gone. “If we can give them enough space and the right conditions, we could see these species rise once again to the kind of numbers that will give them a chance to cope with change and adversity,” says Geoff Findlay, environment councillor for the district. In the last 200 years, the area has been dramatically changed by the canal, the railway, farming practices, military use and mineral extrac...

Land use and land cover change is driven by multiple influential factors from environmental and social dimensions in a land system. Land use practices of human decision-makers modify the landscape of the land system, possibly leading to landscape fragmentation, biodiversity loss, or environmental pollution-severe environmental or ecological impacts. While landscape-level ecological risk assessm...

Landscape Ecology is a new field of the macro-ecological research. Study on the Landscape pattern change is a research hotspot of the landscape ecology at present. The main research methods in this paper are stated as follow: using remote sensing data to get the basic landscape pattern data of Jinta Oasis in 1990 and 2000; calculating four landscape indexes by utilizing the statistics function ...

Both conservation biology and landscape planning are fields enriched by their solid grounding in professional practice and the real world. Practicing conservation biologists know that landscape planning processes affect biodiversity on the ground, and practicing landscape planners know that biodiversity issues can decisively influence acceptance of planned change. Such pragmatic recognition, ho...

Dear Editor, We note with great enthusiasm the advancesto the medical field that have been broughtabout by international collaboration betweenmedical researchers in different countries.Collaboration occurs when “2 or more entitieswork together to produce a desired and sharedoutcome” (1). Literature on the topic notesspecifically the strategic alignment of globalpartnerships with global health p...

Land cover change associated to urbanization processes represents one of the most insidious forms of ecosystem alteration and links frequently to other types of environmental degradation. Timely and accurate remotely sensed detection of land cover change is therefore an essential requirement for a better understanding of coupled natural and human systems in urban expansion areas. Landscape dyna...

As special depositional environments which are adjacent to the seas, deltas have provided a field for human habitat establishment. Geomorphic features of deltas are in constant transformation due to their dynamic features. Constructing dams on rivers can intensify these changes and cause either negative or positive consequences. Minab delta in Hormozgan Province of Iran is a round or crescent-s...