… these landscape changes alter large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns far from where
the land use and land cover changes occur. We conclude that existing climate assessments …

… the observed pattern of land cover change, nor to realistically … change that is possible in the
climate system due to changes … latitudes could play a role in the mitigation of climate change. …

… climate for the next century (5). One implication of this work is that the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (… have been altering climate by land use and land cover change since …

… climate models with the capacity to simulate the right CO 2 -induced changes in climate over
regions of changing land cover. … small when compared with past changes 5 , in regions of …

… change mediates this risk. We demonstrate that the interaction of climate change with
land-cover change could increase the impact of land-cover change on birds and mammals by up …

… role of changing natural (volcanic, aerosol, insolation) and anthropogenic (CO 2 emissions,
land cover) forcings on the global climate … We apply several datasets of historical land-use …

… land-use representation. We review recent literature from the land use, land cover, carbon
cycle, and climate … of satellite land-cover products and outputs of the land-use change model …

… The impact of these changes on hydrological processes required … of changes in land
cover and climate. The response of hydrological processes to land-cover/climate changes was …

… ), whereas land cover is a descriptor of the status of the vegetation at a site (eg, forest or
crop). Land-use effects on climate change include both implications of land-use change on …

… the land cover component of the Climate Change Initiative (LC_CCI) and surveyed the land-…
define user requirements for developing a new global land cover data set (Bontemps et al., …