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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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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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Clare Price and Paul Elsner
Forest loss and degradation are central problems in the context of climate change and biodiversity conservation. The identification of areas of loss relies on accurate base maps. Central datasets in this context are the products of the Global Land Analys...
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Sergio Llerena-Montoya, Andrés Velastegui-Montoya, Bryan Zhirzhan-Azanza, Viviana Herrera-Matamoros, Marcos Adami, Aline de Lima, Francisco Moscoso-Silva and Luis Encalada
The Ecuadorian Amazon is considered a biodiverse region, and at the same time contains the largest number of oil blocks and oilfields in the country. Oil exploitation requires the implementation of oil facilities and related infrastructure, such as roads...
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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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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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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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