Analysis of Water Surface Ratio Evolution in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Based on Landsat by JIANG Xintong, LIAO Xiaolong, QUAN Xujian, XUE Jiao, ZHONG Yixuan, YU Baishun

“…An appropriate urban water surface ratio plays a vital role in improving the ecological quality of urban areas and the quality of urban living space.By RS and GIS technology,the research takes the free and open source optical remote sensing data,Landsat images,as the data source and uses the normalized difference water index (NDWI) and the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) to construct an automatic water body discrimination model.In this way,we can analyze the evolution of the water surface ratio in the core cities of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Greater Bay Area) in the past two decades.The result analysis reveals that in the past 20 years,the water area of the Greater Bay Area has been decreased by 136 km²,and the water surface ratio is reduced from 4.48% to 4.22%.Among the cities in the Greater Bay Area,the city with the largest reduction in the water area is Jiangmen,with a decline of 44.20 km²,and its water surface ratio falls from 6.10% to 5.62%.Foshan follows Jiangmen,with a water area decrease of 32.34 km²,and its water surface ratio drops from 13.17% to 12.32%.The water area in Macao,Hong Kong,Huizhou,and Zhaoqing demonstrates a fall of not more than 10 km²,and that in Guangzhou and Shenzhen is reduced by not more than 20 km².By the transition matrix analysis of land use types in the Greater Bay Area,we can uncover the main reason for the decline in water area—that is,the increase in construction land invading the original water area.The result of this paper can provide theoretical and methodological support for the rational use of water resources and the construction of water ecology in the cities of the Greater Bay Area.Meanwhile,it can offer an important reference for promoting the construction of ecological civilization and strengthening environmental protection in the Greater Bay Area.…”
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Woody Species diversity and population structure along an Altitudinal gradient in Yegof Mountain Forest in North East of Ethiopia by Eyob Yimer, Tesfay Atsbha

“…A total of 57 quadrats of 20 m by 20 m, 5 m by 5 m and 2 m by 2 m with nine horizontal transect lines were used for collecting the data on tree, shrub, and regenerating population, respectively. The vegetation data were analysed statically in one-way analysis of variance using R software. …”
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Evaluation and Analysis of Soil Temperature Data over Poyang Lake Basin, China by Ming-jin Zhan, Lingjun Xia, Longfei Zhan, Yuanhao Wang

“…Soil temperature reflects the impact of local factors, such as the vegetation, soil, and atmosphere of a region. Therefore, it is important to understand the regional variation of soil temperature. …”
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Genetic diversity assessed in Ethiopian highland bamboo [Oldeania alpina (K. Schum) Stapleton] populations revealed by microsatellite markers by Muhamed Adem, Oumer Abdie, Tileye Feyissa, Dereje Beyene

“…Cluster (UPGMA), PCoA, and STRUCTURE analysis did not group the populations into clearly defined genetically distinct clusters according to their geographic origins, more likely due to the reproductive biology of the species since vegetative propagation is the main means of reproduction associated with 50–100 years of flowering and low viability of seeds. …”
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Respuesta de hongos benéficos del suelo asociados a Lootus tenuis a la aplicación de glifosato by M. DRUILLE, A. ACOSTA, G. ACOSTA, J.L. ROSSI, R.A. GOLLUSCIO, M. BAILLERES

“…La pérdida de funcionalidad de la simbiosis micorrícica podría en el mediano plazo afectar no solo la producción de biomasa de L. tenuis , sino también la diversidad y producti- vidad de todas las especies presentes en la comunidad vegetal. La información generada en este trabajo será de utilidad para rediseñar prácticas de manejo que permitan la producción de alimento con un uso sustentable de los recursos.…”
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Assessment of Ecosystem Vulnerability in the Tropic of Cancer (Yunnan Section) by Hui Ye, Die Bai, Jinliang Wang, Shucheng Tan, Shiyin Liu

“…The findings highlight that ecological vulnerability is predominantly concentrated in areas with low vegetation cover and severe soil erosion. Human activities, particularly road and population density, are identified as significant drivers of ecological vulnerability. …”
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Correlation Between Flying Insect Diversity and Environmental Factors in Various Land Use Types in Paseh District, Sumedang Regency, West Java by Susanti Withaningsih, Bilhaq Fahmi Ilmi, Parikesit Parikesit

“…Similarly, changes in vegetation cover can alter temperature and humidity levels, impacting terrestrial insects adapted to specific climatic conditions. …”
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Desarrollo de nuevos diseños vegetales: Mejora genética vs transformación genética y edición génica by Pedro Martínez Gómez

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Identification of duplicate accessions in the pea (<i>Pisum sativum</i> L.) collection at VIR by E. V. Semenova, V. V. Vasipov, I. N. Anisimova

“…The following criteria were used to ascertain identity of the accessions or their difference: 1) similarity of morphological characters (habitus, and anthocyanin pigmentation of flowers and vegetative organs) and flowering dates; 2) identity or polymorphism of RAPD profiles; and 3) identity or difference in electrophoretic banding patterns of seed storage proteins. …”
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Spatial Differentiation in Urban Thermal Environment Pattern from the Perspective of the Local Climate Zoning System: A Case Study of Zhengzhou City, China by Jinghu Pan, Bo Yu, Yuntian Zhi

“…In summer, urban areas should see an increase in vegetation cover, and in winter, building gaps must be appropriately increased.…”
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Mineral Characteristics and Organoleptic Properties of Musa balbisiana (Wild Banana) Pseudostem collected from San Francisco, Mainit, Surigao del Norte, Philippines and Incorporate... by G. Q. Diamola, E. C. Taer, R. J. C. Ferol, L. R. Antigro, B. C. Bagaipo

“… A patty is a crushed, compacted and flattened small cake of ground meat (beef) or fish or legumes, grains, vegetables, or meat alternatives usually fried. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the mineral characteristics and organoleptic properties of Musa balbisiana (wild banana) pseudostem collected from San Francisco, Mainit, Surigao del Norte and Philippines incorporated into patty formulations using appropriate standard procedures. …”
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Variation in Benthic Macroinvertebrates Along aLongitudinal Gradient of a Disturbed Nyakambu Stream Kabale District Southwestern Uganda. by Byaruhanga, Benson

“…Low temperatures and high pH were recorded in the upstream due to the abundance of undisturbed vegetation and less impact of human activities on the stream. …”
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Impact of Soil Erosion on Agricultural Productivity in Nyakishenyi Sub-County Rukungiri District. by Nahurira, Brendah

“…The study recommended implementing detailed surveys and assessments to gather data on land use practices, vegetation cover, and topography. This will help in understanding the specific factors contributing to soil erosion in the area. …”
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Reconstruction of U.S. Regional-Scale Soybean SIF Based on MODIS Data and BP Neural Network by YAO Jianen, LIU Haiqiu, YANG Man, FENG Jinying, CHEN Xiu, ZHANG Peipei

“…Selected soybean planting areas in the United States with relatively single crop cultivation as the research area, based on high spatial resolution (1.29 km×2.25 km) OCO-2 SIF data, greatly reduced vegetation heterogeneity under a single SIF footprint.…”
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Defecation Site Preferences and Spatial Ecological Segregation of Forest Musk Deer and Siberian Roe Deer in North China by Yixin Li, Luyao Hai, Pengfei Luo, Wangshan Zheng, Xuelin Jin, Jiangcheng Liu, Haiyan Wang, Defu Hu

“…These findings suggest distinct spatial ecological segregation between forest musk deer and Siberian roe deer regarding their microhabitat preferences and vegetation type utilization at the habitat scale.…”
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Phytogeographic Transition Areas Hide Floristic Diversity in Hyper-Arid Environments (Sharaan Natural Reserve, NW-Saudi Arabia) by Mohamed Djamel Miara, Sami Youssef, Yassine Fendane, Louise Marris, Robin Sallio, Hassan Boukcim, Sami D. Almalki, Shauna K. Rees, Benjamin P. Y.-H. Lee, Abdalsamad Aldabaa, Ahmed H. Mohamed

“…The floristic studies carried out in the vegetation season from 2022 to 2024 led to the identification of 166 plant taxa belonging to 38 botanical families. …”
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SwinClustering: a new paradigm for landscape character assessment through visual segmentation by Tingting Huang, Tingting Huang, Bo Huang, Bo Huang, Sha Li, Haiyue Zhao, Xin Yang, Jianning Zhu

“…This approach employs a visual segmentation method to achieve multi-scale clustering, utilizing nine key attributes of landscape elements: altitude, aspect, geology, landcover, landform, relief, slope, soil, and vegetation. By extracting semantic features through the GIS-aware Swin Transformer backbone network and leveraging the Feature Pyramid Decoder for segmentation clustering, SwinClustering offers a comprehensive analysis of landscape characteristics. …”
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Linking Plant Diversity and Urban Uses at the City-Block Scale to Inform Urban Planning by Muriel Deparis, Nicolas Legay, Arthur Castellanos, Chloé Duque, Ulysse Guilloteau, Francis Isselin-Nondedeu, Sébastien Bonthoux

“…The verticalization of residential housing could be an efficient means of internal urban densification if the lowest level of management intensity is promoted to maintain diversified vegetation. Some little-studied uses (schools, industrial city blocks) present opportunities to impede urban homogenisation.…”
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Eating green in Copenhagen: organic consumers’ path to less meat and minimal food waste by Lea Ellen Matthiessen, Lea Ellen Matthiessen, Sinne Smed, Jørgen Dejgård Jensen, Dominika Średnicka-Tober, Laura Rossi, Susanne Gjedsted Bügel

“…For statistical analysis, 279 adult survey participants were divided into three subgroups; “low”– with up to 25% organic food share, “medium”– 26-75% organic food share and “high”– 76-100% organic food share.ResultsThis study found significant differences of food intake between the subgroups for fruits &amp; vegetables, legumes, nuts, whole grain cereals and meat. …”
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Importance of paclobutrazol in out-of-season citrus production. by Fernando Párraga Bazurto, Adriana Celi, LILIANA COROZO, Leonardo Solís

“…El PBZ aumenta la tolerancia de la planta al frío, manteniendo las yemas injertadas en un estado dominante durante condiciones adversas, inhibe el crecimiento vegetal induciendo los botones florales influyendo en la maduración temprana de los frutos, y maximizando el rendimiento productivo de las plantas y calidad de los frutos. …”
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