One of the possible consequences of projected global warming is the progressive
enlargement of drylands. This study investigates to what extent population and land-use …

African countries contribute less than 4% of global carbon emissions and are susceptible to
the repercussions of climate change due to pre-existing challenges such as poverty …

Modeling scenarios can help identify drivers of and potential changes in land use,
particularly in rapidly changing landscapes such as the tropics. One of the places where …

Land change models are important tools for land systems analysis, but their potential for
causal inference using a counterfactual approach remains underdeveloped. This paper …

The Wallacea biogeographic region of Sulawesi, the Moluccas and Lesser Sunda is globally
renowned for exceptional endemism, but is currently emerging as a development frontier in …

Investigation of forest canopy density has become an important tool for proper management
of natural resources. Vegetation cover density can identify the exact forest gaps within a …

The loss of tropical forests represents a major threat to biodiversity. With accelerating
deforestation in large parts of the Amazon, the Guiana Shield region, with its large expanse …

In the last decade, Brazil has successfully managed to reduce deforestation in the Amazon
forest. However, continued increases in annual deforestation rates call for environmental …

Residential racial segregation in large US cities is a complex phenomenon with important
social, political, and economic ramifications. In this paper, we demonstrate that the …

This comprehensive study investigates land use and land cover (LULC) changes in Ugam
Chatkal Na-tional Park, Uzbekistan, over a 30-year period from 1993 to 2022 with Landsat …