24 Result(s)

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Book review, Holistic: The Evolution of the Georgia Institute of Ecology

Jianguo Liu in Landscape Ecology (2003)

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Assessing Landowner Activities Related to Birds Across Rural-to-Urban Landscapes

Fluctuations of bird abundances in the Midwest region of the United States have been attributed to such factors as landscape change, habitat fragmentation, depredation, and supplemental feeding. However, no at...

Christopher A. Lepczyk, Angela G. Mertig, Jianguo Liu in Environmental Management (2004)

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Distribution of Economic Benefits from Ecotourism: A Case Study of Wolong Nature Reserve for Giant Pandas in China

Ecotourism is widely promoted as a conservation tool and actively practiced in protected areas worldwide. Theoretically, support for conservation from the various types of stakeholder inside and outside protec...

Guangming He, **aodong Chen, Wei Liu, Scott Bearer… in Environmental Management (2008)

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Obscure bleeding detection in endoscopy images using support vector machines

Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) is a recently established imaging technology that requires no wired device intrusion and can be used to examine the entire small intestine non-invasively. Determining bleeding ...

Jianguo Liu, **aohui Yuan in Optimization and Engineering (2009)

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Socioeconomic Factors Affecting Local Support for Black Bear Recovery Strategies

There is global interest in recovering locally extirpated carnivore species. Successful efforts to recover Louisiana black bear in Louisiana have prompted interest in recovery throughout the species’ historica...

Anita T. Morzillo, Angela G. Mertig, Jeffrey W. Hollister… in Environmental Management (2010)

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An integration of habitat evaluation, individual based modeling, and graph theory for a potential black bear population recovery in southeastern Texas, USA

Population recovery is difficult for species that require large contiguous areas of habitat, particularly within areas of heterogeneous land ownerships. Ecologically, potential for recovery success requires as...

Anita T. Morzillo, Joseph R. Ferrari, Jianguo Liu in Landscape Ecology (2011)

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Effects of Natural Disasters on Conservation Policies: The Case of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake, China

Conservation policies are increasing in response to human-induced ecosystem degradation, but little is known about their interplay with natural disasters. Through an analysis of satellite imagery and field dat...

Andrés Viña, **aodong Chen, William J. McConnell, Wei Liu, Weihua Xu… in AMBIO (2011)

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Effects of Global Household Proliferation on Ecosystem Services

Population sizes and growth rates are two major factors used by ecologists in assessing human impacts on ecosystems and landscapes. However, the numbers of households have been increasing much faster than popu...

Jianguo Liu in Landscape Ecology for Sustainable Environment and Culture (2013)

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How Perceived Exposure to Environmental Harm Influences Environmental Behavior in Urban China

Rapid environmental degradation in China makes understanding how perceived exposure to environmental harm influences environmental attitudes and participation in pro-environmental behaviors among the Chinese p...

**aodong Chen, M. Nils Peterson, Vanessa Hull, Chuntian Lu, Dayong Hong… in AMBIO (2013)

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In-situ emission characteristics of odorous gases from two food waste processing plants

Odorous gas emission is the main environmental concern of food waste treatment. Two typical food waste processing plants, one for animal feed production by hydrothermal hydrolysis + aerobic fermentation (Plant...

Jianguo Liu, **aowei Wang, **aoqin Nie… in Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Manag… (2013)

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Science for action at the local landscape scale

For landscape ecology to produce knowledge relevant to society, it must include considerations of human culture and behavior, extending beyond the natural sciences to synthesize with many other disciplines. Fu...

Paul Opdam, Joan Iverson Nassauer, Zhifang Wang, Christian Albert… in Landscape Ecology (2013)

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Spatial Assessment of Attitudes Toward Tigers in Nepal

In many regions around the world, wildlife impacts on people (e.g., crop raiding, attacks on people) engender negative attitudes toward wildlife. Negative attitudes predict behaviors that undermine wildlife ma...

Neil H. Carter, Shawn J. Riley, Ashton Shortridge, Binoj K. Shrestha, Jianguo Liu in AMBIO (2014)

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Identification and characterization of odorous gas emission from a full-scale food waste anaerobic digestion plant in China

Odorous gas emission characteristic along with the successive processes of a typical full-scale food waste (FW) anaerobic digestion plant in China was investigated in September and January. Seasonal variations...

**n Kong, Jianguo Liu, Lianhai Ren, Minying Song… in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (2015)

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Characterization and solidification/stabilization of iron-ore sintering gas cleaning residue

With the air pollution control standards getting increasingly stricter, gas cleaning processes with higher capture efficiency of pollutants in iron-ore sintering gas cleaning were applied in China, and fine re...

Minying Song, Jianguo Liu, Shiqin Xu in Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management (2015)

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Spatial and temporal variability of odorous VOC in a food waste treatment plant using hydrothermal hydrolysis and aerobic fermentation technology

Offensive odorant emissions from a food waste (FW) treatment plant that uses hydrothermal hydrolysis and aerobic fermentation technology were studied for 1 month through in situ monitoring and laboratory testi...

**n Kong, Jianguo Liu, Mingying Song… in Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Manag… (2015)

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Synchronized Peak Rate Years of Global Resources Use Imply Critical Trade-Offs in Appropriation of Natural Resources and Ecosystem Services

Which ecosystem services are addressed? Most relevant renewable food resources, i.e., provisioning ecosystem services from agriculture (crops, meat, dairy products) and aqua culture

Ralf Seppelt, Ameur M. Manceur, Jianguo Liu, Eli P. Fenichel… in Atlas of Ecosystem Services (2019)