Patterns and drivers of water-land resources nexus in arid inland river basins of northwestern China

Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 100702 - 100702

Published: May 1, 2025

Language: Английский

Evolving landscapes: long term land use and climate-induced changes in the Brahmaputra floodplain, India

Frontiers in Environmental Science, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 13

Published: March 7, 2025

Land-use/land-cover change is an essential factor for understanding the ecological degradation of forests under threat from different climatic and human-mediated activities. This study investigates biodiversity significance Kaziranga Tiger Reserve, situated in Brahmaputra floodplain Assam, India, known its rich flora fauna. Despite importance biodiversity, reserve faces increasing threats habitat fragmentation, human-wildlife conflict, poaching, impacts climate change, necessitating a thorough examination dynamics. assesses land-use land-cover changes 1913 to 2023, by analyzing on assessing relationship between trends loss. The methods involving geometric radiometric corrections historical maps satellite images, identified key LULC classes such as agriculture, forest, waterbodies, settlements grasslands. Climate were analyzed using statistical methods, including Theil-Sen estimator Mann-Kendall test, determine significant changes. analysis indicated 15% increase agricultural land 10% decline forest cover, primarily due encroachment conversion farming. Furthermore, correlation revealed that variability, rainfall soil moisture, significantly influenced conversion, driving expansion while restricting emphasizes critical management approaches link monitoring with resilience efforts, reaching need collaborative conservation initiatives safeguard reserve’s unique maintain functions.

Language: Английский

Surface soil phytolith assemblages across arid and semi-arid regions of northern China, and their implications for quantitative reconstruction of precipitation

Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 112979 - 112979

Published: April 1, 2025

Language: Английский