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Ecology
David Gudex-Cross, Likai Zhu, Spencer R. Keyser, Benjamin Zuckerberg, Jonathan N. Pauli, Volker C. Radeloff
Summary: The study demonstrates that the length of frozen ground winter is the strongest predictor of species richness, with a decline in species richness beyond 3 months of winter. Winter conditions explained much of the deviance in amphibian, mammal, and resident bird species richness in areas with ≥ 3 months of winter conditions. Migratory bird species richness peaks at around 5.5 months of winter, coinciding with low richness of resident birds.
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Peter B. Reich, Javier G. P. Gamarra, Tom Crowther, Cang Hui, Albert Morera, Jean-Francois Bastin, Sergio de-Miguel, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Jens-Christian Svenning, Josep M. Serra-Diaz, Cory Merow, Brian Enquist, Maria Kamenetsky, Junho Lee, Jun Zhu, Jinyun Fang, Douglass F. Jacobs, Bryan Pijanowski, Arindam Banerjee, Robert A. Giaquinto, Giorgio Alberti, Angelica Maria Almeyda Zambrano, Esteban Alvarez-Davila, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Valerio Avitabile, Gerardo A. Aymard, Radomir Balazy, Chris Baraloto, Jorcely G. Barroso, Meredith L. Bastian, Philippe Birnbaum, Robert Bitariho, Jan Bogaert, Frans Bongers, Olivier Bouriaud, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Francis Q. Brearley, Eben North Broadbent, Filippo Bussotti, Wendeson Castro da Silva, Ricardo Gomes Cesar, Goran Cesljar, Victor Chama Moscoso, Han Y. H. Chen, Emil Cienciala, Connie J. Clark, David A. Coomes, Selvadurai Dayanandan, Mathieu Decuyper, Laura E. Dee, Jhon Del Aguila Pasquel, Geraldine Derroire, Marie Noel Kamdem Djuikouo, Tran Van Do, Jiri Dolezal, Ilija D. Dordevic, Julien Engel, Tom M. Fayle, Ted R. Feldpausch, Jonas K. Fridman, David J. Harris, Andreas Hemp, Geerten Hengeveld, Bruno Herault, Martin Herold, Thomas Ibanez, Andrzej M. Jagodzinski, Bogdan Jaroszewicz, Kathryn J. Jeffery, Vivian Kvist Johannsen, Tommaso Jucker, Ahto Kangur, Victor N. Karminov, Kuswata Kartawinata, Deborah K. Kennard, Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas, Gunnar Keppel, Mohammed Latif Khan, Pramod Kumar Khare, Timothy J. Kileen, Hyun Seok Kim, Henn Korjus, Amit Kumar, Ashwani Kumar, Diana Laarmann, Nicolas Labriere, Mait Lang, Simon L. Lewis, Natalia Lukina, Brian S. Maitner, Yadvinder Malhi, Andrew R. Marshall, Olga V. Martynenko, Abel L. Monteagudo Mendoza, Petr V. Ontikov, Edgar Ortiz-Malavasi, Nadir C. Pallqui Camacho, Alain Paquette, Minjee Park, Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy, Pablo Luis Peri, Pascal Petronelli, Sebastian Pfautsch, Oliver L. Phillips, Nicolas Picard, Daniel Piotto, Lourens Poorter, John R. Poulsen, Hans Pretzsch, Hirma Ramirez-Angulo, Zorayda Restrepo Correa, Mirco Rodeghiero, Rocio Del Pilar Rojas Gonzales, Samir G. Rolim, Francesco Rovero, Ervan Rutishauser, Purabi Saikia, Christian Salas-Eljatib, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Vladimir Seben, Marcos Silveira, Ferry Slik, Bonaventure Sonke, Alexandre F. Souza, Krzysztof Jan Sterenczak, Miroslav Svoboda, Hermann Taedoumg, Nadja Tchebakova, John Terborgh, Elena Tikhonova, Armando Torres-Lezama, Fons van der Plas, Rodolfo Vasquez, Helder Viana, Alexander C. Vibrans, Emilio Vilanova, Vincent A. Vos, Hua-Feng Wang, Bertil Westerlund, Lee J. T. White, Susan K. Wiser, Tomasz Zawila-Niedzwiecki, Lise Zemagho, Zhi-Xin Zhu, Irie C. Zo-Bi, Jingjing Liang
Summary: One of the fundamental questions in ecology is how many species exist on Earth. This study estimated the total number of tree species globally, using global crowdsourced data. The findings suggest that there are approximately 73,000 tree species globally, with around 9,000 species yet to be discovered. These results highlight the vulnerability of global forest biodiversity to human-induced changes.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Rachel E. Fanelli, Paul R. Martin, Orin J. Robinson, Frances Bonier
Summary: This study quantifies the responses of bird species to urban habitat and develops new urban tolerance indices that can be used to test hypotheses and improve understanding of species' adaptability to urban environments.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Shenghui Lv, Xingsheng Xia, Yaozhong Pan
Summary: It is crucial to develop or validate remote sensing methods for studying agricultural management and food self-sufficiency in the agricultural areas of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, taking into account global change, ecological protection, and socio-economic development. There is limited research on using remote sensing to monitor crop planting in this region, leading to inconclusive results. Therefore, this study analyzed Sentinel-2A/B images and field survey data in Hualong, China to identify and verify winter wheat using the normalized difference phenology index (NDPI) and dynamic time warping (DTW) algorithm at different spatial scales. The results showed that NDPI corresponding to specific growth stages of winter wheat, along with DTW, could accurately identify the planted area.
Article
Ecology
Riccardo Testolin, Fabio Attorre, Peter Borchardt, Robert F. Brand, Helge Bruelheide, Milan Chytry, Michele De Sanctis, Jiri Dolezal, Manfred Finckh, Sylvia Haider, Andreas Hemp, Ute Jandt, Michael Kessler, Andrey Yu Korolyuk, Jonathan Lenoir, Natalia Makunina, George P. Malanson, Daniel B. Montesinos-Tubee, Jalil Noroozi, Arkadiusz Nowak, Robert K. Peet, Gwendolyn Peyre, Francesco Maria Sabatini, Jozef Sibik, Petr Sklenar, Steven P. Sylvester, Kiril Vassilev, Risto Virtanen, Wolfgang Willner, Susan K. Wiser, Evgeny G. Zibzeev, Borja Jimenez-Alfaro
Summary: The study assesses global patterns of plant species richness in alpine ecosystems, finding peak regional richness near the equator and mid-latitudes, influenced by alpine area, isolation, and soil pH variation. Community richness peaks in mid-latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, linked to macroclimate, historical factors, and other spatially structured factors. These results emphasize hotspots of species richness at mid-latitudes, suggesting the diversity of alpine plants is related to regional idiosyncrasies and historical prevalence.
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Jaron Adkins, Edd Hammill, Umarfarooq A. Abdulwahab, John P. Draper, J. Marshall Wolf, Catherine M. McClure, Adrian A. Gonzalez Ortiz, Emily A. Chavez, Trisha B. Atwood
Summary: Using random forest models, we identified the drivers of terrestrial mammal species richness within different trophic groups. Precipitation seasonality was the most important predictor of richness for all trophic groups. Basal-level resource availability, as represented by gross primary production, influenced the relative contribution of each trophic group to total species richness.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Anna Kato, Kimberly M. Carlson, Tomoaki Miura
Summary: The study reveals that satellite vegetation indices can effectively explain GPP and characterize phenological transition dates in dryland ecosystems. Among the indices, EVI performs the best at explaining variance in daily GPP. While most phenological events in GPP data can be detected from VI data, the accuracy varies among different vegetation indices.
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
(2021)
Review
Biodiversity Conservation
C. Sudhakar Reddy
Summary: Remote sensing technology supports the assessment, monitoring, and modeling of biodiversity, providing essential information for sustainable management. Remote sensing data plays a critical role in providing necessary information for biodiversity research and conservation.
BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION
(2021)
Article
Plant Sciences
Amrit Shrestha, Raju Bheemanahalli, Ardeshir Adeli, Sathishkumar Samiappan, Joby M. Prince Czarnecki, Cary Daniel McCraine, K. Raja Reddy, Robert Moorhead
Summary: Uncrewed aerial systems (UASs) are used for crop health monitoring and management decisions to improve yields. This study aimed to identify the best phenological stage and vegetation index (VI) for estimating corn yield under rainfed conditions. Multispectral images were analyzed and significant correlations between VIs and yield were found. The study demonstrated the importance of considering growth stages and environmental conditions for accurate corn yield prediction.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Peng Guan, Yili Zheng, Guannan Lei, Yang Liu, Lichen Zhu, Youzheng Guo, Yirui Wang, Benye Xi
Summary: This study used remote sensing images to monitor the canopy phenology of Populus tomentosa B301 in planted forests under different irrigation methods. The results showed that irrigation methods and precipitation in the rainy season had different effects on tree growth and key phenological periods. The collected data provide a basis for studying the relationship between plant phenology and climate change.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jesus N. Pinto-Ledezma, Jeannine Cavender-Bares
Summary: This study constructed stacked species distribution models using satellite remote sensing products and evaluated their performance on oak assemblages in the continental United States. The models were found to provide reasonable predictions at macroecological scales but did not accurately recover the observed species composition.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Kathleen A. Carroll, Laura S. Farwell, Anna M. Pidgeon, Elena Razenkova, David Gudex-Cross, David P. Helmers, Katarzyna E. Lewinska, Paul R. Elsen, Volker C. Radeloff
Summary: Human activities cause rapid biodiversity loss and biotic homogenization. To effectively manage conservation actions, it is crucial to have large-scale biodiversity and species distribution spatial data with fine resolution. Predictive models of bird species richness were generated based on nine traits, and the 2.5-km resolution maps were found to be almost as accurate and provide more detailed spatial information compared to the 5-km resolution maps.
ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Duccio Rocchini, Nicole Salvatori, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Alessandro Chiarucci, Florian de Boissieu, Michael Foerster, Carol X. Garzon-Lopez, Thomas W. Gillespie, Heidi C. Hauffe, Kate S. He, Birgit Kleinschmit, Jonathan Lenoir, Marco Malavasi, Vitezslav Moudry, Harini Nagendra, Davnah Payne, Petra Simova, Michele Torresani, Martin Wegmann, Jean-Baptiste Feret
Summary: Real-time and accurate ecosystem and biodiversity assessments are crucial in the face of unprecedented changes in global biodiversity. Utilizing remote sensing and spectral information can provide an efficient way to estimate biodiversity, allowing for a faster and more reliable assessment in large areas.
ECOLOGICAL INFORMATICS
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Charles Thevenin, Maud Mouchet, Alexandre Robert, Christian Kerbiriou, Francois Sarrazin
Summary: Reintroduction is a popular conservation tool, but its contribution to the conservation of biodiversity at large scales remains unclear. Studies found that reintroductions of birds in Europe did not focus on functionally distinct species, while reintroductions of mammals involved more functionally distinct species than expected.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Beth E. Gerstner, Patrick Bills, Phoebe L. Zarnetske
Summary: There is an urgent need for new tools and strategies to identify, monitor and conserve biodiversity hotspots, especially for frugivores. To address this need, we compiled Frugivoria, a trait database containing ecological, life-history, morphological and geographical traits for mammals and birds exhibiting frugivory. Frugivoria harmonizes existing trait databases, adds new traits, and fills gaps in trait categories. This open-access database fills a major knowledge gap and enables more comprehensive trait-based studies in the neotropical region.
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Wei Xian, Huaiyong Shao, Jinhui Wu, Meng Liu, Xiaofei Sun
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENT AND POLLUTION
(2016)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Yunjun Yao, Shaohua Zhao, Huawei Wan, Yuhu Zhang, Bo Jiang, Kun Jia, Meng Liu, Jinhui Wu
JOURNAL OF EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE
(2016)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Jinhui Wu, Shunlin Liang
Article
Environmental Sciences
Huaiyong Shao, Meng Liu, Qiufang Shao, Xiaofei Sun, Jinhui Wu, Zhiying Xiang, Wunian Yang
ENVIRONMENTAL EARTH SCIENCES
(2014)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Jinhui Wu, Shunlin Liang
Article
Environmental Sciences
Hongmin Zhou, Changjing Wang, Guodong Zhang, Huazhu Xue, Jingdi Wang, Huawei Wan
Article
Environmental Sciences
Jingyu Zhang, Jindi Wang, Rui Sun, Hongmin Zhou, Helin Zhang
Article
Environmental Sciences
Wan Hua-wei, Li Hao-xin, Wu Jin-hui, Liu Yu-ping
Summary: The study found that species richness in Sanjiangyuan National Park is mainly distributed in areas with high vegetation growth on both sides of rivers, with climate being the most significant factor influencing the distribution. The relative correlation strength of single ecosystem service varied among different main ecosystems, but all relationships between species diversity and ecosystem services were positive.
JOURNAL OF MOUNTAIN SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Zhe Wang, Hongmin Zhou, Huawei Wan, Qian Wang, Wenrui Fan, Wu Ma, Jindi Wang
Summary: This study explored the spatial and temporal variation of land surface albedo (LSA) in Ganzhou District using high-resolution GF-1 wide field view (WFV) data. The estimation of surface albedo based on GF-1 WFV data was accurate, showing a distribution of high albedo in the north and low albedo in the middle of the district. Annual albedo variation exhibited a trend of double peaks and a single valley, with negative correlation with precipitation and temperature.
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Jun Xie, Tom J. Coulthard, Ming Wang, Jinhui Wu
Summary: Earthquake-triggered landslides are major sediment sources in mountain belts, with significant long-term geomorphic effects. However, no established techniques exist to track landslide-derived sediment under climate change. This study uses a new tracing function to simulate and track the dynamics of landslide-derived sediment in response to climate change, revealing the interplay between landslides and climatic perturbations. These findings are important for risk management and mitigation efforts.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Zhe Wang, Hongmin Zhou, Wu Ma, Wenrui Fan, Jindi Wang
Summary: In this paper, the land surface albedo was estimated based on the GF-1 WFV satellite data and cross-validated. The method produced highly accurate estimation results on different land cover types and contributed to improving the utilization of GF data and understanding of land-air interactions.
Proceedings Paper
Energy & Fuels
Gao Mengmeng, Yang Nan, Wang Yi, Li Xiaolei, Liu Qiong, Wu Jinhui, Zhao Zixin
Summary: Rational development and utilization of urban underground space is crucial to alleviate the contradiction between supply and demand of land resources, and improve urban layout. In this study, a hierarchical model for evaluating the suitability of underground space development in Dalian City was constructed, using eight indicators and analytical methods. The evaluation results provide a basis for future planning and utilization of underground space in the city.
2021 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND CHEMICAL SCIENCE (AEECS 2021)
(2021)
Article
Spectroscopy
Shao Huai-yong, Wu Jin-hui, Liu Meng, Yang Wu-nian
SPECTROSCOPY AND SPECTRAL ANALYSIS
(2014)
