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
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
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
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
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
Object Type: Article
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.
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
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
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
Improved bore-sight calibration for airborne light detection and ranging using planar patches (open access)

Improved bore-sight calibration for airborne light detection and ranging using planar patches

This article proposes an improved method for bore-sight calibration based on the principles of symmetry of coordinate offsets and low correlations between bore-sight angles.
Date: May 9, 2016
Creator: Li, Dong; Guo, Huadong; Wang, Cheng; Dong, Pinliang & Zuo, Zhengli
Object Type: Article
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
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
Validation of a Non-Targeted LC-MS Approach for Identifying Ancient Proteins: Method Development on Bone to Improve Artifact Residue Analysis (open access)

Validation of a Non-Targeted LC-MS Approach for Identifying Ancient Proteins: Method Development on Bone to Improve Artifact Residue Analysis

This article discusses validation of the potential of an extraction and characterization approach via application to ancient bone proteins, as part of a larger method-development project for innovation and improvement of liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry analysis of protein residues from cooking pottery.
Date: September 4, 2015
Creator: Barker, Andrew; Dombrosky, Jonathan; Chaput, Dale; Venables, Barney J.; Wolverton, Steven J. & Stevens, Stanley M.
Object Type: Article
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.
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
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
Light detection and ranging and hyperspectral data for estimation of forest biomass: a review (open access)

Light detection and ranging and hyperspectral data for estimation of forest biomass: a review

This review addresses the status of hyperspectral data, LiDAR data, and the fusion of these two data sources for forest biomass estimation in the last decade.
Date: December 18, 2014
Creator: Man, Qixia; Dong, Pinliang; Guo, Huadong; Liu, Guang & Shi, Runhe
Object Type: Review
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
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
A Low-Cost GPS-Based Protocol to Create High-Resolution Digital Elevation Models for Remote Mountain Areas (open access)

A Low-Cost GPS-Based Protocol to Create High-Resolution Digital Elevation Models for Remote Mountain Areas

This article describes the use of a low-cost GPS-based protocol to construct a high-resolution digital elevation model for a rugged, remote mountain site in the northern Peruvian Andes.
Date: October 2014
Creator: Fry, Matthew; Ponette-González, Alexandra G. & Young, Kenneth R.
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Meta-discoveries from a synthesis of satellite-based land-cover mapping research (open access)

Meta-discoveries from a synthesis of satellite-based land-cover mapping research

This article provides a spatialized database of scientific literature in English about land-cover mapping.
Date: June 19, 2014
Creator: Yu, Le; Liang, Lu; Wang, Jie; Zhao, Yuanyuan; Cheng, Qu; Hu, Luanyun et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mapping Mountain Pine Beetle Mortality through Growth Trend Analysis of Time-Series Landsat Data (open access)

Mapping Mountain Pine Beetle Mortality through Growth Trend Analysis of Time-Series Landsat Data

This article presents a forest growth trend analysis method that integrates Landsat temporal trajectories and decision tree techniques to derive annual forest disturbance maps over an 11-year period.
Date: June 18, 2014
Creator: Liang, Lu; Chen, Yanlei; Hawbaker, Todd J.; Zhu, Zhiliang & Gong, Peng
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