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Land use changes negatively affect soil fauna communities: preliminary results of a meta-analysis
(German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, 2020)
Soil fauna plays an important role for delivering ecosystem services, such as food production, climate mitigation and soil erosion. However, land-use changes can alter the characteristics of soil fauna communities which ...
Agricultural production and bird conservation in complex landscapes of the dry Chaco
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-06)
The South American dry Chaco is a mosaic of woody vegetation and grasslands with high deforestation rates in recent decades. Considering forests and grasslands as the main natural habitats, we assessed the trade-offs between ...
Linking hydrological, infinite slope stability and land-use change models through GIS for assessing the impact of deforestation on slope stability in high Andean watersheds
(2003-06-16)
In the Ecuadorian Andes, episodic slope movements comprising shallow rotational and translational slides and rapid flows of debris and soil material are common. Consequently, not only considerable financial costs are ...
Complex land cover change, water and sediment yield in a degraded Andean environment
(2012)
Rapid land use/-cover change has increasingly transformed the hydrological functioning of tropical Andean ecosystems. The hydrological response to forest cover change strongly depends on the initial state of the ecosystem. ...
The Role of Land Use Conversion in Shaping the Land Cover of the Central American Dry Corridor
(2020)
The Central American Dry Corridor (CADC) is a trans-border region characterized by climatic and ecological continuities. It is expected to experience rising aridity and severe hydro-climatic events due to climate change. ...
Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Conservation of Settled Territories in the Bolivian Amazon
(2019)
Abstract: Landscapes settled by indigenous communities represent nuanced inter-relationships
between culture and environment, where balance is achieved through Indigenous Knowledge
Systems (IKS). Through IKS, native ...
LAND USE & LAND COVER DYNAMICS IN SAO JOAO DO CARU DISTRICT (MARANHAO, BRAZIL)
(Univ Coimbra, 2015-01-01)
Since years 1960, the Brazilian Amazon live a severe process of exploration. In Maranhao, exploration of the Amazon begins with the construction of the BR 316 (1958), BR 010 (1959), BR 222 (1968) and Carajas Railway (1982) ...
Environmental change and the dynamics of parasitic diseases in the Amazon
(Elsevier Ltda., 2015)