silva Ferraz, Daniel Galiano, Daniela Aparecida Savariz Bôlla, Daniela Behs, Daniele Pereira Rodrigues, Danielle Picão de Melo, Déborah Maria Soares Ramos, Denise Lidório de Mattia, Diego Dias Pavei, Diogo Loretto, Douglas da Silva Huning, Douglas de Matos Dias, Éder Ricardo Paetzhold, Elaine Rios, Eleonore Zulnara Freire Setz, Eliana Cazetta, Emanuel Giovani Cafofo Silva, Emanuelle Pasa, Erica Naomi Saito, Erick Francisco Silva de Aguiar, Érika Paula Castro, Ernesto Bastos Viveiros de Castro, Ezequiel Pedó, Fabiane de Aguiar Pereira, Fábio Bolzan, Fábio de Oliveira Roque, Fábio Dias Mazim, Fábio Henrique Comin, Fábio Maffei, Felipe Bortolotto Peters, Felipe Moreli Fantacini, Felipe Pessoa da Silva, Felipe Santana Machado, Felipe Vélez-Garcia, Fernanda Stussi Duarte Lage, Fernando Araújo Perini, Fernando Camargo Passos, Fernando Carvalho, Fernando Cesar Cascelli de Azevedo, Fernando Ferreira, Fernando Ferreira de Pinho, Flávia Guimarães Chaves, Flavia Regina Miranda, Flavio Henrique Guimarães Rodrigues, Flávio Kulaif Ubaid, Francisco Homem Gabriel, Franco Leandro de Souza, Fred Victor de Oliveira, Gabriel Cupolillo, Gabriela de Araújo Pires Moreira, Gabriela Mette, Gabriela Teixeira Duarte, Gabrielle Beca, Gilberto Corso, Gilmar Perbiche-Neves, Glauber Henrique Borges de Oliveira Souto, Glenda Jéssica da Silva Vilarroel, Graziele O Batista, Guilherme Braga Ferreira, Gustavo Alves da Costa Toledo, Gustavo Senger, Helena de Godoy Bergallo, Hellen Cristina Pinheiro Dos Santos, Humberto Angelo Gazola, Isabel Melo, Ismael Verrastro Brack, Iuri Veríssimo, Ivan Réus Viana, Izabela Costa Laurentino, Jaime Luis Diehl, Jairo José Zocche, Jimi Martins-Silva, João Paulo Gava Just, Jorge José Cherem, Jorge Luiz Nascimento, Jorge Reppold Marinho, José Oliveira Dantas, Jose Roberto de Matos, José Salatiel Rodrigues Pires, Josi Fernanda Cerveira, Juan Ruiz-Esparza, Juliana Paulo da Silva, Juliano André Bogoni, Karina Theodoro Molina, Karla Dayane de Lima Pereira, Karoline Ceron, Kristel de Vleeschouwer, Laís Lautenschlager, Larissa Bailey, Larissa Fornitano, Lilian Elaine Rampim, Lorena Sforza, Luan Gonçalves Bissa, Luca Mattos Santucci, Lucas Gonçalves da Silva, Lucas Neves Perillo, Lucas Ribeiro Correa, Ludmila Hufnagel, Luis Fernando Alberti, Luis Jose Recalde Mello, Luis Renato Rezende Bernardo, Luiz Gustavo Rodrigues Oliveira-Santos, Luiza Neves Guimarães, Maíra Benchimol, Manuela Catharina Twardowschy, Marcela Ferreira-Riveros, Marcelo da Silva, Márcia Maria de Assis Jardim, Marco Aurélio Leite Fontes, Marcos Adriano Tortato, Marcos Tadeu do Nascimento, Margareth Lumy Sekiama, Maria Clara Nascimento-Costa, Maria Ester Bueno Dos Santos, Maria Santina de Castro Morini, Mariana Baldy Nagy-Reis, Mariane da Cruz Kaizer, Mariano José Ribeiro da Silva Sant'Anna, Marilia Teresinha Hartmann, Marina Ochoa Favarini, Marina Oliveira Olivo, Martín Alejandro Montes, Martin Roberto Del Valle Alvaréz, Matheus Feldstein Haddad, Maurício Djalles Costa, Maurício Eduardo Graipel, Mauricio Quoos Konzen, Mauro Galetti, Meyline de Oliveira Souza Almeida, Michel Barros Faria, Micheli Ribeiro Luiz, Michelle Noronha da Matta Baptista, Miguel Ângelo Marini, Milton Cezar Ribeiro, Natalie Olifiers, Natasha Moraes de Albuquerque, Nicolás Cantero, Nivaldo Peroni, Noeli Zanella, Olívia Mendonça-Furtado, Olivier Pays, Orlando Ednei Ferretti, Oscar Rocha-Barbosa, Paloma Marques Santos, Patrícia Menegaz de Farias, Patrício Adriano da Rocha, Paul François Colas-Rosas, Paula Ribeiro-Souza, Paula Ferracioli, Paulo Afonso Hartmann, Paulo de Tarso Zuquim Antas, Paulo Ribeiro, Paulo Tomasi Sarti, Paulo Ivo Mônico, Pedro Volkmer de Castilho, Peônia Brito de Moraes Pereira, Peter Gransden Crawshaw, Pierre-Cyril Renaud, Rafael Spilere Romagna, Rafael Turíbio Moraes de Sousa, Raíssa Soares Spagnol, Raone Beltrão-Mendes, Ravi Fernandes Mariano, Renata Reinoso Rocha, Renata Sousa-Lima, Renata Valls Pagotto, Rhayssa Terra de Faria, Ricardo Corassa Arrais, Ricardo Moratelli, Ricardo Sartorello, Rita de Cassia Bianchi, Roberto de Carvalho Guimarães, Rodrigo Lima Massara, Romulo Theodoro Costa, Rosane Vera Marques, Ruan Márcio Ruas Nunes, Sandra Maria Hartz, Saulo Meneses Silvestre de Sousa, Saulo Ramos Lima, Sergio Lutz Barbosa, Silvia Neri Godoy, Stephen Francis Ferrari, Talita Guimarães de Araújo-Piovezan, Talita Laura Góes, Tatiane Campos Trigo, Thales R O de Freitas, Thiago Bernardes Maccarini, Thiago Marcial de Castro, Thiago Ribas Bella, Tonny Marques de Oliveira Junior, Uslaine Maciel Cunha, Vanessa Tavares Kanaan, Vera Pfannerstill, Victor Siqueira Pimentel, Vilmar Picinatto Filho, Vinícius Nunes Alves, Viviana Rojas-Bonzi, Viviane Mottin, Vlamir José Rocha, Andreas Kindel, Igor Pfeifer Coelho
Camera traps became the main observational method of a myriad of species over large areas. Data sets from camera traps can be used to describe the patterns and monitor the occupancy, abundance, and richness of wildlife, essential information for conservation in times of rapid climate and land-cover changes. Habitat loss and poaching are responsible for historical population losses of mammals in the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot, especially for medium to large-sized species. Here we present a data set from camera trap surveys of medium to large-sized native mammals (>1 kg) across the Atlantic Forest...
April 12, 2024: Ecology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Priyanka Gupta, Dericks Praise Shukla
Mizoram (India) is part of UNESCO's biodiversity hotspots in India that is primarily populated by tribes who engage in shifting agriculture. Hence, the land use land cover (LULC) pattern of the state is frequently changing. We have used Landsat 5 and 8 satellite images to prepare LULC maps from 2000 to 2020 in every 5 years. The atmospherically corrected images were pre-processed for removal of cloud cover and then classified into six classes: waterbodies, farmland, settlement, open forest, dense forest, and bare land...
April 12, 2024: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Darin J McNeil, Sarah C Goslee, Melanie Kammerer, Sarah E Lower, John F Tooker, Christina M Grozinger
As insect populations decline in many regions, conservation biologists are increasingly tasked with identifying factors that threaten insect species and developing effective strategies for their conservation. One insect group of global conservation concern are fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae). Although quantitative data on firefly populations are lacking for most species, anecdotal reports suggest that some firefly populations have declined in recent decades. Researchers have hypothesized that North American firefly populations are most threatened by habitat loss, pesticide use, and light pollution, but the importance of these factors in shaping firefly populations has not been rigorously examined at broad spatial scales...
April 10, 2024: Science of the Total Environment
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Linda Berrio-Giraldo, Clara Villegas-Palacio, Santiago Arango-Aramburo, Lina Berrouet
Scenario and policy assessments in socioeconomic and environmental studies face significant challenges in socio-ecological systems (SES). There are a limited number of studies that have looked at the impact of different scenarios within integrated approaches, and many have used a static approach with a single driver of change. The present work analyzes the SES dynamics for a strategic basin in the Colombian Andes when implementing and analyzing scenarios and policies related to land cover and land use change using a system dynamics simulation model...
April 10, 2024: Ambio
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Katherine M Magoulick, Vanessa Hull, Jianguo Liu
Protected areas are a key component of global conservation, and the world is aiming to increase protected areas to cover 30% of land and water through the 30 × 30 Initiative under the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. However, factors affecting their success or failure in regard to promoting mammal population recovery are not well studied, particularly using quantitative approaches comparing across diverse taxa, biomes, and countries. To better understand how protected areas contribute to mammalian recovery, we conducted an analysis of 2706 mammal populations both inside and outside of protected areas worldwide...
April 10, 2024: Ambio
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mina Shahed Behrouz, David J Sample, Odhiambo B Kisila, Michael Harrison, Mohammad Nayeb Yazdi, Roja Kaveh Garna
Urbanization changes land cover through the expansion of impermeable surfaces, leading to a significant rise in runoff, sediment, and nutrient loading. The quality of stormwater is related to land use and is highly variable. Currently, stormwater is predominantly described through watershed models that rely minimally, if at all, on field monitoring data. The simple event mean concentration (EMC) wash-off approach by land use is a common method for estimating urban runoff loads. However, a major drawback of the EMC approach is it assumes concentration remains constant across events for a specific land use...
April 9, 2024: Journal of Environmental Management
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Cécile Vulliet, Jack Koci, Marcus Sheaves, Nathan Waltham
Although saltmarshes are critical coastal ecosystems they are threatened by human activities and sea-level rise (SLR). Long-term restoration and management strategies are often hampered by an insufficient understanding of the past, present, and future processes that influence tidal wetland functionality and change. As understanding vegetation distribution in relation to elevation and tidal hydroperiod is often the basis of restoration and management decisions, this study investigated the relationships between micro-topography, tidal hydroperiod, and the distribution of saltmarshes, mangroves, and unvegetated flats in a tropical estuary situated within a Great Barrier Reef Catchment in North Queensland, Australia...
April 4, 2024: Marine Environmental Research
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Dikaso Unbushe Gojamme
Wetland vegetation and ecology of Lake Abaya in the southern Ethiopia was studied to determine floristic composition, plant community type and vegetation ecology. A total of 102 plots were laid along transects that were set up preferentially across areas where there were rapid changes in vegetation or marked environmental gradients to collect data on estimate of percentage aerial cover of plant species and environmental variables. Vegetation data was analyzed by agglomerative hierarchical cluster analysis using similarity ratio as a resemblance index and Ward's linkage method...
2024: PloS One
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Xiao Feng, A Townsend Peterson, Luis José Aguirre-López, Joseph R Burger, Xin Chen, Monica Papeş
Species are distributed in predictable ways in geographic spaces. The three principal factors that determine geographic distributions of species are biotic interactions (B), abiotic conditions (A), and dispersal ability or mobility (M). A species is expected to be present in areas that are accessible to it and that contain suitable sets of abiotic and biotic conditions for it to persist. A species' probability of presence can be quantified as a combination of responses to B, A, and M via ecological niche modeling (ENM; also frequently referred to as species distribution modeling or SDM)...
April 10, 2024: Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jiao Ping, Tian Chang-Yan, Hu Shun-Jun
Food security is closely related to the development of human society, and the root of food production lies in cultivated land, with water conservancy as its lifeline. This study estimates the ecological water consumption of located in the arid region of Northwest China (the Karamay region and Muzat River basin) from 1990 to 2020 based on the optimized Land Surface Energy Balance Algorithm. The verification accuracy of SEBAL energy balance model is greatly improved after optimization. It was showed an increasing trend in the Karamay region and Muzat River basin, increasing at the rates of 2...
April 15, 2024: Heliyon
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Aleksandra Zwolska, Marek Półrolniczak, Leszek Kolendowicz
The study determined the influence of changes in land use and land cover (LULC) on land surface temperature (LST) over a 33-year period based on a medium-sized European city (Poznań, Poland). The LST was estimated from Landsat 5, 8 and Terra (MOD11A2v6) satellites. The local estimation of climate patterns was based on the Local Climate Zones (LCZ) classification utilised with the methodology proposed by the World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT). Moreover, the Copernicus' imperviousness density product (IMD) was used...
April 9, 2024: Scientific Reports
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Joaquin A Nuñez, Sebastián Aguiar, Esteban G Jobbágy, Yohana G Jiménez, Pablo Baldassini
The demand for mountain water resources is increasing, and their availability is threatened by climate change, emphasizing the urgency for effective protection and management. The upper Sali-Dulce watershed holds vital significance as it contributes the majority of the Sali-Dulce water resources, supporting a densely populated dry region in Northwestern Argentina, covering an area of 24,217 km2 . However, the potential impact of climate change and land use/land cover change on water yield in this watershed remains uncertain...
April 8, 2024: Journal of Environmental Management
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Maarten de Groot, Erika Kozamernik, Janez Kermavnar, Marija Kolšek, Aleksander Marinšek, Andreja Nève Repe, Lado Kutnar
Forests are important ecosystems that face threats from climate change and global environmental shifts, with invasive alien plant species being a significant concern. Some of these invasive species have already become established, while others are in the process of naturalisation. Although forests are a relatively stable ecosystem, extreme weather events increase their vulnerability to change, and clearings left after natural disturbances are particularly susceptible to invasion by alien plant species (IAPS)...
March 19, 2024: Plants (Basel, Switzerland)
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Urška Lisec, Maja Prevolnik Povše, Anastazija Gselman, Branko Kramberger
Grassland covers approximately 17.4% of Europe's land area, stores about 20% of the world's soil carbon and has the potential to sequester carbon. With the help of sustainable management systems, grasslands could reduce greenhouse gases and act as a terrestrial sink for atmospheric CO2 . In this study, we will investigate the effect of grassland management (cutting, grazing, and a combination of the two) and soil depth (0-10, 10-20, 20-30 cm) on the physical (volumetric water content-VWC, bulk density-BD, porosity-POR, mass consisting of coarse fragments-FC) and chemical properties of soil (organic carbon-SOC, inorganic carbon-SIC, total carbon-STC, total nitrogen-STN, organic matter-SOM, C/N ratio, pH) in Central European lowlands...
March 14, 2024: Plants (Basel, Switzerland)
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Liuyue He, Nishan Bhattarai, Yadu Pokhrel, Nan Jia, Peng Zhu, Guanqiong Ye, Zhenci Xu, Shaohua Wu, Zhongbin B Li
The recent surge in dam construction has sparked debates regarding their contribution to carbon neutrality and food security, focusing on trade-offs between production benefits and ecological drawbacks. However, how dams affect carbon emissions and land cover changes, including their spatial differentiations, remains unclear. We quantified spatiotemporal variations in carbon emissions and storage of 137 large dams in China from 1992 to 2020, resulting from land cover change in potentially affected areas. We observed a lesser increase in carbon emissions and a more pronounced increase in carbon storage driven by forest conservation and regeneration within dam-affected areas compared to unaffected areas...
April 19, 2024: IScience
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Giuseppe Bonanno, Vincenzo Veneziano
This study investigated the germination capacity (endogenous factor) of Petagnaea gussonei (Spreng.) Rauschert, an endemic monospecific plant considered as a relict species of the ancient Mediterranean Tertiary flora. This investigation focused also on the temporal trends of soil-use, climate and desertification (exogenous factors) across the natural range of P. gussonei. The final germination percentage showed low values between 14 and 32%, the latter obtained with GA3 and agar at 10 °C. The rising temperatures in the study area will further increase the dormancy of P...
April 8, 2024: Scientific Reports
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Chang Liu, Koenraad Van Meerbeek
European grasslands are among the most species-rich ecosystems on small spatial scales. However, human-induced activities like land use and climate change pose significant threats to this diversity. To explore how climate and land cover change will affect biodiversity and community composition in grassland ecosystems, we conducted joint species distribution models (SDMs) on the extensive vegetation-plot database sPlotOpen to project distributions of 1178 grassland species across Europe under current conditions and three future scenarios...
May 27, 2024: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences
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