... Colonization in the Amazon Basin 119 Andrew C Millington and Andrew V Bradley Chapter UrbanLandUse Change, Models, Uncertainty, andPolicymakinginRapidlyGrowingDevelopingWorld Cities: Evidence ... initiatives on landuseandland cover changein Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru, and he is initiating work on landuseandland cover changein forest lands in Texas He received his BSc in geography and geology ... interdisciplinary research institute addressing sustainable development andlanduse His research interests are in the areas of landuseandland cover change, analysis, and modeling of coupled natural and...
... remaining information domains are the most spatially and temporally interactive, with biogeochemical processes interacting with landuse type andchange highly influenced by human and other disturbances ... aspects Landscape andUrban Planning 54, 239–254, 2001 42 Croissant, C Landscape patterns and parcel boundaries: An analysis of composition and configuration of landuseandland cover in south-central ... and neighbourhood attachment inurban environments: A confirmation study on the city of Rome Landscape andUrban Planning 65, 41–52, 2003 41 Krause, C L Our visual landscape: managing the landscape...
... CHANGEINLANDUSE AT A REGIONAL SCALE 3.2.1 HY UNDERSTANDING LANDUSECHANGE IS IMPORTANT W A capacity for detecting and reporting landusechange is critical to evaluating and monitoring trends ... 45 3.2.1 Why Understanding LandUseChange Is Important .46 3.2.2 Types of LandUseChange .46 3.2.3 Changes inLandUsein the Lower Murray Region 46 Mapping Correspondence between ... include mapping landusechangeand exploring the extent and nature of links between mapped biophysical resource conditions andland manager perceptions, values, and practices 3.2 MAPPING CHANGE...
... in Western Uganda during the 1990s (Figure 4.5) (b) (a) (c) FigurE 4.5 Landusechangein Uganda (a) Forest clearing (b) Banana plantations on cleared land (c) Pastoral landuse on cleared land ... D Landuseandland cover data for this study come fromland 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 ... Administrative boundaries, infrastructure, and river maps come from the D epartment of Surveys and Mapping, Ministry of Lands, Housing andUrban S ettlements and the Department of Surveys and...
... changeinland use, land cover, and plant biomass: separating inter- and intra-annual signals in monsoon-driven northeast Thailand In: Millington, A., Walsh, S J., and Osburn, P., eds., GIS and ... of the landscape occupied by the elements Many landuse /land cover change (LULCC) applications, ranging from biology conservation to hydrological assessments to landuse planning, now routinely ... situation for landscape assessment, and disentangling these types of landscape change is critical for extracting a better understanding of process and function from pattern Temporally, landscapes...
... policy-making framework using Chinese cities as a case study 8.2 MODELING URBANLANDUSE CHANGE, POLICYMAKING, ANDUNCERTAINTY 8.2.1 MODELING URBANLANDUSECHANGEUrban areas, and their form and function, ... following p 132.) around year 2000 1,450 80 Urban Land- Use Change, Models, Uncertainty, andPolicymaking –180 80 142 LandUseChange The usefulness of an urbanlandusechange model is judged in ... 1826 Brown, D G., et al Modeling landuseandland cover change In: Gutman, G et al., eds., LandChange Science: Observing, Monitoring, and Understanding Trajectories of Change on the Earth’s Surface...
... Verberg, P H Simulating feedbacks inlanduseandland cover changemodels Landscape Ecology 21, 1171–1183, 2006 29 Rindfuss, R R et al Developing the science of land change: challenges and methodological ... Changing Landscapes: The Upper San Pedro River Basin in Arizona and Sonora Island Press, Washington, D.C., 202 pp, 2003 10 Potschin, M., and Haines-Young, R “Rio+10”, sustainability science and Landscape ... from field and census surveys to address decision-making processes in detail and gain a better understanding and capacity to model human and other social and economic processes influencing land...
... maintaining ecosystem balance [48,49] this assumption breaks down where rapid social changeand economic development occur [50-52,25], leading to changes in resource andland use, so altering ... herded are invariably situated inland because of the danger of animals wandering onto the sabka ’salt flats’ adjacent to the sea, falling through the saline crust and becoming stuck and dying Some ... unsound landuse can lead to serious degradation of natural resources It comprises subtropical desert with hot humid summers and short semi-dry winters The changes that have occurred inlanduse and...
... November 22, 2005 11:23 AM LandUseChangeand Mountain Biodiversity FIGURE 1.1 Fingerprints of millennia of landusein the highlands Examples of anthropogenic grassland from (a) Bolivian altiplano, ... registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe Library of Congress Cataloging -in- Publication Data Landusechangeand mountain biodiversity / ... land abandonment could transitorily reduce evapotranspiration from highelevation grasslands (Tappeiner and Cernusca, 1998) Costin (1958) demonstrated that inappropriate alpine heathland grazing...
... 74 LandUseChangeand Mountain Biodiversity Sørensen index, forest fragments are indistinguishable from the heath plot at the same altitude (3100 m) Therefore, differentiation between heathland ... numerous other helping hands and minds for their kind help and cooperation References Beck, E., Scheibe, R., and Schulze, E.D (1986) Recovery from fire: observations in the alpine vegetation of ... closely together and separated from the remaining sites by the first dimension In all three ordinations, communities from forest fragments are positioned closer to the heathland than to the forest...
... 2005 11:23 AM 96 LandUseChangeand Mountain Biodiversity found that disturbances such as grazing and fire increased both species richness and diversity In many cases, the increment in the number ... 2005 11:23 AM 90 LandUseChangeand Mountain Biodiversity mountain grasslands are scarcely represented in the protected areas of Argentina, and little is known about their functioning The study ... during the ongoing growing season (
... preliminary values, they show a tendency toward increasing floristic species richness with increasing mean annual rainfall The resulting flora in Chingaza and Chisaca are very similar, although the inventory ... Páramo and Relation to Anthropogenic Impact Jesus Orlando Rangel Churio INTRODUCTION The environments in which páramo vegetation predominates are found above the treeline in the northern Andes (in ... nitrites in the daily diet (Uribe, 2003) There are conflicts of interest in this land use, and it would be advisable to examine whether the utilization of páramo regions favors small farmers or landowners...
... Penisetum clandestinum and Aciachne pulvinata) and creeping grasses (such as Poa annua and Paspalum pygmaeum) are favored by grazing, probably because they are tolerant, as does Penisetum clandestinum, ... linerifolia, Noticastrum marginatum, Rumex acetosella, Sisyrinchium tinctorum, and Trisetum irazuense The remaining 17 species listed in Table 9.3 did not show a significant changein biomass and ... 2005 11:23 AM 128 LandUseChangeand Mountain Biodiversity TABLE 9.3 Aboveground biomass and perceptual contribution (in parentheses) of the main species in the ungrazed (NG) and grazed (G) treatments...
... dry and wet (bofedales) range sites of upland and lowland areas with months (dry season) of continuous pasturing in the upland areas and the other months (wet season) of the year in the lowland ... (May) The landuse factor of grasslands is defined as the relationship between the stocking rate (SR) and carrying capacity (CC) of the grassland Stocking rate is the number of specific kinds and classes ... livestock remains on lowland grasslands of the community during the favorable wet season while the uplands remain without livestock resulted in undergrazing of natural high-elevation grasslands This...
... 11:23 AM 194 LandUseChangeand Mountain Biodiversity TABLE 13.3 Water storage capacity in an Andean wetland dominated by Plantago rigida Water Storage Capacity of an Andean Wetland Treatment ... LLC LandUseChangeand Mountain Biodiversity mass rate and growth meristem’s protection We compared the species sensitive to trampling in both intensively grazed and extensively grazed wetlands ... grazing in the Andean páramos, in general, depends on the intensity, frequency, and sequence of cattle presence in the páramo grasslands (Molinillo and Monasterio 2002) A low animal intensity increases...
... The landusein various parts of the Pamirs and drastic changes inlandusein recent years have had very different effects on changes in vegetation and surface cover, and thus on mountain biodiversity ... AM 228 LandUseChangeand Mountain Biodiversity TABLE 16.2 Percentages of areas of land cover and vegetation types in the Eastern Pamir Land Formation/Vegetation Type Mountain deserts, mainly ... 23, 2005 7:50 AM 234 LandUseChangeand Mountain Biodiversity TABLE 16.5 Progressive or degressive spreading of plant species in the Pamir as a consequence of landuseand desertification factors...