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Background: Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) remains a major public health challenge in China, with varying treatment outcomes across different regions. Understanding the spatial distribution of DR-TB treatment outcomes is crucial for targeted int...

The demand for social and economic development has promoted research into water resources. The combined effects of natural conditions and human activities on regional water resource usage are not well understood. The sustainable utilization of water...

With the evolution of the Internet, artificial intelligence, and other technologies, the era of the digital economy has quietly emerged. The digital economy’s growth is a major trend, and China is dedicated to building data power and strengthen...

Hunan Province in China is in the initial stage of green development. Human activities and urban construction lead to ecological environmental problems. Based on the physical geography, environmental quality and socio-economic data from 2005 to 2020,...

Straw burning is a significant source of atmospheric pollutants, releasing particulate matter and trace gases. Capturing the characteristics of straw burning and understanding its influencing factors are important prerequisites for regulating straw b...

In accordance with the national strategy of “carbon peaking by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060” and Hunan Province’s target of achieving carbon peaking in the construction sector by 2030, this study uses carbon emission data from...

Maize, one of the world’s three major food crops, plays a vital role in global food security. Analyzing the spatiotemporal patterns of maize cultivation in Hunan Province and their influencing factors contributes to enhancing planting quality a...

Drought is a widespread phenomenon in the context of global climate change. Owing to the geographical location of Hunan Province in the middle reaches of Yangtze River and the abundance of forests area in this region with a large population, there is...

Direct adoption of nationwide generalized biomass models often causes systematic prediction errors when applied to forest biomass estimation in Hunan Province. This study developed localized multi–component compatible biomass model systems for...

Global warming caused by carbon emissions is an environmental issue of great concern to all sectors. Dynamic monitoring of the spatiotemporal evolution of urban carbon emissions is an important link to achieve the regional “double carbon”...

Based on the panel data of atmospheric environmental pollution in Hunan Province from 2016 to 2023, the autoregressive integrated moving average model (ARIMA) is introduced to evaluate and predict the current status of atmospheric environmental quali...

A quantitative study on the spatial structure and spatiotemporal variation characteristics of net carbon sinks in regional farmland ecosystems is of significant importance for uncovering the multifunctional roles of farmland ecosystems and formulatin...

The Yanlinsi gold deposit, located in the middle section of the Jiangnan Orogenic Belt, is one of the typical gold deposits in northeastern Hunan Province. Diabase dikes are exposed by underground workings and drill holes in the mining area. The dike...

Porcine reproductive disorders have been considered as the major factors that threaten pig industries worldwide. In this study, 407 aborted-fetus samples were obtained from 89 pig farms in Hunan province, to investigate the prevalence of four viruses...

Quantifying the characteristics of urban expansion as well as influencing factors is essential for the simulation and prediction of urban expansion. In this study, we extracted the built-up regions of 14 central cities in the Hunan province using the...

This study examines the spatiotemporal patterns of cropland change in Hunan Province and identifies the factors associated with net cropland decrease from 2000 to 2020. Using land-use transition analysis, spatial autocorrelation, Lorenz curves, Gini...

The rapid development of urbanization has led to increasing uncertainties related to urban safety risks, which has brought certain challenges to the sustainable development of cities. The concept of urban resilience has found a new way to improve the...

The development of traffic infrastructure involves massive land use changes along the transportation routes and stimulates urban sprawl at transfer nodes, leading to a degradation in ecosystem services, including soil conservation. For developing cou...

China has committed to peaking carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and has set a goal of working towards carbon neutrality by 2060. Hunan province is a vital undertaking place for national industrial transfer. It is of great significance for promoting e...

Dynamic detection of forest change is the fundamental method of monitoring forest resources and an essential means of preserving the accuracy and timeliness of forest land resource data. This study focuses on a deep learning-based method for dynamic...

Raptors are high-trophic-level predators and scavengers that are sensitive to habitat alteration, human disturbance, and climate variability, yet province-wide assessments of their habitat suitability and climate-change responses remain limited in su...

The reduction in CO₂ emissions is very important, as highlighted by the issue of global climate warming. As a developing country, China has great differences in regional economic development, which makes it necessary to implement the ecological compe...

The differences in CO₂ equivalent emissions and carbon compensation due to land use changes can provide a basis for formulating low-carbon development policies in various regions according to net CO₂ emissions. Based on the land use and energy consum...

Farmland abandonment, including perennial and seasonal abandonment, is an important process of land use change that matters most to food security. Although there is a great deal of studies on farmland abandonment, seasonal abandonment, which is as se...

Rural sustainable development is a core component of the global Sustainable Development Goals, and building digital villages and enhancing the resilience of rural economies are key pathways for underdeveloped regions to achieve rural sustainable deve...

In the context of global warming, agricultural drought risks are exacerbated by increasing atmospheric aridity. This study pioneers the application of the Bayesian Estimator of Abrupt Change, Seasonality, and Trend (BEAST) algorithm at a provincial s...

Based on land use data from the Wuling Mountains area of Hunan Province for 2000, 2010, and 2020, we used tools such as frastats4.8 and ArcGIS10.8 to construct a model for assessing ecosystem service value and the ecological risk index. We divided th...

Sound ecosystems are a precondition for the sustainable survival and development of human society. However, ecological deterioration caused by socioeconomic activities can result in increasing pressure on ecosystems. Exploration of the spatial intera...

Modifications in land use patterns exert profound influences on the configuration, arrangement, and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems, thereby inducing fluctuations in carbon sequestration. Consequently, precise ecological decision-making and an...

A new species of Asian horned toad, Boulenophrys, is described from Yongzhou City, Hunan Province, China. The species is a phylogenetically sister to B. yunkaiensis, based on 16S rRNA and COI genes. The new species differs from its congeners, possess...

Air and water pollution pose critical threats to public health and environmental stability, particularly in rapidly urbanizing developing nations. This study investigates synergistic interactions between air and water pollutants across 14 cities in H...

Human beings are facing increasingly serious threats to the ecological environment with industrial development and urban expansion. The changes in ecological environmental quality (EEQ) and their driving factors are attracting increased attention. As...

Multi-drug resistance of bacteria producing extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) is a public health challenge. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the antimicrobial susceptibility of ESBL-producing Escherichia coli (ESBL-EC) in Hunan Province,...

Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death from a bacterial pathogen worldwide. China has the third highest TB burden in the world, with a high reported burden in Hunan Province (amongst others). This study aimed to investigate the spatial distr...

Cropland fragmentation affects regional ecosystem functioning and biodiversity conservation, making the spatio-temporal coupling between cropland fragmentation (CLF) and habitat quality (HQ) a key basis for land management and ecological protection....

The Northeastern Hunan Province (NEH), situated within the Central Jiangnan Orogen, hosts abundant Au-polymetallic deposits. However, the coupling mechanism between the deep tectono-magmatism and Au-polymetallic mineralization remains poorly understo...

The Zhengchong gold deposit is located in the central segment of the Jiangnan Orogen in northeastern Hunan Province, South China. The host rocks of this deposit are the Neoproterozoic slates of the Lengjiaxi Group and granodiorite. The structures in...

Major function-oriented zoning is a comprehensive policy designed to promote coordinated development through rational resource flows between regions in China. However, previous effectiveness assessments of major function-oriented zones have largely n...

This study aimed to estimate the efficiency and its influencing factors of Primary Health Care Institutions (PHCIs) in counties in Hunan Province, China, and put forward feasible suggestions for improving the efficiency of PHCIs in Hunan Province. We...

Urban resilience and urban land use efficiency are inevitable topics in urban planning and development, and the coupling coordination between the two will contribute substantially to urban sustainability. With panel data from 14 cities in Hunan from...

Background: With the development of economy and urbanization, methods of child-feeding have significantly changed in China over the past three decades. However, little is known about breastfeeding in China since 2009. This study aims to update inform...

Based on the evaluation model of the gray correlation-TOPSIS method, this paper examines the index system of grass-roots water conservancy services in Hunan Province, China. This paper aims at the present situation of grassroots water conservancy in...

Vegetation plays a significant role in controlling soil erosion. However, the effects of each vegetation type on soil erosion have not been fully investigated. In order to explore the influence of multiple vegetation covers on soil erosion and surfac...

Studies on the population structure and variation of Magnaporthe oryzae in fields are of great significance for the control of rice blast disease. In this study, a total of 462 isolates isolated from different areas of Hunan Province in 2016 and 2018...

Landslides and collapses seriously threaten the safety of residents in Xiangtan County, Hunan Province, southern China. Local human engineering activities, dominated by slope cutting for housing construction, create steep artificial free faces, great...

Sparganosis is a neglected zoonotic parasitic disease that poses huge threats to humans worldwide. Snakes play an important role in sparganosis transmission because they are the most common second intermediate hosts for Spirometra parasites. However,...

Understanding mineralogical transformations and elemental mobility during limestone weathering is critical for deciphering carbon cycling and critical zone evolution in karst terrains. This study investigates an in situ limestone weathering profile (...

As a natural event that poses a serious threat to human life, property, and the natural ecology, the effective identification, assessment, and early prevention of geological hazards are crucial. Hunan Province in China is a region with a high inciden...

Electrical resistivity tomography is a non-destructive and efficient geophysical exploration method that can effectively reveal the geological structure and sliding surface characteristics inside landslide bodies. This is crucial for analyzing the st...

China’s rapid economic growth has increased tensions between production, living, and ecological spaces (PLES), making sustainable land-use planning difficult. Therefore, PLES evolution and processes are a focus of current research. Remote sensi...