Anthropogenic stress and disturbance of forest ecosystems (FES) has been increasing at all scales from local to global. In rapidly changing environments, in-situ terrestrial FES …
This paper analyzes land use change, urbanization and their impact on the change in landscape pattern in Tabriz metropolitan area (TMA) during the time period from 1996 to …
PA Bhat, M ul Shafiq, AA Mir, P Ahmed - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
The world has seen the development and growth of urban areas at a faster pace. The rapid urban growth and development have resulted in the increase in the share of India's urban …
This book presents recent estimates on the rate of change of major land classes. Aggregated globally, multiple impacts of local land changes are shown to significantly affect …
SZ Aldwaik, RG Pontius Jr - Landscape and urban planning, 2012 - Elsevier
This article presents a quantitative method to analyze maps of land categories from several points in time for a single site by considering cross-tabulation matrices, where one matrix …
X Bai, J Chen, P Shi - Environmental science & technology, 2012 - ACS Publications
Accelerating urbanization has been viewed as an important instrument for economic development and reducing regional income disparity in some developing countries …
Land use and land cover change (LULCC) has directly played an important role in the observed climate change. In this paper, we considered Dujiangyan City and its environs …
This article develops a spatial analysis applied to examine the main driving forces of land- cover and land-use (LCLU) change in a Mediterranean region. Three different tools have …
Native vegetation around the world is under threat from historical and ongoing clearance, overgrazing, invasive species, increasing soil and water salinity, altered fire regimes, poor …