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
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
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
Soil Diversity as Affected by Land Use in China: Consequences for Soil Protection (open access)

Soil Diversity as Affected by Land Use in China: Consequences for Soil Protection

This article reports the first effort to assess the impact of land-use change on soil diversity for the entire nation of China.
Date: April 21, 2014
Creator: Shangguan, Wei; Gong, Peng; Liang, Lu; Dai, Yongjiu & Zhang, Keli
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Assessing the Impact of the Built-Up Environment on Nighttime Lights in China (open access)

Assessing the Impact of the Built-Up Environment on Nighttime Lights in China

Article describes study investigating the effects of the built-up environment on artificial light at night, focusing on construction region environments on nighttime brightness and variation with building heights and regional economic development level in China.
Date: July 19, 2019
Creator: Wang, Cheng; Qin, Haiming; Zhao, Kaiguang; Dong, Pinliang; Yang, Xuebo; Zhou, Guoqing et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Forest above Ground Biomass Inversion by Fusing GLAS with Optical Remote Sensing Data (open access)

Forest above Ground Biomass Inversion by Fusing GLAS with Optical Remote Sensing Data

This article describes a study combining Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) data with MODIS/BRDF (Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function) and ASTER GDEM data to estimate forest aboveground biomass in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China.
Date: March 28, 2016
Creator: Xi, Xiaohuan; Han, Tingting; Wang, Cheng; Luo, Shezhou; Xia, Shaobo & Pan, Feifei
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spatial characteristics of physical environments for human settlements in Jinsha River watershed (Yunnan section), China (open access)

Spatial characteristics of physical environments for human settlements in Jinsha River watershed (Yunnan section), China

Article examines the land in the Yunnan Jinsha River watershed to conduct an integrated analysis of environmental factors and human settlements and provides recommendations for urban planning, land use, and disaster management.
Date: January 10, 2019
Creator: Xia, Jisheng & Dong, Pinliang
System: The UNT Digital Library