Strong international demand for natural rubber is driving expansion of industrial‐scale and
smallholder monoculture plantations, with> 2 million ha established during the last decade …

Expanding global and regional markets are driving the conversion of traditional subsistence
agricultural and occupied non-agricultural lands to commercial-agricultural purposes. In …

Land use and land cover change research has been applied to landslides, erosion, land
planning and global change. Based on the CA-Markov model, this study predicts the spatial …

The mangrove forests of Southeast Asia are highly biodiverse and provide multiple
ecosystem services upon which millions of people depend. Mangroves enhance fisheries …

Southeast Asia is a hotspot of tropical deforestation for agriculture. Most of the deforestation
is thought to occur in lowland forests, whereas the region's mountainous highlands undergo …

This meta-analysis of land-cover transformations of the past 10–15 years in tropical forest-
agriculture frontiers world-wide shows that swidden agriculture decreases in landscapes …

Landsat-7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) and Landsat-8 Operational Land
Imager (OLI) and Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) are currently operational for routine Earth …

The research on the changes of the spatial and temporal characteristics of land-use
landscape patterns can deeply insight the movement of the Earth's surface by human …

Land grant premiums and land tax revenues have become two major sources of fiscal
revenue for city governments in China. This type of fiscal revenue strategy for city …

Understanding historic patterns of land use and land cover change across large temporal
and spatial scales is critical for developing effective biodiversity conservation management …