Most contemporary crop yield models focus on a small time window, operate plot location, or do not include the effects of changing environment, which makes it difficult to use these assess agricultural sustainability for past societies. In this study, adaptions were made agronomic AquaCrop model. This adapted model was ran cover last 4000 years simulate impact climate and land changes, as well ...

Loss of habitat and human disturbance are major factors in the worldwide decline shorebird populations, including that threatened migratory piping plover (Charadrius melodus). From 2013 to 2018, we conducted land-based surveys community every other week during peak season (September March). We assessed ability a thin plate spline occupancy model identify hotspot locations on Whiskey Island, Lou...

Understanding abandoned mine land (AML) changes during land reclamation is crucial for reusing damaged land resources and formulating sound ecological restoration policies. This study combines the linear programming (LP) model and the CLUE-S model to simulate land-use dynamics in the Mentougou District (Beijing, China) from 2007 to 2020 under three reclamation scenarios, that is, the planning s...

Mutualists and pathogens, collectively called symbionts, are ubiquitous in plant communities. While some symbionts are highly host-specific, others associate with multiple hosts. The outcomes of multispecies host-symbiont interactions with different degrees of specificity are difficult to predict at this point due to a lack of a general conceptual framework. Complicating our predictive power is...

of challenges. Much of classical ecological theory originates from very simple differential equations in which a single variable represents population densities. Researchers typically analyze the solutions mathematically and then compare them to abundance estimates from field or lab observations. Although highly influential in ecological theory, the models’ aggregated form is particularly diffi...