The use of freely-available multi-source imagery for mapping vegetation in montane terrain is important for many developing countries that do not have the funding for high-resolution data capture.Radar images are also...
the Posgrado en Ciencias Biológicas of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México(UNAM);the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología(CONACyT,CVU 672462)for their support for IC’s masters courses.
Ecological Niche Modeling uses the geographic coordinates of species presence records as the primary input to estimate potential geographic distributions.It is little known whether carrying out rigorous data pre-proce...
funded by Dolomiti Bellunesi National Park in the context of European‘Habitat’directive 92/43/CEE monitoring;funding provided by Universitàdegli Studi di Pavia within the CRUI-CARE Agreement。
The sword lily Gladiolus palustris Gaudin is protected on European level and listed in Annexes II and IV of the EC Habitat Directive 92/43/EEC.It grows in nutrient-poor,calcareous meadows in central and eastern Europe...
funded by Ministry of Environment,Forest and Climate Change,Govt. of India (No.14/25/2011-ERS/RE)
In Meghalaya, northeast India, the local people have the tradition of managing forest resources since early ages. The management practice varies and there are forests with high degree of protection, where no extractio...
supported by project CGL2013-43440-R,funded by the Ministerio de Economiay Competitividad of Spain
Understanding the effects of elevation and related factors(climate,vegetation) on the physical and chemical soil properties can help to predict changes in response to future climate or afforestation forcings.This work...
funded by BMBF(Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung,Germany)(Ff E_IB-074);the context of the joint project TRANSPAST
Rangelands occupy more than 80% of the agricultural land in Kyrgyzstan. At least 30% of Kyrgyz pasture areas are considered to be subject to vegetation and soil degradation. Since animal husbandry is the economic basi...
supported by the Naional 973 project (2009CB421307) ;the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41030528 and 40971064)
Slope aspect has significant effect on the development and distribution of montane forest, especially in arid and semiarid regions. This paper, using SPOT5 images and 1:5o,ooo DEM, digitally extracts and analyzes the...
supported by Nature and Culture International (NCI-Perú) and partially funded through a Grant from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Cloud forests are unusual and fragile habitats, being one of the least studied and least understood ecosystems. The tropical Andean dominion is considered one of the most significant places in the world as regards bio...