Questions of land use/land cover change have attracted interest among a wide variety of
researchers concerned with modeling the spatial and temporal patterns of land conversion …

This new edition of Invasion Ecology provides a comprehensive and updated introduction to
all aspects of biological invasion by non-native species. Highlighting important research …

They may influence us as individuals by their encouragement and guidance; they may affect
their community through their untiring commitment to service and the greater good; or they …

The incorporation of landscape ecological and fragmentation analyses within remote
sensing science has expanded the inferential capabilities of such research. This issue …

Interdisciplinary work in environmental eco-nomics, and increasingly in certain areas of
interest to agricultural economists, frequently in-volves us with essentially ecological …

In this paper we test the hypothesis that landscape changes in a region of Northern Portugal
(Minho) in the last 40 years could be predicted from socioeconomic and political history. The …

Partly in response to the country's expanding networks of roads and increasing reliance on
the automobile, population began shifting from cities to suburbs before World War II …

Social and economic considerations are among the most important drivers of landscape
change, yet few studies have addressed economic and environmental influences on …

In Malaysia, rapid changes in land use invariably portrayed have a relationship with
environmental degradation. However, this has always been stated without any quantitative …

This paper develops an approach to modelling land use change that links model selection
and multi-model inference with empirical models and GIS. Land use change is frequently …