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Stéphane Joost, Idris Guessous, Jens Ingensand, Estelle Rochat, Ivo Widmer, Alain Clémence

Past studies conducted in urban areas analyzed the impact of the presence of green spaces on public health, and highlighted in particular the psychological benefits of interacting with nature. To investigate a supposed relationship between overweight and d ...

IEEE2015

Snowmelt as a driver of ecosystem response in water limited mountain forests of the Western U.S.

Ernesto Trujillo Gomez

Recent large-scale changes in snow cover over Western North America associated with climate warming may have widespread impacts on water availability. These changes have potentially varied impacts on water availability as snowmelt influences, soil moisture ...

2015

The search for old-growth forests in Switzerland

Rita Bütler Sauvain

Old-growth forests and stands have multiple values, such as biological, scientific, socioeconomic, aesthetic, spiritual and cultural ones, but they are very rare in central Europe. Currently, an overview about the existence and size of old-growth forest pa ...

2015

Detection of crop properties by means of hyperspectral remote sensing from a micro UAV

Martin Rehak, Yosef Akhtman, Dragos Constantin

Aerial hyperspectral remote sensing technologies provide effective methods for the exploration and study of plant and crop properties. In this study a custom made hexacopter was equipped with a small scale hyperspectral imaging (HSI) camera capable of meas ...

Leibniz-Institut für Agrartechnik Potsdam-Bornim e.V2015

Classification of urban structural types (UST) using multiple data sources and spatial priors

Arnaud Poncet Montanges

Remote sensing and geographic information science offer many pos- sibilities in terms of availability of diverse data. Some products like land cover layers or digital elevation models can be extracted from imagery and enable the realization of 3D city mode ...

2014

Wind variability and sheltering effects on measurements and modeling of air-water exchange for a small lake

Fernando Porté Agel, Corey Dean Markfort

Lakes with a surface area of less than 10 km^2 account for over 50% of the global cumulative lake surface water area, and make up more than 99% of the total number of global lakes, ponds, and wetlands. Within the boreal regions as well as some temperate an ...

2014

Global emissions of terpenoid VOCs from terrestrial vegetation in the last millennium

Jed Oliver Kaplan

We investigated the millennial variability (1000 A.D.-2000 A.D.) of global biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) emissions by using two independent numerical models: The Model of Emissions of Gases and Aerosols from Nature (MEGAN), for isoprene, monote ...

Amer Geophysical Union2014

Observation of Sensible and Latent Heat Fluxes Over a Mixed Savanna – Agricultural Catchment in the Semi-Arid Sudanian Savanna, Burkina Faso

Andrea Rinaldo, Marc Parlange, Natalie Claire Ceperley, Theophile Mande, Nicolaas Cornelis van de Giesen, Scott W. Tyler

Evaporation and the surface energy balance over two land cover types in Sudanian savanna were investigated in terms of their seasonal and interannual variability using four years of eddy covariance measurement (2009-2013). The observations demonstrate the ...

2013

Holocene changes in climate and land use drove shifts in the diversity of testate amoebae in a subalpine pond

Mariusz Lamentowicz

Testate amoebae that inhabit peat are sensitive indicators of water table position. In this study, we used testate amoebae in sediments from a mire in the western Alps (Lac du Thyl) to: (1) reconstruct the hydrology of the site over the last 7,000 years, ( ...

Springer2013

A Contextual Analysis of Land-Use and Vegetation Changes in Two Wooded Pastures in the Swiss Jura Mountains

Alexandre Buttler, François Gillet, Thomas Spiegelberger, Joël Chételat, Alexander Ludwig Johannes Peringer, Michaël Kalbermatten, Kathryn Lannas

This study examines the effects of land-use policies and natural events on the evolution of two wooded pastures in the Jura Mountains in Switzerland between 1934 and 2000. The socioeconomic context and the local conditions were seen as major driving forces ...

Resilience Alliance2013

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