Historical and projected forest cover changes in the Mount Kenya Ecosystem: Implications for sustainable forest management by Brian Rotich, Abdalrahman Ahmed, Benjamin Kinyili, Harison Kipkulei

“…Between 2000 and 2023, open forest (+201.12 km2), cropland (+218 km2), bareland (+290.09 km2), and built-up areas (+0.27 km2) expanded, while closed forest (−141.55 km2) and shrubland and grassland (−567.93 km2) declined. …”
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Interactions between Climate, Socioeconomics, and Land Dynamics in Qinghai Province, China: A LUCD Model-Based Numerical Experiment by Xiangzheng Deng, Jikun Huang, Yingzhi Lin, Qingling Shi

“…The expansion of urban and built-up land, grassland, and barren or sparsely vegetated land and the area reduction of mixed dryland/irrigated cropland and pasture, water bodies, and snow or ice will dominate land use changes of the case study area. …”
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Construction land transition in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and its eco-environmental effects during 2000-2020 by ZHANG Zining, LUO Junqiang, ZHANG Peilei, RONG Han, LIU Haiyang, AN Shuang, CHANG Genying

“…The primary areas of change were the Qinghai Plateau and the Qaidam Basin, with significant changes observed in provincial capitals along river valleys, industrial cities in the basins, and tourist cities. (2) In earlier years, construction land mainly transitioned to cropland and grassland, while in later years, it primarily converted to water bodies and water conservancy land. …”
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Overestimating Impacts of Urbanization on Regional Temperatures in Developing Megacity: Beijing as an Example by Wei Cao, Lin Huang, Lulu Liu, Jun Zhai, Dan Wu

“…Conversely, the urban area showed strong warming effects (0.438°C/10a). The conversion of cropland to urban land appeared to show the highest warming trend (0.548°C/10a). …”
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Opinion: Understanding the impacts of agriculture and food systems on atmospheric chemistry is instrumental to achieving multiple Sustainable Development Goals by A. P. K. Tai, A. P. K. Tai, A. P. K. Tai, L. Luo, B. Luo

“…<p>Agriculture and food systems play important roles in shaping atmospheric chemistry and air quality, most dominantly via the release of reactive nitrogen (Nr) compounds but also via agricultural burning, energy use, and cropland and pastureland expansion. In this opinion article, we first succinctly review our current understanding of agricultural and food-system emissions of Nr and other atmospherically relevant compounds; their fates and impacts on air quality, human health, and terrestrial ecosystems; and how such emissions can be potentially mitigated through better cropland management, livestock management, and whole-food-system transformation. …”
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Orbifolds and finite group representations by Li Chiang, Shi-Shyr Roan

“…For n=4, the structure of Hilbert scheme of group orbits and crepant resolutions of Ar(4)-singularity are obtained. …”
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Prediction of the Henry Law Constants for Vapours of Organic Molecules of the Rigid Pivot Type by V.V. Kutarov, B.M. Kats

“…The potential applicability of the suggested method was tested using known experimental data for methane and the calculated values of the two-dimensional critical pressures of ethane, propane and n-butane. For small alkanes, the two-dimensional critical pressure values can be readily estimated on the basis of their two-dimensional van der Waals constants and the distribution function of molecules vertically and horizontally oriented to the adsorption surface.…”
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InsectChange: Comment by Gaume, Laurence, Desquilbet, Marion

“…In terrestrial data, the local cropland cover is strongly overestimated, which may incorrectly dismiss agriculture as a driving force behind the decline in insects. …”
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Integrating river transport processes and seasonal dynamics to assess watershed nitrogen export risk by Jian Peng, Tianhan Lan, Jiabin Wang, Pei Xia, Huining Zheng

“…Additionally, the monthly variations within the year were further explored, together with the identification of the priority area of returning cropland to forest land. The results showed that in 2021, the total nitrogen load outside the Dongting Lake was 11.34 × 108 kg·year−1, with the sub-basins retaining a total of 9.02 × 108 kg·year−1, accounting for 79.57 % of the total nitrogen load. …”
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Lightning-induced vulnerability assessment in Bangladesh using machine learning and GIS-based approach by Tanmoy Mazumder, Md. Mustafa Saroar

“…Correlation analysis indicates that lightning fatalities are influenced by multiple factors, with high correlations to cropland area (0.69), agricultural population (0.61), and lightning flashes (0.45). …”
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Influence of Solvent on the Component Composition and Antioxidant Properties of Apricot Cake (Prunus armeniaca L.) Extracts by A. S. Shakun, V. I. Vorobyova, O. E. Chygyrynets, M. I. Skiba

“…Extracts were obtained using ethanol, silicone, propan-2-ol, and mixtures of ethanol silicone and propan-2-ol with silicone. …”
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Conservation Reserve Program: Overview and Discussion by Juhyan Oh, Zhengfei Guan

“… The Conservation Reserve Program, a governmental initiative with the goal of protecting the environment by retiring less productive but environmentally sensitive cropland from production, is by far the largest-scale, biggest-budgeted conservation program in the United States. …”
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Management of Nematodes and Soil Fertility with Sunn Hemp Cover Crop by Zane Joseph Grabau

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Misdiagnosis of Skin Vasculitis Easily Avoided Thanks to Dermoscopy by Vittorio Tancredi, Gaetano Licata, Caterina Mariarosaria Giorgio, Eugenia Veronica Di Brizzi, Elvira Moscarella, Giuseppe Argenziano

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Gradient diffusion entropy corrected ALNS optimization for vegetation topology interaction networks by Shengwei Wang, Hongquan Chen, Yulin Guo, Wenjing Su, Yurong Xu, Shuohao Cui, Zhiqiang Zhou

“…The interaction structure is dominated by competition for cropland and forest in the middle and lower reaches. …”
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Preinoculation of Soybean Seeds Treated with Agrichemicals up to 30 Days before Sowing: Technological Innovation for Large-Scale Agriculture by Ricardo Silva Araujo, Sonia Purin da Cruz, Edson Luiz Souchie, Thomas Newton Martin, André Shigueyoshi Nakatani, Marco Antonio Nogueira, Mariangela Hungria

“…In this article, we report the results of new technologies, developed by the company Total Biotecnologia Indústria e Comércio S/A of Brazil, for preinoculation of soybean seeds with bradyrhizobia, in the presence of agrichemicals. …”
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Identification and Control of Southern Sandbur (Cenchrus echinatus L.) in Hayfields by Hunter Smith, Jason Ferrell, Brent Sellers

“…Southern sandbur is an annual grass that grows in pastures and cropland throughout the warm areas of the southern United States from Virginia to California. …”
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Identification and Control of Southern Sandbur (Cenchrus echinatus L.) in Hayfields by Hunter Smith, Jason Ferrell, Brent Sellers

“…Southern sandbur is an annual grass that grows in pastures and cropland throughout the warm areas of the southern United States from Virginia to California. …”
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Conservation Reserve Program: Overview and Discussion by Juhyan Oh, Zhengfei Guan

“… The Conservation Reserve Program, a governmental initiative with the goal of protecting the environment by retiring less productive but environmentally sensitive cropland from production, is by far the largest-scale, biggest-budgeted conservation program in the United States. …”
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Benzyl Benzoate 25% Versus Permethrin 5% for Scabies. Are Topical Drugs Still Required in the Oral Ivermectin Era? by Vittorio Tancredi, Gaetano Licata, Luca Damiani, Pierfrancesco Benvenuto, Giuseppe Argenziano, Caterina Mariarosaria Giorgio

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