Research Triangle Park, NC--The size, shape, and arrangement of fields, forests, wetlands, and human populations, and the ways these and other features interact and change across landscapes, have a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Everglades of south Florida has been altered extensively to accommodate human settlement. This has contributed to 85-95 percent declines of wading bird populations; 68 plant and animal species ...