Forest Change
Tropical forest gain and interactions amongst agents of forest change
... of forest-cover gain: the core of reforestation along the highway and on communal lands, the peripheral forest areas of regeneration and restoration, and the expanse of rough pastures fringed by ...
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Tavernia
... in forest type, forest age, and harvesting and the exogenous cli- mate models project changes in key climate ...of forest type, forest age, harvest history and climate variables represented in ...
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Impacts of forest changes on hydrology: a case study of large watersheds in the upper reaches of Minjiang River watershed in China
... of forest harvesting and cli- matic variability to hydrology based on the long-term his- toric data (1953–1996) on climate, streamflow and forest change history in Zagunao sub-watershed, situated in ...
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Ch 7: Mapping Change in Ape Habitats: Forest Status, Loss, Protection and Future Risk
... Global Forest Watch (GFW), has revolutionized the use of satel- lite imagery, enabling the first in-depth analysis of changes in forest availability in the ranges of 22 great ape and gibbon spe- cies, ...
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Estimation of carbon stored in selected tree species in Gedo forest: Implications to forest management for climate change mitigation
... mature forest cover and the continual pressures of population increase, Inappropriate farming techniques, land use competition, land tenure, and forest modification or change and ...2010) ...
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Forest Cover Monitoring and Change Detection in Nfifikh Forest (Morocco)
... and forest degradation in ...monitoring forest change in ...studies, Forest disturbances can be detected using Tasseled cap [25] [26] [27] ...of forest distur- bances in the Unites ...
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Women Parliamentarians and Deforestation Around The World
... average change in annual forest cover within each five-year ...we change the sign of the dependent variable so that deforestation rate is represented by positive ...
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Long Term Monitoring of Ghana’s Forest Reserves Using Google Earth Engine
... Ghana’s forest definition in the context of REDD+ (Reducing from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) is 15% canopy cover, 5 meters tall, and 1 hectare in area, based on thresholds set by the ...
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Forest management solutions for mitigating climate change: The contribution of Ethiopian forests as carbon sink and climate change mitigation
... climate change can be defined as a significant and long-lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades, millennia or even ...a change in average ...
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Forest cover change and carbon stock assessment in Swat valley using remote sensing and geographical information systems
... of three ecological zones i.e. Kalam region is forest zone, MalamJabba is agro forest zone and Barikot is agro scrub forest zone. Swat valley is mostly Colluvial – alluvial piedmont apron. The ...
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Forest ecosystem-service transitions: the ecological dimensions of the forest transition
... protect forest cover in and around farms to enhance household production and resilience, thereby producing smallholder agroforestry transitions (Reij et ...in forest cover in the African context (Reij ...to ...
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Floristic Diversity, Distribution and Analysis of Forest Cover Change in the Kedjom Keku Forest, NW Cameroon
... A reconnaissance survey was carried out in June 2017 to obtain basic informa- tion, get acquainted with the forest, and to select the appropriate sites to lay plots for this study. The selection of plots for ...
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Disturbance, succession and the coexistence of species in a lowland podocarp forest, South Westland, New Zealand
... Vegetation change in six forest stands affected by flood and wind disturbance was investigated using stand history reconstruction in a lowland podocarp forest, south Westland, New Zealan[r] ...
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Organization of forest services : their sociology and structure with respect to change
... state forest services, and that the strong centralized control of the Queensland Forest Service appeared to facilitate the direct and effective application of research results in the ...
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Assessing the vulnerability of Thailand's forest birds to global change
... environments are predicted to take advantage of expanding warmer climates and will likely shift their ranges further north and upwards in elevation ((Shoo et al., 2005b, La Sorte and Jetz, 2010b, Laurance et al., 2011, ...
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An Amazonian forest and its fragments as a laboratory of global change
... D’Angelo S, Andrade A, Laurance SG, Laurance WF, Mesquita R 2004 Inferred causes of tree mortality in fragmented and intact Amazonian forests.. da Silva JMC, Tabarelli M 2000 Tree specie[r] ...
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Forest biomass change estimated from height change in interferometric SAR height models
... tropical forest carbon ...measure forest height and its ...boreal forest in ...the forest increases with 15 t/ha for every m increase of the height of the RADAR ...biomass change map ...
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The Polynesian Settlement of New Zealand in Relation to Environmental and Biotic Changes
... undisturbed forest may have been rather unattractive, especially in wet areas, while open, drier forests with much seral vegetation would have provided abundant moa ...
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Continuous change in Tanzanian moist forest tree communities with elevation
... HAMILTON, A. C., RUFFO, C. K., MWASHA, I. V., MMARI, C. & LOVETT, J. C. 1989. A survey of forest types on the East Usambara using the variable-area tree plot method. Pp. 213–225 in Hamilton, A. C. & ...
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Characterizing forest fragmentation : Distinguishing change in composition from configuration
... 1997). Forest loss can lead to reduced species diversity (Hill and Curran, 2001), while configurational changes have been linked to increased wildlife-vehicle collisions (Gonser et ...configurational change ...
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