China’s transportation industry has made great achievements in the past 40 years of reform and opening up. At the same time, it has gradually accumulated a series of problems. These problems have led to closer and more complex social and econom...
This study evaluates the new urbanization (NU) quality and the ecological resilience (ER) of 33 districts and counties in the Urban Agglomeration of Central Guizhou from 2010 to 2020. For this purpose, we used a modified coupled coordination degree (...
29 September 2021
Exploration of urban spatial connections and network structures of urban agglomeration in the Yangtze River Delta, as well as its influencing factors, is of great significance regarding optimization of the development pattern of the Yangtze River Del...
The scientific evaluation of landscape fragmentation and connectivity is important for habitat conservation. It is strongly influenced by the spatial resolution of source maps, particularly in urban environments. However, there is limited comprehensi...
The province of Coclé is in the central zone of the Republic of Panama but lacks development of the road network. In order to assess the spatial analysis of territorial accessibility and connectivity, the methodology of this study was divided...
The increasing number of economic shocks and disruptions and their highly heterogeneous territorial impacts reopened the debate on the ability of regions to withstand and recover from exogenous shocks. This paper focuses on the recessionary impact of...
Traditional villages, as forms of significant cultural heritage, have garnered global scholarly attention. This study focuses on the traditional village clusters in Qiandongnan Prefecture, a UNESCO World Heritage site, which includes 415 nationally d...
The study of cross-border transport connectivity is significant for the development of regional integration and insight into global patterns. Comprehensive connectivity evaluations are lacking and insufficient attention has been paid to Latin America...
Ditch networks play crucial roles in regulating water fluxes with their surroundings. The connectivity of ditches can have great impacts on nutrient migration and transformations. However, connectivity patterns related to ditch networks have rarely b...
Goal-directed spatial learning is crucial for the survival of animals, in which the formation of the route from the current location to the goal is one of the central problems. A distributed brain network comprising the hippocampus and prefrontal cor...
Previous studies showed that spatial navigation depends on a local network including multiple brain regions with strong interactions. However, it is still not fully understood whether and how the neural patterns in avian nidopallium caudolaterale (NC...
In recent years, wireless sensor networks have been widely used, especially in three-dimensional environments such as underwater and mountain environments. However, in harsh environments, wireless sensor networks may be damaged and split into many is...
11 May 2021
COVID-19 has sparked a debate on the vulnerability of densely populated cities. Some studies argue that high-density urban centers are more vulnerable to infectious diseases due to a higher chance of infection in crowded urban environments. Other stu...
Urban green ecological space is an important measure of sustainable urban development. Among them, landscape connectivity is one of the key factors in maintaining landscape function. Ecological networks can effectively improve regional ecological qua...
Urban greenways, as vital green infrastructures, offer a range of societal, environmental, and ecological benefits to city dwellers. However, planning their routes remains a complex task for urban planners. While most studies emphasize either maximiz...
This study presents an innovative approach to mitigating the urban heat island (UHI) effect by constructing a cold island spatial pattern (CSP) from the perspective of landscape connectivity, integrating three-dimensional (3D) urban morphology and me...
Spatial smoothing is a preprocessing step applied to neuroimaging data to enhance data quality by reducing noise and artifacts. However, selecting an appropriate smoothing kernel size can be challenging as it can lead to undesired alterations in fina...
10 October 2022
With ongoing economic and social development, natural habitats are becoming increasingly fragmented, blocking habitat connections and reducing landscape connectivity. The study of changes in ecological connectivity can provide valuable information fo...
In the context of intensive urban development strategies, the Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) model has emerged as a crucial strategy, requiring a high degree of integration of various functional spaces and traffic flows in transport stations. Com...
The intelligent connected vehicle (ICV) decision-making system needs to match tourist interests and search for the route with the lowest travel cost when recommending POIs (Points of Interest) and navigation tour routes. In response to this research...
Understanding the spatially varying effect mechanism of intermodal connection on metro ridership helps policymakers develop differentiated interventions to promote metro usage, especially for megacities with multiple city sub-centers and ring roads....
Based on the analysis of the problems in material distribution routes, we propose the idea of integrating the intelligent connected vehicle system with material distribution, and construct an intelligent connected vehicle material distribution route...
Urban Agglomerations (UAs), as the primary form of China’s new urbanization and an essential spatial unit for promoting coordinated regional development, play a crucial role in measuring the sustainable and healthy development of urban clusters...
Investigating regional connections and their influencing factors from the perspective of “flow” space is one of the foundations of promoting regional development. In this article, the data we used includes actual highway passenger flow da...
Spatial reasoning (SR) skills are inherent to our daily interactions with the world and essential to young children’s learning in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) domains. Most simply, SR skills allow humans to me...
Vehicle trajectory prediction is an important research basis for the decision making and path planning of the intelligent and connected vehicle. In the connected vehicle environment, vehicles share information and drive cooperatively, and the intelli...
Hydrological connectivity affects the material cycling and energy transfer of ecosystems and is an important indicator for assessing the function of aquatic ecosystems. Therefore, clarification of hydrologic connectivity and its optimization methods...
Hydrological connectivity is an essential indicator of wetland pattern and functional stability. The reduction of connectivity usually means the degradation of wetland ecological function, internal energy flow, and nutrient cycle disturbance. Taking...
Planning conservation for multiple species while accounting for habitat availability and connectivity under uncertain land-use changes presents a major challenge. This study proposes a protocol to identify strategic conservation areas by assessing th...
The spatial configuration of cultivated land is crucial for modern agricultural production; therefore, research on cultivated land aggregation and spatial connectivity holds significant importance for enhancing agricultural production efficiency and...
The spatial location relations between service-providing areas and service-demand areas determine the effective provision level of ecosystem services. Some scholars use the term ecological service flow to conceptualize the transmission path, transmis...
Gully development is a significant geomorphological and environmental process that affects land degradation worldwide, with ephemeral gullies (EGs) and permanent gullies (PGs) being the two most common types. These two gully types are often spatially...
Urban coordinated development is an important aspect of regional development. The high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin cannot be separated from the coordinated and sustainable development of its inner cities. However, the network connec...
Perceived safety strongly shapes how residents use and experience their neighborhoods, yet evidence on how spatial and social factors interact in rapidly urbanizing Asian cities remains limited. This study investigates the role of natural surveillanc...
Ecosystem service connectivity (ESC) is the spatial and functional links among and within ecosystems that support unimpeded service flows, and that could play an important role in ecosystem stability enhancement and regional land planning. Understand...
Rapid urbanization in recent decades highlights the limitations on the sustainable development of cities due to the fragmentation of restricted urban green land. The aim of this paper is to formulate a workable framework for planning and managing urb...
Different spatial configurations (or scenarios) of multiple best management practices (BMPs) at the watershed scale may have significantly different environmental effectiveness, economic efficiency, and practicality for integrated watershed managemen...
Forecasts announce that the number of connected objects will exceed 20 billion by 2025. Objects, such as sensors, drones or autonomous cars participate in pervasive applications of various domains ranging from smart cities, quality of life, transport...
Hydrological connectivity is the main non-biological driving factor of wetland ecological processes and is key to maintaining the stability and biodiversity of the whole ecosystem. Socio-economic activities have had a significant impact on the hydrol...
This study involved 72 volunteers divided into two groups according to the apnea–hypopnea index (AHI):
The conservation management of biodiversity hotspots is of vital significance for biological conservation. For wetlands, which are a special type of ecosystems that are based on water as their main medium, a decline in external hydrological connectiv...
Cultivated land concentration and contiguity, as a core element of agricultural modernization development, holds strategic significance for enhancing agricultural production efficiency and ensuring national food security. This study employs vector pa...
Understanding organism movement is at the heart of many ecological disciplines. The study of landscape connectivity—the extent to which a landscape facilitates organism movement—has grown to become a central focus of spatial ecology and c...
Land use and landscape structure play an important role in the functioning of flash floods on the arable plateaus of northern France. Landscape structures have changed considerably over the last decades with an increase in runoff-producing surfaces a...
In many Latin American cities, rapid densification, shrinking public land reserves, and growing spatial, social and biophysical fragmentation have heightened the urban significance of large, private, closed open spaces (COSs). COS, marked by restrict...
The format of different industries within a city is an essential part of a megacity’s development and reflects its central districts’ economic characteristics and development trends. This study takes two central districts in the megacity...
Connectivity is crucial for species conservation, but most assessments define connectivity solely in terms of protected or natural areas and land covers without regard for the underlying thermal environment. As climate change accelerates, it is becom...
Ecological modeling requires sufficient spatial resolution and a careful selection of environmental variables to achieve good predictive performance. Although national and international administrations offer fine-scale environmental data, they usuall...
Smoke is an obvious sign of pre-fire. However, due to its variable morphology, the existing schemes are difficult to extract precise smoke characteristics, which seriously affects the practical applications. Therefore, we propose a lightweight cross-...
Assessment of water resource spatial equilibrium (WRSE) is crucial for regional sustainable development, yet traditional methods always face difficulties in quantifying systemic differences and resolving their internal uncertainties. Accordingly, thi...
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