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Displaying 131 - 135 of 1605Mapping the Physiologically Equivalent Temperature in urban areas using artificial neural network
The gap between point measurements made during a measurement campaign and the required discrete data of human thermal comfort in the form of maps could be overcome by statistical or numerical models. City planners usually demand thermal maps with a resolution below 50m. The required input data for the statistical models were meteorological data at high resolution as well as land use and land cover data including morphological data. Meteorological data were obtained through car traverses on a measuring campaign on hot summer days in July 2014.
Using palaeoecology to advise peatland conservation: An example from West Arkengarthdale, Yorkshire, UK
Globally, peatlands are regarded as important carbon stores and their conservation essential for ensuring continuation of terrestrial carbon storage. Numerous peatlands in particular regions of Europe have been degraded by drainage, burning, extraction, overgrazing and pollution in recent decades, often leading to erosion, loss of peat mass and a loss of a variety of flora. In the UK, some 90% of peatlands can be regarded as degraded.
Aggregating land use quantity and intensity to link water quality in upper catchment of Miyun Reservoir
Eutrophication resulting from nutrient enrichment decreases water quality and harms ecosystem structure and function, and its degree is significantly affected by land use in the catchment. Quantifying the relationship between eutrophication and land use can help effectively manage land use to improve water quality. Previous studies principally utilized land use quantity as an indicator to link water quality parameters, but these studies lacked insight into the impact of land use intensity.
Life at the interface: above- and below-ground responses of a grazed pasture soil to reforestation
Conversion of agricultural lands to mixed species woody plantings is increasingly being undertaken as a means of sequestering C and increasing biodiversity. The implications of such changes in land use for soil communities, and the ecosystem services they provide (e.g., nutrient and C cycling), are relatively little understood. Results of a detailed study of vegetation, soil physicochemical properties and soil communities (primarily microbial) to reforestation of a pasture (15 years post reforestation), and its immediately adjacent un-restored pasture, are presented.
comparison of the means and ends of rural construction land consolidation: Case studies of villagers' attitudes and behaviours in Changchun City, Jilin province, China
Rural construction land consolidation (RCLC) is an innovative approach to coordinating the outmigration of a rural population and the increase in rural housing land, thereby protecting farmland and ensuring food security, adding to urban construction land quotas, and improving the rural habitat environment in China. Since 2005, several different models or approaches to RCLC have been practiced by local governments.