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Land use: reducing emissions and preparing for climate change.

Published online: 10 Jan 2019

Published by: UK, Committee on Climate Change

Content type: Miscellaneous

This report by the Committee on Climate Change assesses the role of land use change in meeting climate change mitigation and adaptation objectives. Th...

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Evaluating sampling strategies and logistic regression methods for modelling complex land cover changes.

Published online: 02 May 2007

Authors: Rutherford, G. N. & Guisan, A. & Zimmermann, N. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The role of land cover change as a significant component of global change has become increasingly recognized in recent decades. Large databases measur...

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Major uses of land in the United States, 2012.

Published online: 08 Nov 2017

Authors: Bigelow, D. P. & Borchers, A.

Content type: Bulletin

The United States has a total land area of about 2.3 billion acres. In 2012, the major land uses were grassland pasture and rangeland at 655 million a...

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The fate of land in expiring Conservation Reserve Program contracts, 2013-16.

Published online: 02 Apr 2020

Authors: Bigelow, D. & Claassen, R. & Hellerstein, D. & Breneman, V. & Williams, R. & You ChengXia

Content type: Bulletin

Voluntary retirement of cropland under the USDA's Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) provides numerous benefits related to soil erosion, water quality...

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Experimental evidence that even minor livestock trampling has severe effects on land snail communities in forest remnants.

Published online: 25 Feb 2015

Authors: Denmead, L. H. & Barker, G. M. & Standish, R. J. & Didham, R. K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Land-use intensification is increasing dramatically in production systems world-wide. Livestock production is an important component of production lan...

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An ecological survey of land use and soil erosion in the West Pakistan and Azak Kashmir catchment of the River Jhelum.

Published online: 24 Feb 1968

Authors: McVean, D. N. & Robertson, V. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

An account based on the report prepared in 1959-61 by Hunting Technical Services Ltd. for the West Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority in c...

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Effects of land use on plant diversity - a global meta-analysis.

Published online: 14 Jan 2015

Authors: Gerstner, K. & Dormann, C. F. & Stein, A. & Manceur, A. M. & Seppelt, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Plant diversity is globally threatened by anthropogenic land use including management and modification of the natural environment. At regional and loc...

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Land health surveillance for identifying land constraints and targeting land management options in smallholder farming systems in Western Cameroon.

Published online: 22 Mar 2017

Authors: Takoutsing, B. & Ayenkulu, E. & Tchoundjeu, Z. & Coe, R. & Denis, N. & Shepherd, K.

Content type: Bulletin

Quantitative and up-to-date information on ecosystem characteristics and land health constraints are needed to understand land degradation trends and ...

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Chobe district integrated land use plan.

Published online: 08 Nov 2017

Authors: Sluis, T. van der & Cassidy, L. & Brooks, C. & Wolski, P. & Post, C. vander & Wit, P. & Henkens, R. & Eupen, M. van & Mosepele, K. & Maruapula, O. & Veenendaal, E.

Content type: Bulletin

The Chobe District Integrated Land Use Plan is a framework plan: it sets the boundary conditions for more detailed plans, such as the tourism manageme...

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Understanding the transition of community land use from shifting cultivation to cash cropping in Southern Tanintharyi, Myanmar.

Published online: 09 Sep 2024

Authors: Pyone, K. H. H. & Crego, R. D. & Ngwe, S. S. & Win, S. di & Connette, K. L. & Songer, M. & Connette, G. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Many tropical landscapes have experienced the loss of traditional cultivation practices as they have transitioned to other land use systems. The Tanin...

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