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Darja Cirjulina, Ruslans Babajans, Filips Capligins, Deniss Kolosovs and Anna Litvinenko
This manuscript presents an experimental study of Quadrature Chaos Shift Keying (QCSK) as a means to tighten the physical layer security of Internet of Things (IoT) communication. Our study examines the characteristics and operational aspects of chaos os...
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Murendeni Kwinda, Stefan John Siebert, Helga Van Coller and Tlou Samuel Masehela
Weed responses in disturbance-prone agroecosystems are linked to specific plant traits that enable their persistence. Understanding how weeds adapt to thrive in these systems in response to herbicide application is important for farmers to improve weed m...
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Shengchun Tong, Guorong Li, Jinfang Li, Xilai Li, Chengdong Jiang, Jianyun Zhao, Haili Zhu, Yabin Liu, Wenting Chen and Xiasong Hu
The plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) actively contributes to soil erosion and meadow degradation in western China?s Yellow River source zone. This study aimed to elucidate the effects of the pika mound numbers on the hydrodynamic characteristics and soi...
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Zijun Wang, Xin Qin, Hongqiang Dong, You Liang, Zhongyang Huo, Kun Qian and Fengping Yang
This review delves into the diverse applications of ionic liquids (ILs) in modern agriculture, focusing on their pivotal roles in the extraction of natural products and pesticides, as well as their substantial significance in sustainable pesticide delive...
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Siddharth Unnithan Kumar, Zaneta Kaszta and Samuel A. Cushman
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 conservation scie...
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Xiaodong Chen, Zhaoping Yang, Tian Wang and Fang Han
The evaluation of ecological risk and the construction of ecological security patterns are significant for the conservation of World Natural Heritage sites with high outstanding universal value. This paper constructed a landscape ecological risk evaluati...
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Igor B. Movchan, Zilya I. Shaygallyamova, Alexandra A. Yakovleva and Alexander B. Movchan
The standard problem of engineering geophysics, solved for road and house building and other construction types, is in the localization of areas with increased mobility in the upper part of a geological cross-section and in the parameterization of this m...
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Gregory Churko, Felix Kienast and Janine Bolliger
Preserving functional connectivity is a key goal of conservation management. However, the spatially confined conservation areas may not allow for dispersal and gene flow for the intended long-term persistence of populations in fragmented landscapes. We p...
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Afroditi Fotiou, Claire Oiry, Kali Kapetanaki, Vassilis Perdikatsis, Nikolaos Kallithrakas-Kontos and Pagona-Noni Maravelaki
Gavdos is an island of ca. 34 km2 located to the south of Crete, Greece, with a local landscape rich in clay material of remarkable diversity in colour and quality. The limited natural and human-made resources are persistently recycled, forming the built...
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Filippo Bussotti and Martina Pollastrini
Climate change and extreme drought and heat events impact the Mediterranean evergreen sclerophyllous vegetation in South Europe, especially in Iberian and Italian peninsula, where widespread crown defoliation and dieback have been observed since the 90s ...
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