CHANGE OF LAND UTILIZATION IN NIIJIMA, IZU ISLANDS

Investigation of the process of land cover change using metrics and land change processes in Gorganrood watershed

Aims and Background: The present study purpose to investigate and predict the changes of metrics and Landscape change processes in the Gorganrood watershed in Golestan province.  Methodology: First, land cover maps were prepared in 1990, 2000, 2010 and 2020. Then predict land cover changes for future conditions, under two scenarios (1) continuation of the current trend of change for 2040 and (...

Impact of urban land cover change on land surface temperature

The rapid growth in urban population is seen to create a need for the development of more urban infrastructures. In order to meet this need, natural surfaces such as vegetation are been replaced with non-vegetated surfaces such as asphalt and bricks which has the ability to absorb heat and release it later. This change in land cover is seen to increase the land surface temperature. Previous stu...

The Land Mollusca of the Treasury Islands, Solomon Islands

IN THE COURSE of war service in the Solomon Islands the writer was stationed on Stirling Island in the Treasuries from December 10, 1943, ro January 13, 1944. A collection of land snails was made and subsequently this was supplemented by a collection made on Mono Island at about the same time by Me. N. Gardner. Smith (1885) recorded a number of species collected by _Guppy from the group, but si...

Impacts of land-use change on endemic avifauna on Makira, Solomon Islands: endemics

Late Holocene uplift of the Izu Islands on the northern Zenisu Ridge off Central Japan

To clarify the Holocene uplift history of the Izu Islands, Japan, we analyze the elevations and C ages of emerged sessile assemblages measured by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) on the islands of Niijima, Jinaijima, Shikinejima, and Kouzushima, on the northern Zenisu Ridge. The results suggest that uplift events took place after AD 1950 (uplift event 1), during AD 786–1891 (uplift event 2),...