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What Makes New Caledonia’s Flora So Outstanding?
This chapter explores the main characteristics of New Caledonian plant biodiversity, and provides a condensed picture of the major unique elements of...
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The Influence of Vacant Land Presence on Proliferation of Invasive Alien Plant Species: The Case of Ailanthus altissima (Mill.) Swingle Var. altissima
Urban vacant lands have become increasingly important since their potential to become both a resource and a nuisance. Although they can be...
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Datierungsmethoden
Die Alterseinordnung von Funden und den daraus resultierenden Befunden gehört zu den Grundfragen der Archäologie. Zu den traditionellen Methoden...
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Planning Green Spaces Investments for Improving Health and Well-Being in Cities Through Valuing Urban Nature
Fundamental goals of urban green spaces investment and management are to provide natural features and man-made facilities and amenities that offer...
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Processing Stratigraphical Archives
Written documents, maps, paintings, and other types of historical sources are often used in association with many types of geohistorical sources,...
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Part I: ZB VI—Zonobiome of Winter Bare Deciduous Forests or Temperate Nemoral Climate
A temperate climate zone, the zonobiome VI, with a distinct but not too long cold season is clearly developed almost only in the northern hemisphere....
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Healthy City and Its Planning
Today, climate change and health burden have become common challenges faced by all countries around the world. Urban development has a significant...
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Climatic and Environmental Record in Cryosphere
Reconstruction of climatic and environmental changes in the past is fundamental to understanding cyrospheric evolution, as well as interpreting...
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Economy of the Communities of the “Forest” Neolithic in the South-Eastern Baltic
About six and a half thousand years ago the peoples of local Mesolithic cultures began to master pottery production in the territory of the...
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Map** Ecosystem Services, Disservices, and Ecological Requirements to Enhance Urban Forest Planning and Management in Padova
In Padova, the municipal department of green infrastructure monitors the urban forest through a continuously updated database that stores information...
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Untangling the influence of soil moisture on root pullout property of alfafa plant
Root pullout property of plants was of key importance to the soil reinforcement and the improvement of slope stability. To investigate the influence...
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Shetland
The ShetlandShetland Isles display a remarkable diversity of geology and landforms. The varied relief and topography and the indented coastline are...
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Spatiotemporal Domain Decomposition for High Performance Computing: A Flexible Splits Heuristic to Minimize Redundancy
There are three steps towards implementing the divide-and-conquer strategy for accelerating spatiotemporal analysis: First, performing spatiotemporal...
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Features of the Reconstruction of Changes in Stratospheric Ozone along the Ural Meridian Using Dendrochronological Data
AbstractAn analysis of data on the density of annual rings of conifers for the periods 1979‒1993 and 1979‒2006 allows us to identify patterns in the...
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Quaternary Landforms and Sediments in the Northern Alpine Foreland of Salzburg and Upper Austria
This chapter highlights Quaternary landforms and sediments in the Northern Alpine foreland between Salzburg and Upper Austria—a region with a...
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Dry Valleys (Mekgacha)
Conventional riversRiver are absent from much of BotswanaBotswana, with only the Okavango, ChobeChobe and ZambeziZambezi systems in the extreme north...
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Levels of Landscape Resilience
In the second chapter, the levels of landscape resilience are presented and explained: The given resilience describes the natural initial conditions...
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Sustainable Resources in Pre-hispanic Coastal Ecuador: Their Associated Iconography and Symbolism
The transition from hunting and gathering to sedentism began on the Ecuadorian Coast c. 10,000 years ago. Changes in adaptation, year-round...
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Impacts of seismic activity and climatic change on Chinese history in the recent millennium
General history of disasters in China suggests that China has frequently experienced two major natural disasters in its long history, one is from...
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Polygenetic Lowland Relief Around the City of Łódź—Glacial Inheritance and Periglacial Transformation
The Łódź region in central Poland straddles the Middle Polish Lowlands in the north and the Upland belt in the south. The most elevated area, above...