Yufei Xiao

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Stipa aliena and Kobresia humilis
Alpine grassland degradation intensifies the burrowing behavior of small mammals: evidence for a negative feedback loop - WANG - 2024 - Integrative Zoology - Wiley Online Library
Qinghai Haibei National Field Research Station of Alpine Grassland Ecosystem
Alpine grassland degradation intensifies the burrowing behavior of small mammals: evidence for a negative feedback loop - WANG - 2024 - Integrative Zoology - Wiley Online Library
if population density is similar, we predict larger core areas of pika colony and subsequently smaller distances between two core areas in severely degraded grasslands.
Alpine grassland degradation intensifies the burrowing behavior of small mammals: evidence for a negative feedback loop - WANG - 2024 - Integrative Zoology - Wiley Online Library
increased burrowing activities on degraded grassland due to limited food resources and increased predation.
Alpine grassland degradation intensifies the burrowing behavior of small mammals: evidence for a negative feedback loop - WANG - 2024 - Integrative Zoology - Wiley Online Library
in such open conditions, they may also be more easily detected by predators (Wheatley et al. 2020). Therefore, on severely degraded grasslands where pikas require larger territories to acquire enough food, they may build more extensive burrows with more burrow entrances, which may exacerbate grassland degradation.
Alpine grassland degradation intensifies the burrowing behavior of small mammals: evidence for a negative feedback loop - WANG - 2024 - Integrative Zoology - Wiley Online Library
density of burrow entrances is commonly used to estimate the population size of small mammals
Alpine grassland degradation intensifies the burrowing behavior of small mammals: evidence for a negative feedback loop - WANG - 2024 - Integrative Zoology - Wiley Online Library
Workshop: Multispecies Ethnography, Yunnan Normal University.
Yufei Zhou, Anthropologist
Fifth International Workshop of the Amdo Research Network
Yufei Zhou, Anthropologist
wildlife population outcomes (i.e., higher probability of survival, reproduction, or population growth).
Incorporating human dimensions is associated with better wildlife translocation outcomes | Nature Communications
changes in ungulate mobility—for instance, due to climate or land-use change—may reverberate across trophic levels, reshaping predator movement patterns
Wolves use diverse tactics to track partially migratory prey: Current Biology
wolves exhibited a range of movement responses, including migrating, commuting, and remaining resident. Additionally, some packs moved pups from den sites to rendezvous sites along elk migration routes, or even within elk summer range, challenging the long-accepted notion that juvenile carnivores act as spatial anchors.
Wolves use diverse tactics to track partially migratory prey: Current Biology
near collapse of the migrations of Wildebeest, zebra, and Thompson's Gazelle due to unplanned roads, fences, and other infrastructure.
International Experts Partner with UN to Launch First Global Initiative to Map Ungulate Migrations | Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals
It’s because of how heavily Hawai‘i’s economy is dependent on tourism and so I kind of wanted to get a better idea of how did this happen? Why did this happen? Can we shift our economy to something else more sustainable for for our people, for the ‘āina [land]? And then, you know, there is such a thing as sustainable tourism, too. I’m not saying we should eliminate tourism completely because you can’t deny the fact that it does provide jobs. It’s just there has to be a better way to go about it.
Journal | Discover Nikkei
my mom is a Haole (Caucasian) woman who was once a tourist. Then later when she moved here she met my dad who’s Local. My mom is a school teacher who has always put her keiki [children] first. She’s heavily involved with Local politics and a strong advocate for Local and Native issues. You can usually find her and my Aunty JoAnn at protests together.
Journal | Discover Nikkei
from COVID when we saw no tourists coming to the islands and there was no traffic, no one on the beach, everything was clean. Places I didn’t see fish all my life suddenly had a lot of fish.
Journal | Discover Nikkei
This film explores how tourism, development, and an influx of people moving to Hawai‘i has damaged Kaua‘i. Drawing on interviews with residents, the film is meant to inspire people to put back into practice the Hawaiian values of Mālama ʻĀina and Aloha ʻĀina.
Journal | Discover Nikkei
He was just watching the sunset on the beach and fixing his net. But I guess some tourists complained he was blocking their view or something. After seeing that I felt sick to my stomach and left the job shortly after.
Journal | Discover Nikkei
I also worked in a restaurant that truly only catered to tourists. The only Locals in the restaurant at any given time were the workers.
Journal | Discover Nikkei
restore Kānaka ʻŌiwi land management practices including lo‘i kalo (wetland taro, Colocasia esculenta), loko i‘a (fish pond aquaculture), and agroforestry
Non-native fallows hold high potential for restoration through agroforestry in a Pacific Island ecosystem - ScienceDirect
We hypothesized that treatment, canopy cover, and understory weed cover would have direct effects on agroforest outplant survival and understory cover of agroforestry species, and that the effects of treatment and canopy cover would also be mediated by understory weed cover.
Non-native fallows hold high potential for restoration through agroforestry in a Pacific Island ecosystem - ScienceDirect
measures of restoration success (i.e., understory composition, understory cover, and mid- and overstory survival)
Non-native fallows hold high potential for restoration through agroforestry in a Pacific Island ecosystem - ScienceDirect
does the composition of agroforestry species planted (i.e., treatment) affect restoration success
Non-native fallows hold high potential for restoration through agroforestry in a Pacific Island ecosystem - ScienceDirect
ative forest protection (100,000 acres) with transitioning suitable fallow agricultural land to agroforestry (400,000 acres) could increase sediment retention by 30%, thereby reducing erosion
Scaling agroforestry supports fisheries, food production, cultural practices | University of Hawaiʻi System News
Over the past few decades, large-scale declines in plantation agriculture has now left 40% of Hawaiʻi’s agricultural lands fallow and unmanaged
Scaling agroforestry supports fisheries, food production, cultural practices | University of Hawaiʻi System News
managed from land to sea (mauka i makai) through a system of land divisions (moku)
Scaling agroforestry supports fisheries, food production, cultural practices | University of Hawaiʻi System News
Protecting native forests combined with transitioning fallow and unmanaged agricultural lands to ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) and other place-based agroforestry systems has direct benefits for local fisheries
Scaling agroforestry supports fisheries, food production, cultural practices | University of Hawaiʻi System News
Kākoʻo ʻŌiwi’s mission is to perpetuate the spiritual and cultural practices of Native Hawaiians, and agroforestry is an important part of its strategic plan
Restoring critical Windward Oʻahu agroforest | University of Hawaiʻi System News
how restoration influences plant diversity and abundance, soil health and carbon storage.
Restoring critical Windward Oʻahu agroforest | University of Hawaiʻi System News
They selected plants that feed people spiritually and intellectually: lei plants, plants used in lāʻau lapaʻau (traditional Hawaiian medicine) and ceremonial plants. All but three of the original plants are native; the others are non-native and non-invasive plants with important uses to the community.
Restoring critical Windward Oʻahu agroforest | University of Hawaiʻi System News
Prior to 1778, Puʻulani was covered in Indigenous agroforests and native forests. Later, Puʻulani was used for cattle grazing. After grazing ended, non-native trees and other plants moved in. When the team began the restoration in 2018, Puʻulani was covered with mostly Java plum, fiddlewood and octopus trees, which are typical of non-native forests across low elevation lands in Hawaiʻi.
Restoring critical Windward Oʻahu agroforest | University of Hawaiʻi System News
“It’s pilina. It’s connection, connection to the people that come out here but also connection to this ʻāina and to these plants,” said Maile Wong, Kākoʻo ʻŌiwi work day lead and spring 2023 graduate in botany and incoming PhD student in UH Mānoa’s School of Life Sciences. “I know this forest will be here a lot longer than I will and having a chance to build pilina with the plants feels like a way that I can connect continually to my kūpuna.”
Restoring critical Windward Oʻahu agroforest | University of Hawaiʻi System News
agroforest (integration of trees and shrubs into crop systems to create environmental, economic and social benefits) that provides materials for lei and food, and opportunities for the community to access and connect with it.
Restoring critical Windward Oʻahu agroforest | University of Hawaiʻi System News
“We tend to think of noise as a problem that makes systems less predictable, less optimized,” says Raphaël Sarfati, a physicist at Goodfire AI, who was also not involved in the work. “[But] we see everywhere that noise, a little bit of noise at least, is really, really good for driving systems toward a better optimum.”
What AI-herding scientists can learn from watching ‘sheepdog YouTube’ | Scientific American
By analyzing sheepdog trials on YouTube and talking to farmers in Georgia, the researchers discovered the dogs’ two-step strategy
What AI-herding scientists can learn from watching ‘sheepdog YouTube’ | Scientific American
regional meteorological parameters encompassing temperature, precipitation, snow depth and radiation, CO2 concentration, and nitrogen deposition, along with root zone soil moisture (SMroot) (10 to 100 cm), leaf area index (LAI), and solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF).
Weakening warming on spring freeze–thaw cycle caused greening Earth’s third pole | PNAS
daily landscape freeze/thaw states (referred to as FT-ESDR)
Weakening warming on spring freeze–thaw cycle caused greening Earth’s third pole | PNAS
Grazing has multiple direct and indirect effects on species richness and these effects strongly depend on herbivore type, grazing intensity, vegetation type, and aridity
Pastoralism Can Mitigate Biodiversity Loss on Global Rangelands | BioScience | Oxford Academic
Pastoralism, through the continued use of grazing and fire, promotes these natural disturbance regimes to maintain biodiversity (Fuhlendorf et al. 2010, Yuan et al. 2016).
Pastoralism Can Mitigate Biodiversity Loss on Global Rangelands | BioScience | Oxford Academic
Long-distance movement of both wild and domestic herbivores facilitates multiple ecological processes that support biodiversity.
Pastoralism Can Mitigate Biodiversity Loss on Global Rangelands | BioScience | Oxford Academic
surfing the green wave, allows animals to eat plants at their most nutritious, when they’re full of nitrogen and proteins and low in indigestible matter. Such freshness is fleeting, and so grazers undertake large migrations to track the new greenery as it crests across the landscape. Over the past decade, scientists have shown that mule deer, barnacle geese, elk, elephants, Mongolian gazelles, and a dozen other species all do this.
What America Lost When It Lost the Bison - The Atlantic
“Moderate, well-managed grazing can be important for promoting higher carbon storage,” says Luong, who joined Rausser College this July. The practice has been shown to stimulate root growth, and bigger roots mean more carbon stays in the soil, helping to mitigate climate change.
The Surprising Ecological Benefits of Cows | Research UC Berkeley
native plants in California’s rangelands evolved with disturbances from cultural burning and wild grazing animals like tule elk and pronghorn. Now, many wildflowers need disturbances to germinate. It’s a role that the hooves of cattle play very well in certain contexts, says rangeland ecologist Justin Luong, an assistant professor of working lands for people and the environment.
The Surprising Ecological Benefits of Cows | Research UC Berkeley
the invasives are tough as nails. They live underground for a while as seeds and then come back as soon as it rains—they are also extremely resilient to fire and grazing.”
The Surprising Ecological Benefits of Cows | Research UC Berkeley
In response to a question about the source of the pika problems, one herder explained: The earth has its bcud (essence/fertility). If people are disrespectful to the guardian mountain deities, or dig the ground, or do improper things, the fertility will be exhausted. Without this fertility, groups of hungry ghosts are attracted. The mass reproduction of pikas is a manifestation of the depletion of this essence. Land is like human skin. If the flesh of the skin rots, it will attract flies, because flies are also hungry. What should be done? People should perform good deeds and cease doing destr…
Pests, keystone species, and hungry ghosts: the Gesar epic and human-pika relations on the Tibetan Plateau - Emily T. Yeh, Gaerrang, 2021
Ecological research that characterises pikas as keystone species, on the other hand, posits that pikas prefer low grass heights and thus appear in large numbers as a result of degradation due to other processes such as overgrazing, climate change, and policy-induced reduced livestock mobility.
Pests, keystone species, and hungry ghosts: the Gesar epic and human-pika relations on the Tibetan Plateau - Emily T. Yeh, Gaerrang, 2021
For Tibetan herders, by contrast, pikas are attracted to particular places due to the depletion of the essence, or nutrition (bcud) of the earth (sa) – that is, its fertility
Pests, keystone species, and hungry ghosts: the Gesar epic and human-pika relations on the Tibetan Plateau - Emily T. Yeh, Gaerrang, 2021
1950s to 1970s, other large-scale efforts had been implemented in the arid and semiarid North and Northwest
Great Green Walls: Hype, Myth, and Science | Annual Reviews
I am also a "professora" of capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art
Emily T. Yeh | Geography | University of Colorado Boulder
Explicit honesty requirements. In my CLAUDE.md config, I wrote, “NEVER use phrases like ‘this becomes’ or ‘for consistency’ to skip steps. Either show the calculation or say ‘I don’t know.’”
Vibe physics: The AI grad student \ Anthropic
Basic calculus and algebra. Setting up integrals, changing variables, expanding functions, checking factors.
Vibe physics: The AI grad student \ Anthropic