AIMC Topic: Tropical Climate

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Machine learning-based groundwater potential mapping and factor analysis in tropical lateritic terrains using self-organizing maps and random forest.

Environmental monitoring and assessment
Groundwater potential mapping is essential for sustainable water resource management, particularly in tropical lateritic terrains where communities depend heavily on groundwater for domestic and agricultural needs. This study delineates groundwater p...

Decoding climate-induced phytoplankton dynamics in a tropical macrotidal estuary using explainable machine learning.

The Science of the total environment
Phytoplankton communities in tropical macrotidal estuaries are highly sensitive to hydroclimatic variability, particularly during extreme El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events. This study assessed ENSO effects on phytoplankton dynamics in the Sã...

Causal inference unveils how forest coverage mitigates excess snakebite cases during rainfall seasons in Colombia.

Scientific reports
Snakebite envenoming is a neglected tropical disease that affects mainly rural populations, where antivenom is scarce. Understanding environmental drivers of snakebite incidence is critical for public health preparedness. This study employs causal in...

Mapping hotspots and identifying drivers of lead bioaccumulation in Oryza sativa L. in tropical agroecosystems.

Journal of hazardous materials
Tropical rice systems exhibit high annual rates of heavy metal accumulation, requiring accurate identification of accumulation drivers in rice-growing ecosystems to ensure regional food security. Therefore, we collected 229 paired soil and rice sampl...

Soil moisture mapping in Indian tropical islands with C-band SAR and artificial neural network models.

Environmental monitoring and assessment
This study aims at analyzing the patterns of soil moisture in the South Andaman district using an integrated approach that incorporates Sentinel-1A C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data and other auxiliary data from Sentinel-2A and Landsat 8. A ...

Classifying the seascape of eastern tropical pacific based on physicochemical variables.

Marine environmental research
The Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP) is a highly environmentally heterogeneous ocean with high biological richness and endemism. Capturing and structuring this variability through a classification into seascapes is essential to support ecological resea...

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...

Soil fertility matters! A new conceptual model for carbon stewardship in neotropical croplands taking climate-smart agricultural practices into account.

The Science of the total environment
Mismanagement of agroecosystems in Neotropical regions threatens global security, accelerating the transgression of planetary boundaries. Therefore, understanding carbon (C) stewardship and how climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices change nutrien...

Non-negative matrix factorization reveals seasonal and sex-specific metabolic tactics in tropical tilapia.

Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Part D, Genomics & proteomics
Understanding metabolic adaptations to seasonal fluctuations in ectothermic organisms is challenging, especially in tropical species where physiological responses are more pronounced than in temperate or polar counterparts. Traditional analytical met...

Comparing statistical and deep learning approaches for simultaneous prediction of stand-level above- and belowground biomass in tropical forests.

The Science of the total environment
Accurate and cost-effective prediction of aboveground biomass (AGB), belowground biomass (BGB), and the total (ABGB) at stand-level within tropical forests is crucial for effective forest ecological management and the provision of forest ecosystem se...