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Background data: Untangling the effects of multiple human stressors and their impacts on fish assemblages in European running waters
<p>This dataset presents some backkground data from the EFI+ database. Related work addresses human stressors and their impacts on fish assemblages at pan-European scale by analysing single and multiple stressors and their interactions. Based on an extensive dataset with 3105 fish sampling sites, patterns of stressors, their combination and nature of interactions, i.e. synergistic, antagonistic and additive were investigated. </p> <p>Data were derived within the EU-project "Improvement and Spatial extension of the European Fish Index (EFI+)". EFI+, an EU FP6 research project from 2007-2009 was designed to gain new knowledge and to further develop and improve new biological assessment methods to meet needs of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). </p> <p>Background data are available for boxplots and barplots shown in the related research article in STOTEN.</p>
Impact of medical radionuclide discharges on people and the environment: scenario data used in the non-human biota impact assessment
<p>This dataset contains the input data for the D-DAT model: activity concentrations in water for the simulated Molse Nete scenario. It also contains the dynamic model-calculated activity concentrations in sediment and the non-human biota. These are the primary data upon which the dose calculations werte performed, and they can be used to reproduce these calculations. The related preprint article is also given in this repository: https://zenodo.org/records/10488393.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
Datasets and codes for the peer review article "Human and natural impacts on the U.S. freshwater salinization and alkalinization: A machine learning approach"
<p>Ongoing salinization and alkalinization in U.S. rivers have been attributed to inputs of road salt and effects of human-accelerated weathering in previous studies. Salinization poses a severe threat to human and ecosystem health, while human derived alkalinization implies increasing uncertainty in the dynamics of terrestrial sequestration of atmospheric carbon dioxide. A mechanistic understanding of whether and how human activities accelerate weathering and contribute to the geochemical changes in U.S. rivers is lacking. To address this uncertainty, we compiled dissolved sodium (salinity proxy) and alkalinity values along with 32 watershed properties ranging from hydrology, climate, geomorphology, geology, soil chemistry, land use, and land cover for 226 river monitoring sites across the coterminous U.S. Using these data, we built two machine-learning models to predict monthly-aggregated sodium and alkalinity fluxes at these sites. The sodium-prediction model detected human activities (represented by population density and impervious surface area) as major contributors to the salinity of U.S. rivers. In contrast, the alkalinity-prediction model identified natural processes as predominantly contributing to variation in riverine alkalinity flux, including runoff, carbonate sediment or siliciclastic sediment, soil pH and soil moisture. Unlike prior studies, our analysis suggests that the alkalinization in U.S. rivers is largely governed by local climatic and hydrogeological conditions.</p>
Data from: The impact of human mobility networks on the global spread of COVID-19
<p>This is empirical dataset from the paper "The impact of human mobility networks on the global spread of COVID-19". Specifically, the dataset includes several files: (a) the COVID-19 network - an origin/destination matrix (i.e., "covid_network.csv"); (b) the common language network - edgelist format (i.e. "edge_list_comlang.csv"); (c) the same continent network - edgelist format (i.e., "edge_list_continent.csv"; (d) the contiguity network (i.e., "edge_list_contig.csv"); (e) the migration network - edgelist format (i.e., "edge_list_migration_in.csv"; (f) the tourism network - edgelist format (i.e., edge_list_tourism_in.csv"); (g) the list of nodes (countries) corresponding to files (b)-(e) (i.e., "nodes.csv"). Additionally, we uploaded the Rcode used in the paper (i.e. "code"), as a .pdf file format, the data source for the figures included in the paper (i.e., "covid_network_matrix.csv", "matrix_migration_out.csv", "matrix_tourism.csv" - Figure 1; "Fig_2_a_matrix_comlang.csv", Fig_2_b_matrix_contig.csv", "Fig_2_c_matrix_continent.csv" - Figure 2; "Fig_3.graphmlz - Figure 3; Fig_4.graphmlz - Figure 4) and the "global network of COVID-19 onset" (an individual-level data) (i.e., "global_covid_network.csv"). </p> <p>For details, please, see the Methods section of the paper: The impact of human mobility networks on the global spread of COVID-19 (Hancean, M.-G., Slavinec, M., Perc, M). </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
Sentinel-1/2 derived Arctic Coastal Human Impact dataset (SACHI)
<p>The SACHI (Sentinel-1/2 derived Arctic Coastal Human Impact) V1 dataset was developed as part of the HORIZON2020 project Nunataryuk by b.geos (www.bgeos.com). V1 covered a 100km buffer from the Arctic Coast (land area), for areas with permafrost near the coast. V2 has been prepared as part of the ESA project EO4PAC. It covers additional selected areas extending the coverage to the south.<br>It is based on Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data from 2016-2020 using the algorithms described in Bartsch et al. (2020). V1 is a supplement to Bartsch et al. (2023) and V2 to Tanguy et al. (2024).</p> <p>V2 consists of two shape files.</p> <p>1) SACHI_v2.shp - all identified objects with infrastructure/impact classes and auxiliary information<br>2) SACHI_v2_granules_acquisition_dates - processed Sentinel-2 granule extent polygons with dates of all used input data</p> <p>Dataset reference: see Zenodo 'Sentinel-1/2 derived Arctic Coastal Human Impact dataset (SACHI) v2' (zenodo.org)</p> <p>Description of fields in SACHI_v2.shp:</p> <p>class: SACHI class value. 11=linear transport infrastructure (asphalt), 12=linear transport infrastructure (gravel), 13=linear transport infrastructure (undefined),<br>20=buildings (and other constructions such as bridges), 30=other impacted area (includes gravel pads, mining sites), 40=airstrip, 50=reservoir or other water body impacted by human activities</p> <p>Description of fields in SACHI_v2_granules_acquisition_dates.shp:</p> <p>S2_date1 to S2_date3 - dates of individual Sentinel-2 images used for averaging<br>S1_winter - year(s) of Sentinel-1 images used for averaging (months December and/or January)</p>
The impact of domestic combustion of biomass pellets on the environment and human health: Example from Poland
<p><strong>Submitted data was used to write an article: </strong>Drobniak, A., Jelonek, Z., Mastalerz, M., Jelonek, I., Widziewicz-Rzońca, K., The impact of domestic combustion of biomass pellets on the environment and human health: Example from Poland – in preparation.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Funding acknowledgments: </strong>The project is co-financed by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange within the Polish Returns Programme (BPN/PPO/2021/1/00005/DEC/1), the National Science Center, Poland (2022/01/1/ST10/00024), and the research activities co-financed by the funds granted under the Research Excellence Initiative of the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. </p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Article Abstract:<br></strong></p> <p><span>In the context of the European Union's intensified efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions and meet climate targets, wood pellets have emerged as a pivotal element in the renewable energy strategy. Yet, biomass pellet combustion has been linked to a range of pollutants impacting air quality and public health. As biomass utilization gains popularity as a fuel for residential heating, it is important to determine this impact and enhance sustainable practices throughout the entire biomass energy production cycle. </span></p> <p><span>This study investigates the intricate dynamics of biomass pellet properties on their combustion emissions, with a specific focus on the differences observed between pellets of woody and non-woody origins. The data reveal a variation in pellet characteristics, especially regarding their ash and fines contents, mechanical durability, and impurity levels, and significant differences in the type and amount of utilization emissions. The results highlight potential health risks posed by the combustion of biomass fuels, particularly non-woody (agro) pellets, due to elevated concentrations of emitted particulate matter (PM), carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (NO<sub>2</sub>), hydrogen sulfide (H<sub>2</sub>S), ammonia (NH<sub>3</sub>), chlorine (Cl<sub>2</sub>), sulfur dioxide (SO<sub>2</sub>), and formaldehyde (HCHO), all surpassing recommended limits.</span></p> <p><span>Moreover, the study reveals that emissions from pellet combustion could be partially predicted by analyzing pellet characteristics. Statistical analysis identified several key variables—including bark content, fines content, mechanical durability, bulk density, heating value, net calorific value, sulfur, and nitrogen content—that impact emissions of CO, NO<sub>2</sub>, H<sub>2</sub>S, SO<sub>2</sub>, HCHO, and respiratory tract irritants. These findings underscore the need for proactive measures, including the implementation of stricter standards for fuel quality and emissions, alongside public education initiatives promoting the cleanest and safest fuels possible. </span></p> <p><strong> </strong></p>
Dataset for the article "Development of an integrated socio-hydrological modeling framework for assessing the impacts of shelter location arrangement and human behaviors on flood evacuation processes"
<p>This dataset include the data needed to create the socio-hydrological model to simulate human evacuation processes via a transportation network before a flood hits the residential area. Source code, in JAVA, for generating households in the agent-based model are also provided. </p>
Disentangling responses to natural stressor and human impact gradients in river ecosystems across Europe
<p>1. Rivers are dynamic ecosystems in which both human impacts and climate-driven drying events are increasingly common. These anthropogenic and natural stressors interact to influence the biodiversity and functioning of river ecosystems. Disentangling ecological responses to these interacting stressors is necessary to guide management actions that support ecosystems adapting to global change.</p> <p>2. We analysed the independent and interactive effects of human impacts and natural drying on aquatic invertebrate communities—a key biotic group used to assess the health of European freshwaters. We calculated biological response metrics representing communities from 406 rivers in eight European countries: taxonomic richness, functional richness and redundancy, and two biomonitoring indices that indicate ecological status. We analysed metrics based on the whole community and a group of taxa with traits promoting resistance and/or resilience ('high RR') to drying. We also examined how responses vary across Europe in relation to climatic aridity.</p> <p>3. Most community metrics decreased independently in response to impacts and drying. A richness-independent biomonitoring index (the average score per taxon; ASPT) showed particular potential for use in biomonitoring, and should be considered alongside new metrics representing high RR diversity, to promote accurate assessment of ecological status.</p> <p>4. High RR taxonomic richness responded only to impacts, not drying. However, these predictors explained little variance in richness and other high RR metrics, potentially due to low taxonomic richness. Metric responsiveness could thus be enhanced by developing region-specific high RR groups comprising sufficient taxa with sufficiently variable impact sensitivities to indicate ecological status.</p> <p>5. Synthesis and applications. Our results inform recommendations guiding the development of metrics to assess the ecological status of dynamic river ecosystems—including those that sometimes dry—thus identifying priority sites requiring further investigation to identify the stressors responsible for environmental degradation. We recommend concurrent consideration of richness-independent biomonitoring indices (such as an ASPT) and new high RR richness metrics that characterize groups of resistant and resilient taxa for region-specific river types. Interactions observed between aridity, impacts and drying evidence that these new metrics should be adaptable, promoting their ability to inform management actions that protect river ecosystems responding to climate change.</p>
Land use fractions and human impact index in 101 Canadian lake watersheds
<p>Land use fractions (urban, mines, agriculture, pasture, forestry, managed grassland, water and natural landscape) and associated human impact index in 101 lake watersheds sampled as part the NSERC Canadian Lake Pulse Network project. Land use and human impact index were calculated as described in Huot et al. (2019).</p> <p>Lakes IDs with respective locations (longitude and latitude coordinates) and Continental Basin allocations can be found here: <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4701262">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4701262</a></p> <p>Reference</p> <p>Huot, Y., C. A. Brown, G. Potvin, and others. 2019. The NSERC Canadian Lake Pulse Network: A national assessment of lake health providing science for water management in a changing climate. Sci. Total Environ. <strong>695</strong>: 133668. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133668</p>
Data from: Human impacts on mammals in and around a protected area before, during, and after COVID‐19 lockdowns
<p>The dual-mandate for many protected areas (PAs) to simultaneously promote recreation and conserve biodiversity may be hampered by negative effects of recreation on wildlife. However, reports of these effects are not consistent, presenting a knowledge gap that hinders evidence-based decision-making. We used camera traps to monitor human activity and terrestrial mammals in Golden Ears Provincial Park and the adjacent Malcolm Knapp Research Forest near Vancouver, Canada, with the objective of discerning relative effects of various forms of recreation on cougars (Puma concolor), black bears (Ursus americanus), black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus), snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus), coyotes (Canis latrans), and bobcats (Lynx rufus). Additionally, public closures of the study area associated with the COVD-19 pandemic offered an unprecedented period of human-exclusion through which to explore these effects. Using Bayesian generalized mixed-effects models, we detected negative effects of hikers (mean posterior estimate = -0.58, 95% credible interval (CI) -1.09 to -0.12) on weekly bobcat habitat use and negative effects of motorized vehicles (estimate = -0.28, 95% CI -0.61 to -0.05) on weekly black bear habitat use. We also found increased cougar detection rates in the PA during the COVID-19 closure (estimate = 0.007, 95% CI 0.005 to 0.009), but decreased cougar detection rates (estimate = -0.006, 95% CI -0.009 to -0.003) and increased black-tailed deer detection rates (estimate = 0.014, 95% CI 0.002 to 0.026) upon reopening of the PA. Our results emphasize that effects of human activity on wildlife habitat use and movement may be species- and/or activity-dependent, and that camera traps can be an invaluable tool for monitoring both wildlife and human activity, collecting data even when public access is barred. Further, we encourage PA managers seeking to promote both biodiversity conservation and recreation to assess trade-offs between these two goals in their PAs.</p>
Impact of human disturbance on the abundance of non-breeding shorebirds in a subtropical wetland
<p><span>Shorebird populations have declined due to several threats throughout their annual cycle. Anthropogenic disturbance is one of the most ubiquitous threats to shorebird conservation in North America. Here, we studied the influence of human disturbance on shorebird community dynamics during migration and winter in Ensenada de La Paz, a subtropical coastal wetland in Mexico. We used negative binomial generalized linear mixed models to investigate the associations between spatial, biological, and anthropogenic variation and local shorebird abundance that accounted for shorebird body size (small, medium, and large) and foraging strategy (visual and tactile) of 21 shorebird species. After controlling for these different correlates of abundance, human disturbance (people, vehicles, and dogs) was negatively associated with shorebird abundance. During winter, all shorebird species were negatively related to human disturbance but positively associated with presence of raptors. However, small, tactile foraging birds exhibited a proportionally larger negative response to human disturbance than other shorebird types, indicative of guild-level sensitivities to human disturbance regimes. The positive association between shorebird abundance and disturbance from predators was unexpected. Shorebirds likely concentrate in large groups to reduce predation risk, resulting in higher densities of shorebirds occurring in areas with high predation risk. Understanding factors influencing the abundance and habitat use of shorebirds on their non-breeding grounds is paramount to support management and conservation policies for shorebirds and their habitats.</span></p>
Cross-boundary effects of human impacts on animal assemblages
<p>Data describing the abundance of coastal vertebrates and fish across 100 sites surveyed twice over two years on the Sunshine coast in eastern Australia. </p>
Data from: Impact of human foraging on tree diversity, composition and abundance in a tropical rainforest
<p>These are summarised plot data from fifteen 40 m by 40 m sample plots established in Oban Division of Cross River National Park, Nigeria, between 23rd August 2019 and 9th September 2019. We have also included data summaries and RStudio codes used for analysis and generating results for the manuscript entitled: "Impact of human foraging on tree diversity, composition and abundance in a tropical rainforest", submitted for publication as an original research article in Biotropica. All data and R code required to generate the results as shown in the manuscript have been included. Complete tree species and plot data can be accessed at https://forestplots.net/.</p>
Figure 9. Classification accuracy regardless the ethnic group (Total accuracy 75%)-Impact of Ethnic Group on Human Emotion Recognition Using Backpropagation Neural Network
<p>Our experiments show that, the impact of ethnic group on the accuracy of emotions<br> recognition is a positive where the accuracy of emotion recognition considering ethnic group is<br> 83.3% as shown in Figure 8, and we got 75% of accuracy regardless ethnic group as shown in<br> Figure 9.</p>
Figure 8. Classification accuracy of emotions considering the ethnic group-Impact of Ethnic Group on Human Emotion Recognition Using Backpropagation Neural Network
<p>To study the accuracy of emotion recognition for our approach regardless the ethnic group<br> we used 108 images for the training representing six emotions of six persons. For testing, we used<br> 36 images representing six emotions of six persons.<br> On the other hand, to study the accuracy of emotion recognition for our approach<br> considering the ethnic group we used 36 images for training for each ethnic group representing six<br> emotions of six persons, and test the classifier by using 12 images representing six emotions of six<br> persons.</p>
Q-MARE database on pre-industrial climate and human impacts on marine ecosystems
<p>A systematic literature review was carried out using two bibliographic databases the Web of Science (WoS; www.webofknowledge.com; Clarivate) and Scopus (www.scopus.com; Elsevier). In the former searches were completed by searching the “core collection” using the “topic” field (which searches the paper titles, abstracts, author keywords and keywords plus; the latter determined by a Clarivate algorithm using synonymy), and in Scopus the abstract, title and keyword fields were searched. Searches were completed between July and November 2023.</p> <p> </p>
Figure 6. Interface of FFE program-Impact of Ethnic Group on Human Emotion Recognition Using Backpropagation Neural Network
<p>Points, Features Extraction and save all input information for the classifier (Features, Ethnic group,<br> Gender and emotion). Figure 6 shows the interface of FFE program.</p>
Figure 7. Samples of MSFDE dataset-Impact of Ethnic Group on Human Emotion Recognition Using Backpropagation Neural Network
<p>We performed groups of experiments to study the impact of ethnic group (race) in the<br> accuracy of emotion recognition with three kinds of ethnic groups (Asian, Caucasian as African).<br> So we have three experiments, each experiment has a neural network as a classifier, and each neural<br> network has three layers where there are 16 neurons in the hidden layer except Asian network has<br> 17 neurons (the best result with 17 neurons for Asians).</p>
Figure 3. 46 points are selected on face elements to describe the emotions.-Impact of Ethnic Group on Human Emotion Recognition Using Backpropagation Neural Network
<p>The number of points and the position of points are not standardized, but it is depending on<br> the features that will be extracted, and used for the classifier. Many researches use various number<br> of points and positions based on their view about the feature to be considered [13] [18] [19]. Figure<br> 3 shows the points we used.</p>
Figure. 2. Examples of Angry from different races. (A,B) African. (C,D) Asian. (E,F) Caucasian.-Impact of Ethnic Group on Human Emotion Recognition Using Backpropagation Neural Network
<p>We chose 46 points which are distributed over human face image and use these points for<br> features extraction. The choice of these points is to determine the shape of each element of the face<br> (eyes, eyebrows and mouth), because the shape of these elements is changeable for each emotion,<br> but these changes are different for each race as shown in Figure 2.</p>
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Allen Brain Atlas
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International Brain Laboratory public data
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OpenNeuro
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