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Guangyu Jiang and Zhongjing Wang
Water cycles exist in all processes of water resources utilization, including water-saving irrigation. Due to the complex water cycle process of irrigation, the ecological effects and safety of large-scale water-saving irrigation have received increasing...
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Masoud Jafari Shalamzari, Wanchang Zhang, Atefeh Gholami and Zhijie Zhang
Site selection for runoff harvesting at large scales is a very complex task. It requires inclusion and spatial analysis of a multitude of accurately measured parameters in a time-efficient manner. Compared with direct measurements of runoff, which is tim...
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Dariush Ashtab, Mehdi Gholamalifard, Parviz Jokar, Andrey G. Kostianoy and Aleksander V. Semenov
Protected areas are referred to around the world as the basis of conservation strategies. Designation of marine protected areas (MPAs) is to preserve marine biodiversity and protect species, habitats in the seas, and oceans. The simulated annealing algor...
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Toshiharu Kojima, Ryoma Shimono, Takahiro Ota, Hiroshi Hashimoto and Yasuhiro Hasegawa
The ecosystem services of forests, such as the water conservation function, are the combined results of diverse processes, and the modification of one part of a forest affects each ecosystem service separately via complex processes. It is necessary to de...
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Jean-Marc Guarini and Jennifer Coston-Guarini
In their 2023 book, ?The Blue Compendium: From Knowledge to Action for a Sustainable Ocean Economy?, Lubchenko and Haugan invoked alternate stable (AS) states marginally as an undesired consequence of sources of disturbance on populations, communities an...
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Yang Zhang, Yuan Feng, Shiqi Wang, Zhicheng Tang, Zhenduo Zhai, Reid Viegut, Lisa Webb, Andrew Raedeke and Yi Shang
Waterfowl populations monitoring is essential for wetland conservation. Lately, deep learning techniques have shown promising advancements in detecting waterfowl in aerial images. In this paper, we present performance evaluation of several popular superv...
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Mingxuan Li, Yu Yan, Ziyi Ying and Long Zhou
This study aims to analyze the perceptions and driving factors behind villagers? changing perceptions of landscape values in the context of drastic landscape changes in traditional Chinese villages. Empirical evidence emphasizes the interplay between loc...
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Xichao Fan, Jingtao Qin, Mouchao Lv and Mingliang Jiang
Irrigation districts are a pivotal infrastructure of agricultural water conservancy engineering. Implementing modernization will be the main task of large-scale irrigation districts for a considerable amount of time in the future. In this study, four typ...
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Elena Marrocchino, Maria Grazia Paletta, Lorenzo Ferroni, Rino Manfrini and Chiara Telloli
Geoscience disciplines play a pivotal role in the assessment of the conservation state of Cultural Heritage to orient the subsequent restoration interventions. In this report, we exemplify the potential of petrographic and thermographic analyses for the ...
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Ali A. Hammadi and Zaid H. Nasralla
As the Internet grows in capacity, the energy consumption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are significantly increasing. Significant research efforts on energy conservation have been devoted to devise different technological solutions ...
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