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Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Gonzalo L. Pita
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
(2023)
Review
Ecology
J. David Blount, Joshua J. Horns, Kyle D. Kittelberger, Montague H. C. Neate-Clegg, Cagan Hakki Sekercioglu
Summary: An estimated 17% of migratory bird species are threatened or near threatened with extinction, posing an enormous potential loss of biodiversity and cost to human societies. Conservation of these birds is challenging due to their reliance on multiple geographically distinct habitats, including stopover sites. Agricultural areas, particularly those with higher non-cultivated plant diversity, are found to be important stopover habitats for migrating birds that can utilize a large breadth of habitats.
FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
David Michael Lowry, Lin Fritschi, Benjamin J. Mullins, Rebecca A. O'Leary
Summary: This study evaluates the importance of professional judgement in exposure assessments for occupational hygienists. A new elicitation approach is used and compared to measured data, which shows that the participating experts tend to overestimate exposures.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Anna Chrysafi, Vili Virkki, Mika Jalava, Vilma Sandstrom, Johannes Piipponen, Miina Porkka, Steven J. Lade, Kelsey La Mere, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Laura Scherer, Lauren S. Andersen, Elena Bennett, Kate A. Brauman, Gregory S. Cooper, Adriana De Palma, Petra Doell, Andrea S. Downing, Timothy C. DuBois, Ingo Fetzer, Elizabeth A. Fulton, Dieter Gerten, Hadi Jaafar, Jonas Jaegermeyr, Fernando Jaramillo, Martin Jung, Helena Kahiluoto, Luis Lassaletta, Anson W. Mackay, Daniel Mason-D'Croz, Mesfin M. Mekonnen, Kirsty L. Nash, Amandine Pastor, Navin Ramankutty, Brad Ridoutt, Stefan Siebert, Benno Simmons, Arie Staal, Zhongxiao Sun, Arne Tobian, Arkaitz Usubiaga-Liano, Ruud J. van der Ent, Arnout van Soesbergen, Peter H. Verburg, Yoshihide Wada, Sam Zipper, Matti Kummu
Summary: Using expert knowledge elicitation, this study explores the interactions among Earth system processes relevant to food production and identifies previously little explored interactions. The study maps a complex network of mechanisms mediating these interactions and provides a future research prioritization scheme. The findings improve the understanding of Earth system interactions and have implications for Earth system modelling and the limits of global food production.
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
(2022)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Martine J. Barons, Steven Mascaro, Anca M. Hanea
Summary: SEJ is a structured method for obtaining estimates from groups of experts, aiming to minimize cognitive frailties. When the number of quantities required is large, imputation methods can be used for unelicited quantities. InterBeta is effective in interpolating conditional probability tables to reduce expert burden.
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Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Eva Sebok, Hans Jorgen Henriksen, Ernesto Pasten-Zapata, Peter Berg, Guillaume Thirel, Anthony Lemoine, Andrea Lira-Loarca, Christiana Photiadou, Rafael Pimentel, Paul Royer-Gaspard, Erik Kjellstrom, Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen, Jean Philippe Vidal, Philippe Lucas-Picher, Markus G. Donat, Giovanni Besio, Maria Jose Polo, Simon Stisen, Yvan Caballero, Ilias G. Pechlivanidis, Lars Troldborg, Jens Christian Refsgaard
Summary: This study presents a method for assessing uncertainties in climate impact studies by using expert elicitation for model weighting. The results show that expert elicitation can effectively reduce uncertainties in climate impact.
HYDROLOGY AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES
(2022)
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Infectious Diseases
Leah G. G. Burgess, Shane A. A. Richards, Michael M. M. Driessen, Vicky Wilkinson, Rahil J. J. Amin, Scott Carver
Summary: The occurrence of sarcoptic mange in bare-nosed wombats is influenced by environmental factors, with wombats more likely to be affected in areas with minimal vegetation and low-lying pans. Wombat density and active burrow density do not significantly impact the prevalence of the disease.
TRANSBOUNDARY AND EMERGING DISEASES
(2023)
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Biology
Andre D. Mader, Neil A. Waters, Erin C. Kawazu, Michelle Marvier, Noemie Monnin, Daniel J. Salkeld
Summary: The media and secondary peer-reviewed literature often claim that land change causes zoonotic disease spillover, but primary peer-reviewed literature suggests that the complexity of variables involved makes this claim unlikely to be universally applicable. There is a lack of nuance in the messaging about the relationship between land change and spillover risk in secondary peer-reviewed literature and mainstream media, which differs from the primary peer-reviewed literature.
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Khaleel Muhammed, Aavudai Anandhi, Gang Chen, Kevin Poole
Summary: Human activities pose risks to natural habitats and biodiversity, requiring protection measures. The DIEM framework helps define, investigate, estimate, and map threats faced by different habitats, proving helpful in regional analysis, watershed modeling, and land development planning.
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Richard J. Hewitt, Majid Shadman Roodposhti, Brett A. Bryan
Summary: Cellular automata models are popular tools for exploring future land change pathways, but they often focus too narrowly on calibration against historic reference maps, limiting the diversity of possible outcomes. A multi-model ensemble approach that systematically tests a wide range of models and calibration rules sets against multiple metrics can enrich the diversity of simulated outcomes.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SCIENCE
(2022)
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Environmental Sciences
Dieison Andre Moi, Franco Teixeira-de-Mello
Summary: The conversion of natural streams to urbanized systems leads to species loss and decreases in richness and biomass of multiple trophic groups, driven by deteriorating water quality and loss of habitat heterogeneity. Urbanization expansion induces a cascading reduction of multitrophic diversity and standing biomass, which could have potential negative consequences for ecosystem functioning in streams.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Review
Environmental Studies
Vincent Lam, Mason M. Majszak
Summary: This article discusses the importance of expert judgment in climate science, particularly in the context of climate tipping points. The authors evaluate existing literature on expertise in climate science and focus on the role of expert judgment in identifying and characterizing tipping points. They highlight the use of expert elicitation protocols for quantifying uncertainty and managing nonepistemic values. Clarifying the epistemic foundations of expert judgment contributes to a better understanding of the challenges related to climate tipping points.
WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-CLIMATE CHANGE
(2022)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Kathleen A. Carroll, Robert M. Inman, Andrew J. Hansen, Rick L. Lawrence, Kevin Barnett
Summary: This study prioritized wolverine connectivity under future climate conditions using integer linear programming and identified privately owned areas where voluntary landowner easements could improve landscape functionality for wolverine connectivity. The estimated median easement costs ranged from $8,762 to $12,220 across different solutions, demonstrating the utility of optimization problems for connectivity conservation and offering a proactive tool to engage potential collaborators for the conservation of various subalpine species.
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Raffaello Di Ponzio, Guthieri Teixeira Colombo, Thiago Bicudo, Maira Benchimol, Maria Joao Ramos Pereira, Carlos A. Peres, Paulo Estefano D. Bobrowiec
Summary: Mega dams cause habitat loss and fragmentation, negatively impacting aerial insectivorous bat assemblages. Compared to islands, larger continuous forests retain higher species richness and bat activity, leading to divergent species composition. Local vegetation, island size, and landscape edge area significantly affect species diversity, bat activity, and species composition, with small degraded islands and forest edge-dominated landscapes experiencing species loss.
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(2023)
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Peter Csontos, Marton Mucsi, Peter Ragalyi, Julia Tamas, Tibor Kalapos, Gergely Papay, Akos Mjazovszky, Karoly Penksza, Tibor Szili-Kovacs
Summary: Comparing the precision of habitat indication by vegetation and soil microbial communities in salt-affected pastures, it was found that vegetation closely matched soil data-based ordination, while soil microbial communities better reflected actual soil conditions. Perennial plants in these communities adapt to long-term average habitat conditions, while short-lived soil microbes quickly respond to environmental changes.
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Review
Environmental Sciences
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