Urbanisation drivers and underlying mechanisms of terrestrial insect diversity loss in cities

MS Fenoglio, A Calviño, E González… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
1. Urbanisation is one of the main land‐use changes behind global insect collapse. Despite
that previous studies have described the negative effects of urbanisation on insect …

Energy efficiency financing and the role of green bond: policies for post-Covid period

CA Tu, E Rasoulinezhad - China Finance Review International, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose One of the major negative effects of the Coronavirus outbreak worldwide has been
reduced investment in green energy projects and energy efficiency. The main purpose of …

scikit‐maad: An open‐source and modular toolbox for quantitative soundscape analysis in Python

JS Ulloa, S Haupert, JF Latorre… - Methods in Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Passive acoustic monitoring is increasingly being applied to terrestrial, marine and
freshwater environments, providing cost‐efficient methods for surveying biodiversity …

Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment

AE Bates, RB Primack, BS Biggar, TJ Bird… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
The global lockdown to mitigate COVID-19 pandemic health risks has altered human
interactions with nature. Here, we report immediate impacts of changes in human activities …

COVID-19 and the environment: Short-run and potential long-run impacts

NS Diffenbaugh - Annual Review of Environment and …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
This review examines observed and hypothesized environmental impacts of the coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Impacts are considered along two axes: timescale …

Mapping full seismic waveforms to vertical velocity profiles by deep learning

V Kazei, O Ovcharenko, P Plotnitskii, D Peter, X Zhang… - Geophysics, 2021 - library.seg.org
Building realistic and reliable models of the subsurface is the primary goal of seismic
imaging. We have constructed an ensemble of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to …

Perspectives on the sonic environment and noise mitigations during the COVID-19 pandemic era

HP Lee, S Kumar - Acoustics, 2021 - mdpi.com
The pandemic has impacted every facet of our life, society, and environment. It has also
affected both the requirement and challenges for acoustic research and applications. The …

Avian behaviour changes in response to human activity during the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom

MH Warrington, MB Schrimpf… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Human activities may impact animal habitat and resource use, potentially influencing
contemporary evolution in animals. In the United Kingdom, COVID-19 lockdown restrictions …

A dataset of acoustic measurements from soundscapes collected worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic

S Challéat, N Farrugia, JSP Froidevaux, A Gasc… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Political responses to the COVID-19 pandemic led to changes in city soundscapes around
the globe. From March to October 2020, a consortium of 261 contributors from 35 countries …

[HTML][HTML] Resilient dragons: Exploring Odonata communities in an urbanization gradient

CM Suarez-Tovar, EU Castillo-Pérez… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cities function as ecological systems composed of a geosphere, a biosphere and an
anthroposphere, interacting with each other and generating various selection pressures on …