Land-cover change

Gallart F, Llorens P (2004) Observations on land cover changes and the headwaters of the Ebro catchment, water resources in Iberian Peninsula Phys Chem Earth 29 769-773... 

Gordon L, Dunlop M, Foran B (2003) Land cover change and water vapour flows Learning from Australia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 358 1973-1984... 

Aspinall R. and Justice C. (2004). A Land Use and Land Cover Change Science Strategy. Summary of a Workshop held at the Smithsonian Institution, November 19-21, 2003. LUIWG, Washington, D.C., 20 pp. 

DeFries R. S., Field C. B., Fung L, Collatz G. J., and Bounoua L. (1999) Combining satellite data and biogeochemical models to estimate global effects of human-induced land cover change on carbon emissions and primary productivity. Global Biogeochem. Cycles 13, 803-815. 

Houghton R. A. and Hackler J. L. (1995) Continental Scale Estimates of the Biotic Carbon Flux from Land Cover Change 1850-1980. ORNL/CDIAC-79, NDP-050, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 144pp. 

Managing Land Use And Land-Cover Change The New Jersey Pinelands. Annals of The Association of American Geographers 89, no. 2 (1999) 220. 

Let us assume that the state of the climate system depends on external forcing, , such as insolation and anthropogenic land cover change, and internal processes Tf,. Any external forcing E will change the state of the climate system defined in terms of extensive variables S. Hence S = G E, where G is a sensitivity factor or sometimes referred to as a gain. Without any feedback, the response of the system would be Sg = Gg E. With feedbacks,... 

V. (1999). Modelling climate response to historical land cover change. GlobalEcol. Biogeography, 8(6), 509-517. 

Isoprene Flux [mg C Iv ] Land Cover Change Isoprene Flux [mg C m 2 h ]... 

Pongratz J, Reick CH, Raddatz T, Claussen M. Effects of anthropogenic land cover change on the carbon cycle in the last millennium. Glob Biogeochem Cycles 2009 23. 

The creation of landscapes from wildscapes involves a host of human activities other than agriculture. They include forestry, mineral extraction, industrialization and urbanization all generate land-cover change and cause carbon to flow internationally and from the rural to the urban enviromnent. A summary is given in Figure 8.1. 

Mather, A.S., Neddie, C.I. and Fairbaim, J. 1998. The human drivers of global land-cover change the case of forests. LLydrological Processes 12, 1983-1984. 

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