Support for Subnational Entities to Develop and Monitor Land-Based Greenhouse Gas Reduction Activities by Erin Glen, Angela Scafidi, Nancy Harris, Richard Birdsey

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Land use changes in Klaipeda, Kaunas and Vilnius (Lithuania) functional urban areas by Paulo Pereira, Luís Valença Pinto, Eduardo Gomes, Miguel Inácio

“…Urban expansion is a global phenomenon that is a cause of biodiversity loss and climate change. This work assesses land use changes in Klaipeda, Kaunas and Vilnius (Lithuania) functional urban areas (FUA) between 1989/50 and 2020/21. …”
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Land use policy and green utilization efficiency in border cities: evidence from northeastern China’s carbon reduction practice by Xuncheng Fan, Lili Zhao

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Connecting Natural and Planted Forests: New Ecological Functions in an Agricultural Landscape in Northern Spain by Javier Brazuelo Núñez, Carlos A. Rivas, Guillermo Palacios-Rodríguez, Rafael M. Navarro-Cerrillo

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A Study on the Management and Evolution of Land Use and Land Cover in Romania During the Period 1990–2022 in the Context of Political and Environmental Changes by Jenica Călina, Aurel Călina, Gheorghe Marian Vangu, Alin Constantin Croitoru, Marius Miluț, Nicolae Ion Băbucă, Ion Stan

“…Land use and land cover are the main anthropogenic factors that lead to the rapid and aggressive degradation of land and interfere with the functioning of ecosystems, especially through the expansion of urbanization and the reduction in forested areas. …”
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Characteristics of Land Use Change and Evaluation of Ecological Sensitivity in Chongqing by XIE Xianjian, GOU Qiantao, WU Han

“…[Objective] Chongqing, as the economic center of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in China and a barrier to ensure ecological security in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, is a typical ecological functional and fragile area in China. Studying the spatiotemporal evolution characteristics and ecological sensitivity of its land use is of great significance for the reconstruction of land use and ecological protection in the research area. …”
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Impact of Urban-Rural Integrated Development on Carbon Emission Intensity of Land Use: A Case Study of the Changsha–Zhuzhou–Xiangtan Urban Agglomeration by Li Xiaoqing, Zhou Guohua, Cui Shuqiang, Wang Hua, Liu Hui, Yu Xuexia

“…In this study, we built an analytical framework for the impact of urban-rural integration on land-use carbon emission intensity by considering the carbon reduction effect and carbon increase effect generated by urban-rural integration. …”
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Evaluating functional traits of urban green spaces in mitigating land surface temperature in megacities by Manjari Upreti, Amit Kumar

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Using Landscape Metrics of Pixel Scale Land Cover Extracted from High Spatial Resolution Images to Classify Block-Level Urban Land Use by Haofeng Luo, Xiaomei Yang, Zhihua Wang, Yueming Liu, Huifang Zhang, Ku Gao, Qingyang Zhang

“…Block-level urban land use classification (BLULUC), like residential and commercial classification, is highly useful for urban planners. …”
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Spatial and Temporal Changes and Prediction of Habitat Quality in Key Ecological Function Area of Hu'nan Province by Zheng Yunyou, Liu Yanting, Yao Peng, Xie Xianjun, Zhang Guangjie, Deng Chuxiong

“…[Objective] Land use change and habitat quality in Nanyue key ecological function area of Hu'nan Province were studied to reveal the relationship between forest land reduction and habitat quality caused by human activities, in order to promote the coordinated development of ecological protection and economic construction in this area. …”
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Land-use Change; Achilles heel to Overcoming the Environmental Crisis, Process and Impacts by Mosayeb Heshmati, Mohamad Gheitouri

“…Land-use change, urbanization and over applications of chemical fertilizers and pesticides attribute to reduction in arable land and harmful agricultural crops. …”
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The reduction of the standard of census route length using double lamination of sample by V. M. Glushkov

“…Stratification and lamination of the sample within the strata on sections of the rout with different linear density function as a two-fold lamination of the sample route by the tracks. …”
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Interactions of Soil Order and Land Use Management on Soil Properties in the Kukart Watershed, Kyrgyzstan by Zulfiia Sakbaeva, Veronica Acosta-Martínez, Jennifer Moore-Kucera, Wayne Hudnall, Karabaev Nuridin

“…The significant reductions in measured soil enzyme activities involved in C, N, P, and S nutrient transformations under cultivation compared to pasture and forest ecosystems and lower values under Inceptisols can serve as soil quality indicators for land use decisions in the watershed.…”
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Land Use Rather than Microplastic Type Determines the Diversity and Structure of Plastisphere Bacterial Communities by Yangyang Wang, Zixuan Zhang, Shuang Zhang, Wanlin Zhuang, Zhaoji Shi, Ziqiang Liu, Hui Wei, Jiaen Zhang

“…These findings indicate that different land use types have a greater impact on bacterial community diversity and structure than plastics themselves, and that biodegradable MPs may pose a greater challenge to the ecological function and health of soil ecosystems than conventional MPs.…”
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Spatiotemporal variations in habitat quality and their determinants in the Henan Section of the Yellow River Basin by ZHANG Yingying, MA Ziyan, YU Nan, WEI Dechao, CHEN Zhaojing, YUAN Shuting, WANG Zheng, SONG Xinxin, ZHAO Yongqiang

“…Key determinants of spatiotemporal variation were identified using the Geodetector method.【Result】Over the past 30 years, the study area experienced a marked reduction in cultivated land and grassland, alongside a more than twice increase in construction land. …”
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Population Shrinkage and Spatio-Temporal Changes in Cultivated Land Use Efficiency in China’s Agro-Pastoral Ecotone by Lu Chen, Ning Zhao, Zhixun Zhang, Yun Zhang, Wenjie Zuo, Youshuo Wang, Bin Wu, Monika Stanny, Yuheng Li, Guoming Du

“…In this paper, using the stochastic frontier production function and a Tobit regression model, we reveal the current situation of rural population shrinkage in the agro-pastoral ecotone in northern China and the spatial and temporal evolution characteristics of cultivated land use efficiency, and identify influencing factors based on the perspective of “human–land”. …”
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Deforestation impact on soil organic carbon stocks in Meknes Region, Morocco by amal amal labaioui, Fatima Zahra ( Kbiri Alaoui

“…Land-use change affects soil organic carbon (SOC), the depletion of which leads to degradation of soil functions and ecosystem services. …”
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The effect of 8 weeks of aquatic and land exercise training on balance and proprioception of the ankle joint in children with diplegia cerebral palsy by Hamid Abbasi, Hossein Ghasemsharifi, Saeed Abedinzadeh, Reza Sharifatpour

“…To statistically analyze the data, two-way repeated measures of ANOVA was used at a significant level of p≤0.05.Results: After 8 weeks of land and water combined training, there were significant improvements in the functional balance test (p<0.05) and ankle joint proprioception (p=0.001), as well as a significant reduction in time of TUG test(p=0.001). …”
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Recycled cross-laminated timber as a low environmental impact alternative to virgin material: Latvia case study by Peteris Vasuks, Ilze Vamza, Megija Valtere, Tereza Bezrucko, Dagnija Blumberga

“…Overall, the ReCLT showed significantly reduced environmental impacts in endpoint categories from 50 % to 80 % reduction in the single score evaluation. Although midpoint impacts showed mostly reduced environmental impacts, e.g., global warming, land use and others, the water eutrophication – both marine and freshwater, leading to think for improvements in the recycling process.…”
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Land Use Change and Mangrove Restoration Modulate Heavy Metal Accumulation in Tropical Coastal Sediments: A Nearly Decade-Long Study from Hainan, China by Tingting Si, Penghua Qiu, Lei Li, Wenqian Zhou, Chuanzhao Chen, Qidong Shi, Meihuijuan Jiang, Yanli Yang

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