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Multi-Scale Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Brown Bear Habitat in Northern Iberia: A Large Landscape Conservation Planning Perspective [PDF]

, 2015
Problem Statement The distributions of brown bears in northern Iberia are mainly found in protected areas but they also extend beyond protected boundaries. Since brown bears need large continuous areas of habitat with sufficient availability of preferred
Pacheco, Alma D
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Forest fragmentation in Massachusetts, USA: a town-level assessment using Morphological spatial pattern analysis and affinity propagation [PDF]

, 2020
Forest fragmentation has been studied extensively with respect to biodiversity loss, disruption of ecosystem services, and edge effects although the relationship between forest fragmentation and human activities is still not well understood.
H Pearsall, J Cardille, J Rogan, K Partington, K Riitters, R Riemann, T M Wright, Y Ogneva-Himmelberger   +7 more
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Understanding and optimizing Cultural-Ecological patterns in protection Zones: A case study from Qiang CEPZ

Ecological Indicators
Ecosystems provide rich cultural services, which constitute the natural foundation for the formation of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). China’s cultural ecological protection zones (CEPZ) initiative aims to protect of both intangible cultural ...
He Zhu
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Construction of a Cold Island Spatial Pattern from the Perspective of Landscape Connectivity to Alleviate the Urban Heat Island Effect

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
This study presents an innovative approach to mitigating the urban heat island (UHI) effect by constructing a cold island spatial pattern (CSP) from the perspective of landscape connectivity, integrating three-dimensional (3D) urban morphology and ...
Qianli Ouyang, Bohong Zheng, Junyou Liu, Xi Luo, Shengyan Wu, Zhaoqian Sun   +5 more
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Environment Workshops 2013. Oak forests coping with global change: ecology and management [PDF]

, 2013
Congreso celebrado del 30 de septiembre-2 de octubre 2013, en Baeza (Jaén), España.The genus Quercus has about 500 species distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere.
Marañón, Teodoro, Pérez-Ramos, Ignacio Manuel, Villar Montero, Rafael   +2 more
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Construction and Optimization Strategy of Ecological Security Pattern in County-Level Cities under Spatial and Temporal Variation of Ecosystem Services: Case Study of Mianzhu, China

Land
Climate change and human activities are seriously affecting the ecological level and economic development of county-level cities. Mianzhu City is a typical county-level city located within the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle and the Yangtze River ...
Keming Xiang, Liang Chen, Wenyu Li, Zhengwei He   +3 more
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Construction and Optimization of Ecological Network Based on SOM and XGBoost-SHAP: A Case Study of the Zhengzhou–Kaifeng–Luoyang Region

Land
The ecological network serves as a vital spatial strategy for addressing climate change, biodiversity loss, and habitat fragmentation. Addressing limitations in existing ecological network studies—such as strong subjectivity and insufficient accuracy in ...
Yunuo Chen, Pingyang Han, Pengfei Wang, Baoguo Liu, Yang Liu   +4 more
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Effect of thematic map misclassification on landscape multi-metric assessment [PDF]

, 2015

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Morphological Characteristics and Spatial Evolution Laws of Rural Settlements at Peak-cluster Depressions in Rocky Desertification Areas

Shuitu Baochi Xuebao
[Objective] To explore the morphological characteristics and spatial evolution patterns of rural settlements in the karst depression rocky desertification area.
LIN Guang, WANG Yan, WANG Lei, LIU Yungen, XU Jincheng, LIN Pin   +5 more
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Quantifying landscape fragmentation and forest carbon dynamics over 35 years in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Environmental Research Letters
The Brazilian Atlantic Forest (AF) covers 13% of Brazil but retains only 26% of its original forest area. Utilizing a Morphological Spatial Pattern Analysis (MSPA), we generated 30 m spatial resolution fragmentation maps for old-growth and secondary ...
Igor S Broggio, Celso H L Silva-Junior, Marcelo T Nascimento, Dora M Villela, Luiz E O C Aragão   +4 more
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