Assessing Water Source Stability in the Three River Source Region: A Comprehensive 35‐Year Analysis by Lifeng Zhang, Daniel R. Schlaepfer, Zhiguang Chen, Zhongkuan Liu, Zhenyu Liu, Song Gu, William K. Lauenroth

“…In contrast to a strong spatial pattern, we found no obvious temporal trend of the net water source. …”
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Synergistic Zoning and Management Strategies for Ecosystem Service Value and Ecological Risk at the County Level: A Case Study of Songzi City, Hubei Province, China by Tingting Han, Jing Luo, Yilin Gan, Yaru Sun, Lingling Tian

“…The results indicate the following: (1) The total ESV of Songzi City amounts to CNY 7.64 billion, showing spatial heterogeneity high-value clustering and low-value dispersion pattern, and water bodies and woodlands contributing 49.17% and 29.61%, respectively. (2) The spatial distribution of CERI is high in the central and eastern regions, and low in the west pattern, radiating from river systems under the combined effects of endogenous, exogenous, and regulatory risks. (3) Based on SOM clustering, four service clusters are identified and classified into ecological preventive conservation, vulnerability restoration, safeguard restoration, and improvement and utilization, shifting from broad-scale control to targeted ecological governance. …”
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Exploring Residential Heterogeneity through Multiscalar Lens: A Case Study of Hangzhou, China by Qinshi Huang, Weixuan Song, Liyan Liu, Chunhui Liu, Xinyi Zhang, Ge He

“…Based on the sixth population census of Hangzhou and the housing price database of 6,536 residential districts from 2008 to 2018, we explore the scale effect and dynamic characteristics of residential heterogeneity. The results of spatial simulation and geostatistical analysis based on Python Spatial Analysis Library (PySAL) module show that the multiscalar algorithm better presents the real segregation pattern than traditional method, which is one of the new models and technologies in urban geography complex system. …”
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Impact of gas background on XFEL single-particle imaging by Tong You, Johan Bielecki, Filipe R. N. C. Maia

“…A recent observation of a diffraction pattern from an isolated GroEL protein complex Ekeberg T et al. …”
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IRFNet: Cognitive-Inspired Iterative Refinement Fusion Network for Camouflaged Object Detection by Guohan Li, Jingxin Wang, Jianming Wei, Zhengyi Xu

“…Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) aims to identify objects that are intentionally concealed within their surroundings through appearance, texture, or pattern adaptations. Despite recent advances, extreme object–background similarity causes existing methods struggle with accurately capturing discriminative features and effectively modeling multiscale patterns while preserving fine details. …”
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White matter tract damage in the behavioral variant of frontotemporal and corticobasal dementia syndromes. by Fernanda Tovar-Moll, Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza, Ivanei Edson Bramati, Roland Zahn, Alyson Cavanagh, Michael Tierney, Jorge Moll, Jordan Grafman

“…The phenotypes of the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia and the corticobasal syndrome present considerable clinical and anatomical overlap. The respective patterns of white matter damage in these syndromes have not been directly contrasted. …”
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Neural dynamics of semantic control underlying generative storytelling by Clara Rastelli, Antonino Greco, Chiara Finocchiaro, Gabriele Penazzi, Christoph Braun, Nicola De Pisapia

“…Moreover, we found specific spatial frequency patterns underlying the modulation of semantic control during story generation, while functional coupling in default, salience, and control networks differentiated creative stories with their controls. …”
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Contrast and luminance dependence of target choice and visual orientation in walking stick insects by Merit Meschenmoser, Volker Dürr

“…To better understand which stimulus features actually govern turning towards static visual targets, this study tests the relative importance of two elementary cues of spatial vision – luminance and contrast. We do so in a large open-field arena, using luminance-modulated, static 360° patterns with and without high-contrast edges. …”
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Molecular prediction of lytic vs lysogenic states for Microcystis phage: Metatranscriptomic evidence of lysogeny during large bloom events. by Joshua M A Stough, Xiangming Tang, Lauren E Krausfeldt, Morgan M Steffen, Guang Gao, Gregory L Boyer, Steven W Wilhelm

“…While analyzing RNA-sequence data obtained from Microcystis blooms in Lake Tai (Taihu, China), we observed that a series of lysogeny-associated genes were highly expressed when genes involved in lytic infection were down-regulated. This pattern was consistent, though not always statistically significant, across multiple spatial and temporally distinct samples. …”
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Gene circuit analysis of the terminal gap gene huckebein. by Maksat Ashyraliyev, Ken Siggens, Hilde Janssens, Joke Blom, Michael Akam, Johannes Jaeger

“…Gap gene circuits are mathematical models of gene networks used as computational tools to extract regulatory information from spatial expression data. This is achieved by fitting the model to gap gene expression patterns, in order to obtain estimates for regulatory parameters which predict a specific network topology. …”
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The trade-offs and synergies between food provisioning and soil conservation services in Guangxi province under the context of the conversion of cropland to forest and grassland by Yangling Zhao, Yifeng Qin, Caihua Yang, Veselin Krustev, Rongyan Zhao, Shengquan Che

“…This study analyzed the spatiotemporal patterns of land use change, food supply services, and soil conservation services in Guangxi Province from 1990 to 2020, combined with Pearson correlation analysis, to reveal the dynamic relationship between the two. …”
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The Spatiotemporal Evolution of Land Use Ecological Efficiency in the Huaihai Economic Zone: Insights from a Multi-Dimensional Framework and Geospatial Modeling by Gan Teng, Longqian Chen, Ting Zhang, Long Li, Jue Xiao, Linyu Ma

“…High-efficiency areas shifted from a dispersed pattern to a “T-shaped” spatial distribution, while low-efficiency areas gradually converged toward the southern regions, evolving from an “H-shaped” cluster. (3) The influence of industrial structure, urbanization, environmental regulation, ecological factors, and land use on ecological efficiency exhibited clear spatial and temporal heterogeneity. …”
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Ecological drivers shaping mainstem and tributary fish communities in the upper Jinsha River, southeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau by Pengcheng Lin, Masami Fujiwara, Baoshan Ma, Zhijun Xia, Xinghua Wu, Chunling Wang, Tao Chang, Xin Gao

“…In this study, fish surveys were conducted at 38 sites, including 15 mainstem sites and 23 tributary sites of the upper Jinsha River, China, to analyze the spatial patterns and ecological drivers of fish communities. …”
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Designing an Interactive Visual Analytics System for Precipitation Data Analysis by Dong Hyun Jeong, Pradeep Behera, Bong Keun Jeong, Carlos David Luna Sangama, Bryan Higgs, Soo-Yeon Ji

“…As precipitation analysis reveals critical statistical characteristics, temporal patterns, and spatial distributions of rainfall and snowfall events, it plays an important role in planning urban drainage systems, flood forecasting, hydrological modeling, and climate studies. …”
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CMIP6-driven 10 km super-resolution daily climate projections with PET estimates in China by Fuyao Zhang, Xiubin Li, Xue Wang, Minghong Tan, Liangjie Xin

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Trade-Offs, Synergies, and Driving Factors of Ecosystem Services in the Urban–Rural Fringe of Beijing at Multiple Scales by Chang Wang, Siyuan Wang, Bing Qi, Chuling Jiang, Weiyang Sun, Yilun Cao, Yunyuan Li

“…Urban–rural fringe areas are critical transition zones where ecological functions and human activities interact intensely, often leading to complex spatial patterns and trade-offs among ecosystem services (ESs). …”
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Mechanical behavior of rock mass under simulated materials shear testing by Xing-Chao Lin, Gui-Na Zhu, Xing-Song Sun

“…In this paper, the influence of joint distribution on the deformation and strength characteristics of rock mass is studied through direct shear tests of five typical distribution types of simulated materials including two joints. The spatial distribution pattern of joints determines the deformation and failure process and the final shape of rock mass, which is mainly manifested as lap failure between joints. …”
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Characteristics of Territories-in-between by Alexander Wandl, Vincent Nadin, Wil Zonneveld, Remon Rooij

“…The comparison with widely used urban–rural classifications shows that the presented classification of TiB has three advantages: (i) it maps the complexity of the spatial structure of urbanised areas on a regional scale, and thereby helps to overcome the prevalent idea that urbanised regions are characterised by a spatial gradient from urban centre(s) to rural periphery; (ii) it emphasises the network structure of territories-in-between and the underlying connectivity of places with different functions and (iii) it raises awareness that in some parts of Europe a settlement pattern has developed that cannot be understood as either urban or rural. …”
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Towards monitoring biodiversity in Amazonian forests: how regular samples capture meso-scale altitudinal variation in 25 km2 plots. by Darren Norris, Marie-Josée Fortin, William E Magnusson

“…Additionally, analysis of spatially interpolated data showed that spatial patterns in altitude were also recovered within areas using a regular arrangement of 30 samples.…”
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Machine learning in stream and river water temperature modeling: a review and metrics for evaluation by C. R. Corona, T. S. Hogue, T. S. Hogue

“…The aim of this work is threefold: first, to provide a concise review of the use of ML algorithms in SWT modeling and prediction; second, to review ML performance evaluation metrics as they pertain to SWT modeling and prediction to find the commonly used metrics and suggest guidelines for easier comparison of ML performance across SWT studies; and, third, to examine how ML use in SWT modeling has enhanced our understanding of spatial and temporal patterns of SWT and examine where progress is still needed.…”
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