Urban sustainability assessment is an effective method for objectively presenting the current state of sustainable urban development and diagnosing sustainability-related issues.As the global community intensifies its...Urban sustainability assessment is an effective method for objectively presenting the current state of sustainable urban development and diagnosing sustainability-related issues.As the global community intensifies its efforts to implement the sustainable development goals(SDGs),the demand for assessing progress in urban sustainable development has increased.This has led to the emergence of numerous indicator systems with varying scales and themes published by different entities.Cities participating in these evaluations often encounter difficulties in matching indicators or the absence of certain indicators.In this context,urban decision makers and planners urgently need to identify substitute indicators that can express the semantic meaning of the original indicators and consider the availability of indicators for participating cities.Hence,this study explores the relationships of substitution between indicators and constructs a collection of substitute indicators to serve as a reference for sustainable urban development assessment.Specifically,building on a review of international and Chinese indicators related to urban sustainability assessment,this study employs natural semantic analysis methods based on the Word2Vec model and cosine similarity algorithm to calculate the similarity between indicators related to sustainable urban development.The results show that the Skip-gram algorithm with a word vector dimensionality of 600 has the best performance in terms of calculating the similarity between sustainable urban development assessment indicators.The findings provide valuable insights into selecting substitute indicators for future sustainable urban development assessment,particularly in China.展开更多
Subalpine dark coniferous forests in the western Sichuan Province of China play an important role in the hydrological processes in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. Second-growth forests, with different stand su...Subalpine dark coniferous forests in the western Sichuan Province of China play an important role in the hydrological processes in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. Second-growth forests, with different stand successional stages, have developed as a result of logging over the past 50 years. Forest cover and stand structure changed greatly with concomitant degradation of forest ecosystem functions. To understand how the stand structures of the second-growth forests change during the stand succession process, we analyzed stand structure characteristics and an old-growth state index of the bamboo and moss-forest types. We found that stand structure at the young successional stage featured one-third of the structure characteristics of the old-growth dark coniferous forests,while the structure of the medium-aged stage had reached half the structure of the old-growth state. The two forest types were similar in the rate of development at the young successional stage but differed at the medium-aged stage;the moss-forest type had more advanced development than the bamboo-forest type at the medium-aged successional stage.展开更多
The current study evaluated the effects of oxalic acid(OA)application on the growth and Mn phytoremediation efficiency of Polygonum pubescens Blume cultivated in three different manganese(Mn)-contaminated soils sample...The current study evaluated the effects of oxalic acid(OA)application on the growth and Mn phytoremediation efficiency of Polygonum pubescens Blume cultivated in three different manganese(Mn)-contaminated soils sampled from an unexplored area(US),an explored area(ES)and a tailing area(TS)of the Ertang Mn mine,South China.The supplied levels of OA were 0(control),1(low level),3(medium level),and 9(high level)mmol/kg,referred to as CK,OA1,OA3 and OA9,respectively.The results revealed that the average water-extractable Mn concentrations US,ES and TS amended with OA increased by 214.13,363.77 and 266.85%,respectively.All OA supply levels increased plant growth and Mn concentrations in US.The low OA supply level increased plant growth in ES and TS;however,contrasting results were found for the medium and high OA supply levels.Plant Mn concentrations and total Mn increased in ES and TS in response to all OA supply levels.Total Mn in the aerial parts increased by 81.18,44.17 and 83.17%in US,ES and TS,respectively;the corresponding percentages for the whole plants were 81.53,108.98 and 77.91%,respectively.The rate of·O_(2)^(−)production and malondialdehyde(MDA)concentrations increased in response to OA amendment,especially the medium and high OA supply levels in ES and TS.In general,antioxidant enzymes might play a vital role in alleviating Mn stress in plants cultivated in US,while non-enzymatic antioxidants might be the main factor for plants cultivated in ES and TS.展开更多
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under the theme“Key technologies for urban sustainable development evaluation and decision-making support” [Grant No.2022YFC3802900]the Guangxi Key Research and Development Program [Grant No.Guike AB21220057].
文摘Urban sustainability assessment is an effective method for objectively presenting the current state of sustainable urban development and diagnosing sustainability-related issues.As the global community intensifies its efforts to implement the sustainable development goals(SDGs),the demand for assessing progress in urban sustainable development has increased.This has led to the emergence of numerous indicator systems with varying scales and themes published by different entities.Cities participating in these evaluations often encounter difficulties in matching indicators or the absence of certain indicators.In this context,urban decision makers and planners urgently need to identify substitute indicators that can express the semantic meaning of the original indicators and consider the availability of indicators for participating cities.Hence,this study explores the relationships of substitution between indicators and constructs a collection of substitute indicators to serve as a reference for sustainable urban development assessment.Specifically,building on a review of international and Chinese indicators related to urban sustainability assessment,this study employs natural semantic analysis methods based on the Word2Vec model and cosine similarity algorithm to calculate the similarity between indicators related to sustainable urban development.The results show that the Skip-gram algorithm with a word vector dimensionality of 600 has the best performance in terms of calculating the similarity between sustainable urban development assessment indicators.The findings provide valuable insights into selecting substitute indicators for future sustainable urban development assessment,particularly in China.
基金supported by the grants from the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation(31160156)the Ministry of Science and Technology(2006BAD03A042012BAD22B01)
文摘Subalpine dark coniferous forests in the western Sichuan Province of China play an important role in the hydrological processes in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. Second-growth forests, with different stand successional stages, have developed as a result of logging over the past 50 years. Forest cover and stand structure changed greatly with concomitant degradation of forest ecosystem functions. To understand how the stand structures of the second-growth forests change during the stand succession process, we analyzed stand structure characteristics and an old-growth state index of the bamboo and moss-forest types. We found that stand structure at the young successional stage featured one-third of the structure characteristics of the old-growth dark coniferous forests,while the structure of the medium-aged stage had reached half the structure of the old-growth state. The two forest types were similar in the rate of development at the young successional stage but differed at the medium-aged stage;the moss-forest type had more advanced development than the bamboo-forest type at the medium-aged successional stage.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41967019 and 41661077)the National Key Technologies Research and Development Program of China(No.2017YFD0801500)+1 种基金the Guangxi Science and Technology Development Project of Major Projects of Guangxi(Guike AA17204047-3)Scientific Research and Technology Development Program of Guilin(Nos.20190205 and 20180107-3).
文摘The current study evaluated the effects of oxalic acid(OA)application on the growth and Mn phytoremediation efficiency of Polygonum pubescens Blume cultivated in three different manganese(Mn)-contaminated soils sampled from an unexplored area(US),an explored area(ES)and a tailing area(TS)of the Ertang Mn mine,South China.The supplied levels of OA were 0(control),1(low level),3(medium level),and 9(high level)mmol/kg,referred to as CK,OA1,OA3 and OA9,respectively.The results revealed that the average water-extractable Mn concentrations US,ES and TS amended with OA increased by 214.13,363.77 and 266.85%,respectively.All OA supply levels increased plant growth and Mn concentrations in US.The low OA supply level increased plant growth in ES and TS;however,contrasting results were found for the medium and high OA supply levels.Plant Mn concentrations and total Mn increased in ES and TS in response to all OA supply levels.Total Mn in the aerial parts increased by 81.18,44.17 and 83.17%in US,ES and TS,respectively;the corresponding percentages for the whole plants were 81.53,108.98 and 77.91%,respectively.The rate of·O_(2)^(−)production and malondialdehyde(MDA)concentrations increased in response to OA amendment,especially the medium and high OA supply levels in ES and TS.In general,antioxidant enzymes might play a vital role in alleviating Mn stress in plants cultivated in US,while non-enzymatic antioxidants might be the main factor for plants cultivated in ES and TS.
