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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.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adaptación de un modelo de claros para el estudio de la dinámica de un bosque estacional en los llanos occidentales de Venezuela (open access)

Adaptación de un modelo de claros para el estudio de la dinámica de un bosque estacional en los llanos occidentales de Venezuela

Article discussing the adaptation of a gap model to the study of the dynamics of a seasonal forest in the western plains of Venezuela.
Date: 2010
Creator: Angulo, Hirma Ramírez; Acevedo, Miguel F.; Ataroff, Michele & Torres-Lezama, Armando
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adjusting Sowing Dates Improved Potato Adaptation to Climate Change in Semiarid Region, China (open access)

Adjusting Sowing Dates Improved Potato Adaptation to Climate Change in Semiarid Region, China

This article examines how potato production can be improved by altering planting date in China’s semiarid region, thus improving potato adaptation to climate change.
Date: April 17, 2017
Creator: Hu, Qi; Yang, Ning; Pan, Feifei; Pan, Xuebiao; Wang, Xiaoxiao & Yang, Pengyu
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Archaeology, Heritage, and Moral Terrains: Two Cases from the Mesa Verde Region (open access)

Archaeology, Heritage, and Moral Terrains: Two Cases from the Mesa Verde Region

This article applies an environmental justice lens to two archaeological research narratives, one centering on chemical analysis of biomolecular artifact residues and the other on paleohydrology and Pueblo farming.
Date: September 14, 2016
Creator: Wolverton, Steven J.; Figueroa, Robert & Swentzell, Porter
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Bike Rack Occupancy on the University of North Texas Campus

This paper discusses research on bike rack availability and its relationship to bike ridership on the University of North Texas (UNT) campus.
Date: April 19, 2012
Creator: Thomas, Chloe B. & Nagaoka, Lisa
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biomass burning drives atmospheric nutrient redistribution within forested peatlands in Borneo (open access)

Biomass burning drives atmospheric nutrient redistribution within forested peatlands in Borneo

This article quantifies the influence of fire on biogeochemical fluxes of nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur in a 12 ha forested peatland in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Date: August 4, 2016
Creator: Ponette-González, Alexandra G.; Curran, Lisa M.; Pittman, Alice M.; Carlson, Kimberly M.; Steele, Bethel G.; Ratnasari, Dessy et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bird watching in China reveals bird distribution changes (open access)

Bird watching in China reveals bird distribution changes

This article describes the development of the China Bird Watching Database and its use to understand bird distribution changes.
Date: September 15, 2012
Creator: Li, Xueyan; Liang, Lu; Gong, Peng; Liu, Yang & Liang, FeiFei
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review:Quantitative Paleozoology (open access)

Book Review:Quantitative Paleozoology

Book Review of "Quantitative Paleozoology" written by R. Lee Lyman.
Date: August 3, 2010
Creator: Wolverton, Steven J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature (open access)

Book Review: The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature

Book Review of "The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature" written by David George Haskell.
Date: August 16, 2016
Creator: Wolverton, Steven J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: The Pursuit of Ecotopia: Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World (open access)

Book Review: The Pursuit of Ecotopia: Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World

Book Review of "The Pursuit of Ecotopia: Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World" written by Eugene N. Anderson.
Date: August 17, 2010
Creator: Wolverton, Steven J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: Winds from the North: Tewa Origins and Historical Anthropology (open access)

Book Review: Winds from the North: Tewa Origins and Historical Anthropology

Book Review of "Winds from the North: Tewa Origins and Historical Anthropology" written by Scott G. Ortman.
Date: November 13, 2014
Creator: Dombrosky, Jonathan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Breast Cancer in Texas Counties 1980-1998 (open access)

Breast Cancer in Texas Counties 1980-1998

Paper examines effects of race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, genes and environment on breast cancer morbidity in Texas counties from 1980-1998.
Date: 2011
Creator: Barry, Djenabou
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Buruli Ulcer Disease and Its Association with Land Cover in Southwestern Ghana (open access)

Buruli Ulcer Disease and Its Association with Land Cover in Southwestern Ghana

This article presents the first analysis of Buruli ulcer at the village level in southwestern Ghana, where prevalence rates are among the highest globally, and explores fine and medium-scale associations with land cover by comparing patterns both within Buruli ulcer clusters and surrounding landscapes.
Date: June 19, 2015
Creator: Wu, Jianyong; Tschakert, Petra; Klutse, Erasmus; Ferring, David; Ricciardi, Vincent; Hausermann, Heidi et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characterizing recent and projecting future potential patterns of mountain pine beetle outbreaks in the Southern Rocky Mountains (open access)

Characterizing recent and projecting future potential patterns of mountain pine beetle outbreaks in the Southern Rocky Mountains

This article aims to quantify the landscape-level drivers that explain the dynamic patterns of mountain pine beetle (MPB) mortality, and simulate areas with future potential MPB mortality under projected climate-change scenarios in Grand County, Colorado, USA.
Date: September 29, 2014
Creator: Liang, Lu; Hawbaker, Todd J.; Chen, Yanlei; Zhu, Zhiliang & Gong, Peng
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A China data set of soil properties for land surface modeling (open access)

A China data set of soil properties for land surface modeling

This article describes the use of a comprehensive 30x30 arc-second resolution gridded soil characteristics data set of China for land surface modeling.
Date: March 12, 2013
Creator: Shangguan, Wei; Dai, Yongjiu; Liu, Baoyuan; Zhu, Axing; Duan, Qingyun; Wu, Lizong et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climate change and human infectious diseases: A synthesis of research findings from global and spatio-temporal perspectives (open access)

Climate change and human infectious diseases: A synthesis of research findings from global and spatio-temporal perspectives

This article shows that over the past few decades, the reported negative or uncertain responses of infectious diseases to climate change has been growing.
Date: March 23, 2017
Creator: Liang, Lu & Gong, Peng
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of different methods for monitoring glacier changes observed by Landsat images (open access)

Comparison of different methods for monitoring glacier changes observed by Landsat images

This paper presents three methods for classifying glacier boundaries, compares the three methods to provide advice on how to choose an appropriate method, and analyzes the relationship between glacier change and the trends of precipitation and temperature.
Date: March 18, 2014
Creator: Man, Qixia; Guo, Huadong; Liu, Guang & Dong, Pinliang
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of Least Squares Regression and Geographically Weighted Regression Modeling of West Nile Virus Risk Based on Environmental Parameters (open access)

A Comparison of Least Squares Regression and Geographically Weighted Regression Modeling of West Nile Virus Risk Based on Environmental Parameters

This article discusses the effectiveness of utilizing local spatial variations in environmental data to uncover the statistical relationships between West Nile Virus (WNV) risk and environmental factors.
Date: March 28, 2017
Creator: Kala, Abhishek K.; Tiwari, Chetan; Mikler, Armin R. & Atkinson, Samuel F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Delta-Flux: An Eddy Covariance Network for a Climate-Smart Lower Mississippi Basin (open access)

Delta-Flux: An Eddy Covariance Network for a Climate-Smart Lower Mississippi Basin

This article describes the rationale to create the new Delta-Flux network, which will coordinate efforts to quantify carbon and water budgets at seventeen eddy covariance flux tower sites in the Lower Mississippi River Basin.
Date: February 23, 2017
Creator: Runkle, Benjamin R. K.; Rigby, James R.; Reba, Michele L.; Anapalli, Saseendran S.; Bhattacharjee, Joydeep; Krauss, Ken W. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Detecting Stems in Dense and Homogeneous Forest Using Single-Scan TLS (open access)

Detecting Stems in Dense and Homogeneous Forest Using Single-Scan TLS

This article presents a new method to automatically detect stems in dense and homogeneous forest using single-scan terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) data.
Date: August 31, 2015
Creator: Xia, Shaobo; Wang, Cheng; Pan, Feifei; Xi, Xiaohuan; Zeng, Hongcheng & Liu, He
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library