The relative importance of climate change and human activities in influencing regional fire
regimes during the Holocene is still a matter of debate. The introduction of agriculture during …

The management of mine tailings presents a global challenge. Re-mining of tailings to
recover remaining metals and other valuable constituents could play a crucial role in …

Noise pollution can reduce the ability of urban protected areas to provide a refuge for people
and habitat for wildlife. Amidst an unprecedented global pandemic, it is unknown if the …

Spatially clustered sampling may result in non-independent data that pose challenges for
environmental mapping applications. Two outstanding challenges resulting from the use of …

Research on global patterns of diversity has been dominated by studies seeking
explanations for the equator-to-poles decline in richness of most groups of organisms …

National forest inventories (NFI) provide essential forest-related biomass and carbon
information for country greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting systems. Several tropical …

Geostatistical methods are widely used in almost all geoscientific disciplines, ie for
interpolation, re-scaling, data assimilation or modelling. At its core geostatistics aims to …

Study air polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) capturing the spatial variability of their
concentrations is not economically feasible with conventional methods. In the present work …

Fertilisers and pesticides are major sources of the environmental harm that results from
farming, yet it remains difficult to target reductions in their impacts without compromising …

Climate change is causing major changes in terrestrial ecosystems and biomes around the
world. This is particularly concerning in oceanic islands, considered reservoirs of …