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COVID-19 lockdowns cause global air pollution declines by Venter, Zander S., Aunan, Kristin, Chowdhury, Sourangsu, Lelieveld, Jos

“…The lockdown response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused an unprecedented reduction in global economic and transport activity. We test the…”
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Urban nature in a time of crisis: recreational use of green space increases during the COVID-19 outbreak in Oslo, Norway by Venter, Zander S, Barton, David N, Gundersen, Vegard, Figari, Helene, Nowell, Megan

“…The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it significant changes to human mobility patterns and working environments. We aimed to explore…”
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Crowdsourced air temperatures contrast satellite measures of the urban heat island and its mechanisms by Venter, Zander S., Chakraborty, Tirthankar, Lee, Xuhui

“…Satellites overestimate urban heat islands. The ubiquitous nature of satellite data has led to an explosion of studies on the surface urban heat island (SUHI)…”
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Hyperlocal mapping of urban air temperature using remote sensing and crowdsourced weather data by Venter, Zander S., Brousse, Oscar, Esau, Igor, Meier, Fred

“…The impacts of climate change such as extreme heat waves are exacerbated in cities where most of the world's population live. Quantifying urbanization impacts…”
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Linking green infrastructure to urban heat and human health risk mitigation in Oslo, Norway by Venter, Zander S., Krog, Norun Hjertager, Barton, David N.

“…The predicted extreme temperatures of global warming are magnified in cities due to the urban heat island effect. Even if the target for average temperature…”
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Air pollution declines during COVID-19 lockdowns mitigate the global health burden by Venter, Zander S., Aunan, Kristin, Chowdhury, Sourangsu, Lelieveld, Jos

“…The lockdown response to COVID-19 has resulted in an unprecedented reduction in global economic activity and associated air pollutant levels, especially from a…”
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Global 10 m Land Use Land Cover Datasets: A Comparison of Dynamic World, World Cover and Esri Land Cover by Venter, Zander S., Barton, David N., Chakraborty, Tirthankar, Simensen, Trond, Singh, Geethen

“…The European Space Agency’s Sentinel satellites have laid the foundation for global land use land cover (LULC) mapping with unprecedented detail at 10 m…”
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Back to nature: Norwegians sustain increased recreational use of urban green space months after the COVID-19 outbreak by Venter, Zander S., Barton, David N., Gundersen, Vegard, Figari, Helene, Nowell, Megan S.

“…•Increases in recreational activity during COVID-19 pandemic in Oslo, Norway.•Increases sustained up to 6 months post-lockdown.•Largest increases were in…”
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Is green space associated with reduced crime? A national-scale study from the Global South by Venter, Zander S., Shackleton, Charlie, Faull, Andrew, Lancaster, Lizette, Breetzke, Gregory, Edelstein, Ian

“…Assumptions about the link between green space and crime mitigation are informed by literature that overwhelmingly originates in the Global North. Little is…”
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Environmental justice in a very green city: Spatial inequality in exposure to urban nature, air pollution and heat in Oslo, Norway by Venter, Zander S., Figari, Helene, Krange, Olve, Gundersen, Vegard

“…Poorer citizens are often more exposed to environmental hazards due to spatial inequalities in the distribution of urban blue-green space. Few cities have…”
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Green Apartheid: Urban green infrastructure remains unequally distributed across income and race geographies in South Africa by Venter, Zander S., Shackleton, Charlie M., Van Staden, Francini, Selomane, Odirilwe, Masterson, Vanessa A.

“…•Parks occur in neighborhoods with 82% higher income than those without parks.•White-dominated neighborhoods have 12% higher tree cover than others.•Spatial…”
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Reassessing the role of urban green space in air pollution control by Venter, Zander S, Hassani, Amirhossein, Stange, Erik, Schneider, Philipp, Castell, Núria

“…The assumption that vegetation improves air quality is prevalent in scientific, popular, and political discourse. However, experimental and modeling studies…”
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Mapping soil organic carbon stocks and trends with satellite-driven high resolution maps over South Africa by Venter, Zander S., Hawkins, Heidi-Jayne, Cramer, Michael D., Mills, Anthony J.

“…Estimation and monitoring of soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks is important for maintaining soil productivity and meeting climate change mitigation targets…”
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Application of Landsat-derived vegetation trends over South Africa: Potential for monitoring land degradation and restoration by Venter, Zander S, Scott, Samantha Luise, Desmet, Philip G, Hoffman, Michael Timm

“…•Net vegetation greening over South Africa since 1984.•Repeat photography validates satellite-derived trends.•Novel web application available to replicate…”
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Continental-Scale Land Cover Mapping at 10 m Resolution Over Europe (ELC10) by Venter, Zander S., Sydenham, Markus A. K.

“…Land cover maps are important tools for quantifying the human footprint on the environment and facilitate reporting and accounting to international agreements…”
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Blebs produced by actin–myosin contraction during apoptosis release damage-associated molecular pattern proteins before secondary necrosis occurs by Wickman, G R, Julian, L, Mardilovich, K, Schumacher, S, Munro, J, Rath, N, Zander, S AL, Mleczak, A, Sumpton, D, Morrice, N, Bienvenut, W V, Olson, M F

“…Apoptosis is a fundamental homeostatic mechanism essential for the normal growth, development and maintenance of every tissue and organ. Dying cells have been…”
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Large disagreements in estimates of urban land across scales and their implications by Chakraborty, TC, Venter, Zander S., Demuzere, Matthias, Zhan, Wenfeng, Gao, Jing, Zhao, Lei, Qian, Yun

“…Improvements in high-resolution satellite remote sensing and computational advancements have sped up the development of global datasets that delineate urban…”
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Utilizing LiDAR data to map tree canopy for urban ecosystem extent and condition accounts in Oslo by Hanssen, Frank, Barton, David N., Venter, Zander S., Nowell, Megan S., Cimburova, Zofie

“…•LiDAR is an asset for ecosystem condition accounting & ecosystem service modeling.•LiDAR-based segmentation was used to measure tree height, canopy area &…”
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Accuracy of a Factory-Calibrated Continuous Glucose Monitor in Individuals With Diabetes on Hemodialysis by Villard, Orianne, Breton, Marc D, Rao, Swati, Voelmle, Mary K, Fuller, Morgan R, Myers, Helen E, McFadden, Ryan K, Luke, Zander S, Wakeman, Christian A, Clancy-Oliveri, Mary, Basu, Ananda, Stumpf, Meaghan M

“…Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) improves diabetes management, but its reliability in individuals on hemodialysis is poorly understood and potentially…”
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Comparing Global Sentinel-2 Land Cover Maps for Regional Species Distribution Modeling by Venter, Zander S., Roos, Ruben E., Nowell, Megan S., Rusch, Graciela M., Kvifte, Gunnar M., Sydenham, Markus A. K.

“…Mapping the spatial and temporal dynamics of species distributions is necessary for biodiversity conservation land-use planning decisions. Recent advances in…”
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