Land-use changes have profound effects on both socio-economic development and the
environment. As a result, to optimize land-use planning and management, models are often …

Rapid land use change has taken place in many arid and semi-arid regions of China
including the Loess Plateau. In this study, changes in land use and landscape fragmentation …

Land use and land cover change have received considerable attention from global
researchers in recent decades. The conflicts between different development strategies for …

The abandonment of farming and agriculture is leading to an increase in forest coverage in
most European mountain areas. Based on a long series of data (1859–2006), this study …

The quantitative analysis and prediction of spatiotemporal patterns of land use in Haihe
River Basin are of great significance for land use and ecological planning management. To …

Land use change (LUC) in trans-boundary watersheds is of great importance to
environmental assessment. The Aksu River is the largest trans-boundary river crossing …

Der Landnutzung kommt vor dem Hintergrund des globalen Umweltwandels eine zentrale
Bedeutung zu. Als dominierende Form des Landnutzungswandels l sst sich in weiten Teilen …

Modelling land use dynamics is a critical scientific issue. Despite a diversity of models
coming from the fields of remote sensing, geography, and economics, including multicriteria …

River responses to endogenic perturbations and climatic attributes lead to the morphological
development of basins, the quantification of whose terrain facets to decipher the ambient …

Podzolization is one soil-forming process that at a landscape scale is sensitive to relief-
related factors. In the areas where leached and coarse-textured parent material together …