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Land, Volume 11, Issue 5

May 2022 - 172 articles

Cover Story: The Corral del Veleta cirque (3150 m), Sierra Nevada, houses relict glacial ice and permafrost in a process of degradation. Located in the Southwestern Mediterranean, it is where the southernmost glacial witnesses of the Little Ice Age in Europe are found, originating from the glacier that developed at the head of the Guarnón valley. Their evolution has been monitored over the period of 2001–2019 using geomatic and geophysical techniques applied to the morphogenic dynamic of a rock glacier. The results obtained reveal a progressive shrinkage in underlying frozen bodies and significant changes in the modeling of the rock glacier. All of this is associated with climatic variability in the Sierra Nevada high mountains since the end of the 1980s, particularly in the snowfall and thermal regimes. View this paper
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Articles (172)

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,115 Views
19 Pages

20 May 2022

Under the “double carbon” target, it is important to reduce carbon emissions in each region. Using exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA), the center of gravity method, and spatial econometric models, we analyzed the characteristics and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,386 Views
20 Pages

20 May 2022

Land use transitions cause reconfigurations of regional landscape patterns which can further change the regional ecosystem service functions and its values, especially in environmentally fragile regions. Firstly, this paper theoretically examines the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,206 Views
25 Pages

19 May 2022

Land use change has become the second-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions after fossil energy combustion. In the context of developing a low-carbon economy, it is important to study how to achieve energy savings and emission reduction by adjus...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,833 Views
21 Pages

Soil Slope Exposure Affects Physico-Chemical and Microbiological Properties in Soil Aggregate Size Fractions

  • Tommaso Bardelli,
  • Shamina Imran Pathan,
  • Paola Arfaioli,
  • Nadia Vignozzi,
  • Sergio Pellegrini,
  • Flavio Fornasier,
  • Markus Egli,
  • María Gómez-Brandón,
  • Heribert Insam and
  • Giacomo Pietramellara
  • + 1 author

19 May 2022

Slope exposure is known to affect soil biogeochemical processes in mountainous forest ecosystems, but little attention has yet been paid to its influence at a soil aggregate scale. Therefore, we evaluated the effects of slope exposure (north- vs sout...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,353 Views
22 Pages

19 May 2022

With the rise of the strategy of Coordinated Development for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region, it is necessary to evaluate the trade-offs/synergies of the survival environment and human well-being in Hebei, the capital region of China. However, exist...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,072 Views
20 Pages

Microbiological Analysis and Metagenomic Profiling of the Bacterial Community of an Anthropogenic Soil Modified from Typic Haploxererts

  • Pietro Barbaccia,
  • Carmelo Dazzi,
  • Elena Franciosi,
  • Rosalia Di Gerlando,
  • Luca Settanni and
  • Giuseppe Lo Papa

18 May 2022

This work aimed to characterize the microbial communities of an anthropogenic soil originating from application of pedotechniques to Vertisols in a Mediterranean environment. Bare soil profiles were sampled at three depths (0–10 cm, 10–30...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,017 Views
19 Pages

18 May 2022

A GIS-based approach is used in this study to obtain a better LCZ map of Berlin in comparison to the remote-sensing-based WUDAPT L0 approach. The LCZ classification of land use/cover can be used, among other applications, to characterize the urban he...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,955 Views
15 Pages

18 May 2022

The quality and performance of forest soil is closely related to the characteristics of the faunal community in the soil. Focusing on soil organisms can provide good indicators to choose the best soil restoration methods to improve the properties of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,594 Views
16 Pages

18 May 2022

The marketization of transfer rent is an important symbol of the development of the farmland factor market. At present, the price formation mechanism of rent in China’s farmland market is not perfect. Based on the theoretical analysis starting...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
3,640 Views
22 Pages

Spatio-Temporal Pattern and Conflict Identification of Production–Living–Ecological Space in the Yellow River Basin

  • Furui Xi,
  • Runping Wang,
  • Jusong Shi,
  • Jinde Zhang,
  • Yang Yu,
  • Na Wang and
  • Zhiyi Wang

18 May 2022

Production–living–ecological space (PLES) is the main body of the optimization of the development and protection pattern of territorial space, and the spatial conflict in PLES reflects a struggle for ecological protection and socio-econom...

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