To investigate the effect of arable land protection policies in China, a practical framework that integrates geographic information systems (GIS), soil quality assessment and landscape metrics analysis was employed to track and analyze arable land transformations and landscape changes in response to rampant urbanization within the Ningbo region (China) from 2005 to 2013. The results showed that...

Climate change plays an important role in the transition of ecosystems. Stratigraphic investigations have suggested that the Asian interior experienced frequent transitions between grassland and desert ecosystems as a consequence of global climate change. Using maternally and bi-parentally inherited markers, we investigated the population dynamics of Agriophyllum squarrosum (Chenopodiaceae), an...

The exodus of people from rural areas to cities brings many detrimental environmental, social and cultural consequences. Monitoring spatiotemporal change by referencing the historical timeline or incidence has become an important way to analyze urbanization. This study has attempted to attain the cross-sectional analysis of Kathmandu valley that has been plagued by rampant urbanization over the...

Agricultural degradation areas are increasing worldwide. From them, 56% due to water erosion, 28% wind 12% soil nutrient depletion, salinization, pollution processes, and 4% densification, swamping, subsidence processes. As a result of such negative processes the existence shortage problem in 80 countries world, 7 million hectares arable land withdrawn from agricultural use every year, food sec...

In this study, statistical data on the national economic and social development, including the year-end actual area of arable land, the crop yield per unit area and 10 factors, were obtained for the period between 1980 and 2010 and used to analyze the factors driving changes in the arable land of the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi, China. The following areas of arable land, which represent d...

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...