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Assessing land-use and -cover changes in relation to geographic factors and urban planning in the metropolitan area of Concepción (Chile). Implications for biodiversity conservation
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In this paper, a set of major pressures to biodiversity defined from land-use and -cover changes, and evaluating their extent, distribution and correlations with geographical variables were evaluated using canonical ordination methods.About:
This article is published in Applied Geography.The article was published on 2013-05-01. It has received 77 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Deforestation & Land use.read more
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Systematic processes of land use/land cover change to identify relevant driving forces: Implications on water quality
TL;DR: The goal is to describe a method to characterize driving forces both from LULC and dominant LULC changes, recognizing that the presence of certain LULC classes as well as the processes of transition to other uses are both sources of stress with potential effects on the condition of water bodies.
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Urban development versus wetland loss in a coastal Latin American city: Lessons for sustainable land use planning
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors quantified urban growth over the Rocuant-Andalien wetland, both executed and projected under the Metropolitan Urban Plan of Concepcion (MUPC), and quantified the observed effect and planned urban growth on the wetland protected area, geoforms and potential flooding based on the area affected by the last Tsunami.
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Examination of land use/land cover changes, urban growth dynamics, and environmental sustainability in Chittagong city, Bangladesh
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used open source Landsat data integrated with GIS technologies and other ancillary data to classify land use and create land cover maps, enabling post-classification change detection analysis.
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Land Use and Land Cover Change Detection and Prediction in the Kathmandu District of Nepal Using Remote Sensing and GIS
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used remote sensing and geographical information system to detect and predict land use and land cover changes in one of the world's most vulnerable and rapidly growing cities of Kathmandu in Nepal.
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Land use and land cover change detection and prediction in Bhutan's high altitude city of Thimphu, using cellular automata and Markov chain
TL;DR: Using remote sensing data, socio-economic data, and field observations, this article simulated spatiotemporal dynamics of land use and land cover changes in the city of Thimphu.
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Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on Biodiversity
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Global Change and the Ecology of Cities
Nancy B. Grimm,Stanley H. Faeth,Nancy Golubiewski,Charles L. Redman,Jianguo Wu,Xuemei Bai,John M. Briggs +6 more
TL;DR: Urban ecology integrates natural and social sciences to study these radically altered local environments and their regional and global effects of an increasingly urbanized world.
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Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data using CANOCO
Jan Lepš,Petr Šmilauer +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a simple introduction to ordination methods and guidance on the correct interpretation of ordination diagrams is given for students and researchers dealing with complex ecological problems, such as the variation of biotic communities with environmental conditions or the response of Biotic communities to experimental manipulation.
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Urbanization as a major cause of biotic homogenization
TL;DR: In this paper, a basic conservation challenge is that urban biota is often quite diverse and very abundant, and that, because so many urban species are immigrants adapting to city habitats, urbanites of all income levels become increasingly disconnected from local indigenous species and their natural ecosystems.