1447 papers
Five years after its establishment, Ugalla River National Park in western Tanzania shows early signs of vegetation recovery with continuous natural regeneration, though distinct differences in floristic composition and structure between its former management units persist, reflecting historical land-use legacies.
By integrating sedimentological, geochemical, and stratigraphic analyses, this study reveals that the Crotone Mud Volcano is in a late evolutionary stage characterized by declining eruptive activity and weak near-surface fluid migration, yet it maintains persistent connectivity to deep thermogenic hydrocarbon sources.
This study presents an integrated multiscale framework linking petrographic, electrofacies, and rock-typing data with statistical and geostatistical indicators to demonstrate that effective reservoir connectivity in Persian Gulf carbonates is defined not by low heterogeneity alone, but by a specific combination of systematic heterogeneity, high spatial continuity, and minimal porosity separation, thereby distinguishing productive flow units from non-reservoir zones dominated by anhydrite cementation.
This paper re-dates Maloyaloman Cave in the Siberian Altai to approximately 52–42 kyr BP, confirming its status as a rare Initial Upper Paleolithic hunting field camp characterized by specific blade technologies and brief, episodic human occupation during MIS 3.
This study utilizes Monte Carlo simulations to demonstrate that missing not at random (MNAR) mechanisms and higher missingness volumes (up to 20%) significantly bias agroclimatic rainfall indices, with Maximum Consecutive Dry Days (CDD) proving most sensitive and dry regions least affected compared to wetter areas.
This study presents a spatially and temporally explicit techno-economic and life-cycle assessment framework revealing that while conventional blast furnace steelmaking remains the most cost-effective option today, hydrogen-based direct reduced iron with biochar integration offers the lowest emissions by 2050, though no single low-carbon pathway dominates across Europe due to significant regional variations in resource availability and costs.
This study validates the spatial representativeness of the new Reykjavik Brewer spectrophotometer for monitoring total column ozone, demonstrating its ability to capture major regional patterns in the North Atlantic and effectively fill the observational gap between Greenland and Scandinavia.
This study demonstrates that Cerrado grassland enclaves within the Caatinga biome exhibit high resilience to fire, characterized by rapid biomass consumption followed by a quick recovery driven by seedling pulses and resprouting plants, thereby supporting the ecological role of fire and informing future fuel management strategies.
This study analyzed the seasonal occurrence and incomplete removal of four artificial sweeteners across five wastewater treatment plants in Tshwane, South Africa, revealing their persistence in effluents and highlighting the need for enhanced monitoring and treatment technologies.
This study demonstrates that standing-water metacommunities on a European riverine island are primarily structured by local environmental conditions and regional species pools rather than spatial configuration alone, revealing that molluscs serve as better indicators of hydrological connectivity while zooplankton reflect regional dispersal dynamics.