Klotz, Louise A Sonnentag, Oliver Wang, Ziming Wang, Jonathan A Kang, Mary
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Environmental Research Letters
Arctic-boreal regions are experiencing major anthropogenic disturbances in addition to intensifying natural disturbance regimes as a consequence of climate change. Oil and natural gas (OG) activities are extensive in the Arctic-boreal region of western North America, a large portion of which is underlain by permafrost. The total number and distribu...
nguyen, thanh thi aderdour, nacer rhinane, hassan buerkert, andreas
Since the 1990s, Morocco’s agriculture has been characterized by the co-existence and transformation of both modern and traditional smallholder systems. In the Atlas Mountains, the effects of rural–urban transformation have led to intensified irrigated agriculture in some agricultural areas, while others were abandoned. To better understand these e...
senyshen, matthew d. chen, dongmei
Land Cover Change (LCC) has been shown to significantly impact the magnitude and trend of Land Surface Temperature (LST). However, the influence of LCC near waterbodies outside of an urban environment remain less understood. Waterbodies serve as local climate moderators where nearby LCC has the potential to decrease their cooling ability. Altered w...
isola, federica lai, sabrina leone, federica zoppi, corrado
Land take and soil sealing imply land cover transitions that may possibly result in decreased capacity to resist landslides; hence, this study focuses on the relations between land-taking processes and landslide hazard by addressing the following research question: “To what extent do land-taking processes increase landslide hazard?” The impact of l...
xing, huaqiao wang, haihang zhang, jinhua hou, dongyang
Land cover change (LCC) is increasingly affecting global climate change, energy cycle, carbon cycle, and water cycle, with far-reaching consequences to human well-being. Web service-based online change detection applications have bloomed over the past decade for monitoring land cover change. Currently, massive processing services and data services ...
fan, yi yang, qiankun wang, zhongjing yonghua, li cheng, leilei yao, bin lu, qi
Maintaining the integrity and stability of oasis ecosystems is an important topic in the field of ecological research. Assessment of ecosystem services and their changes can provide important support for the sustainable development of oases. This study took the Dunhuang oasis in the hyper-arid area as the research object and used 1990, 2010, and 20...
gebresellase, selamawit haftu zhiyong, wu huating, xu muhammad, wada idris
Understanding the spatiotemporal changes in land use and land cover (LULC) in the watershed is crucial for maintaining the sustainability of land resources. This study intents to understand the historical (1972–2015) and future (2030–2060) spatiotemporal distribution of LULC changes in the Upper Awash Basin (UAB). The supervised Maximum Likelihood ...
Dashti, Hamid Smith, William K Huo, Xueli Fox, Andrew M Javadian, Mostafa Devine, Charles J Behrangi, Ali Moore, David J P
Published in
Environmental Research Letters
The Arctic and Boreal Region (ABR) is subject to extensive land cover change (LCC) due to elements such as wildfire, permafrost thaw, and shrubification. The natural and anthropogenic ecosystem transitions (i.e. LCC) alter key ecosystem characteristics including land surface temperature (LST), albedo, and evapotranspiration (ET). These biophysical ...
Magliano, Patricio N Breshears, David D Murray, Francisco Niborski, Marcos J Nosetto, Marcelo D Zou, Chris B Jobbágy, Esteban G
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Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America
Livestock production in drylands requires consideration of the ecological applications of ecohydrological redistribution of water. Intensive cattle trampling and the associated increase of surface runoff are common concerns for rangeland productivity and sustainability. Here, we highlight a regional livestock production system in which cattle trail...
hora, benedikt almonacid, fabian gonzález-reyes, alvaro
The Valdivian temperate rainforest (VTR) is a biome on the South American continent with high endemism that has experienced an intensive land-cover change in recent decades due to the expansion of agriculture, plantations of introduced forests, and urban growth. Today, the biome hosts key parts of the country’s agricultural and forestry industries....
