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Land use

Land use change reshaped soil carbon dynamics in Northern China

Yuanyuan Tang, Yuchun Yang, Guohong Du, Yanbing Qi

published 09 Oct 2026

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Systematic modelling of a large-scale, historicised, well-detailed building land use, with the fusion of massive and heterogeneous datasets

Maxime Colomb, Julien Perret

published 07 Oct 2026

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Impact mechanisms of high-speed railway accessibility on urban expansion in China: An analysis based on the mediating effect model

Dan He, Zixuan Chen, Jing Zhou, Yiman Hou, Qimeng Li, Zihang Qin

published 07 Oct 2026

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A domain knowledge-enhanced lightweight transformer for automatic identification of land-use conflicts in territorial spatial planning texts

Feng Yang, Miaoxing Zhao, Leixiang Ding, Yan Li, Jing Wang

published 01 Oct 2026

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Generalism vs. specialization: Does niche breadth influence species responses to anthropogenic land-use change in Neotropical leaf-cutter ants?

Diego Garcia Castillo

published 01 Oct 2026

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Multi source Earth observation and machine learning framework for mapping land degradation vulnerability in salinity- and hydrothermal-stressed regions of the southern main Ethiopian Rift

Talema Moged Reda, Alemu Tadese, Wondimu Haimanote, Muralitharan Jothimani, Asmamaw Hangibayna, Solomon Gunta, Gizachew Kabite Wedajo, Berhan Gessesse, Admasu Adamu, Zewdneh Tomass, Guchie Gulie, Abdisa Yilma, Dereje Tsegaye

published 24 Sep 2026

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Leveraging GIS-based multi-criteria analysis for flood-prone area detection in Nsanje District, Malawi

Charles Bakolo, Lusungu Ngwira, Kennedy Nazombe, Veronica Immaculate Bukani, Ken Chapita, Devie Chilonga, Harineck Mayamiko Tholo, Chikondi Chisenga, Jabulani Nyengere

published 24 Sep 2026

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Incentives are effective but insufficient to halt smallholder deforestation in the Colombian Amazon

Hugo Charoud, Esteve Corbera, Lina Moros, Sébastien Costedoat, Santiago Izquierdo-Tort

published 23 Sep 2026

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Modeling resource conflict and inequality in fragile systems: A spatial agent-based framework with a Uganda case study

Ronald Katende

published 16 Sep 2026

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Soil organic carbon stocks, litter decomposition, and soil macrofauna diversity across contrasting land uses within a dual-purpose cattle farm in the Colombian Amazonian foothills

Juan Pablo Narváez-Herrera, Joaquín Angulo-Arizala, Wilson Andrés Barragán-Hernández, Henry Mavisoy-Muchavisoy, Adrian Rolando Riascos-Vallejos, Liliana Mahecha-Ledesma

published 15 Sep 2026

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Ecological sensitivity and sustainable spatial planning in a highly urbanized plain: An AHP-GIS and geodetector approach in the Yangtze River Delta Plain

Tiantian Yao, Qian Liu, Huiqin Zeng, Jiabin Tang

published 08 Sep 2026

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Agricultural expansion and mining drive forest loss in Ghana despite declining deforestation rates: Evidence from a national-scale assessment

Patrick Addo-Fordjour, Francis Emmanuel Awortwi, Caleb Ezekiel Obodai, Francis Boakye Aboagye, Christine Naa Lamiley France, Nana Serwaa Boakye Kusi-Appiah, Derrick Oppong

published 03 Sep 2026

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Wild edible plants of Bhutan: Diversity, use patterns, and motivations for consumption

Tenzin Jamtsho, Tobgay, Ugyen Takchu, Phurpa Wangchuk

published 28 Aug 2026

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