Forest conversion for agriculture is the most expansive signature of human occupation on
the Earth's surface. This paper develops a conceptual model of factors underlying frontier …

Soy has become one of the world's most important agroindustrial commodities–serving as
the nexus for the production of food, animal feed, fuel and hundreds of industrial products …

Latin America has the planet's largest land reserves for agriculture and had the most rapid
agricultural expansion during the twenty-first century. A large portion of the expansion …

The tropical forest cover has varied greatly over the last few decades. The rapid advance of
agricultural crops and illegal clearings in natural areas has resulted in the conversion of the …

The Amazon rainforest, the largest in the world in terms of size and diversity, is recognized
as a source of ecological services for both local and worldwide communities. Ten percent of …

Regional studies of land cover change are often limited by available data and in terms of
comparability across regions, by the transferability of methods. This research addresses the …

Abstract This study uses 2010–2011 Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery to estimate
total forested area in Haiti. The thematic map was generated using radiometric normalization …

Land use and land cover change is a major component of global change, which directly
alters habitat composition, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. The regional analysis of …

European marginal areas hold multifunctional landscapes threatened by current changes in
socio‐economy. Understanding both common and singular drivers behind the changes in …

Abstract The subtropical Atlantic Forest is a highly diverse ecosystem in South America and
one of the most endangered rain forests in the world. The present study focuses specifically …