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Alexander Pfaff, Francisco Santiago-Ávila and Lucas Joppa
For protected areas (PAs), variation in forest impacts over space?including types of PA?are increasingly well documented, while shifts in impacts over time receive less attention. For Mexico, in the 1990s, PAs effectively were ?paper parks?. Thus, achiev...
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Lukas Taxböck, Hans Peter Linder and Marco Cantonati
Habitat alteration is one of the major drivers of species loss. Springs may be among the least affected aquatic habitats and are considered to be refugial habitats. Diatom assemblages were sampled from 74 Swiss springs comprising seven spring types over ...
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Jean-Marc Guarini and Jennifer Coston-Guarini
In their 2023 book, ?The Blue Compendium: From Knowledge to Action for a Sustainable Ocean Economy?, Lubchenko and Haugan invoked alternate stable (AS) states marginally as an undesired consequence of sources of disturbance on populations, communities an...
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Jiuyi Li
Dingxi City is located in the upper reaches of the Yellow River Basin, at the intersection between the Loess Plateau and West Qinling Mountains. The water and soil conservation function of Dingxi City is very important and have become key constraining fa...
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Soon-Ryul Nam, Sang-Hee Kang, Joo-Ho Lee, Seon-Ju Ahn and Joon-Ho Choi
In this paper we propose a new method to evaluate the effects of nationwide conservation voltage reduction (CVR) on peak-load shaving, using substation operating results management system (SOMAS) data. Its evaluation is based on a national CVR factor, wh...
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Dariush Ashtab, Mehdi Gholamalifard, Parviz Jokar, Andrey G. Kostianoy and Aleksander V. Semenov
Protected areas are referred to around the world as the basis of conservation strategies. Designation of marine protected areas (MPAs) is to preserve marine biodiversity and protect species, habitats in the seas, and oceans. The simulated annealing algor...
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Yiran Zhang, Wuriliga, Yong Ding, Fang Li, Yujuan Zhang, Min Su, Shuhui Li and Li Liu
In 2011, the Grassland Ecological Conservation Subsidy and Reward Policy (GECSRP) was implemented in China. The purpose of implementing the policy was to protect grassland ecosystems, secure the supply of livestock products, and increase the income of he...
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Yangnan Guo, Guoqing Chen, Rigan Mo, Meng Wang and Yuying Bao
Soil erosion is the main threat to the stability of ecological environment and the harmonious development of society in Shendong Mining Area. The main causes of this threat include the strong interference of natural characteristics and land development. ...
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Chuck Bulmer,Shannon Berch,Mike Curran,Bill Chapman,Marty Kranabetter,Stephane Dube,Graeme Hope,Paul Courtin,Richard Kabzems
In British Columbia and elsewhere, governments are evaluating the sustainability of forest practices. This requires the development of sensitive and reliable indicators and their monitoring over time. Conserving soil productivity and hydrologic function ...
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Shafarina Wahyu Trisyanti, Deni Suwardhi, Iwan Purnama and Ketut Wikantika
Despite the wealth of cultural heritage objects in Indonesia, some of which are considered UNESCO World Heritage sites, more documentation still needs to be done. One of the reasons behind this problem is that the documentation of complex cultural herita...
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Anna Garavelli, Gioacchino Francesco Andriani, Giovanna Fioretti, Vincenzo Iurilli, Antonella Marsico and Daniela Pinto
Sant?Angelo in Criptis (Santeramo in Puglia, South Italy) is a karst cave located in the Alta Murgia National Park (aspiring geopark), presently degraded, but with signs of intense past visiting activity for worship, as testified by the beautiful wall pa...
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Elena Marrocchino, Maria Grazia Paletta, Lorenzo Ferroni, Rino Manfrini and Chiara Telloli
Geoscience disciplines play a pivotal role in the assessment of the conservation state of Cultural Heritage to orient the subsequent restoration interventions. In this report, we exemplify the potential of petrographic and thermographic analyses for the ...
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Toshiharu Kojima, Ryoma Shimono, Takahiro Ota, Hiroshi Hashimoto and Yasuhiro Hasegawa
The ecosystem services of forests, such as the water conservation function, are the combined results of diverse processes, and the modification of one part of a forest affects each ecosystem service separately via complex processes. It is necessary to de...
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Shouyin Hou, Shengzhe Wang, Zhangchi Ji and Xiaoxin Zhu
Conservation tillage technology can reduce wind erosion and soil erosion, improve soil fertility, avoid straw burning and relieve ecological pressure. It is an important measure to achieve sustainable agricultural development. In northeast China, there i...
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Yang Zhang, Yuan Feng, Shiqi Wang, Zhicheng Tang, Zhenduo Zhai, Reid Viegut, Lisa Webb, Andrew Raedeke and Yi Shang
Waterfowl populations monitoring is essential for wetland conservation. Lately, deep learning techniques have shown promising advancements in detecting waterfowl in aerial images. In this paper, we present performance evaluation of several popular superv...
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Yaolin Lin, Xingping Yuan, Wei Yang, Xiaoli Hao and Chunqing Li
Healthy buildings are a deep-level development of green buildings, which can effectively help relieve stress and improve occupants? physical and mental health. In addition, they are is likely to play an important role in preventing the spread of respirat...
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Shuai Xie, Wan Liu, Zhe Yuan, Hongyun Zhang, Hang Lin and Yongqiang Wang
Among the various natural disasters encountered by cities, rainstorm waterlogging has become a serious disaster, affecting the sustainable development of cities. Taking Guangzhou as the research object, based on disaster system theory and risk triangle t...
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Xiaodong Chen, Zhaoping Yang, Tian Wang and Fang Han
The evaluation of ecological risk and the construction of ecological security patterns are significant for the conservation of World Natural Heritage sites with high outstanding universal value. This paper constructed a landscape ecological risk evaluati...
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Alessio D?Auria, Pasquale De Toro, Nicola Fierro and Elisa Montone
Ecosystem services play a fundamental role in society; their characteristics and the production of their natural generated capital are fundamental elements in the functioning of the support system of life on Earth. The loss of ecosystem services contribu...
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