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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Forest cover change"”.
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Revisiting patterns and processes of forest cover change in the tropics: a case study from southeast Mexico
… has been made in detecting rates of tropical deforestation, yet the relationship between visible patterns of forest change, multi-scalar human processes and the underlying drivers associated with them is poorly understood. Building on satellite imagery, a household livelihood survey and …
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Forest cover change and its effects on the dependent local communities in Masese local forest reserve Sesheke district
Forest play a number of functions such as the provision of wood for timber and fuel, building materials, household implements, wild food, herbal medicines and many others to many rural communities in Zambia including Sesheke District. Forest also provides a wide range of services such as prevention …
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Forest cover change and its effects on the dependent local communities in Masese local forest reserve Sesheke district
Forest play a number of functions such as the provision of wood for timber and fuel, building materials, household implements, wild food, herbal medicines and many others to many rural communities in Zambia including Sesheke District. Forest also provides a wide range of services such as prevention …
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Observation des influences du changement du couvert forestier sur le comportement hydrologique de grands bassins versants tropicaux à l'aide de la télédétection numérique cas du bassin versant de Dong Nai, Viet Nam
… of a large tropical watershed following a forest cover variation has an important role in water resource management planning as well as for forest sustainable management. Traditional methods in forest hydrology studies are Experimental watersheds, Upstream-downstream, Experimental plots, …
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Mapping and monitoring forest cover changes in Lao PDR using remote sensing
There has been a rapid change in forest and land cover globally, especially in tropical forests due to heavy deforestation. The highest rate of deforestation is found predominantly in the developing world. Tropical deforestation is a process of transforming forests into cleared land for other uses. …
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Impact of protected forests on rural household fuel tree planting and deforestation: Chiro District, Ethiopia
… study aims at exploring the potential impact of forest protection intervention on rural households’ private fuel tree planting in Chiro district of eastern Ethiopia. The study results revealed a robust and significant positive impact of the intervention on farmers’ decisions to produce private …
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Remote sensing for developing an operational monitoring scheme for the Sundarban Reserved Forest, Bangladesh <engl.>
Sundarban Reserved Forest in Bangladesh is playing a significant role in local and national economy and is providing protection to the coastline as well as to the indigenous people. During the past decades and also in recent time this forest was heavily disturbed by human intervention in many …
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Assessing the Impacts of Balsam Woolly Adelgid (Adelges Piceae Ratz.) and Anthropogenic Disturbance on the Stand Structure and Mortality of Fraser Fir (Abies Fraseri (Pursh) Poir.) in the Black Mountains, North Carolina
… as a foundation species within the spruce-fir forests of the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Our objectives for this research were to 1) use current stand structure to infer whether Fraser fir trees are experiencing a cycle of regeneration-mortality that will lead to eventual decline of the …
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Forest and woodland regeneration dynamics and persistence in the human- modified landscape of Greater Gombe Ecosystem, Tanzania
AbstractThe clearing of tropical forests and woodlands for human use puts many species at risk of extinction. Vast areas of forests and woodlands have been converted to fragmented patches located within mosaics of different land uses (e.g., agricultural lands and human settlements). Some …
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Wetlands Characterization in the Congo River Basin Using Multi-source Remotely Sensed Data and Field Survey
… This map is then combined with vegetation and forest cover change maps published in Potapov et al. (2012) to derive a map including forested wetlands as a thematic class. Using population density data, we investigated whether high terra firma population density and low percent remaining terra …