Long Dark Gaps in the Lyβ Forest at z < 6: Evidence of Ultra-late Reionization from XQR-30 Spectra by Yongda Zhu, George D. Becker, Sarah E. I. Bosman, Laura C. Keating, Valentina D’Odorico, Rebecca L. Davies, Holly M. Christenson, Eduardo Bañados, Fuyan Bian, Manuela Bischetti, Huanqing Chen, Frederick B. Davies, Anna-Christina Eilers, Xiaohui Fan, Prakash Gaikwad, Bradley Greig, Martin G. Haehnelt, Girish Kulkarni, Samuel Lai, Andrea Pallottini, Yuxiang Qin, Emma V. Ryan-Weber, Fabian Walter, Feige Wang, Jinyi Yang

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Zoning the soil salinization levels in the northern China’s coastal areas based on high-resolution soil mapping by Yuan Chi, Minglei Fan, Zhiwei Zhang, Yubing Qu

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Identifying corridors for Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) in a part of Eastern Himalayas, India by Malyasri Bhattacharya, Debanjan Sarkar, Sneha Pandey, Indranil Mondal, Sambandam Sathyakumar, R. Suresh Kumar, Gautam Talukdar

“…The population of Black bears are restricted to small habitat patches, which over the years have become fragmented by road networks and urban settlements. …”
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Trade-Offs and Synergies Between Ecosystem Services and Their Ecological Security Patterns in the Guanzhong–Tianshui Economic Zone by Jing Zhou, Jianhua Xiao, Daiying Yin, Yu Ren

“…The Guanzhong–Tianshui economic zone is a strategic link in China’s Belt and Road network, faces the contradiction between ecological protection and economic development, and urgently needs to construct an ecological security pattern based on ecosystem services to permit sustainable development. …”
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Life after death: Hidden diversity of orchids across European cemeteries by Jenő Nagy, Viktor Löki, Zoltán Vitál, Krisztina Nótári, S. James Reynolds, Tamás Malkócs, Réka Fekete, Kristóf Süveges, Ádám Lovas-Kiss, Attila Takács, András Balázs Lukács, Attila Molnár V.

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Construction of “Biomigration – Regional Cooling” Multi-functional Ecological Network in Wuhan Urban Agglomeration by Jiajie LI, Yuanyuan GU, Zhong XING

“…To address this, ecological networks composed of source sites, corridors, and stepping-stone patches are proposed to restore landscape connectivity and integrity, thereby ensuring ecological security. …”
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Pavement Deterioration Modeling of the International Roughness Index Based on Fuzzy Logic Approach by Abdualmtalab Ali, Abdalrhman Milad, Hussein ALMufargi, Nur Izzi Md Yusoff

“…This paper strives to construct a system rooted in fuzzy logic to appraise the requirements for maintenance and (IRI) evaluation within a network of pavement roads. This system utilizes data on pavement distress collected from the United States and Canada to achieve its objectives. …”
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Long-term trends in human fatalities from human–elephant conflict in Chhattisgarh, India by Kalpana Roy, Ramesh Kumar Pandey, N. G. Athira, Ananya Dutta, Dheeraj Mittal, Parag Nigam, Anukul Nath, Bilal Habib

“…The frequency of conflict incidents decreased with increasing distance from roads, crop fields, and built-up areas. Additionally, conflict incidents show a decreasing trend in areas with larger forest patches. …”
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Impacts of human footprint on habitat quality and permafrost environment in Northeast China by Jianjun Tang, Xiaoying Jin, Haowei Mu, Sizhong Yang, Ruixia He, Xiaoying Li, Wenhui Wang, Shuai Huang, Jiaxing Zu, Hongwei Wang, Zuwang Li, Lin Yang, Shanzhen Li, Yanlin Shi, Suiqiao Yang, Raul-D. Serban, Mihaela Șerban, Alexander Fedorov, Leonid Gagarin, Ze Zhang, Mikhail N Zhelezniak, Huijun Jin

“…During this period, permafrost area decreased by 0.9 × 105 km2, and the southern limit of latitudinal permafrost also shifted northward. (4) Waterways and roads are the main drivers of rising ground temperatures, with waterways having the highest q-value (0.56). …”
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Telemetry Tracking of Two Resplendent Quetzals (Pharomachrus mocinno mocinno) at a mountain area of Baja Verapaz, Guatemala by Michelle Bustamante, Bianca Bosarreyes, Manuel Barrios-Izas

“…Key non-protected sites within the study area, such as Ranchitos del Quetzal and forest patches along the Panimá River basin, offer valuable opportunities for targeted conservation aimed at improving habitat connectivity, safeguarding critical resources, and engaging local communities. …”
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Awaiting discovery: How biases in faunistic surveys hinder conservation in mountain protected areas-A case study from Romania's oldest national park. by Dan Cogălniceanu, Dorel Ruşti, Marius Skolka, Florina Stănescu, Sabina E Vlad, Teodora L Tănase, Laurenţiu Rozylowicz

“…Retezat National Park is one of the most studied in Eastern Europe since it shelters some of the last patches of virgin old-growth forest in Europe. We reviewed the scientific literature published since the early 1900s dealing with faunistic surveys and retrieved the occurrence records available on GBIF for the study area. …”
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Trade-offs and synergies for urban Production-Living-Ecological spatial Patterns-Comparison study between Fuzhou, China, and Saskatoon, Canada by Xi Wang, Xiaomei Li, Jinming Sha, Hao Zhang, Eshetu Shifaw, Xulin Guo, Shuhui Lai, Jinliang Wang

“…The results showed the distinctly different PLE spatial patterns and the trade-offs &amp; synergies of PLE spaces between the two eco-cities in Fuzhou, China and Saskatoon, Canada in 2022. (1) For the PLE space composition, the percentages of ecological space in Fuzhou and Saskatoon were 64.6% and 36.4%, respectively, while the proportions of the most suitable residential space in two cities from POI data were 2.4% and 4.1%, respectively. (2) For PLE spatial agglomeration, ecological space in Fuzhou was characterized with a random distribution with the average nearest neighbor index of 1.19, and scattered as small patches in urban hilly area covered with ever-green broadleaf trees, while in Saskatoon the index was less than 1.00 with a clustered distribution in numerous city parks covered with grass and shrubs; Fuzhou’s multifunctional spaces were clustered in the central urban area surrounded by ring roads and in Changle District, while Saskatoon’s were dispersed with large patches. (3) For the trade-offs &amp; synergies of PLE space, the ecological spaces in two cities were suppressed. …”
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Multi-scenario Dynamic Simulation and Optimization of Urban Ventilation Environment: A Case Study of Taiyuan Metropolitan Area by Junda HUANG, Yuncai WANG

“…Secondly, based on previous research and considering the natural environment and socio-economic development of the research area, DEM, slope, distance to primary roads, distance to secondary roads, distance to tertiary roads, population density, GDP, and building density are selected as driving factors in this research to investigate the transformation pattern of land use types. …”
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Energy Infrastructure Clears the Way for Coyotes in Alberta's Oil Sands by Jamie F. Clarke, Larissa Bron, Madison Carlson, Sophia S. Labiy, Zoe Penno, Hayley Webster, Jason T. Fisher, Marissa A. Dyck

“…ABSTRACT Energy extraction and development are fragmenting the landscape in Canada's oil sands region, creating patches of boreal forest connected by millions of kilometers of cleared linear features. …”
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Sustainable Management of Natural Resources at Disaggregated Levels with Insights from Landscape Dynamics by T V Ramachandra, Paras Negi, Tulika Mondal, Bharath Settur

“…Land use dynamics assessment reveals that paved surfaces (area under buildings, roads) have increased from 186.22 sq. km (in 1973) to 1085.12 sq. km (in 2022). …”
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