2353 papers
This study of 140 Tharu households in Pakali, Nepal, reveals that medicinal plant knowledge is primarily transmitted through family tradition and sourced from home gardens, with conservation willingness driven by perceived threats to cultural traditions rather than income or residency length.
This study reveals that soil organic carbon in subtropical Eucalyptus plantations is surface-enriched and significantly declines with depth, with total nitrogen identified as the primary driver for management to maintain carbon sequestration capacity.
This study projects that climate change will significantly increase wildfire risk to Africa's rock art heritage, particularly in Southern and North Africa, by combining rising fire-weather hazards, vulnerable fuelbeds, high site exposure, and limited response capacity, thereby necessitating urgent proactive management strategies.
Using a Sensitivity–Resilience–Pressure framework and multi-source remote-sensing data, this study reveals that while vegetation recovery has improved in China's southwest borderlands since 2001, escalating development pressure—particularly in trade corridors—has driven a spatially differentiated increase in ecological vulnerability, necessitating targeted governance strategies that distinguish between high-altitude sensitivity zones and rapidly urbanizing border corridors.
This study employs Gradient Forest and Generalized Additive Models to analyze Antarctic krill population indices, revealing that environmental variables with specific seasonal and multi-year time lags—particularly sea ice and salinity for recruitment, and sea surface temperature and ENSO indices for growth—significantly drive krill population ecology, offering critical insights for future resource management.
This study presents a hydrogeological framework and numerical analysis demonstrating how elevated water-storage facilities create artificial groundwater mounds that fundamentally alter local flow patterns, extend seepage impacts beyond their footprints, and require specific engineering controls to manage associated risks.
This study integrates field tests and 3D modeling to demonstrate that the performance of well-based artificial recharge in stratified aquifers is governed by the complex interplay of screen–stratigraphy connectivity, injection pressure, and inter-well interference, providing a physical basis for optimizing recharge system design in urban groundwater control.
This paper analyzes 82 policy frameworks in East African refugee contexts to reveal a critical gap between the recognized urgency of dangerous heat risks and the near-total absence of high-level humanitarian action, arguing that integrating public health, heat mitigation, and refugee-specific considerations into existing policies is essential to address this life-threatening crisis.
This study reveals that observed decadal wind variability in Northeast Brazil, driven by oceanic oscillations and exceeding projected climate change signals, coupled with significant regional model biases, suggests that adapting energy yield estimates to natural variability is more critical than relying on mean climate projections for future wind farm planning.
This study develops a high-accuracy landslide susceptibility mapping framework for Bac Giang, Vietnam, by employing a heterogeneous Stacking_Trees3 ensemble model and PU-Bagging sampling to reveal that anthropogenic factors like road proximity and endogenous structural controls are the primary drivers of landslide risks in moderate-slope terrains.