Modeling land use change using cellular automata and artificial neural network: The case of Chunati Wildlife Sanctuary, Bangladesh

K Islam, MF Rahman, M Jashimuddin - Ecological indicators, 2018 - Elsevier
Land use changes generally affect the integrity of an ecosystem. The effect of this change
can be very severe if the conversion disrupts a crucial habitat of major plants and animals …

Determinants of agricultural land abandonment in post-Soviet European Russia

AV Prishchepov, D Müller, M Dubinin, M Baumann… - Land use policy, 2013 - Elsevier
The breakdown of socialism caused massive socio-economic and institutional changes that
led to substantial agricultural land abandonment. The goal of our study was to identify the …

The transparency, reliability and utility of tropical rainforest land‐use and land‐cover change models

IMD Rosa, SE Ahmed, RM Ewers - Global change biology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Land‐use and land‐cover (LULC) change is one of the largest drivers of biodiversity loss
and carbon emissions globally. We use the tropical rainforests of the Amazon, the Congo …

Simulation of watershed hydrology and stream water quality under land use and climate change scenarios in Teshio River watershed, northern Japan

M Fan, H Shibata - Ecological Indicators, 2015 - Elsevier
Quantitative prediction of environmental impacts of land-use and climate change scenarios
in a watershed can serve as a basis for developing sound watershed management …

Deforestation, forest degradation, and land use dynamics in the Northeastern Ecuadorian Amazon

S López - Applied Geography, 2022 - Elsevier
Land cover transformations throughout the Amazon basin have significantly intensified in
recent decades due to increased human activity. Using a land change science approach …

The impacts of climate changes and human activities on net primary productivity vary across an ecotone zone in Northwest China

M Teng, L Zeng, W Hu, P Wang, Z Yan, W He… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
The variations in net primary productivity (NPP) and its controls are critical to understand the
mechanisms that maintain ecosystem services under ongoing climate change and human …

Quantitative assessment of the individual contribution of climate and human factors to desertification in northwest China using net primary productivity as an indicator

W Zhou, C Gang, F Zhou, J Li, X Dong, C Zhao - Ecological Indicators, 2015 - Elsevier
An accurate quantitative assessment of the relative roles of climate change and human
activities in desertification is significant to understand the driving mechanisms deeply and …

Climate change weakens the positive effect of human activities on karst vegetation productivity restoration in southern China

L Wu, S Wang, X Bai, Y Tian, G Luo, J Wang, Q Li… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
China has conducted large-scale eco-afforestation projects in karst areas for mitigating
rocky desertification in recent decades. However, the benefits of karst vegetation productivity …

Land‐use changes as major drivers of mountain pine (Pinus uncinata Ram.) expansion in the Pyrenees

A Améztegui, L Brotons, L Coll - Global Ecology and …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To assess the spatial patterns of forest expansion (encroachment and densification) for
mountain pine (Pinus uncinata Ram.) during the last 50 years at a whole mountain range …

Modelling food security: Bridging the gap between the micro and the macro scale

B Müller, F Hoffmann, T Heckelei, C Müller… - Global Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Achieving food and nutrition security for all in a changing and globalized world remains a
critical challenge of utmost importance. The development of solutions benefits from insights …