An assessment of landscape and land use/cover change and its implications for sustainable landscape management in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh

M Chakma, U Hayat, J Meng, MA Hassan - Land, 2023 - mdpi.com
Human-caused environmental change has profoundly impacted resource management and
land use patterns in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts. This study used multi-temporal …

Evaluation of soil erosion and sediment yield spatio-temporal pattern during 1990–2019

LC Kulimushi, A Maniragaba, P Choudhari… - … , Natural Hazards and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Land use/land cover (LULC) change is an important measure to monitor the land
degradation. This study focused on the Sebeya watershed located in the western province of …

The role of random forest and markov chain models in understanding metropolitan urban growth trajectory

MT Badshah, K Hussain, AU Rehman… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction This study delves into the spatiotemporal dynamics of land use and land cover
(LULC) in a Metropolitan area over three decades (1991–2021) and extends its scope to …

Towards ecosystem accounts for Rwanda: Tracking 25 years of change in flows and potential supply of ecosystem services

KJ Bagstad, JC Ingram, GM Lange… - People and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Rwanda, a small but rapidly develo** central African nation, has undertaken development
of natural capital accounts to better inform its economic development through the World …

Anthropogenic activities and the influence of desertification processes on the water cycle and water use in the Aral Sea basin

A Kayiranga, X Chen, D Ingabire, T Liu, Y Li… - Journal of Hydrology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Study region The Aral Sea Basin (ASB) is a transboundary water catchment area in
Central Asia, with an area of around 1.8 million km 2 and straddled over six countries …

An assessment of forest cover change and its driving forces in the syrian coastal region during a period of conflict, 2010 to 2020

MA Mohamed - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
In Syria, 76% of the forests are located in the Syrian coast region. This region is witnessing a
rapid depletion of forest cover during the conflict that broke out in mid-2011. To date, there …

Spatiotemporal variations of forest ecohydrological characteristics in the Lancang-Mekong region during 1992-2016 and 2020-2099 under different climate scenarios

A Kayiranga, B Chen, L Guo, S Measho, H Hirwa… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Analysis of spatiotemporal variations in forest ecohydrological characteristics is
critical for understanding the impacts of climate change on forest ecological functions. In this …

[HTML][HTML] Inter-annual vegetation changes in response to climate variability in Rwanda

F Ndayisaba, H Guo, A Isabwe, A Bao… - Journal of …, 2017 - scirp.org
Comprehensive studies on how vegetative ecosystems respond to fluctuations in
precipitation and temperature patterns are of great necessity for environmental risk …

Analysis of climate and topography impacts on the spatial distribution of vegetation in the Virunga Volcanoes Massif of East-Central Africa

A Kayiranga, F Ndayisaba, L Nahayo, F Karamage… - Geosciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
This paper aimed to investigate the influence of climatic and topographic factors on the
distribution of vegetation in the Virunga Volcanoes Massif using GIS and remote sensing …

Anthropogenic activities dominated tropical forest carbon balance in two contrary ways over the Greater Mekong Subregion in the 21st century

B Chen, A Kayiranga, M Ge, P Ciais… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The tropical forest carbon (C) balance threatened by extensive socio‐economic
development in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) in Asia is a notable data gap and …