Social Wasp-Flower Visiting Guild Interactions in Less Structurally Complex Habitats are More Susceptible to Local Extinction by Mateus Aparecido Clemente, Denise Lange, Wesley Dáttilo, Kleber Del-Claro, Fábio Prezoto

“…The simulations of cumulative removal of species showed that the network in the Riparian Forest is more robust against the removal of both plants and wasps than that network in Rocky Grassland, since their extinction curves declined more slowly. …”
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Study and Prediction of Land Use/Cover Change in Small and Medium-Sized River Basins in Typical Urbanization Areas by LI Liujie, LIU Bingjun, WEI Qiuying

“…In order to explore the spatio-temporal evolution pattern of land use in small and medium-sized river basins under the background of rapid urbanization,this paper studied the Baiyun Lake basin and analyzed the structure change in land use in the Baiyun Lake basin from 1980 to 2020 by using land use dynamic degree and land use intensity.In addition,the paper employed a standard deviation ellipse model to analyze the spatial pattern change in the basin,discussed the influence on the land use in the basin before and after the completion of Baiyun Lake,and utilized a CA-Markov model to simulate the land use in the basin in the 2030 and explore the pattern evolution trend of land use in the basin in the future.The results show that:① The land in the Baiyun Lake basin from 1980 to 2020 was mostly used for construction,with an average annual proportion of 51.77%,and in 2020,the proportion reached 70.13%.② In the past 40 years,the land use in the basin has changed from cultivated land,dry land,forest,and grassland to construction land.The land use intensity has continued to rise,and the land structure has gradually tended to be single.③ Baiyun Lake occupies part of the urban land,so the land use in the basin will focus on the adjustment of forest and construction land in 2030.The land use intensity will change slowly,and the urban construction space will be controlled to a certain extent.…”
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Phasic and periodic change of drought under greenhouse effect by Yang Li, Zhicheng Zheng, Yaochen Qin, Haifeng Tian, Zhixiang Xie, Peijun Rong

“…In the future, the project of afforestation and returning farmland to forest and grassland in this region can increase the planting proportion of water-loving tree species to obtain better ecological benefits. …”
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Spatially varying parameters improve carbon cycle modeling in the Amazon rainforest with ORCHIDEE r8849 by L. Zhu, L. Zhu, L. Zhu, L. Zhu, P. Ciais, Y. Yao, D. Goll, S. Luyssaert, I. Martínez Cano, A. Fendrich, A. Fendrich, L. Li, H. Yang, S. Saatchi, W. Li, W. Li

“…This study presents an efficient and accurate approach to enhancing the simulation of Amazonian carbon pools and fluxes in DGVMs by assimilating existing observational data, offering valuable insights for future model development and parameterization.…”
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Predicting vector distribution in Europe: at what sample size are species distribution models reliable? by Lianne Mitchel, Lianne Mitchel, Guy Hendrickx, Ewan T. MacLeod, Cedric Marsboom, Cedric Marsboom

“…Comparatively, unbalanced samples with a 20:80 ratio of presence and absence data did not produce reliable models with any of the sample sizes considered.ConclusionTo our knowledge, this is the first study to use a simulated vector to identify the optimum sample size for Random Forest models at this resolution (≤1 km2) and extent (≥10,000 km2). …”
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Predictive Modeling of River Water Temperatures in Catu River: A Neural Network-Based Approach by Carmen Goncalves de Macedo e Silva, José Roberto de Araújo Fontoura, Alarcon Matos de Oliveira, Thais de Souza Neri, Roberto Luiz Souza Monteiro, Thiago Barros Murari, Alexandre do Nascimento Silva, Leandro Brito Santos, Marcos Batista Figueredo

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The Multi-Compartment Hg Modeling and Analysis Project (MCHgMAP): mercury modeling to support international environmental policy by A. Dastoor, H. Angot, J. Bieser, F. Brocza, F. Brocza, B. Edwards, A. Feinberg, A. Feinberg, X. Feng, X. Feng, B. Geyman, C. Gournia, Y. He, I. M. Hedgecock, I. Ilyin, J. Kirk, C.-J. Lin, C.-J. Lin, I. Lehnherr, R. Mason, D. McLagan, D. McLagan, M. Muntean, P. Rafaj, E. M. Roy, A. Ryjkov, N. E. Selin, N. E. Selin, F. De Simone, A. L. Soerensen, F. Steenhuisen, O. Travnikov, S. Wang, S. Wang, X. Wang, S. Wilson, R. Wu, Q. Wu, Q. Wu, Y. Zhang, J. Zhou, W. Zhu, S. Zolkos

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Limited Effect of Future Land‐Use Changes on Human Heat Stress and Labor Capacity by Steven J. DeHertog, Anton Orlov, Felix Havermann, Suqi Guo, Iris Manola, Julia Pongratz, Quentin Lejeune, Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner, Inga Menke, Florian Humpenöder, Alexander Popp, Peter Lawrence, George C. Hurtt, Louise Chini, Inne Vanderkelen, Edouard L. Davin, Thomas Reerink, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Hans Verbeeck, Wim Thiery

“…Achieving a sustainable land‐use scenario with increasing global forest cover instead of an inequality scenario with decreasing forest cover in the Global South causes a global cooling ranging between 0.09°C and 0.35°C across the Earth System Models. …”
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Effect of Thinning and Harvest Type on Storage and Losses of Phosphorous in Pinus taeda L. Plantations in Subtropical Argentina by Rodolfo Andrés Martiarena, Jorge Luis Frangi, Martín Alcides Pinazo, Alejandra Von Wallis, Roberto Antonio Fernández

“…The nutrient content at harvest was determined for tree, shrub, and herb layers, the forest floor and upper mineral soil. Two harvest types were simulated: stem only and whole tree. …”
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Detailed observations reveal the genesis and dynamics of destructive debris-flow surges by J. Aaron, J. Langham, R. Spielmann, J. Hirschberg, B. McArdell, S. Boss, C. G. Johnson, J. M. N. T. Gray

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Fire Protection of Utility Pine Wood Poles by José Saporiti Machado, Elisabete Cordeiro, Sofia Knapic, Telmo Morgado, Alfredo M. P. G. Dias

“…In the present study, different fire protection measures were applied to utility wood poles aiming to protect them from wildfires, ensuring their reuse in safe conditions while preventing them from contributing to the propagation of forest fires, particularly surface fires. Two of the solutions tested were based on intumescent paints, while the other one involved a system that completely covers the poles’ exteriors (a fabric-protection layer mechanically applied to the surface of the pole). …”
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Traffic congestion forecasting using machine learning methods by Ramil R. Zagidullin, Almaz N. Khaybullin

“…Additionally, to compare and validate the results, the ensemble method Random Forest was used, configured with the following hyperparameters: 200 trees, maximum depth of 12, minimum samples per leaf of 2. …”
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Seasonal Dynamics of N, P, and K in an Organic and Inorganic Fertilized Willow Biomass System by Amos K. Quaye, Timothy A. Volk, Jeff J. Schoenau

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Modeling the Future of a Wild Edible Fern Under Climate Change: Distribution and Cultivation Zones of <i>Pteridium aquilinum</i> var. <i>latiusculum</i> in the Dadu–Min River Regio... by Yi Huang, Jingtian Yang, Guanghua Zhao, Zixi Shama, Qingsong Ge, Yang Yang, Jian Yang

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Quantifying Long Term (2000–2020) Water Balances Across Nepal by Integrating Remote Sensing and an Ecohydrological Model by Kailun Jin, Ning Liu, Run Tang, Ge Sun, Lu Hao

“…At the national scale, the simulated long-term (2000–2020) mean annual Q and ET was about half of the precipitation (1567 mm), but both Q and ET varied tremendously in space and time as influenced by a monsoon climate and mountainous terrain. …”
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Evolutionary Histories of Camellia japonica and Camellia rusticana by Harue Abe, Saneyoshi Ueno, Ayumi Matsuo, Shun K. Hirota, Hiroki Miura, Mong‐Huai Su, Yun‐Guang Shen, Yoshihiko Tsumura, Yoshihisa Suyama, Zhong‐Lang Wang

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Correlated‐replicate occupancy models for wild turkey gobbling call‐count surveys by Christopher D. Pollentier, Michael A. Hardy, R. Scott Lutz, Scott D. Hull

“…Turkeys occurred throughout a variety of habitat conditions, but occupancy was greatest (ψˆ = 0.990 ± 0.03) along survey routes with 40–60% forest cover. We fit simulated data to standard occupancy models and correlated replicate models and found occupancy and detection estimates were underestimated by as much as 10% with standard occupancy models, but bias was negligible under the correlated replicate modeling approach. …”
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Leveraging local wildlife surveys for robust occupancy trend estimation by Jordan L. Heiman, Jody M. Tucker, Sarah N. Sells, Joshua J. Millspaugh, Michael K. Schwartz

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Securing black lion tamarin populations: improving habitat-based inputs and risks for population viability analysis to inform management decisions by Francy Forero-Sánchez, Francy Forero-Sánchez, Gabriela Cabral Rezende, Gabriela Cabral Rezende, Cláudio Valladares-Pádua, Cláudio Valladares-Pádua, Fabio Stucchi Vannucchi, Fabio Stucchi Vannucchi, Leandro Jerusalinsky, Leandro Jerusalinsky, Luciana Pacca, Kathy Traylor-Holzer

“…The Endangered black lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysopygus) survives in 17 fragments of the Atlantic Forest within the Paranapanema River basin, in southeast Brazil, with an estimated 2,255 individuals. …”
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Incorporating the Acclimation of Photosynthesis and Leaf Respiration in the Noah‐MP Land Surface Model: Model Development and Evaluation by Yanghang Ren, Han Wang, Sandy P. Harrison, I. Colin Prentice, Giulia Mengoli, Long Zhao, Peter B. Reich, Kun Yang

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