2353 papers
This study reveals that *Lantana camara* exhibits high climatic niche stability between its native and invasive ranges in South/Southeast Asia, yet its current distribution in Nepal occupies only a fraction of the available suitable climate space, suggesting significant future invasion risk despite divergent model projections.
This study demonstrates that alpine meadow degradation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau differentially alters labile organic carbon pools and carbon-cycling microbial gene associations between rhizosphere and loosely root-associated soils, with soil physicochemical properties identified as the primary drivers of these variations.
This Australian study employs a cradle-to-cradle life cycle assessment to demonstrate that asphalt pavements exhibit significantly lower environmental impacts than concrete over a 100-year service life, primarily due to the high carbon footprint of cement production in concrete, thereby supporting the selection of asphalt and improved recycling strategies for sustainable road infrastructure.
This study utilizes Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf isotopes from Cretaceous–Paleogene marginal basins in the southwest Pacific to demonstrate that the Zealandia continental subduction zone served as a critical boundary separating the subduction-enriched African mantle domain from the Pacific mantle domain, while hotspot-related samples further reveal distinct deep-mantle signatures consistent with this hemispherical dichotomy.
This study demonstrates that integrating Sentinel-1 C-band SAR backscatter change with Sentinel-2 optical indices improves burn-severity assessment in the low-biomass, semi-arid Southern Great Plains, where traditional optical methods are limited by rapid vegetation recovery and soil background signals.
This study demonstrates that the degradation of Tokyo's Satoyama landscapes and increasing urban homogenization have led to reduced biodiversity, altered wildlife behavior, and declining environmental resilience, signaling a deviation from the original ecological and social purposes of these areas.
This study analyzes two decades of data from seven Indo-Gangetic Plains cities to reveal that while daytime urban-rural temperature contrasts are narrowing due to rural moisture deficits, persistent nocturnal surface urban heat island effects are driven by built-up expansion and atmospheric retention, necessitating tailored diurnal and seasonal mitigation strategies.
This study analyzes 30 years of data from China's eutrophic Erhai Lake to demonstrate how cyclic climate variations, particularly rising temperatures and declining wind speeds, interact with nutrient enrichment to amplify chlorophyll-a concentrations and algal blooms, providing a scientific basis for sustainable water management and SDG 6.
This study utilizes high-resolution biostratigraphic and paleontological analyses of outcrop data to establish the chronostratigraphic ages of Late Cretaceous to Recent sedimentary formations in the Calabar Flank, ranging from the Aptian-Albian Awi Formation to the Late Miocene-Early Pliocene Benin Formation.
This study evaluates heavy metal contamination in the Ravi River's water, sediments, and fish, revealing moderate to high cadmium levels and anthropogenic influence while concluding that human health risks from consuming local fish species remain within acceptable limits.