AIMC Topic: Ecosystem

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Microclimates, land cover, and socioeconomic vulnerability shape Anopheles hotspots in Maryland, USA.

Infectious diseases of poverty
BACKGROUND: Anopheles mosquitoes pose notable public health concerns as competent vectors of malaria and other diseases. Although malaria is no longer endemic in the United States, recent locally acquired cases in states including Maryland highlight ...

The impact of climate change on the invasiveness of Ageratum conyzoides (goat weed) in India: implications for biodiversity conservation.

Environmental monitoring and assessment
Climate change and biological invasions are major drivers of global biodiversity loss. Ageratum conyzoides L. is a highly aggressive invader, yet its ecological risks and potential range dynamics in India remain insufficiently quantified. To assess i...

Evaluating Ecosystem Services of Ecological Restoration in Mining Areas: A Modified Choice Experiment Approach.

Environmental management
Unsustainable mining practices have led to severe ecosystem degradation in mining areas. Ecological restoration plays a crucial role in reinstating the ecosystem service functions of these areas. A monetary evaluation of the ecosystem service value g...

Dual niche modeling with GEE and SHAP for predicting habitat shifts of Haloxylon ammodendron and Cistanche deserticola under climate change.

PloS one
Haloxylon ammodendron, a keystone woody species, and its parasitic plant, Cistanche deserticola, play critical roles in sustaining arid ecosystems and supporting regional economies. However, their distribution is increasingly threatened by global cli...

Declining Predictions of Net Ecosystem Production in US Rivers and Streams Throughout the 21st Century.

Environmental science & technology
Metabolism is an essential component of carbon cycling in river ecosystems, and understanding its response to climate change on a broad scale is imperative. Here we employ deep-learning models trained on an extensive data set to reconstruct daily met...

Human alterations to global riverine phosphorus fluxes to the ocean.

Science advances
Rivers regulate land-ocean total phosphorus (TP) fluxes critical to ecosystem health and food security, yet global dynamics remain poorly understood due to limited observations. Here, we develop a machine learning framework integrating multimodal dat...

Flash droughts threaten global managed forests.

Nature communications
Flash droughts, characterized by rapid onset and increasing frequency, pose significant threats to ecosystem stability and function. However, there remains no global consensus regarding forest responses to flash droughts. Here, using a reconstructed ...

A new approach improving koala habitat prediction using hyperspectral airborne imagery.

The Science of the total environment
Koala populations are declining primarily due to habitat loss, making large-scale habitat quality prediction essential for conservation. A first approach to defining koala habitat quality involves identifying the number of different 'koala' trees spe...

Assessing climatic and non-climatic habitat suitability of Haloxylon salicornicum (Moq.) Bunge ex Boiss using ensemble species distribution modelling coupled with analytic hierarchy process.

Environmental monitoring and assessment
Haloxylon salicornicum is a keystone shrub of the Indian arid zone, valued for dune stabilization, fodder, and ecosystem restoration, yet its climatic resilience remains poorly understood. This study assessed the ecological thresholds, current habita...

Climate stability and low population pressure predict peaceful interactions over 10,000 years of Central Andean history.

Science advances
As anthropogenic climate change threatens to destabilize global societies and ecosystems, anticipating likely human responses becomes ever more urgent. A key global initiative is the promotion of peaceful relations. Nonetheless, studies that systemat...