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Land, Volume 9, Issue 9

September 2020 - 61 articles

Cover Story: One challenge in protecting connectivity across ecological networks is addressing the ability of the network to adapt to changes over time. Many landscape-scale conservation plans and protected area networks are designed and implemented over years or even decades, but few networks consider the dynamics of ecological, conservation, and planning conditions that can occur over these time frames. This study presents an approach designed to inform adaptive planning for connectivity with a suite of analytical techniques in a long-established protected area network in San Diego, California. This approach can be used to evaluate whether protected area networks at any stage of planning or implementation are meeting connectivity goals over time as conditions change, allowing for adaptive management and planning to support and promote connectivity. View this paper
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Articles (61)

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,189 Views
22 Pages

22 September 2020

Several Native American communities assert traditional ties to Yosemite Valley, and special connections to the exceptional landmarks and natural resources of Yosemite National Park. However, tribal claims relating to this highly visible park with its...

  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,768 Views
21 Pages

A Review of Changes in Mountain Land Use and Ecosystem Services: From Theory to Practice

  • Ileana Pătru-Stupariu,
  • Constantina Alina Hossu,
  • Simona Raluca Grădinaru,
  • Andreea Nita,
  • Mihai-Sorin Stupariu,
  • Alina Huzui-Stoiculescu and
  • Athanasios-Alexandru Gavrilidis

22 September 2020

Global changes impact the human-environment relationship, and, in particular, they affect the provision of ecosystem services. Mountain ecosystems provide a wide range of such services, but they are highly sensitive and vulnerable to change due to va...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,698 Views
16 Pages

22 September 2020

Studying the impact of land urbanization on smog pollution has important guiding significance for the sustainable development of cities. This study adds the spatial effect between regions into the research framework of smog pollution control in China...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,313 Views
29 Pages

Meta-Analysis of Geomorphodynamics in the Western Lower Bakırçay Plain (Aegean Region, Turkey)

  • Fabian Becker,
  • Daniel Knitter,
  • Moritz Nykamp and
  • Brigitta Schütt

22 September 2020

The relation between human activities, climate variability, and geomorphodynamics in the Mediterranean region is widely discussed. For the western lower Bakırçay plain in the ancient Pergamon Micro-Region, geoarchaeological studies have shown...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,750 Views
18 Pages

22 September 2020

Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI), a sustainable engineering design approach for managing urban stormwater runoff, has long been recommended as an alternative to conventional conveyance-based stormwater management strategies to mitigate the adver...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
10,495 Views
19 Pages

21 September 2020

The increasing role of the tourism industry in the global economy and the growing competition makes it necessary to ensure constant performance and continually improve quality. The paper draws attention to the necessity of conducting research on tour...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,654 Views
13 Pages

Traditional Pollarding Practices for Dimorphic Ash Tree (Fraxinus dimorpha) Support Soil Fertility in the Moroccan High Atlas

  • Abdessamad Fakhech,
  • Didier Genin,
  • Mohamed Ait-El-Mokhtar,
  • El Mustapha Outamamat,
  • Soufiane M’Sou,
  • Mohamed Alifriqui,
  • Abdelilah Meddich and
  • Mohamed Hafidi

21 September 2020

Shaping and pollarding of dimorphic ash tree (Fraxinus dimorpha) are two traditional practices used by the local inhabitants in agropastoral parklands of the Moroccan High Atlas to secure their production systems and increase tree production and stre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,192 Views
38 Pages

20 September 2020

Inclusive knowledge systems that engage local perspectives and social and natural sciences are difficult to generate and infuse into decision-making processes but are critical for conservation planning. This paper explores local tacit knowledge appli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
8,625 Views
20 Pages

Local Perceptions of Ecosystem Services Across Multiple Ecosystem Types in Spain

  • Marina García-Llorente,
  • Antonio J. Castro,
  • Cristina Quintas-Soriano,
  • Elisa Oteros-Rozas,
  • Irene Iniesta-Arandia,
  • José A. González,
  • David García del Amo,
  • Marta Hernández-Arroyo,
  • Izaskun Casado-Arzuaga and
  • Ignacio Palomo
  • + 4 authors

18 September 2020

Combining socio-cultural valuations of ecosystem services with ecological and monetary assessments is critical to informing decision making with an integrative and multi-pronged approach. This study examined differences in the perceptions of ecosyste...

  • Review
  • Open Access
102 Citations
13,005 Views
17 Pages

18 September 2020

The need to recognize diverse actors, their knowledge and values is being widely promoted as critical for sustainability in contemporary land use, natural resource management and conservation initiatives. However, in much of the case study literature...

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