For an optimum use of natural resources in the sustainable development trend, there is a need to identify ecological resources in the shortest period of time and minimum possible cost. In this article, we aimed Management ecosystem by Assessment of plant covers changes at Taleghan Township in a twenty year period. Percentage of landscape and number of patch were among the metrics that were calc...

Predicting trends in land use/cover change (LUCC) and assessing future ecological security (ES) can help effectively balance regional conservation economic development. In this study, a use simulation model was used to predict the spatial-temporal variation Kashgar 2030 under three scenarios (inertial development, agricultural protection, forest rangeland conservation). Subsequently, by combini...

Coastal areas are usually considered as pioneering for economic development and reform due to their unique geographical locations ecological conditions. Correspondingly, rapid urbanization in coastal urban agglomerations has resulted population concentration land use/cover change (LUCC), leading the decline of habitat quality biodiversity. However, few studies have quantitatively explored impac...

Global land use/cover change (LUCC) datasets are essential for quantitatively assessing the impacts of LUCC on global change, but many uncertainties in existing seriously hamper climate modeling. Evaluating reliability is a precondition improved data quality. In this study, based regional historical document-based reconstructions, satellite-based data, and reclamation evidence Xinjiang area Chi...

Cellular Landscapes. Many ABM/LUCC researchers begin by developing models that operate over an abstract landscape, even when their longer-term goals include application to real-world landscapes. Roles for abstract ABM/LUCC models are discussed by Parker and colleagues (Parker, Berger, and Manson 2002 a,b; Parker, Manson, and Berger 2002; Parker et al. 2003), and the advantages of a progression ...

Modeling and predicting land use/cover change (LUCC) identifying its drivers have been a focus of research over the past few decades. In order to solve problem resource degradation in typical pastoral areas, reveal temporal spatial evolution characteristics LUCC, contradiction between man sustainable development, we analyze Gurvanbulag area Bulgan province, Mongolia, where grassland is relative...

■ Abstract We highlight the complexity of land-use/cover change and propose a framework for a more general understanding of the issue, with emphasis on tropical regions. The review summarizes recent estimates on changes in cropland, agricultural intensification, tropical deforestation, pasture expansion, and urbanization and identifies the still unmeasured land-cover changes. Climate-driven lan...

Quantifying the amount of forest and change in the amount of forest are key to ensure that appropriate management practices and policies are in place to maintain the array of ecosystem services provided by forests. There are a range of analytical techniques and data available to estimate these forest parameters, however, not all ‘forest’ is the same and various components of change have been pr...

ocal and regional land-use and land-cover change is an important ingredient in the larger problem of global environmental change. Land-use patterns, driven by a variety of social processes, result in land-cover changes that affect biodiversity, water and radiation budgets, trace-gas emissions, and other factors that, cumulatively, alter the global climate and biosphere. Most research on global ...

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) is an area sensitive to global climate change, and land use/land cover change (LUCC) plays a vital role in regulating system at different temporal spatial scales. In this study, we analyzed the trend of precipitation characteristics LUCC on QTP. Meanwhile, also used normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) as indicator discuss relationship between precipitat...