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Steven A. Flanagan, George C. Hurtt, Justin P. Fisk, Ritvik Sahajpal, Matthew C. Hansen, Katelyn A. Dolan, Joe H. Sullivan and Maosheng Zhao
There are strong relationships between climate and ecosystems. With the prospect of anthropogenic forcing accelerating climate change, there is a need to understand how terrestrial vegetation responds to this change as it influences the carbon balance. P...
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Csaba Mátyás, Imre Berki, András Bidló, György Csóka, Kornél Czimber, Erno Führer, Borbála Gálos, Zoltán Gribovszki, Gábor Illés, Anikó Hirka and Zoltán Somogyi
Climate change particularly threatens the xeric limits of temperate-continental forests. In Hungary, annual temperatures have increased by 1.2 °C–1.8 °C in the last 30 years and the frequency of extreme droughts has grown. With the aim to g...
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Donald Kipruto Kimutai and Teiji Watanabe
Forests are a vital resource supporting the livelihoods of rural communities in Kenya. In spite of this significant role, human activities have put increased pressure on this resource, leading to continued forest-cover decline. To address forest-cover de...
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Kosal Chim, Jon Tunnicliffe, Asaad Shamseldin and Tetsuji Ota
Siem Reap River has played a crucial role in maintaining the Angkor temple complex and livelihood of the people in the basin since the 12th century. Land use in this watershed has changed considerably over the last few decades, which is thought to have h...
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Sébastien Boillat, Corinna Stich, Joan Bastide, Michael Epprecht, Sithong Thongmanivong and Andreas Heinimann
This study explores the relationships between forest cover change and the village resettlement and land planning policies implemented in Laos, which have led to the relocation of remote and dispersed populations into clustered villages with easier access...
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Courtney Work
Climate Change policies are playing an ever-increasing role in global development strategies and their implementation gives rise to often-unforeseen social conflicts and environmental degradations. A landscape approach to analyzing forest-based Climate C...
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Indri Febriani,Lilik Budi Prasetyo,Arya Hadi Dharmawan
Pág. 195 - 203
Deforestation cause damage to the environment, climate change and greenhouse gas emissions. Deforestation in Tahura was caused by ilegall logging and forest fire. To reduce deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions, Tahura can participate in REDD+ schem...
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Bright Addae and Suzana Dragicevic
Deforestation as a land-cover change process is linked to several environmental problems including desertification, biodiversity loss, and ultimately climate change. Understanding the land-cover change process and its relation to human?environment intera...
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Sridhara Nayak, Suman Maity, Netrananda Sahu, Atul Saini, Kuvar Satya Singh, Hara Prasad Nayak and Soma Dutta
This study performed a land use and land cover (LULC) change analysis over Southern India for the period 1981?2006 from the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) images of AVHRR data and applied the ?observation minus reanalysis? (OMR) method to ...
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Mengistie Kindu, Daniela Angelova, Thomas Schneider, Martin Döllerer, Demel Teketay and Thomas Knoke
Monitoring urban growth patterns is an important measure to improve our understanding of land use/land cover (LULC) changes and a central part in the proper development of any city. In this study, we analyzed the changes over a period of 30 years (1985?2...
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Kathrin Einzmann, Markus Immitzer, Sebastian Böck, Oliver Bauer, Andreas Schmitt and Clement Atzberger
With climate change, extreme storms are expected to occur more frequently. These storms can cause severe forest damage, provoking direct and indirect economic losses for forestry. To minimize economic losses, the windthrow areas need to be detected fast ...
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P.T. Khanh,S.M.C.U.P. Subasinghe
The vegetation of the Lower U Minh is an important ecosystem as it contributes to preserrve the nature while providing many bebefits. It is also used as an excellent indicator for identifying early signs of ecosystem change in the entire area. In order f...
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M.R. Pineda Lopez,L. R. Sanchez-Velasquez,G. Vazquez-Dominguez,A. Rojo Alboreca
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Aim of study.) Were analyzed patterns and dynamics of forest cover change and land use for the period 1995-2005, and estimated carbon content in biomass in a forest of fir (Abies religiosa).Area of study. Ejido El Conejo in the Cofre de Perote National P...
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Karma Tempa, Masengo Ilunga, Abhishek Agarwal and Tashi
Gelephu, located in the Himalayan region, has undergone significant development activities due to its suitable topography and geographic location. This has led to rapid urbanization in recent years. Assessing land use land cover (LULC) dynamics and Norma...
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Marcos V. L. Sousa, Silas N. Melo, Juciana C. B. Souza, Carlos F. A. Silva, Yuri Feitosa and Lindon F. Matias
Protected areas (PAs) help in strategies for maintaining biodiversity and inhibiting deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. However, there are few studies that evaluate the effectiveness of lands protected by states (or federation units). Our goal was t...
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Christopher E. Soulard, Jessica J. Walker and Glenn E. Griffith
Forests in Washington State generate substantial economic revenue from commercial timber harvesting on private lands. To investigate the rates, causes, and spatial and temporal patterns of forest harvest on private tracts throughout the Cascade Mountains...
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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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Ramandeep Kaur M. Malhi, Akash Anand, Prashant K. Srivastava, G. Sandhya Kiran, George P. Petropoulos and Christos Chalkias
Forest degradation is considered to be one of the major threats to forests over the globe, which has considerably increased in recent decades. Forests are gradually getting fragmented and facing biodiversity losses because of climate change and anthropog...
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Guillermo Barrientos, Albert Herrero, Andrés Iroumé, Oscar Mardones and Ramon J. Batalla
This study analyses the changes in the runoff of forested experimental catchments in south-central Chile, to determine to what extent observed trends can be attributed to effects of intensive forestry and/or climate change. For this, we applied the distr...
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Ana Sofía Nanni and Héctor Ricardo Grau
Areas of land abandonment and agriculture expansion usually differ in location and associated environmental characteristics; thus, land-use redistribution affects the provision of ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation. In a subtropical region ...
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