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Embedding the value of coastal ecosystem services into climate change adaptation planning
"An interesting new method that couples a coastal vulnerability model with a climate adaptation policy assessment in an effort to identify priority locations for nature-based solutions that reduce vulnerability of natural habitats along the coast of Marin, California, USA."
Xavier Pochon, Handling Editor
Nuclear energy transition and CO2 emissions nexus in 28 nuclear electricity-producing countries with different income levels
"The publications adds a further interesting view on the possibility of a sustainable electricity supply by nuclear energy use."
Jörg Oehlmann, Handling Editor
Soil mineralized carbon drives more carbon stock in coniferous-broadleaf mixed plantations compared to pure plantations
"This paper gives a contribution to the study of the different suitable forest options for improving terrestrial carbon sequestration"
Leonardo Montagnani, Handling Editor
Exploring the spatiotemporal changes in carbon storage under different development scenarios in Jiangsu Province, China
"This is a very timely article providing evidence for the carbon storage potential in a region under various scenarios."
Jörg Oehlmann, Handling Editor
Nickel mine soil is a potential source for soybean plant growth promoting and heavy metal tolerant rhizobia
"The authors identified in their study heavy metal tolerant rhizobia which do not only support plant survival and growth but offer also possibilities to phytoremediate heavy metal contaminated soils."
Jörg Oehlmann, Handling Editor
Machine learning driven by environmental covariates to estimate high-resolution PM2.5 in data-poor regions
"This paper constructed a random forest (RF) model and a bagging algorithm model based on ground-monitored PM2.5 data, aerosol optical depth and meteorological data, and auxiliary geographical variables to accurately estimate the spatial distribution of PM2.5 concentrations in Xinjiang. It provides important high resolution data and method reference for other research work."
Xinfeng Wang, Handling Editor
Measurement of dispersion of PM 2.5 in Thailand using confidence intervals for the coefficient of variation of an inverse Gaussian distribution
"The paper proposes and introduces a novel method which is useful for the assessment of air quality."
Jörg Oehlmann, Handling Editor
Characteristics of solar radiation at Xiaotang, in the northern marginal zone of the Taklimakan Desert
"It is beneficial to fully understand the characteristics of solar radiation and the influence of sand and dust on solar radiation at Taklimakan Desert."
Jingzhe Wang, Handling Editor
Impacts of climate change on water resources in the major countries along the Belt and Road
"Impacts of climate change and variability on regional water availability is a hot research topic, and the Belt and Road Initiative spans a quite number of countries. The research results should attract a large number of readers."
Guobin Fu, Handling Editor
Analysis of how the spatial and temporal patterns of fire and their bioclimatic and anthropogenic drivers vary across the Amazon rainforest in El Niño and non-El Niño years
"This article may have significance in the light of climate change considerations for forest fires."
Valsaraj KT, Handling Editor
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