AIMC Topic: Conservation of Natural Resources

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Benthic communities on restored coral reefs confer equivalent aesthetic value to healthy reefs.

Scientific reports
Coral reefs are valuable ecosystems that provide diverse ecosystem services to people. For example, many reefs have exceptionally high tourism value, attracting visitors to experience their ecologically and visually rich reef habitat. However, human-...

Leveraging machine learning for monitoring afforestation in mining areas: evaluating Tata Steel's restoration efforts in Noamundi, India.

Environmental monitoring and assessment
Mining activities have long been associated with significant environmental impacts, including deforestation, habitat degradation, and biodiversity loss, necessitating targeted strategies like afforestation to mitigate ecological damage. Tata Steel's ...

Broadscale reconnaissance of coral reefs from citizen science and deep learning.

Environmental monitoring and assessment
Coral reef managers require various forms of data. While monitoring is typically the preserve of scientists, there is an increasing need to collect larger scale, up-to-date data to prioritise limited conservation resources. Citizen science combined w...

The impact and return-on-investment of evidence-based practice in conservation and environmental management: A machine learning-assisted scoping review protocol.

PloS one
Evidence-based Practice (EBP) is a vital principle, with its origins in the 1970s, that has transformed the disciplines of medicine and healthcare. The use of best available evidence to inform decisions and best practice has since spread across other...

Deforestation driven by illegal and informal gold mining in the southern Peruvian Amazon: a predictive land use analysis over the next 50 years.

Environmental monitoring and assessment
The Amazon is recognized not only for its vast biodiversity and territorial extent but also for the significant mineral riches it harbors. This potential has intensified small-scale illegal and informal gold mining, a practice often employed without ...

Acoustic monitoring for tropical insect conservation.

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Monitoring the species-specific sounds produced by insects could provide us with a rapid, reliable, non-invasive measure of tropical ecosystem health and biodiversity. Although acoustic biodiversity monitoring has made rapid progress over the past de...

Semen collection, semen analysis and artificial insemination in the kākāpō (Strigops habroptilus) to support its conservation.

PloS one
The critically endangered kākāpō (Strigops habroptilus) has suffered population declines due to habitat loss, hunting, and predation. Conservation efforts, including translocation to predator-free islands, have helped increase numbers of this flightl...

Modeling climate change impacts and predicting future vulnerability in the Mount Kenya forest ecosystem using remote sensing and machine learning.

Environmental monitoring and assessment
The Mount Kenya forest ecosystem (MKFE), a crucial biodiversity hotspot and one of Kenya's key water towers, is increasingly threatened by climate change, putting its ecological integrity and vital ecosystem services at risk. Understanding the intera...

Modeling land use and land cover dynamics of Bale Mountains National Park using Google Earth Engine and cellular automata-artificial neural network (CA-ANN) model.

PloS one
This research aimed to assess the observed land use and land cover (LULC) changes of Bale Mountains National Park (BMNP) from 1993 to 2023 and its future projections for the years (2033 and 2053). The study utilized multi-date Landsat imagery from 19...

Green finance reform, multifaceted collaborative governance, and corporate greenwashing: Evidence from double/debiased machine learning method.

Journal of environmental management
In order to promote the economic structure's green transformation and identify replicable and generalizable practices in green financial development, the Chinese government has established pilot zones for green finance reform and innovation (PZGFRI) ...