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Shuitu baochi tongbao, 2022 [Objective] The temporal and spatial differentiation of land use and land cover change of the Lijiang River basin during 2000—2020 was analyzed in order to provide a basis for spatial governance for coordinated human activities and ecological security ...
Zhang Junmin, Li Yuqiao, Rong Cheng
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Land, 2021 Protecting areas of important ecological value is one of the main approaches to safeguarding the Earth’s ecosystems. However, the long-term effectiveness of protected areas is often uncertain.
Benhui Zhu, Shizuka Hashimoto
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The Relationship between Urban Sprawl and Farmland Displacement in the Pearl River Delta, China
Land, 2013 China is rapidly urbanizing and will inevitably face trade-offs between promoting economic growth through further urbanization and protecting fertile farmland against accelerated urban expansion. This paper presents how this dilemma is being addressed in
Shiqiang Du +2 more
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An analysis of the slow city movement in the context of landscape indicators: A new criteria proposal [PDF]
Spatium, 2023 The research aims to identify new landscape indicators assessing the physical characteristics and structure of the “slow cities” identified by the Slow City (Cittaslow) Movement.
Tokuş Coşgun Müge, Erdem Kaya Meltem
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Index of landscape patterns of various landscapes.
, 2023 Index of landscape patterns of various landscapes.
Qinfei Bai (17357525) +5 more
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Multiple ecosystem services landscape index: A tool for multifunctional landscapes conservation
Journal of Environmental Management, 2015 The contribution of ecosystems to human well-being has been widely recognised. Taking into account existing trade-offs between ecosystem services (ES) at the farm scale and the dependence of multiple ES on processes that take place at the landscape scale, long-term preservation of multifunctional landscapes must be a priority.
Rodríguez Loinaz, Gloria +2 more
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Agricultural Landscape Composition Linked with Acoustic Measures of Avian Diversity
, 2020 Measuring, monitoring, and managing biodiversity across agricultural regions depends on methods that can combine high-resolution mapping of landscape patterns with local biodiversity observations. This study explores the potential to monitor biodiversity
Erle C. Ellis +2 more
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Urban Science, 2020 For decades, urban sprawl has remained a major challenge for big cities in developing countries, such as Bamako. The aim of this study is to analyze urban sprawl pattern changes over time in the Bamako district using landscape index analyses.
Moussa Aliou Keita, Renzong Ruan, Ru An
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Landscape Environmental Monitoring [PDF]
, 2011 Landscape pattern is of primary interest to landscape ecologists and landscape metrics are used to quantify landscape pattern. Calculation of landscape metrics is commonly conducted on completely mapped areas based on remotely sensed data.
Svensson, Johan +2 more
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Outcomes of applying a geopedologic approach to soil survey in Iran [PDF]
Desert, 2017 The paper reviews a set of soil surveys carried out in Iran using a geopedologic approach for different surveying aims in different scales. Most of these studies have implemented a similar survey method including the following steps: delineation of ...
N. Toomanian, I. Esfandiarpour Boroujeni
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