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Multi-driving paths for the coupling coordinated development of agricultural carbon emission reduction and sequestration and food security: A configurational analysis based on dynamic fsQCA Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Huanhuan He, Ziheng Zhang, Rijia Ding, Ying Shi
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Assessing the eco-efficiency of cruise tourism at the national Level: Determinants, challenges, and opportunities for sustainable development Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Ruihong Sun, Xinliang Ye, Qianyu Li, Noel Scott
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Estimation of missing Ellenberg Indicator Values for tree species in South-eastern Europe: a comparison of methods Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Letizia Leccese, Giuliano Fanelli, Vito Emanuele Cambria, Marco Massimi, Fabio Attorre, Marco Alfò, Svetlana Aćić, Erwin Bergmeier, Andraž Čarni, Mirjana Cuk, Renata Custerevska, Panayotis Dimopoulos, Petrit Hoda, Alfred Mullaj, Urban Šilc, Zeljko Skvorc, Zvjezdana Stancic, Zora Dajic Stevanovic, Rossen Tzonev, Kiril Vassilev, Luca Malatesta, Michele De Sanctis
Ellenberg indicator values (EIV) are widely used in vegetation ecology, but the values for many species in Southeastern Europe are not available due to incomplete knowledge of their ecology: it is therefore of paramount importance to estimate missing values in existing databases. The entire EIV set for a single species can be missing or a single EIV can be missing for species for which other indicator
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Improved thermal preferences and a stressor index derived from modeled stream temperatures and regional taxonomic standards for freshwater macroinvertebrates of the Pacific Northwest, USA Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Shannon Hubler, Jen Stamp, Sean P. Sullivan, Mark Fernandez, Chad Larson, Kate Macneale, Robert W. Wisseman, Rob Plotnikoff, Britta Bierwagen
Benthic macroinvertebrate taxa vary in their sensitivities to water quality and habitat conditions, contributing to their extensive use as ecological indicators. As climate change and landscape alteration increasingly impact stream temperatures, interest is growing in expanding our knowledge of how macroinvertebrates are affected by current and future thermal conditions. Using samples from 3501 sites
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++Spatiotemporal dynamics and driving factors of green-blue space in High-Density Cities: Evidence from central Nanjing Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Yangyang Yuan, Siqi Tang, Wei Guo, Jiaqi Zhang
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State of Indian Northwestern Himalayan lakes under human and climate impacts: A review Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Stuti Shah, Sumit Sen, Debabrata Sahoo
The Himalayas are dotted with a multitude of freshwater lakes of varying sizes. These lakes serve as the sole source of water for multiple major human settlements in the region and a backbone to socio-economic services. Here, we provide a comprehensive review of the available literature on hydro-ecology of important lakes in the Indian Northwestern Himalayas (INWH). Numerous studies have been performed
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Response of spatial and temporal variations of ecosystem service value to land use/land cover transformation in the upper basin of Miyun Reservoir Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Ziheng Feng, Liying Sun
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Multidimensional effect analysis of typical country park construction in Shanghai Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Yishao Shi, Jianwen Zheng, Bo Zheng
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How an emission trading system affects carbon emissions? Evidence from the urban agglomeration in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River, China Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Jiayu Liu, Feng Xu, Yan Lv
The emission trading system (ETS) is one of the important policy instruments that help to achieve the “double carbon” goals, however, how the ETS affects the carbon emissions for an urban agglomeration remains uncertain. This study aims to explore the ETS’s impacts to carbon emission intensity (CEI) in Urban Agglomeration in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River (UAMRYR) of China during 2006–2018
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Which characteristics represent the gentrification affected by parks? A study case in Nanjing, China Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Ying Huang, Xiaojun Hong, Xinlan Yao, Min Yin
The provision of newly constructed parks in urban areas offers numerous benefits to residents but also gives rise to the phenomenon of green gentrification. Accurately defining the extent of park services, examining the characteristics of gentrification resulting from new parks, and identifying the key park features that contribute to gentrification are crucial for research. This study employs network
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Mapping and assessing supply–demand matching of recreational ecosystem services in Shandong province, China Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Zhi Wang, Xiaoyin Sun, Ruifeng Shan, Bingyu Wang
Globally, natural landscapes and their recreational ecosystem services (RES) are both under threat from anthropogenic activities and environmental changes. But the demand for RES increases with the development of human living standards. Therefore, mapping and assessing the supply–demand relationships of RES is crucial for landscape planning, management, and human well-being. This study aimed to study
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Climate change drives contrasting shifts in fish species distribution in the Mekong Basin Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Vanna Nuon, Ratha Chea, Sovan Lek, Nam So, Bernard Hugueny, Gaël Grenouillet
Global changes are causing significant alterations to terrestrial, marine, and freshwater ecosystems worldwide, with substantial implications for plant and animal populations, potentially leading to species extinctions. While freshwater ecosystems are recognized as particularly vulnerable to these impacts, there has been limited research conducted in tropical regions on how these changes will affect
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Enhanced ecosystem carbon sink in shrub-grassland ecotone under grazing exclusion on Tibetan plateau Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Jinlan Wang, Yuzhen Liu, Shilin Wang, Peijie Ma, Yajiao Li, Rong Wang, Wenhui Liu, Zhifeng Jia, Wen Li, Yujie Niu, Wenxia Cao
Grassland degradation is a prevalent issue at the interface of shrubland and grassland ecosystems, particularly susceptible to environmental changes. To counteract the degradation, grazing exclusion has been proposed as a dominant restoration strategy on the Tibetan plateau, the world's largest and highest plateau. However, the impact of degradation and subsequent restoration on the carbon dynamics
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A more effective approach for species-level classifications using multi-source remote sensing data: Validation and application to an arid and semi-arid grassland Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Yuankang Li, Tingxi Liu, Yixuan Wang, Limin Duan, Mingyang Li, Junyi Zhang, Guixin Zhang
The distribution of grassland communities significantly influences biodiversity conservation and resource management. Remote sensing datasets, such as Sentinel land cover images with high spatial and temporal resolution, have been commonly employed to simulate the distribution and community structure of plant species in grasslands. Nevertheless, the precision of grassland and community classification
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Effect of land use type on macrobenthos assemblages, distribution, and functional guild in Upstream Citarum River Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Desty Pratiwi, Dadan Sumiarsa, Dina Oktavia, Rahma Haniyah Fatharani, Sunardi
Aquatic community biodiversity is gradually impacted by the expansion and intensification of agricultural and urbanization land use. However, data on macrobenthos responses to land use in tropical streams are relatively limited. This study aims to investigate the responses of macrobenthos diversity, functional guild, and physicochemical parameters in Upstream Citarum River land use type, agricultural
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Optimal allocation of soil and water resources in agriculture under the total regional evapotranspiration indicator: A case study in Guangping, China Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Bin Liu, Ruiting Liu, Zhihong Yan, Shuai Ren, Xian Zhao, Guanghui Liu
There is a mismatch between crop water demand, the spatial and temporal distribution of natural rainfall, surface water sources, and arable land resources in the North China Plain. This has been compensated for by massive groundwater exploitation, and as a result, ground water levels have continuously declined and groundwater landing funnels have formed in some areas. Consequently, there is an urgent
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Meta-omics revealed that nitrogen fertilization alters the endophytic fungi divergence in maize field ecosystem Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Lara Sindhu, Yingying Song, Lili Li, Zhaoke Dong, Quanfeng Yang, Sorath Sindhu Mangi, Wenxiu Guo, Lujia Yang, Hongying Cui, Suhong Lv, Yi Yu, Xingyuan Men
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Understanding fine-scale heat health risks and the role of green infrastructure based on remote sensing and socioeconomic data in the megacity of Beijing, China Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Fukang Zha, Linlin Lu, Ran Wang, Shuangcheng Zhang, Shisong Cao, Muhammad Fahad Baqa, Qingting Li, Fang Chen
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Spatial distribution characteristics and variability of urban ecological welfare performance in the Yangtze River economic Belt: Evidence from 70 cities Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Jie Yang, Zhigang Li, Dong Zhang, Keyao Yu, Jialong Zhong, Jiaxing Zhu
Ecological welfare performance (EWP) is an important indicator for assessing the sustainable development potential of an area. Despite the progress made in understanding EWP in the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB), there still needs to be a research gap in studying its spatial variability in depth, which is more critical for improving EWP in the region and promoting the dynamic management of urban
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Research on visual quality assessment and landscape elements influence mechanism of rural greenways Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Xinyu Zhang, Xing Xiong, Minghong Chi, Shanrui Yang, Lan Liu
Rural landscapes have significant ecological, historical, and cultural value including numerous green spaces and forest spaces that should be protected and utilized. With the growing demand for green tourism in rural areas in recent years, rural greenways have become increasingly crucial for promoting urban–rural development by connecting linear spatial corridors such as landscape patches, scenic pathways
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Atlantic salmon habitat-abundance modeling using machine learning methods Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Bähar Jelovica, Jaakko Erkinaro, Panu Orell, Bjørn Kløve, Ali Torabi Haghighi, Hannu Marttila
Climate change and anthropogenic activities have impacts on fish habitat suitability, demanding more accurate modeling of species abundance for effective conservation and management. In this study, we applied Machine Learning techniques to model the habitat-abundance relationship of juvenile Atlantic salmon () in the Teno catchment in Finland and Norway. To capture the complexity and nonlinearity of
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Evaluating the effects of future urban expansion on ecosystem services in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration under the shared socioeconomic pathways Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Huan Yang, Yanwen Wang, Peiyue Tu, Yanmei Zhong, Chaoqing Huang, Xinhao Pan, Kewei Xu, Song Hong
Assessing the effects of future urban expansion on ecosystem services (ESs) is essential for the sustainability of cities worldwide. Nonetheless, evaluating these effects of future urban expansion on ESs remains challenging due to the uncertainties associated with socioeconomic development and the intricate nature of urban expansion. In this research, we initially integrated the localized Shared Socioeconomic
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Macroinvertebrate metrics and lipid profiles as potential indicators of land use influence in a high altitude tropical highland stream (Sagana River Basin, Kenya) Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Charles O. Odhiambo, Charles C. Ngugi, Rekha R. Sharma, Elijah Oyoo-Okoth
Land use practices near river ecotones result in numerous inputs of terrestrial materials into the river ecosystem. While macroinvertebrates population metrics is widely used in monitoring water quality changes, including those induced by humans, the use of lipid profiles in these organisms to monitor influence of land use practices is rather ignored. The aim of this study was to determine lipid profile
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Fish habitat assessment model considering the spatial pattern and connectivity of habitat patches Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Shiwei Yang, Ruifeng Liang, Yuanming Wang, Kefeng Li
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Impacts of urbanization on the spatiotemporal evolution of ecological resilience in the Plateau Lake Area in Central Yunnan, China Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Shaobang Wang, Zhiying Li, Ye Long, Liu Yang, Xiaoyan Ding, Xiaolei Sun, Tao Chen
The Plateau Lake Area in Central Yunnan has undergone agglomerated socio-economic development. At the same time, its fragile ecosystems, complex ecological problems, and rapid urbanization have continued to challenge ecological security and led to prominent contradictions between protection and development. Herein, the natural geographic information and socio-economic kilometer grid data associated
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Characteristics and models of anthropogenic disturbances on islands from perspective of coastline: Extensive cases from Indian Ocean and mediterranean sea Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Hao Li, Yuxin Zhang, Chao Fan, Xiyong Hou, Ling Zeng, Peng Guo
The negative impacts of anthropogenic disturbances on the ecology of small island states or regions are important topics mentioned by United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. This study used the coastline as an indicator to analyze four parameters (the annual variation rate of the artificial coastline length, the index of coastline utilization degree, the index of coastline type diversity, and
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Are cities healthy? A city health diagnose framework from the perspective of living organism Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Shuming Zhao, Yitian Ren, Chao Mao, Aobo Yue
Cities, as organisms, exhibit complicated phenomena of life characteristics. With global urbanisation, sustaining the health status of cities has become an imperative issue. Proper diagnose upon the healthy status of cities requires a set of scientific and rigorous city health diagnose toolkits. With regard to city health diagnosis, extant studies have proposed various indicators. Whilst the diagnosis
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Research on the construction and measurement of the indicator system for green low-carbon circular developing economic system in Southwest China Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Guihui Lu, Zhenpei Shan, Zijun Wei
Emission peak and carbon neutrality are critical components of China’s overall ecological civilization, and the establishment of a sound Green Low-carbon Circular Development Economic System (GLCDES) is a fundamental countermeasure for solving China’s resource, environmental, and ecological problems. This paper used the new development concept as entry points to establish a comprehensive evaluation
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Assessment of long time-series greening signatures across the urban–rural gradient in Chinese cities Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 L, e, i, , Y, a, o
Greenery is a critical referent for assessing the health and sustainability of urban ecosystems. However, distinct urbanization pathways of cities can be accompanied by complicated encroachment or regeneration of green spaces, thereby leading to certain spatiotemporal diversity in greening signatures at both local and regional scales. Here, this study conducted a long-term (2000–2020) case analysis
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Ant invasion in China: An in-depth analysis of the country's ongoing battle with exotic ants Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Junaid Ali Siddiqui, Bamisope Steve Bamisile, Ruidong Fan, Muhammad Hafeez, Waqar Islam, Wenjia Yang, Minyi Wei, Hao Ran, Yijuan Xu, Xiaoyulong Chen
Invasive ants threaten China's ecosystems and agriculture. Our review highlights the challenges faced and diverse strategies employed to combat these invaders, emphasizing the importance of international cooperation for safeguarding the environment and public well-being.
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Research on urban land green use efficiency and influencing factors based on DEA and ESTDA models: Taking 284 cities in China as an example Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Dalai Ma, Jiawei Zhang, Bitan An, Zuman Guo, Fengtai Zhang, Yin Yan, Guochuan Peng
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A planning framework to explore shortages and improvements of urban green space provision at the metropolitan scale using novel nSFCA proximity indices Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Huilin Liang, Yujia Yan, Qi Yan, Qingping Zhang
Where and how much to expand or create new urban green spaces (UGSs) in a city, to fulfill the shortages of such spaces under population pressure, is a global problem that lacks research attention. This study creates new indices based on improved step floating catchment area methods that integrate factors related to transportation, residents, and green spaces in the real world. These are used to measure
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Response of carbon- and water-use efficiency to climate change and human activities in China Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Jinke Chen, Junbing Pu, Jianhong Li, Tao Zhang
Carbon-use efficiency (CUE) and water-use efficiency (WUE) are critical parameters for evaluating the exchange of carbon and water in ecosystems, influenced by climate change and human activities. Quantifying the relative contributions of climate change and human activity to CUE and WUE is essential in the context of global warming and rapid land use transformation. This study assessed spatiotemporal
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Carbon neutrality implication of material productivity, total factor productivity and renewable energy uptake in the Nordics Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Ali Celik, Ahmet Kostekci, Andrew Adewale Alola
The recent report of the European Commission (EC) indicates that the Nordic countries, especially Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden have some of the highest and above European Union (EU)’s average consumption per capita of domestic material. While reflecting on the environmental consequence of material uptake, this study examines the role of material productivity, total factor productivity
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Multi-scale spatial and spectral feature fusion for soil carbon content prediction based on hyperspectral images Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Xueying Li, Zongmin Li, Huimin Qiu, Guangyuan Chen, Pingping Fan, Yan Liu
Soil carbon content prediction based on hyperspectral images can achieve large-scale spatial measurement, which has the advantages of wide coverage and fast information collection, is more suitable for field data collection. However, the research on soil carbon content prediction based on hyperspectral images mainly focuses on feature extraction of spectral information, ignoring the spatial information
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Meeting the challenges of the waste hierarchy: A performance evaluation of EU countries Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Giovanna D’Inverno, Laura Carosi, Giulia Romano
The focus of this paper is to evaluate how well European countries are advancing towards a Circular Economy transition and to which extent they are fulfilling the European Union (EU) requirements in terms of municipal waste management. With this aim, an innovative composite indicator is devised by integrating the Goal Programming Synthetic Indicator (GPSI) methodology with the Analytic Hierarchy Process
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Setting the direction of sustainable restoration projects in peatlands considering ecosystem services: Case of Jambi and Sumatra Selatan, Indonesia Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Cholho Song, Hyun-Ah Choi, Eunho Choi, A-Ram Yang, Woo-Kyun Lee, Chul-Hee Lim
Conserving tropical forests and peatlands is considered a key strategy for international forest project cooperation and the promotion of carbon neutrality. Focusing on peatlands in the Sumatra Selatan and Jambi provinces in Indonesia, this study aimed to assess land-cover changes from 1992 to 2020 and associated ecosystem services to assist in the development of effective forest and peatland-related
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Dynamic analyses of soil erosion and improved potential combining topography and socio-economic factors on the Loess Plateau Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Shuang Yuan, Qiang Xu, Kuanyao Zhao, Qi Zhou, Xuan Wang, Xiaochao Zhang, Wanlin Chen, Xu Ji
The assessment of soil erosion control in loess regions is of great practical significance, as the Loess Plateau remains one of the most eroded areas globally. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of the gully protection and erosion control project and changes in the improved potential for soil and water conservation () over 8 years using the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE). Furthermore
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Species identification and biomass assessment of Gnathanodon speciosus based on environmental DNA technology Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Jing Zhang, Xiaofei Chen, Qingjie Zhou, Caoyun Diao, Hui Jia, Weiwei Xian, Hui Zhang
Environmental DNA (eDNA) technology has emerged as a valuable tool for monitoring species distribution, assessing aquatic biodiversity and fish biomass. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between eDNA and the biomass of () using quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) technology. Specific primers were designed for the target species. Water samples were collected from three differently-sized
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Developing a bioassessment framework to inform tidal stream management along a hydrologically variable coast Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Alexis J. Neffinger, Natasha J. Breaux, Abraham D. Margo, Terence A. Palmer, Stacy N. Trackenberg, Jennifer Beseres Pollack
Tidal streams are spatiotemporally varying areas that encompass tidally influenced limnetic and oligohaline zones within estuaries. These areas are important for many biogeochemical processes and for the life cycles of many fishery species. However, tidal streams are also susceptible to impairment from coastal development and watershed-derived runoff, which potentially affects faunal assemblages within
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Mangrove monitoring and change analysis with landsat images: A case study in pearl river estuary (china) Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Yingying Liu, Yuanzhi Zhang, Qiuming Cheng, Jiajun Feng, Ming Chun Chao, Jin Yeu Tsou
Under the synergistic influence of global climate change and rapid urbanization, the conservation of mangrove wetlands is facing great challenges.Accordingly, mangrove wetland management and protection requires investigating the covered area, distribution, and dynamic changes of mangrove wetlands during different periods. In this study, we detected changes of mangroves and analyzed their driving-factors
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Fish metacommunity structure in estuarine systems of the Honduran coast of the Mesoamerican barrier reef region Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Juan Carlos Carrasco Navas-Parejo, Sokratis Papaspyrou, Wilfredo A. Matamoros, Verónica Caviedes, Alfonso Corzo
Estuarine systems are highly productive ecosystems with diverse fish communities that provide valuable ecosystem services. The structure and ecology of fish communities in the estuarine systems of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System region (MBRS) is largely unknown. Here, the fish communities and their relationship with environmental variables were investigated for the first time in sixteen estuarine
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Analyzing the correlation between groundwater tables and the area of Groundwater-Dependent lakes in arid region Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Rui Zhang, Chenyao Guo, Jingwei Wu, Siyu Wang
The groundwater table constitutes a significant factor in sustaining the ecosystems of lakes in arid regions. To elucidate the mechanism by which variations in groundwater tables affect lake areas, this paper presents a case study of a typical groundwater-fed lake in China's Hetao Irrigation District. An analytical model correlating groundwater tables with lake areas was developed to simulate and predict
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Spatiotemporal impacts of climate change and human activities on blue and green water resources in northwest river basins of China Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Tao Jin, Xiao Zhang, Tingting Wang, Jichao Liang, Wei Ma, Jiancang Xie
Exploring the spatiotemporal impacts of climate change and human activities on freshwater resources through the concepts of blue and green water can effectively improve the sustainability of basin water resource management. However, previous relevant studies have not considered the specific impacts of different climate models and land use changes on the future simultaneously. To mitigate this issue
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Is urban spatial expansion on track to achieve low-carbon cities? An empirical comparative study of Xi’an and Chengdu in western China Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Haifen Lei, Jennifer Koch, Hui Shi, Dan Zhao
Rapidly expanding urban areas constitute places of high-intensity energy consumption and, hence, major carbon emissions. There is an urgent need to systematically review the relationship between urban spatial expansion and carbon emissions at the city level, especially for cities in western China where development lags behind compared to other parts of the country, and differences among resource availability
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Reach-scale models show heterogeneity of stream benthic invertebrate responses to eutrophication stress Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 David J. Gillett, Raphael D. Mazor, Martha Sutula, Anne Holt
Statistical stressor-response models are a common approach to derive biologically relevant water quality criteria for the management of waterbody health. These types of models are typically derived at state-wide or ecoregional scales and consequently incorporate a large amount of natural and disturbance-related variability that may obscure the relationship that one is interested in quantifying. We
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Assessment and optimization of the structure of urban carbon metabolism system in Guangzhou: Integrating the cross-media transfer process Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Weiwei Lu, Dan Qiao, Zhe Liu, Rong Guo, Meirong Su, Chao Xu, Yang Zhang
Optimizing the structure of the carbon metabolic network is essential for enhancing network performance. However, a knowledge gap remains in systematically evaluating the network structure and comprehensively identifying the key nodes and paths, particularly in a carbon metabolism system that involves the frequent transition of carbon element across the air, water, and soil mediums. Hence, taking Guangzhou
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Green Neighbourhood Sustainability Index – A measure of the balance between anthropogenic pressure and ecological relevance Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Katarzyna Cegielska, Anita Kukulska-Kozieł, Józef Hernik
Peri-urban landscapes grow more urbanised due to suburbanisation. This, in turn, makes them environmentally and culturally susceptible to changes. Keen demand for residential areas threatens the sustainability of the -urban landscape. Green spaces are at particular risk of conversion. Recently, researchers focused on the function of green sites in urban environments. What is more, research on green
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Construction and optimization of watershed-scale ecological network based on complex network method: A case study of Erhai Lake Basin in China Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Tengwen Wang, Yuchen Huang, Junhao Cheng, Hang Xiong, Yue Ying, Yu Feng, Jinman Wang
The ecological network construction and optimization are of great significance in ensuring regional ecological security and optimizing the ecological space of the national territory, therefore constructing the ecological spatial network and proposing optimization countermeasures are conducive to enhancing regional ecological stability. However, current research on ecological networks ignores the ecospatial
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Carbon footprint of hemp and sunflower oil in southern Italy: A case study Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Alessandro Suardi, Ilenia Bravo, Claudio Beni, Patrizia Papetti, Roberto Leonardo Rana
The proteoleaginous plants demand has seen significant growth, leading to an expansion of the sunflower (, L.) and industrial hemp (, L.) cultivation area in Italy. However, by-products obtained during seed oil extraction and agricultural residues are often unused due to the absence of a receptive market and nearby processing centers. The carbon footprint (CF) methodology was used to compare the two
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An advanced deep learning model for predicting water quality index Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Mohammad Ehteram, Ali Najah Ahmed, Mohsen Sherif, Ahmed El-Shafie
Predicting a water quality index (WQI) is important because it serves as an important metric for assessing the overall health and safety of water bodies. Our paper develops a new hybrid model for predicting the WQI. The study uses a combination of a convolutional neural network (CNN), clockwork recurrent neural network (Clockwork RNN), and M5 Tree (CNN-CRNN-M5T) to predict a WQI. The M5T model lacks
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Assessing ecological product values in the Yellow River Basin: Factors, trends, and strategies for sustainable development Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Min Zhu, Xiaowei Zhang, Ehsan Elahi, Bingbing Fan, Zainab Khalid
This study evaluates the value of ecological products in the Yellow River Basin, China within the “Two Mountains” theory framework prioritizing ecological conservation and quality growth. Major basin cities were analyzed to quantify ecological product value flows from 2011 to 2020 using an entropy approach assessing rural dynamics, financing, governance, manufacturing, and economic structuring. Entropy
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Circular economy and ecological footprint: A disaggregated analysis for the EU Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Chun-Chih Chen, Hsiao-Tien Pao
In this era of global ecological overshoot, understanding the interplay between the circular economy and ecological footprint is vital. This study examines data from the EU-23 from 2010 to 2020 using panel regression methods. It explores the long-term relationships between ecological footprint types and circular economy indicators, such as per capita municipal waste generation, the municipal waste
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Spatiotemporal evolution and driving factors of ecosystem services in the upper Fenhe watershed, China Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Zhanjin Xue, Xianwen Meng, Bing Liu
Exploring the spatiotemporal dynamics of ecosystem services (ESs) and their drivers is a crucial but challenging task for improving ecosystem management and human well-being. However, few studies have focused on the evolution and mechanisms of ESs in typical upper watersheds in arid/semi-arid regions. Thus, this study examined the upper Fenhe watershed (UFW) in the Yellow River region, and aim to evaluate
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Spatio-temporal characteristics and decoupling relationship of new-type urbanization and carbon emissions at the county Level: A case study of Zhejiang Province, China Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Yiqun Wu, Congyue Zhou, Xingyu Lai, Yonghua Li, Liting Miao, Huifang Yu
Coordinating the relationship between new-type urbanization (NTU) and carbon emission (CE) reduction has emerged as a primary strategic objective in China. However, previous studies on this subject have predominantly focused on the unidirectional impact of NTU on CE, neglecting their spatio-temporal characteristics and the potential for a decoupling relationship. Focusing on the county-level areas
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Remote monitoring of water clarity in coastal oceans of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, China based on machine learning Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Xinyi Lu, Zifeng Mo, Jun Zhao, Chunlei Ma
The development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), one of the most developed and densely populated regions in China, has posed an increasing threat to the health of the water environment in adjacent coastal oceans. However, the spatiotemporal variations of water clarity in the coastal oceans of the GBA (COGBA) have not been well-documented. Therefore, this study aims to develop
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How a coastal megacity affects marine biodiversity and ecosystem function: Impacts of reduced water quality and other anthropogenic stressors Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Rinaldi Gotama, David M. Baker, Isis Guibert, Shelby E. McIlroy, Bayden D. Russell
Coastal marine ecosystems are integral in providing numerous ecosystem functions and services. However, intense and chronic anthropogenic stressors often impact marine ecosystems surrounding highly urbanized, densely populated coastal megacities. The associated reduction of water quality and biodiversity of these ecosystems potentially erodes ecosystem functions and provision of services. While there
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Discerning changes and drivers of water yield ecosystem service: A case study of Chongqing-Chengdu District, Southwest China Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Che Lu, Guo Sidai, Li Yangli
Water yield (WY) ecosystem service is an important ecological indicator in assessing water availability and sustainability. Although it was widely acknowledged that WY was mainly driven by land use change and climate factor, the intrinsic driving mechanisms remained unclear. Here, we selected the Chengdu-Chongqing District in Southwest China as the study area, using the InVEST model, structural equation
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Short-time acoustic indices for monitoring urban-natural environments using artificial neural networks Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Diego Espejo, Víctor Vargas, Rhoddy Viveros-Muñoz, Fabio A. Labra, Pablo Huijse, Víctor Poblete
Urban-natural environments, proximal to rapidly urbanizing cities, provide essential ecosystem functions that benefit both city residents and ecological communities. With escalating urbanization, the resilience of these ecosystems is being progressively challenged, highlighting the need for robust monitoring mechanisms. Acoustic monitoring has emerged as an unobtrusive method to evaluate the status
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Downscaling estimation of NEP in the ecologically-oriented county based on multi-source remote sensing data Ecol. Indic. (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Bofu Zheng, Shuyang Wu, Zhong Liu, Hanqing Wu, Zida Li, Rujie Ye, Jinqi Zhu, Wei Wan
Net ecosystem productivity (NEP) serves as a pivotal metric for quantitatively elucidating the carbon sink function of terrestrial ecosystems. As a prototype county for the development of an ecological civilization in China, the quantitative estimation of the ecotypic county’s ecosystem carbon sink capacity holds immense significance in comprehending the carbon cycle and facilitating the sustainable