Results show that the expansion of bare land and impervious cover, soil alteration, and high amount of precipitation influenced the stormwater runoff variability during different phases of land development.
Given the severe changes in American landscapes and biotas resulting from land use, alteration of hydrology and chemistry, and climate change, concepts of the purity of native communities may not be practical for application to abundant, widespread, long-present non-native taxa such as Old World Phragmites.
The stages of land surface alteration can be precisely monitored by satellite remote sensing data and available maps.
Moreover, the study area is highly fragmented due to triple effects; "urbanization", "inheritance law" and "natural land cover alteration".
Land use alteration is recognized as a threat for many aquatic species, but demographic drivers of land use associated declines are poorly studied.
This study provided baseline data demonstrating land-cover alteration over the past three decades and a foundation for a land-cover change and landscape context protocol suitable for monitoring future changes of National Parks and protected areas.
Results suggest that soil organic C (SOC) pools in agroforestry and sugarcane systems could be decomposed under land use alterations.
These findings are counter to climate-runoff relationships observed at the catchment scale on the northern Great Plains where land drainage alterations dominate.
The objectives of such planning should respond to regional and long-term design needs, which can maximize human-life quality, achieve a balance between ecological and engineering approaches to land-use alteration, and lead to sustainable groundwater resources.
Additionally, we evaluate differences in SOM chemistry from paired native grassland, native trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) forest, and arable soil profiles to investigate the effects of likely climate-induced land use alterations.
