A map of ecological regions of the conterminous United States, first published in 1987, has
been greatly refined and expanded into a hierarchical spatial framework in response to user …

Quantitative analysis of the response of ecosystem health to rural land use change is
required to comprehend the human-nature coupling mechanism and to explore the process …

This book discusses the fundamentals of land-use and land-cover characterization,
mapping, and monitoring using remote sensing technology. After covering the basic …

Land-cover change in the conterminous United States was quantified by interpreting change
from satellite imagery for a sample stratified by 84 ecoregions. Gross and net changes …

The results of a large-scale biodiversity inventory of lichens (including lichenicolous and
allied fungi) in the Dare Regional Biodiversity Hotspot (DRBH) are presented. The DRBH is …

Global environmental change scenarios have typically provided projections of land use and
land cover for a relatively small number of regions or using a relatively coarse resolution …

Disturbance events strongly affect the composition, structure, and function of forest
ecosystems; however, existing US land management inventories were not designed to …

Revealing the temporal and spatial changes on built-up land expansion and population
growth is extremely important for city's sustainable development. Although the differences in …

Human activities and natural factors drive landscape pattern changes and limit provision of
ecosystem services (ES) for human well-being. The analysis of landscape pattern change is …

The transformations in Slovak agriculture from the 1950s to the present day, considering
both the generic (National and EU) and site-specific (local) drivers of landscape change …