The ability to quantify understory vegetation structure in forested environments on a broad
scale has the potential to greatly improve our understanding of wildlife habitats, nutrient …

China is undergoing rapid urbanization, which has brought great pressure on croplands
throughout the country, especially in fast develo** cities, such as Hangzhou. In this study …

The capacity of a watershed to urbanize without changing its hydrologic response and the
relationship between that response and the spatial configuration of the developed areas …

Vegetation cover estimation for overstory and understory layers provides valuable
information for modeling forest carbon and water cycles and refining forest ecosystem …

Replacing native savannas with exotic pastures not only alters vegetation structure, but it
also increases herbivorous cattle dung quantity consequently changing the food resource …

Riparian areas often are assumed to be necessary sites for foraging by insectivorous bats
because of high insect availability and ease of movement and echolocation in the forest …

Remote sensing and GIS are increasingly used as tools for monitoring and managing
forests. Remotely sensed and GIS data are now the data sources of choice for capturing …

Privately protected areas with voluntary forest protection are promoted as an innovative
solution for biodiversity conservation across the globe, particularly in regions where high …

On the latest 60 years the degradation and fragmentation of native habitats have been
modifying the landscape in the eastern Brazilian Amazon. The adaptive plasticity of an …

We evaluated the feasibility of using fractal geometry to measure the structural complexity
innate to 11 species of temperate and tropical macrophytes. The efficacy of fractal dimension …