Assessing the vulnerability of low-lying coral reef islands is a global concern due to predictions that climate and environmental change will increase reef island instability and cause reef island populations to be among the first environmental refug...
The construction of artificial islands is a complex engineering challenge requiring precise scheduling to optimize resource utilization, manage costs, ensure safety, and minimize environmental impacts in dynamic marine settings. In this paper, we pre...
Riverbed morphology is in dynamic change due to the influences of both natural and human-induced factors. However, there is a knowledge gap in distinguishing the components caused by human activities as well as extreme flooding from the total riverbe...
Coastal wetlands are located at the intersection of land and sea and provide extremely important ecological services. The coastal wetlands of estuarine harbors are representative parts of the coastal wetlands. Changes that occur in estuarine harbor w...
Optimizing urban spatial morphology is one of the most effective methods for improving the urban thermal environment. Some studies have used the local climate zones (LCZ) classification system to examine the relationship between urban spatial morphol...
Addressing land use carbon emissions (LUCE) is critical for mitigating climate change. Using multi-source heterogeneous data from 2010 to 2020, with Land use transition matrix and Kaya-LMDI model, this paper analyzes the spatiotemporal evolution and...
The aim of this study was to investigate the long-term changes in the coastal stretch of the Lido barrier island, a 12 km sandy coast bordering the Lagoon of Venice, and to assess the impacts of human interventions in the system. Coastal modification...
Islands are known to be vulnerable to many natural and anthropogenic hazards, especially estuarine islands, which are affected at rates and intensities above those found elsewhere around the globe. The sustainable development of estuarine islands has...
This study integrates the analysis of surface temperature data with natural and anthropogenic factors closely related to the urban thermal environment in Nanjing from 2000 to 2020, exploring the spatiotemporal variation characteristics of the urban h...
During the progress of urbanization in China, a large number of natural landscapes have been replaced by impervious surfaces. The strong interference from human activities has led to the intensification of urban heat island (UHI) effects and has had...
Rubble islands are dynamic sedimentary features present on reef platforms that evolve under a variety of morphodynamic processes and controlling mechanisms. They provide valuable inhabitable land for small island nations, critical habitat for numerou...
Mangrove ecosystems play a dominant role in global, tropical, and subtropical coastal wetlands. Remote sensing plays a central role in mangrove conservation, as it is the preferred tool for monitoring changes in spatiotemporal distribution. To improv...
Resource-limited environments may drive the rapid evolution of phenotypic traits and ecological preferences optimizing the exploitation of resources. Very small islands are often characterized by reduced food availability, seasonal fluctuations in re...
Urban heat island circulation (UHIC) determines the wind and thermal environments in urban areas. For Loess Tableland valley towns, the evolution characteristics of the UHIC over this negative terrain are not well understood, and therefore, it is imp...
A river island is a shaped sediment accumulation body with its top above the water’s surface in crooked or branching streams. In this paper, four river islands in Yangzhong City in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River were studied. The spatio...
Land use reconfiguration can substantially alter regional carbon source–sink patterns, yet integrated evidence remains limited for spatially constrained island systems where development and ecological land are closely juxtaposed. Using Hainan I...
A comprehensive understanding of the regional wave conditions has become increasingly important for structural design, operational safety, and marine hazard prevention. Continuous directional wave measurements in the deeper offshore waters east of Ha...
A rapid increase in urbanization has caused severe urban heat island (UHI) effects in China over the past few years. Zhengzhou is one of the emerging cities of China where residents are facing strong impact of UHI. By utilizing MODIS data on land sur...
The urban heat island effect has always been one of the hottest issues in urban development. In this study, Landsat images from the summers of 2001, 2004, 2009, 2014 and 2018 were used to identify land cover type in six districts of Chongqing’s...
Phytoplasmas are a group of wall-less, unculturable prokaryotic pathogenic bacteria that colonize the phloem of plants and are transmitted by piercing–sucking insects. As a typical tropical island province in China, Hainan Island has abundant b...
Wind fields on tropical islands are among the most complex systems in atmospheric science, simultaneously influenced by large-scale monsoons, tropical cyclones, local sea-land circulation, and island topography. These interactions result in extremely...
San Nicola Island, pertaining to the Tremiti Archipelago (Southern Adriatic Sea, Italy), is widely affected by cliff retreat and gravitational phenomena which severely threaten its monumental historical and natural value. In this study, geomorphologi...
Urban agglomerations significantly alter the regional thermal environment. It is urgent to investigate the evolution and influence mechanisms of urban agglomeration heat island intensity from a regional perspective. This study is supported by Google...
This paper aims at documenting and reconstructing the linguistic processes generating and substantiating the use of number systems, numbers in general, elementary arithmetic, and the related concepts and notions among the Kula people from Alor Island...
As a comprehensive reflection of the thermal characteristics of the urban environment, the urban heat island (UHI) effect has triggered a series of ecological and environmental issues. Existing studies on the UHI effect in Shijiazhuang, the capital o...
Blue–green space refers to blue space (rivers and lakes) and green space (lawns and trees), which have the cooling island effect and are increasingly acknowledged as a potential and effective way to help alleviate the urban heat island effect....
Sandy shorelines respond to variability in boundary conditions over a wide range of time and spatial scales. While recent studies show that climate modes may affect shoreline evolution at interannual scales, such relationships remain unclear in the S...
Due to their sometimes devastating and, at the same time, transformative effects, the impacts of major hurricanes on small islands leave their mark both on the way territories operate and on their future development. This was the case during the pass...
Erigeron represents the third largest genus on the Juan Fernández Islands, with six endemic species, five of which occur exclusively on the younger Alejandro Selkirk Island with one species on both islands. While its continental sister species...
Island ecosystems are highly sensitive to climate change and intensive human activities. However, most existing assessments rely on subjective weighting and linear assumptions, which may not capture nonlinear temporal evolution and can be distorted b...
Urban beaches, oscillating between development and protection, are more frequently and strongly affected by human activities; therefore, comprehensive and detailed studies of the geomorphological evolution of urban beaches affected by coastal enginee...
With the dual pressures of accelerating urbanization and global climate warming, understanding the evolution and connectivity of cold island networks has become crucial for managing urban thermal risks. This study explores the spatiotemporal dynamics...
The Kab Amiri area in the Central Eastern Desert (CED) of Egypt comprises ophiolitic rocks, island arc metasediments, and granitic rocks. This study deals with the petrography and geochemistry of the ophiolitic and island arc rocks to understand thei...
The aim of this work is to provide a full description of how air temperature and solar radiation induce changes in the land cover over an Antarctic site. We use shortwave broadband albedo (albedo integrated in the range 300–3000 nm) from a spac...
Ischia shows intriguing and complex geology, which has been deeply investigated. In this paper, a reappraisal of the Quaternary geologic evolution of Ischia based on literature data is advised, concentrating on the volcanology of the island, based on...
Positioned where the Paleo-Tethyan and Paleo-Pacific tectonic systems converge, Hainan Island preserves an important geological archive for deciphering Indosinian tectonism in the southern South China Block. However, the Indosinian magmatic–tec...
We summarize, here, the results from several studies conducted over many years on several endemic species of lizards (genus Gallotia) from the Canary Islands. Quantitative analyses show clear differences both among the species of every island and pop...
Biological and ecological investigations of islands are crucial to explain ecosystem functioning. Many studies on island biodiversity are carried out on oceanic islands. In contrast, information on continental islands, such as those in the Mediterran...
Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans is a periodontal pathogen associated with periodontitis. This species exhibits substantial variations in gene content among different isolates and has different virulence potentials. This study examined the distr...
Coastline evolution is a proxy of coastal erosion, defined as the wasting of land along the shoreline due to a combination of natural and/or human causes. For countries with a sea border, where a significant proportion of the population lives in coas...
One ambitious goal of nuclear physics is a predictive model of all nuclei, including the ones at the fringes of the nuclear chart which may remain out of experimental reach. Certain regions of the chart are providing formidable testing grounds for nu...
Oceanic intraplate volcanoes sometimes experience late-stage eruptive activity known as rejuvenated volcanism, and contrasting interpretations for its petrogenesis depend on the compositional characteristics. In the Juan Fernández Ridge (JFR),...
Coastal reclamation reshapes both soils and vegetation, yet their coupled trajectories remain poorly understood. Here we investigated soil–vegetation co-evolution across a 15-year chronosequence on Hengsha Island in the Yangtze River estuary. T...
The presence of island grains in the initial finished sheets of grain-oriented electrical steel is inevitable in the preparation of ultra-thin strips. Owing to their distinctive shape and size effects, their deformation behavior during rolling differ...
The tectonic evolution of Hainan Island during the Late Permian–Early Triassic period is still unclear. This study identified two types of basalts on the island and presented detailed geochronology, whole-rock geochemistry, and Hf isotope data...
Against the backdrop of climate change and the accelerated process of urbanization, the risks of extreme weather and natural disasters that cities are facing are increasing day by day. Based on the framework of the local climate zone (LCZ), this pape...
Cotoneaster is a taxonomically and ornamentally important genus in the family Rosaceae; however, phylogenetic relationships among its species are complicated owing to insufficient morphological diagnostic characteristics and hybridization associated...
Conflicts between development and conservation on tourism-driven islands are concentrated in bay-adjacent terrestrial areas, yet land-use evolution and scenario responses are rarely compared among functionally distinct bays on the same island. This s...
Multi-objective feature selection provides an effective framework for high-dimensional data analysis by jointly considering classification performance and feature subset size. However, redundant and irrelevant features may degrade the quality of the...
Long-standing, continuous blurring and controversies in the field of phylogenetic interspecies relations, associated with insufficient explanations for dynamics and variability of speeds of evolution in mammals, hint at a crucial missing link. It has...
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