Land,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
14(4), P. 771 - 771
Published: April 3, 2025
The
surface
urban
heat
island
(SUHI)
effect,
driven
by
human
activities
and
land
cover
changes,
leads
to
elevated
temperatures
in
areas,
posing
challenges
sustainability,
public
health,
environmental
quality.
While
SUHI
drivers
at
large
scales
are
well-studied,
finer-scale
thermal
variations
remain
underexplored.
This
study
employed
the
Local
Climate
Zones
(LCZs)
framework
analyze
temperature
(LST)
dynamics
Zhengzhou,
China.
Using
2022
mean
LST
data
derived
from
a
single-channel
algorithm,
combined
with
field
surveys
remote
sensing
techniques,
we
examined
30
potential
driving
factors
spanning
natural
anthropogenic
conditions.
Results
show
that
built-type
LCZs
had
higher
average
LSTs
(31.10
°C)
compared
non-built
(28.91
°C),
showing
greater
variability
(10.48
°C
vs.
6.76
°C).
Among
five
major
factor
categories,
landscape
pattern
indices
dominated
LCZs,
accounting
for
44.5%
of
variation,
while
Tasseled
Cap
Transformation
indices,
particularly
brightness,
drove
42.8%
variation
non-built-type
LCZs.
Partial
dependence
analysis
revealed
wetness
fragmentation
reduce
whereas
GDP,
imperviousness,
cohesion
increase
it.
In
population
density,
connectivity,
brightness
raise
LST,
atmospheric
dryness
provide
cooling
effects.
These
findings
highlight
need
LCZ-specific
mitigation
strategies.
Built-type
require
form
optimization,
enhanced
expanded
green
infrastructure
accumulation.
Non-built
benefit
maintaining
soil
moisture,
addressing
dryness,
optimizing
vegetation
configurations.
provides
actionable
insights
sustainable
environment
management
resilience.
Diversity,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
16(12), P. 734 - 734
Published: Nov. 29, 2024
Maintaining
soil
health
is
fundamental
to
sustaining
agricultural
productivity,
however,
the
intricate
role
of
microbial
diversity
in
this
process
not
fully
understood.
Current
research
acknowledges
that
microorganisms
including
bacteria,
fungi,
and
archaea
are
pivotal
driving
essential
functions
such
as
nutrient
cycling,
organic
matter
decomposition,
disease
suppression.
However,
impacts
global
environmental
changes
intensive
practices
on
these
remain
a
critical
gap
literature.
This
significant
because
decline
could
severely
compromise
health,
consequently
crop
productivity.
Here,
we
provide
comprehensive
review
factors
influencing
examine
their
implications
for
performance.
We
assess
both
natural
pH,
moisture,
temperature,
vegetation
type
well
human-induced
tillage
systems
fertilizer
application.
The
synthesizes
recent
findings
how
shape
communities
functional
roles
structure
formation,
Our
analysis
highlights
mechanisms
by
which
enhances
plant
growth
yield,
addressing
understanding
direct
links
between
outcomes.
underscore
urgent
need
sustainable
protect
enhance
safeguard
long-term
fertility
By
challenges
manipulating
integrating
ecology
with
management
practices,
advances
our
ability
sustain
face
changes.
Environmental Science and Ecotechnology,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
20, P. 100409 - 100409
Published: March 7, 2024
Ecological
water
replenishment
(EWR)
is
an
important
strategy
for
river
restoration
globally,
but
timely
evaluation
of
its
ecological
effects
at
a
large
spatiotemporal
scale
to
further
adjust
the
EWR
schemes
great
challenge.
Here,
we
examine
impact
on
microeukaryotic
plankton
communities
in
three
distinct
ecosystems
through
environmental
DNA
(eDNA)
metabarcoding.
The
include
long-term
cut-off
river,
short-term
connected
after
EWR,
and
rivers.
We
analyzed
community
stability
by
investigating
species
composition,
stochastic
deterministic
dynamics
interplay,
network
robustness.
found
that
markedly
reduced
diversity
complexity
plankton,
altered
their
dynamics,
lessened
variation
within
community.
Moreover,
disrupted
patterns
organization,
favoring
dispersal
constraints,
aligning
with
trends
observed
naturally
shift
from
isolated
temporarily
appeared
transition
structuring
mechanisms
dominance,
whereas,
permanently
rivers,
both
forces
concurrently
influenced
assembly.
rivers
post-EWR
demonstrated
significantly
greater
intricacy
compared
other
systems.
This
bolstered
resilience
network.
eDNA
metabarcoding
insights
offer
novel
understanding
ecosystem
under
interventions,
which
could
be
critical
assessing
projects
throughout
life
cycle.
Microorganisms,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
12(4), P. 728 - 728
Published: April 3, 2024
Although
the
importance
of
soil
bacterial
community
for
ecosystem
functions
has
long
been
recognized,
there
is
still
a
limited
understanding
associations
between
its
composition,
structure,
co-occurrence
patterns,
and
physicochemical
properties.
The
objectives
present
study
were
to
explore
association
properties
diversity,
network
topological
features,
assembly
mechanisms
community.
Four
typical
forest
types
from
Liziping
Nature
Reserve,
representing
evergreen
coniferous
forest,
deciduous
mixed
conifer-broadleaf
secondary
selected
this
study.
was
analyzed
using
Illumina
MiSeq
sequencing
16S
rRNA
genes.
Nonmetric
multidimensional
scaling
used
illustrate
clustering
different
samples
based
on
Bray–Curtis
distances.
structure
Mantel
test.
interactions
among
taxa
visualized
with
network,
processes
quantified
Beta
Nearest
Taxon
Index
(Beta-NTI).
dominant
phyla
across
all
soils
Proteobacteria
(45.17%),
Acidobacteria
(21.73%),
Actinobacteria
(8.75%),
Chloroflexi
(5.06%).
Chao1
estimator
richness,
observed
ASVs,
faith-phylogenetic
diversity
(faith-PD)
index,
composition
distinguishing
features
examined
four
types.
first
two
principal
components
redundancy
analysis
explained
41.33%
variation
in
community,
total
organic
carbon,
moisture,
pH,
nitrogen,
carbon/nitrogen
(C/N),
carbon/phosphorous
(C/P),
nitrogen/phosphorous
(N/P)
being
main
shaping
communities.
more
complex
compared
that
pure
forests.
Beta-NTI
indicated
collaboratively
influenced
by
deterministic
stochastic
ecological
processes.
