From roadkill to road ecology: A review of the ecological effects of roads

AW Coffin - Journal of transport Geography, 2007 - Elsevier
Transportation infrastructure affects the structure of ecosystems, the dynamics of ecosystem
function, and has direct effects on ecosystem components, including their species …

[책][B] Land-use and land-cover change: local processes and global impacts

EF Lambin, HJ Geist - 2008 - books.google.com
This book presents recent estimates on the rate of change of major land classes.
Aggregated globally, multiple impacts of local land changes are shown to significantly affect …

Accounting for spatial effects in economic models of land use: recent developments and challenges ahead

M Brady, E Irwin - Environmental and Resource Economics, 2011 - Springer
The marked increase in the availability of spatial data has forced researchers engaged in
land use modeling to directly confront the question of space and the theoretical and …

Agricultural land abandonment and natural forest re-growth in the Swiss mountains: A spatially explicit economic analysis

M Gellrich, P Baur, B Koch, NE Zimmermann - Agriculture, Ecosystems & …, 2007 - Elsevier
Natural forest re-growth reflects a decline in traditional agricultural practices that can be
observed worldwide. Over the last few decades, natural forest re-growth has replaced much …

Projecting land use changes in the Neotropics: The geography of pasture expansion into forest

T Wassenaar, P Gerber, PH Verburg, M Rosales… - Global Environmental …, 2007 - Elsevier
In tropical Latin America, pasture land for extensive grazing continues to expand, mostly at
the expense of forest cover. Until now, scientists and policy makers tackling this issue had …

Downscaling of land use change scenarios to assess the dynamics of European landscapes

PH Verburg, CJE Schulp, N Witte… - Agriculture, Ecosystems & …, 2006 - Elsevier
Europe's rural areas are expected to witness massive and rapid changes in land use due to
changes in demography, global trade, technology and enlargement of the European Union …

Simulating feedbacks in land use and land cover change models

PH Verburg - Landscape Ecology, 2006 - Springer
In spite of the many advances in land use and land cover change modelling over the past
decade many challenges remain. One of these challenges relates to the explicit treatment of …

Urban expansion in Centre County, Pennsylvania: Spatial dynamics and landscape transformations

N Batisani, B Yarnal - Applied geography, 2009 - Elsevier
Sprawling urban development is a major driving force of landscape fragmentation and loss
of agricultural land. Despite this understanding, science has yet to realize a coherent suite of …

Land cover change and landscape fragmentation—comparing the utility of continuous and discrete analyses for a western Honduras region

J Southworth, D Munroe, H Nagendra - Agriculture, ecosystems & …, 2004 - Elsevier
Current studies of land cover change and landscape fragmentation rely predominantly on
land cover classifications derived from remotely sensed images. However, limitations of …

[책][B] Statistical methods for analysing the spatial dimension of changes in land use and farming systems

JP Lesschen, PH Verburg, SJ Staal - 2005 - Citeseer
Land use and land cover change (LUCC) has important impacts on the functioning of
socioeconomic and environmental systems with important tradeoffs for sustainability, food …