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September 2016, Volume 5, Issue 4

1-15 Mapping Tropical Forest Biomass by Combining ALOS-2, Landsat 8, and Field Plots Data
by Luong Viet Nguyen & Ryutaro Tateishi & Akihiko Kondoh & Ram C. Sharma & Hoan Thanh Nguyen & Tu Trong To & Dinh Ho Tong Minh

December 2016, Volume 5, Issue 4

1-16 Prediction of Land Use Change in Long Island Sound Watersheds Using Nighttime Light Data
by Ruiting Zhai & Chuanrong Zhang & Weidong Li & Mark A. Boyer & Dean Hanink
1-16 Large-Scale Mapping of Tree-Community Composition as a Surrogate of Forest Degradation in Bornean Tropical Rain Forests
by Shogoro Fujiki & Ryota Aoyagi & Atsushi Tanaka & Nobuo Imai & Arif Data Kusma & Yuyun Kurniawan & Ying Fah Lee & John Baptist Sugau & Joan T. Pereira & Hiromitsu Samejima & Kanehiro Kitayama
1-19 Integration of ALOS PALSAR and Landsat Data for Land Cover and Forest Mapping in Northern Tanzania
by Dorothea Deus
1-23 Greenhouse Gas Implications of Peri-Urban Land Use Change in a Developed City under Four Future Climate Scenarios
by Alison Rothwell & Brad Ridoutt & William Bellotti

July 2016, Volume 5, Issue 3

1-8 Nitrogen Pollution and the Meltdown of Urban Ecosystems
by Brenton Ladd
1-12 Enhancement of Linear Agricultural Areas to Provide Invertebrates as Potential Food for Breeding Birds
by Tracy R. Evans & Meredith J. Mahoney & Everett D. Cashatt & Geert de Snoo & C.J.M. Musters
1-15 Smallholders, Agrarian Reform, and Globalization in the Brazilian Amazon: Cattle versus the Environment
by Ritaumaria Pereira & Cynthia S. Simmons & Robert Walker
1-22 Analysis and Prediction of Land Use Changes Related to Invasive Species and Major Driving Forces in the State of Connecticut
by Wenjie Wang & Chuanrong Zhang & Jenica M. Allen & Weidong Li & Mark A. Boyer & Kathleen Segerson & John A. Silander
1-23 Landscape-Scale Disturbance: Insights into the Complexity of Catchment Hydrology in the Mountaintop Removal Mining Region of the Eastern United States
by Andrew J. Miller & Nicolas Zégre

August 2016, Volume 5, Issue 3

1-16 The Influence of Forest Management Regimes on Deforestation in a Central Indian Dry Deciduous Forest Landscape
by Shivani Agarwal & Harini Nagendra & Rucha Ghate
1-19 Urban Agriculture Oriented towards Self-Supply, Social and Commercial Purpose: A Typology
by Thomas Krikser & Annette Piorr & Regine Berges & Ina Opitz

June 2016, Volume 5, Issue 3

1-14 Agriculture on the Brink: Climate Change, Labor and Smallholder Farming in Botswana
by William G. Moseley
1-22 The Quiet Rise of Medium-Scale Farms in Malawi
by Ward Anseeuw & Thomas Jayne & Richard Kachule & John Kotsopoulos
1-23 Poverty and Environmental Degradation in Southern Burkina Faso: An Assessment Based on Participatory Methods
by Daniel Etongo & Ida Nadia S. Djenontin & Markku Kanninen

September 2016, Volume 5, Issue 3

1-17 Patterns and Predictors of Recent Forest Conversion in New England
by Alexandra M. Thorn & Jonathan R. Thompson & Joshua S. Plisinski
1-20 How Are Feedbacks Represented in Land Models?
by Yang Chen & Martha M. Bakker & Arend Ligtenberg & Arnold K. Bregt

June 2016, Volume 5, Issue 2

1-14 Ecosystem Service Changes and Livelihood Impacts in the Maguri-Motapung Wetlands of Assam, India
by Laxmi D. Bhatta & Sunita Chaudhary & Anju Pandit & Himlal Baral & Partha J. Das & Nigel E. Stork
1-14 Fluid Waters and Rigid Livelihoods in the Okavango Delta of Botswana
by Brian King & Jamie E. Shinn & Kelley A. Crews & Kenneth R. Young
1-19 Regional Patterns of Ecosystem Services in Cultural Landscapes
by Andrea Früh-Müller & Stefan Hotes & Lutz Breuer & Volkmar Wolters & Thomas Koellner
1-20 Typologies and Spatialization of Agricultural Production Systems in Rondônia, Brazil: Linking Land Use, Socioeconomics and Territorial Configuration
by Cláudio Almeida & Moisés Mourão & Nadine Dessay & Anne-Elisabeth Lacques & Antônio Monteiro & Laurent Durieux & Adriano Venturieri & Frédérique Seyler

May 2016, Volume 5, Issue 2

1-4 Comparative Approaches for Innovation in Agent-Based Modelling of Landscape Change
by James D. A. Millington & John Wainwright
1-12 Using Remote Sensing and Random Forest to Assess the Conservation Status of Critical Cerrado Habitats in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
by Jason Reynolds & Kathryn Wesson & Arnaud L. J. Desbiez & Jose M. Ochoa-Quintero & Peter Leimgruber
1-23 Sustainability of Land Groups in Papua New Guinea
by Lepani Karigawa & Jacob Adejare Babarinde & Suman Steven Holis

April 2016, Volume 5, Issue 2

1-4 Agro(Eco)System Services—Supply and Demand from Fields to Society
by Benjamin Burkhard & Stefan Hotes & Hubert Wiggering
1-20 Historical Changes of Land Tenure and Land Use Rights in a Local Community: A Case Study in Lao PDR
by Saykham Boutthavong & Kimihiko Hyakumura & Makoto Ehara & Takahiro Fujiwara
1-28 Toward the Integrated Framework Analysis of Linkages among Agrobiodiversity, Livelihood Diversification, Ecological Systems, and Sustainability amid Global Change
by Karl S. Zimmerer & Steven J. Vanek

March 2016, Volume 5, Issue 2

1-16 Property Arrangements and Soy Governance in the Brazilian State of Mato Grosso: Implications for Deforestation-Free Production
by Lisa L. Rausch & Holly K. Gibbs
1-17 Land Sector Reforms in Ghana, Kenya and Vietnam: A Comparative Analysis of Their Effectiveness
by Peter Narh & Cosmas Kombat Lambini & Matthew Sabbi & Van Dien Pham & Trung Thanh Nguyen

February 2016, Volume 5, Issue 1

1-13 Do Smallholder, Mixed Crop-Livestock Livelihoods Encourage Sustainable Agricultural Practices? A Meta-Analysis
by Thomas K. Rudel & Oh-Jung Kwon & Birthe K. Paul & Maryline Boval & Idupulapati M. Rao & Diana Burbano & Megan McGroddy & Amy M. Lerner & Douglas White & Mario Cuchillo & Manuel Luna & Michael Peters
1-14 Evaluating the Potential of the Original Texas Land Survey for Mapping Historical Land and Vegetation Cover
by Indumathi Srinath & Andrew C. Millington
1-20 Simulating Littoral Trade: Modeling the Trade of Wine in the Bronze to Iron Age Transition in Southern France
by Stefani A. Crabtree

January 2016, Volume 5, Issue 1

1-2 Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Land in 2015
by Land Editorial Office
1-13 Anthropogenic Influences in Land Use/Land Cover Changes in Mediterranean Forest Landscapes in Sicily
by Donato S. La Mela Veca & Sebastiano Cullotta & Sebastiano Sferlazza & Federico G. Maetzke
1-17 Assessing and Governing Ecosystem Services Trade-Offs in Agrarian Landscapes: The Case of Biogas
by Christian Albert & Johannes Hermes & Felix Neuendorf & Christina von Haaren & Michael Rode

December 2015, Volume 4, Issue 4

1-13 The Role of Citizen Science in Landscape and Seascape Approaches to Integrating Conservation and Development
by Jeffrey Sayer & Chris Margules & Iris Bohnet & Agni Boedhihartono & Ray Pierce & Allan Dale & Kate Andrews
1-18 Spatial Distribution of Estimated Wind-Power Royalties in West Texas
by Christian Brannstrom & Mary Tilton & Andrew Klein & Wendy Jepson
1-19 Built-up Area Change Analysis in Hanoi Using Support Vector Machine Classification of Landsat Multi-Temporal Image Stacks and Population Data
by Duong H. Nong & Jefferson Fox & Tomoaki Miura & Sumeet Saksena

October 2015, Volume 4, Issue 4

1-19 Using an Agroecosystem Services Approach to Assess Tillage Methods: A Case Study in the Shikma Region
by Hila Sagie & Uri Ramon
1-22 Growing City and Rapid Land Use Transition: Assessing Multiple Hazards and Risks in the Pokhara Valley, Nepal
by Bhagawat Rimal & Himlal Baral & Nigel E. Stork & Kiran Paudyal & Sushila Rijal
1-24 Why Don’t More Farmers Go Organic? Using A Stakeholder-Informed Exploratory Agent-Based Model to Represent the Dynamics of Farming Practices in the Philippines
by Laura Schmitt Olabisi & Ryan Qi Wang & Arika Ligmann-Zielinska

November 2015, Volume 4, Issue 4

1-17 One Shared Region and Two Different Change Patterns: Land Use Change in the Binational Californian Mediterranean Region
by Ricardo Eaton-Gonzalez & Eric Mellink
1-20 Patterns of Wastewater Infrastructure along a Gradient of Coastal Urbanization: A Study of the Puget Sound Region
by Daniele Spirandelli
1-27 Entity-Based Landscape Modelling to Assess the Impacts of Different Incentives Mechanisms on Argan Forest Dynamics
by Farid El Wahidi & Julien Radoux & Quentin Ponette & Pierre Defourny
1-27 Forest Transition in Madagascar’s Highlands: Initial Evidence and Implications
by William J. McConnell & Andrés Viña & Christian Kull & Clayton Batko
1-28 Investigating Impacts of Alternative Crop Market Scenarios on Land Use Change with an Agent-Based Model
by Deng Ding & David Bennett & Silvia Secchi
1-30 “Nothing Is Like It Was Before”: The Dynamics between Land-Use and Land-Cover, and Livelihood Strategies in the Northern Vietnam Borderlands
by Sarah Turner & Thi-Thanh-Hiên Pham
1-30 Changing Livelihoods and Landscapes in the Rural Eastern Cape, South Africa: Past Influences and Future Trajectories
by Sheona Shackleton & Marty Luckert

September 2015, Volume 4, Issue 4

1-24 Simulation vs. Definition: Differing Approaches to Setting Probabilities for Agent Behaviour
by Fraser J. Morgan & Philip Brown & Adam J. Daigneault

September 2015, Volume 4, Issue 3

1-19 The Anatomy of Medium-Scale Farm Growth in Zambia: What Are the Implications for the Future of Smallholder Agriculture?
by Nicholas Sitko & Jordan Chamberlin
1-26 Disentangling Values in the Interrelations between Cultural Ecosystem Services and Landscape Conservation—A Case Study of the Ifugao Rice Terraces in the Philippines
by Bianca Tilliger & Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos & Jesus Victor Bustamante & Josef Settele
1-27 Institutional Synergies in Customary Land Markets—Selected Case Studies of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions (LSLAs) in Ghana
by Elias Danyi Kuusaana & Nicolas Gerber
1-29 Stakeholder Strategies for Sustainability Impact Assessment of Land Use Scenarios: Analytical Framework and Identifying Land Use Claims
by Till Hermanns & Katharina Helming & Katharina Schmidt & Hannes Jochen König & Heiko Faust
1-35 Model-Based Synthesis of Locally Contingent Responses to Global Market Signals
by Nicholas R. Magliocca

July 2015, Volume 4, Issue 3

1-18 Transitions in Land Use Architecture under Multiple Human Driving Forces in a Semi-Arid Zone
by Issa Ouedraogo & Cheikh Mbow & Michael Balinga & Henry Neufeldt
1-19 Exploring Long-Term Impact of Grazing Management on Land Degradation in the Socio-Ecological System of Asteroussia Mountains, Greece
by Costas Kosmas & Vassilis Detsis & Mina Karamesouti & Kate Kounalaki & Penny Vassiliou & Luca Salvati
1-20 An Approach for Simulating Soil Loss from an Agro-Ecosystem Using Multi-Agent Simulation: A Case Study for Semi-Arid Ghana
by Biola K. Badmos & Sampson K. Agodzo & Grace B. Villamor & Samuel N. Odai
1-29 How to Make a Barranco: Modeling Erosion and Land-Use in Mediterranean Landscapes
by C. Michael Barton & Isaac Ullah & Arjun Heimsath
1-29 Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Vegetation Dynamics in Relation to Shifting Inundation and Fire Regimes: Disentangling Environmental Variability from Land Management Decisions in a Southern African Transboundary Watershed
by Narcisa G. Pricope & Andrea E. Gaughan & John D. All & Michael W. Binford & Lucas P. Rutina

August 2015, Volume 4, Issue 3

1-14 Assessment of Above-Ground Biomass of Borneo Forests through a New Data-Fusion Approach Combining Two Pan-Tropical Biomass Maps
by Andreas Langner & Frédéric Achard & Christelle Vancutsem & Jean-Francois Pekel & Dario Simonetti & Giacomo Grassi & Kanehiro Kitayama & Mikiyasu Nakayama
1-17 Ecological Recycling Agriculture to Enhance Agro-Ecosystem Services in the Baltic Sea Region: Guidelines for Implementation
by Karin Stein-Bachinger & Moritz Reckling & Johann Bachinger & Johannes Hufnagel & Wijnand Koker & Artur Granstedt
1-18 Modelling Deforestation and Land Cover Transitions of Tropical Peatlands in Sumatra, Indonesia Using Remote Sensed Land Cover Data Sets
by Ian Elz & Kevin Tansey & Susan E. Page & Mandar Trivedi
1-23 Livestock and Ecosystem Services: An Exploratory Approach to Assess Agri-Environment-Climate Payments of RDP in Trentino
by Alessandra La Notte & Sonia Marongiu & Mauro Masiero & Pietro Molfetta & Riccardo Molignoni & Luca Cesaro
1-24 Land Change Regimes and the Evolution of the Maize-Cattle Complex in Neoliberal Mexico
by Yankuic Galvan-Miyoshi & Robert Walker & Barney Warf
1-26 Modelling the Potential of Integrated Vegetation Bands (IVB) to Retain Stormwater Runoff on Steep Hillslopes of Southeast Queensland, Australia
by Justin G. Ryan & Clive A. McAlpine & John A. Ludwig & John N. Callow

April 2015, Volume 4, Issue 2

1-12 Building Bridges across Sectors and Scales: Exploring Systemic Solutions towards A Sustainable Management of Land —Experiences from 4th Year Status Conference on Research for Sustainable Land Management
by Annegret Repp & Thomas Weith
1-18 Monitoring 60 Years of Land Cover Change in the Marathon Area, Greece
by Apostolos Gaitanis & Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos & Vassilis Detsis & Christos Chalkias
1-19 Agent-Based Models as “Interested Amateurs”
by Peter George Johnson
1-23 “ Bring Back the Land ”—A Call to Refocus on the Spatial Dimension of Zimbabwe’s Land Reform
by Konrad Hentze & Gunter Menz
1-25 Landcover Change, Land Surface Temperature, Surface Albedo and Topography in the Plateau Region of North-Central Nigeria
by Shakirudeen Odunuga & Gbolahan Badru
1-26 Translocation of Cd and Mn from Bark to Leaves in Willows on Contaminated Sediments: Delayed Budburst Is Related to High Mn Concentrations
by Bart Vandecasteele & Paul Quataert & Frederic Piesschaert & Suzanna Lettens & Bruno De Vos & Gijs Du Laing

June 2015, Volume 4, Issue 2

1-28 Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production (HANPP) in an Agriculturally-Dominated Watershed, Southeastern USA
by C. Brannon Andersen & R. Kyle Donovan & John E. Quinn
1-38 Sensitivity Analysis of a Land-Use Change Model with and without Agents to Assess Land Abandonment and Long-Term Re-Forestation in a Swiss Mountain Region
by Julia Maria Brändle & Gaby Langendijk & Simon Peter & Sibyl Hanna Brunner & Robert Huber

May 2015, Volume 4, Issue 2

1-18 How Land Concessions Affect Places Elsewhere: Telecoupling, Political Ecology, and Large-Scale Plantations in Southern Laos and Northeastern Cambodia
by Ian G. Baird & Jefferson Fox
1-21 Revealing Regional Deforestation Dynamics in North-Eastern Madagascar—Insights from Multi-Temporal Land Cover Change Analysis
by Julie G. Zaehringer & Sandra Eckert & Peter Messerli
1-23 Assessing Site Availability of Aspen and Northern Hardwoods for Potential Feedstock Development in Michigan: A Case Study
by Sara Alian & Ann Maclean
1-35 Landscape Epidemiology Modeling Using an Agent-Based Model and a Geographic Information System
by S. M. Niaz Arifin & Rumana Reaz Arifin & Dilkushi de Alwis Pitts & M. Sohel Rahman & Sara Nowreen & Gregory R. Madey & Frank H. Collins

March 2015, Volume 4, Issue 1

1-15 Valuation of Ecosystem Services from Wetlands Mitigation in the United States
by Naveen Adusumilli
1-15 Detection of Shoreline and Land Cover Changes around Rosetta Promontory, Egypt, Based on Remote Sensing Analysis
by Ali Masria & Kazuo Nadaoka & Abdelazim Negm & Moheb Iskander
1-19 Mapping Vegetation Morphology Types in Southern Africa Savanna Using MODIS Time-Series Metrics: A Case Study of Central Kalahari, Botswana
by Niti B. Mishra & Kelley A. Crews & Jennifer A. Miller & Thoralf Meyer
1-24 High-Precision Land-Cover-Land-Use GIS Mapping and Land Availability and Suitability Analysis for Grass Biomass Production in the Aroostook River Valley, Maine, USA
by Chunzeng Wang & Jason Johnston & David Vail & Jared Dickinson & David Putnam
1-25 Examining Social Adaptations in a Volatile Landscape in Northern Mongolia via the Agent-Based Model Ger Grouper
by Julia K. Clark & Stefani A. Crabtree

February 2015, Volume 4, Issue 1

1-17 Land Use and Wildfire: A Review of Local Interactions and Teleconnections
by Van Butsic & Maggi Kelly & Max A. Moritz
1-21 How Can Social Safeguards of REDD+ Function Effectively Conserve Forests and Improve Local Livelihoods? A Case from Meru Betiri National Park, East Java, Indonesia
by Kazuhiro Harada & Dede Prabowo & Arif Aliadi & Jun Ichihara & Hwan-Ok Ma

January 2015, Volume 4, Issue 1

1-3 Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Land in 2014
by Land Editorial Office
1-23 Soil and Water Conservation Strategies in Cape Verde (Cabo Verde in Portuguese) and Their Impacts on Livelihoods: An Overview from the Ribeira Seca Watershed
by Isaurinda Baptista & Luuk Fleskens & Coen Ritsema & António Querido & Jacques Tavares & António D. Ferreira & Eduardo A. Reis & Samuel Gomes & Anabela Varela
1-36 Carbon Cycling, Climate Regulation, and Disturbances in Canadian Forests: Scientific Principles for Management
by Jean-Sébastien Landry & Navin Ramankutty
1-38 Integrating Forest Cover Change with Census Data: Drivers and Contexts from Bolivia and the Lao PDR
by Sébastien Boillat & Hy Dao & Patrick Bottazzi & Yuri Sandoval & Abraham Luna & Sithong Thongmanivong & Louca Lerch & Joan Bastide & Andreas Heinimann & Frédéric Giraut

December 2014, Volume 4, Issue 1

1-18 Globalland30 Mapping Capacity of Land Surface Water in Thessaly, Greece
by Ioannis Manakos & Konstantinos Chatzopoulos-Vouzoglanis & Zisis I. Petrou & Lachezar Filchev & Antonis Apostolakis