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Holger Manuel Benavides-Muñoz, Verónica Correa-Escudero, Darwin Pucha-Cofrep and Franz Pucha-Cofrep
Access to freshwater in developing regions remains a significant concern, particularly in arid and semiarid areas with limited annual precipitation. Groundwater, a vital resource in these regions, faces dual threats?climate change and unsustainable explo...
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Karina Angélica García-Pardo, David Moreno-Rangel, Samuel Domínguez-Amarillo and José Roberto García-Chávez
The validated influence of urban biophysical structure on environmental processes within urban areas has heightened the emphasis on studies examining morphological patterns to determine precise locations and underlying causes of urban climate conditions....
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The Grain to Green Project (GTGP), a large ecological restoration project aiming to control soil erosion and improve the ecological environment, has been implemented since 1999 and has led to great land use changes with decreased farmland and increased f...
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Dienny Redha Rahmani, Dina Rafidiyah
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Private Green Spaces have become a necessity for residential areas. However, it requires initiative from the community itself to provide it, while the initiative comes from understanding the community. This study needs to be done in order to analyze the ...
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Limin Duan, Tingxi Liu, Xixi Wang and Yanyun Luo
Understanding groundwater-vegetation interactions is crucial for sustaining fragile environments of desert areas such as the Horqin Sandy Land (HSL) in northern China. This study examined spatio-temporal variations in the water table and the associated v...
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Salvatore Manfreda and Kelly K. Caylor
Society is facing growing environmental problems that require new research efforts to understand the way ecosystems operate and survive, and their mutual relationships with the hydrologic cycle. In this respect, ecohydrology suggests a renewed interdisci...
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Philip Saksa, Mohammad Safeeq and Salli Dymond
California has recently experienced one of the worst droughts on record, negatively impacting forest ecosystems across the state. As a major source of the region?s water supply, it is important to evaluate the vegetation and water balance response of the...
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Limin Duan, Tingxi Liu, Xixi Wang and Yanyun Luo
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Markus C. Casper, Zoé Salm, Oliver Gronz, Christopher Hutengs, Hadis Mohajerani and Michael Vohland
The land-use-specific calibration of evapotranspiration parameters in hydrologic modeling is challenging due to the lack of appropriate reference data. We present a MODIS-based calibration approach of vegetation-related evaporation parameters for two mes...
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François Girard, Serge Payette and Ann Delwaide
Field observations using chronosequences are helpful to study vegetation succession. This method allows to establish comparisons based on soil composition, stand structure, micro- and macrofossil remains from sites of different ages but on similar edaphi...
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Robert Petitpas, José Tomás Ibarra, Marcelo Miranda, Cristián Bonacic
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Changes in landscape pattern were studied in a temperate landscape of the La Araucanía Region, Chile. Using aerial photographs from 1983 and 2007, we created land use/land cover maps. We then quantified the changes in composition and configuration by usi...
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Jhon Lennon Bezerra da Silva, Marcos Vinícius da Silva, Alexandre Maniçoba da Rosa Ferraz Jardim, Pabrício Marcos Oliveira Lopes, Henrique Fonseca Elias de Oliveira, Josef Augusto Oberdan Souza Silva, Márcio Mesquita, Ailton Alves de Carvalho, Alan Cézar Bezerra, José Francisco de Oliveira-Júnior, Maria Beatriz Ferreira, Iara Tamires Rodrigues Cavalcante, Elania Freire da Silva and Geber Barbosa de Albuquerque Moura
Northeast Brazil (NEB), particularly its semiarid region, represents an area highly susceptible to the impacts of climate change, including severe droughts, and intense anthropogenic activities. These stresses may be accelerating environmental degradatio...
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Polina Lemenkova and Olivier Debeir
This paper addresses the issue of the satellite image processing using GRASS GIS in the mangrove forests of the Niger River Delta, southern Nigeria. The estuary of the Niger River Delta in the Gulf of Guinea is an essential hotspot of biodiversity on the...
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Víctor Salas-Aguilar, Cristóbal Sánchez-Sánchez, Fabiola Rojas-García, Fernando Paz-Pellat, J. René Valdez-Lazalde and Carmelo Pinedo-Alvarez
The methods for measuring vegetation cover in Mexican forest surveys are subjective and imprecise. The objectives of this research were to compare the sampling designs used to measure the vegetation cover and estimate the over and understory cover in dif...
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Ike Sari Astuti, Bagus Setiabudi Wiwoho, Purwanto Purwanto, Satti Wagistina, Ifan Deffinika, Hetty Rahmawati Sucahyo, Gilang Aulia Herlambang and Imam Abdul Gani Alfarizi
The reliance on native MODIS-16 PET potential evapotranspiration (PET) in scarce-data-driven areas is growing in support among ecohydrological studies, yet information about its performance is limited or unknown as validation studies are mostly concentra...
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Conflicts between ecological conservation and socio-economic development persisted over many decades in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei urban agglomeration (BTH). Ecosystem services were affected drastically by rapid urbanization and ecological res...
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Yushuo Zhang, Xiao Lu, Boyu Liu and Dianting Wu
Conflicts between ecological conservation and socio-economic development persisted over many decades in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei urban agglomeration (BTH). Ecosystem services were affected drastically by rapid urbanization and ecological res...
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Maria Simas Guerreiro, Eunice Maia de Andrade, Helba Araújo de Queiroz Palácio, José Bandeira Brasil and Jacques Carvalho Ribeiro Filho
Increased droughts and variable rainfall patterns may alter the capacity to provide ecosystem services, such as biomass production and clean water provision. The impact of these factors in a semi-arid region, especially on a dry tropical forest with Vert...
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José Fuentes, Diego Varga and Josep Pintó
A recent review of global arid areas supports the idea that there are two patterns to vegetation in arid lands. Patches of thick vegetation alternate with those with much less vegetation or none at all. There is a specific size, shape and spatial distrib...
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Jingming Hou, Kaihua Guo, Feifei Liu, Hao Han, Qiuhua Liang, Yu Tong and Peng Li
Land use has significant impact on the hydrologic and hydraulic processes in a catchment. This work applies a hydrodynamic based numerical model to quantitatively investigate the land use effect on the flood patterns under various rainfall and terrain co...
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