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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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    A comparison of gap-filling approaches for Landsat-7 satellite data

    The purpose of this study is to assess the relative performance of four different gap-filling approaches across a range of land-surface conditions, including both homogeneous...
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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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    The osmotic energy of cane molasses was used to drive the partial dewatering of sugarcane juice by Forward Osmosis. The studies were conducted at low molasses to juice ratio...
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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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    Analysis of biophysical and anthropogenic variables and their relation to the...

    Background Land use and land cover change occurring in tropical forest landscapes contributes substantially to carbon emissions. Better insights into the spatial variation of...
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    Despite the increasingly prominent role of social media in disaster events, studies analyzing its use in rescue operations remain scanty. Hurricane Harvey hit Texas with...
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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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    Spatiotemporal multimedia emission inventory for polycyclic aromatic hydrocar...

    A spatiotemporal model was developed to investigate emissions of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Daqing, a Chinese city with large petroleum industry plants. The...
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    Spatial scaling of regional strategic programmes in Finland: A qualitative st...

    Innovation systems and clusters are perhaps the most widely used concepts found in recent economic geography literature focusing on innovative industrial production and...
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    Using student conceptions about groundwater as resources for teaching about a...

    Despite the need for public understanding about groundwater resources, groundwater is among those topics that instructors most struggle to teach at pre-college and college...
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    Breaking out of the traditional lecture hall: Geocaching as a tool for experi...

    It is uncommon for large service courses in geology to provide engaging outdoor activities that effectively mimic the experiences of working geologists, despite the fact that...
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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...