(5) the area of the grassland was increased, which came mainly from the conversion of the woodland and the arid land; (6) the spatial distribution pattern can be divided into three-types—cultivated land to cities and rural residence,Woodland to cultivated land and complex type; (7) the ...
For years, the Philippines' bid toward NIChood has been invariably transforming the once serene rural landscape into a bustling hub of human activity, inducing the massive conversion of hundreds of hectares of productive farmlands into various urban uses. Unexpectedly, the process has brought about ...
Development taxation (i.e., the imposition of an tax on the transaction of converting land to higher intensity use) has been advocated as a practicable land use tool for guiding the land conversion process both spatially and temporally. This article argues that sole reliance on this taxation ...
Mountain ecosystems are continuously experiencing extensive land use changes, due to natural and anthropogenic processes (Agarwal et al., 2002, Klein, 2001, Liu et al., 2003). These changes have not only led to modifications, but also to the conversion of land cover, with serious environmental...
For comparison, above-ground losses due to tropical land use conversion are currently estimated at 0.6–1.2 Pg C yr-130. A strategy of enhancing agriculture with soil carbon enriching improved practices, e.g. via appropriate policy mechanisms, thus offers significant potential to mitigate landuse ...
Land-use change is a direct driver of biodiversity loss, projection and future land use change often consider a topical issue in response to climate change. Yet few studies have projected land-use changes over Africa, owing to large uncertainties. We pro
A LULC conversion index (CI) was calculated according to Eq. (4) (Minta et al., 2018) to assess the LULC class contributing most to specific LULC classes that expanded:(4)CI=ΔLCi-j/MeanΔLCwhere CI is land use conversion index, ΔLCi-j is area of LULC class i converted to LULC ...
Analysis of Human Driving Forces Underlying Land Use Conversion in Coastal Developed Regions:--A Case Study of Wenzhou City沿海发达地区土地利用转换的人文驱... The transformation of land use change and its driving mechanism have been a hot topic in the existing studies of land science. It has ...
Although land-use changes and agricultural conversion have been proven to be major drivers of biodiversity loss45,46, positive impacts of agriculture on biodiversity have been observed at regional and local scales in some studies47,48,49. One facet of these trends is that although local or alpha...
Consequently, it can be hypothesised that nitrous oxide emissions from a given area of soil will increase post-conversion, as discussed further below. Nitrogen use efficiency When animals are excluded from the calculation boundary, nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) of grass production systems typically ...