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Juha Aalto, Pentti Pirinen, Pekka E. Kauppi, Mika Rantanen, Cristian Lussana, Paivi Lyytikainen-Saarenmaa, Hilppa Gregow
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Nina Brooks, Kathryn Grace, Devon Kristiansen, Shraddhanand Shukla, Molly E. Brown
Summary: This study examines the relationship between variation in local seasonal agricultural quality and childbearing goals and family planning use. The results show that in some cases, women adjust their fertility aspirations or family planning use when the agricultural growing season conditions improve. This study highlights the importance of operationalizing agriculture in nuanced ways that align with women's lives to better understand how women are impacted by and respond to seasonal climate conditions.
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Ning Li, Jingfeng Xiao, Rui Bai, Jing Wang, Lu Wu, Wenlong Gao, Wei Li, Miao Chen, Qinfen Li
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATION AND GEOINFORMATION
(2023)
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Environmental Sciences
Xin Mao, Hong-Li Ren, Ge Liu
Summary: This study investigates the interannual variation of vegetation on the Tibetan Plateau and its relationship with local climatic factors using satellite remote sensing data. The results show two primary patterns of vegetation cover, uniform and dipole, which are influenced by different climatic factors.
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Mengge Lu, Huaiwei Sun, Dong Yan, Jie Xue, Shanzhen Yi, Dongwei Gui, Ye Tuo, Wenxin Zhang
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(2021)
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Huiying Liu, Chunyan Lu, Songdan Wang, Fei Ren, Hao Wang
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GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2021)
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Bogdan Wertz, Slawomir Wilczynski
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Katharine Sanderson
Summary: Governments and companies are pledging to reduce and offset carbon emissions, but the lack of robust strategies to accomplish their goals is evident.
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Xiaona Chen, Yaping Yang, Jia Du
Summary: This study evaluated the changes in the start of the growing season (SOS) in the Northern Hemisphere (NH) using various datasets and found that the SOS has experienced significant changes in the past few decades. The study highlighted the role of increased surface air temperature and reduced snow cover fraction in driving these changes.
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Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Daniel R. R. Cayan, Laurel DeHaan, Mary Tyree, Kimberly A. A. Nicholas
Summary: The start and duration of the growing season for premium wine grapes in Napa Valley, California have changed due to warming climate in the western United States. The start of the growing season has advanced by more than 4 weeks over the period of 1958-2016, influenced by temperature increases since the late 1960s. The warm anomalies have persisted in recent years, leading to shifts in various temperature-related measures.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY
(2023)
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Yuxin Qiao, Hongshuang Gu, Hanfeng Xu, Qimei Ma, Xin Zhang, Qin Yan, Jie Gao, Yuchuan Yang, Sergio Rossi, Nicholas G. Smith, Jianquan Liu, Lei Chen
Summary: The phenological changes induced by climate warming have significant impacts on water, energy, and carbon cycling in forest ecosystems. Our study reveals that growing-season warming advances spring and autumn phenology, but the accelerating effects of warming on tree phenology gradually disappear, resulting in delayed phenological events. We also found a synchronized decline in the effect of growing-season warming on photosynthetic productivity.
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Agronomy
Waqar Ashiq, Hiteshkumar B. Vasava, Uttam Ghimire, Prasad Daggupati, Asim Biswas
Summary: Topography plays a significant role in influencing soil N2O emissions during different crop growth periods at the field scale. Variability in slope positions leads to varied impacts on N2O emissions, highlighting the importance of considering intrafield topographical variations in emission estimations. Evaluating individual soil properties and their impact on N2O emissions over multiple years can help identify emission hotspots.
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Xiaobin Hua, Pascal Sirguey, Ralf Ohlemuller
Summary: The study reveals that three different indigenous grassland types in New Zealand have shown consistent shifts in timing of key growing season stages over the past 16 years, with differences in magnitude of response. High-alpine grasslands exhibit the strongest response, with trends towards an earlier start and end of the growing season, as well as an increase in growing season length. Atmospheric conditions have varied effects on the start and end of the growing season in different seasons.
GISCIENCE & REMOTE SENSING
(2021)
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Plant Sciences
Yujie Yan, Zhiming Xin, Xuying Bai, Hongbin Zhan, Jiaju Xi, Jin Xie, Yiben Cheng
Summary: Studying the dynamic changes in vegetation coverage on the Mongolian Plateau can help evaluate the ecological environmental quality in East Asia. Using Landsat remote sensing images from 2000 to 2019, this study extracted yearly NDVI data and analyzed the spatiotemporal characteristics of NDVI before and after the establishment of nature reserves. The results showed an improvement in vegetation due to increased precipitation and positive human activities, and the overall trend of NDVI is expected to be stable with a slight decrease in the future.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Zhihua Liu, John S. Kimball, Ashley P. Ballantyne, Nicholas C. Parazoo, Wen J. Wang, Ana Bastos, Nima Madani, Susan M. Natali, Jennifer D. Watts, Brendan M. Rogers, Philippe Ciais, Kailiang Yu, Anna-Maria Virkkala, Frederic Chevallier, Wouter Peters, Prabir K. Patra, Naveen Chandra
Summary: The warming of northern high latitude regions has led to uncertainty in the net CO2 balance of these ecosystems. While the early-growing season shows similar trends of net CO2 uptake, the late-growing season sees a significant increase in respiratory CO2 loss with higher tree cover, offsetting the photosynthetic CO2 uptake.
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