Protected areas are leading tools in efforts to slow global species loss and appear also to
have a role in climate change policy. Understanding their impacts on deforestation informs …

Goal 15 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has highlighted the importance
of maintaining a sustainable relation between ecosystem services and human activities …

Starting in 1994, a wholesale wild meat market developed in north‐eastern Ecuador,
involving Waorani and Kichwa people in the area of influence of a road built to facilitate oil …

Human disturbance is one of the essential forces affecting changes in landscape patterns.
Studying the relationship between human disturbances and landscape patterns is of …

Urban developments and road networks extend their impacts on the surrounding habitats
along a variable distance, affecting birds living in natural environments. This study identifies …

The impact of human interference on the ecological environment has attracted a significant
amount of attention. In this study, hemeroby index (HI) was constructed to quantify the …

With growing levels of human-activity and frequent natural disturbances throughout the
world, it is increasingly important that both research and management efforts take into …

This paper brings out the issues related to natural resource exists, management and erosion
right from the ancient to modern era. The natural resource such as forests and forest …

Quantitative measurement of the heterogeneity in the intensity of human interference is key
to accurately assessing the impact of human activity. The same human activities in different …

Based on Landsat MSS and TM images from 1974, 1988, and 2004, we conducted a case
study of the Manwan Dam along the Lancang (Mekong) River to determine the influencing …