Assessment on Potential Suitable Habitats of the Grasshopper Oedaleus decorus asiaticus in North China based on MaxEnt Modeling and Remote Sensing Data

Grasshopper populations can quickly grow to catastrophic levels, causing a huge amount of damage in a short time.Oedaleus decorus asiaticus (Bey-Bienko) (O.d.asiaticus) is the most serious species in Xilingol League of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.The region is not only an important grassland but also a site of agricultural heritage systems

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Personality traits in aesthetic surgery patients

Purpose: It has been known that psychological factors have an important effect on the decision to undergo aesthetic surgery.In this study, we aimed to test the hypothesis that the personality traits of people admitted for aesthetic surgery differ from those of people who have never planned to undergo aesthetic surgery in their lives.Material and Me

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Desurbanisierung durch unkoordinierte Wohnbaulandausweisung

Taking as an example the situation pertaining in Lower Saxony between 1992 and 1997 regarding the designation of land for residential developments, this article shows that in particular outside urban regions and on the fringes of rural regions the consumption of land for settlement purposes is taking place in an uncoordinated fashion.Consequently,

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