[PDF] Top 20 Ecological risk assessment based on land cover changes

... identify ecological networks and the most valued lands for protection [21], among many other examples that can be found in the ...the land information before performing further analysis on ... See full document

... the land cover and use of a region are fundamental in studies such as mapping of deforestation and forest degradation, evaluation of the erosion risk, identification and estimation of areas with ... See full document

... review on ecosystem services studies in Africa carried out by (Wangai et ...works on ecosystem services quantification and mapping due to lack of adequate data and heterogeneity of the influencing ...stock ... See full document

... to land-based eco-systems (Lavorel et ...2008). On this respect, the Medi- terranean region occupies a prominent position, given the occurrence of devastating summertime fires that burn hundreds of ... See full document

... feed on an array of food items in their natural habitats. There are reports on transfer of pollutants from sediment to rotifers and toxicity of sediment toxicants in rotifers (Cargouet et ...quality ... See full document

... The partial and full multivariate models used in this study also demonstrate that UAA_NU and wildfires are two important variables influencing montado loss. Indeed the UAA_NU is an indirect measure of rural abandonment ... See full document

... accuracy assessment analysis, indicating a close correspondence between the object-based image classification output and the fieldwork ...LCLU changes information from moderate spatial-resolution ... See full document

... is based on a competitive land allocation model that shares characteristics with multi-criteria decision ...process. On the other hand, the soft prediction model produces a map indicating the ... See full document

... the changes which took place in the past [1] ...agricultural land expansion in Northern part of ...of land for agricultural purposes are the main causes of land use change in the developing ... See full document

... improper land management is a major challenge in sub-Saharan Africa, and this has drastically affected ecological ...are based on measured information on land-use ...the ... See full document

... agricultural land, especially in the alentejo region, where the construction of the alqueva dam resulted in the planting of new agricultural crops (extensively) and the development of other activities such as ... See full document

... the changes in land ...monitoring land use/cover resources, especially for large geographic ...detect land use changes are ... See full document

... both land cover ...of land cover, Cultivated land from GlobeLand30 could contain the LCCs "Trees" ...the Land Use Components of the EAGLE matrix, this would result in ... See full document

... caused changes in land cover of the Gilgel Abbay watershed, Lake Tana basin, ...the land cover changes have impacted on the stream flow of the watershed by changing the ... See full document

... The calculation of ISM also involves four steps. The first step is to select indicators. Each index should reflect the corresponding characteristics of a subsystem. Frequency analysis is adopted to pick out and filter ... See full document

... The processes to retrieve this information were developed at REN (Machado 2011) and use different sources of information including some from the internet. As all of the mentioned forecast information is given for each ... See full document

... of land use and land cover changes especially on urban ...remarkable changes in built up areas between the study ...agricultural land had been converted in to built up ... See full document

... Table 1. Performed experiments. RCP-forced experiments include runs for RCP2.6, RCP4.5 and RCP8.5. Experiments with no LULCC have their distribution of agricultural land fixed at the time where also the harvest ... See full document

... increased risk for MetS and cardiovascular dis- ...10 risk factors for car- diovascular disease in young adults of both sexes, and in the elderly men these anthropometric factors are cor- related with 8 of ... See full document

... Portuguese land use/land cover (LULC) maps (Carta de Uso e Ocupação do Solo, COS) from 1995, 2007, 2010, 2015, and 2018 to quantify, visualize, and predict the spatiotemporal LULC transitions in the ... See full document