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  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,805 Views
21 Pages

The Kashmir Valley is immensely susceptible to soil erosion due to its diverse topography and unstable geological formations in the Himalayan region. The present study helps in assessing the spatial distribution and prioritizing soil erosion zones in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,190 Views
16 Pages

Assessing Landslide Susceptibility along India’s National Highway 58: A Comprehensive Approach Integrating Remote Sensing, GIS, and Logistic Regression Analysis

  • Mukta Sharma,
  • Ritambhara K. Upadhyay,
  • Gaurav Tripathi,
  • Naval Kishore,
  • Achala Shakya,
  • Gowhar Meraj,
  • Shruti Kanga,
  • Suraj Kumar Singh,
  • Pankaj Kumar and
  • Brian Alan Johnson
  • + 1 author

7 September 2023

The NH 58 area in India has been experiencing an increase in landslide occurrences, posing significant threats to local communities, infrastructure, and the environment. The growing need to identify areas prone to landslides for effective disaster ri...

  • Project Report
  • Open Access
16 Citations
13,690 Views
18 Pages

Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Wildlife Conservation

  • Paul Fergus,
  • Carl Chalmers,
  • Steven Longmore and
  • Serge Wich

11 November 2024

The rapid decline in global biodiversity demands innovative conservation strategies. This paper examines the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in wildlife conservation, focusing on the Conservation AI platform. Leveraging machine learning and compu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
17,271 Views
13 Pages

1 February 2023

Wildfires are common occurrences worldwide that can destroy vast forest areas and kill numerous animals in a few hours. Climate change, rising global temperatures, precipitation, the introduction of exotic species of plants (e.g., eucalyptus), intens...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,155 Views
16 Pages

Interactions between people and large carnivores on shared landscapes can have harmful social and ecological consequences. Human–carnivore coexistence depends on an assemblage of sociological factors including effective management institutions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,409 Views
18 Pages

Observing Spatiotemporal Inconsistency of Erosion and Accretion in the Barak River Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques

  • Briti Sundar Sil,
  • Kumar Ashwini,
  • Wajahat Annayat,
  • Jatan Debnath,
  • Majid Farooq and
  • Gowhar Meraj

26 December 2022

Alluvial rivers all over the world have one common problem, which is their meandering pattern. This meander formation is because of natural and anthropogenic processes. Barak River is dynamic, and due to this, it is exposed to regular shifting and cr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,994 Views
14 Pages

Land-Use and Land-Cover Dynamics in the Brazilian Caatinga Dry Tropical Forest

  • Vicente de Paula Sousa Júnior,
  • Javier Sparacino,
  • Giovana Mira de Espindola and
  • Raimundo Jucier Sousa de Assis

13 December 2022

The use of remote sensing to determine land-use and land-cover (LULC) dynamics is often applied to assess the levels of natural forest conservation and monitor deforestation worldwide. This study examines the loss of native vegetation in the Campo Ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,457 Views
15 Pages

9 November 2022

There has been a recent rise in the number of medicinal plant users in Southern Africa, with approximately a million users reported to utilize these plants for various health conditions. Unfortunately, some of these plants are reportedly endangered a...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,913 Views
25 Pages

Other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) have been a feature of global biodiversity targets since 2010 (Aichi Targets, Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework), although the concept has only relatively recently been formally de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,862 Views
18 Pages

Building an Agroecology Knowledge Network for Agrobiodiversity Conservation

  • Evelyn Roberta Nimmo,
  • Erin Nelson,
  • Laura Gómez-Tovar,
  • Mariol Morejón García,
  • Andrew Spring,
  • André E. B. Lacerda,
  • Alessandra Izabel de Carvalho and
  • Alison Blay-Palmer

11 October 2023

This paper describes the development of a transdisciplinary knowledge network dedicated to supporting agroecology knowledge exchange and capacity building that is particularly focused on the sustainable use and conservation of agrobiodiversity. The n...