The increased demand for oil and gas places a burden on lands set aside for natural resource conservation. Oil and gas development alters the environment locally and on a much broader spatial scale depending on the intensity and extent of mineral resource extraction. The current increase in oil and gas exploration and production in the United States prompted an update of the number of pipelines...

A growing and more affluent human population is expected to increase the demand for resources and to accelerate habitat modification, but by how much and where remains unknown. Here we project and aggregate global spatial patterns of expected urban and agricultural expansion, conventional and unconventional oil and gas, coal, solar, wind, biofuels and mining development. Cumulatively, these thr...

Acknowledgements I would like to express my deepest gratitude to Dr. Marilyn Masson, who so kindly took me under her wing during my sophomore year as a member of her Economic Foundations of Mayapán Project, not once but on four separate occasions. She taught me the value and enjoyment of archaeology in a world increasingly unconnected to its past; what it means to collaborate in a multicultural...

Using a process-based Dynamic Land Ecosystem Model, we assessed carbon dynamics of urbanized/developed lands in the Southern United States during 1945-2007. The results indicated that approximately 1.72 (1.69-1.77) Pg (1P = 10(15)) carbon was stored in urban/developed lands, comparable to the storage of shrubland or cropland in the region. Urbanization resulted in a release of 0.21 Pg carbon to...

Biodiversity in agricultural landscapes can be increased with conversion of some production lands into 'more-natural'- unmanaged or extensively managed - lands. However, it remains unknown to what extent biodiversity can be enhanced by altering landscape pattern without reducing agricultural production. We propose a framework for this problem, considering separately compositional heterogeneity ...

Abstract Privately-owned forests provide important environmental, economic, and cultural benefits to the general public. Resulting impacts from landownership changes conversion of working other land uses threaten these benefits. The USDA Forest Service Legacy Program (FLP) permanently protects threatened private that are cultural, economic importance greater public while keeping ownership fores...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency and severity drought over arable lands Romania using Normalized Difference Drought Index (NDDI). This index obtained from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectro-Radiometer (MODIS) sensor Terra satellite. interval between March September investigated occurrence early stage crop growth its harvest time. covered a long period (2001–2020), hence it i...

The energy versus time of arrival pattem of neutrinos from SN1987A is sensitive to a neutrino mass, m~, of order a few eV. To disentangle constraints on m~ from the data, a theory of supernova emission is necessary. We recall the present status of this theory and approximate its predictions in two diffusion models: one designed to reflect the present supernova lore, the other devised to pessimi...

In this essay, I examine the 2016 takeover of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. The principal instigators occupation, Bundy family Nevada, pointed to federally owned public lands as primary reason for their takeover, citing allegedly unconstitutional government ownership these lands. contend that Bundys’ arguments about exemplify rhetorical strategies further one ends settler colonialism; remak...