In this study, a land use/land cover change analysis method was developed to examine patterns of land use/land cover conversions of cropland to urban uses and conversions of rangeland to cropland uses in the United States (US) Midwest region. We used the US 2001 and 2006 National Land Cover Datasets (NLCD) for our spatial analyses of these conversion trends. Our analysis showed that the eastern...

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CARMA (CAse-based Range Management Adviser) is a system that integrates case-based reasoning with model-based reasoning for rangeland pest management. CARMA’s predictions of rangeland forage loss by grasshoppers were compared to predictions by 15 expert entomologists using either global or case-specific adaptation weights. Under both conditions, CARMA’s predictions were more accurate than CARMA...

Land surface temperature (LST) and land albedo (LSA) are the two key regional global climate-controlling parameters; assessing their behavior would likely result in a better understanding of appropriate adaptation strategies to mitigate consequences climate change. This study was conducted explore spatiotemporal variability LST LSA across different use/cover (LULC) classes northwest Iran. To do...

rangelands are one of the most vulnerable parts concerning the climatechanges‟ impacts. these impacts are even stronger in the arid and semi-arid areas whererangeland ecosystems are in critical conditions. therefore, it is crucial to figure out theactual dynamics of climate variations on the rangelands. the aim of this research was todetermine climate changes in khabr rangeland, kerman, iran. s...

Livestock obtain forage by grazing on rangeland. In California annual rangelands, residual dry matter is commonly used to determine proper levels. Rangeland biomass and quality can degrade dramatically during the dormant summer period. We examined 25 sites across an rainfall gradient (183–492 mm) over 3 contrasting yr (2015–2017) that varied from 57% 152% of average precipitation. Overall fract...

An approach is proposed in the present study to estimate soil erosion data-scarce Kokcha subbasin Afghanistan. The Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) model used erosion. satellite-based data are obtain RUSLE factors. results show that slight (71.34%) and moderate (25.46%) dominated basin. In contrast, high (0.01%) insignificant area. highest amount of observed Rangeland (52.2%) follow...