Following anti-malarial drug treatment asexual malaria parasite killing and clearance
appear to be first order processes. Damaged malaria parasites in circulating erythrocytes …

As one of the few countries in Latin America to have reversed persistent losses in tree cover,
Chile may hold important insights for forest transition theory. However, existing studies have …

This paper analyzes land use change, urbanization and their impact on the change in
landscape pattern in Tabriz metropolitan area (TMA) during the time period from 1996 to …

El conocimiento del estado de fragmentación y transformación de un paisaje boscoso es
crucial para una adecuada planificación y conservación de la biodiversidad. En Chile se …

The understanding of the spatial and temporal patterns in land use and land cover (LULC)
change is a key issue for conservation efforts. In the Chilean hotspot, different studies have …

While mainstream academic literature over the past ten years has tended to identify
commercial and industrialized agriculture as the primary driver of deforestation, national …

Temperate forest represents the smallest area among the main world's forest biomes, but is
one of those most threatened by forest loss. Chile contains most of the temperate forest in …

Abstract As other Mediterranean areas, Catalonia has experienced a forest transition
following rural abandonment during the last sixty years. The GIS reconstruction of three land …

In this paper, landscape ecological risk in Qinling Mountain was studied. Using the remote
sensing images of Landsat TM and DEM data in 1984, 2000, 2005, and 2014, an ecological …

Several impacts over ecosystem services have been produced by land use/cover changes,
placing it as one of the main factors driving global environmental change. In the present …