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Using public perceptions to inform urban protected area buffer zone planning
The buffer zones between urban protected areas (UPAs) and their cities play a significant role in managing and protecting UPAs. However, they are...
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Land use dynamics in a tropical protected area buffer zone: is the management plan hel**?
Buffer zones, mandatory in the Brazilian protected area network as well as globally common in reserves, are essentially transitional areas within the...
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Study on the planning and influential factors of the safe width of riparian buffer zones in the upper and middle reaches of the Ziwu River, China
In this study, we employed the random forest model to identify the riparian buffer zone in the upper and middle reaches of the Ziwu River, used the...
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Influence of buffer distance on environmental geological hazard susceptibility assessment
Previous researches seldom studied the selection of buffer distance between geological hazards (positive samples) and non-geological hazards...
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Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone
The movement of pollutants, particularly the nutrient nitrogen (N), through the Mississippi River Basin into the Gulf of Mexico has led to the...
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Riparian Zone Assessment and Management: an Integrated Review Using Geospatial Technology
Riparian zones act as ecological engineers through stream bank stabilization, pollutant buffering, energy provision to food webs, and groundwater...
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Remotely Sensed Assessment of Mining Severity Within Buffer Zones of Osun River: Implications for Drinking Water Quality, Biodiversity Protection, and Status as UNESCO World Heritage Site
Osun River, a UNESCO heritage site is currently under threat to unregulated mining activity along its course. Through remote sensing techniques, this...
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Recycling of Nitrate and Organic Matter by Plants in the Vadose Zone of a Saturated Riparian Buffer
In agricultural land-use regions, excess nitrate in the soil contributes to eutrophication and pollution of both surface and subsurface waters. This...
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Stream Habitats and Aquatic Communities in an Agricultural Watershed: Changes Related to a Mandatory Riparian Buffer Law
Riparian buffers along streams can intercept eroding soils, contaminants, and nutrients, improving stream habitats and increasing the health of...
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Soil aggregates and associated carbon and nitrogen storage in circular grass buffer integrated crop** systems
PurposeGrass buffer strips enhance ecosystem services of irrigated landscapes. However, their impacts on soil structure and associated soil organic...
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Rio Doce State Park buffer zone: forest fragmentation and land use dynamics
The investigation of land use changes by anthropic processes, spatially and temporally, is a fundamental tool to establish correlations between...
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Implications of Water Security on Indigenous Women—Case from Buffer Zones of Nepal
There is still gender disparity when it comes to facing impacts from a lack of water security, where women from rural areas can be disadvantaged. In...
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Plant Species Diversity of Plant Communities and Heavy Metal Accumulation in Buffer Zone of Momianhe Stream Along a Long-Term Mine Wastes Area, China
The species composition of eight shrub communities were investigated in order to understand the species diversity of plant communities in buffer zone...
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Paired riparian water table monitoring to quantify hydraulic loading to a saturated buffer
The use of saturated buffers for reducing NO 3 -N loads from tile-drained croplands is increasing in the US Midwest and there is a need to develop...
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Attenuation and soil biodegradation of fungicides by using vegetated buffer strips in vineyards during a simulated rainfall–runoff event
Rainfall–runoff events occurring in vineyard fields can result in pesticide ground losses and the subsequent pollution of surface water bodies,...
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The scale identification associated with priority zone management of the Yangtze River Estuary
Watershed and catchment area-based water quality management are important methods for comprehensive management of rivers and lakes. The impacts of...
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Effects of water systems and roads on Linpan distribution based on buffer analysis
This paper studies the influence of water systems and roads on the distribution of the western Sichuan Linpan in Deyuan Town of Chengdu City in...
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Phyllite/bentonite mixture—an alternative effective buffer material for a geological disposal of radioactive waste
The use of phyllite (Phy) instead of quartz in mixtures with bentonite (B) is recommended as a buffer material for engineering barriers in a...
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Estimation of the Ecosystem Service Value of the Yellow River Delta-Laizhou Bay Coastal Zone Considering Regional Differences and Social Development
With economic and societal development, the ecological environment of the Yellow River Delta-Laizhou Bay coastal zone has been seriously damaged....
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Effects of artificial vegetation restoration on the fractions and availability of soil phosphorus in the water-level-fluctuating zone of Three Gorges Reservoir, China
PurposeThe water-level-fluctuating zone (WLFZ) is the buffer zone of energy and material exchange between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems....
