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Mitigating urban heat island through neighboring rural land cover
Globally, the deteriorating Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect poses a significant threat to human health and undermines ecosystem stability. UHI...
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A general urban spreading pattern of COVID-19 and its underlying mechanism
Currently, the global situation of COVID-19 is aggravating, pressingly calling for efficient control and prevention measures. Understanding the...
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Higher rat abundance in greener urban areas
Urban greening has become an increasingly popular strategy to improve urban life and human health. However, there are indications that the presence...
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Urban dynamics through the lens of human mobility
The urban spatial structure represents the distribution of public and private spaces in cities and how people move within them. Although it usually...
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Urban ecology of Drosophila suzukii
AbstractUrban environments are vulnerable to the introduction of non-native species and sometimes contribute to their invasion success. Knowing how...
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Soil Black Carbon Increases Under Urban Trees with Road Density and Time: Opportunity Hotspots for Carbon Storage in Urban Ecosystems
Black carbon (BC) can comprise a significant fraction of the soil carbon pool in cities. However, vegetation cover and human activity influence the...
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Area-Based Hedonic Pricing of Urban Green Amenities in Bei**g: A Spatial Piecewise Approach
This study explores a spatial piecewise approach for the hedonic valuation of the area of urban green space at different distances from a property,...
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Modeling walking accessibility to urban parks using Google Maps crowdsourcing database in the high-density urban environments of Hong Kong
Accessing urban parks is important for promoting physical activities and improving public health. In this study, we propose the use of Google Maps...
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Assessment of urban sprawls, amenities, and indifferences of LST and AOD in sub-urban area: a case study of Jammu
Urbanization, particularly in peri-urban areas, often results in critically transforming the regional land use and land cover (LULC). The increased...
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Urban Growth Simulations in a Medium-Sized City of Mangaluru, India, Through CA-Based SLEUTH Urban Growth Model
In the context of rapid urban growth in the small- and medium-sized cities of develo** countries, the current work attempts to calibrate the...
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The importance of unsealed areas in the urban core and periphery for bird diversity in a large central european city
Although urbanization poses one of the largest threats for biodiversity, only few studies have so far examined its impact in large Central European...
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Urban Growth
Following a brief history of urban growth, various theories are presented that explain different dimensions of that growth with a particular emphasis...
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High amphibian diversity throughout urban environmental heterogeneity
Urban growth negatively impacts biodiversity through species loss and biotic homogenization. However, cities continue to grow and there are species...
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A global time series of traffic volumes on extra-urban roads
Traffic on roads outside of urban areas (i.e. extra-urban roads) can have major ecological and environmental impacts on agricultural, forested, and...
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Does the innovation community cultivation promote urban green development? Evidence from the urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River
A key strategy for reducing regional pollution transfer and hastening the transition to carbon neutrality is to encourage the urban green development...
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Accessibility assessment of urban public services using GIS-based network analysis: a case study in Eskişehir, Türkiye
The rapid growth of urbanization and the growing need for fair and equitable distribution of urban services is one of the important issues and...
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Seasonal variation in urban pollen resource use by north temperate European honeybees
Urban green infrastructure can provide important habitats for pollinators and support urban ecosystem services. Therefore, these areas must be...
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Simulation of urban expansion using geographical similarity transition rules and neighbourhood sizes
Most existing cellular automata (CA) models impose strict requirements on the number and spatial distribution of samples. This makes it a challenge...
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Spatiotemporal evolution of national development zones and their impact on urban land growth in China
Development zones are important growth poles for promoting regional economic development. However, the spatiotemporal relationship between...
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Assessing urban livability in Shanghai through an open source data-driven approach
Urban livability has become a major policy and practice priority in many parts of the world. However, its attainment remains challenging in many...
