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Development of center pivot irrigation farmlands from 2009 to 2018 in the Mu Us dune field, China: Implication for land use planning
The Mu Us dune field in China has become a focal region for research of the prevention and control of desertification. Agricultural practices in this area have been modernized in recent years, evidenced by the...
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Urban Land Use Efficiency and Contributing Factors in the Yangtze River Delta Under Increasing Environmental Restrictions in China
Evaluating urban land use efficiency (ULUE) provides insights into the interactions between land use systems and their external environment. Specifically, changes in ULUE are important for monitoring urban tra...
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Open AccessAn urban infrastructure assessment system built on geo-tagged images and machine learning
In modern era, the maintenance of public infrastructure often takes up a large share of financial budget for a city. The management of these urban assets is supported by a frequently updated inventory reflecti...
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Variation in Short-term Temperature Fluctuations Across China During the Past 60 Years
Short-term temperature fluctuations (STFs), including amplitude and frequency fluctuations, are one of the main features of weather and play vital roles in determining the type of ecosystem present. Although t...
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Open AccessDesigning Mixed Reality-Based Indoor Navigation for User Studies
Mixed reality (MR) is increasingly applied in indoor navigation. With the development of MR devices and indoor navigation algorithms, special attention has been paid to related cognitive issues and many user s...
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Evaluation and structural analysis of the functions of the Tibetan Plateau National Park Cluster
National parks are useful entities for looking at coordinated efforts to improve the Tibetan Plateau’s function as an ecological safety barrier and the region’s green development. Research on the characteristi...
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Vegetation-related dry deposition of global PM2.5 from satellite observations
Vegetation plays an important role in the dry deposition of particles with significant spatial variability, but the magnitude remains unclear at the global scale. With the aid of satellite products, this study...
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Space-Time Cube for Visual Queries over Metadata of Heterogeneous Geodata
Nowadays, huge amounts of geodata are increasingly made accessible on geodata portals. Typically, these data portals provide extensive metadata with various attributes, such as topic, size, and quality, that d...
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Contributions of climate change to cereal yields in Tibet, 1993–2017
Climate change is a global environmental crisis, but there have been few studies of the effects of climate change on cereal yields on the Tibetan Plateau. We used data from meteorological stations and statisti...
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Open AccessUnderstanding the urban life pattern of young people from delivery data
Young people are the backbone of urban development and an important pillar of social stability. The growth of young floating population in China has given rise to urban land expansion. Understanding the urban ...
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Open Access“What should be computed” for supporting post-pandemic recovery policymaking? A life-oriented perspective
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused various impacts on people’s lives, while changes in people’s lives have shown mixed effects on mitigating the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Understanding how to capture such ...
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Open AccessThe ecological mechanisms of Acetes blooms as a threat to the security of cooling systems in coastal nuclear power plants
Recently, there have been an increasing number of reports on the shutdown of coastal nuclear power plants because of outbreaks of marine organisms, such as jellyfish and fish. These organisms clog the pipes du...
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A new method of searching for concealed Au deposits by using the spectrum of arid desert plant species
With the increase of exploration depth, it is more and more difficult to find Au deposits. Due to the limitation of time and cost, traditional geological exploration methods are becoming increasingly difficult...
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Impact of changes in precipitation pattern on food supply in a monsoon interlacing area and its mechanism: A case study of Yunnan Province
Following climate change, changes in precipitation patterns and food security are major challenges faced by humans. However, research on how these changes in precipitation pattern impacts food supply is limite...
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Climate change and multi-dimensional sustainable urbanization
Global large-scale urbanization and climate change have become indisputable scientific facts yet are unresolved issues, and are a common concern for mankind. The relationship between these two topics is unclea...
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Reducing water and nitrogen inputs combined with plastic mulched ridge-furrow irrigation improves soil water and salt status in arid saline areas, China
Plastic mulched ridge-furrow irrigation is a useful method to improve crop productivity and decrease salt accumulation in arid saline areas. However, inappropriate irrigation and fertilizer practices may resul...
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Effects of water and nitrogen on growth and relative competitive ability of introduced versus native C4 grass species in the semi-arid Loess Plateau of China
Switchgrass is an introduced C4 grass in the semi-arid Loess Plateau of China, but there is a lack of information to assess its ecological invasive risk. In this study, Old World bluestems (native C4 grass) and s...
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Size- and leaf age-dependent effects on the photosynthetic and physiological responses of Artemisia ordosica to drought stress
Drought is one of the most significant natural disasters in the arid and semi-arid areas of China. Populations or plant organs often differ in their responses to drought and other adversities at different grow...
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Spatiotemporal patterns of the forage-livestock balance in the **lin Gol steppe, China: implications for sustainably utilizing grassland-ecosystem services
Understanding the spatiotemporal patterns of the forage-livestock balance is imperative for regionally arranging animal husbandry production while ensuring sustainable grassland-ecosystem service use. The **li...
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Field Observations and Measurements for Cryospheric Science
The rapid development of cryospheric science has benefited from innovations in methodologies and techniques for field observations and laboratory experiments. Various types of data from field observations and ...
