Viet Nam’s landscape is constantly changing as land use changes. Sometimes the resources base benefits where forests are protected and allowed to regenerate naturally, bare land is reforested, or where swidden land is converted to more intensive agriculture. Sometimes resources are lost where forests are exploited for timber, cleared for agricultural or grazing, or burnt by spreading wildfires.

This study investigated the impacts of playing in a natural environment on motor development in children. Methods from landscape ecology were applied for landscape analysis and entered into a Geographic Information System (GIS). Localization of play habitats was done by use of Global Positioning Systems (GPS). A quasi-experimental study was conducted on five-, six-, and seven-year old children ...

In Natural Landscape Complexes and Ecological Sites, local environmental protection is used to cover previous industrial activities, fragments of the cultural landscape, habitats both vertebrates invertebrates. water bodies within different types habitat protection, aquatic invertebrate fauna was studied investigate whether it a general rule that forms ensure diversity invertebrates in rural ar...

Abstract National parks and other large protected areas play an increasingly important role in the context of global social environmental challenges. Nevertheless, they continue to be rooted local places cannot separated out from their socio-cultural historical context. Protected furthermore are understood constitute critical sites struggle whereby very meanings nature, landscape, nature-societ...

Natural experiments have been proposed as a way of complementing manipulative experiments to improve ecological understanding and guide management. There is a pressing need for evidence from such studies to inform a shift to landscape-scale conservation, including the design of ecological networks. Although this shift has been widely embraced by conservation communities worldwide, the empirical...

Non-invasive measures for assessing long-term stress in free ranging mammals are an increasingly important approach for understanding physiological responses to landscape conditions. Using a spatially and temporally expansive dataset of hair cortisol concentrations (HCC) generated from a threatened grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) population in Alberta, Canada, we quantified how variables representi...

European rural landscapes contain high nature value farmlands that, in addition to being the main economic activity many areas, host habitats and species of great conservation value. The maintenance these farming systems largely depends on traditional ecological knowledge lifestyles local populations. However, they have not been sufficiently appreciated protected, as a result, are currently thr...

The fate of private lands is widely seen as key to the fate of biodiversity in much of the world. Organizations that work to protect biodiversity on private lands often hope that conservation actions on one piece of land will leverage the actions of surrounding landowners. Few researchers have, however, examined whether protected lands do in fact encourage land conservation nearby or how protec...