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J Environ Manage
January 2025
School of Landscape Architecture, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, 100083, China. Electronic address:
As climate change and urbanization progress, the urban heat island issue will affect more people. Urban blue-green spaces can effectively mitigate the urban heat island effect, and their structure and morphology significantly impact the degree of mitigation. To identify the most effective blue-green space distribution for mitigating the heat island effect across different urban function zones (UFZ), we selected 14 landscape metrics of blue-green spaces in the main urban area of Nanjing.
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January 2025
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104.
In ecology, Alan Turing's proposed activation-inhibition mechanism has been abstracted as corresponding to several ecological interaction types to explain pattern formation in ecosystems. Consumer-resource interactions have strong theoretical arguments linking them to both the Turing mechanism and pattern formation, but there is little empirical support to demonstrate these claims. Here, we connect several lines of evidence to support the proposition that consumer-resource interactions can create empirically observed spatial patterns through a mechanism similar to Turing's theory.
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December 2024
Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, 506 Burnside Road West, Victoria, BC, V8Z1M5, Canada.
In light of the recent unprecedented wildfires in Canada and the potential for increasing burned areas in the future, there is a need to explore post-fire salvage harvest and restoration and the implications for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Salvage logging and replanting initiatives offer a potential solution by regrowing forests more quickly while meeting societal demands for wood and bioenergy. This study presents a comprehensive modeling framework to estimate post-fire salvage biomass and net GHG emissions relative to a 'do-nothing' baseline for all of Canada's harvest-eligible forests.
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January 2025
State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control (SKLESPC), School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
Assessing the dynamics of offshore wind potential and costs is essential for low-carbon energy policy decision-making and energy modeling, but no open-source, spatial explicit and technologically detailed dataset is available. This study addresses this gap by employing a consistent assessment framework that integrates GIS analysis, a wind reanalysis model, a component-based cost model and scenario analysis. It identifies suitable space for offshore wind deployment considering 12 technical and policy constraints, estimates hourly output curves, capacity factors, and technology cost dynamics by components across 5058 grid points with a 10 km resolution from 2020 to 2035 under three technical change scenarios.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ R Soc Interface
January 2025
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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