This comprehensive review of past and present studies of land use and land cover change (LUCC) in Nepal concentrates on cropland, grassland, forest, snow/glacier cover and urban areas. While most small area studies have gathered data from different sources and research over a short period, ...
Arable land (% of land area) - Country RankingDefinition: Arable land includes land defined by the FAO as land under temporary crops (double-cropped areas are counted once), temporary meadows for mowing or for pasture, land under market or kitchen gardens, and land temporarily fallow. Land ...
Landdegradationmeansthelossinthecapacityofagivenlandtosupportgrowthof usefulplantsonasustainedbasis.Itisacomplexphenomenon-drivenstronglyby interactionsamongsocio-economicandbiophysicalfactors”(Singh1994)thatarequite uniqueinNepal.Landdegradationhasbeenthegreatestchallengefacingmankindin recentyears,andNepalisnoexception...
1.(Placename) the land of the Hindus, esp India north of the Deccan and excluding Bengal 2.(Placename) the general area around the Ganges where Hindi is the predominant language 3.(Hinduism) the areas of India where Hinduism predominates, as contrasted with those areas where Islam predominate...
While most small area studies have gathered data from different sources and research over a short period, across large areas most historical studies have been based on aerial photographs such as the Land Resource Mapping Project in 1986. The recent trend in studies in Nepal is to focus on new...
Spatial Ecology and Social Interactions of Jaguars (Panthera Onca) in the Southern Pantanal, Brazil The Pantanal of Brazil is an important area for the conservation of jaguars (Panthera onca). As the size of traditional large ranches in the Pantanal decre... SMC Cavalcanti,EM Gese - 《Journal...
Classifications considering grasslands intensity aspects related to biodiversity or ecosystem services are scarce, despite the fact that grasslands occupy ∼70% of the global agricultural area (Klein Goldewijk et al., 2007). In the global land use classification proposed by (Hudson et al., 2014)...
relative to the area of Nepal. 2.5 Conservation gap analysis We applied gap analysis, a widely used method for evaluating the effectiveness of PAs for species conservation (Fonseca and Venticinque, 2018;Yang et al., 2020). We projected the current and future predicted maps of the species into...
"We are working to achieve a higher level of opening up across a larger range and a wider area, and at a deeper level," Taktrug added. Yang Fan, head of the town of Gyirong, said that the town has been actively improving infrastructure construction at the port and further optimizing an...
The combined use of GIS and remote sensing analysis has revealed that grassland and snow cover decreased from 10.62% to 7.62% and 9.55% to 7.27%, respectively compared to other land cover types during the 25 years study period. Conversely, cropland, forest and built-up area have increased ...