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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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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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Modelling and Monitoring Land Use: Land Cover Change Dynamics of Cooch Behar District of West Bengal using Multi-Temporal Satellite Data
Land use land cover (LULC) change is an indicator of the sustainability of any region and requires regular monitoring. In measuring and analysing...
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Long-term changes in hydrology of warm Mediterranean wetlands under land use land cover change
Wetlands in warm Mediterranean regions are strongly influenced by land use land cover change (LULCC). Studying the effects of LULCC on wetlands can...
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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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Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Land Use and Land Cover, and Small-Scale Forest Expansion in Northwestern Ethiopian Highlands
In the northwestern highlands of Ethiopia, rapid land use land cover (LULC) change and small-scale forest expansion has taken place due to the...
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A new methodology to quantify structural landscape impacts of land use/land cover change using moving window metrics: a case study in a Chilean coastal basin
Land use and land cover changes (LULC) result in alterations to landscape structure, with particularly significant consequences in the landscapes of...
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Land cover change and socioecological influences on terrestrial carbon production in an agroecosystem
ContextThis study evaluated the contributions of land cover and land use change (LCLUC) and land management to landscape carbon production through a...
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Land Use and Land Cover Change Prediction Using ANN-CA Model
Land cover changes are characterised by the loss of natural resources, the loss of forests to urban development or the loss of agricultural areas to...
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Soil organic carbon exchange due to the change in land use
This study analyses the decrease in soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks due to changes in land use following the earthquake in Düzce, Turkey, 1999. The...
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Anthropogenic climate and land-use change drive short- and long-term biodiversity shifts across taxa
Climate change and habitat loss present serious threats to nature. Yet, due to a lack of historical land-use data, the potential for land-use change...
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Direct and indirect impacts of land use/cover change on urban heat environment: a 15-year panel data study across 365 Chinese cities during summer daytime and nighttime
ContextLand use/cover change (LUCC) can directly and indirectly affect surface urban heat island intensity (SUHII) and the effects need to be...
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Analysing Land Use and Cover Transformations in Berhampore, West Bengal, India: A CA-Markov and ANN Simulation Approach for Future Predictions
Land use and land cover (LULC) change is a multifaceted and dynamic process influenced by factors like population growth, economic development, and...
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Trends of Land Use and Land Cover Change in Mountain Regions
We identified land use and land cover change (LULCC) trends in mountain regions worldwide. Specific objectives were to (1) identify the recurrent...
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Land-use change alters specialist bee diet and drives body size declines
ContextLand-use change can cause decreases in plant abundance and richness and the replacement of wild plants with domesticated plants. Changes in...
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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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Impacts of Land Use and Cover Change on Land Mammal Distribution Ranges Across Mexican Ecosystems
Habitat loss due to land use change is recognized as one of the major drivers of contemporary defaunation. In this chapter, we examine tropical land...
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Dynamic of land use and vegetation change in the eastern bank of Bénoué (North Cameroon)
The eastern part of the Benoue River bank is undergoing degradation marked by a significant decrease in vegetation cover and woody resources due to...
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DOM optical properties reflected land use cover in open-canopy streams
Our study aimed to analyze the effects of land use coverage (agricultural, cattle breeding, natural vegetation, and others) on the concentration and...
