Showing papers in "Ecological Indicators in 2015"

TL;DR: In this article, the concentration and chemical fractionation of globally alarming six heavy metals (Cr, Ni, Cu, As, Cd and Pb) were measured in surface water and sediment of an urban river in Bangladesh.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on how both income and policies in these countries affect the income-emissions (environment) relationship and found that an inverted U-shape association between emissions and income per capita, yielding empirical support to the presence of an Environmental Kuznet Curve hypothesis.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis using a country's ecological footprint as an indicator of environmental degradation, and the results showed an inverted U-shaped relationship between the ecological footprint and GDP growth, which represents the EKC hypothesis in upper middle and high income countries but not in low- and lower middle-income countries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the performance of support vector regression (SVR), artificial neural network (ANN), and random forest (RF) models in predicting and mapping organic carbon (SOC) stocks in the Eastern Mau Forest Reserve, Kenya was compared.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the current conceptual understanding of ecosystem services demand, indicators to measure demand and the approaches used to quantify and map demand and identify four distinct "demand types" which relate to different ecosystem service categories.

TL;DR: In this article, heavy metal assessment in Nador lagoon (Mediterranean coast) was carried out using different environmental indices and compared with consensus-based sediment quality guidelines, showing that heavy metals occur in lagoon sediments largely due to the anthropogenic activities in the area.

TL;DR: A quantitative evaluation model to measure the uncertainty of GSCM activities is developed and an approach based on Vlsekriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje (VIKOR) method which is an extension of intuitionistic fuzzy environment aiming to solve the green multi-criteria decision making (GMCDM) problem is applied.

TL;DR: A database for European taxa of five aquatic organism groups by compiling information on taxonomy, ecology and distribution based on extensive literature surveys, which were performed by experts for the targeted organism groups.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether better governess and corruption control help to form the inverted U-shaped relationship between income and pollution in Cambodia for the period of 1996-2012.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how ecosystem disservices have been recognized in the scientific literature and how the concept has been used in the discussion of socio-ecological systems, and they use a quantitative approach to assess geographical spread, focus and indicator choice.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the relationship between globalization and CO 2 emissions by incorporating energy consumption, financial development and economic growth in CO 2 emission function for India using annual data for the period 1970-2012.

TL;DR: In this article, a new index was formulated for assessing severity of heavy metal pollution in aquatic environments, which is more reliable and logical compared with other investigated indices for evaluating heavy metals pollution in sediments of aquatic environments.

TL;DR: In this article, an indicator of cultural ecosystem services (CES) usage is derived from photographs from an image-sharing website, at two different scales, and compared with four small (

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the temporal and spatial variations of vegetation coverage characteristics of the Yellow River Basin in a time series from 2000 to 2010, using a variation coefficient, a Theil-Sen median trend analysis, the Mann-Kendall test, and the Hurst index method.

TL;DR: This systematic review aims to identify, evaluate and synthesise the evidence provided in published peer reviewed studies framing their work in the context of spatially explicit remote sensing assessment and valuation of ecosystem services, and quantitatively present the growth of remote sensing applications in ecosystem services’ research.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a methodological approach to assess regulating ES mismatches on the basis of environmental quality standards and policy goals, which can be used as a common minimum threshold to determine whether the difference between ES supply and demand is problematic for human well-being.

TL;DR: Based on the two-level Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) method and Tapio index, this article constructed an expanded decomposition model for decoupling elasticity and effort index of industrial carbon emissions, and further quantitatively analyzed the delinking indicators on industry growth and environmental pressures in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) economic band from 1996 to 2010.

TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between urban development intensity and CO2 emissions for a panel made up of the five major cities in China (Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing and Guangzhou) using time series data from 1995 to 2011 was quantified.

TL;DR: In this article, an overview of the different aspects of waterlogging and soil salinization and its impact on the food production and sustainability of irrigated agriculture is presented. And the authors conclude that the damage to plant growth and yield is much serious when these processes occur simultaneously and generally yield reduction is linearly correlated with the salinity level.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined a suite of published acoustic indices to determine whether they provide comparable results relative to varying levels of landscape fragmentation and ecological condition in nineteen forest sites in eastern Australia.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify the need to distinguish between indicators of ecosystem services that are entirely ecological in nature, indicators for the ecological processes contributing to the delivery of these services, and indicators of benefits that reveal the realized human use or enjoyment of an ecosystem service.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the dynamic relationship between energy intensity and CO2 emissions by incorporating economic growth in environment CO 2 emissions function using data of Sub Saharan African countries and applied panel cointegration to examine the long run relationship between the series.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the validation of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis for Pakistan using time series data from 1980-2013 with deforestation as an indicator (dependent variable) for environmental degradation, and four independent variables (economic growth, energy consumption, trade openness, and population) were also examined.

TL;DR: In this paper, the efficacy of bioaccumulation and translocation potentials of heavy metals by the naturally growing weed Plantago major was examined at a heavy-traffic affected soil.

TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors measured the environmental efficiency of China based on environmental super-efficiency data envelopment analysis (SEDEA) model by using data of 30 provinces in China during the period of 2000-2010.

TL;DR: In this article, an analytic framework was developed comprised of five interlinked components of ES supply and demand linking nature and society (i.e., potential supply, managed supply, match, demand, and interests).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an assessment framework which includes a mass-balance model to estimate diffuse N and P transfer/retention in unmonitored catchments and a set of indicators based on N:P:Si molar ratios to assess the risk of eutrophication in freshwaters.

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive meta-analysis on different organism groups and factors influencing restoration effect is presented, showing that restoration effect was most strongly affected by agricultural land use, river width and project age.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impacts of land-use and climate changes on water quantity and quality at watershed scale and to understand relationships between hydrologic components and water quality at that scale under different climate and land use scenarios were evaluated.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the spatial-temporal characteristics and interrelationships of the vegetation dynamics and climate variability in Xinjiang Province using the leaf area index (LAI) and a gridded meteorological dataset for the period 1982-2012.