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Simulating land use change for sustainable land management in rapid urbanization regions: a case study of the Yangtze River Delta region
ContextThe rapid urbanization in China has led to acute land use conflicts between urban expansion and the protection of cropland and ecological...
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Species-Rich Arable Land
Before the introduction of mineral fertilizers and the widespread use of synthetic pesticides, arable land of Central Europe was home to a large...
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Factors Causing Land Degradation
Land degradationLand degradation, a decline in land quality caused by many factors, was a major global issue during the twentieth century and will...
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Precision land leveling for sustainable rice production: case studies in Cambodia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, and India
Laser-controlled land leveling (LLL) can help improve rice production's spatial and temporal management, leading to optimized water and crop...
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Differences in Tropical Peat Soil Physical and Chemical Properties Under Different Land Uses: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Drainage and conversion of natural peatlands, which increases fire frequency, haze air pollution and carbon emissions, also affects the physical and...
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Bibliometric analysis of ecological compensation and its application in land resources
Ecological compensation has been widely used in the field of environmental protection, but its application in land resources is relatively...
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Spatial predictions for the distribution of woody plant species under different land-use scenarios in southwestern Ethiopia
ContextDeforestation, forest degradation and intensification of farming threaten terrestrial biodiversity. As these land-use changes accelerate in...
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Using Agricultural Production Functions to Analyse Land Tenure Reforms
Agricultural land policy changes have important implications for an economy. Their effect on agricultural productivity is of great interest. This...
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Physical Subsoil Constraints of Agricultural and Forestry Land
Physical subsoil constraints can originate from natural or anthropic processes, and some of them can be reduced, avoided, corrected and/or predicted...
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Rushes as a phytoindicator of a lake’s surrounding land use
Rushes belong to the group of plants commonly found in water bodies, fulfilling many important functions. However, their presence depends both on...
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Carbon emissions in the field of land use, land use change, and forestry in the Vietnam mainland
The biennial report of Vietnam includes updated information on the greenhouse gas emissions for the base years which are specified by the United...
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Socio-economic impacts of scaling back a massive payments for ecosystem services programme in China
This paper examines the socio-economic implications of scaling back China’s Slo** Land Conversion Programme (SLCP), one of the world’s largest...
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Land Use and Management
The Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region is one of the largest and most diversified mountain settings in the world, having several parallel mountain...
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Riparian land use and in-channel stressors drive fish community structure in the Yangtze River
ContextUntangling relationships between landscape patterns shaped by human stressors and related response of fish communities is important for...
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Global Land-Use Development Trends: Traditional Cultural Landscapes Under Threat
The world’s mega trends of land-use and landscape development are discussed, which are urbanization and land-use intensification, particularly...
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Increased grain production of cultivated land by closing the existing crop** intensity gap in Southern China
To achieve food security, closing the crop** intensity gap (CIG) between realizable and actual crop** systems is the most effective way to...
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A consilience-driven approach to land use history in relation to reconstructing forest land use legacies
ContextThe importance of societal factors in sha** forest area, structure and composition through economic activity, policy, governance, and...
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Land-use legacies affect Norway spruce Picea abies colonization on abandoned marginal agricultural land in Eastern Baltics
Understanding forest regeneration in relation to land-use legacies is an important goal of research on global environmental changes and future...
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Population declines of a widespread amphibian in agricultural landscapes
Modern agricultural practices are suspected to play a major role in the ongoing erosion of biodiversity. In order to assess whether this biodiversity...
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Effects of advance and retreat of agricultural landscapes on Rana japonica and R. ornativentris
Paddy fields are essential habitats for frogs. We evaluated the impacts of both farmland consolidation including agricultural road improvement and...
