The effects of habitat area, vegetation structure and insect richness on breeding bird populations in Beijing urban parks

Y Huang, Y Zhao, S Li, K von Gadow - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2015 - Elsevier
Urban parks are isolated fragmentary areas within the urban environment, providing both
recreational spaces for its citizens and habitat for birds. This study focuses on analyzing …

Multiscale effects of habitat and surrounding matrices on waterbird diversity in the Yangtze River Floodplain

B Gao, P Gong, W Zhang, J Yang, Y Si - Landscape Ecology, 2021 - Springer
Context With the expansion in urbanization, understanding how biodiversity responds to the
altered landscape becomes a major concern. Most studies focus on habitat effects on …

Source identification and apportionment of trace elements in soils in the Yangtze River Delta, China

S Shao, B Hu, Z Fu, J Wang, G Lou, Y Zhou… - International Journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Trace elements pollution has attracted a lot of attention worldwide. However, it is difficult to
identify and apportion the sources of multiple element pollutants over large areas because …

Urban Green Spaces: how geospatial information can help identify diversity. A case study from eastern Lesser Poland

K Cegielska, P Piotr, A Kukulska-Kozieł - Bulletin of Geography. Socio …, 2022 - apcz.umk.pl
Progressing globalisation and suburbanisation are driving dynamic changes in land
management, particularly in suburban zones. Green infrastructure and its impact on human …

[HTML][HTML] Restoration of urban waterbird diversity: A case study of the construction of a waterbird ecological corridor in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay …

X Yang, W Liu, S Li, Z Ma, C Chen, W Gu, M Qu… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Rapid urbanization has intensified habitat fragmentation and shrinkage of waterbirds,
threatening the sustainable development of waterbird diversity. Urban waterbird restoration …

[PDF][PDF] Agriculture along the urban-rural continuum: A GIS-based analysis of spatio-temporal dynamics in two medium-sized African cities

J Schlesinger - 2013 - freidok.uni-freiburg.de
In the time of rapid urban transformation, urban and periurban agriculture has evolved as an
important livelihood strategy for millions of urban dwellers in sub-Saharan Africa. Especially …

An empirical and expert‐knowledge hybrid approach to implement farmland habitat assessment for birds

SH Chen, CF Wu, DL Lin, TS Chen… - … Science and Practice, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bird species survival and breeding depend on necessary abiotic and biotic components of
farmland habitat. A hybrid model based on expert knowledge using Analytic Network …

Identifying spatial mixture distributions of PM2. 5 and PM10 in Taiwan during and after a dust storm

HJ Chu, HL Yu, YM Kuo - Atmospheric environment, 2012 - Elsevier
Atmospheric particulate matter (PM) exhibits a high correlation with public health. The
mixture distributions of PM in Taiwan derive mainly from anthropogenic (industrial) and …

Urban heronry birds tolerate human presence more than its conspecific rural birds

K Charutha, R Roshnath, PA Sinu - Journal of Natural History, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Urbanisation is a major threat to biodiversity by forcing animals to either adapt to it, emigrate
or face extinction. Wetland depended birds, and in particular heronry birds, are known to be …

Identifying LiDAR sample uncertainty on terrain features from DEM simulation

HJ Chu, RA Chen, YH Tseng, CK Wang - Geomorphology, 2014 - Elsevier
Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is an effective technology to detect highly dense-point
elevation data from terrain surfaces. The density of LiDAR data points significantly affects the …