The evaluation of the spatial and temporal distribution of pollutants is a crucial issue to
assess the anthropogenic burden on the environment. Numerous chemometric approaches …

Managing relationships among ecosystem service supplies and demands and manipulating
certain drivers to maintain well-balanced ecosystem service suites are key challenges for …

Seawater intrusion is among the world's leading causes of groundwater contamination, as
salty water can affect potable water access, food production, and ecosystem functions. To …

Experimental and clinical evidence suggests that tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs)
play important roles in cancer progression. Here, we have characterized the ontogeny and …

Ecosystem service is widely acknowledged as a mainstream and valuable concept for the
sustainability-oriented decision-makings on meeting the fundamental needs for improving …

Understanding the relationships among multiple ecosystem services (ESs) is crucial for the
sustainability of natural capital and ESs. The objective of this paper was to explore the …

Zebrafish, a popular organism for studying embryonic development and for modeling human
diseases, has so far lacked a systematic functional annotation program akin to those in other …

In the last twenty years, the life sciences have seen a dramatic increase in the size and
number of data sets. Simple sensing devices in many cases offer real-time data streaming …

Urbanization as a global phenomenon is a multifaceted process. Here we do the first global
attempt to characterize the complexity of urbanization from 1975 to 2015 in terms of …

Accurate photometric redshift calibration is central to the robustness of all cosmology
constraints from cosmic shear surveys. Analyses of the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) re …