2485 papers
This study demonstrates that in Mediterranean landscapes, fire history primarily dictates fuel loads and associated hazard levels, while cultural dry-stone walls significantly mitigate wildfire spread by disrupting fire connectivity, offering a novel framework for integrating micro-topographic features into wildfire management strategies.
This study demonstrates that soil-mediated pathways, specifically the coupling of reactive iron and phosphorus within mineral-associated organic matter, act as a critical filter transmitting climate signals to shape grassland vegetation structure and diversity across the Mongolian Plateau.
This study demonstrates that Support Vector Machine (SVM) is the optimal model for predicting soil selenium content in the rugged Taihang Mountains, revealing that soil organic matter, cadmium, and lead are the dominant geochemical drivers of its spatial distribution.
This study reveals that while rainfall trends in northern Togo (1981–2025) remain statistically insignificant, a significant warming trend since the early 2000s has intensified evapotranspiration and moisture deficits, necessitating temperature-sensitive drought indices for effective monitoring and resource management in this climate-vulnerable region.
This study validates the resistivity method as an effective, non-destructive tool for tracking inorganic groundwater contamination by establishing quantitative relationships between electrical resistivity, flow velocity, and concentration through sandbox simulations and confirming its accuracy in monitoring landfill leachate migration.
This study presents a transferable institutional governance framework for embedding sustainability in research-intensive organizations, demonstrating through a longitudinal case study of the University of Liverpool's ISMIB that integrating sustainability into governance structures, operations, and culture—rather than relying on isolated technical fixes—effectively drives organizational transformation and environmental responsibility.
A multi-year study of air sensor networks in Ghana reveals that standard nephelometer-based sensors systematically underestimate PM2.5 and PM10 concentrations by significant margins during dusty Harmattan conditions, highlighting critical limitations in relying solely on optical sensors for air quality monitoring in dust-influenced regions like West Africa.
This study characterizes Paraná's agroclimatic zones using high-resolution hydroclimatic and thermal data to validate a Global Yield Gap Atlas framework that effectively distinguishes thermal and water-driven climate gradients for improved agricultural planning and risk management.
Seismic evidence and 3-D modeling reveal that the Earth's outermost core exhibits regional stratification specifically beneath Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces, driven by reduced core-mantle boundary heat flux that promotes light element accumulation and links lowermost mantle heterogeneity to geomagnetic field dynamics.
This study utilized HEC-RAS modeling and seasonal field data to demonstrate that the Asa River in Nigeria suffers from chronic oxygen stress and nutrient pollution exceeding safety guidelines, rendering it unsuitable for domestic use without treatment and highlighting the urgent need for stricter effluent control and sustainable management.