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Quantifying land use heterogeneity on drought conditions for mitigation strategies development in the Dongjiang River Basin, China (2021)
Journal Article

Spatially-invariant land use and cover changes (LUCC) are not suitable for managing non-stationary drought conditions. Therefore, developing a spatially varying framework for managing land resources is necessary. In this study, the Dongjiang River Ba... Read More about Quantifying land use heterogeneity on drought conditions for mitigation strategies development in the Dongjiang River Basin, China.

Identifying drivers of streamflow extremes in West Africa to inform a nonstationary prediction model (2021)
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West Africa exhibits decadal patterns in the behaviour of droughts and floods, creating challenges for effective water resources management. Proposed drivers of prolonged shifts in hydrological extremes include the impacts of land-cover change and cl... Read More about Identifying drivers of streamflow extremes in West Africa to inform a nonstationary prediction model.

Improvement of the ESA CCI land cover maps for water balance analysis in tropical regions: A case study in the Muda River Basin, Malaysia (2021)
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Study region: The Muda River Basin (MRB), Malaysia. Study Focus: This study proposed a framework to improve the European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative Land Cover (ESA CCI LC) products through the integration with the Annual Oil Palm Dataset... Read More about Improvement of the ESA CCI land cover maps for water balance analysis in tropical regions: A case study in the Muda River Basin, Malaysia.

Coastal reservoirs as a source of nitrous oxide: Spatio-temporal patterns and assessment strategy (2021)
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Coastal reservoirs are widely regarded as a viable solution to the water scarcity problem faced by coastal cities with growing populations. As a result of the accumulation of anthropogenic wastes and the alteration of hydroecological processes, these... Read More about Coastal reservoirs as a source of nitrous oxide: Spatio-temporal patterns and assessment strategy.

Hydro-climatic changes of wetlandscapes across the world (2021)
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Assessments of ecosystem service and function losses of wetlandscapes (i.e., wetlands and their hydrological catchments) suffer from knowledge gaps regarding impacts of ongoing hydro-climatic change. This study investigates hydro-climatic changes dur... Read More about Hydro-climatic changes of wetlandscapes across the world.

On the laboratory calibration of dielectric permittivity models for agricultural soils: Effect of systematic porosity variation (2021)
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Dielectric techniques are fundamental methods for measuring soil water content, and they commonly rely on the conventional laboratory calibration of the dielectric permittivity models between a dielectric constant and water content. As a non-negligib... Read More about On the laboratory calibration of dielectric permittivity models for agricultural soils: Effect of systematic porosity variation.

The role of landscape morphology on soil moisture variability in semi-arid ecosystems (2020)
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Previous studies on semi-arid ecosystems have shown high values of soil moisture variability (SMV) primarily induced by the combined effects of non-uniform precipitation, incoming solar radiation, and soil and vegetation properties. However, the rela... Read More about The role of landscape morphology on soil moisture variability in semi-arid ecosystems.

Large spatial variations in diffusive CH₄ fluxes from a subtropical coastal reservoir affected by sewage discharge in Southeast China (2020)
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Coastal reservoirs are potentially CH4 emission hotspots owing to their biogeochemical role as the sinks of anthropogenic carbon and nutrients. Yet, the fine-scale spatial variations in CH4 concentrations and fluxes in coastal reservoirs remain poorl... Read More about Large spatial variations in diffusive CH₄ fluxes from a subtropical coastal reservoir affected by sewage discharge in Southeast China.

Data for wetlandscapes and their changes around the world (2020)
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Geography and associated hydrological, hydroclimate and land-use conditions and their changes determine the states and dynamics of wetlands and their ecosystem services. The influences of these controls are not limited to just the local scale of each... Read More about Data for wetlandscapes and their changes around the world.

Under-measured daily maximum precipitation from manual gauge observations over the northern regions (2020)
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Extreme precipitation is a major issue for regional climate, hydrology, and safety of society. Our knowledge of extreme precipitation is poor because of difficulties in gauge observations and biases in regional and global datasets, in particular over... Read More about Under-measured daily maximum precipitation from manual gauge observations over the northern regions.

Gravimetry-based water storage shifting over the China-India border area controlled by regional climate variability (2019)
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The regional water storage shifting causes nonstationary spatial distribution of droughts and flooding, leading to water management challenges, environmental degradation and economic losses. The regional water storage shifting is becoming evident due... Read More about Gravimetry-based water storage shifting over the China-India border area controlled by regional climate variability.

Water storage redistribution over East China, between 2003 and 2015, driven by intra- and inter-annual climate variability (2019)
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National development and resilience are strained by shifting regional water storage patterns. The water shifting pattern has been found over China, but the underlying climate mechanisms of the pattern remain largely unexplored. In this study, how shi... Read More about Water storage redistribution over East China, between 2003 and 2015, driven by intra- and inter-annual climate variability.

Climatic and vegetational drivers of insect beta diversity at the continental scale (2019)
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Aim: We construct a framework for mapping pattern and drivers of insect diversity at the continental scale and use it to test whether and which environmental gradients drive insect beta diversity. Location: Global; North and Central America; Western... Read More about Climatic and vegetational drivers of insect beta diversity at the continental scale.

Bitter cucumber in diabetes (2019)
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The press office of the University of Giessen "advertises" an allegedly promising clinical study which was the first "scientifically tenable" study to show the blood sugar-lowering effect of bitter cucumber [Fig. 1] as "significant". The authors of t... Read More about Bitter cucumber in diabetes.

Does engagement build empathy for shared water resources? Results from the use of the interpersonal reactivity index during a mobile water allocation experimental decision laboratory (2019)
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Currently, there are no tools that measure improvements in levels of empathy among diverse water stakeholders participating in transboundary decision-making. In this study, we used an existing empathy scale from clinical psychology during an Experime... Read More about Does engagement build empathy for shared water resources? Results from the use of the interpersonal reactivity index during a mobile water allocation experimental decision laboratory.

Priorities and interactions of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with focus on wetlands (2019)
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Wetlands are often vital physical and social components of a country's natural capital, as well as providers of ecosystem services to local and national communities. We performed a network analysis to prioritize Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) tar... Read More about Priorities and interactions of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with focus on wetlands.

Methane dynamics in an estuarine brackish Cyperus malaccensis marsh: Production and porewater concentration in soils, and net emissions to the atmosphere over five years (2018)
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Wetlands can potentially affect global climate change through their role in modulating the atmospheric concentrations of methane (CH4). Their overall CH4 emissions, however, remain the greatest uncertainty in the global CH4 budget. One reason for thi... Read More about Methane dynamics in an estuarine brackish Cyperus malaccensis marsh: Production and porewater concentration in soils, and net emissions to the atmosphere over five years.

Water level reconstruction and prediction based on space-borne sensors: A case study in the Mekong and Yangtze river basins (2018)
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Water level (WL) measurements denote surface conditions that are useful for monitoring hydrological extremes, such as droughts and floods, which both affect agricultural productivity and regional development. Due to spatially sparse in situ hydrologi... Read More about Water level reconstruction and prediction based on space-borne sensors: A case study in the Mekong and Yangtze river basins.

Bitter gourd reduces elevated fasting plasma glucose levels in an intervention study among prediabetics in Tanzania (2018)
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Ethnopharmacological relevance: Impaired glucose tolerance and diabetes mellitus have become major health issues even in non-industrialized countries. As access to clinical management is often poor, dietary interventions and alternative medicines are... Read More about Bitter gourd reduces elevated fasting plasma glucose levels in an intervention study among prediabetics in Tanzania.

Application of ENSO and drought indices for water level reconstruction and prediction: A case study in the lower Mekong River estuary (2018)
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Water level monitoring is important for understanding the global hydrological cycle. Remotely-sensed indices that capture localized instantaneous responses have been extensively explored for water level reconstruction during the past two decades. How... Read More about Application of ENSO and drought indices for water level reconstruction and prediction: A case study in the lower Mekong River estuary.