The recent global urban expansion has seen a massive decline and loss in the connectivity
of urban vegetation. In urban areas, some vegetation patches have increasingly become …

The urban environment is becoming the most common setting in which people worldwide
will spend their lives. Urban forests, and the ecosystem services they provide, are becoming …

Quantifying remaining forest cover and understanding how thefragmentation process
operates with respect to the various land-use practicesare important steps when working to …

Urban forests are unique and highly valued resources. However, trees in urban forests are
often under greater stress than those in rural or undeveloped areas due to soil compaction …

Chongming, the world's largest alluvial island, is located within the municipality of Shanghai,
China. Recent projects have now linked peri-urban Chongming to Shanghai's urban core …

Urbanization was associated with loss and transformation of the oak forest in the Twin Cities
(Minneapolis and St. Paul) metropolitan area (TCMA) over a recent 7-year interval. Between …

The fisher (Martes pennanti) has recently recovered from historic extirpations across much of
its geographic range. There are at least five explanations for the recovery of the fisher …

One of the widely used classical pieces of spatial statistics for the assessment of spatial
association of nominal data, such as colors on a map, is the join-count statistic (JCS). Its …

Green areas are important places for biodiversity conservation within cities, but their
vegetation is affected by various anthropogenic factors. This study used an exploratory …

The impact of land tenure security on tropical deforestation and land management, more
generally, is an issue that has received a great deal of discussion, and which possesses …