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Land, Volume 9, Issue 12

December 2020 - 67 articles

Cover Story: The amount of habitat in a landscape, a metric of resource availability, helps us to understand how land cover change affects biodiversity. Nonetheless, the timing of resource availability may be as important as the total amount. In simple landscapes, for example, if ephemeral resources are all available synchronously, consumers may be left without crucial resources for a significant length of time. Complex landscapes, on the other hand, that provide resources at complementary times may allow mobile species to move across the landscape, consuming ephemeral resources as they become available in different habitats. Using a predator–prey metapopulation model, we demonstrated the joint importance of both the amount and temporal variability of resources in a landscape for predator–prey communities and ecosystem services such as the biological control. View this paper
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Articles (67)

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,152 Views
20 Pages

21 December 2020

Prior research has documented environmental and economic benefits of green stormwater infrastructure (GSI); literature on GSI social benefits is also becoming more prevalent among scholars around the world. This paper aims to understand whether GSI p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,516 Views
22 Pages

21 December 2020

Landslide susceptibility mapping (LSM) is a cost-effective tool for landslide hazard mitigation. To date, no nationwide landslide susceptibility maps have been produced for the entire Kenyan territory. Hence, this work aimed to develop a landslide su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,321 Views
13 Pages

Strategies for the Management of Traditional Chestnut Landscapes in Pesio Valley, Italy: A Participatory Approach

  • Paola Gullino,
  • Maria Gabriella Mellano,
  • Gabriele Loris Beccaro,
  • Marco Devecchi and
  • Federica Larcher

21 December 2020

Through an exploratory case study conducted in the Pesio Valley, northwest Italy, this paper proposes a framework for maintaining traditional chestnut production landscapes and addressing future development policies. The main goal was to understand h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,309 Views
15 Pages

Impact of Water Level on Species Quantity and Composition Grown from the Soil Seed Bank of the Inland Salt Marsh: An Ex-Situ Experiment

  • Eva Čížková,
  • Jana Navrátilová,
  • Stanislav Martinát,
  • Josef Navrátil and
  • Ryan J. Frazier

20 December 2020

The near elimination of inland salt marshes in Central Europe occurred throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, and the currently remaining marshes exist in a degraded condition. This work examines the impact of groundwater level on the growth of plan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,800 Views
18 Pages

18 December 2020

Migration connects land use in areas of origin with areas of new residence, impacting both through individual, gendered choices on the use of land, labor, and knowledge. Synthesizing across two case studies in Indonesia, we focus on five aspects: (i)...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,696 Views
14 Pages

18 December 2020

Landscape connectivity is a critical component of dynamic processes that link the structure and function of networks at the landscape scale. In the Anthropocene, connectivity across a landscape-scale network is influenced not only by biophysical land...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
12,044 Views
34 Pages

Agroforestry as Policy Option for Forest-Zone Oil Palm Production in Indonesia

  • Edi Purwanto,
  • Hery Santoso,
  • Idsert Jelsma,
  • Atiek Widayati,
  • Hunggul Y. S. H. Nugroho and
  • Meine van Noordwijk

18 December 2020

With 15–20% of Indonesian oil palms located, without a legal basis and permits, within the forest zone (‘Kawasan hutan’), international concerns regarding deforestation affect the totality of Indonesian palm oil export. ‘Fores...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,698 Views
19 Pages

18 December 2020

Coupled with rapid urbanization and urban expansion, the spatial relationship between transportation development and land use has gained growing interest among researchers and policy makers. In this paper, a complex network model and land use intensi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,951 Views
21 Pages

17 December 2020

In recent decades, a new paradigm on the rational and careful use of land as a non-renewable resource has arisen. This definition requires new management methods based on the application of the “CLORPT” equation (state factor model) (CL&m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,285 Views
24 Pages

Enhancing Vietnam’s Nationally Determined Contribution with Mitigation Targets for Agroforestry: A Technical and Economic Estimate

  • Rachmat Mulia,
  • Duong Dinh Nguyen,
  • Mai Phuong Nguyen,
  • Peter Steward,
  • Van Thanh Pham,
  • Hoang Anh Le,
  • Todd Rosenstock and
  • Elisabeth Simelton

17 December 2020

The Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of several non-Annex I countries mention agroforestry but mostly without associated mitigation target. The absence of reliable data, including on existing agroforestry practices and their carbon storage,...

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