53 Result(s)
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Climate Change
Oceanography
Regional/Spatial Science
Qi** Li
Environment
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The impact of the change in vegetation structure on the ecological functions of salt marshes: the example of the Yangtze estuary
Salt marshes worldwide are faced with threats from rising sea levels and coastal development. We measured changes in salt marsh vegetation structure using remote sensing and its consequences for carbon sequest...
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Coastal wetland loss and environmental change due to rapid urban expansion in Lianyungang, Jiangsu, China
To address the growing need for developable land, many coastal cities are draining and filling wetlands, transforming them into urban built-up areas, and thereby substantially altering the structure and functi...
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How do soil and water conservation practices influence climate change impacts on potato production? Evidence from eastern Canada
We used a stochastic production function method together with a farm-level dataset covering 18 farms over a 23-year period to assess the role that soil and water conservation practices play in affecting the cl...
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Impact of long-term zero-flow and ecological water conveyance on the radial increment of Populus euphratica in the lower reaches of the Tarim River, **njiang, China
Based on the dendro-hydrology theory, we studied the impacts of two significant environmental occurrences (long-term zero-flow and ecological water conveyance) on the radial increment of Populus euphratica in the...
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Vulnerability assessment of the coastal mangrove ecosystems in Guangxi, China, to sea-level rise
Sea-level rise caused by global climate change will have significant impacts on the coastal zone. On tropical and subtropical coasts, mangrove ecosystems occur in the intertidal zone and are particularly sensi...
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Annual thawing and freezing indices changes in the China Tianshan Mountains
Annual thawing/freezing indices (TIs and FIs) for ten meteorological stations in the China Tianshan Mountains (CTM) are analyzed based on the daily maximum and minimum temperature records during 1961–2010. Th...
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Urban land growth in eastern China: a general analytical framework based on the role of urban micro-agents’ adaptive behavior
As one of the world regions with the most rapid economic growth and urbanization, eastern China faces many challenges during its urbanization process. The growth is characterized by the broad-scale loss of agr...
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Shifts in the extent and location of rice crop** areas match the climate change pattern in China during 1980–2010
Knowledge of crop** areas and climate change is crucial to understanding the causes and consequences of global land use change, and the response of rice areas to climate change is a hot topic to global food...
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A spatially explicit reconstruction of cropland cover in China from 1661 to 1996
Reconstruction of cropland cover is crucial for assessing human impact on the environment. In this study, based on existing studies concerning historical cropland, population data and government inventories, w...
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Water supply and water allocation strategy in the arid US West: evidence from the Eastern Snake River Plain Aquifer
This article analyzes the effects of water supply variations on micro-level agricultural irrigation under institutional water constraints and projects the irrigation percentage and farm income under future cl...
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Forests or grasslands: conflicts over environmental conservation in arid and semiarid regions of China
Behind the Chinese government’s ambition to increase its forest cover to 15 % by 2050 is the large-scale tree plantation that continues to threaten millions of hectares of grasslands in China’s arid and semia...
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Socio-economic vulnerability of the megacity of Shanghai (China) to sea-level rise and associated storm surges
Sea-level rise (SLR) poses a significant threat to many coastal areas and will likely have important impacts on socio-economic development in those regions. Located on the eastern coast in China, the megacity ...
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Analysis of the soil water balance for large-scale reforestation with Eucommia ulmoides in the hilly red soil region of southern China
Returning farmland to forests is important for the protection of ecological values. Eucommia ulmoides is considered to be a suitable species for reforestation in the hilly red soil region of southern China. The o...
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Land use change and soil carbon sequestration in China: Where does it pay to conserve?
This paper estimates the impact of land use change on soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration in China from 1985 to 2005 using a nationwide, georeferenced database on land use, soil, and climate. The method pr...
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The impact of land use on riparian soil dissolved organic matter and on streamwater quality on Chongming Island, China
Riparian wetland controls the transfer of terrestrial dissolved organic matter (DOM) to surface water bodies. However, the effects of land use on riparian soil DOM quality and its contribution to aquatic envir...
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Biological responses to nine powerful typhoons in the East China Sea
Using multi-satellite remote sensing and numerical model data, we investigated the biological responses to nine powerful typhoons that affected the East China Sea (ECS) between 2010 and 2013. The spatial distr...
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Erratum to: Estimating urban water demand under conditions of rapid growth: the case of Shanghai
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Estimating urban water demand under conditions of rapid growth: the case of Shanghai
Many of the world’s major cities are expected to face significant water shortages in coming decades, largely due to increased demand arising from economic and population growth. In this paper, we estimate the ...
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Spatiotemporal reconstruction of agricultural land cover in Nepal from 1970 to 2010
Agricultural land cover and changes in its extent are directly related to human activities. The rapidly growing population in Nepal has resulted in an increasing trend of agricultural land expansion, and can b...
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Clusters of community exposure to coastal flooding hazards based on storm and sea level rise scenarios—implications for adaptation networks in the San Francisco Bay region
Sea level is projected to rise over the coming decades, further increasing the extent of flooding hazards in coastal communities. Efforts to address potential impacts from climate-driven coastal hazards have c...
