The production–living–ecological functions of rural settlements are closely tied to water resources, which are the primary influencing factors of the spatial characteristics of rural settlements. However, the specific relationship between...
Ecosystem service value (ESV) is a crucial indicator for evaluating ecosystem health, and identifying its spatial driving factors will help to provide scientific decision support for ecological protection and restoration. This study took the Liuxi Ri...
Urban expansion and spatial restructuring significantly influence the urban thermal environment. This study investigates the central urban area of Jinan, developing a multi-dimensional spatial structure index system that integrates terrain, 2D/3D mor...
The Three Gorges Dam project and other human activities, including regional urbanization and industrialization, have had a substantial influence on the biological environment of the Three Gorges Reservoir Area (TGRA). They have changed the surface la...
Urban areas are the areas that are most strongly affected by human activities, which presents many challenges to the ecosystem and human well-being. Ecosystem services (ES) are a comprehensive indicator to measure the ecological effects of urbanizati...
Landscape pattern changes caused by human activities are among the most important driving factors affecting ecosystem spatial structure and components, and significantly impact ecosystem services. Understanding the relationship between landscape patt...
1 August 2018
Although previous ecological studies investigating the association between air pollution and allergic diseases accounted for temporal or seasonal relationships, few studies address spatial non-stationarity or autocorrelation explicitly. Our objective...
This paper presents a spatial analysis of the incidence rate of COVID-19 cases in the state of Paraná, Brazil, from June to December 2020, and a study of the incidence rate of COVID-19 cases associated with socioeconomic variables, such as the...
Land subsidence has become an increasing global concern over the past few decades due to natural and anthropogenic factors. However, although several studies have examined factors affecting land subsidence in recent years, few have focused on the spa...
Vegetation is a crucial component of terrestrial ecology and plays a significant role in carbon sequestration. Monitoring changes in vegetation ecological quality has important guidance value for sustainable development. In this study, we investigate...
A scientific understanding of the synergistic and trade-off relationships among ecosystem services (ESs) is essential for maintaining the structure, function, and health of plantation forest ecosystems. This understanding facilitates effective ecosys...
As the primary collision patterns on China’s freeways, in-depth exploration of the influencing factors of rear-end and sideswipe crashes has long been crucial for implementing targeted countermeasures. However, the structural and traffic flow c...
The estimation of the hydraulic parameters of an aquifer such as the hydraulic conductivity is somehow complicated due to its heterogeneity, on the other hand field and laboratory tests are both time consuming and costly. The use of geostatistical-ba...
The rapid urbanization process has severely affected the ecological security and ecosystem services (ESs) in China’s southern province of Fujian, and threated the sustainable development of the local economy and society in the last two decades....
Milltailings deposition areas in abandoned mines are inherently unstable and spatially extensive and heterogeneous, making regional-scale field investigations challenging under intense rainfall. With the advancement of space–airborne remote sen...
This study investigates the spatial-temporal evolution and the interconnectedness of land use/cover change (LUCC) and ecosystem service value (ESV). Such analysis can offer theoretical guidance and support decision-making for sustainable land resourc...
Effective sample size (ESS) consists of an equivalent number of sampling units of a georeferenced variable that would produce the same sampling error, as it considers the information that each georeferenced sampling unit contains about itself as well...
We analyse two datasets of hydraulic conductivity (K) from the MAcroDispersion Experiment (MADE) site, one measured by direct-push injection logging (DPIL) and the other by flowmeter profiling. The analysis is performed using copula techniques which...
Understanding trends of vegetation evolution and its spatial characteristics is critical for sustainable social development in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), which is densely populated and still has uneven economic development. Through Theil&nda...
Intensive human interference has severely disrupted the natural and ecological environments of coastal areas, threatening ecosystem services (ESs). Meanwhile, the relationships between ESs exhibit certain variations across different spatial scales. T...
Primary health care (PHC) facilities play a significant role in constructing a “people-oriented city” to promote sustainable urban development. However, existing studies exhibit gaps in the spatial-performance evaluation of PHC facilities...
Urban land expansion (ULE) has caused negative effects as a result of urbanization and industrialization in China in the past few decades. Strengthening economic linkage and the cooperation among regions has great implications for effectively control...
This research aims to explore the spatiotemporal distribution patterns of negative emotions in mainland China during different stages of the COVID-19 pandemic and the external factors influencing this clustering. Using Baidu Index data for 91 negativ...
To explore the influence of human activities on natural resources and the correlation between these two characteristics, taking the region around Poyang Lake in China as the research area. Utilizing data from 2010, 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2020, includi...
3 December 2019
The terrestrial ecosystem plays an important role in maintaining an ecological balance, protecting the ecological environment, and promoting the sustainable development of human beings. The impacts of precipitation, temperature, and other natural fac...
The accuracy and reliability of satellite precipitation products (SPPs) are important for their applications. In this study, four recently presented SPPs, namely, GSMaP_Gauge, GSMaP_NRT, IMERG, and MSWEP, were evaluated against daily observations fro...
Integrating information about the spatial distribution of carbon stocks and species diversity in tropical forests over large areas is fundamental for climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation. In this study, spatial models showing the d...
Comprehensively and objectively revealing the spatial relationship between ecosystem services (ESs) and human activity intensity (HAI) is vital for achieving sustainable development goals. However, existing studies still have an incomplete understand...
Modeling multivariate variables with complexity in a cross-correlation structure is always applicable to mineral resource evaluation and exploration in multi-element deposits. However, the geostatistical algorithm for such modeling is usually challen...
The spatial distribution pattern of urban spatial structure affects air flow and local meteorological conditions, which in turn influence the diffusion of air pollutants. This study built the urban spatial structure index system based on DEM, urban r...
The erosion potential model was applied to estimate the soil erosion status of rural settlements during the years 1971 and 2011. We used univariate and bivariate local Moran’s I indices to detect and visualize the spatial clustering of settleme...
16 May 2021
Natural disasters can have significant consequences for population mental health. Using a digital spatial epidemiologic approach, this study documents emotional changes over space and time in the context of a large-scale disaster. Our aims were to (a...
20 November 2024
Hospitalizations due to primary care–sensitive conditions (PCSCs) can be considered a proxy for the effectiveness of primary healthcare (PHC), especially diabetes mellitus (DM). The aim of this study was to analyze the temporal, spatial, and sp...
Although access to quality public spaces encourages physical activity (PA), their unequal distribution can exacerbate social inequalities. This study examined the relationship between the availability of spaces for PA and social marginalization in ur...
With increasing discussions about energy security and sustainable electricity generation, the supply of biomass resources, such as sugarcane energy, has become increasingly important for regional development. In this study, the impact of spatial depe...
Ecosystem services (ESs) are irreplaceable natural resources, and their value is closely related to global change and to human well-being. Research on ecosystem services value (ESV) and its influencing factors can help rationalize ecological regulato...
The development management of the city constantly pursues sustainable development of human-land matching. Under the new research framework, this study discusses the urban human-land relationship from the perspective of the source-sink of daily popula...
Renewable wind power output is characterized by strong randomness, volatility, and spatial dependence, which makes accurate two-adjacent wind farm scenario generation essential for stochastic dispatch and secure operation of power systems. To describ...
Water pipe smoking, or hookah smoking, is a growing public health concern ingrained in urban leisure cultures. Even though hookah smoking is common, the localized spatial drivers of this activity are still poorly understood. In order to close this ga...
Australia is currently free of canine rabies. Spatio-ecological knowledge about dingoes in northern Australia is currently a gap that impedes the application of disease spread models and our understanding of the potential transmission of rabies, in t...
This paper investigates the dependency relationship and spatial patterns between urban fires and the distribution of urban functional spaces, using the Futian District in Shenzhen as a case study. This study utilizes univariate and bivariate Ripley&r...
The paper aims to provide spatial evidence on where to prioritize place-based support for women’s entrepreneurship by linking the geography of female founders to the proximity of formal support infrastructure in Germany. To pursue this objectiv...
Elucidating the dominant factors governing heavy metal accumulation and their spatial heterogeneity in soils is fundamental to implementing science-based environmental management protocols. In this study, a Geodetector model, spatial interpolation, b...
Mass movements are one of the hydrometeorological phenomena with the most negative impacts on the study area, and their evaluation through the calculation of susceptibility provides a tool of vital importance within territorial planning and disaster...
The spatial morphology of traditional villages stems from prolonged interactions between socio-economic conditions and the regional natural environment under specific historical contexts. Over time, these settlements have acquired distinct spatial pa...
This study investigates the coupled relationship between groundwater chemistry, lithology, and structural features in the dry zone of Netiyagama, Sri Lanka, within a fractured crystalline basement. Groundwater chemistry fundamentally reflects geologi...
Grounded in the theory of new economic geography, this research develops a comprehensive theoretical framework to examine the spatial interaction mechanisms between the Green Finance Index and carbon emissions. Employing a range of econometric techni...
Urban land use and transportation are closely associated. Previous studies have investigated the spatial interrelationship between street centralities and land use intensities using land cover data, thus neglecting the social functions of urban land....
Background: Urban green space (UGS) has been shown to play an important role in mitigating urban heat island (UHI) effects. In the context of accelerating urbanization, a better understanding of the landscape pattern mechanisms affecting the thermal...
Vigorous human activities have strengthened the development and utilization of land, causing huge damage to the earth’s surface, while mining the disturbance pattern of human activities can capture the influence process and spatial interaction...
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