Low-cost PM2.5 sensors can help identify driving factors of poor air quality and benefit communities by Tim Keyes, Rea Domingo, Samantha Dynowski, Royal Graves, Martha Klein, Melissa Leonard, John Pilgrim, Alison Sanchirico, Kate Trinkaus

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A Novel Intelligent Classification Method for Urban Green Space Based on High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images by Zhiyu Xu, Yi Zhou, Shixin Wang, Litao Wang, Feng Li, Shicheng Wang, Zhenqing Wang

“…The experimental results show that the introduction of phenological features into HRNet model training can effectively improve urban green space classification accuracy by solving the problem of misclassification of evergreen and deciduous trees. The improvement rate of F1-Score of deciduous trees, evergreen trees, and grassland were 0.48%, 4.77%, and 3.93%, respectively, which proved that the combination of vegetation phenology and high-resolution remote sensing image can improve the results of deep learning urban green space classification.…”
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Widespread Crown Defoliation After a Drought and Heat Wave in the Forests of Tuscany (Central Italy) and Their Recovery—A Case Study From Summer 2017 by Martina Pollastrini, Nicola Puletti, Federico Selvi, Giovanni Iacopetti, Filippo Bussotti

“…The aim of this case report were to describe the impact of this event on representative forest communities in central Italy, to analyze the different responses of deciduous and evergreen tree and shrub species in contrasting environmental conditions and to assess their subsequent capacity of recovery or, if not, mortality. …”
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Vertical distribution and production of fine roots in an old-growth forest, Japan by The Doi Bui, Van Do Tran

“…We investigated the vertical distribution and production of fine roots in a warm temperate old-growth evergreen broadleaved forest in southwestern Japan. …”
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Preliminary inventory of mammals from Yurubí National Park, Yaracuy, Venezuela with some comments on their natural history by Franger J. García, Mariana Delgado-Jaramillo, Marjorie Machado, Luis Aular

“…We carried out fieldworks in three selected vegetation types: an evergreen forest at 197m, a semi-deciduous forest ranging between 100-230m, and a cloud forest at 1 446m. …”
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Comparative population genomics reveals glacial cycles to drive diversifications in tropical montane birds (Aves, Timaliidae) by Per G.P. Ericson, Martin Irestedt

“…Many bird species are specialized to live in the broadleaved, evergreen forests in the mountain regions in Southeast Asia. …”
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Climate and fragment area jointly affect the annual dynamics of seedlings in different functional groups in the Thousand Island Lake by Yuping Zhong, Yuchen Zhong, Yuchen Zhong, Yuchu Xie, Yanping Lei, Boliang Wei, Boliang Wei, Jinliang Liu, Mingjian Yu

“…Our results showed that: 1) shade-tolerant and evergreen species had higher seed-seedling transition, seedling recruitment and survival rate than shade-intolerant and deciduous species in time and space, and these advantages increased with the island area. 2) Seedlings in different functional groups responded differently to island area, temperature and precipitation. 3) Increasing active accumulated temperature (the sum of the mean daily temperature above 0 °C) significantly increased seedling recruitment and survival, and warming climate favored the regeneration of evergreen species. 4) The seedling mortality rate of all plant functional groups increased with the increase of island area, but the increasing strength weakened significantly with the increase of the annual maximum temperature. …”
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Optimizing China’s Afforestation Strategy: Biophysical Impacts of Afforestation with Five Locally Adapted Forest Types by Wei Ma, Yue Wang

“…Specifically, the net cooling effects of evergreen broadleaf forests (EBFs), deciduous broadleaf forests (DBFs), and mixed forests (MFs) compared to grasslands are −0.50 ± 0.10 °C (mean ± 95% confidence interval), −0.33 ± 0.05 °C, and −0.36 ± 0.06 °C, respectively, while evergreen needleleaf forests (ENFs) compared to grasslands are −0.22 ± 0.11 °C. …”
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Balancing Social Values with Economic Realities by Marilyn Sitaker, Mackenzie McCall, Emily Belarmino, Weiwei Wang, Jane Kolodinsky, Jared McGuirt, Alice Ammerman, Stephanie Jilcott Pitts, Rebecca Seguin-Fowler

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Topography, drainage capability, and legacy of drought differentiate tropical ecosystem response to and recovery from major hurricanes by Mei Yu, Qiong Gao

“…The recovery of evergreen forests was on average 11 days earlier and faster than that of mangroves. …”
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Allometry of the quasi-pipe (qPipe) model for estimating tree leaf area and tree leaf mass applied to plant functional types by Akihiro Sumida, Yoshiyuki Inagaki, Takuya Kajimoto, Masumi Katsuno-Miyaura, Akira Komiyama, Nahoko Kurachi, Tomiyasu Miyaura, Shigeaki F. Hasegawa, Toshihiko Hara, Kiyomi Ono, Masahito Yamada

“…Using published/unpublished data for 962 trees of 159 species collected between tropical rainforests and boreal forests, we established pipe and qPipe model allometries for evergreen-conifer, deciduous-conifer, evergreen-broadleaf, and deciduous-broadleaf plant functional types (PFTs). …”
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A Framework for Modeling Uncertainty in Regional Climate Change by Monier, Erwan, Gao, Xiang, Scott, Jeffery, Sokolov, Andrei, Schlosser, C. Adam

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Climate Change Impacts on Extreme Events in the United States: An Uncertainty Analysis by Monier, Erwan, Gao, Xiang

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Probabilistic Projections of 21st Century Climate Change over Northern Eurasia by Monier, Erwan, Sokolov, Andrei, Schlosser, Adam, Scott, Jeffery, Gao, Xiang

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Impact of internal combustion engine on energy supply and its emission reduction via sustainable fuel source by Gheidan, Abdelgader A. S., Abdul Wahid, Mazlan, Chukwunonso, Opia A., Yasin, Mohd. Fairus

Faber’s Maple: Acer fabri by Gary W. Knox

“…Additionally, most people know the maple as a deciduous tree, dropping its leaves in fall, whereas Faber's maple is evergreen. This 2-page fact sheet was written by Gary W. …”
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Laguncularia racemosa, White Mangrove by Michael G. Andreu, Melissa H. Friedman, Mary McKenzie, Heather V. Quintana

“…Quintana, describes this native evergreen tree that grows in the coastal areas of south Florida, the Caribbean, and Central America – scientific and common names, description, storm tolerance, and applications. …”
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Ecophysiological and anatomical characteristics of the subtropical shrub Zanthoxylum acanthopodium (Rutaceae) in conditions of a temperate continental climate (Serbia) by Rakić Tamara, Šinžar-Sekulić Jasmina, Filipović Biljana, Tadić Vanja, Stevanović Branka, Tan Kit

“…The evergreen shrub Zanthoxylum acanthopodium DC. (Rutaceae), originating from warm temperate and subtropical Asia, has existed successfully in the Jevremovac Botanical Garden in Belgrade for more than 80 years. …”
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Ex-Ante Analysis of Macro-Regional Development in the Visegrad Countries, with Special Emphasis on Some Turbulent Periods by Kocziszky György, Szendi Dóra

“…Monitoring the development of a given region and forecasting its potential changes is an evergreen topic in regional economic analysis. The aim of the current work is to analyse the development path of four Central-Eastern-European countries and create short term forecast for their development.…”
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No Backdoor for Mass Surveillance - The European Court of Human Rights Protects the Right to Encrypted Communication by Erik Tuchtfeld

“…Bulk data retention is the evergreen of European security policy. On February 13, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) – once again – ruled in Podchasov on Russia’s collection of and access to citizens’ private communication. …”
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