Publications by authors named "Yanmin Teng"

The contribution of diffuse nutrient exports from forests to downstream water bodies is significant owing to their extensive spatial distribution across watersheds. However, the intricacies of coupling mechanism between diffuse nutrient exports and meteorological factors driving downstream eutrophication remain poorly understood. Multiple methods involving field sampling, laboratory analysis, and model simulation were utilized to investigate the impact of diffuse nutrient exports from tropical forests on chlorophyll a concentration dynamic in the downstream reservoir.

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Although cycling has numerous health benefits, the increased breathing volume and lack of protection from exposure to the environment while cycling poses health risks that cannot be disregarded. Previous studies evaluating the exposure of cyclists to air pollution have typically focused on assessing exposure to a single pollutant or exposure concentrations on specific urban routes, and have not performed a comprehensive assessment considering the distribution of cyclists. The present study used bicycle-sharing big data to conduct a more comprehensive and refined real-time population weighted exposure risk assessment of pileless bike sharing riders in Beijing.

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  • Enhancing green spaces (GSs) can significantly improve urban cooling in cities affected by global warming.
  • A study in Guangzhou, using advanced modeling techniques, showed that increasing GS coverage could lower land surface temperature (LST) by up to 4.73 °C.
  • Additionally, optimizing the spatial distribution of GSs provided further LST reductions, highlighting the combined cooling benefits of both strategies.
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  • Large-scale desertification combatting programs (DCPs) are vital for addressing climate change, but their economic impact at the household level has been less studied.
  • Research in the Gonghe Basin on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau assessed the ecological benefits (like carbon sequestration and wind erosion prevention) and socioeconomic gains from DCPs by analyzing household surveys and ecosystem data from 2001 to 2021.
  • The study found significant improvements in both the environment and residents' incomes due to DCPs, highlighting that greater resident participation in these programs led to better ecological conditions and increased household satisfaction and income levels.
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  • Environmental indicators help us understand and manage the health of our planet, but there's not enough detailed local data for many of them.
  • Researchers have created different methods to get this detailed data, but these methods are often varied and confusing.
  • This review classifies environmental indicators into five groups, explains how to choose the best methods, and suggests improvements for future research.
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The impacts of the availability and spatial configuration of urban green spaces (UGS) on their cooling effects can vary with background climate conditions. However, large-scale studies that assess the potential heterogeneous relationships of UGS availability and spatial configuration with urban thermal environment are still lacking. In this study, we investigated the impacts of UGS availability and spatial configuration on urban land surface temperature (LST) taking 306 cities in China as a case study covering a multi-biome-scale.

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Ecosystem service flows are a research topic of significant interest, and exploring this topic may mitigate the shortcomings related to the spatial mismatches between supply and demand in the current ecosystem services studies. The Pearl River Delta (PRD) experiences a serious spatial mismatch in ecosystem services in particular the food supply, between the supply areas (hilly areas) and demand areas (central areas). Therefore, this study focused on the PRD as a case study to analyze change trends of food supply-demand ratio (FSDR) at city level, and depict the spatial flow path within and between cities from the perspective of ecosystem service flow with different threshold distance, using an enhanced two-step floating catchment area accessibility method.

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