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... owing to land- use change was the average area projected to be converted via human land- use change divided under the four scenarios to year 2050 expressed as a percentage of total land area I used ... of total terrestrial land area in each ecoregion My definition of human-modified landcover includes cultivated and managed land, cropland mosaics, and artificial surfaces and associated areas ... to 2050 Lee and Jetz (2008) classified transformation from natural- to humaninduced land cover types as land- use- driven (e.g., pristine forest converted to agricultural land) , and change from...

Ngày tải lên: 03/10/2015, 21:58

... Woodlands and Scrub Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands and Scrub Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands and Scrub Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands and Scrub Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands and Scrub Central ... Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands and Scrub Hengduan Shan conifer forests Middle Asian montane woodlands and steppe Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands and Scrub Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands and ... Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany Cape Floristic Region, Succulent Karoo, Maputaland-PondolandAlbany Cape Floristic Region, Succulent Karoo, Maputaland-PondolandAlbany Sundaland Western Ghats and Sri...

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... IKONOS and QuickBird because of their expensive price For this reason, Landsat images, Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM), Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) and Landsat-8 Operational Land Imager ... transportation and energy also produces harmful greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the concentration of these gases is increasing dramatically The gases Urban Sprawl Mapping and Land- use Change Detection ... for all land- use types from 1984–2016 50 Fig 4.4 Percentage of each land- use types in the landscape from 1984–2016 51 Fig 4.5 Total class area in hectares and its percentage (PLAND) ...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2017, 16:49

... and land use not necessarily imply that policy changes transformed land use Causation may take the opposite direction, with policy reforms responding to land use changes Or, changes in land use ... significant changes in land use because they implied comprehensive and radical changes in agricultural institutions Our findings not only suggest linkages between policy and land use changes, but ... effect on land use in Chieng Dong Resolution 10 did not cause any changes in land use because the shift toward household-based production in Chieng Dong anticipated the policy reform Land allocation...

Ngày tải lên: 16/12/2017, 00:16

... (Climate change) : Land- use in 1990 and climate data for the 1990–2000 period Scenario (Land- use change) : Land- use in 2001 and climate data for the 1978–1989 period Scenario (Climate and land- use changes): ... impact of land- use and climate changes caused increases in streamflow and sediment load, as well as in all water balance components When the changes caused by climate change alone and land- use change ... climate and land- use changes To investigate the combined impact of climate and land- use changes, the simulated streamflow, sediment load and water balance components under Scenario (land- use in...

Ngày tải lên: 16/12/2017, 03:58

... to culture Table II Changes of paddy farms and fish pond areas of surveyed households Land items Paddy farms Paddy farms 1993 Rent land Purchased land Inherited land Sold land Paddy farms 2010 ... master plan regarding land use if agricultural land is highly fragmented Hence, land consolidation is necessary in order to set up an appropriate long-term land use plan Land consolidation not ... Veraverbeke S, Nyssen J 2014 Historical landscape photographs for calibration of Landsat land use/ cover in the Northern Ethiopian highlands Land Degradation and Development 25: 319–335 DOI: 10.1002/...

Ngày tải lên: 16/12/2017, 15:13

... YNAMICS Of CHANGE IN SPACE AND TIME D Land use and land cover changes are inherently spatial and dynamic The magnitude and impact of changes in land use and land cover are such that land use change ... land use, as well as the role and importance of land use, land use change, and land management and policy, and the importance of land use for sustainability.2 Land use is also considered a central ... initiatives on land use and land cover change in Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru, and he is initiating work on land use and land cover change in forest lands in Texas He received his BSc in geography and geology...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... location of behaviors and recorded preferences in relation to land use patterns and changes, and temporally in the sense that t ­ rajectories in opinion and behavior lead to land use change Social systems­ ... the city of Rome Landscape and Urban Planning 65, 41–52, 2003 41 Krause, C L Our visual landscape: managing the landscape under special consideration of visual aspects Landscape and Urban Planning ... 42 Croissant, C Landscape patterns and parcel boundaries: An analysis of composition and configuration of land use and land cover in south-central Indiana Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... conditions and land manager perceptions, values, and practices 3.2  MAPPING CHANGE IN LAND USE AT A REGIONAL SCALE 3.2.1  HY UNDERSTANDING LAND USE CHANGE IS IMPORTANT W A capacity for detecting and ... a Regional Scale 45 3.2.1 Why Understanding Land Use Change Is Important .46 3.2.2 Types of Land Use Change .46 3.2.3 Changes in Land Use in the Lower Murray Region 46 Mapping ... salinity, water quality, and soil loss © 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 46 Land Use Change 3.2.2  YPES OF LAND USE CHANGE T A particular difficulty with land use change reporting is discriminating...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... the forest and woodland cover at 45% of the total land cover in 1890 More recent figures have been in the 20% to 25% range Forest and woodland are important because only 3% of Ugandan households ... Land use and land cover data for this study come from land use/ cover maps from the Uganda NBS and FAO Africover Although we refer to them as the 1990 and 2000 maps, the satellite images used ... Forest clearing (b) Banana plantations on cleared land (c) Pastoral land use on cleared land © 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 78 Land Use Change Third, there is also a strong spatial story...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 116 Land Use Change: Science, Policy and Management Meyer, W B., and Turner, B L., II, eds Changes in Land Use and Land Cover: A Global Perspective Cambridge ... periodicities of landscape drivers and change, which are important enough in any given landscape, and how then to best define a temporal landscape scale 6.1.2 FROM PATTERN AND STRUCTURE TO PROCESS AND FUNCTION ... proportion of the landscape occupied by the elements Many land use /land cover change (LULCC) applications, ranging from biology conservation to hydrological assessments to land use planning, now...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... Grassland classes Other forest and bush Sorghum woodland – low SUR Sehima woodland – moderate SUR Triodia woodland – low utilisation potential Dicanthium grassland – high SUR Triodia grassland ... of land- cover changes to road paving and governance along a major Amazon highway: The Santarém-Cuiabá corridor Global Change Biology 10, 745–764, 2004 34 Bradley, A V Land- Use and Land- Cover Change ... account of land taken out of production and left to fallow” (p 1009), and we would argue that most land use models not take account of land taken out of production, left to fallow, or how land under...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... 132.) around year 2000 1,450 80 Urban Land- Use Change, Models, Uncertainty, and Policymaking –180 80 142 Land Use Change The usefulness of an urban land use change model is judged in connection ... Brown, D G., et al Modeling land use and land cover change In: Gutman, G et al., eds., Land Change Science: Observing, Monitoring, and Understanding Trajectories of Change on the Earth’s Surface ... Policy-relevant land use change models may target a variety of types, levels, and stages of policy-making activity that heavily influences observed land use patterns Some facets of urban land use change...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... to landscape change, the Landscape Design Research Framework.9 All of these frameworks seek interdisciplinary definition and focus on key questions within the broad scope of land use change and ... and spatiotemporal processes related to land use change in terrestrial coupled human environment systems The consequences of land use change have been to transform a large proportion of the land ... maximization of land rent This is one of the main issues for analysis of coupled human environment systems: is economic return a fully adequate driver for land use change and consequent land cover change...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... what happens when those activities change and threaten contemporary ecological relations? By reviewing land use practices in Qatar, where dramatic and rapid social change has occurred, we query the ... parts of Europe; national parks in England, for instance (designated in 1949 - [16]), often include substantial human settlement and resource use, and the land remains largely in private ownership ... conservation: land use change and local participation in the Al Reem Biosphere Reserve, West Qatar Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2010 6:28 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:21

... highlands have undergone extensivation of use or abandonment In the less economically privileged parts, population growth and land use pressure have often caused an expansion of agricultural land ... grazing lands in Ethiopia, East African highlands Mount Res Dev 23: 156–160 Tappeiner, U., Cernusca, A (1998) Effects of landuse changes in the Alps on exchange processes (CO2, H2O) in grassland ... fields, and rangelands are of significant conservational and historical value In some parts of the world, however, highland management had no tradition (e.g., New Zealand and Australia), and when...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:23

... Mountains between 6°45 and 7° N and 39°45 and 25 Copyright © 2006 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 3523_book.fm Page 26 Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11:23 AM 26 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity ... 11:23 AM 28 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity TABLE 2.2 Population density in Semien and Bale Mountains (persons/km2) based on the census data taken for each zone (district) and the woredas ... Afroalpine and ericaceous zones, (2) documenting the distribution patterns of treeline species and the changes in the structure of ericaceous vegetation with altitude, and (3) assessing the incidence and...

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... 74 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity Sørensen index, forest fragments are indistinguishable from the heath plot at the same altitude (3100 m) Therefore, differentiation between heathland ... in this study Once sample 3523_C005.fm Page 72 Wednesday, November 23, 2005 7:50 AM 72 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity BETA-DIVERSITY To study the beta-diversity of the moth communities ... 3523_C005.fm Page 70 Wednesday, November 23, 2005 7:50 AM 70 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity ericaceous belt on the Shira plateau burned (Salehe 1997) These...

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... Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11:23 AM 90 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity mountain grasslands are scarcely represented in the protected areas of Argentina, and little is known about their functioning ... 2005 11:23 AM 98 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity dominant in plots that were not recently burned Total biomass and the proportions of live biomass, standing dead, and litter varied ... altitudinal range are grazing, fire, and landslides (Grau, 2005), and livestock raising is the most com- Copyright © 2006 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC mon land use Cattle grazing is extensive with...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:23

... of interest in this land use, and it would be advisable to examine whether the utilization of páramo regions favors small farmers or landowners with considerable tracts of land FUTURE OF THE COLOMBIAN ... environmental rehabil- Copyright © 2006 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity itation and to buy the land designated for conservation CONCLUSIONS The páramo region that ... loss (P) and gain (G) are given In general, an 3523_book.fm Page 112 Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11:23 AM 112 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity TABLE 8.8 Endangered vegetation types and their...

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