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Jing Yu, Shu Peng, Weiwei Zhang and Shun Kang
Recognizing land cover heterogeneity is essential for the assessment of spatial patterns to guide conservation planning. One of the top research priorities is the quantification of land cover heterogeneity using effective landscape metrics. However, due ...
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Trung V. Tran, Jason P. Julian and Kirsten M. de Beurs
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Wei Su, Huaiyong Shao, Wei Xian, Zhanglin Xie, Cunbo Zhang and Huilin Yang
Evapotranspiration (ET) is an important component of terrestrial ecosystems and is sensitive to climate and land-use change due to its obvious link to ecohydrological processes. Therefore, understanding the spatiotemporal variability of evapotranspiratio...
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Jun Wang, Xiaomei Yang, Zhihua Wang, Hongbin Cheng, Junmei Kang, Hongtao Tang, Yan Li, Zongpan Bian and Zhuoli Bai
Rocky desertification is one of the most critical ecological and environmental problems in areas underlain by carbonate rocks globally. Land cover and land use in the region affects large-scale ecosystem processes on a global scale, and many Earth system...
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Moussa Aliou Keita, Renzong Ruan and Ru An
For decades, urban sprawl has remained a major challenge for big cities in developing countries, such as Bamako. The aim of this study is to analyze urban sprawl pattern changes over time in the Bamako district using landscape index analyses. Four themat...
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Xiaocong Liu, Zhonggen Wang, Yin Tang, Zehua Wu, Yuhan Guo and Yashan Cheng
Predictions in ungauged basins (PUB) has been always a focus of hydrological research. The problem presented by ungauged basins is how to reasonably estimate water resource availability. To solve the issues of data scale, this study combines field experi...
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Kumari Gurung, Jian Yang and Lei Fang
Surface mining is a major driver of land use land cover (LULC) change in many mountainous areas such as the Appalachian region. Typical reclamation practices often result in land cover dominated by grass and shrubs. Assessing ecosystem services that can ...
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Andrew MacLachlan, Eloise Biggs, Gareth Roberts and Bryan Boruff
Urban land cover is one of the fastest global growing land cover types which permanently alters land surface properties and atmospheric interactions, often initiating an urban heat island effect. Urbanisation comprises a number of land cover changes with...
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Andrew MacLachlan, Eloise Biggs, Gareth Roberts and Bryan Boruff
Urban land cover is one of the fastest global growing land cover types which permanently alters land surface properties and atmospheric interactions, often initiating an urban heat island effect. Urbanisation comprises a number of land cover changes with...
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Jiayue Wang, Liangjie Xin, Minghong Tan and Yahui Wang
A comprehensive set of 30-m resolution land coverage data of 2000 and 2010 was used for an analysis of the spatial heterogeneity of forest area change in early 21st century China. Four regression models were built to determine the current situation of th...
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L. Rubio,M. Rodríguez-Freire,M.C. Mateo-Sánchez,C. Estreguil,S. Saura
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Managing forest landscapes to sustain functional connectivity is considered one of the key strategies to counteract the negative effects of climate and human-induced changes in forest species pools. With this objective, we evaluated whether a robust netw...
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Min Jin, Lizhe Wang, Fudong Ge and Bing Xie
With the advancement of urbanization, the contradiction in the man?land relationship becomes more and more difficult to ignore. Investigation of the change in urban land use, population distribution and its mechanism can provide powerful assistance for u...
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Dengpan Li, Lei Tian, Mingyang Li, Tao Li, Fang Ren, Chunhong Tian and Ce Yang
Exploring the temporal and spatial changes, as well as driving factors, of net primary productivity (NPP) of terrestrial ecosystems is essential for maintaining regional carbon balance. This work focuses on the spatiotemporal variation and future trends ...
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David Pulido-Velazquez, Javier Romero, Antonio-Juan Collados-Lara, Francisco J. Alcalá, Francisca Fernández-Chacón and Leticia Baena-Ruiz
The management of droughts is a challenging issue, especially in water scarcity areas, where this problem will be exacerbated in the future. The aim of this paper is to identify potential groundwater (GW) bodies with reduced vulnerability to pumping, whi...
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John J. Lagrosa IV, Wayne C. Zipperer and Michael G. Andreu
Urban landscapes are heterogeneous mosaics that develop via significant land-use and land cover (LULC) change. Current LULC models project future landscape patterns, but generally avoid urban landscapes due to heterogeneity. To project LULC change for an...
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John J. Lagrosa IV, Wayne C. Zipperer and Michael G. Andreu
Urban landscapes are heterogeneous mosaics that develop via significant land-use and land cover (LULC) change. Current LULC models project future landscape patterns, but generally avoid urban landscapes due to heterogeneity. To project LULC change for an...
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Lorenzo Sallustio, Marco Di Cristofaro, Maaz Maqsood Hashmi, Matteo Vizzarri, Tommaso Sitzia, Bruno Lasserre and Marco Marchetti
Land use by humans strongly alters the landscape mosaic, either by reducing or increasing its heterogeneity. One of the most recent and widespread land use changes in Europe has been the spontaneous reforestation of marginal agricultural lands. These pri...
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Qiang Feng, Wenwu Zhao, Yang Qiu, Mingyue Zhao and Lina Zhong
Soil moisture is an important factor for vegetation restoration and ecosystem sustainability in the Loess Plateau of China. The strong spatial heterogeneity of soil moisture is controlled by many environmental factors, including topography and land use. ...
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Higor Costa de Brito, Iana Alexandra Alves Rufino, Mauro Normando Macedo Barros Filho and Ronaldo Amâncio Meneses
In the face of urban expansion, ensuring sustainable water consumption is paramount. This study aims to develop a domestic water demand forecast model that considers population heterogeneity and the urban area distribution in a city in the Brazilian Semi...
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Carlos Vila-Viçosa, Salvador Arenas-Castro, Bruno Marcos, João Honrado, Cristina García, Francisco M. Vázquez, Rubim Almeida and João Gonçalves
The Iberian Peninsula hosts a high diversity of oak species, being a hot-spot for the conservation of European White Oaks (Quercus) due to their environmental heterogeneity and its critical role as a phylogeographic refugium. Identifying and ranking the ...
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