Anthropogenic stress and disturbance of forest ecosystems (FES) has been increasing at all
scales from local to global. In rapidly changing environments, in-situ terrestrial FES …

Vegetation cover change is one of the key indicators used for monitoring environmental
quality. It can accurately reflect changes in hydrology, climate, and human activities …

Designed to help students understand the multiple levels at which human populations
respond to their surroundings, this essential text offers the most complete discussion of …

Fusion of optical and SAR time series imagery has the potential to improve forest monitoring
in tropical regions, where cloud cover limits optical satellite time series observations. We …

Increasing attention on tropical deforestation and forest degradation has necessitated more
detailed knowledge of forest change dynamics in the tropics. With an increasing amount of …

Aim Andean montane forests are biodiversity hotspots and large carbon stores and they
provide numerous ecosystem services. Following land abandonment after centuries of forest …

Tropical disturbed forests play an important role in global carbon sequestration due to their
rapid post-disturbance biomass accumulation rates. However, the accurate estimation of the …

Land change was assessed in the Albertine rift region (ARR) using its central section of
north-western Rwanda as case study. This region is one of Africa's most ecologically …

In the context of the climate and biodiversity crisis facing our planet, tropical forests playing a
key role in global carbon flux and containing over half of Earth's species are important to …

Tropical forest loss and fragmentation are due to increase in coming decades.
Understanding how matrix dynamics, especially secondary forest regrowth, can lessen …