Publications by authors named "Zhangcai Yin"

Global warming is a crucial factor affecting crop production in ecologically vulnerable areas. Warming-induced changes in the yields of different crops could pose significant challenges to food security and sustainability assessment. In this study, the World Food Studies model and a remote sensing product assimilation algorithm were used to develop a spatially explicit crop assimilation model applicable to the Loess Plateau of China.

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  • - The study examines the effects of land use and land cover (LULC) changes on habitat quality in the ecologically fragile Loess Plateau, revealing significant urban expansion from 2000 to 2050 that decreases cropland and grassland areas.
  • - An integrated assessment method was developed to evaluate habitat quality changes, predicting a general decline by 2050, with urban expansion identified as the primary threat to habitat quality, especially under different future scenarios.
  • - Recommendations include implementing high-level socio-ecological protection policies, establishing national nature reserves, and continuous monitoring to improve habitat conservation strategies in sensitive ecological regions.
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At the end of 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic began to emerge on a global scale, including China, and left deep traces on all societies. The spread of this virus shows remarkable temporal and spatial characteristics. Therefore, analyzing and visualizing the characteristics of the COVID-19 pandemic are relevant to the current pressing need and have realistic significance.

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Time geography represents the uncertainty of the space-time position of moving objects through two basic structures, the space-time path and space-time prism, which are subject to the speed allowed in the travel environment. Thus, any attempt at a quantitative time-geographic analysis must consider the actual velocity with respect to space. In a trip, individuals tend to pass through structurally varying spaces, such as linear traffic networks and planar walking surfaces, which are not suitable for use in a single GIS spatial data model (i.

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