Introduction. Queensland has accounted for more than 60% of the land clearing in Australia over the last 30 years and there is continuing evidence that the rate of land clearing in Queens-land is increasing (Queensland Department of Natural Resources 2000). State legislation (Vegetation Management Act 1999 and Vegetation Management Regulation 2000) and federal legislation (Environment Protectio...

The Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak are global hotspots of forest loss and degradation due to timber and oil palm industries; however, the rates and patterns of change have remained poorly measured by conventional field or satellite approaches. Using 30 m resolution optical imagery acquired since 1990, forest cover and logging roads were mapped throughout Malaysian Borneo and Brunei using...

Claims that there will be a massive loss of species as tropical forests are cleared are based on the relationship between habitat area and the number of species. Few studies calibrate extinction with habitat reduction. Critics raise doubts about this calibration, noting that there has been extensive clearing of the eastern North American forest, yet only 4 of its approximately 200 bird species ...

We ascertained villagers' perceptions about the importance of forests for their livelihoods and health through 1,837 reliably answered interviews of mostly male respondents from 185 villages in Indonesian and Malaysian Borneo. Variation in these perceptions related to several environmental and social variables, as shown in classification and regression analyses. Overall patterns indicated that ...

The study goal is to reveal foliar resorption patterns of Alcea apterocarpa populations in different habitats (riverbank, meadow and forest clearing) the Central Black Sea Region Turkey. We determined nitrogen phosphorus resorption, considering proficiency efficiency. efficiency was also calculated using mass loss correction factor (MLCF). Some studies indicated that MLCF provides unbiased valu...

The goal of the intelligent agent in this research is fulfill the settlement process in Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS). The RTGS system is a payment settlement process for individual processing of payments in an electronic system for gross settlement in real time. Settlement process in this research is managed by clearing house. The mechanism at clearing house is a transmitter client sends a...

A fully automatic horizontal mobile measuring system (HMMS) for atmospheric quantities has been developed. The HMMS is based on the drive mechanism of a garden railway system and can be installed at any location and along any measuring track. In addition to meteorological quantities (temperature, humidity and short-/longwave down/upwelling radiation), HMMS also measures trace gas concentrations...

Many studies have identified drivers of deforestation throughout the tropics and, in most cases, have recognised differences in the level of threat. However, only a few have also looked at the temporal and spatial dynamics by which those drivers act, which is critical for assessing the conservation of biodiversity as well as for landscape planning. In this study, we analyse land cover change be...

Clearing wild forests to grow food, fibre, and fuel products can deliver large financial gains. However, the benefits that people obtain from forests-known as ecosystem services-are rarely considered in economic calculations, partly because there are few markets onto which they can be traded. In some regions, the benefits delivered by nature might be more economically valuable. A new study maps...