Between 2000 and 2012, the world lost more forest area than it gained, according to researchers who estimated a global net loss of 1.71 million square kilometers of forest -- an area about two and a ...

Incorporating factors such as urban geographical location, topographic features, and climatic context, the study established a socioeconomic multiple regression model based on urban landscape patterns ...

Research Triangle Park, NC--Landscape patterns matter. The size, shape, and arrangement of fields, forests, wetlands, and human populations, and the ways these and other features interact and change ...

The ridge and slough landscape is highly significant ecologically. The landscape is severely degrading in a number of locations, i.e., it is being replaced with a landscape that is more uniform in ...