The role of land‐use history in driving successional pathways and its implications for the restoration of tropical forests

CC Jakovac, AB Junqueira, R Crouzeilles… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Secondary forests are increasingly important components of human‐modified landscapes in
the tropics. Successional pathways, however, can vary enormously across and within …

The influence of ecosystems services depletion to climate change adaptation efforts in Africa

W Leal Filho, UM Azeiteiro, AL Balogun… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Climate change is one of the major challenges societies round the world face at present.
Apart from efforts to achieve a reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases so as to mitigate …

Land use/land cover and change detection mapping in Rahuri watershed area (MS), India using the google earth engine and machine learning approach

CB Pande - Geocarto International, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The change detection and land use and land cover (LULC) maps are more important
powerful forces behind numerous ecological systems and fallow land. The current research …

Ecosystem services from southern African woodlands and their future under global change

CM Ryan, R Pritchard, I McNicol… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Miombo and mopane woodlands are the dominant land cover in southern Africa. Ecosystem
services from these woodlands support the livelihoods of 100 M rural people and 50 M …

[HTML][HTML] The potential of agroforestry in the provision of sustainable woodfuel in sub-Saharan Africa

M Iiyama, H Neufeldt, P Dobie, M Njenga… - Current Opinion in …, 2014 - Elsevier
Highlights•In SSA, woodfuels account for 80% of energy supply.•The demand for charcoal
has grown@ 3%/year against 1%/year of that for firewood.•Expected increase in charcoal …

The maturation of ecosystem services: Social and policy research expands, but whither biophysically informed valuation?

KMA Chan, T Satterfield - People and Nature, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The concept of ecosystem services (ES) has risen to prominence based on its promise to
vastly improve environmental decision‐making and to represent nature's many benefits to …

[HTML][HTML] Miombo woodland under threat: Consequences for tree diversity and carbon storage

EKK Jew, AJ Dougill, SM Sallu, J O'Connell… - Forest Ecology and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Agriculture is expanding rapidly in the miombo woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa. Clear
felling results in the loss of species and ecosystem services. The remaining woodland is …

Farmland tree species diversity and spatial distribution pattern in semi-arid East Shewa, Ethiopia

Y Endale, A Derero, M Argaw… - Forests, trees and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Information on tree species occurring in farming systems in semi-arid agroecologies
is critical for sustainable land management, biodiversity conservation and informing food …

Effects of pre-processing methods on Landsat OLI-8 land cover classification using OBIA and random forests classifier

D Phiri, J Morgenroth, C Xu, T Hermosilla - International journal of applied …, 2018 - Elsevier
The application of Landsat satellite imagery in land cover classification is affected by
atmospheric and topographic errors, which have led to the development of different …

Study of land use classification in an arid region using multispectral satellite images

CB Pande, KN Moharir, SFR Khadri, S Patil - Applied Water Science, 2018 - Springer
Rapid urbanization and deforestation have led to increased areas of wasteland in the
northern region of the Akola district of Maharashtra, India. This study investigates land use …