The paper presents results of the analysis long-term changes in vegetation cover abandoned agricultural lands forest-steppe zone Central Chernozem Region using time series Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), which are measured MOD13Q1 data. index dynamics linked with proportion forest communities formed on is investigated. values for period mid-August most informative analyzing share...

BACKGROUND Land use and land cover change occurring in tropical forest landscapes contributes substantially to carbon emissions. Better insights into the spatial variation of aboveground biomass is therefore needed. By means of multiple statistical tests, including geographically weighted regression, we analysed the effects of eight variables on the regional spatial variation of aboveground bio...

In this paper we consider the classical problem of dividing a land among many agents so that everybody is satisfied with the parcel she receives. In the literature, it is usually assumed that all the agents are endowed with cardinally comparable, additive, and monotone utility functions. In many economic and political situations violations of these assumptions may arise. We show how a family of...

This study aimed to produce the erosion susceptibility map of Godrahav basin by using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method. stream basin, located within borders Artvin province in Eastern Black Sea Region, covers an area approximately 5310.12 hectares. In order area, 11 geo-environmental criteria which are effective formation (slope, aspect, profile curvature, drainage density, distance netw...

1. Definitions 1.1. Types of Aridity 1.2. Levels of Aridity 2. Paleoperspective 3. People and Land Use in Arid Lands 3.1. Foragers/Hunter–gatherers 3.2. Agriculturists 3.3. Pastoralists 4. Geomorphology of Arid and Semiarid Lands 5. Biological Diversity in Arid Lands 5.1. Arid and Semiarid Lands Plants and their Uses 5.2. The Future of the Conservation of Wild Plants in Arid Regions 6. Climatic...

the hastening increase in the population of the cities ,lack of urban infrastructures ,shifting the land use and the consequent vanish of ecologically valuable lands in the countries ,industrial pollutions ,illegal settlement in the suburbs and other human activities which have influenced the growth of cities in iran too ,make it necessary to study and analyze the growth of rasht(the capital of...