Disintegration and reorganization of ecological land use ordination.

Disintegration of the ecological community.

In this essay, I argue that the seemingly indestructible concept of the community as a local, interacting assemblage of species has hindered progress toward understanding species richness at local to regional scales. I suggest that the distributions of species within a region reveal more about the processes that generate diversity patterns than does the co-occurrence of species at any given poi...

Ecological Principles for Managing Land Use

Assessment of Land Use Ecological Footprint in an Iranian Small City

Land use and land cover change in Arctic Russia: Ecological and social implications of industrial development

Sizable areas in northwestern arctic Russia have undergone fundamental change in recent decades as the explorationofvasthydrocarbondepositshas intensified.Weundertook twocase studieson the influenceof oil and gas activities within neighbouring federal districts in the tundra zone. Employing a strongly interdisciplinary approach, we studied the ecological, spatial and social dimensions of the vi...

Analysis of Land Use and Land Cover Changes, and Their Ecological Implications in Wuhan, China

This study investigated land use changes, and their ecological effects in Wuhan (1987-2005). Remote Sensing techniques extracted land use data, whilst the spatial analyst software, Fragstats quantified ecological metrics at both landscape and class levels. The results showed increased urban and agricultural land uses (1987-2005); with urban land increasing more than 250 percent. This was largel...