Gustavsson, E. 2007. Grassland plant diversity in relation to historical and current land use. Doctor's dissertation. About 150 years ago agriculture was drastically reformed and around 90% of the formerly vastly distributed semi-natural grasslands, i.e. unfertilised and uncultivated grasslands, have since then disappeared. Accordingly, grassland plant diversity has declined due to abandonment,...

identification of rapid degradation of ecological resources requires effective environmental monitoring including ecological integrity assessment .our first aim is to analyze ecological integrity in a landscape context while developing a method to assess integrity in spite of a dearth of historical data. we used a spatial-temporal reference framework for land cover maps for assessing ecologica...

Cultural landscapes are increasingly understood as something not merely to be protected. The European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) and the European Landscape Convention (ELC) as well as the new Concepts and Strategies for Spatial Development in Germany propose considering cultural landscapes also as a force to promote cooperative regional development. Common historical roots, special ...

We investigate an integrated approach to scientometric studies with emphasis to the use of information visualization and animation techniques. This study draws upon citation and co-citation patterns derived from articles published in the journal Scientometrics (19812001). The modeling and visualization takes an evolutionary and historical perspective. The design of the visualization model adapt...

despite various researches on different aspects of world heritage sites in iran approved by unesco, little has been done on the landscapes of these valuable sites and complexes and their importance in achieving place identity. this is whilst the landscape of each complex is a valuable resource, and is similar to the work itself in need of conservation and maintenance. the importance of this iss...

Aim Greater sage-grouse ( Centrocercus urophasianus ), a shrub-steppe obligate species of western North America, currently occupies only half its historical range. Here we examine how broad-scale, long-term trends in landscape condition have affected range contraction. Location Sagebrush biome of the western USA. Methods Logistic regression was used to assess persistence and extirpation of grea...

Ancient geographical maps are our window into the past for understanding spatial dynamics of last centuries. This paper proposes a novel approach to address this problem using deep learning. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) today state-of-the-art methods in handling variety problems fields image processing. The Cassini map, created eighteenth century, is used illustrate methodology. enables...

Modeling and simulating the effects of human factors on landscape change remain as challenges for ecological studies. In this paper, we present a dynamic landscape simulation (DLS) approach to elucidate human-induced landscape changes for a 5104 km study area within the Chicago metropolitan region. The DLS consists of an urban growth simulation submodel and a land-cover simulation submodel. Thi...

The Mao-Kung Ting is one of the most precious artifacts in the National Palace Museum. Having five-hundred-character inscription cast inside, the Mao-Kung Ting is regarded as a very important historical document, dating back to 800 B.C.. Motivated by revealing the great nature of the artifact and interpreting it into a meaningful narrative, we have proposed an innovative Virtual Exhibition Syst...