Land‐use change and biodiversity: Challenges for assembling evidence on the greatest threat to nature

CW Davison, C Rahbek… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Land‐use change is considered the greatest threat to nature, having caused worldwide
declines in the abundance, diversity, and health of species and ecosystems. Despite …

Global consequences of land use

JA Foley, R DeFries, GP Asner, C Barford, G Bonan… - science, 2005 - science.org
Land use has generally been considered a local environmental issue, but it is becoming a
force of global importance. Worldwide changes to forests, farmlands, waterways, and air are …

A future land use simulation model (FLUS) for simulating multiple land use scenarios by coupling human and natural effects

X Liu, X Liang, X Li, X Xu, J Ou, Y Chen, S Li… - Landscape and urban …, 2017 - Elsevier
Land use and land cover change (LUCC) simulation models are effective and reproducible
tools for analyzing both the causes and consequences of future landscape dynamics under …

[HTML][HTML] Vegetation greening, extended growing seasons, and temperature feedbacks in warming temperate grasslands of China

X Shen, B Liu, M Henderson, L Wang… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Vegetation activity and phenology are significantly affected by climate change, and changes
in vegetation activity and phenology can in turn affect regional or global climate patterns. As …

[HTML][HTML] Land use and land cover change detection and prediction in Bhutan's high altitude city of Thimphu, using cellular automata and Markov chain

SW Wang, L Munkhnasan, WK Lee - Environmental Challenges, 2021 - Elsevier
Rapid urbanization is changing landscapes often resulting in the degradation of ecosystem
services and quality of urban life. Remote sensing and GIS tools can provide valuable …

Land use and land cover change detection and prediction in the Kathmandu district of Nepal using remote sensing and GIS

SW Wang, BM Gebru, M Lamchin, RB Kayastha… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Understanding land use and land cover changes has become a necessity in managing and
monitoring natural resources and development especially urban planning. Remote sensing …

Local temperature response to land cover and management change driven by non-radiative processes

RM Bright, E Davin, T O'Halloran, J Pongratz… - Nature Climate …, 2017 - nature.com
Following a land cover and land management change (LCMC), local surface temperature
responds to both a change in available energy and a change in the way energy is …

FAIR v1. 3: a simple emissions-based impulse response and carbon cycle model

CJ Smith, PM Forster, M Allen, N Leach… - Geoscientific Model …, 2018 - gmd.copernicus.org
Simple climate models can be valuable if they are able to replicate aspects of complex fully
coupled earth system models. Larger ensembles can be produced, enabling a probabilistic …

European phenological response to climate change matches the warming pattern

A Menzel, TH Sparks, N Estrella, E Koch… - Global change …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Global climate change impacts can already be tracked in many physical and biological
systems; in particular, terrestrial ecosystems provide a consistent picture of observed …