Spatio-temporal Evolution of Land Surface Temperature and Its Response to LULC in the Urban Agglomeration of Central Yunnan by LIN Zhiqiang, PENG Shuangyun, SHI Shuangfu, HUANG Bangmei, MA Dongling, ZHU Ziyi, MA Xiaoliang, GONG Luping

“…LST was always the lowest in the water area, with a multi-year average temperature of 17.38 ℃, while the highest temperature was found in the area covered by built-up land and cropland, with multi-year average temperatures above 21 ℃. (4) The rapid expansion of cities in the central Yunnan urban agglomeration had resulted in significant changes in LULC. …”
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Improving ROP management: insights from a comparative analysis of screening and treatment modalities in a tertiary hospital, Pakistan by Muhammad Moin, Aisha Azam, Lubna Siddiq Mian, Ashal Pal, Rutaab Kareem, Noor Us Sehar

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Segment-based Volatile Organic Compound Emission Characteristics from Different Types of Coking Plants in China by Rumei Li, Yulong Yan, Lin Peng, Yinghui Li, Zhuocheng Liu, Zhanchun Fan, Huanfeng Li, Yang Xu, Cheng Wang, Dongmei Hu, Zhiyong Li

“…The fugitive emissions were also monitored at the mechanical plant, and the most abundant species leaking from the oven were benzene, toluene, ethane, m-xylene, and ethylene, whereas those leaking from byproducts were benzene, propane, ethane, ethylene, n-pentane, n-butane, isobutene, 1-butene, toluene, and propylene. …”
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Spatiotemporal Variation and Driving Factors of Carbon Sequestration Rate in Terrestrial Ecosystems of Ningxia, China by Yi Zhang, Chunxiao Cheng, Zhihui Wang, Hongxin Hai, Lulu Miao

“…This study shows that ecological restoration projects, such as the conversion of cropland to forest (or grassland) and protective farmland measures, play a significant role in enhancing the carbon sequestration capacity in Ningxia.…”
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Assessing Four Decades of Land Use and Land Cover Change: Policy Impacts and Environmental Dynamics in the Min River Basin, Fujian, China by Weixuan Huang, Anil Shrestha, Yifan Xie, Jianwu Yan, Jingxin Wang, Futao Guo, Yuee Cao, Guangyu Wang

“…., LULCC and landscape indices) in forests, croplands, urban areas, and water bodies from 1980 to 2020 using the China National Land Use/Cover Change (CNLUCC) and ArcGIS Pro 2.3. …”
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Retrieval of Land Surface Temperature From Passive Microwave Observations Using CatBoost-Based Adaptive Feature Selection by Yang Dai, Yingbao Yang, Xin Pan, Penghua Hu, Xiangjin Meng, Fanggang Li, Zhenwei Wang

“…Results showed that the proposed method had lowest RMSE, with the value of 3.28 K (1.95 K), 2.69 K (1.65 K), and 3.71 K (2.22 K) on grassland, cropland, and barren land at daytime (nighttime), respectively. …”
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Remediation technologies for oil contaminated soil by M. Mambwe, K. Kalebaila, T. Johnson

“…The choice of remediation in mining, transportation and petroleum industries depends on the urgency and hazardous effects of the pollutant. In Zambia, Mopani Copper Mines uses landfarming as a means to mitigate large amounts of soil contaminated with oil wastes, but the process is slow. …”
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How do various strategies for returning residues change microbiota modulation: potential implications for soil health by Nan Jiang, Nan Jiang, Zhenhua Chen, Zhenhua Chen, Yi Ren, Shichang Xie, Zimeng Yao, Zimeng Yao, Dongqi Jiang, Yulan Zhang, Yulan Zhang, Lijun Chen, Lijun Chen

“…This study further offered recommendations for future cropland management practices aimed at enhancing soil health through microbiomes.…”
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Changes in Soil Organic Carbon and Enzyme Activity After Land Use Change in Northeast China by Yang Wang, Te Shan, Peng Zhang, Ming Li

“…In conclusion, the conversion from upland fields to paddy fields changes the occurrence mechanism of SOC in the aggregate, which is an important way of sustainable C sequestration in cropland ecosystems.…”
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Characteristics of Land Use Change and Evaluation of Ecological Sensitivity in Chongqing by XIE Xianjian, GOU Qiantao, WU Han

“…There had been a significant reduction in both cropland and grassland, while the areas of forest land and urban-rural construction land had increased markedly from 2000 to 2020. (2) Over the course of 20 years, the average value of the comprehensive ecological sensitivity index rose from 1.037 to 1.045, indicating an overall improvement in the ecological environment of the study area. …”
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Spatiotemporal evolution of landscape ecological risk and its driving factors of the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei major mineral belt, 1985–2022 by Yilin Wang, Xiaohong Wang, Wei Zhang, Weidong Man, Mingyue Liu, Linlin Jiao

“…The predominant type of transfer was cropland, which was primarily converted to construction land, grassland, and woodland. (2) The landscape ecological risk in central-northern and western parts of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei major mineral belt is higher, while the landscape ecological risk in the southwest parts is lower. …”
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Being a tree crop increases the odds of experiencing yield declines irrespective of pollinator dependence by Aizen, Marcelo A., Gleiser, Gabriela, Kitzberger, Thomas A., Milla, Ruben

“…Crop yields, i.e. harvestable production per unit of cropland area, are in decline for a number of crops and regions, but the drivers of this process are poorly known. …”
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Determining Dominant Factors of Vegetation Change with Machine Learning and Multisource Data in the Ganjiang River Basin, China by Zhiming Xia, Kaitao Liao, Liping Guo, Bin Wang, Hongsheng Huang, Xiulong Chen, Xiangmin Fang, Kuiling Zu, Zhijun Luo, Faxing Shen, Fusheng Chen

“…The most critical factors influencing the NDVI were forest and cropland ratio, followed by soil organic carbon content, elevation, cation exchange capacity, night-time light intensity, and CO₂ concentration. …”
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A novel agricultural drought index based on multi-source remote sensing data and interpretable machine learning by Hao Chen, Ni Yang, Xuanhua Song, Chunhua Lu, Menglan Lu, Tan Chen, Shulin Deng

“…The results show that IMLDI has a higher spatial and temporal consistency with standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index, can better reflect the real-world observed drought-affected cropland areas and gross primary production, and can also well describe the evolutions of 2009/2010 and 2019 drought events in the eastern parts of China, indicating higher drought monitoring performance of IMLDI. …”
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Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on the Landscape Stability in the Mediterranean World Heritage Site Based on Multi-Sourced Remote Sensing Data: A Case Study of the Causses a... by Mingzhuo Zhu, Daoye Zhu, Min Huang, Daohong Gong, Shun Li, Yu Xia, Hui Lin, Orhan Altan

“…The results demonstrated that (1) the climate showed a warming and drying pattern during the study period, with distinct climate characteristics in different zones. (2) The dominance of woodland decreased (area proportion dropped from 76% to 66.5%); transitions primarily occurred among woodland, cropland, shrubland, and grasslands; landscape fragmentation intensified; and development towards diversification and uniformity was observed. (3) Significant spatiotemporal differences in landscape stability within the heritage site were noted, with an overall downward trend. (4) Precipitation had a high contribution rate in factor detection, with the interactive enhancement effects between temperature and precipitation being the most prominent. …”
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Photochemical oxidation and landfarming as remediation techniques for oil-contaminated soil by M. Mambwe, K.K. Kalebaila, T. Johnson

“…Photochemical oxidation is environmentally friendly and degrades oil faster than landfarming. Zambia’s Mopani Copper Mines can consider adopting photochemical oxidation as a remediation technique in treating oil-contaminated soil.…”
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Extracellular vesicles-derived miR-21 as a biomarker for early diagnosis and tumor activity in breast cancer subtypes by Claudia Omarini, Virginia Catani, Ilenia Mastrolia, Angela Toss, Federico Banchelli, Chrystel Isca, Daniele Medici, Ornella Ponzoni, Marco Brucale, Francesco Valle, Maria Cristina Baschieri, Roberto D’Amico, Valentina Masciale, Chiara Chiavelli, Federica Caggia, Carlo Augusto Bortolotti, Federico Piacentini, Massimo Dominici

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Estimation of blue carbon stock in the Liaohe Estuary wetland based on soil thickness and multi-scenario modeling by Lina Ke, Nan Lei, Shilin Zhang, Changkun Yin, Yao Lu, Lei Wang, Qin Tan, Yu Zhao, Quanming Wang

“…The area fraction of natural wetland tidal flat and suaeda salsa increased to 15.17 % and 3.69 %, respectively, while the area fraction of artificial wetland cropland and non-wetland bare land declined to 9.53 % and 0.39 %, respectively. …”
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Unravelling the multi-scale structure of vertebrate scavenger communities: The role of beta-diversity in livestock carcass consumption by María Eugenia Cabrera-García, Patricia Mateo-Tomás, José Hernán Sarasola, Juan I. Zanón Martínez, Beatriz Martínez-Miranzo, Pedro P. Olea

“…Scavenger abundance increased during spring and was positively influenced by carcass weight; furthermore, carcasses in croplands supported less abundance that those located in natural habitats. …”
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Spatiotemporal Variation of Water Use Efficiency and Its Responses to Climate Change in the Yellow River Basin from 1982 to 2018 by Jie Li, Fen Qin, Yingping Wang, Xiuyan Zhao, Mengxiao Yu, Songjia Chen, Jun Jiang, Linhua Wang, Junhua Yan

“…The region of significant increase in WUE in 2000–2018 (45.35%, Slope > 0, <i>p</i> < 0.05) was higher than that of 1982–2000 (8.23%, Slope > 0, <i>p</i> < 0.05), which was 37.12% higher in comparison. (2) Forest WUE (1.267 gC·kg⁻¹·H₂O) > Cropland WUE (0.972 gC·kg⁻¹·H₂O) > Grassland WUE (0.805 gC·kg⁻¹·H₂O) under different land cover types. …”
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