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Forestry
Sin-He Pan, Chuan-Wen Ho, Chiao-Wen Lin, Shou-Chung Huang, Hsing-Juh Lin
Summary: The study found that mangroves are critical habitats for macrobenthos, but the effects of mangrove vegetation on macrobenthic abundance and composition are inconsistent. The community composition of macrobenthos varied seasonally and between habitats, with differences in food supply, temperature, and shelter playing a role. Crab density was lower in mangroves compared to mudflats, suggesting a complex relationship between mangrove tree density and macrobenthic abundance.
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Environmental Sciences
K. Palit, S. Das
Summary: The bacterial diversity of Bhitarkanika mangrove was studied using both culture-dependent and culture-independent methods. Water bacterial abundance was influenced by factors like nitrate phosphate, conductivity, and dissolved oxygen, while sediment bacterial abundance showed no clear influence. Major bacterial classes in the culture-dependent study were Bacilli, Gammaproteobacteria, and Betaproteobacteria.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Yamian Zhang, Lin Zhang, Yiyang Kang, Yuanxi Li, Zilong Chen, Rong Li, Changqing Tian, Wenqing Wang, Mao Wang
Summary: The study found that at a tropical mangrove bay on Hainan Island in China, after more than 20 years of aquaculture cessation, the diversity values of fish and waterbird communities were lower at restoration sites, indicating that the homogenizing effects of anthropogenic habitat alteration were still present. Spatial turnover, rather than nestedness, dominated total diversity across the study area and individual sites.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
M. Santos, A. Amorim, V. Brotas, J. P. C. Cruz, C. Palma, C. Borges, L. R. Favareto, V. Veloso, M. L. Damaso-Rodrigues, P. Chainho, P. M. Felix, A. C. Brito
Summary: Estuaries are highly productive ecosystems that are influenced by anthropogenic pressures. This study investigated the effects of physico-chemical drivers on the phytoplankton community structure in the Sado Estuary. The results showed that temperature, turbidity, salinity, and nutrient availability were the main drivers affecting the phytoplankton community. Diatoms, cryptophytes, and dinoflagellates were the dominant phytoplankton groups in the estuary.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Zhongyi Sun, Yinghe An, Jiayan Kong, Junfu Zhao, Wei Cui, Tangzhe Nie, Tianyou Zhang, Wenjie Liu, Lan Wu
Summary: This study estimated the gross primary production (GPP) of global mangrove ecosystems using global mangrove eddy covariance data and Gaussian Process Regression (GPR), and analyzed the factors influencing these estimates. Human activities and variations in external environmental conditions were found to play significant roles in the decline of global mangrove GPP.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2024)
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Aysegul Demir Dilsiz, Kingsley E. Nweye, Allen J. Wu, Jerome H. Kaempf, Filip Biljecki, Zoltan Nagy
Summary: Building Energy Modeling tools are important for forecasting energy performance of buildings. Urban energy models (UBEMs) help analyze energy performance of buildings at different spatial resolutions, but there is limited research on the impact of spatial and temporal resolution on simulation results. This study proposes a multi-dimensional Level of Detail (LoD) specification for UBEM and demonstrates the performance of Bayesian calibration using a university campus as a case study.
ENERGY AND BUILDINGS
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Amir Mazrooei, Meredith Reitz, Dingbao Wang, A. Sankarasubramanian
Summary: This study investigates the impacts of urbanization on evapotranspiration (ET) fluxes across different landscapes and timescales. The observed patterns show that the difference in ET between urban and non-urban areas is influenced by local hydroclimate, with arid regions experiencing increased ET and humid regions showing decreased ET. Cities in cold climates tend to evaporate more during winter due to increased energy availability from human activities. Urban areas in arid regions have increased ET due to water withdrawals and irrigation during drought conditions. These findings can help planners in integrating environmental conditions into urban landscape design and management.
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Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Stella D. Juventia, Isabella L. M. Selin Noren, Dirk F. van Apeldoorn, Lenora Ditzler, Walter A. H. Rossing
Summary: Crop diversification has been proposed as a strategy for sustainable agricultural systems. Strip cropping, compared to sole crop, can provide a greater range of ecosystem services and has implementation advantages. However, the lack of spatially-explicit design approaches hinders the systematic exploration and evaluation of strip cropping systems.
AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Ahmad Rashiq, Om Prakash
Summary: Global climate change is causing increased concern due to intensification of extreme events, floods, and droughts in the Lower Gangetic Plain (LGP). Regional Climatic Models (RCM) are insufficient for capturing local climate variability needed for climate risk mitigation. This study fills this gap by assessing long-term local-scale climate variability using Modified Mann-Kendall (MMK) and Centroidal Day (CD) shifts for the Patna district, which can be applied to other districts in the LGP. The analysis shows a forward shift in monsoonal and annual rainfall in recent decades, with increased variability and surface runoff related to urbanization.
ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Bin Zhu, Jingjuan Liao, Guozhuang Shen
Summary: Mangrove forests are important ecosystems facing global threats. This study proposed a simulation method for mangrove forests and predicted the future changes in mangrove area under different scenarios, highlighting the need to balance economic development with ecological protection in mangrove conservation.
Article
Marine & Freshwater Biology
Siti A. R. Balqis, Fatimah Md Yusoff, Norizah Kamarudin, Mohd Zafri Hassan, Jun Nishikawa
Summary: The study revealed that gelatinous zooplankton biodiversity declines and abundance increases with increasing environmental changes and mangrove disturbance levels. Salinity was identified as the most important environmental factor influencing seasonal variability.
ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Mathematics
Zhaoqilin Yang, Gaoyun An, Ruichen Zhang
Summary: The paper focuses on the modeling, computational complexity, and accuracy of spatio-temporal models in video action recognition. A plug-and-play Spatio-Temporal Shift Module (STSM) is proposed, which effectively enhances the network's ability to learn spatio-temporal features without increasing parameters and computational complexity. By integrating with 2D CNNs, the new network can learn spatio-temporal features and outperform networks based on 3D convolutions.
Article
Water Resources
Cintia B. Uvo, Kean Foster, Jonas Olsson
Summary: This study conducted in Sweden's sixty-four river gauging stations investigated the impact of climate teleconnection patterns on local streamflow. Different teleconnection patterns were found to have varying effects on streamflow in different seasons and regions. The northern region is mainly influenced by snow, while the southern region is primarily influenced by rain.
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY-REGIONAL STUDIES
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Marine
Sang Lyeol Kim, Su Min Kang, Hyung Gon Lee, Gwan Hee Han, Ok Hwan Yu
Summary: This study conducted a survey of macrobenthos species diversity and community structure in the Ulleung Basin of the East Sea in South Korea. A total of 262 species were detected, with an average density of 243 individuals/m(2) and an average biomass of 43.7 g/m(2). The community structure was influenced by water depth, temperature, salinity, and dissolved oxygen. The findings have important implications for understanding benthic ecosystems in the East Sea.
JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Bouchra Chaouni, Abdellah Idrissi Azami, Sanae Raoui, Saaid Amzazi, Chakib Nejjari, Fadil Bakkali, El Houssine Zaid, Noureddine Hamamouch, Linda Amaral-Zettler, Hassan Ghazal
Summary: The distribution of Synechococcus in two Moroccan lagoons was examined using 16S rRNA amplicon oligotyping. It was found that the number of Synechococcus representatives was higher in the Mediterranean lagoon compared to the Atlantic lagoon. A total of 31 Synechococcus oligotypes were identified, which clustered into 10 clades with different distribution patterns. Clades IV and I had a higher relative abundance in the Mediterranean lagoon in 2014, which is unusual as they are commonly found in cold waters.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Marine & Freshwater Biology
Inga Nordhaus, Tabea Salewski, Tim C. Jennerjahn
ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE
(2017)
Article
Marine & Freshwater Biology
Debora Ferreira Pestana, Nathalie Puelmanns, Inga Nordhaus, Karen Diele, Martin Zimmer
Article
Management
John R. Graham, Campbell R. Harvey, Manju Puri
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2017)
Article
Ecology
Hanieh Saeedi, Ehsan Kamrani, Inga Nordhaus, Karen Diele
Article
Marine & Freshwater Biology
Inga Nordhaus, Daniel L. Roelke, Raquel Vaquer-Sunyer, Christian Winter
ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE
(2018)
Article
Management
Margaret A. Abernethy, Chung-Yu Hung, Laurence van Lent
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2020)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Stefano Cannicci, Shing Yip Lee, Henrique Bravo, Jaime Ricardo Cantera-Kintz, Farid Dahdouh-Guebas, Sara Fratini, Marco Fusi, Pedro J. Jimenez, Inga Nordhaus, Francesca Porri, Karen Diele
Summary: Deforestation leads to habitat fragmentation, reduced diversity, and functional degradation in mangroves. A global dataset of mangrove invertebrate fauna revealed that despite low redundancy, even small mangrove patches host truly multifunctional faunal assemblages crucial for ecosystem services. The study suggests that even a modest loss of invertebrate diversity could have significant negative consequences for mangroves and adjacent ecosystems.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
Article
Business, Finance
Chung-Yu Hung, Margaret Abernethy, Christian Hofmann, Laurence van Lent
Summary: This study examines how different organizational forms affect agents' pricing decisions. The results show that entrepreneurial agents are more likely to increase prices when presented with the opportunity, and opaque loans have higher prices than transparent loans, with the price difference being more pronounced for independent agents. This suggests that entrepreneurship enables agents to perform better in a less competitive environment.
JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Business, Finance
Margaret A. Abernethy, Jan Bouwens, Christian Hofmann, Laurence van Lent
Summary: This study examines the relationship between altruism and incentive contract design through theoretical and empirical analysis. Theoretical findings suggest that social norms strengthen managers' altruistic preferences, influencing the optimal contract design related to incentive strength and performance measurement. Empirical findings indicate that in a work climate where managers prioritize their own interests, firms have lower pay-for-performance sensitivity and place more importance on aggregate performance measures. On the other hand, in a work climate where managers care about others, firms assign lower weights to aggregate performance measures.
REVIEW OF ACCOUNTING STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Management
Zacharias Sautner, Laurence van Lent, Grigory Vilkov, Ruishen Zhang
Summary: This study estimates the risk premium for S&P 500 stocks with climate change exposure and examines its time-series evolution from 2005 to 2020. The research finds that the unconditional risk premium is insignificant, but there was a positive risk premium period before the financial crisis, followed by a steady increase. Forward-looking expected return proxies show a positive risk premium between 2011 and 2014. Since 2015, the risk premium has been lower, especially when considering the high opportunities and lower crash risks of high-exposure stocks.
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Business, Finance
Zacharias Sautner, Laurence Van Lent, Grigory Vilkov, Ruishen Zhang
Summary: We have developed a method to identify the attention given by earnings call participants to companies' climate change exposures. The method utilizes a machine learning keyword discovery algorithm and captures exposure to opportunities, physical impacts, and regulatory shocks associated with climate change. These measures cover more than 10,000 firms from 34 countries between 2002 and 2020. We demonstrate the usefulness of these measures in predicting important real outcomes related to the net-zero transition, particularly job creation in disruptive green technologies and green patenting, and show that they contain market-priced information.
JOURNAL OF FINANCE
(2023)
Article
Business
Dawid Szutowski
MANAGEMENT CONTROL SYSTEMS, DECISION-MAKING, AND INNOVATION DEVELOPMENT: The CDI Model
(2022)
Article
Economics
Tarek A. Hassan, Stephan Hollander, Laurence van Lent, Ahmed Tahoun
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
(2019)
Article
Business, Finance
Ahmed Tahoun, Laurence van Lent
Article
Business, Finance
Jan Bouwens, Christian Hofmann, Laurence van Lent
JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING RESEARCH
(2018)