Landscape patterns are important drivers of biodiversity. Owing to differences in vegetation
types, sampling methods, diversity measures, spatial scales, and landscape levels, the …

Unravelling the evolution of landscape patterns is essential to understand regional socio-
ecological processes and to solve conflicts between environment protection and human …

Remote-sensing products provide opportunities to monitor complex phenomena on the
Earth from space for good decision-making. An example is land-cover maps, which are …

Landscape pattern is an important driver for the variation in plant species diversity (PSD)
and functional diversity (PFD). However, the role of historical and current landscape metrics …

The growth of organic agriculture (OA) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) raises the question of
how far OA can improve the livelihoods of the many smallholder farmers that have to cope …

Abstract Ground Beetles (Carabidae) have been suggested to be used as indicators of
ecological status under the effects of anthropogenic land use and land cover changes in …

Urban expansion transforms the availability and structure of habitats, shaping urban
biodiversity. This triggered a worldwide effort to reduce urbanization impact on biodiversity …

We present systematic analyses of the temporal dynamics of the growth of Kumasi, the
fastest growing city in Ghana using 20-year Landsat time-series data from 2000 to 2020 …

Agricultural tarping, the practice of placing impermeable plastic tarps over crop beds before
planting to suppress weeds, is rising in popularity. However, the use of tarps has uncertain …

Understanding how communities respond to anthropogenic disturbance is considered a
stepping-stone to support decision-making by environmental managers and restoration …