The spatially explicit description of the dynamics of transformed areas is an indispensable tool for natural resources management, territorial planning and deforestation impacts assessment.
Due to the nature of transformed areas associated with established societies (at any scale) and settlements around the country, it is not surprising that the analyses showed that all species have lost habitat (Table S1).
In his inaugural speech and later in his state of the town address, he said he wanted to see the rundown Main Street and riverfront areas of Riverhead transformed into a thriving focal point for the entire East End before he leaves office, at the end of his current two-year term or perhaps after one more term.
Hydroelectric complexes needed to sustain the growth of the industrial economy have displaced thousands of villagers from their homes and fields, inundated large areas of forest, transformed flood patterns, and reduced the supply of fish, on which many depend for their livelihood.
Two of these biomes have less than 3% of their area protected and more than 70% of their area transformed for human use.
Mr Carney should work to strengthen the Treasury's current efforts in this area, as a way of transforming the finance environment for new and growing British businesses over the long term.
To Turkey, the plan was an essential step in the country's development, a means of transforming an area that is home to six million people, including many restive Kurds, into a zone of greater economic and political stability.
Most of the estate lies south of Bayville Avenue; the area was transformed around 30 years ago into a private community of 125 colonials and ranches on quarter-acre lots, some with Sound beachfront.
I was a local newspaper reporter whose patch covered much of the area now transformed into public and sporting facilities, grassland, attractions, cafes and housing districts.
