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earth_science

493 papers

📄 earth_science

Assessing Precipitation Memory and Operational Controls on National-Scale Reservoir Storage and Hydropower Dynamics in Türkiye

This study employs a data-efficient framework combining STL, an optimized precipitation-memory index, and VARX modeling to demonstrate that while hydro-climatic forcing drives water availability fluctuations in Türkiye's national reservoirs, institutional operational management ultimately governs how these signals persist and propagate through the water-energy system over time.

Bülent SELEK2026-07-01
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Dog Attacks on Taiwan’s Native Mammals: Potential Risk Areas, Key Drivers, and Conservation Gaps

This study integrates attack records and species distribution models to map high-risk areas for dog attacks on five native Taiwanese mammals, revealing that threats are concentrated in low-to-mid elevation human-wildlife interface zones outside protected areas, thereby highlighting the urgent need to leverage the Taiwan Ecological Network for targeted dog control and conservation.

Gui Ing Lee, Hsin-Cheng Ho, Shih-Ching Yen2026-07-01
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Integrated Seismic Attribute-petrophysical Coupling for Reservoir Quality Prediction in the “MD” Field, Onshore Niger Delta, Nigeria

This study demonstrates that integrating seismic attributes with petrophysical analysis of well logs and 3D seismic data effectively characterizes reservoir quality, delineates hydrocarbon-bearing zones within fault-controlled structures, and identifies prospective undrilled targets in the "MD" Field of the onshore Niger Delta.

GODWIN ONAH OKEWU, JAGGU YOHANNA JAGGU, AYANNINUOLA S. OLATUNJI, ALAJI INNOCENT CHUBIYOJO, FRIDAY AUDU OWOICHO, DANIEL A (…)2026-07-01
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The industrialisation of the seabed: Estimating century-scale impacts of bottom trawling on shelf sea sediments

This study reconstructs five centuries of British and Irish bottom trawling to reveal that by 1925, industrial fishing had mobilized sediment masses comparable to the Amazon River's annual flux, fundamentally altering seabed ecosystems and demonstrating that modern scientific baselines already reflect centuries of anthropogenic disturbance.

Ciaran McLaverty, Callum Roberts, Floris Bennema, Georgina Hunt, Ellie Maynard, Alec Moore, Emily Phillips, Lee Raye, Ka (…)2026-07-01
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Ecological risks Assessment of heavy metals from the Kidaro Creek, Niger Delta Nigeria

This study reveals that heavy metals, particularly cadmium, from anthropogenic petroleum activities have caused extremely high ecological risks and contamination in the surface water of Kidaro Creek, Niger Delta, while sediment contamination remains relatively low.

Magdalene Okeh Nafagha-Lawal, Angela Tamunoemi Waka, Chinyere Silverleen Dike, Ngbede Paul Samuel, Ogheneovoh Emoyoma Ud (…)2026-07-01
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The need for improved models of zooplankton abundance

This study demonstrates that accounting for sampling bin-width-dependent heteroscedasticity using an inverse Gaussian generalized linear model significantly improves the robustness of zooplankton abundance predictions in the Southern Ocean compared to traditional log-transformed Gaussian models, thereby preventing biased ecological inferences.

Yulia Egorova, Nirupama Tamvada, Daniel Forrest, Evgeny A. Pakhomov, Marie Auger-Méthé2026-07-01
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Surface-to-subsurface inference via AlphaEarth: A shared foundation-model representation for diverse subsurface properties

This study demonstrates that the AlphaEarth foundation model's surface embeddings serve as a versatile shared geospatial representation for inferring diverse subsurface properties, acting either as augmenting features alongside traditional covariates or as primary descriptors depending on the target physics and prediction scale.

Nori Nakata, Jingxiao Liu, Guodong Chen, Rie Nakata, Charuleka Varadharajan2026-07-01
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Quantitative Analysis of PlanktoScope Data: a powerful tool for exploring ecosystem function

This study demonstrates that the open-source PlanktoScope imaging system, combined with Ecotaxa, serves as a powerful, cost-effective tool for high-frequency monitoring of plankton community dynamics in La Paz Bay, successfully capturing seasonal shifts in composition and biomass that correlate with satellite-derived chlorophyll-a data.

Darren Whitehead, Damien Olivier, Rogelio González-Armas, Christine Band-Schmidt, Ismael Gárate-Lizárraga, Jay Gutiérrez2026-07-01