[PDF] Top 20 Holocene land-cover reconstructions for studies on land cover-climate feedbacks

... three land-surface types in the right column are used in the dynamic vegetation model LPJ-GUESS and the regional climate model RCA3, ...REVEALS reconstructions are performed in the project are ... See full document

... a climate-driven expansion of rain forest from the Late Pleistocene to the mid-Holo- cene ...between Holocene and previous interglacial floras and charcoal sequences, citing human arrival during the last ... See full document

... forest cover and open shrub or grassland in polar and alpine regions is commonly associated with the so-called «tree ...tree cover expands to the temperature isotherm of ...shrub cover which is ... See full document

... previous studies of extratropical deforestation (Bonan, ...model studies which analyse the effect of present-day land use change in ...vegetation cover and observed land cover in ... See full document

... and land use cover are detecting the change that have occurred, identifying the nature of the change, measuring the area extent of the change and assessing the spatial pattern of the change (Singh, 1989; ... See full document

... agricultural land, water, cerrado, eucalyptus, deciduous forest, other, pastureland and vereda, the response vector presented to the output layer had eight binary positions (1 = belongs and 0 = does not ... See full document

... these studies is also broad, ranging from 50– 300 ...fire), climate forcing ...of land-atmosphere ...these studies analyzed a larger region and at- tempted to include other factors that can ... See full document

... forest cover in the Lower Amazon, and to analyze the potential of spectral and temporal attributes to classify forest loss as either natural or ...forest cover change and the attributes of “start year”, ... See full document

... Carrão, Caetano (2002) approached a study with the objectives of evaluating if “metrics that capture landscape pattern are independent of variation in spatial data and if they are sensitive to changes in landscape ... See full document

... of studies related to the UHI issue have been carried out, giving a significant contribution both in theory and practice for policy makers and researchers (Quattrochi & Luvall, 1999; Yuan & Bauer, 2007; ... See full document

... Watermarks on compound walls were rare and were used wherever ...based on transported blocks of damaged compound walls constructed with bricks and broken tree ... See full document

... in land use over a period of three decades in a salinity affected semi-arid region of coastal Saurashtra in ...general land use ...the land use-land cover ...various land ... See full document

... across studies but are all based on a range of in- ...rely on data from the 1970s or earlier and thus capture only part of present- day human disturbance (with the notable exception of Baccini et ... See full document

... regional climate projections had to be used to provide driving data for the hydrological ...gridded climate data provided only precipitation, temperature and wind speed as direct climate input ... See full document

... rainfall, land use and land cover (LU/LC) were considered to use in MNRCS-CN ...different land use patterns using, IRS-P4- LISS IV data for the study ...Based on the analysis, ... See full document

... global land cover products at 30m resolution ( Globalland30 ) (Chen, ...and land system at global scale(Giri et ...change studies, etc(Chen et al. 2013). However, the accuracy of land ... See full document

... data on climate and hydrology (1954–2006) to assess the ef- fects of large-scale reforestation on ...similar climate and experienced comparable and dramatic forest changes during the past ... See full document

... In LMT4 significant differences were found, not only in terms of floristic composition but also of species richness, between calcareous and siliceous soil. Thus, calcareous grasslands submitted to frequent soil tillage ... See full document

... urban land-cover change to understand the pattern of ...urban land-cover change ...based on the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and modified normalized difference water ... See full document

... Households located in squares with up to half of the area covered by residen- tial structures with extensive vegetation showed 65% lower odds of canine VL in comparison to those situated in areas almost totally covered ... See full document