[PDF] Top 20 Land cover changes and forest landscape evolution (1985–2009) in a typical Mediterranean agroforestry system (High Agri Valley)

... the forest classes increased their extent and have become generally more stable in functions and structure as a consequence of a larger patch size, a higher con- nectedness, a larger distance between ... See full document

... 2030 and up to 95% in 2050, compared to the 1990 levels (“Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions and climate targets | Clean Energy Wire,” ...most and the least in the landscape is imperative. ... See full document

... ABSTRACT. Land use trajectory analysis provides both the time and origin of land cover changes to monitor land use ...studied land cover change trajectories for ... See full document

... 1979 and 2009, three most changing classes (agriculture, urban and forest) were chosen to compute spatial landscape matrices at class level by means of FRAGSTATS software (Table ...of ... See full document

... savanna and bare soil, found here, had no effect on separation visualization in land cover map (Figure 3), being afterwards confirmed in the ...savanna landscape units in Africa and ... See full document

... many changes in land use over a period of three decades in a salinity affected semi-arid region of coastal Saurashtra in ...scarcity and quality issues, efforts have been undertaken by state ... See full document

... A., and Wooldridge, P. J.: Surface and lightning sources of nitrogen oxides over the United States: magnitudes, chemical evolution, and outflow, ... See full document

... change and the intensification of anthropogenic activities in river ...of land use and cover and its influence on temporal variability on streamflow ...(streamflow and rainfall) ... See full document

... socio-economic and environmental development will contribute to minimizing this situation (Foley et ...of forest plantations enhances forest regeneration (Sansevero, Prieto, Moraes, & Rodrigues, ... See full document

... historical changes in land use and cover in the water source area of the Billings Reservoir in Diadema revealed that deforestation in the last five decades is directly associated to urban ... See full document

... data and Landsat 5 TM images of the four seasons in the year ...different landscape metrics of each analysis unit were acquired using landscape analysis ...effective landscape metrics ... See full document

... radiation and energy flow between the surface and atmosphere (Wang et al ...spatially and temporally given changes in surface properties, such as soil moisture and vegetation ... See full document

... urbanization and new housing developments have had a strong impact on LULC change since the ...abandonment and quick regeneration of broad woodland areas in many Mediterranean regions during the second half ... See full document

... pre- and post-harvest comparison of stream temperatures collected in five neighbouring streams (sub-catchments) over a period of five years ...whether land cover changes from clear cutting in ... See full document

... rain forest pollen types as indicating a climate-driven expansion of rain forest from the Late Pleistocene to the mid-Holo- cene ...Fletcher and Thomas (2007a,b, 2010a,b) highlight the bias in the ... See full document

... Teuling, A. J., Seneviratne, S. I., Stöckli, R., Reichstein, M., Moors, E., Ciais, P., Luyssaert, S., van den Hurk, B., Ammann, C., Bernhofer, C., Dellwik, E., Gianelle, D., Gielen, B., Grün- wald, T., Klumpp, K., ... See full document

... ecological and environmental impacts caused by land transformation have been reported to grow at a very rapid rate and are considered to be a major problem around the globe ...sequestration, ... See full document

... crops and pastures during the past 20 years ...types, and its large numbers of plants, amphibians, reptiles, and fish ...dry forest should be taken into account in the protected areas network ... See full document

... economic and urban development over last decades in the district has influenced land resource demands and land concession widely, which is also causing a problem in land use management ... See full document

... distribution and coverage of geographic space of urbanized land, the impacts of the process of urbanization on biodiversity, ecosystem fluxes and environmental quality are profound and these ... See full document