1 GULD, Regional Climate Group, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden 2 Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden 3 Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt 4 State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Acade...

since the mid-19 th century, human activities have increased greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide in the earth's atmosphere that resulted in increased average temperature. the effects of rising temperature include soil degradation, loss of productivity of agricultural land, desertification, loss of biodiversity, degradation of ecosystems, reduced fresh-water resou...

the present study illustrates the long-term changes in selected socioeconomic variables (population,industrial activities, settlement dispersion, and land-use) together with climate aridity trends in thriasio, the larger industrial area of greece located twenty kilometers far from athens. this region, originally devoted to agriculture, experienced fast industrial and economic development during...

Using MODIS derived fPAR with ground based flux tower measurements to derive the light use efficiency for two Canadian peatlands J. Connolly, N. T. Roulet, J. W. Seaquist, N. M. Holden, P. M. Lafleur, E. R. Humphreys, B. W. Heumann, and S. M. Ward Biosystems Engineering, UCD School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Department of Geo...

Disentangling the effects of climate and people on Sahel vegetation dynamics J. W. Seaquist, T. Hickler, L. Eklundh, J. Ardö, and B. W. Heumann Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystems Analysis, Geobiosphere Science Centre, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, 223 62, Lund, Sweden Department of Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Saunders Hall, Campus Box 3220, Chapel Hill...

land evaluation is the process of predicting the land use potential on the basis of its attributes. at the present study the qualitative land suitability evaluation was investigated for specific cereal crops including irrigated wheat (triticum aestivum l.), mays (zea mays l.) and cotton (gossypium herbaceum l.), based on fao land evaluation frame works (1976, 1983 and1985), climatic and soil re...

introduction: the old age is one of the vulnerable classes of people in every society. the most important issue concerning the improvement of health and quality of life of the old age deals with preservation of a high degree of their independence in physical activities and continuation of an active life. the present research aimed at comparing the effect of two types of physical activity in wat...

Journal of Land Use Science Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t724921301 Complex systems models and the management of error and uncertainty J. P. Messina a; T. P. Evans b; S. M. Manson c; A. M. Shortridge a; P. J. Deadman d; P. H. Verburg e a Department of Geography, Michigan State University, USA...