Urbanization effects on temporal variations of avian haemosporidian infections.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.111234
Abstract: Urbanization is an important human-driven process that leads to biodiversity loss and alters the interactions between organisms, including disease transmission. Although urbanization affects both host and vector communities, the effects on vector-borne pathogens are still… read more here.
Keywords: natural habitats; leucocytozoon; prevalence; urbanization effects ... See more keywords
Beach vegetation as an indicator of human impacts in arid environments: Environmental conditions and landscape perception in the Canary Islands.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.03.096
Abstract: Human occupancy of beaches is an important cause of environmental and landscape transformations, some of which are identifiable through vegetation analysis. Commonly, arboreal vegetation has been socially perceived in a positive way, as it contributes… read more here.
Keywords: human impacts; perception; semi urban; vegetation ... See more keywords
Majority of US urban natural gas emissions unaccounted for in inventories.
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2105804118
Abstract: Across many cities, estimates of methane emissions from natural gas (NG) distribution and end use based on atmospheric measurements have generally been more than double bottom-up estimates. We present a top-down study of NG methane… read more here.
Keywords: end use; majority urban; methane emissions; gas ... See more keywords
Learning to See the Wood for the Trees: Deep Laser Localization in Urban and Natural Environments on a CPU
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DOI: 10.1109/lra.2019.2895264
Abstract: Localization in challenging, natural environments, such as forests or woodlands, is an important capability for many applications from guiding a robot navigating along a forest trail to monitoring vegetation growth with handheld sensors. In this… read more here.
Keywords: localization urban; natural environments; learning see; see wood ... See more keywords