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Visibility & Control in the Vendee (open access)

Visibility & Control in the Vendee

This article uses fieldwork and the concept of relative aging to argue that the system of canals within the Vendee region of western France were begun in the tenth and eleventh centuries in conjunction with the Maillezais Abbey relocation and rebuilding.
Date: 2016
Creator: Deines, Dory & Wilson-Chavez, Owen
System: The UNT Digital Library
Leaf spectra and weight of species in canopy, subcanopy, and understory layers in a Venezuelan Andean Cloud Forest (open access)

Leaf spectra and weight of species in canopy, subcanopy, and understory layers in a Venezuelan Andean Cloud Forest

Article discussing leaf spectra and the weight of species in canopy, subcanopy, and understory layers in a Venezuelan Andean cloud forest.
Date: 2012
Creator: Acevedo, Miguel F. & Ataroff, Michele
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Climate Change Impacts on Wetland Vegetation in the Dunhuang Yangguan National Nature Reserve in Northwest China Using Landsat Derived NDVI (open access)

Evaluation of Climate Change Impacts on Wetland Vegetation in the Dunhuang Yangguan National Nature Reserve in Northwest China Using Landsat Derived NDVI

This article uses 41 Landsat images between 1988 and 2016 to calculate the normalized difference vegetation indices (NVDIs) of the wetland vegetation at Xitugou (XTG) and Wowachi (WWC) inside the Dunhuang Yangguan National Nature Reserve in northwest China in order to assess the impacts of climate change on wetland vegetation.
Date: May 10, 2018
Creator: Pan, Feifei; Xie, Jianping; Lin, Juming; Zhao, Tingwei; Ji, Yongyuan; Hu, Qi et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Performance Comparison of Passive Structures with Multiple Gates and Funnels for Capturing Contaminated Groundwater (open access)

Performance Comparison of Passive Structures with Multiple Gates and Funnels for Capturing Contaminated Groundwater

This article describes the evaluation of the capability of passive interceptors with multiple gates for directing the flow of contaminated groundwater.
Date: September 2007
Creator: Hudak, Paul F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Controlling Gully Erosion with Earth Dams in North-Central Texas (open access)

Controlling Gully Erosion with Earth Dams in North-Central Texas

This article describes the use of earth dams for controlling gully erosion in part of the Eastern Cross Timbers of North-Central Texas.
Date: January 2001
Creator: Hudak, Paul F. & Chadbourne, John
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lightning, Downed Power Line Form Intriguing Rock Structure in Denton, Texas (open access)

Lightning, Downed Power Line Form Intriguing Rock Structure in Denton, Texas

This article describes a vitrified soil structure, formed by atmospheric and human activity, possessing characteristics of igneous and metamorphic rocks.
Date: March 2003
Creator: Hudak, Paul F. & Maxey, George
System: The UNT Digital Library
TNR and conservation on a university campus: a political ecological perspective (open access)

TNR and conservation on a university campus: a political ecological perspective

Article discussing TNR and conservation on a university campus and a political ecological perspective.
Date: September 25, 2013
Creator: Dombrosky, Jonathan & Wolverton, Steven J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Estimating FPAR of Maize Canopy Using Airborne Discrete-Return LiDAR Data (open access)

Estimating FPAR of Maize Canopy Using Airborne Discrete-Return LiDAR Data

This article tests a method to estimate the fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (FPAR) of maize from airborne discrete-return LiDAR data.
Date: February 26, 2014
Creator: Luo, Shezhou; Wang, Cheng; Xi, Xiaohuan & Pan, Feifei
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Lancet Countdown: tracking progress on health and climate change (open access)

The Lancet Countdown: tracking progress on health and climate change

This article outlines the potential indicators and indicator domains to be tracked by the Lancet Countdown working groups, with suggestions on the methodologies and datasets available to achieve this end.
Date: November 14, 2016
Creator: Watts, Nick; Adger, W. Neil; Ayeb-Karlsson, Sonja; Bai, Yuqi; Byass, Peter; Campbell-Lendrum, Diarmid et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health and Climate Change: policy responses to protect public health (open access)

Health and Climate Change: policy responses to protect public health

This article summarizes key messages from the 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change, accompanied by ten underlying recommendations to accelerate action in the next 5 years.
Date: June 22, 2015
Creator: Watts, Nick; Adger, W. Neil; Agnolucci, Paolo; Blackstock, Jason; Byass, Peter; Cai, Wenjia et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The 2017 Report of The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: From 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health (open access)

The 2017 Report of The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: From 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health

This article summarizes key messages from 40 indicators in the Lancet Countdown's 2017 report.
Date: October 30, 2017
Creator: Watts, Nick; Amann, Markus; Ayeb-Karlsson, Sonja; Belesova, Kristine; Bouley, Timothy; Boykoff, Maxwell et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Monitoring Annual Urban Changes in a Rapidly Growing Portion of Northwest Arkansas with a 20-Year Landsat Record (open access)

Monitoring Annual Urban Changes in a Rapidly Growing Portion of Northwest Arkansas with a 20-Year Landsat Record

This article employs a time series Landsat stack covering the period from 1995 to 2015 to detect the urban dynamics in Northwest Arkansas via a two-stage classification approach.
Date: January 13, 2017
Creator: Reynolds, Ryan; Liang, Lu; Li, XueCao & Dennis, John
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Association between Hantavirus Infection and Selenium Deficiency in Mainland China (open access)

The Association between Hantavirus Infection and Selenium Deficiency in Mainland China

This article studies the role of selenium concentration in hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) caused by hantaviruses, using a multidisciplinary approach combining ecological analysis with preliminary experimental data.
Date: January 20, 2015
Creator: Fang, Liqun; Goeijenbier, Marco; Zuo, Shu-Qing; Wang, Li-Ping; Liang, Song; Klein, Sabra L. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Combining Spatial-Temporal and Phylogenetic Analysis Approaches for Improved Understanding on Global H5N1 Transmission (open access)

Combining Spatial-Temporal and Phylogenetic Analysis Approaches for Improved Understanding on Global H5N1 Transmission

This article reports an interdisciplinary effort that combines the geospatial informatics approach with a bioinformatics approach to form an improved understanding on the transmission mechanisms of H5N1 virus.
Date: October 22, 2010
Creator: Liang, Lu; Xu, Bing; Chen, Yanlei; Liu, Yang; Cao, Wuchun; Fang, Liqun et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of the Habitat of the Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros Rhinoceros Unicornis (Mammalia: Perissodactyla: Rhinocerotidae) at the Chitwan National Park, Nepal (open access)

An Analysis of the Habitat of the Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros Rhinoceros Unicornis (Mammalia: Perissodactyla: Rhinocerotidae) at the Chitwan National Park, Nepal

This article uses geographic information systems and landscape-level data obtained from remote sensing sources to build a habitat suitability index model for the Greater One-horned Rhinoceros.
Date: September 26, 2014
Creator: Thapa, Vivek; Acevedo, Miguel F. & Limbu, Kul P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Efficiency Comparison of Variably-Spaced, Non-Pumped Wells for Filtering Polluted Groundwater (open access)

Efficiency Comparison of Variably-Spaced, Non-Pumped Wells for Filtering Polluted Groundwater

This article investigates the capability of variably-spaced arrays of non-pumped wells, filled with reactive media, to filter a hypothetical contaminant plume.
Date: 2009
Creator: Hudak, Paul F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Creased-Plastic Rock Permeameter for Hydrogeology Students (open access)

Creased-Plastic Rock Permeameter for Hydrogeology Students

This article discusses the use of creased-plastic permeameters as an inexpensive way for students to estimate the hydraulic conductivity of local rock aquifers.
Date: March 2001
Creator: Hudak, Paul F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Visualizing Ground-Water-Flow Fields and Contaminant Plumes in an Undergraduate Hydrogeology Course (open access)

Visualizing Ground-Water-Flow Fields and Contaminant Plumes in an Undergraduate Hydrogeology Course

This article discusses the use of three-dimensional visualization methods to augment traditional contouring methods in an undergraduate ground-water course.
Date: 1998
Creator: Hudak, Paul F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hydrogeology Lessons and Exercises for Introductory Physical-Geology Students (open access)

Hydrogeology Lessons and Exercises for Introductory Physical-Geology Students

This article describes the creation of instruction models for an undergraduate physical-geology course.
Date: 1996
Creator: Hudak, Paul F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
LiDAR Data for Characterizing Linear and Planar Geomorphic Markers in Tectonic Geomorphology (open access)

LiDAR Data for Characterizing Linear and Planar Geomorphic Markers in Tectonic Geomorphology

This paper provides a brief review of airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data for characterizing linear and planar geomorphic markers in tectonic geomorphology, including traces of active faults and surface deformation caused by earthquakes. Challenges and opportunities of LiDAR for the study of tectonic geomorphology and coseismic deformation are also discussed.
Date: November 28, 2014
Creator: Dong, Pinliang
System: The UNT Digital Library
Editorial: Applications of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) in Geosciences (open access)

Editorial: Applications of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) in Geosciences

This article contains an editorial on applications of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) in Geosciences.
Date: August 18, 2012
Creator: Dong, Pinliang
System: The UNT Digital Library
Simulación de la dinámica de un bosque tropical en los Llanos occidentales de Venezuela (open access)

Simulación de la dinámica de un bosque tropical en los Llanos occidentales de Venezuela

Article discussing the simulation of the dynamics of a tropical forest in the Western Llanos of Venezuela.
Date: February 2006
Creator: Angulo, Hirma Ramírez; Ablan, Magdiel; Torres-Lezama, Armando & Acevedo, Miguel F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Heterogeneidad estructural y lumínica del sotobosque de una selva nublada andina de Venezuela (open access)

Heterogeneidad estructural y lumínica del sotobosque de una selva nublada andina de Venezuela

Article discussing the understory of an Andean cloud forest in the Sierra Nevada National Park, Venezuela.
Date: July 2003
Creator: Acevedo, Miguel F.; Ataroff, Michele; Monteleone, Susan & Estrada, Carlos A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relaciones alométricas y patrones de crecimiento para especies de árboles de la reserva forestal Imataca, Venezuela (open access)

Relaciones alométricas y patrones de crecimiento para especies de árboles de la reserva forestal Imataca, Venezuela

Article discussing allometric relations and growth patterns for tree species in the Imataca Forest Reserve, Venezuela.
Date: May 2005
Creator: Delgado, Luz A.; Acevedo, Miguel F.; Castellanos, Hernán; Angulo, Hirma Ramírez & Serrano, Julio
System: The UNT Digital Library