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    Driving forces of grassland vegetation changes in Chen Barag Banner, Inner Mo...

    Inner Mongolia is an important ecological zone of northern China and 67% of its land area is grassland. This ecologically fragile region has experienced significant vegetation...
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    Global Fish Trade, Prices, and Food Security in an African Coral Reef Fishery

    This study evaluated the potential impact of global fish trade on local food prices by analyzing a 16-year locally collected time series of disaggregated coral reef fish...
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    Combining European Earth Observation products with Dynamic Global Vegetation ...

    Global, fast and accessible monitoring of biodiversity is one of the main pillars of the efforts undertaken in order to revert it loss. The Group on Earth Observations...
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    Potential of rice husk ash in atrazine removal

    An experimental study was carried out to explore the possibility of using a prepared microporous material, Rice Husk Ash (RHA) as an alternative to the commercial Powdered...
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    Improved GDP spatialization approach by combining land-use data and night-tim...

    Gross domestic product (GDP) reflects a nation or region’s economic growth as a whole, and is the sum of product in the primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors of the economy...
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    Tropical peat swamp forest is rapidly being converted into industrial-scale oil palm agriculture across South-east Asia. This has global and local environmental implications...
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    Stakeholder Perceptions of Seaport Resilience Strategies: A Case Study of Gul...

    Climate change is having and will continue to have a range of negative impacts on social–environmental systems. Many ports, with their coastal locations and essential roles in...
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    A tool for the assessment of the potential benefits of electric and hybrid ca...

    A simulation tool was developed to evaluate variations in exhaust emissions from cars when replacing conventional powertrains with electric or hybrid propulsion systems. The...
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    Policy environment analysis for Arctic seaport development: the case of Sabet...

    In this paper, a structuration model is developed to evaluate opportunities and constraints that may arise for a port authority operating a port in the Arctic. The study builds...
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    Reply to: ‘In the eye of the beholder: contextual issues for Bayesian modelling at the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition’, by Discamps, Gravina and Teyssandier (2015)
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    The Pacific Coast Groundfish Trawl Fishery transitioned to a catch shares program in January 2011. The Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Social Study was designed to measure...
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    Probing the National Geoscience Faculty Survey for reported use of practices ...

    What is the extent to which college and university geoscience faculty report using education practices that contribute to more inclusive learning environments and engage a...
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    Identification of sources and processes in a low-level radioactive waste site...

    Multiple tracer-element and isotope approaches were applied at a 1960s-era low-level radioactive waste burial site located in the Lucas Heights area on the southwest urban...
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    AHP-based Spatial Air Quality Impact Assessment Model of vehicular traffic ch...

    Highway traffic-induced air pollution is a major concern for health and ecosystem. The SAQIAM was developed to facilitate visualization and interpretation of geographic...
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    Litho-tectonic and precipitation implications on landslides, Yamuna valley, N...

    An attempt is made to explain the relationship of landslides to litho-tectonic and precipitation regimes. The possible influence of these factors on the dimensional pattern of...
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    The elephant in the room: mapping the footsteps of historic elephants with bi...

    AbstractThis article examines the artefacts of big game hunting in female elephants from East Africa, natural history collections of the late nineteenth and early twentieth...
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    Using Expert Elicitation to Determine the Relative Impact of Coastal Modifica...

    Marine turtles utilize sandy beaches as nesting grounds, which can be impacted by a variety of coastal modifications. In the context of limited resources, managers need to...
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    Spatial patterns of the United States National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD) land...

    Research on spatial non-stationarity of land-cover classification accuracy has been ongoing for over two decades with most of the work focusing on single date maps. We extend...
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    Remote sensing of invasive plants: incorporating functional traits into the p...

    Invasive plant species spread presents a challenge, requiring better mapping and monitoring for control. Remote sensing (RS) provides an efficient tool to map invasive plants in...
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    Experiential learning and close mentoring improve recruitment and retention i...

    The Training in Environmental Research and Academic Success (TIERA) program was created to increase recruitment and retention of environmental science majors at the University...