Species richness and evenness respond to diverging land-use patterns - a cross-border study of dry tropical woodlands in southern Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rasmus Revermann ◽  
Johannes Wallenfang ◽  
Jens Oldeland ◽  
Manfred Finckh
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Species Richness ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Tropical Woodlands

Changing Traditional Land use Patterns in the Great Himalayas: A Case Study of Lahaul Valley

1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. S. Singh ◽  
S. C. Ram ◽  
J. C. Kuniyal
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Traditional Land Use

Conducting “Siteless Survey”: Results from Coastal New England

1993 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan E. Kerber
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
New England ◽  
Rhode Island ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Statistical Validity ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Survey Strategy

Selecting an effective archaeological survey takes careful consideration given the interaction of several variables, such as the survey's goals, nature of the data base, and budget constraints. This article provides justification for a “siteless survey” using evidence from a project on Potowomut Neck in Rhode Island whose objective was not to locate sites but to examine the distribution and density of prehistoric remains to test an hypothesis related to land use patterns. The survey strategy, random walk, was chosen because it possessed the advantages of probabilistic testing, as well as the ease of locating sample units. The results were within the limits of statistical validity and were found unable to reject the hypothesis. “Siteless survey” may be successfully applied in similar contexts where the distribution and density of materials, as opposed to ambiguously defined sites, are sought as evidence of land use patterns, in particular, and human adaptation, in general.

scholarly journals Modeling Community-Scale Natural Resource Use in a Transboundary Southern African Landscape: Integrating Remote Sensing and Participatory Mapping

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 631
Author(s):  
Kyle D. Woodward ◽  
Narcisa G. Pricope ◽  
Forrest R. Stevens ◽  
Andrea E. Gaughan ◽  
Nicholas E. Kolarik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Systems Science ◽  
Participatory Mapping ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Modeling Framework ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Human Habitation

Remote sensing analyses focused on non-timber forest product (NTFP) collection and grazing are current research priorities of land systems science. However, mapping these particular land use patterns in rural heterogeneous landscapes is challenging because their potential signatures on the landscape cannot be positively identified without fine-scale land use data for validation. Using field-mapped resource areas and household survey data from participatory mapping research, we combined various Landsat-derived indices with ancillary data associated with human habitation to model the intensity of grazing and NTFP collection activities at 100-m spatial resolution. The study area is situated centrally within a transboundary southern African landscape that encompasses community-based organization (CBO) areas across three countries. We conducted four iterations of pixel-based random forest models, modifying the variable set to determine which of the covariates are most informative, using the best fit predictions to summarize and compare resource use intensity by resource type and across communities. Pixels within georeferenced, field-mapped resource areas were used as training data. All models had overall accuracies above 60% but those using proxies for human habitation were more robust, with overall accuracies above 90%. The contribution of Landsat data as utilized in our modeling framework was negligible, and further research must be conducted to extract greater value from Landsat or other optical remote sensing platforms to map these land use patterns at moderate resolution. We conclude that similar population proxy covariates should be included in future studies attempting to characterize communal resource use when traditional spectral signatures do not adequately capture resource use intensity alone. This study provides insights into modeling resource use activity when leveraging both remotely sensed data and proxies for human habitation in heterogeneous, spectrally mixed rural land areas.

scholarly journals The application of housing land-use patterns to achieve low CO2 emission in Medan City

2021 ◽  
Vol 1122 (1) ◽  
pp. 012023
Author(s):  
Wahyuni Zahrah ◽  
Putri Radiysani Syam
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Co2 Emission ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Low Co2

Land-Use Patterns in the Classification of Cities: The Israeli Case

10.1068/b3066 ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 711-730 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amnon Frenkel
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Use Patterns

Typologies of sprawl: investigating United States metropolitan land use patterns

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Sarzynski ◽  
George Galster ◽  
Lisa Stack
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Use Patterns

scholarly journals Industrial atmospheric pollution, historical land use patterns and mortality

1996 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Sainsbury ◽  
R. Hussey ◽  
J. Ashton ◽  
B. Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Atmospheric Pollution ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Historical Land Use

The Nice Musical Chairs Model: Exploring the Role of Competition and Cooperation Between Farming and Herding in the Formation of Land Use Patterns in Arid Afro-Eurasia

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 1177-1202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Angourakis ◽  
Matthieu Salpeteur ◽  
Verònica Martínez Ferreras ◽  
Josep M. Gurt Esparraguera
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Competition And Cooperation ◽  
Use Patterns
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