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New criteria for sustainable land use planning of metropolitan green infrastructures in the tropical Andes
ContextUrbanization is rapidly increasing worldwide, with about 60% of the global population currently residing in cities and expected to reach 68%...
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Investigating climate and land use change impacts on design flood estimation over Indian tropical catchments
Land use and climate change studies have emerged as a critical component of current natural resource management and environmental monitoring...
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Assessing the impact of land use change on different components of plant diversity in a tropical montane cloud forest of Mexico
Worldwide, land use change is largely promoting intense biodiversity loss in many ecosystems, and Mexico is no exception to this. The information on...
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Land-use effects on leaf-litter breakdown in streams in a tropical lowland catchment
The expansion of oil palm and cattle grazing in the tropics continues to alter numerous ecosystem functions. The generated land-use change is...
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Local and Regional Effects of Land-Use Intensity on Aboveground Biomass and Tree Diversity in Tropical Montane Cloud Forests
The quantity and spatial patterns of aboveground biomass (AGB) are expected to correlate with ecosystem structure and biodiversity across biomes....
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Overstory functional groups indicate the legacy of land use in a secondary tropical forest in southwestern China
Anthropogenic disturbances are widespread in tropical forests and influence the species composition in the overstory. However, the impacts of...
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Land Use and Soil Contamination in Dry Tropical Ecosystems
This chapter explores how land uses and soil contamination in dry tropical ecosystems must affect soil organisms’ community composition. Land use is...
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Assessing the impact of land use/land cover changes on agricultural land in the Red River Delta, Vietnam
The Red River Delta is a vital economic, political, cultural, and social region in Vietnam, with the highest population density. In recent years,...
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Impacts of land use history on leaf litter input, chemical composition, decomposition and related nutrient cycling in young and old secondary tropical lowland rainforests (Sumatra, Indonesia)
BackgroundNutrient cycle in tropical forests is mainly driven by litter fall amounts and by litter decay due to litter physical and chemical...
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Invertebrate-Mediated Ecosystem Processes are Resilient to Disturbance Across a Land-Use Gradient in Borneo
A fundamental challenge for ecologists is to evaluate the effects of anthropogenic disturbance on ecosystem processes and functions. Tropical...
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Does land-use and land cover affect vector-borne diseases? A systematic review and meta-analysis
ContextVector-borne diseases (VBD) are a worldwide public health problem for humans and wildlife. 'Global Change' such as habitat alteration and...
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Tropical land use drives endemic versus exotic ant communities in a global biodiversity hotspot
Understanding how land-use change affects biodiversity is a fundamental step to develop effective conservation strategies in human-modified tropical...
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Soil Physical-chemical Traits and Soil Quality Index in a Tropical Cambisol as Influenced by Land Uses and Soil Depth at Apodi Plateau, Northeastern Brazil
The soil physical-chemical changes in different land uses in a Tropical Cambisol at Apodi Plateau, Northeastern Brazil, were investigated between May...
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Characteristics of Bird Community Response to Land Use Change in Tropical Peatland in Riau, Indonesia
Tropical peatlands have increasingly been targeted for logging or conversion to plantations in recent years. Tropical peatlands are unique ecosystems...
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Land Use in Mississippi
About 89% of the land in Mississippi is privately owned, with 5% in federal care and 6% managed by state or other public agencies. About 62% of the...
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Understanding Drivers of Land Use and Land Cover Change in Africa: A Review
Purpose of ReviewTo develop a clear understanding and a critical assessment of current research efforts on the changes and underlying drivers of...
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Forest Land Use/Cover Change
The Uttarakhand Himalaya has 63.41% area under forests, which is the highest proportion among the major land uses. During the past decades, the...
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Area modulates the effect of elevation but not of land use or canopy on tropical plant species richness
One of the few general patterns in ecology is the increase of species richness with area. However, factors driving species-area relationship (SAR)...
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Agricultural Land-Use Systems and Management Challenges
This chapter aims at providing an overview of the diversity of agroecological conditions, features of main farming systems, agricultural land use,...
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Spatiotemporal assessment of land surface temperature and vegetation in tropical urban areas
Land use intensification and expansion in urban areas increases land surface temperature (LST). Several studies have developed to evaluate the LST...
